Some critics have suggested that unlike CCM and older Christian rock, Christian alternative rock generally emphasizes musical style over lyrical content as a defining genre characteristic, though the degree to which the faith appears in the music varies from artist to artist.

Rather than being a loose collection of individual, insular songs, the record is an expansive, interlocking work unified by lush strings, acoustic guitars and lyrical content often based on the group's name and album title ( when the words ' Love Forever Changes ' are connected in that order ).

Rapper Tyler the Creator of OFWGKTA has been referred to as a nihilist due to his lyrical content.

The lyrical content of hardcore songs is often critical of commercial culture and middle-class values, as in Dead Kennedys ' celebrated " Holiday in Cambodia " ( 1980 ).

The Memphis Jug Band, an early blues group, whose lyrical content and rhythmic singing predated rapping.

Old school rap ( 1979 – 1984 ) was " easily identified by its relatively simple raps " according to Allmusic, " the emphasis was not on lyrical technique, but simply on good times ", one notable exception being Melle Mel, who set the way for future rappers through his socio-political content and creative wordplay.

The album was the worst-reviewed of their career, as the group tried to re-create itself musically with ill-advised forays into New Jack Swing ( a then-popular style of production that sonically merged hip hop and contemporary R & B ) and sometimes-preachy lyrical content.

Despite the album's erratic lyrical content and instrumentation, the latter of which kept it away from mainstream audiences, Boys for Pele is Amos's most successful simultaneous transatlantic release, reaching # 2 on both the Billboard 200 and the UK Top 40 upon its release at the height of her fame.

While highly successful in the single charts in the UK, very few of these musicians were able to make a serious impact in the United States ; Bowie was the major exception becoming an international superstar and prompting the adoption of glam styles among acts like Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, New York Dolls and Jobriath, often known as " glitter rock " and with a darker lyrical content than their British counterparts.

Furthermore, album artwork and lyrical content enable hip-hoppers and fans to identify commercially and express individually their Turkish identity.

The center advocates the mandatory use of a warning label (" Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics ") on the covers of records that have been judged to contain language or lyrical content unsuitable for minors.

While many white nationalists have warmly received NSBM for its lyrical content and ideals, others have not, due to the music style as well as what they perceive as its association with sex, drugs and rock & roll.

# Groovy soca: Created by Robin Imamshah with his composition " Frenchman ", this growing style focuses on melody in soca, partly because of criticism of soca's ubiquitous ' jump and wave '- only lyrical and musical content.

Some use the term more broadly to refer to any punk music with anarchist lyrical content, including crust punk, d-beat, folk punk, hardcore punk, garage punk or ska punk.

Again praised by critics, the follow-up was an extension of sounds and lyrical content of his first.

Much of the lyrical content is based on Karl Sanders ' interest in Egyptology and other ancient Middle Eastern cultures, such as Mesopotamia.

The attention generated concerning the album's cover art precipitated some criticism of the group's lyrical content as well, particularly the Party Music track " 5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO.

A collection of street-oriented rhythm-and-blues with a hip-hop edge, whose lyrical content embraced her youthful and innocent image in public, Norwood later summed the songs on the album as young and vulnerable, stating: " I didn ’ t really know a lot — all I wanted to do was basically sing.

The music video had brief play on MTV but was not a lot due to the length of the video ( six minutes ) and its lyrical content.

Geffen Records refused to release the song " Yellow Fever " because of its graphic lyrical content about Asian women.

The lyrical content of the Descendents made them being cited at the time as one of the most significant punk bands of the 1980s hardcore punk movement.

The lyrical content of Down III: Over the Under covers subjects such as the breakup of Pantera, the murder of ex-Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell, the band's anger at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and Anselmo's recovery from back surgery and drug addiction.

They released only one 7-inch EP entitled Violent Affair and played fewer than 10 shows but the musical style and lyrical content displayed on their one record would have great influence on all Unseen music to follow, helping to shape their future sound with Civitarese as lead singer.

The Christian music industry carries the distinction of being the only music subculture whose content is labeled by its lyrical dimension rather than its music.

