Both Mars haters and defenders inevitably bring up his corniness.
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It's a small thing, but this show doesn't wear corniness well.
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Musically speaking, corniness is usually associated with whiteness, imitation, or derivative crossover.
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And corniness aside, Vanilla Ice sounds like Mobb Deep next to Macklemore.
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That movie avoided terminal corniness by staying as shaggily upbeat as its hero.
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But Peters' TikTok content is so heartwarming because he leans into the corniness.
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Cleverness or corniness aside, everything feels charged with sex magic and innuendo this week.
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If you want some heart (and are down for occasional corniness), try "Psych" (Netflix).
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"Undeniably, there's an element of corniness to this," Janet Maslin wrote in The Times.
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The illustrations show that he hasn't moved completely over to the side of corniness.
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As was his all-around corniness, which played as earnest, uncynical belief in the country.
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There's a slight tinge of corniness to his music, but it always sounds damn good.
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But despite the inherent corniness of such grand gestures, this Pixar-inspired promposal got us.
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There's a certain corniness to the whole sci-fi setup, One's journey in the glyph.
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The difference is that, in one case, a superstar's calculated corniness is poked fun at.
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As long as you can get over the corniness of a minivan, it's a brilliant buy.
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Their sentimentality, emotionality, and potential corniness are also — perhaps in the pejorative — in the feminine category.
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How much do you think Rosario Dawson regrets claiming someone who exhibits supernatural levels of corniness?
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If you were a certain kind of female Hollywood performer in the 1950s, you pushed corniness.
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And without going into spoilers, their corniness serves a purpose that's emblematic of Arkane's approach to storytelling.
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Even the most devoted nerd knows that superheroes are vulnerable to corniness, no matter their other strengths.
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Do we all just see Drake as corny because we see our own corniness reflected in Drake?
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But Mr. Moultrie exacerbates the corniness of his own earnest text with hugs and more odd twitching.
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When we weren't looking, Drake has embraced corniness as an aesthetic value and made it into a rapper's vibe.
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Admirably sexy in a fun way by really leaning into self-aware corniness that could've otherwise tipped into cringe.
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But over and over, Ms. Reynolds rose to the challenge of making that corniness seem like a form of patriotism.
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It's about "being willing to be a little bit vulnerable" without the "touchy-feely" corniness of an inspirational pose, he said.
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Don't get me wrong, the film operates with a thick layer of corniness attached, but it doesn't skimp on the fright.
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His obsession with her nose felt a little too, well, on-the-nose, if you will, but the corniness was endearing.
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But I'm not sure it matched the wholesale make-believe corniness of the rest of the show, including Scott Ellis's staging.
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Boosted by Birdman and Lil Wayne, Drake's inherent corniness isn't embraced as much as it is transformed into something else – something cool.
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At first the writers play the joke for pure corniness, but the true extent of Homelander's lying and megalomania gradually reveals itself.
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Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda had one of the sweetest this year, with just the right amount of corniness to make it chug.
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The whole tone of the comic is a tense battle between the inherent corniness of Archie and the effortless cool of the Ramones.
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Despite whatever perceived corniness there may be, Drop Dead, Gorgeous helped perfect a style of post-hardcore that other bands would model themselves after.
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And while we'll miss his well-meaning corniness, at least we can always look back at his greatest hits — like all those turkey-pardon videos.
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Goldblum, Hollywood's patron saint of droll humor and artful corniness, also happens to be a serviceable jazz pianist, who first started gigging as a teenager.
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You don't have to go that hard on the patches to make leather bombers work, but a little corniness goes a long way toward your happiness.
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In Episode 4 of October's Very Owned, Noisey's Eric Sundermann and Dan Ozzi are joined by writer Rembert Browne to discuss the evolution of Drake's corniness.
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The music is at times plain, and covets corniness; but behind the down-to-earth personalities of Kelley and Hubbard is the hyperconsciousness of a corporation.
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Multiple songs feature the Amen break, the rapping is natural, and the general corniness that characterized the series' past flirtations with hip-hop is totally absent.
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Whether it's disdain for the corniness of modern country music or the constant search for something new, lots of millennials fail to appreciate the legendary Willie Nelson.
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As if to underline his inherent corniness, his big emotional climax is soundtracked by Counting Crows' "Colorblind"—the true Facebook "it's complicated" status of rom-com songs.
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Some of the lyrics are pantomimed baldly (opening the schoolbook), and when the narrator affectionately mocks those lyrics for corniness, he could be speaking of the choreography, too.
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Despite the corniness of the last few songs, it's hard not to feel empowered and reinvigorated watching this woman perform with as much vivacity as she had 40 years ago.
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He'd always be a little bit corny, and as a low-budget, 1990 Captain America movie proved, that corniness could quickly mutate into something garish and klutzy on the big screen.
