That vocal twang that we expect in country music, it's in there — Lil Nas X has got a vocal twang, that real nasal sound.
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It's kinda gritty and sandy, and it's got some twang.
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Joe Barton at one point, in his distinct Texas twang.
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I have that same beautiful little twang as you do.
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WM: His twang is — he's also... JW: It's so frustrating!
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The narrator speaks fluent English with a South African twang.
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Her "Kyrie eleisons" are intoned with a deep Southern twang.
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No surprise to hear, the exotic twang helped his love life.
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He speaks in clipped sentences, with a high-pitched Southern twang.
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"It covers a lot of emotion, a deep twang," he said.
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"I'm calling about the Craigslist ad," he says in a Southern twang.
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"They have this sort of Western twang," a Lebanese fan, Anthony, said.
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SAG HARBOR Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks, rhythm and twang. Feb.
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He orders in the unmistakable twang of my utterly moronic home island.
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He is George Patton with an Appalachian twang and minus the profanity.
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Jackson isn't particularly likable, with his stringy hair and uncomfortable Southern twang.
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Think of Branson as a wholesome Las Vegas with a Nashville twang.
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She won best female county vocal performance for "Absolute Torch and Twang."
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But any doubt I had vanished within the first twang of his guitar.
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In fact, Crash's Aussie twang is the absolute worst thing you'll hear today.
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"It was really quick," she says, speaking rapidly with a slight Texan twang.
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"He was actually concerned about what he called his Texas twang," says Knight.
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It's a cold, watery yogurt-based beverage with a salty twang to it.
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She speaks in a slow cadence, with pauses and occasional Long Island twang.
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The sound is similar to a banjo but with a less metallic twang.
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Perhaps it was the twang in his speech, so fresh to my ear.
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He is a Texan by birth, with a twang to show for it.
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No filtering phrases through a pound of plums but an electrifying Welsh twang.
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He is also the bass guitarist for Twang Dragons, a country-rock band.
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To prove it, Long Island was listed in dead last for their unsexy twang.
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His accent is an unusual blend: no-nonsense Yorkshire with a southern African twang.
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And then he'd contain it and be back to his gentle, Midwestern nasal twang.
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A sustained high note was answered by a plangent twang from across the room.
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He deploys a country twang earned growing up spending summers in the rural South.
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City boots with a cowboy twang are perfect partners for '21556s-inspired wool trousers.
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You catch the whiff of unfamiliar cuisine and the twang of a new accent.
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Was combining that cleaner country twang sound with drone a very natural process for you?
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"Take a look at that, eh?" he says with a hint of a Kiwi twang.
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The twang of "Hard Day's Night" hits the PAs, and my mother is 15 again.
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J.P. Pithy storytelling, twang and a backbeat have defined Dwight Yoakam's music throughout his career.
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Two Hands is tighter and punchier, with an earthy mix of guitar crackle and twang.
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Clinton age, her hairstyles evolve, and her diction take on and then lose an Arkansas twang.
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In this case, "I was completely befuddled," Dr. Centor told me in his thoughtful Southern twang.
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Drink: Gilles Paris Fleurie, a quenching wine with loads of red fruit and an umami twang.
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McConaughey worked on dropping his trademark Texas twang, and Theron covered up her South African inflections.
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"The twang in his voice, the dialect—he still has this real Southern dialect," Lee says.
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"When I first saw it all, it upset me," she said in her barbed-wire twang.
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There are just a rockabilly twang and a tone of genial, grateful satisfaction in her voice.
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Over time, these will balance out the twang that you get from the taste of tomatoes.
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Cassie Nova is a popular longtime drag queen with a potty mouth and a Texas twang.
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Collins is something of a Jim Jordan with a Southern twang, a pugilist for the President.
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He originally hails from California, though a sojourn through Tennessee left a hint of a southern twang.
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He is always eager to twang, delivering his best stump-speech impression of a West Texas farmer.
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No one, to my knowledge, bought Overwatch wanting to listen to the twang of their own heartstrings.
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I heard the drawl in her voice and the twang when I saw her live on SNL.
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In a recent video posted to Twitter, Markle greets fans with the slightest bit of British twang.
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Gordon-Levitt apparently drew inspiration for his character's Texas-style twang from a cartoon classic: Foghorn Leghorn.
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Though his accent became distinctly American, even as an elderly man there remained a recognisable Welsh twang.
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Even the way she says "Claire" in that melancholy Southern twang brims with affection, disappointment and regret.
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Throughout the hearing, Stumpf was polite, responding to senators' often aggressive questions with a calm, earthy twang.
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Elsewhere, the rock and blues are wan, the whispers of Middle Eastern twang or Indian raga unnecessary.
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"My dad had a seafood restaurant," Fertitta, 20103, tells CNBC Make It, in his signature Texas twang.
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From her Southern twang to her that slow dance vibe in the tempo, I love it all.
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He also recognized the popularity of country music and added some hillbilly twang to his guitar lines.
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"I can't believe that's Milo," a bro with a Georgia twang and Oakleys whispered to his friend.
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Smith inflected her voice with Dylan's twang, bringing out the common poetic lyricism that the two share.
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And just the mere twang of a steel guitar may transcend you to fireflies and summer nights.
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"I remember a player actually saying 'get that nigger' with a Western twang to his voice," Smalls says.
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The song is slowed to half-speed, emphasizing the lingering, gum-on-the-bottom of your shoes twang.
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In "Material," the insistent repetition and metallic twang of those sounds are transformed into music of mysterious theatricality.
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Those who deal with unruly kids all day never quite lose that twang of exasperation mixed with bossiness.
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If that city has lately been dominated by bros, he is a gentleman; his twang feels digitally augmented.
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Some tracks feel like Tears For Fears-indebted rave-ups while others boast slide guitar and country twang.
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Graham was tall and handsome, with a disarming aw-shucks demeanor and a Southern twang to his voice.
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But my favorite is Tammie, a jovial steamroller of a woman with a gracious twang and a brunette bob.
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It's an insistent, slightly choked twang both powerful and needy, conjured from somewhere between his nose and his larynx.
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When Gilmour finally starts playing, the Audeze headphones produce a stunningly clear guitar twang where the Canfields fall flat.
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Though it's called CMA Country Christmas, don't expect much twang in this year's edition of the popular TV special.
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"We're extremely fortunate that the main charge didn't go off," Millsaps told Reuters in his soft North Carolina twang.
