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I wrote ballads, and ballads are just stories in songs.
Where Dylan ballads like "Boots of Spanish Leather" fit almost snugly into the iambic common verse metre best exemplified in Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads, rap's flows are intrinsically bound to beats.
Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger's Songbook: Volumes I & II) — Luther Dickinson
I know, I know: a lot of these are ballads.
"Dear John" is a master class in emotional breakup ballads.
In the past, murder ballads usually killed off the woman.
"There are a lot of really light-hearted songs that are just kinda silly and upbeat, and then a lot of really dark songs like all the murder ballads, the child ballads," Freeman explains.
Hot, sweet and gifted with a knack for catchy pop ballads?
Motivational power ballads have blown up in the last few years.
Guns mostly make their appearance in country songs via murder ballads.
Eurovision's early years were dominated by ballads and other gentle songs.
I can help Robin with the ballads, with the mushy stuff.
One known especially for her love songs and ballads: Sara Bareilles.
The show has basic aesthetics: close-ups, pop ballads, nothing fancy.
There are plenty of Nick Cave death songs on Murder Ballads.
That extensive collection of pop ballads your Grandmother owns on CD?
He wrote intensely moving ballads, as well as odd, nightmarish tunes.
There are a couple of Belle Gunness ballads in that book.
Gaga can do everything, from emotional ballads to dance pop tracks.
This album spans across genres from rock, to ballads, and country.
Christmas songs are swapped for haunting ballads about the cruelty of war.
As an MC, Riley went beyond exhaustive soapboxing and corny conscious ballads.
Every song is a ballad; the fast songs are just fast ballads.
By night, he creates playful electronic "pop ballads" full of synthesized soundscapes.
The competition is as notorious for its politics as its cheesy ballads.
But there are a couple of songs rendered as sad ballads too.
Freddie, however, is completely devoid of bedroom ballads—nothing like 1979's Teddy.
Since the beginning, her moody ballads have shown off her voice most becomingly.
"She would have loved it, she was a fan of ballads," said Louis.
But traditionally, Rihanna's faltering attempts at ballads have made otherwise strong albums weaker.
But underneath that swagger lay a vulnerable soul that could sing wrenching ballads.
They included baroque pop, covers and ballads, but also showcased his innovative ideas.
Fans can expect some pop tunes as well as some acoustic guitar ballads.
But the recipients of their votes are not singing ballads or performing stunts.
Because in addition to anger, Guns N' Roses has some surprisingly sweet ballads.
Bruce Pavitt was not gonna tell me to put ballads on records anymore.
Many videos were of love ballads, with depictions of couples in romantic embraces.
They range from heartache-perfumed ballads and yearning love duets to energetic hootenannies.
Swipes on Tinder translate into tap dances and blind dates become beautiful ballads.
Obviously they all also really, really, love power ballads - to an infectious degree.
He evoked duende perhaps most fully in his "Gypsy Ballads," published in 1928.
Here are 10 of his essential songs, including aggrieved ragers and purpled ballads.
Behind me groups of men broke into ribald ballads that honor their contrade.
It's one of the very first albums to have no ballads at all.
Because we all thought it would be a load of crap ballads, didn't we?
He was a fighter, a wit in scarlet robes, a singer of troubadour ballads.
"Faithfully" is another '80s hit, and one of the most beloved power ballads ever.
We were all quite high, listening to Rafi's ballads, and we thought, Why not?
This time it's not one of her soaring ballads that has us feeling emotional.
And indeed, that is what ballads are: musical folk tales, handed down over generations.
I don't do ballads all the time; I have up-tempo songs as well.
It seemed as though he'd written ballads about it all decades before it hit.
Corridos are an old Mexican tradition, narrative ballads of border crossings and other travails.
The musical's lush, familiar ballads, Brantley added, "acquire freshening nuance and anchoring conviction here."
Sellars also drew on miners' ballads and on Hispanic, African-American, and Asian testimonies.
Human nature, he believed, had changed with the publication of "Lyrical Ballads" in 1798.
Many of the songs, including the title track, are love ballads tinged with fables.
They tacked acoustic guitars and ballads onto Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets.
Most tracks lean toward ballads, playing to the strength of her smooth, silky voice.
They're ballads drifting over from other realms, with nowhere here to really call home.
