It's crammed: pop, rock, funk, balladry and even some twee indie.
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Sonically, it's a million miles away from Joanne's balladry and bombast.
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Into every successful hard rock band's oeuvre, a little balladry must fall.
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Where appropriate, she forsakes folk-balladry for rock declamation to convey intense emotions.
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It drifts between borderline-Beatles pop, swirling shoegaze, macabre balladry, and grubby pop-punk.
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And definitely listen to "Rainbow," a stunner, which makes majesty out of familiar balladry.
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There's Motown soul, flinty Memphis blues and svelte 1980s balladry etched into these songs.
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The Union brought together Russell's drawl and John's flair into impassioned harmonic piano balladry.
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Like a sort of digital wandering minstrel, Bagel seduces with his own brand of balladry.
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The record features all original tunes, from melodically arresting contemporary jazz to gospel-tinged balladry.
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His solo fare — most recently the album "Back to Birth" — weds spiritual balladry with pop-rock undertones.
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Sonically, it's as shredded and lonely as that sounds—swaying from doomy drones to shredded squeals and gothic balladry.
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There's no such sure thing on ANTI, and it veers from downcast, corroded R&B to delicate acoustic balladry.
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"Just Dumb Enough to Try" is the better of the two with its mournful piano balladry and impending-disaster lyricism.
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The singular song, which combines elements of balladry, opera and hard rock, returned to the Billboard Hot 100 last month.
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The song's the zenith of Kirin J Callinan's irreverent vision, bouncing between hushed balladry, spaghetti western whistles, and blitzkrieg EDM.
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Depending on how strong a stomach you have for fist-pumping pop power balladry, that wasn't Leona's only major impact.
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By contrast, Orbison's knack for emotional balladry was more grounded, undeniably sincere, and set him apart from such populist, maudlin trappings.
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Elsewhere, the band play with garage ("Fallin' Off The Bone"), light synth-pop ("Lucky Guess") and romantic balladry ("Battle For Love").
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He has lent his falsetto to the supple synth-pop of Poliça and to the downcast electronic balladry of James Blake.
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More so than "Perfect Illusion"'s typically bombastic Gaga pop and "Million Reasons"'s delicate balladry, "A-YO" bears Mark Ronson's hallmarks.
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" Maybe it's the painful, almost shocking vulnerability of "Don't Worry Baby" or the elegant, elegiac balladry of "The Warmth of the Sun.
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Rihanna's "Sledgehammer" — from the "Star Trek Beyond" soundtrack — is primo blockbuster pomp and ceremony, a thick slather of power balladry about overcoming pain.
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He distills backwoods blues, power balladry and fine-tuned postbop into a single, effusive style — remarkable on any instrument, especially the drum kit.
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Undertale's catchiness and chintziness appear in neither the pumped-up power balladry of commercial EDM nor the atmospheric indulgence of arty indie-electronica.
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Why else would your perhaps less discerning but no less earnest Aunt Martha spend days drowning in whiskey and the balladry of Celine Dion?
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After three minutes of piano balladry and guitar distortion it becomes a love letter to running away from it all with only your memories.
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"We was dirt-road poor and cane-switch raised," Colt Ford rapped here, on a song that brought casual rap swagger to country balladry.
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Pandemonium is the more eclectic offering, with Nilsson slipping effortlessly from a military-march opener ("Ten Little Indians") to psychedelia, Motown, romantic balladry, and beyond.
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On his new album, "Reach," Mr. Sands drifts comfortably among swinging postbop ("Armando's Song"), eloquent balladry ("Somewhere Out There") and backbeat-driven head-bobbing ("Gangstalude").
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Each show made about as much sense as the last, each one an authentic extension of the cyborg balladry she's spent the last few years crafting.
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The music, by Michael Mahler and Alan Schmuckler, is a pastiche of styles, from hip-hop and Motown to techno-pop and old-style Broadway balladry.
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On that record, "Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow)," released in the United States on Friday, he leaps beyond the diatonic balladry for which he was known.