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The resulting "country music" is the distinct twang of one mind, remarkably constant despite sometimes audacious changes of form.
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It's interesting because you tend to associate Matthew with a certain accent or twang, and he stripped that away.
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As Hank, Mr. Hiddleston leads with charm and a twang, keeping the beat with his shoulders, hips and feet.
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She sings of a back-and-forth, of banishment, but the guitar twang and deep, cheeky bassline suggests otherwise.
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Mr. Harrelson hits his beats with charismatic menace and a reverberant Texas twang, but he's booming in a vacuum.
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It's intoned to the beat of Afro-Brazilian drums and the twang of single-stringed gourd instruments called berimbaus.
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"That's the kiss of death," Mr. Sanders, a former rodeo performer and cattle rustler, said in a jaunty twang.
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For example, I can't read a book by William Burroughs without hearing his laconic nasal twang in every sentence.
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A boisterous, wiry white man with a thick Southern twang, Kelly has lived alongside Hispanic people his whole life.
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She still speaks with a Texan twang but has never been the target of anti-haole remarks or bullying.
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She still speaks with a Texan twang but has never been the target of anti-haole remarks or bullying.
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He speaks in a sharp twang and cruises around in a Chevy truck with real longhorns mounted on the front.
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"I'm like, 'I'm not going for that,' " she joked before launching into pitch perfect Witherspoon impression — southern twang and all.
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Luke Bryan kicked off Super Bowl LI with a soulful rendition of the national anthem in his signature country twang.
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When Newsom was mayor, his staff always knew when he'd been studying Clinton, because he'd speak with an Arkansas twang.
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Terms like Southern drawl, Midwestern twang or Valley Girl upspeak underscore the layered status attached to particular ways of speaking.
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As in years past, the emphasis is far more on the sounds of Christmas than on the twang of country.
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In I Saw The Light, he performs Williams' songs with the right amount of yodel and twang, without becoming a caricature.
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It's more Shelton than Stefani, a romantic country ballad with ample guitars (at least three on stage!) and a Southern twang.
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When he wasn't acting, Nabors was singing in a glorious baritone that made listeners forget all about Gomer Pyle's hayseed twang.
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Sometimes the interplay of these worlds was delightful: the caramel sound of the cello relaxing into the twang of the quanun.
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A summer day with chores, a night sky with a twang of wonder — just a country blues, rustling the trees everywhere.
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He spoke with a very prominent twang throughout the package and when he appeared on stage to answer the panel's questions.
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"We made moonshine and country hams — that was the life," the younger John Bryant said in the region's guitar-string twang.
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On paper, Pinegrove — a hyper-literate six-piece New Jersey band with a country twang and emo essence — probably shouldn't work.
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When Lucy speaks as her mother, it's with a sort of descriptive physical shorthand, conjuring sharp edges and a nasal twang.
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Her series, The Ache for Home, reflects not only the lateral hum of Midwestern America, but the vertical twang of homesickness.
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You can currently learn to speak Korean or Mandarin in two different accents, with the mainland Chinese influence or a Taiwanese twang.
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It sounds like a comeback with just the right amount of twang and heartbreak to remind us of Taylor from 2007-2014.
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But I press on, the twang of some uplifting folk tunes in my ears, and eventually stumble across a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.
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Even in the songs where his soft-spoken twang doesn't shine through, you can hear his stylistic ticks bumbling to the forefront.
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Released last year, the collection is ambling and good-spirited, its tone set by Meek's freewheeling guitar playing and prominent Texas twang.
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Ms. Markey is the only actor who consistently retains a Southern accent, even when she sings, with an apt country music twang.
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The chug-a-chug-a-chug and twang of an Angelo Badalamenti guitar instrumental—appropriately named "Americana"—soundtracks the scene. Heeee-yaww!
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Singer Phil McGill brings forth a spirit and twang in his voice, adding on top another kind of musicality in the track.
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The song "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X has the boomy trap of hip-hop and the lilt of country twang.
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She has a Midwest twang and an old soul with a twist of auntie energy, which she tells me she hears often.
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"The bad guys need to get lucky every time," Murphy drawls in voice-over during the first season, in his West Virginia twang.
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Or is it just not getting the right amount of twang in when trying to say the name of the local cab firm?
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Accompanied by a defiant, Morricone guitar twang and battling snare drums, seven riders charge on screen, guns held high, eyes on the horizon.
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At school, boys would twang girls' bra straps and slide rulers into the gap between their bottoms and the grey, plastic classroom chairs.
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The score, by the jazz pianist Masahiko Sato, might be characterized as "acid twang" in its evocation of Pink Floyd and Ennio Morricone.
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Miley had that raspy voice, a country twang, and her character—both on Hannah Montana and her celebrity—were inedible to my heart.
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And on those perfect days, the twang of an electric guitar still seeps out from the Stone Pony and soaks up the boardwalk.
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In person, Dr. Lightman is soft-spoken, with a tangibly southern twang at times, and, as in print, he wears his erudition lightly.
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Slaughter was born in Kentucky, and although she relocated with her family to upstate New York, she never lost her trademark southern twang.
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Those who live in north Louisiana are mostly Protestant, speak with a familiar Southern twang and, in the modern era, voted heavily Republican.
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Musgraves' first two albums, "Same Trailer Different Park" and "Pageant Material," were both solidly good, classic country albums filled with twang, banjos, and all.
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But in China, the famous meerkat-warthog duo not only speak Chinese, but they also do so with a distinct beifang, or northern, twang.
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Her singing, trimmed with a slight twang, is impeccable both in the bloom in her voice and the emotion she invests in the lyrics.
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We will be the semi-invited, fully-pissed wedding guest relatives on the dancefloor after the first twang of that naughty guitar in 2037.
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It delights in the folky twang of his early LPs, a sound he had begun moving away from when he recorded with Crazy Horse.
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Her new single, "Malibu," features a country-inflected twang, and in its accompanying video she's frolicking innocently on the beach in a white dress.
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He sometimes mimics the Texas twang of Joel Osteen, the televangelist and a friend who runs one of the largest megachurches in the country.
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I could also understand why so many people in New England considered George W. Bush to be unlistenable, because he overdid the Texas twang.
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The 52 Places Traveler Riding Silver Dollar City's newest — and craziest — coaster, and other thrills from the wholesome Las Vegas with a Nashville twang.
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Then he switched into American English with a slight Texas twang -- the same accent I heard this week when I spoke with Dinorah Liddiard.