Looking for an album that has both infectious country ballads and industrial hardcore freakouts?
And he just released an album of pop songs, under the name Star Ballads.
" He explained: "They love ballads, they love smooth jazz and they love to cry.
Now he burnished his Maoist credentials by playing revolutionary ballads to workers in factories.
"You don't sing romantic ballads for teenagers," she told me right then and there.
That journey is reimagined in Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads by Nick Hayes.
Soppy, melodramatic piano ballads make an appearance at every Eurovision, and 2016 is the same.
"It feels happy and fun and yes, there are three or four ballads on it."
Consequently, they're not suited to a straightforward pop cover the way the show's ballads are.
It's a lean record full of compact club bangers and a few emo-ish ballads.
It's like, half Velvet Underground ballads and half straight-up, 2140s east coast hip-hop.
Instead, it's a collection of almost poppy, acoustic ballads that fizzle with optimism and warmth.
Mariah Carey, the queen of Christmas ballads, may have found an heiress in daughter Monroe.
Thomas only recently began releasing his dripping-in-emotion ballads during the past 12 months.
She combined synth sounds and heavy 808 beats with piano ballads and emotionally charged lyrics.
She performed in shadows, gently strumming a guitar and singing whispery ballads blurred by reverb.
The singles' events, hosted in disco ballrooms with neon lights and power ballads, seem antiquated.
We've had rock 'n' roll, hippie folk, funk, power ballads, punk, grunge, and death metal.
For the song "Mister Shadow", based on American ballads, the algorithm created a soft melody.
SOUTHAMPTON "Darren Ottati: An Evening of Broadway Ballads," orchestra performance followed by light refreshments. Sept.
Piano ballads, it seems, aren't the only thing Duman's cats are jamming on right now.
There's also a 1950s book, American Murder Ballads and Their Stories, by Olive Woolley Burt.
She performs ballads and love songs from around the Americas with restraint and real intimacy.
Each of her ballads was its own drama, a white-knuckled journey through seismic emotions.
"This is not 'Ricky Gervais Sings the Ballads,'" he said in a recent phone interview.
Artwork and archival imagery accompany each section of the online exhibition, including one on ballads.
So there is a punk rock song, and ballads and classical music and rave anthems.
It was light enough for sultry ballads and dynamic enough for high-energy dance songs.
Barring a resurgence in rhythmic spring, I hope they shift their focus to ballads exclusively.
Bob Dylan sang ballads about the downtrodden; films have explored everything from AIDS to blood diamonds.
The subject of ballads and gory television series, El Chapo provokes fear even in New York.
Save your moody ballads for December, because between June and September, fun pop songs reign supreme.
Like their predecessors, iKon mostly performs hip-hop, from catchy ballads to more straight-up rap.
Three. Menken and lyricist Tim Rice (The Lion King) wrote three new ballads for the film.
" Or one recalls the long ballads about relationships gone sour, as in "Tangled Up in Blue.
Some former fighters while away their days playing billiards, drinking beer and listening to ranchera ballads.
Stigwood helped steer them away from ballads and toward falsetto-tinged disco, which revived their career.
Even the downbeat ballads, caught in conventionally expressive codes as they are, barely spoil the mood.
His boyish coyness came out when he played ballads, which are arguably his most endearing songs.
She wants to write piano ballads as much as she does Americana tracks and pop songs.
We regret to inform you that Chrissy Teigen can not live on John Legend ballads alone.
They are part of a wider narco culture, ranging from pop-music ballads to fashion trends.
OLD BRIDGE Salvatore Chiarelli, tenor, performs opera selections, traditional and classical Italian songs and love ballads.
She managed to cram words in by the second and it showed in her ballads, too.
It would be a lot if you had these ballads with the lyrics paired with it.
"When he last played in Militello last year, Franco played some new ballads," Mr. Burtone said.
And by any reasonable standard Purpose is fairly spotty, loaded with soggy ballads and motivational speeches.
And the songs they perform, folky reels and ballads written by the Bengsons, are always pleasant.
The songs on it feel like Tin Pan Alley ballads cut open, made into dark dreams.
Since then, artists like Bruno Mars and Rihanna followed suit with their own hit piano ballads.
Titled "Forever Mine," it features an eclectic 44 track mix of modern ballads and evergreen classics.
This cover of a 1960s soul classic is from a favored Galás genre: desperate love ballads.