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Mr. Gatica helped enshrine bolero, a style of flowing romantic balladry that had originated in Cuba in the late 21962th century, as a midcentury pop craze.
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Mr. Vile, a Philadelphia-based guitar virtuoso, makes woozy, psychedelic music that splits the difference between Pink Floyd's spacey explorations and Neil Young's quieter acoustic balladry.
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PARELES Gregory Porter yokes together his blues and soul roots with 21st-century pop power balladry on the lead single from "All Rise," his sixth studio album.
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But since releasing her debut album, "11:11," in 2001, Ms. Spektor has expanded upon her classical sensibilities to include cabaret stylings, orchestral pop and gorgeous balladry.
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At times, this leads her to something extraordinary, like "Out of Love," where Cara examines the push and pull in relationships with piano balladry reminiscent of Alicia Keys.
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From the chamber pop of "Perth" through to the Bonnie Raitt-inspired balladry of "Beth/Rest," Bon Iver is one of the most perfectly realized albums about everything.
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With "Rebound," her fourth solo LP, Ms. Friedberger swerves toward New Romantic balladry, with echoes of the '80s goth disco in Greece that gave the album its name.
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In its 18 years of existence, this British electronic duo — featuring the singer Alison Goldfrapp — has veered between otherworldly art-pop balladry and more straightforward, disco-inspired fare.
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Born in Eureka, California, Bareilles played in bars in Los Angeles before breaking out with her 2007 album, "Little Voice," which showcased her introspective, gently ironic pop balladry.
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You can draw a direct line from Summerteeth's Mr. Rogers-y sweater vest of a song "When You Wake Up Feeling Old" to the suburbanized balladry of Sky Blue Sky.
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It's a collection filled with pulsing synths and smart percussion—plus a standout guest appearance from Tove Lo—a smart mix of intimate, soft-centered balladry and dancefloor-angled electropop.
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His most recent solo album, "Electric Trim," continues along Mr. Ranaldo's well-trod path of bittersweet balladry and lovely noise, with several songs featuring lyrics by the novelist Jonathan Lethem.
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Instead Ms. Wright bridges a wide tradition of American song, from gospel ("Singing in My Soul") to New Orleanian balladry ("Southern Nights") to seminal Christian rock ("Every Grain of Sand").
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On the surface, the song is a shimmering and downright wholesome bit of poppy R&B balladry, his voice in a high-register to match its lofty lyrical declarations of love.
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Look at ANTI with the same lens, and you're presented with a similarly exhaustive list: electro-funk, Purple Rain-lite power balladry, demented trap, psych-pop, doo-wop, and pure soul.
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As we stand out in the smoking area, marinating ourselves in the fragments of sentimental thumping that are stretching over from inside, we discuss the royal blood line of power balladry.
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" Lady Gaga whispered that familiar call to action for women everywhere as her memorable 229 Grammys performance segued from the mournful country balladry of "Joanne" into the soaring melodies of "Million Reasons.
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Another standout is "Roseland Baby," where Adamn manages to turn simple lines like "all these bitches keep on stalking me" into grandiose balladry in between verses that bounce forward with clubby enthusiasm.
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And while her latest record, the Grammy-nominated "Dangerous Woman," offers a dizzying array of musical styles — torch balladry, hip-hop, reggae and more — it's all glued together by her dazzling vocal chops.
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A paragon of spiritual jazz since the 1960s, when he was in some of John Coltrane's last ensembles, Sanders, 79, still knows how to flit gracefully from serene balladry to tone-splitting eruptions.
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From emotive balladry to skyscraping synthwork befitting of big tent EDM stages to hard-nosed rap beats, she's basically shown she can bring her vibrant signature to any style or form she so chooses.
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Largely produced with thoughtful reggaeton veteran Tainy, last Christmas' X100PRE album played with pop-punk, emo rap balladry, and thumping Dominican dembow along with the rhythmic styles Bad Bunny had previously become known for.