The two major lyrical poets were Sappho and Pindar.

That October, the group made history by performing at the Metropolitan Opera House in a concert later billed as " Wear Something Silver ", as the members of Labelle were now wearing silver, metallic wear equipped with feathers and silver platform boots, which later inspired George Clinton to adapt a similar look for his band, Funkadelic, two years later, also adapting the space-age lyrical and musical matter, pioneered by Nona Hendryx and Labelle.

Hip hop music for the most part is itself composed of two parts: rapping, the delivery of swift, highly rhythmic and lyrical vocals ; and DJing and / or producing, the production of instrumentation either through sampling, instrumentation, turntablism or through beatboxing, the production of musical sounds through vocalized tones.

It consists of the following pieces: The Battle of Agincourt, an historical poem in ottava rima ( not to be confused with his ballad on the same subject ), and The Miseries of Queen Margaret, written in the same verse and manner ; Nimphidia, the Court of Faery, a most joyous and graceful little epic of fairyland ; The Quest of Cinthia and The Shepherd's Sirena, two lyrical pastorals ; and finally The Moon Calf, a sort of satire.

West had been a longtime fan of Common and the two even participated in a friendly on-air MC battle, where West took jabs at his lyrical idol for " going soft " and wearing crochet pants ( as he does for his appearance in the video for the Mary J. Blige song " Dance for Me ").

One of the earliest references to tourism is in the LNWR Tourist Guide for 1876, which waxed lyrical about the Ffestiniog Railway, which it illustrated with a drawing of a lady in Welsh national dress ( then still in regular local use ) travelling on an FR up train ( since many empty slate wagons – with two standing brakesmen – were attached at the rear ) with the caption " On the Ffestiniog Railway ".

When Webern sent the score of the piece to Coolidge, he accompanied it with a letter saying that the piece was " purely lyrical " and comparing it to the two and three movement piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven.

There is further evidence in the structure of the poems because Keats combines two different types of lyrical in an experimental way: the odal hymn and the lyric of questioning voice that responds to the odal hymn.

Old-time calypsonians and purists, however, preferred rapso's continuation of the lyrical ambidexterity that helped make calypso the world-famous, innovative art form it has become ; many criticized soca's perceived watering-down of calypso, including veteran calypsonians such as Chalkdust, who asked: " Are we to put water in the brandy, singing just two or three words mainstream audiences can understand and dance to?

In the early bossa nova recordings, in terms of lyrical themes and length of songs ( typically two to four minutes ), bossa nova was very much a popular-music style.

However, its song structure often differs from European and North American popular music's standard format of two verses followed by a bridge and a closing verse ; bossa nova songs frequently have no more than two lyrical verses, while many lack a bridge.

Some of João Gilberto's earliest recordings were less than two minutes long, and some had a single lyrical verse that was simply repeated.

From the back cover of the backinprint, com paperback edition: A Gift Upon the Shore is a lyrical, haunting story of two women, an artist and a writer, who survive pandemic, the collapse of civilization, and a deadly nuclear winter.

One or two of the songs introduced into his plays are justly famous and show a real lyrical gift.

She suggested also that within a female were two parts: the intellectual side ( which she called the Minerva ) and the " lyrical " or " Femality " side ( the Muse ).

A refrain is often a two line repeated lyrical statement commenting on or summarizing the preceding verse, for example:

Béranger: two hundred of his lyrical poems ( G. P.

For example, it is not permissible for a dancer to compete two lyrical solos at a competition.

The former three are " fast " or " rhythmic " dances, the latter two are " slow " or " lyrical " ones.

This lady he had addressed in the volume of lyrical poems arranged in two parts and entitled Castara, published anonymously in 1634.

During the period of argument and controversy that followed, the two took lyrical jabs at each other in their songs.

His first two dramatic poems, The Journey to Ginistan and The Power of Fancy, appeared in 1816, and were followed by a lyrical drama, Rosaurn ( 1817 ); but these works attracted little or no attention.

His own style was marked by use of two elements he refers to as " graceful " and " gritty ": the former being more lyrical and melodic, the latter being sharp and intensely rhythmic.