Music and Art

Country and Western

Nhạc đại chúng bắt nguồn từ nhạc truyền thống của miền Tây và miền Nam nước Mỹ

Eg:Country and Western singers usually have voices that feel raw, honest, and beautifully imperfect.

The festival features rock, pop, and a whole stage for country and Western fans.

I didn’t expect to like country and Western until one late-night road trip changed my mind..

Heavy metal

a style of rock music with a strong beat, played very loudly using electric guitars:

Eg:I could hear loud heavy metal coming through my daughter's headphones.

Metallica, Iron Maiden, and Black Sabbath were voted into the top ten heavy metal bands of all time

Analogue watch/camera/photography

🎞Đồng hồ/máy ảnh/nhiếp ảnh phim><digital:kĩ thuật số

Eg:Analogue keeps the warmth of the world, the tiny flaws, the slow magic that digital often forgets

My dad still uses an analogue watch because he loves its classic look.

The store sells both digital and analogue cameras for beginners.

Defer to a band/song/lyric

Dùng lời bài hát/ban nhạc nói hộ lòng mình

Music becomes a shield when he defers to songs instead of speaking honestly

He has a reflex to defer to a band for every life situation

She doesn’t mind jokes, but deferring to lyrics during conflict feels dismissive

Reveal/capture/express human essence

Tiết kiệm/Ghi lại/Thể hiện bản chất con người

Eg:Music has the power to express human essence without words.

A true artist doesn’t just paint faces — they capture the human essence behind the eyes.

His film captures the human essence of loneliness in modern cities

Reverse painting technique

Kỹ thuật vẽ ngược mặt kính(vẽ lên mặt sau của tấm kính/vật trong suốt,sao cho khi nhìn từ phía trước,hình ảnh hiển thị đúng hướng

Eg:Students at the art school experimented with reverse painting techniques on recycled bottles as part of a sustainability project

Reverse painting on glass was a popular decorative art in 18th-century Europe, especially in religious iconography.

Finest wordsmith

Cây bút hàng đầu/bậc thầy ngôn từ xuất sắc nhất/người chế tác câu chữ tinh luyện nhất.

Eg:In a room full of scholars, she stood out as the finest wordsmith—the only one who could make logic sound like music.

Fans call the songwriter the finest wordsmith in the industry for the way he turns heartbreak into unforgettable lyrics.

Growing up, she didn’t speak much, but her letters revealed a finest wordsmith in the making.

Be globally resonant

Có sức vang trên phạm vi toàn cầu,.

Eg:Something is globally resonant not because everyone sees it, but because everyone feels it.

Music doesn’t need translation when it’s truly globally resonant

Stories of migration and identity are increasingly globally resonant in today’s world

Jukebox

🎶🪙Máy phát nhạc tự động chỉ bỏ xu vào là tự động lên nhạc

Eg:A jukebox isn’t just a machine.It’s a memory that plays when you feed it a coin.

He’s like a human jukebox — always ready with a song lyric

They danced all night to songs from the jukebox.

Pick sth up

Học/tiếp thu được kỹ năng/ngôn ngữ quá đời sống thực tế

You don’t always learn in classrooms. Some things you simply pick up by living

I never studied music theory, I just picked it up by playing

She picked up a strong British accent after a year in London

Muffle noise/anger/laughter

Làm tiếng ồn/sự tức giận/tiếng cười nhỏ đi, trở nên không rõ🔊silence:làm im hoàn toàn

Eg:Office walls fail to muffle the noise from nearby meetings

He tried to muffle his anger, but his voice still shook.

She covered her mouth to muffle her laughter

Edgy music scenes

Các phong trào âm nhạc nổi loạn, phá cách

Eg:Edgy music scenes don’t disappear; they just age with their audiences

Berlin became famous for its edgy electronic music scenes after the Cold War.

Documentaries about the edgy music scenes of the 1990s now feel strangely nostalgic.

Upstage

Lấn lướt,làm lu mờ/"chiếm spotlight"của người khác(sự kiện,cuộc họp,sân khấu).

The controversy surrounding the scandal upstaged the original policy debate.

Influencers sometimes upstage serious discussions with flashy content

One viral comment upstaged the original post.

Videophile

Người “yêu cái được nhìn thấy”,yêu hình ảnh chuyển động

Videophiles buy with their eyes trained by knowledge; most people buy with their eyes trained by the store

Videophiles loved Panasonic’s plasma TVs, but average consumers chose LCDs in stores.

As a videophile, she spends hours color-grading her videos before uploading them.