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Mr. Menard was widely known as "the Cajun Hank Williams" for the country twang in his voice and the concise poetry of his songs.
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This Christmas special based on the childhood of the singer Dolly Parton involves a blizzard, a wedding ring and, naturally, plenty of Tennessee twang.
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It's not Tracie Reeves's thick Tennessee twang that hooks viewers into the two-hour-long shows she broadcasts via Facebook Live, six times a week.
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Like Reynolds, Leonardo DiCaprio's Rick Dalton speaks with a twang and hails from Missouri (one of several states Reynolds lived in during a peripatetic childhood).
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I was copying and pasting press photos and bios together when I came across a DJ who evoked a very knowing twang in my loins.
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Her Louisiana twang drips with something pleasantly sour, her lips moving around vowels the way they might navigate a lollipop, slick with its glossy sugar.
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Now, Ballerini is a well-established, record-breaking country artist, singing poppy songs about divorce, heartbreak, and good clean fun in her brazen Tennessee twang.
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There are so many nationalities, so many interests, so it's quite possible for a demagogue to twang the negative chords in various constituencies of interest.
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There's something about the twang and drawl of country music that feels particularly well suited to the way we like to tell the American narrative.
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On later solo albums, Mr. Vega set aside pop expectations, following his inclinations toward ferocious electronic propulsion, guitar twang and blunt lyrics, combined without compromise.
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When Ronnie Spector says hi, it's with a girlish chuckle and a thick Noo Yoik twang that hasn't diminished in all of her 19643 years.
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And when, of course, Billy Ray Cyrus has done the track you get that twang as well from someone who is a classic country artist.
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Bethany grew up in the Baptist church, and we definitely vibe out to some old church music on Sundays, for sure, with a country twang.
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She represents these stock images with hushed, well-groomed, pedantically slow folk-rock that sweeps piano chords and guitar twang into a soothing organic blend.
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It's a pastoral slow burner that patiently unwinds over six minutes, with a soaring guitar solo from Owens and subtly weary twang coloring Jenkins' croon.
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Lil Nas X's surprise hit "Old Town Road" is dripping with country twang but conspicuously absent from country charts, after Billboard chose to remove it.
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Warm and friendly, Mr. Hartman, 50, has a habit of talking adoringly about his nurse-practitioner wife and track-star daughters in a winning Texas twang.
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We took our burgers to a picnic table outside, and as soon as we sat down, Nichols' usually voluble Little Rock twang dropped to a whisper.
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Yes, the steel, fiddles and twang from her debut album are gone, the Texas native acknowledges, but in the process she has found her artistic identity.
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"If we don't get rain in 60 days," Jody Bryant said, fatigue coloring his Oklahoma twang, "we're gonna have to sell every hoof on the place."
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It's Rabenreither's most genre agnostic work to date, operating more on the dynamism of its title than the twang and intimacy of last year's Big Blue.
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Set to music by Julianne Wick Davis, Robert's story is told with an appropriate folk-bluegrass twang, which is hindered only by Dan Collins's clunky lyrics.
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Tate Mayeux is a long-haired crooner, and Brian Broussard lends a shreddy vibe to his twang; both rockers are still grounded in their country roots.
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At her best, programmed beats, distorted guitars and synthetic instruments only sharpen the twang in her voice and the brashness of her attitude. RCA. Oct. 19.
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The four-bar intro was just the chorus without drums; the lyrics came out with a thick southern twang that sounded like a parody of itself.
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Sports fans have been subjected to a large number of male broadcasters with objectively terrible voices, from Howard Cosell's nasal staccato to Phil Simms's Kentucky twang.
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Nicholson further altered his most distinctive feature, his voice, twisting its devilish purr into Hoffa's stridently nasal Midwestern twang ("Dere's a lot more dere for us").
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His guitar lines wired the lean twang of country and the bite of the blues into phrases with both a streamlined trajectory and a long memory.
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"It's a tricky thing to have to hear that feedback," she said in her real cadence, a slight Southern twang that hints at her Louisiana upbringing.
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The episode, which caps out at 10 minutes, is meandering and goofy, soundtracked by a simple guitar twang that could've been plucked from a children's television show.
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After his rock stardom faded, Russell adopted the alter ego of Hank Wilson for several albums of country classics that let him turn loose his Oklahoma twang.
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Armed with just an acoustic guitar, a warm, rusty twang, some self-deprecating jokes, and a few well-placed yodels, Lucas played us all like a fiddle.
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While the band's come a long way from the cigarette-tinged twang that colored A.M., the Wilco of 2017 shows no signs of letting things get stale.
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" Ms. Conley said in her musical twang, before leaning in to offer one conspiratorial quibble: "I think they picked out a few too many Wal-Mart tops.
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The tenor Paul Appleby, smooth and tender in fare like Mozart, has immersed himself in the role of Joe Cannon with a Missouri twang and desperate fury.
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Some people call it a twang, but any Midwesterner will tell you that, despite the fact they draw out their a's, they don't speak with an accent.
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Drawing from the cadences and content of Hawaiian chants as well as the consonant twang of country music, the group combined historical reverence with show-business appeal.
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But she'll reward those who seek out this intimate show with her arresting voice and a Nashville sound that doesn't necessarily wear its twang on its sleeve.
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He drank pints of beer with veteran organizers, men with meaty forearms who spoke to him in a Lancashire twang about Maggie Thatcher and the Peasants' Revolt.
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She's offered up her brilliant, emotional tones, delivered in that Tennessee twang, and he's given them a rich, sorrowful piece of country-licked production to sit upon.
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They built a low-key collection of dusty rock songs built around the uniting principles of reverb and twang—slow ringing chords made more ominous by vaporous effects.
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This crew trades largely in classic, "pure" pop music; sometimes it's got a country twang, as with Musgraves, or trends towards hip-hop, as with Monae and Lizzo.
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The instructor, Adriene Mishler, had a Leighton Meester–like grin and calming, ASMR-y voice that sometimes delightfully lapsed into a Texan twang when she went off-script.
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The voice-activated smart home device is set to launch in the country on Thursday, shipping with a distinctly Australian twang and an understanding of the local vernacular.
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I have a twang, I grew up on a farm in Jacksonville, FL. I'm from the same place as Jake Owen, we graduated from the same high school.
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While gorgeous pedal steel and a compelling twang color the arrangements, her strong songs are malleable and universal to be confined to the genre tag of country music.
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You hear her accent fly between a deep Jamaican patois, a rolling French drawl and a cockney-meets-American twang, depending on where she is in the world.
