groovy
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With 2013’s “Blurred Lines,” Robin Thicke and Pharrell set out to make a groovy single in the vein of Marvin Gaye.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Arguably the band’s poppiest album, it sounds like groovy Swinging London set to music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Sullivan said his son was "not a gang member", but a "groovy 21-year-old who loved movies and making films".
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
Their global audience grew rapidly following a groovy, playful Tiny Desk concert for NPR in October 2024; the video has pulled in more than 45 million views.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
She is wearing a pair of groovy lounge pants of Dawn Celeste’s, and a Bob Marley sweatshirt of Luke Messenger’s.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
One of the groovier manifestations of truly spontaneous musical creation is the Buchla Music Easel, introduced in 1973: a modular analog synthesizer, a looping sequencer and a touch-plate keyboard.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2019
The “Scotland, PA” songs are mostly ’70s pastiche, groovier, rootsier, more rockish tunes than the American-songbook-inspired numbers of “Ordinary Days.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2019
A slow-burning track with an insistent funk vibe, it presented a groovier sound for the band, one that drove passers-by to full-on dance mode.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2015
I’m not sure if this should be groovier or nostalgic; it’s somewhere inbetween right now.
From Time ● Jun. 3, 2013
Dodd took a ribbing from his groovier contemporaries.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2010
With the Vietnam War leading many Americans to think the nation had “lost its way,” Mr. Sutton takes us through the greatest hits of that grooviest of decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
"Loop on your love beads, and we'll pass on a few hints from the grooviest cookbook ever. First, pick around in the shelves there until you find something with a picture on it."
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2022
The terrific first single is one of her grooviest, “Made Up Mind,” with slinky slide chords and bluesy riffs.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2022
"When are 'quarantine soul train' videos going to be a thing? Everyone dresses up in their grooviest outfits and posts their own soul train dance?!?!" another wrote.
From Fox News ● Apr. 1, 2020
Phil in a Franz Waxman suite from “Sunset Boulevard” and the grooviest performance of Henry Mancini’s “The Pink Panther” theme probably ever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2019