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It spread his sonic palette across the dark electronic beats and synths that earned him that early (and no doubt annoying) "post-dubstep" tag, to sweep in straight-up piano balladry and clean vocals.
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A lot of that's down to producer Stelios Phili, who left the plaintive atmospherics of "Rocket Man" intact, reworking the chords without upending the balladry, keeping a muted beat for Thugger to hover over.
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Expectedly, she also jumped behind the piano to air out Joanne single "Million Reasons," and the song's comparatively intimate balladry played surprisingly well amidst the fireworks, glittery costumes, and throngs of flashily dressed dancers.
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It's also a showcase of the manifold territory that is her style: There's acoustic balladry, sighing neo-soul, and dance grooves that start in the hips and swirl into the head like an intoxicant.
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They saved their biggest surprise to date for their third album, "Room Inside the World," on which they swerve without warning into warm, expansive balladry with shades of Roxy Music and other New Romantics.
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Loose, dub rhythms and wistful balladry populate this album; it's the sound of a smart songwriter and an expert musician loosening up on the handlebars, and enjoying how naturally it all comes to him.
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From the balearic balladry of "Sober" to the punk rock turn-up of "Propaganda," Encore demonstrates that Top 40 EDM is capable of both breadth and emotional depth, despite what its doomsayers and naysayers claim.
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Producers like Porter Robinson and Mija among others, have made it so that yearning balladry works on big festival stages, but MAY and their pals are coming at a similar sound from a slightly different angle.
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Country music has expanded and mutated in surprising ways in the last decade: It has leaned jauntily into hip-hop, opened the door for rebellious female songwriters, and swerved back into masculine Strait-and-narrow balladry.
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In this case, that includes one of the season's most exquisitely wrought scores (by Mr. Yazbek, of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and "The Full Monty," who here seamlessly folds Middle Eastern rhythms and inflections into Broadway balladry).
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This recording has lots of lateral range: There's gospel-tinged balladry, standard-issue bebop and smart reworkings of mid-1960s Wayne Shorter classics (he covers "Mahjong" and laces a new melody into the structure of "Nefertiti").
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Her 2010 album The Archandroid was anchored by the wildly infectious Big Boi-featuring "Tightrope," but the rest of that album dove headlong into a smattering of genres from zonked-out psych-pop to cinematic space balladry.
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The first Liars album without co-founder Aaron Hempill, TFCF is glitched out and mournful collection of space-folk balladry (interspersed with a couple sunnily NIN-esque bangers to keep the listener on his/her/their toes).
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Her writing for these records draws on both free improvisation and classic balladry, crafting a natural amalgam and helping to establish the spacious, wintry sound of ECM Records, which would become one of jazz's most influential institutions.
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But the younger Cole — also a pianist and singer with a low, lambent voice and a repertoire that centers on romantic balladry — has become a popular performer in his own right, particularly over the past few decades.
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Titled "This Wild Willing," it sees him breaking from the restrained balladry of previous releases and experimenting with a wider range of musical textures, with help from the Iranian-born Khoshravesh brothers and a suite of familiar collaborators.
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It became their highest charting album since 2006's seminal Dusk and Summer (which features Spider-Man 2 banger "Vindicated," for the uninitiated), and sees the band leaning into more lighters-up rock territory and piano balladry than before.
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J.P. Brooding piano rock balladry from the country's most maligned dance-pop duo isn't necessarily an unexpected turn, but lyrics in "Sick Boy" about, it seems, political division and the falsity of public life is a drop too far.
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But since releasing her debut album, "28:22009," in 250, Ms. Spektor has expanded upon her classical sensibilities to include cabaret stylings, orchestral pop and gorgeous balladry, all of which will be on display in this Saturday night performance.
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The croak at the bottom of his range gets enough soul through to liven up the EDM balladry in the background, and the tiny jump into falsetto when he sings, "I been quiet/silent for too long" is a nice touch.
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Subsequent EP, Before Zero, followed similar themes; anaïs' considered and warm voice sparring with actual Nile Rodgers and his signature funky guitar on "Set In Stone" buzzed, while the acoustic-led "Window" sought stability with the finesse of Top 40 balladry.