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His British burr may have been slowly subsumed over the years under a Texas twang, but he never replied with anything less than a generous full-length answer.
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Bloated at 141 minutes, director Matthew Vaughn's wildly stylized spy movie picks up an American twang, but still manages to look a little over-dressed for the occasion.
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Sudden drooping slides and players sawing away at their string instruments, punctuated by the somberly shuddering twang of horn and trumpet, give a sense of wandering and rootlessness.
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Sturgill Simpson takes this song — one of the four singles from Nevermind — and flips it on its head, subbing in his signature Southern twang for Cobain's shredding guitar.
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That hammered Central European dulcimer — played beautifully, as in Los Angeles, by Chester Englander — remains an ingenious central element of the score, its twang simultaneously folksy and otherworldly.
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He has a strong Texas twang as befits a man born in Wichita Falls, a North Texas town known mainly for its Air Force base and its tornadoes.
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It uses the electric-guitar twang and bluesy ease of her longtime road band; it also takes some chances while bringing out the pleasure and righteousness of her singing.
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However, the Jackie 'twang became so ingrained in Portman's mind that she'd often speak like Jackie off-set, and those close to her totally called her out on it.
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But I can still remember the voices emanating from our fat, round TV back then: Niles's and Frasier's haughty Brahmin, Daphne's needling Manchester brogue, and Martin's gruff, cackling twang.
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If the Flats from Brittany's famed Belon River (the only ones with the proper right to the name) have a hint of metallic twang, Maine's are copper-plated monsters.
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It's also why we judge people who seem to be performing their accent, such as politicians who suddenly develop a folksy twang or celebrities who affect posh European mannerisms.
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At one point, an abstract, texture-obsessed drum solo led somehow into the Duke Ellington ballad "(In My) Solitude," which Mr. Ribot played with a touch of abrasive twang.
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For Jimi Hendrix, the guitar was a blues transmitter, a thruster, a twang maker, a horn section replacement, a wordless yet urgent voice and a wild electronic noise generator.
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Ms. King was born and raised in Los Angeles, and she speaks with a rich twang that's got a little bit of the South and, when necessary, some bite.
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A few months ago, a woman in Texas woke up from jaw surgery to find that her southern twang was gone — and was mysteriously replaced by a British accent.
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At first glance, LoCash seemed to epitomize the slick twang of everything I don't particularly enjoy about modern country music — impeccably crafted facial hair, power chords and tacky clothes.
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" Then his voice took on a bright, folksy twang as he said, as if the girl had prompted him to, "Well, come on over sometime if you get lonesome.
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He tried another line, moving his mouth around the hard twang of the "am" in "vampire," when the vampire in question — his co-star Joseph Gilgun — interrupted their work.
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While all these varied pronunciations add flavor to the language, they also have their pitfalls: Whenever British people speak, their fellow citizens immediately hear the unmistakable twang of class.
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"Picture to Burn" has Swift expressing pent-up G-rated aggression with a twang (this is back when she still had a Southern accent, and it's endearing as fuck).
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His latest single, "Stop," combines a sound reminiscent of The Weeknd with an emo country twang; Harry lists Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, and, of course, Chamillionaire as his biggest inspirations.
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Some people took issue with the fact that Beyoncé — who famously hails from Houston — might inadvertently give Nala a bit of a Texas twang in her portrayal of the character.
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Jagger makes love to a harmonica that oozes a heart-wrenching twang, eye makeup smeared across his face and a jeweled ring vibrating on his hand with each new breath.
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Her smooth words and melodic delivery are welcome, considering some people were worried that the singer's Houston roots and slight Texas twang would sound strange coming out of a lion.
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He reworks Merle Haggard's "Silver Wings" into lo-fi twang, and on the record's title track, he belts out some of most ragged and stomping rock you'll hear in 2017.
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While Wilco would trade much of gritty, rough-hewn twang for synths and Beatles-indebted pop exuberance on their third album Summerteeth, the energy from their earlier oeuvre never left.
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Beyond the admirable sincerity and devotion, the record is full of emotive hooks, thundering percussion, psychedelic twang, ethnic rhythms, and formless meditations on what mysteries reside in the heavens above.
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Okay, so we're not going to get to see Tom Hiddleston get his country twang on as Hank Williams in I Saw the Light this month — or even this year.
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Mr. Padmore is a master of this music, but the surprise star of the record may be Mr. Bezuidenhout — or at least the revelatory brightness and twang of his piano.
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Miley Cyrus struggles to keep up the Australian twang as she fades back and forth to her original American accent as a reporter in a segment for Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Backed by Mark Mothersbaugh's electro-twang score, he divides a pack of cards; he disappears a brick; he presents an audience member with a note from a nearest and dearest.
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In one of his most country-influenced tracks to date, Styles details his weariness with a relationship that seems to have lost its magical spark while incorporating a slight twang.
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But in my new household, I was an American among Britons, a writer among radio listeners, a peanut butter devotee among Marmite fans, a Midwestern twang among smooth plummy accents.
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From the Geordie twang of the Newcastle region to the inimitable Welsh accent via West Country chatter, there are dozens of distinct and often confusing ways of a making a point.
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You can detect just the tiniest bit of twang in Lawrence Wright's speaking voice, so it's fitting that he's the narrator of his book about his home state and its contradictions.
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Jim Pratte has an MBA in finance and retired after a career selling computer hardware, but even the mention of Williams flushed his face red and ratcheted up his Texas twang.
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In addition to portraying a troubled Nashville star in 2010's Country Strong — and delivering all those tunes with a twang — the Oscar-winner also performed show-stopping numbers on Glee.
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His Hebrew had a Polish twang, and his attempt to find a resonant Hebrew name to replace "Persky", which he was born with, ended only in "Peres", a sort of bird.
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This is evident on the album's lead single "Soothing," which is a subtly smooth, almost jazz inspired track that opens with a deep bass twang before Marling's serene vocals come in.
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It's tempting to assume that any guitar band with a southern twang and some charm is country music, especially when that band's origin is Nashville, aka the capital of country music.
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I then went off and looked at Dan + Shay, and their song "All to Myself": doesn't really feature any standard country music instrumentation, and there's really no vocal twang to it.
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His first hit, 1955's "Maybellene," was a cover of a country song that preserved the country twang but added an unmistakably rock 'n' roll attitude — with guitar licks to match.
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That taught him, he told me, that "it's not always all about the twangiest of the twang" and that a hybrid like "Country Girl (Shake It for Me)" could be accepted.