Her power ballads, like 'Love On the Brain,' sounded like they were infused with brown liquor.
Her power ballads, like "Love On the Brain," sounded like they were infused with brown liquor.
Playlist: "(Throw On) The Hazard Lights" ( Slaves' Graves & Ballads), "Grandfather's Hanging" ( Slaves' Graves & Ballads), "Hazard Lights (Reprise)" ( Slaves' Graves & Ballads), "I Sit on the Ridge At Dusk" ( The Getty Address), "Warholian Wigs" ( The Getty Address), "Time Birthed Spilled Blood" ( The Getty Address), "No More" ( Rise Above), "Two Doves" ( Bitte Orca), "Dance For You" ( Swing Lo Magellan), "While You Are Here" ( About To Die EP), "Little Bubble" ( Dirty Projectors), "Break-Thru" ( Lamp Lit Prose) Spotify | Apple Music
There's always room in the tour for one of the newer ballads, but not two or three.
One of the ballads off of Trainor's new album, Thank You, was inspired by an IRL relationship.
Many of them are ballads, some of them are depressing, but this one sounds like a party.
Amidst the heartbreak, the constant questioning, and the unrepentant playing of Whitney Houston love ballads, something happened.
Disney has made straight sex palatable to parents: some of its biggest ballads are metaphors for sex.
Banda MS' romantic, sweeping ballads nod to the genre's history, though they're firmly rooted in the present.
I think I was starting to discover my inner ballads, or more slow and serious songwriter stuff.
"Sam's Town" (2006) abandoned the morbid post-punk vignettes for Springsteen-esque ballads about one-horse towns.
A Productive Cough dives into straight-ahead pop and piano driven ballads, laughing, smirking, crying, and shouting.
Although Madonna was not always nice to you when you collaborated on her ballads collection in 1995.
The competitors presented a synergy of top 40 hits and staple pop ballads together with the haka.
I'm an American who grew up in Georgia, loving power ballads of perseverance from Whitney and Mariah.
You sing it in the ragtime blues, work songs, Georgia sea shanties, Appalachian ballads, and cowboy songs.
The immediate-gratification timetable clearly did not, or did not yet, work for heartache-y pop ballads.
Olga knew a lot of weepy ballads, and she would sing them as loudly as she could.
Perhaps that's because he's too committed to ballads, or because people still remember "America," his worst hit.
The bulk of Miles's ballads were recorded in the mid-1950s when he was recording with Prestige.
Corridos are ballads born of an oral tradition of storytelling that goes back to the 19th century.
Don Williams, an award-winning country singer with love ballads like "I Believe in You," has died.
J.P. Julie Byrne's voice is low, breathy, peaceful and pillowy, ideal for the meditative ballads she writes.
The app features 15 "moods," or tracks, at launch, including laugh tracks, techno club beats, and romantic ballads.
The record includes originals as well as songs from the U.S. civil rights movement and Mexican protest ballads.
Apart from current hits, the noraebang charts are dominated by old-school ballads and cheesy Western pop staples.
Mr. Dylan grew up as Robert Allen Zimmerman in Minnesota, listening to Appalachian ballads, blues, gospel and pop.
Why were his treacly ballads and mild toe-tappers picked out as the ultimate symbols of consumerist vapidity?
I blasted Joji's BALLADS 1 album at the Gizmodo office, and nobody heard my emo R&B jams.
When it comes to Prince's best ballads, this has to rank right up there at the very top.
They sing hardcore rants and thrash-rock bangers and tender ballads, each with more juice than the next.
They performed many classic Chinese ballads from the '70s and '80s, and the Chinese customers were singing along.
There are dance songs like "Words," but also ballads like "Back To Me," which spotlight her robust singing.
It's an approach that both befits Strings's outsize iconic stature and matches the teary sensibility of country ballads.
The actors sing folk ballads one moment and Kylie Minogue the next, and somehow, it all makes sense.
There's certainly nothing here to rival Peggy Lee's "He's a Tramp," still the apogee of shelter-set ballads.
With Latin ballads and new costumes, this bilingual revival teaches both good manners and a little Spanish vocabulary.
"Call the Police" and "American Dream" are but two of many forlorn ballads about age and cultural decline.
As he strums, the folkie ballads are sometimes swelled by an unseen string section or an invisible choir.
