brassy

Valenzuela wrote a book about the newest version of drug ballads, known as corridos tumbados, which combine acoustic guitar, brassy horns and the aesthetic and lyrical content of U.S. gangster rap.

He does think her reported response — “for what?” — sounds just like his brassy little sister.

She was streetwise and brassy and physically striking, a small-time hustler and “dice girl” who lingered in casinos to induce men to drink and gamble.

We found room to hail Madison’s brassy breakthrough in “Anora,” while also nodding to the Brazilian veteran Torres and Moore, a Hollywood icon only now doing her best work.

In a brassy set piece from the 1952 classic “Singin’ in the Rain,” its star, Gene Kelly, impersonates a newbie hoofer seeking fame on the Great White Way.