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He's gone on to inspire poems, and went viral for his victorious crotch chop in the soccer game Mario Strikers, cemented as an emblem for humanity's inherent awkward corniness and vulnerability.
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Songs like "Under the Pressure" are awash with layers—atmospheric interludes, soaring synth lines, drum machines—that bring in an amorphous, shimmering beauty and help evade the corniness of 80s sentimentality.
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This adds a layer of intensity to Miles's calling, but it also adds a sense of narrative contrivance that the show can barely afford, given the inherent dangers of overt corniness.
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The early trailer for Man of Steel promised something like a Terrence Malick film, all natural light and beautiful landscapes — a good match for the inherent corniness of Clark Kent's Kansas upbringing.
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But when it comes to Manziel-related idiocy, there has been a news peg—some new instance of bottle-service corniness at best and actual odious shitheadedness at worst—more often than not.
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It also represents a Black man at his most powerful and popular point in life being himself for an hour, with all of the cartoony-but-clean swagger, confidence, and corniness that entails.
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In fact, it pretty much sounds like a reinterpretation of similarly twee One Direction deep cut "I Want to Write You a Song", which had the added corniness of a pencil scratching against paper.
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They seemed to want to disable the bourgeois practice of business-as-usual in culture; they seemed to carry the implicit knowledge that such business-as-usual leads to war, famine, inequality and corniness.
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The McElroys already touched on making cheap Casper the Friendly Ghost jokes during October in one of their latest episodes of "My Brother, My Brother and Me," so we will spare you the corniness.
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Though Street Fighter II was built to devour quarters and hip-hop was built to escape the corniness of disco, what's propelled them past those early goals, together and separately, is an unwavering belief in the contingent.
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Robbie Collin, The Telegraph: Spielberg pushes these moments right to the brink of corniness, but you wouldn't want it any other way, particularly as the ink-stained romance of the newspaper business plays up to his sentimental streak.
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But most of the time, you and I—and despite what the polls say, a lot of other fucking people—want more from a DJ than easy tech-house that reaches for overt emotion, and sort of slides into corniness.
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Ah, no, see you're above all this, aren't you—all the corniness, the hollow performative romance, the booking restaurants months in advance, the hand holding, the rose petals on the bed, the kissing, all of that saccharine shit—nah, dude.
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For all its corniness and pulpy action sequences, at the film's core is a radical message that still resonates with modern audiences: the only way to take meaningful action against climate change is to stomp out the main problem—complacency.
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It told wallet-chain-wearing kids in late-90s suburbs what they already knew but somehow hadn't heard often enough on the radio—that their parents were annoying, and Christmas was just a week-long stretch of putting up with their corniness.
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Here were two down-to-earth guys assessing the situation for what it was, with the cultural awareness that necessitated the conversation but none of the corniness that typically comes with having a show that comes on after 28:215 p.m. Finally!
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But that's a treatable disease, and it clears up completely by Episode 2, when the supporting characters who work at the gym settle into natural rhythms, and the show establishes what level of corniness it's aiming for in the father-son plotlines.
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Even when watched it in all its 80s corniness today, this campy bit of an ending sticks with you, even when the movie leads you to believe that the real terror comes from Angela being a male all along, rather than a murderous killer.
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Equal parts Joan Jett and Hank Williams, Shook and the Disarmers are pioneers, finding a space that allows them to marry country and punk without falling victim to the corniness that can come from trying too hard to make one sound like the other.
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And while the bro-centric premise had me raising eyebrows over a series that's done a decent job balancing gender dynamics, I have to admit the corniness of their quips with one another are surprisingly genuine, and they really do come across as four people who've been through a lot.
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This season doesn't have one central story, and that lack of a to-do list is a blessing and a curse: The show is looser and funnier than before, but it also sputters a little toward the end of the season, before an emotional finale that walks right up to but does not cross the corniness barrier.
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Suffice it to say that a lot of them are along the lines of "this is gay"—not merely in the teenage "synonym for unmacho corniness" sense but in the belief that "Let's Ram It," despite being an actual NFL Officially Licensed Product created in the nauseatingly normative heart of 80s Reagan America, is literally an expression of homosexual desire.
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Listen, you either go one way or another with Valentine's Day: You either love it, corniness and all, embrace every facet of it and spend precious time with your boo, and shower them in red things and rose petals and kind-of-corny-but-kind-of-cute-underneath-it-all-anyway cards, and presents and a meal out, and yeah, there's some underwear involved there, but ultimately it's kind of a cute day for having fun and being in love; there ain't nothing wrong with that.
