Word: humority
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...reference points aren’t the best way to describe what makes Meloy’s songs so indelible. More than anything else, Meloy is like a musical version of writer/publisher Dave Eggers and much of the McSweeney’s coterie, effortlessly blending wry tongue-in-cheek humor with genuinely-felt storytelling...
...rock press, much has been made of Meloy’s choice to cover songs by former Smiths frontman Morrissey during this solo tour. Meloy is nowhere near the ostentatious firebrand that Morrissey is, but he’s picked up the Moz’s mischievous sense of humor, penchant for unreliable lyrical narrators, and lack of inhibition when it comes to appearing sensitive or effeminate...
According to Inside’s interviews with the film’s original creators, humor certainly contributed to the movie’s smash success, though the film’s embrace of new sexual values and its popularity among the elite of 1970s American society certainly also helped ticket sales...
...Weekly calling it “even better than reading our Brad & Jen commemorative issue”), I will become a regular on David Letterman, appearing three times a week. Move over Harvey Pekar. Audiences will fall in love with me so much —charm, intelligence, good humor, mature hair line—that Academy voters will begin to fear for their lives if they don’t vote...
...It’s a vintage Wedding Present move, and this song, with lyrics emerging about “being five hundred miles away” and “still desperately in love” hit the mark lyrically as well. The WP’s sense of humor is still here, as on “I’m From Farther North Than You,” when Gedge confesses, “I admit we’ve had some memorable days,” before appending (as the band kicks...