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His aides have sometimes pushed back, noting that his base loves to see Sanders, a thick-skinned mom with a relatable Southern twang, standing up against a brigade of aggressive reporters.
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Price, a 34-year-old country singer-songwriter with an effortless, classical twang, grew up in small-town Illinois and dropped out of college to move to East Nashville in 2003.
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The duck intestine and beef stomach was a bit tough for my slightly namby pamby British palate, but was given a pleasingly numbing twang of taste through the bubbling hot pot soup.
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This, in turn, led to a performance by the combined ensembles — with the sarod's metallic twang offering a captivating contrast to the timbres of Hespèrion's harp and viols — that drew ecstatic applause.
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With her nasal twang, clown lipstick and exaggerated phrasing, Miranda is essentially the offspring of two blasts from "SNL's" past -- Gilda Radner's nerdy Lisa Loopner and Bill Murray's Nick the lounge singer.
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"To be honest, since we last spoke it's been kind of crazy," he says, his familiar drawl crackling down the phone line, this time with a very slight but noticeable London twang.
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On May 20, fans of the country star can finally hear the "Came Here to Forget" singer voice Earl, a pig with a country twang, in the highly-anticipated Angry Birds Movie.
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If we wanted to feel a twang of self-loathing every time we looked in the mirror, we'd almost be tempted to say something along the lines of: "Talk about sour grapes!"
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After a nine-year gap between records due to drug use, legal problems, and a lack of equipment, Carlson took Earth's minimal, distortion-heavy sound and infused it with an Americana twang.
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The Saturday Night Live veteran served country twang, Southern geniality, and a raise of the brows that assured viewers the man doesn't go chin deep in just a mound of mashed potatoes.
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Everywhere I went last fall, I would often hear the same twang of pity when I told someone I'd come to their country from America to learn how their health care works.
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There they were, the two of them—the father of Be Bop and the curly-haired teenager with the smiling eyes—laughing, playing backgammon, learning to twang the Jew's harp, just being friends.
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Some kids, though, actually grew to prefer its sweetness and texture (and even its slight metallic twang) to other, more expensive Soviet sweets like milk sugar candies or fake chocolate soy candy bars.
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Modern country music is saturated with pretenders to the throne of "real" country—to say nothing of honest-to-god outlaws—but Cody Jinks and his low, mellow twang are the real deal.
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This isn't a black vs white thing either, don't let them twang you into thinking it's that, but what I will say is that no one should be sitting back and watching this.
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That's what I thought when I got all my Sonos speakers playing the late Tom Petty's Won't Back Down and the first floor of my home filled with his distinct, Gainesville, Florida, twang.
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It opens with the gentle Caribbean lilt Mr. Chesney learned from Jimmy Buffett, but that's a fake-out; with the chorus, a giant guitar twang and booming tom-toms reverberate to distant horizons.
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But there's no mistaking the imperative urgency in the voice of the ominously backlighted figure on the stage of the Almeida Theater, nor the Australian twang that animates his favored four-letter words.
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It helped that the Utah-born Mr. Fairchild was at home with the spoken twang of a show that defeated English cast members like Belinda Lang, in gratingly shrill voice as Aunt Eller.
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Watchful and tremulous, she captures to perfection the breathiness of Jackie's voice, as it floats above the guttural twang of less exalted lives—"Amairca," she says, smoothing her native land into trisyllabic gentility.
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Throughout its six tracks, Millevoi channels the countrified acid-rock twang of the Meat Puppets while under the sonic influence of the atmospheric guitar heroics Young explored on Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man soundtrack.
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Sheryl Crow, Dierks Bentley, Joe Walsh of Eagles, John Osborne of Brothers Osborne and Chris Janson all performed the indelible "McGee" together in a raucous performance that split the difference between twang and churn.
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There's dub on "Before the Water Gets Too High," a Beach Boys-inspired airiness mixed with a dark twang on the love song "Mardi Gras Beads," and a disco bounce on the title track.
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While not as frenetic as the twang rockers from their early catalog, these tracks like "Handshake Drugs" and "Impossible Germany" are just as compelling even though they unfold in a much more relaxed way.
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From the subtle twang of "Jessica" and the way Duffy sings the opening line, "When I get to thinking / I start to worry that you don't know me anymore," there's a radiating emotional resonance.
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The frontman seems to be playing up his slight twang to throw the judges off, but his recognizable voice and the breakdown of the clues make it hard to deny he is the Banana.
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Amid the pageantry and prayers, and the anthems sung by St. Martin's choir, there was a distinct country twang to the ceremony, an homage to the adopted state of the Connecticut-raised former president.
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Loyal to Mr. Trump and to Mr. Spicer, Ms. Sanders has increasingly become the voice of the administration, her Southern twang broadcast by cable networks after audio-only briefings during the past several weeks.
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He'll be best remembered for his astonishing third-party runs for the presidency in the 1990s, when his Texas twang and populist ideas earned him almost 2503% of the vote in the 1992 presidential election.
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Speaking to Variety, Welch said "When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings" is a loving send-up of a classic style of country music, complete with twang and a few "yippee-kay-ay"s.
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For his latest offering, "School of Rock the Musical," which opened with a deafening electric twang at the Winter Garden Theater on Sunday night, this lordly British composer has been hanging out with fifth graders.
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" Marsha Genensky, according to Ms. Hellauer, "sounds like a folk singer, with a nasal twang, and I sound like a pop singer who would rather not be above middle C if she can help it.
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Now 51, heavy-set with a tall forehead and a provincial twang, the former industrial-equipment salesman could be typecast as an accountant, not the orange-jumpsuited prisoner he became upon his arrival in America.
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But this guide purports to focus specifically on the lineage of "Old Town Road," and how its platter of sounds—banjo, trap drums, a tongue-in-cheek twang—became so potent in the cultural imagination.
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"We feel that for too long, our leaders have viewed politics as the art of the possible," Clinton says in a youthful voice almost unrecognizable and unmarked by the Southern twang that would come later.
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Geraldine Fibbers songs like "Dragon Lady" present similarly squealing guitars and abstract wordplay—but with an unlikely country twang as well as a gripping vulnerability, romance, and sincerity that those contemporaries often shied away from.
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" Before Lil Nas X had everyone talking about country rap, Whack channeled an exaggerated twang, and the genre's knack for storytelling, to tell the man who reminds her of her absent father to "Fuck Off.