She was a known folk hero to some: Alan Lomax published her ballads and Pete Seeger recorded them.
COSCARELLI I've complained before about the preponderance of ballads at the Grammys and this year was no exception.
The show is annotated throughout with folk ballads suffused with what might be described as a festive melancholy.
José José told Billboard in 2003 that it was only natural that new generations had embraced his ballads.
The players are still expected to learn old ballads from each of the constituent nations (and sing them tunelessly).
Given that his mom is Queen of the Ballads, the flexes he drops on this track don't draw skepticism.
The show's eclectic playlist also includes French ballads, Aussie indie pop, and a Robyn banger off last year's Honey.
Political ballads were put beside Trey Songz features, and the preachy tone was never dropped throughout all 12 songs.
Last summer, after his escape, narcocorridos, or drug ballads, dedicated to Mr. Guzmán appeared almost immediately on the Internet.
I have a fun part of myself and a more serious part with ballads and more R&B stuff.
As such, scrappy singing is not out of place in these drunken, demonic ballads of loneliness, insanity and murder.
Over the years, the contest has become known for its elaborate set designs, campy pop ballads, and quirky personalities.
Truly great ballads (like "Nothing Compares 2 U") have the power to make us feel both alive and unnerved.
He even put out a song that feels a little indebted to David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto's ambient ballads.
When it comes to Disney ballads, " Can You Feel the Love Tonight" is in a league of its own.
In the spring of 2004, Sufjan Stevens was a folk singer with a set full of God-tinged ballads.
They meet every month for rehearsals and practice a form of slow pop inspired by Kohama island's traditional ballads.
With a band called The Child Ballads, he released one really good EP in 2006, but nothing further materialized.
That her first solo album in eight years is as glossily excellent as her peak '90s ballads is astounding.
Her biggest and, at this point, only asset is a crystal-clear voice best suited for big, sweeping ballads.
They're well spoken, capable of succinctly expressing life's darkest moments and making some of this generation's greatest love ballads.
The story follows an uptight academic who studies Scottish ballads and is spirited away into one of their worlds.
Then they return to their communities with mobile phones on which they listen to narcocorridos — ballads glorifying cartel exploits.
A portable turntable will offer a curated playlist of ballads, and guests will also enjoy two glasses of prosecco.
And it certainly doesn't hurt that the songs run the gamut from hell-raising rave-ups to plaintive ballads.
When a nearby guitarist started playing Eric Clapton ballads over lunch, I decided it was time to move on.
Pop There's a certain gravity in Mitski's indie-rock songs, whether they're stubbornly trudging ballads or distortion-laced punk.
Ranchera, traditional Mexican country music, often features wistful love ballads or boisterous paeans to places in Mexico and Texas.
The prolific songwriter and performer, who was known for his powerful love ballads, died in Santa Monica, California, Televisa reported.
Rollercoaster dynamics and bang-boom-pow electrohooks — so delightfully abrasive in their momentum — beat limp, wet power ballads any day.
Adele's ballads on love lost and heartbreak have made her one of the most successful artists of the 21st century.
As pop ballads, films, and novels repeatedly remind us, NYC is a hub where dreamers go to follow their passions.
The Beatles remain squarely in the 1960s, while 18th century ballads have their place in the halls of Castle Leoch.
I learned Spanish through 1960s salsa, Christian Castro ballads, and Anthony Santos bachata that my mother played in constant rotation.
The album's ballads do the best job of convincing you Gonzalez' heart is in this music, and they're all stunning.
HILLMAN: I give Gram a lot of credit for taking R&B ballads and doing them in a country vein.
"There are three fun, upbeat pop songs and there are a couple down tempo tracks and two ballads," she said.
Even in ballads, he works up to a hefty, throbbing tone that sounds like it could burst at any moment.
The only thing missing was the undercurrent of melancholy, known as saudade, that was a fixture of many Jobim ballads.
She sings richly orchestrated boleros, delicate ballads and percussive boogaloo and mambo, without a hint of either irony or naïveté.
Many of them brought reflective songs or spiritual ballads for the occasion, and because of that the record grows drowsy.
The vocalist from Chillicothe, Ohio, initially focused on R&B music but later excelled at jazz ballads and torch songs.
Some had frisky grooves hinting at Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson; one reimagined the grandiose buildups of 1970s power ballads.
