Word: edgier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Websites lets discerning fans mix and match from a long list of digital cuts to make their own custom CDs. At musicmaker.com you can assemble a personal hit parade from 150,000 tracks, from rock to gospel (cost: $9.95 for the first five tracks and $1 for each additional). Edgier cductive.com offers a smaller (4,000 titles), more specialized selection with an emphasis on hip-hop and techno, while supersonicboom.com boasts 51,000 songs. Who ever said Mozart, Louis Armstrong and Puff Daddy...
...person, Williamson is sweet of nature, mild of manner and decidedly nonviolent. "I'm too squeamish for horror," he says. "I can't handle all the blood." In fact, he really wants to be the next John Hughes, albeit for a far edgier generation than the one that peopled The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink. Williamson's calling card may have been an eye for artful carnage, but his staying power derives from his ear for the voice of the '90s teen, whom he describes as "a very self- aware, pop-culture-referenced individual who grew up next...
...behind this lies something even edgier and more discomfiting, a connection between the amazing economy and the sick joke: the attitude that if this rising tide doesn't lift your boat, you must be one hell of a loser...
...treatments are so powerful that anyone who shows up on the wards with symptomatic AIDS is de facto a psychiatric patient, because you'd have to be insane not to take your medications regularly. This is just bad on-the-wards black humor, but behind it lies the edgier truth that the new medications must be taken with such religious scrupulosity to avoid the development of a resistant virus that people who are deemed to be potentially non-compliant are not even offered them, and we're all wondering if maybe this is part of the reason the death rate...
...Prodigy's sound has since grown edgier, drawing from commercially successful rock and hard-core hip-hop. Last year the major music labels fought a bidding war to sign the band. Madonna's Maverick won with a contract worth a reported $5 million. When, earlier this year, MTV announced its intention to program more electronica and started a show, Amp, to promote the genre, the Prodigy, thanks to its anthemic song, Firestarter, became the techno band of the moment...