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Finally, there's Cumberbatch's voice work, which involves adopting a slightly nasal twang that, frankly, won't make anybody forget Boris Karloff, and really makes one yearn to hear the actor's resonant baritone, British accent and all.
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Excessive use might make your nose bleed at random, or scorch your throat, leaving an acidic twang when you swallowed, which made it impossible to concentrate in lectures or enjoy your lunch the next day.
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Mr. Le, a Republican who speaks with a subtle Texas twang, said he has never seen America more deeply divided, but added that nothing happening now compares to the world his parents knew in Vietnam.
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COSCARELLI The Grammys love their ballads overmuch — see above — but Tanya Tucker's "Bring My Flowers Now" needed only her leathery twang and co-writer Brandi Carlile's piano chords and vocal harmony to tell its story.
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With a twang of fingerpicked, bossa nova-esque guitar, album-opener "Rock-A-Bye My Baby" set the tone for an LP of jazz progressions and folky instrumentation with '60s surf-pop songwriting at its core.
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With its compact body and brash, incisive twang, the Telecaster—first introduced by Fender in the 1950s—played a pivotal role in the evolution of country music, electric blues, and, most of all, rock and roll.
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Using your half-spear-half-USB-stick like this even makes the larger cow-like creatures rideable, giving you a mount from which to loose arrows, throw bombs, and twang slingshot projectiles at even bigger robots.
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"Now this is the day the Lord has made," Clinton said upon taking stage, her voice attuning itself to the regional twang, much like Obama and generations of politicians before her have done with relative peace.
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He's been talking for years about how Lucinda Williams is his favorite songwriter and as far back as 2010's Race—which he made as a teenager—he's been testing out tracks that experiment with twang.
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He tells me about how The Beatles and Lynyrd Skynyrd made him want to pick up a guitar, and the five years in the late 70s that he lived in Houston and acquired a Southern twang.
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Regardless, this didn't come without a twang of guilt and concern; after all, we've all heard the finger-wagging lectures from our doctors and mothers telling us to stay away from the delightfully low-priced fare.
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In the lead up to the Lifetime premiere, Bassett spoke to Broadly about how she perfected Britney's Louisiana twang, the most horrible moment on set, and why she views Britney Ever After as a feminist film.
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Some fans were initially worried that Beyoncé's Texas twang would be distracting when portraying the African lion — made all the worse by the fact that Nala's voice was seemingly missing from much of The Lion King's promos.
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At this club in Ridgewood, Queens, they will receive support from, among others, Loamlands — an Americana group helmed by Kym Register, who sings about L.G.B.T.Q. issues with a warm Carolina twang on songs like "Little River." thetranspecos.
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The string sound has been pared back, so the ensemble feels transparent and winds-heavy, with an airy chamber-music intimacy, whipping occasionally into passionate outpourings and embroidered here and there with the coppery twang of cimbalom.
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On "Rainbow," Kesha's first new music since she featured on the rapper Pitbull's twang-hop hit "Timber" in 2013, there's no question who the enemy is: Dr. Luke, the hitmaker who shepherded all of her prior releases.
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She wrote the kinds of songs that sounded as though they'd been plucked from someone's diary with a healthy dose of twang, and her 22018 album "Speak Now" was Swift at the peak of her country powers.
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The reason I was speaking with Smith on a rainy afternoon wasn't to hear about how I could transform my nasally New Jersey twang into that of a vocoder sex god (a chat for another day perhaps).
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Slightly more downbeat than what we've previously heard from the band, the track doesn't scrimp on their signature guitar twang and complex riff-ery, which is offset pretty damn perfectly by Tina Halliday's always-gutsy and soulful vocal.
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Judge's deliberate pace and clipped Texas twang lends a kind of folksy authority to his pronouncements about the heyday of funk in 1984, when the acts who debuted in the late 1970s were suddenly hobnobbing at the Grammys.
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He's a strapping, dimpled young man who speaks with a twang and offers up easy chatter — a performance of down-home charm that's entirely synthetic, an act put on to sell pie that Giles can barely choke down.
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The iconic twang of the electric guitar string, for example, layered into most modern examples of rock and roll, has its origin in the music of Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Pentecostal gospel songs she so memorably performed.
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The Southern twang notwithstanding, the character approximates what the protagonist from his breakout movie, "Risky Business," might be like had we caught up with him in middle age, with a touch of "Top Gun" swagger for good measure.
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Goneril (Elizabeth Marvel, overreaching as usual) has an American twang, while Regan (Aisling O'Sullivan) speaks with an Irish brogue, and Ruth Wilson, doing her very best as Cordelia, and later as the Fool, has clear, British stage diction.
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Loretta Lynn featuring Elvis Costello "Everything It Takes" (Sony Legacy) The wordplay, the sighing pedal-steel guitar and Ms. Lynn's deep twang reach back to classic honky-tonk, in a new song pulled from her old notebooks. 18.
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" Mr. Reed, in a memoir, "Beware of Limbo Dancers: A Correspondent's Adventures with The New York Times," wrote that "Speaking Southern was not just a matter of drawl or twang; it meant a different way of framing thoughts.
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It's a question most musicians are asked far too often and their answers rarely are often pretty surface level—of course a person that enjoys both twang and guitar solos is going to be big on Neil Young.
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Their children speak accentless English—one or two even allow a Southern twang to creep in—dawdle in the local Fayette Mall, and swathe themselves entirely in wildcat blue on days when the University of Kentucky's basketball squad plays.
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A track which has all the hallmarks of disco—electro-orchestral shapes, a grooving bassline, some hi-hat shuffles—but also weirder and more psychedelic, with Cola's nasal Californian twang spread over the beats like peanut butter and jam.
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Some of the funniest television I've seen this year has required his virtuosic subtlety — the way his body jiggles in anger as he taps up a text storm, or the way he mumbles and pulls on Alfred's country twang.
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A short minute-long interlude called "Planetary Ambience" sets the tone: vacuumesque computer hisses shift and skid against high bleeps and low vibrating buzz, while sweet guitar harmonics pluck and twang, tickling the metallic exterior, highlighting the melodic nuance.
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Hood's heavy-twang rock isn't a natural fit for the kind of subtle groove-building that Jones specializes in, and after a few unsatisfying takes, Hood and his band mates gathered at the B-3, expecting to be fired.
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"Formation" begins not with a siren but with a twang—and with great authority: onstage, Beyoncé wasn't being policed; she was laying down the law as her dancers, straight-backed and stern-faced, performed in a line alongside her.
