Word: tritely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, a little less innovation on the technical side and more musical craft would go a long way. In fact, any number of improvements would--less inane lyrics, for example. Knox not only commits the traditional (and acceptable) pop crime of writing terrible, trite lyrics, he structures his songs (all 14 of them) such as to place special emphasis on his meager voice and lyrics. The spare arrangements simply highlight the artist's severe limitations as a vocalist and lyricist...
...like lamb skin imported from the Persia/follow my excursion until you feelin' the new revised version." Simultaneously silly and ferocious, Busta takes lyrical risks unlike many rappers today. Only on "Get High Tonight," another tired rap ode to marijuana, does Busta the lyricist fall flat. His rhymes are so trite and delivery so weak that not even a chorus built on K.C. and the Sunshine Band's "Get Down Tonight" can save...
...Shlemiel the First" is in fact meant to be novelty, and little else. Wives battle their husbands; men cross-dress; pickles and common Yiddish expressions are tossed around as stage gags. The trite phrases and cliched idioms that dominate prove poor substitutes for content. The company is forced to play out their roles with over-enthusiastic and sometimes spastic fervency...
...park buddy Harry Siegel, 19, elaborates on this point. "The ability to howl at the moon has been lost," he laments. "The counterculture has been absorbed by the culture. The blue hair and pierced nipples are trite, and no one pays them any mind. Nothing is outside the fold...
...true--if you're good, teaching is fun, and the children are, too. The teaching life is a good one, and only after you've been in it for a while can you understand how "fulfilling," to use a trite old word, it really...