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Before sensitivity was a commodity used to sell clothes at Hot Topics across America, words like "She folded up her fears like paper airplanes, and lost them in the trees" were balladry for the young and lovelorn post-punk set.
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Although there is plenty of Korean pop that avoids the jam-packed density of its most internationally successful practitioners, those groups that attempt to scale down often end up with mildly pro forma pop-rock if not weepy piano balladry.
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Arguably not, yet these 2929s rock stalwarts recently took center stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, where they brooded through cuts from "Lightning Bolt," their most recent album, which shifts from mortality-obsessed balladry to brash, punk-tinged fervor.
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But to the extent that he has created a genre unto itself over the past 40-plus years, his most recent album, "Look Now," represents it fully: that heady Costello mix of Broadway balladry, Detroit soul and postpunk self-righteousness.
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For over three decades, Yo La Tengo has proved itself to be one of indie rock's most reliable and revered bands with more than a dozen studio albums that veer between hushed piano balladry to freakouts in feedback-drenched noise.
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Sometimes the electronic components are too exactly borrowed from EDM — whether it's the honking high-energy theatrics of dubstep or, as on this soundtrack to a comic book based on Greek mythology, the gushier, more ethereal (if canned) spirituality of electronic balladry.
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" During the years the band was signed to Creation Records, they occasionally pushed even further into the fog, offering near ambient balladry on their cover of the Beach Boys "Be Still" and the slow, creeping single "The Final Resting of the Ark.
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She'll take the slinky, post-EDM R&B of "The Cure" into the power balladry of "Edge of Glory"—only to tease out the latter's full-camp chorus into a climax that had the crowd screaming like it was a Calvin Harris drop.
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Folk is a big umbrella now, expansive enough to include the North Carolina bluegrass of the Avett Brothers; the bright-eyed piano balladry of Regina Spektor; the orchestral R&B of Michael Kiwanuka; and the cutting lo-fi attack of Angel Olsen.
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Look, by now we all know that Jorja's natural-born state is balladry so this is either some highly emotional moment or one of those times when an action film tries to soften itself long enough for a romantic subplot to develop.
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His 2016 album for the Indiana-based Jagjaguwar label In Glendale served as a seemingly sincere celebration of mundane living, with its somber balladry about randomly spotting Nicolas Cage out in public and a heartland rock ode to cleaning up two different kinds of feces.
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Instead, "Lux Prima," the first single from an album due out sometime next year*, is a lush, string-laden, nine-minute-long mini-epic that calls back to the languidness of late-90s downtempo as much as it does the balladry of Resistance Radio.
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At this concert, part of the Jazz Gallery Mentoring Series at the National Jazz Museum, he will play in a quartet with Morgan Guerin, a full-toned young tenor saxophonist from New Orleans, whose electrified originals are built on lilting balladry and dreamlike crescendos.
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Almost as soon as Blake began to get attention for his lively deconstructions of dance music (his breakout EP and single were tellingly titled "CMYK," as in the full-color printing scheme), he seemed inclined to turn away toward the grayer expanse of melancholy singer-songwriter balladry.
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The album features a long list of musical genres—on "Tropicalia," it gets, well, you know tropical; on "O Maria," Beck adds horns and sings in the tone of a whiskey-swilling piano comedian; "We Live Again" takes you a magic carpet through dreamy '70s balladry.
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Later, as the cello and violin plucked bluesy, hurrying phrases — like cinematic balladry and Romanticism and Ray Nance all run together — Ms. Ibarra put down her sticks and played with only her hands and feet, smacking a drumhead with her palm and thumping the kick drum.
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Although the score has its fair share of traditional musical-theater balladry, the smooth grooves of Motown and doo-wop and early rock 'n' roll provide the driving energy of the show, which is set in the 1960s, when radios were blaring R&B from every window.