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Lam: We've always grown up with different Asian pop, and with K-pop in particular it was just realizing that even with the obvious corniness (which is still an integral part of its appreciation), every aspect from the songwriting, production, choreography, and even the way each member plays characters that aren't meant to be any kind of IRL representation—all that is really an attempt to take the core ideas of pop music to the next level, bringing it into a (often dystopian) future hyper-reality that actually physically exists in our real world.
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My better angels are not involved in the self-satisfaction of realizing the woman beside me at a manicure (where rings — wedding, engagement, and otherwise — are laid beside you while your nails are attended to by a woman who usually asks, directly or not, about what your rings, or lack of rings, indicate) is wearing a monster diamond — and that she definitely is listening while I go off about the absurdity of monster weddings, the corniness of monster rings, and the implications of monster expectations around what should be all love and joy.
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Old timeyness is sometimes considered campy and put forth as a sort of "ultra-corniness". At other rare times, it is used to invoke an era of integrity and quality that stands in opposition to inferior "newfangled" ways of doing things.
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Variety wrote that the film "has a quaint corniness about it, as of it were a cheapie horror movie from the 1950s ... Special effects and production values are mediocre, which in this case is part of the fun.""Film Reviews: Ghoulies". Variety. January 22, 1985. 16, 18.
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Veeyen of Nowrunning.com rated the film 1.5 in a scale of five and said, "Doubles offers a desultory tour through streets that you have been through several times before. It's a dreary drama that has been dipped in the mundane. So, the disappointments are double, the predictability double and the corniness even more than double."Veeyen.
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He also stated "Do [the Diamonds'] epiphanies happen too quickly? Maybe! As thrilling as all of this is, and as bold as it is that it’s all happening at once, there are some moments in 'Change Your Mind' that veer a little too much into outright corniness, above and beyond the normal level we should expect from the show.” In a highly positive review for The Post Joseph Stanichar stated: "The first half of 'Change Your Mind' is action-packed and filled to the brim with answers to fans' pleas.
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According to Valo, "Join Me in Death" was also the first song to feature "that corniness and toungue-in-cheek nature, that was missing from the first album". The UK division of BMG initially refused to release the album, as they felt that "Join Me in Death" was too much of a "schlager", fearing it would ruin the rest of the album. "Right Here in My Arms" and "Resurrection" were written around the same time Valo was working on "Join Me in Death", thus both retain the same '80s influence.Juho K. Juntunen (2002).
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754 Comparisons between Rodgers and Hart and the successor team of Rodgers and Hammerstein are inevitable. Hammerstein's lyrics project warmth, sincere optimism, and occasional corniness. Hart's lyrics showed greater sophistication in subject matter, more use of overt verbal cleverness, and more of a "New York" or "Broadway" sensibility. The archetypal Rodgers and Hart song, "Manhattan," rhymes "The great big city's a wondrous toy/Just made for a girl and boy" in the first stanza, then reprises with "The city's clamor can never spoil/The dreams of a boy and goil" in the last.
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" Ed Potton of The Sunday Times gave the film a positive review, observing that the premise "really shouldn't work, yet somehow it steers a course between corniness and barminess. By the end I was crying like a baby, along with many of the other people in my screening, as well as giggling at the preposterousness of it all." Peter Debruge of Variety wrote: "Granted, there aren't a lot of surprises in The Art of Racing in the Rain. If anything, knowing — or at least anticipating — how the film's myriad tragedies will unfold seems to heighten the effect.
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Guerra concluded that Beyoncé "rarely has sounded so charming, even as she soars through several key changes." Mikael Wood of Spin magazine noted that the song "imagines a perfect genetic splice" of Whitney Houston's eponymous debut album and Michael Jackson's Off the Wall. Ricky Schweitzer of One Thirty BPM stated that "Love on Top" is instantaneously reminiscent of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson and Stevie Wonder, and favored Beyoncé's numerous key changes, writing: > 'Love On Top' employs a similar pacing [to 'Party'], though tonally, this > track reminds one more immediately of Michael and Janet Jackson, as well as > Stevie Wonder. This effervescent throwback escapes corniness by reveling in > its pure joy and as such, it becomes one of the highlights of the album.
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" The album garnered two 4-star reviews the first from Pegasus News' Audrey Swanson, who affirmed that "Night Train, with equal parts passion, fun, vulnerability, and wildness, proves that Aldean is now more than eligible to be dubbed the 'badass' of contemporary country music." The second from Reporter Online' Krista Bellardo, who noted that the album is "Armed with great balance, catchy lyrics and strong melodies, you are likely to keep these songs in your head for days." Lastly, Andrew Eckhous of The Michigan Daily rated the album a 3.5-star effort, and wrote that "Night Train successfully bridges the divide between pop-country and radio rock...With Night Train, Aldean is making a serious effort to be a crossover star. Granted, he’s not crossing over very far...Night Train is a country-pop album, meaning it inherently carries an aura of corniness.
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