To heady fusion and cool ballads Mr. Liebman brings a hollering, dry-call intensity on the soprano saxophone in particular.
Neither is the use of the mood-setting Italian ballads, though they have been omitted from other productions I've seen.
But Mr. Tyner's legacy must also include his sensitive playing on ballads, and his strengths as a composer and bandleader.
The bombastic hits and slow-rolling ballads were underscored with the knowledge that what was happening onstage was truly unique.
"Death Spiral" and "Winner Take Nothing" are dissected, unstable R&B ballads that chart the affair's collapse and desolate aftermath.
But the video for "Hold Up" is a performance about anger, just as ballads like "Sandcastles" are performances about love.
Wellcome project fellow Shane McCorristine sang and recorded a few such ballads, which you can listen to on the site.
Hannah, a native to the area, is willowy, wary and protective of Hunter's catalog of echoic ballads (courtesy of Damien Jurado).
It's just one of those absolutely soaring ballads of theirs that also makes me want to chug a gallon of bleach.
He was dubbed the "singer of the revolution" for chanting ballads at rallies that eulogized slain activists and vilified the president.
Listen to her most heart-wrenching ballads in the days leading up to the awards so you're used to the goosebumps.
It will be a great night to come see us with great music; beautiful ballads and so much love and fun.
She writes soothing, slow-motion ballads pertaining to relationships that are exotic in their production, but completely relatable in their message.
Thanks to his smooth-like-honey voice and romantic ballads, the crooner is often compared to music legends like Frank Sinatra.
As if Ellen Page couldn't get any cooler, she just released a heartbreaking cover of one of your favorite '00s ballads.
It's theoretically a breakup album—there are lonely voicemails and mournful ballads scattered across the record—but it's opaque and fragmented.
The most famous narco-media are narcocorridos, accordion and horn-centric ballads about the exciting lives and deeds of drug traffickers.
In their place was something darker, something off, rife with porny brass and hollow lounge ballads, bleak sex and claustrophobic mortality.
How do you wind up a 57-year old white man bellowing sub-Toby Keith ballads at this gathering of ghouls?
Kristoff's song "Lost in the Woods" was invoking lots of '80s rock ballads, and also gave a nod to "Bohemian Rhapsody."
"Redbone" and "Terrified," two falsetto ballads laced with paranoia and fear, stay poised between plush vocal-group soul and synthesizer subversion.
Still, as leather-clad baby boomers revved engines, drank beer and swayed to classic rock ballads, Mr. Trump's influence was palpable.
His own music skews romantic, with many heartfelt ballads that fit easily within the glossy, bombastic sound of contemporary country radio.
Growing up, much of this song's appeal was that it was a banger rather than one of the album's many ballads.
While some in New Mexico admire the conquistador in ballads and pageantry, others are re-examining the brutality of Oñate's conquest.
He personally likes an eclectic mix of 1980s power ballads, modern pop hits and the work of Stormzy, a grime artist.
Noah Preminger, a young tenor saxophonist with a dusted and blossoming tone, made a ballads record with an all-star quartet.
Mr. Tao played two of the composer's North American Ballads (from the late 1970s), based on songs of the labor movement.
And when you compare this track to some of Mars' more impressive ballads and upbeat anthems, it simply doesn't hold up.  
I loved romantic ballads and I loved sad songs because I was a very sad kid, so sad songs came easy.
He's into music too, but instead of belting ballads like his mom—he's a SoundCloud rapper by the name of Big Tip.
Nick Hayes's Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads is published by Abrams Books and available from Amazon and other online booksellers.
The annual contest, which started in 1956, is known for its eclectic mix of rock ballads, techno-pop and occasional folkloric tunes.
It's got humor and heart, sweeping ballads about high school love, and full-blown parody numbers that only theater nerds will get.
At first diversity meant odd people singing boring ballads in a different tongue—unusual at a time when all television was national.
Some fans wondered, and worried: would their new album be a departure from the group's stock-in-trade brooding baritones and ballads?
As early as their late 90s B-sides, their ballads suddenly relied on the twitchy drum programming to carry their emotional weight.
Kipling's Barrack Room Ballads was originally published in 1892, during the late Victorian era —while India was held firmly under colonialist rule.
I like how Metallica could get away with ballads but I can't imagine what that it sound like if Slayer did one.
