Word: braggadocios
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...with intricate, African-inflected rhythms. That soulful style, similar to Paul Simon's recent Graceland excursions but rather more sober, found its fleetest expression in last year's smash album So and Top Five single Sledgehammer, a smoking slice of revisionist 1960s rhythm and blues that turned male sexual braggadocio into high comedy. The album and the single just earned Gabriel four Grammy nominations (awards to be announced Feb. 24), and the singer says that he is "pleased." Then, using a characteristic combination of deflective wit and earnestness, he adds, "I'm a little cynical about awards...
...media force listeners to take the message of “Blackout” more seriously. The strongest tracks on the album are “Toy Soldier” and “Hot as Ice,” both because of their infectious lyrics and gratuitous braggadocio. “Toy Soldier” declares that the “new Britney is on a mission” to find a man “like a princess s’posed to get.” And if Spears hadn’t made it clear...
...drug game. “I’m on touch with the keys, move over Alicia / I force feed ya the metric scale,” cracks Pusha in the first verse of intro “We Got It For Cheap.” And while the braggadocio doesn’t entirely disappear, it gets stirred up with anxiety. The album is laced with regret, and Malice does his fair share of soul searching, admitting, “And I don’t know how them other niggas built / And I don’t know...
...apparent aloofness is actually an antique form of New England propriety. His reluctance to wear his religious faith on his sleeve is part of this ethos, as is his formal, hortatory Sunday-sermon speaking style. A strong sense of honor comes with the territory, a discomfort with swagger and braggadocio. "I once was with Kerry watching Bob Dole on television," recalls David Wade, an aide who is usually found in Kerry's immediate proximity. "Someone was asking Dole about how he was wounded in World War II. Dole wouldn't do it. He said, 'You just don't talk about...
...production line, churning out interchangeable, immediately disposable jokes at an industrial pace. His comic persona was primitive. He was a wolf, constantly leering at pretty women, constantly rejected by them (until the last reel). He was a coward, hiding his ignobility under instantly collapsible braggadocio...