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The material's provenance is crucial to her project, for in this act of public adoration, she illustrates how mega-pop balladry and spiky indie confessionals are both borne of a revelatory weirdness — the urge to dramatize vulnerability, to overshare, to let your feelings gush forth and make a mess.
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Backed by Nico Segal and The Social Experiment, with Jamila Woods leading the six-piece gospel choir, Chance slowed it down, adding a few sleigh bells to the intro, doing away with theatrical pep, reducing the first verse to balladry, focusing on the soulful church organ core of the choruses.
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Although much of it is inflected with Slavic folk music, the score ranges from soaring balladry that would not be out of place in a more traditional musical (like this theater's previous tenant, "Les Misérables"), to songs that would not be out of place today at a rave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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In just the last couple of months, West's issued subterranean trap (the Dmac-produced "Beliefs"), autotuned power balladry (the Dylan Brady-helmed "45min in LA, tee hee :)"), and a track that's more or less a third-wave emo song built around a cover of a song by scene-y metalcore stalwarts Killswitch Engage.
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Yes, it's been the No. 1 song in the US for the past three weeks, but it's probably popular because it sounds so familiar — meaning, as Slate's Shaad D'Souza noted, it's optimized for streaming because it ribs on the traditions of successful balladry without bringing anything fresh or interesting to the table.
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It's a record that feels fully formed, from the Backstreet Boys-sounding "Take Me as I Am" to more outré tracks like "Through the Wire" and "Cyber Stockholm Syndrome", which moves from ambient pop balladry to a 2000s hip-hop style beat to a dense peak anchored by a psych-rock guitar solo.
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The music often gives the show a lift — Mr. Aznavour's gift for melancholy balladry is on fine display in songs for both Henri and his mother — but there's no escaping the musical's frequent lapses into the obvious, as Henri slides deeper into alcoholism, even as he produces some of the most arresting imagery of the post-Impressionist period.
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Billed on the program as a continuation of his long-in-process solo saxophone series, "The Classic Guide to Strategy," he initially mirrored some of the quick-changing style heard during the work for cello — as he let raunchy lines of harshly overblown texture alternate with brief legato phrases, suggestive of mellow balladry (if only for a moment).
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In the 17 years since its founding, this band has cycled through minimal, propulsive post-punk ("They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top," released in 2001); conceptually bizarre noise music ("They Were Wrong, So We Drowned," from 173); and moody electronic balladry ("WIXIW," from 2012), among other dark and fascinating shades.
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The band's borrowed doo-wop rhythms and girl-group melodies always had a melancholy to them, but they feel raw and poignant now, from the outcast anthem "Backstreets" through the slow-dance balladry of "Did You Love Me." Shannon Shaw and Cody Blanchard have refined their melodies even further here as well, so this is the band's most accessible record yet.
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Garcia tests out different musical settings and adapts to them, as on the jangle-rock of "Bailemos un Blues," the reggae-lite of "Sin Tu Carino," the acoustic jazz guitar of "Sacala a Bailar," and, naturally, the thundering power balladry of the title track — drums pounding and chords strumming as hard as possible while the piano cascades down like rain.
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Cayetana's "Mesa" still hasn't lost any of its fizz after a thousand listens, so it makes sense that the Philadelphia trio led with that as the lead single from their forthcoming New Kind of Normal LP. In April, we had another sample of the band's new work with the heart-twisting balladry of "Certain for Miles," one of Augusta Koch's finest vocal performances, a track that sped from melancholy to nicotine-burned screams without shifting its focus an inch.
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Take, for example, the noise-riddled "IV," which possesses such a creepy, funhouse mirror vibe that (if it wasn't the album's fourth track) would seem to have been titled after an intravenous drip of some questionable pharmaceutical or five rather than a Roman numeral, the amorphous two-part suite "Gold Candier," or the off-kilter, dysrhythmic balladry of "Ginger V." While there are plenty of hooky riffs, thunderous drumming, and 90s-styled familiarities throughout Dane On (such as the Jesus Lizard-invoking, bottom-heavy ooze of "Tampered With"), many of the album's best moments are arguably its oddest.
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