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"This thing has as good a range of motion as a natural hand," Matheny said in his charming southern twang, explaining how he could greet you with his right hand while opening a car door behind him with his left.
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"They had a football game that day and I got to see my old high school coaches, I got to see the team play, I got to see the team win," he says, his Tar Heel twang surfacing once again.
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She sprinkled a few "I tell you whats" into her speech, with a bit of twang — a tic that might be a remnant of her time spent in Arkansas, or an affected folksiness required of every politician not named Trump or Sanders.
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Lambert is the hookiest of pop-country queens, responsible for hit ballads, giant arena-rock bangers, and some of country's deftest fusions of acoustic guitar twang and electric power chords; musically as well as lyrically, she rocks with a grand sense of scale.
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In "Eyeballs," Savage sings about trying to keep a girl in New York before she leaves him for healthier alternatives; "Winter in the South" gallops through different abstract descriptions of Savage; "Phantom Limb" slips into a country twang with a rousing chorus.
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It's topped off with a healthy amount of twang from the cast, in particular from Damon Daunno, whose Curly is the falsetto-infatuated love child of Western movie staple Roy Rogers and sensitive Swedish songwriter Sondre Lerche, and Rebecca Naomi Jones's wry Laurey.
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With a showman's itch and a singular manner of speaking — the long pauses, the controlled twang, the easy deployment of words like "élan" and "hosannas" on the stump — Mr. Cruz registered at times like an actor playing the role of presidential candidate.
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Don't let the catchy twang of Sufjan Steven's guitar and images of an adorable 10-year-old running around as a fake superhero make you think Dontnod's free prequel to Life Is Strange 2 is anything but a vehicle for weaponized emotional torment.
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Somehow, Cloakroom manages to weave cryptic, apocalyptic lyrics that dabble in arcane themes and parapsychological phenomena, with doom-y riffs, mid-tempo grooves, and pop hooks, all seasoned with slow-fried country twang and dialed in, production-wise, for the true audiophile experience.
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The instrument's gentle twang, "a golden pool" of sunlight on the floor as Thea sings a hymn, even the sound of the sea within a conch shell: Each sensory experience seems to color the protagonist's consciousness as she matures as a performing artist.
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His 2015 debut, "Ratchet," is eclectic synth-pop with 1980s flair; his latest, last year's "Resolution," is stripped-down indie rock that includes songs like "I Can't Breathe," which focuses on police killings, and "The Things You Loved," which has a folksy twang.
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A native of Tehran who grew up playing the tar (a lute with a plaintive twang like a banjo's), Mohammad is drawn to the cadence of classical Persian poetry and music, in which the placement of silence is as important as the sound.
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"They drive American cars, eat American foods and love the American way of life, where you think anything is possible," he said in a German accent seasoned with a Southern twang, evidence of his time as an exchange student in Columbus, Miss.
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"From Valley Forge to Vietnaaam//9-11 to Afghanistan//that star spangled banner does yet wave" and "I stand up for the flag, take off my hat for Old Glory" are now sentiments you can hear set to the country twang of a guitar.
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Ms. O'Riordan never pretended to be someone else: She did not adopt an American twang, but sang in the bold brogue of her hometown, a place later viewed internationally through the prism of Frank McCourt's memoir "Angela's Ashes" as a rain-soaked, gritty place.
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He flipped on the satellite radio to the NHL Network, where a caller from Alabama, in an accent thicker than Harden's Texas twang, wanted to talk not about Rinne or Forsberg, Ryan Johansen or P. K. Subban, but about the team's third defensive pairing.
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Sharing the deep Texas bill on New Year's Eve: the scratchy-voiced, twang-loving, bruised-romantic songwriter Ryan Bingham along with Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, the band led by one of Mr. Nelson's sons that has lately roared behind Neil Young.
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After feeling a brief twang of personal satisfaction for taking money from the world champion when he lands in my territory, I end up owing him an extortionate amount of rent just a few throws later, forcing me to mortgage a few properties of my own.
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"I mean, here's this bloke from England who's a little overweight, with his zaftig charisma showing up, taking the latest slot that potheads and college students watch, and suddenly he's become a viral sensation that's global," Mr. Fielden said, a trace of his Texas twang poking through.
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When the world first met Taylor Swift, she was a teenage girl with a twang in her voice, a guitar in her hands, and a head of enviable ringlets that caused storms of tweens to flock to their local Targets to stock up on curling irons and hot rollers.
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And then there, in the middle of this Carnaval Oktoberfest Slumber Party on Mars, is Gaga, looking at them all mournfully, reaching out to their alien flower-feather-wings, and singing in a slight country twang about how badly she needs to cut herself free from her deceitful lover.
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With a cunning lyrical mix of Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, and Emmylou Harris, and a biting, edgy twang to her sound, she laid out her life story in the toughest way possible, a move that earned her a great deal of respect and turned all the right heads.
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"I shot my dog, they burned the church / I left my home, to my find worth / I miss the friends, I grew up with / They're all in jobs, or they've got kids," he sings, frustrated, his voice a mixture of Tom Delonge and Matt Champion with a Norwegian twang.
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It was eerie to hear the familiar tones of Elton John—the long and winding vowels, the dying falls, the salty Englishness pepped up with a transatlantic twang—emerge from someone else's mouth, and there are times, during "Rocketman," when you yearn for a snatch of that unmistakable sound.
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While there were multiple votes for my own favorite, "Wheat Kings" (open it in another tab and just listen, I'll wait) and "Bobcaygeon" (newly relevant during this US presidential election season with the line "And their voices rang / With that Aryan twang"), legions of Hip fans argued strenuously for their favorites.
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It doesn't have the arrogant twang of coke or the world-melt of LSD, and as such it furthers a sense of sinking resignation—until you take that biiiiit too much and suddenly you've forgotten who you are, where you are, and what existence, on any level at all, is.
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Every word, every faux southern twang he used, every insult he thrust at Trump and those who support him were vintage, class warfare, divisive Obama; signaling to all of us that the divide and conquer campaigner was back, and we are about to relive 2012 all over again, only worse.
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" Included in the curricula are how to exit a car (with legs together, at the same time), which words to cut from her vocabulary (for example, "pants" — which mean "underpants" in the U.K.), the appropriate way to address European nobility of different rank, and even the "softening" of her "American twang.