"Pray You Catch Me" is one of two collaborations with the British songwriter James Blake: slow-motion ballads of suspicion and longing.
Idina Menzel provides the powerhouse vocals for Queen Elsa's regular scenes in addition to the epic ballads she sings throughout both films.
It felt strange to be surrounded by kids at a show where every performer sang codeine ballads about fucking, killing, and drugging.
But in his narrative songs, he fully inhabits his theatrical persona, letting out the beast he merely hints at in his ballads.
They're both four-chord piano ballads, though Ocean's is warped and skittishly stream-of-consciousness while Musgraves's is startlingly beautiful and concise.
Davachi acts as a spectral conductor, making pieces that sound empty and haunted, like computerized funeral ballads from beamed from another life.
He releases videos in a series called Will It Sad, where he takes happy songs and essentially turns them into heartbreaking ballads.
"Coco" avoids the darker tones associated with this theme, in the way that old murder ballads are sometimes reconceived as children's songs.
The "Domestic Breviary" is full of ballads that are meant to be read out loud, preferably while smoking, to lute or guitar.
He plays everything from Tin Pan Alley ballads to Stevie Wonder tunes, in a stride jazz piano style and a bluesy baritone.
These ballads are in the vast soundscape library created by Stéphane Pigeon, a Belgian electrical engineer, and ready to play on Mynoise.
It's a collection of murder ballads that were orally transmitted and printed with little descriptions of the crimes that they relate to.
Her fuzzy, alternative pop power ballads on the debut We Loved Her Dearly detailed profoundly progressive and feminist views for the time.
I was imagining "Game of Thrones" musicals, featuring illogical love ballads ("I Sent You a Raven") and body-rocking breakup jams ("Dracarys").
If you'd like to measure an improviser's sincerity under a harsh light, ask him to play an entire album's worth of ballads.
We track button development, we mourn their passing into oblivion, and we write ballads to the weirdest buttons that humans have invented.
He was the subject of many corridos, or traditional Mexican ballads, celebrating his prowess on the court as a source of inspiration.
She performed for decades in supper clubs and cabarets, and in 2000 recorded a set of ballads and standards, "All the Love."
She's long shown that she has the vocal chops to swing for the musical fences in house jams and heartfelt ballads alike.
He constructed ballads around sparse keyboard chords and his sustained, doleful, androgynous voice, hovering in imaginary space and punctuated by tense silences.
Last year, we showed you what the band could do with minimalist piano ballads, creating a spectral kind of creepiness overcast with beauty.
Not exactly what you'd expect from a "dangerous man," but, then again, dangerous men don't usually belt out power ballads and engagement anthems.
Chambers' music is a mix of soulful R&B ballads, moody experimental guitar rock, twinkly techno jams, and oh so much Stone Roses.
One of the ballads on Meghan Trainor's new album Thank You was inspired by a real-life relationship, the singer tells PEOPLE exclusively.
" But fans of '70s love ballads will also appreciate throwbacks like Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again, Naturally," and Air Supply's "All Out of Love.
One of Segarra's more celebrated songs, "The Body Electric," from 2014's Small Town Heroes, is a feminist reworking of traditional murder ballads.
"It wasn't that I was sad or feeling down in the dumps or feeling like I wanted to write heartbreak ballads," she explains.
Her biggest heartache was the death of her son Terry Melcher – who produced many ballads on her new album – from melanoma in 2004.
On ballads, Coltrane's chaotic fingerwork gives way to the brilliant crystal clear sound that saxophone players have been trying to replicate for decades.
"Peace Amongst the Pieces" © Graham Fink Ballads of Shanghai runs until February 14, 2016 at Riflemaker, 79 Beak St, London W1F 9SU.
Instead, I was listening to Celine Dion ballads on repeat, and cursing myself for not having the insight to write and directTiny Furniture.
There was electronic dance music, Caribbean beats, trap/R&B and ballads, each a showcase for a different outfit and a different persona.
The singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell grew up on a sheep farm in semirural Vermont to a soundtrack of folk ballads and protest music.
If Adele's ballads are known to make grown men and women weep, what affect will lullaby versions of her tunes have on babies?
The two ballads on Kind of Blue—"Flamenco Sketches" and "Blue in Green"—will bring you to tears, even on the thousandth listen.
