Hunting a Word

[forsyth]

What's the word for something that is ridiculous, yet awesome, amd too busy being awesome to be worried about ridiculous? And it's not ironic, or it's so ironic it's gone through to the other side and is sincere, because sincerity when people are expecting irony is as ironic as you can get.

Like Meat Loaf's music, which is ridiculously epic, but completely sincere in being awesome. I suspect some other bands, like Dragonforce may count, it depends on how ironic you credit them as being, I guess.

Comments

[frustratedpilot]

Vainglorious is when something tries too hard to be awesome and winds up being ridiculous. Perhaps anaglorious would describe the phenomenon of which you speak?

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Dragonforce lacks sufficient awesomeness. Try Machinae Supremacy.