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Obviously, that deep indignity is why Payno flirts with an American twang here (though not before using his ordinary voice, and then stopping because he has quickly and correctly identified that he sounds like a children's party entertainer from Solihull), because anything is better than resembling Ozzy Osbourne trying to rap.
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Recorded in Austin, Texas, with an all-star cast of musicians and co-produced by the venerable Charlie Sexton, the record shows off Allen's gravelly but warm voice as it he spins dark tales of life and death, inflected with dry wit and backed by a soft pillowy bed of twang.
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Neko Case: Hell-On (Anti-) One of indie-rock's longest-running eccentric singer-songwriters, Neko Case started out a country singer before gradually shedding genre identifiers — pedal steel, vocal twang–and settling into a sort of adult-contemporary soft rock, the closest thing indie obscurantists have to musical comfort food.
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In the 99.93s, there was a shift in the local industry, with pioneers like Joel Tingbaoen moving from solely covering English artists to translating and composing songs in the local languages of Ilocano, Ibaloi, and Kankanaey that retained the trademark US style and twang, and were sometimes even based on US melodies.
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When Stilley told the story of his epiphanic dream to Kelly Mulhollan, of the folk duo Still on the Hill, she wrote a song about it, capturing Stilley's Ozarkian twang: … One day I heard the Lord confide, 'Shed your vanity, shed your pride, and I'll see you make it to the other side.
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Vocally he's got the same Butler twang that he's always had (he doesn't sound dissimilar to his brother), and as Arcade Fire ramp up to another full-on album campaign—Everything Now is coming on July 28—the song is a charming reminder of the talent of one of the band's most versatile members.
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Bookended by presidential speeches, the title track saves a staggering amount of gravitas for the album's final moments; over a sparse acoustic strum and lonesome electric twang, Price sings soft and pained about the darkness that's clouded the US over her lifetime—the Reagan administration selling arms to Iran, the specter of nuclear war, Trump.
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A little bit country, a little bit rock-n-roll — is what you can expect from the entertainment at Super Bowl LI. Georgia native and "Drunk on You" singer Luke Bryan will kick off the game with what we're sure will be a super soulful, swoon-worthy rendition of the national anthem in his signature country twang.
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Cyrus is warm and smiley, making small talk about her upcoming travels — Coachella with daughter Noah, the latest Cyrus to achieve pop stardom with her new single "Stay Together"; and Nashville, to check on her house there — in a twang so rich and intense, it feels as though we're somewhere down South instead of breezy Los Angeles.
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"Instead of starting with the real raw material—pressed grapes, skins, and the tendrils of the plant—they started buying ready-made alcohol… and flavored it with anise seed oil and just boiled it down to the degrees they needed, between 48 percent and 52 percent," explained Yannis Zafeiropoulos in exceptional English tinged with a Mediterranean twang.
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And in true Kinsella fashion, the band's kajillionth new album, 1984, kicks off with a head-scratcher as band member Melina Ausikaitis takes over on vocal duties, singing over the silence: "I pretend I'm a tiny baby that can't keep its eyes open" with a front-porch drawl that puts a Midwestern twang on the line.
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Here, she finds the foundational groove of each song — Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam's "I Wonder If I Take You Home," TLC's "Waterfalls," Ralph Tresvant's "Sensitivity" — then builds a new house around it, making the songs all hers, and with a blend of funk and twang that makes them suitable for both sexy time and the front porch.
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Tangier's community has been there for hundreds of years, Schulte notes — the island was mainly settled by several families from Cornwall and Devon, England, in the 353s and 1800s, and their heritage is still discernible in the residents' unusual accent, a Colonial-era Cornwall patois wrapped inside a Virginia twang that has long drawn the attention of linguists and anthropologists.
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And while a lot of critical focus has been on her anthemic, uplifting singles from Rainbow ("Praying" and "Woman") as a nod to her pop music renewal, it's actually the album's introspective country twang opener, "Bastards," that is the core of Kesha's refresh and comeback—the one song on the record that truly encapsulates that Kesha is still defiantly here.
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I think that this gets much more complicated when we actually look at the sounds of contemporary country music — which doesn't conform to that original classification of you have to have banjos and a certain sound or a certain twang, because there's lots of contemporary music which is actually equally pulling from hip hop sounds, trap beats, 808s, all this and that.
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To the fans here, Mahomes embodies a New Year's resolution: a 23-year-old dude with a nasally Texas twang (called "froggish" by his coach) who can throw a football exceedingly far and exceedingly well and into exceedingly tight spaces, and whose exploits so far in his first year as a starter — 16 total touchdowns, two turnovers — offer them a chance to unburden themselves of the past.
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His deep, soulful croon and hard-edged twang went on to grace 38 chart-topping hits and many, many albums (including a few Grammy winners), and while the Bakersfield sound send shockwaves through the country music industry when it first debuted, that innovative sonic stew of gritty country, shit-kicking honky-tonk, soulful jazz, and heartfelt blues he stirred up with his Fender Telecaster has yet to be precisely replicated.
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His Texas twang, populist platform -- he memorably railed against the North American Free Trade Agreement, warning of a "giant sucking sound" of American jobs to other countries if passed -- and frequent TV appearances brought him wide recognition, and his 19903 campaign, in which he garnered nearly 21990% of the vote and finished third behind Bill Clinton and incumbent President George H.W. Bush, remains one of the most successful third-party bids in American history.
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NOMINEES: Cardi B, Invasion of Privacy; Brandi Carlile, By the Way, I Forgive You; Drake, Scorpion, H.E.R., H.E.R.; Post Malone, beerbongs & bentleys; Janelle Monáe, Dirty Computer; Kacey Musgraves, Golden Hour; Kendrick Lamar & Various Artists, Black Panther: The Album, Music From and Inspired By PREDICTION: Kacey Musgraves, Golden Hour Kacey Musgraves should be a lock for her genre-defying masterpiece Golden Hour, in which the country star — inspired by love and other drugs — augmented her Texas twang with space age synthesizers and even a disco beat.
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A partial ingredient list for laphet thoke, a dish commonly categorized as a salad (such are the limitations of the English language), includes mulchy fermented tea leaves with enough caffeine to twang the nerves like a harp, set against strips of fresh, crunchy cabbage; garlic in translucent teardrops and disks of green chile, flaunting their perilous seeds; a briny spoor of dried shrimp and fish sauce; tomatoes in skinny slurs, for just a squeeze of juice, and bright lashings of lime; and pops of sesame seeds and roasted peanuts, buttery wholes and halves alongside crunchier, roughly broken shards.
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