What's the difference between grime and scunge?

Grime


Definition:

  • (n.) Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.
  • (v. t.) To sully or soil deeply; to dirt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
  • (2) Some of these grime artists, if they’re telling you to vote, young people are going to listen.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “Preach!” Speakers on the Grime 4 Corbyn panel debate.
  • (3) Grime 2.0 , compiled by Joe Muggs, is released by Big Dada on 6 May.
  • (4) Perhaps grime and dubstep were simply too abrasive and strange to be successfully watered down for mainstream tastes.
  • (5) No one expects young creatives to flock to the Tories – but why all this grime support for Labour?
  • (6) Pitch A mix of hard-edged content – rap freestyles delivered straight to camera by attitude-heavy grime artists – and glitzier material: red-carpet reporting from movie premieres, backstage interviews with popstars and high-profile music videos.
  • (7) The outside spending has even become its own campaign issue, as Grimes sought to link McConnell with the notorious Koch brothers (a cause McConnell only helped with his June speech to a Koch brothers funded group in which he promised to not take up legislation on the minimum wage, equal pay or student loan reform) and accuse him of “selling out to the highest bidder”.
  • (8) Kentucky secretary of state Alison Lundergan Grimes began the night recalling that the soon-to-be nominee loves lifestyle TV “and can devour buffalo wings”.
  • (9) Grimes, Kentucky’s secretary of state, says the race is about McConnell’s opposition to policies that would help Kentucky’s working poor, including a minimum wage increase, equal pay for women, his opposition to the Affordable Care Act – which would shut down Kentucky’s newly popular healthcare exchange Kynect – and his inability or unwillingness to bring home pork barrel spending (the nearly $3bn the state just somehow ended up with after McConnell ended the government shutdown in 2013 notwithstanding).
  • (10) "The way grime sounded, it just wasn't going to throw up kids who cross over into the charts all the time," says Darcus Beese, joint MD of Stryder's label Island.
  • (11) Meanwhile, Jonathan Grimes just took in a three-yard run for Houston against Tennessee.
  • (12) There are people in this audience who will lose their jobs if this goes through and we will not just stand by and allow that to happen,” Grimes says, to whoops and applause.
  • (13) I wish the MCs who’ve supported him all the best, but it’s a big risk to take.” In three weeks’ time we’ll find out whether grime’s support of Corbyn is a game-changing shift or just an interesting pop cultural moment.
  • (14) (With the exception of certain countries – the Netherlands and, more unexpectedly, the Czech Republic – there are no real grime "scenes" internationally, but thanks to bloody-minded obsessives such as Juzlo in Australia, Prettybwoy in Japan, Major Grave in Ireland or Starkey and Team Shadatek in the US, grime is a global affair.)
  • (15) "It's becoming more commercial, definitely," says Dec Lennon, who makes boogie tracks as Krystal Klear and has a disco-centric show on Rinse FM, the East London station formerly synonymous with dubstep and grime.
  • (16) Scrapping funding for these projects would impact low-income households and renters and public housing users who cannot afford or do not otherwise have access to their own panels, head of the Australian Solar Council, John Grimes, told Guardian Australia.
  • (17) Ed Pilkington Kentucky Candidates: Mitch McConnell (R, incumbent) vs Alison Lundergan Grimes (D) Polling: The Real Clear Politics average has McConnell up by 7.2 and, though earlier polling showed Grimes well within the margin of error, polls released over the weekend didn’t trend Grimes’s way.
  • (18) His programme also includes an intriguing rarity: Ronald Stevenson’s Fantasy on Peter Grimes.
  • (19) Growing up on a council estate in east London, grime music empowered me because it made me feel: We might be from the slums, but we can make amazing music,” Sofia added.
  • (20) Inspired by the idea of a city built around an airport (she grew up in Hounslow, near Heathrow), it leaves behind the constraints of any one genre, meandering through R&B-inflected garage (Beach Mode), instrumental grime (Backhand Winners) and Omar S-style stripped-back melodic techno (Eternal Mode).

Scunge


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