Otherwise middle-of-the-road ballads — "Sometimes", "Lucky", "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman"—became affecting, even transcendent, through her interpretations.
One can't help but recall William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, poems riddled with the imaginative soul of a man observing nature and its inhabitants.
The six songs are described by the band as a mixture of electro-pop anthems, melancholic synth-pop ballads, and dark epic tracks.
Claim to Fame: Zsela Thompson is a rising singer and songwriter of melodic, folksy ballads popular with the bicoastal art and fashion scene.
This explains the current preponderance of piano ballads and solo acoustic numbers on the radio, which grant a singer your solemn, undivided attention.
Over his nearly 50-year career, Mr. Endo has played acoustic folk, progressive rock, techno, solo piano and sentimental ballads known as enka.
They're both pop megastars who specialize in torch ballads of uplift and heartbreak, but Pink and Kelly Clarkson perform in remarkably different ways.
Sad country songs, '60s doo wop, '80s power ballads, and a made for TV band that will give you all the angsty feels.
" On ballads, he added, "he moves through light, almost diaphanous lines that gain in strength through their rhythmic flow and increasing melodic exposition.
Expect singing from Mr. Bolton, that master of ballads, but with the humor of the Lonely Island, Andy Samberg's often bizarre comedy trio.
Remember the musical episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" when a demon came to town and made everyone sing ballads and patter songs?
Mr. Jamshed was a heartthrob in his youth, performing lead vocals in the band Vital Signs, known for its brooding, romantic, catchy ballads.
The songs, which shift from defiant pop anthems to melodramatic ballads, do not evoke the circus, or at least not the American version.
Withering in the 90 degree heat, their commercial rock ballads went down like a lead balloon and their set turned into target practice.
She luxuriates in longing on "Finding You," one of my favorite songs on the album, which is as straightforward as love ballads get.
The lyrics of one of those ballads, "Hey You," read like a letter to her late boyfriend Cory Monteith, who died suddenly in 2013.
Even the ballads have hooks, as when the sodden piano weeper "The Truth Untold" erupts into a flurry of power drums at the end.
Dido and Mr Gray have left "Life for Rent" and "White Ladder" long behind them, but plaintive guitar and piano ballads will live on.
But it has to be said that Britney's slower songs — which rarely qualify as ballads — are often much blander than her higher energy songs.
We found a couple of things that we really liked—slower songs, more like ballads—and we kept those, and they're on the record.
Before this was blue bowed babe was belting out ballads on the big stage, she was just another picture perfect kid in Phoenix, Arizona.
By the time "Scott 4" was released in 1969, though, Mr Walker had tuned out the crowd-pleasing ballads and amped up the weirdness.
From The Notorious B.I.G. to Céline Dion, the '97 Billboard charts were stacked with bangers and ballads set to stand the test of time.
The broken-hearted ballads he wrote as the front man for Genesis catered to those who needed to protect themselves from destructive, careless women.
"I Don't Know" is one of McCartney's patented piano ballads, the kind that singer-songwriters in the mid-00s ripped off to varying success.
It's also interesting that when people have these meaningful things to say, the music slows down at the same time, like in romantic ballads.
The Xi ballads also echo Russian odes to President Vladimir Putin ("I want a man like Putin, who won't be a drunk," goes one).
Smith is known for his ballads and, if we're lucky, we'll have a few of those to try (and fail) to sing along to.
Her album-length strategy hasn't changed: mix equal parts radio-ready bangers and melodramatic ballads, and season with inspirational platitudes and jocular self-effacement.
Along with the doctor, there is a scuba diver, an elderly matriarch, and a DJ who plays Sicilian ballads on a local radio station.
Listening to the club-friendly beats of their recent singles, you might struggle to recognise the band that was once famous for piano ballads.
She made an impromptu stop at an Adele concert in Miami, joining aides, including Huma Abedin, who were indulging in pizza and power ballads.
At the time, she was a Cantopop singer best known for her relatively alternative take on the syrupy mainstream ballads that typify the genre.
You're right, usually I don't like ballads, because it's boring to perform and it's boring to listen to as an attendee of a concert.
Vietnamese media said that Dao was also a songwriter and crooner of soulful ballads - including one about the memory of rain falling in Saigon.
As a generation turned, house D.J.s turned remixes of Sade ballads into club classics, and a raft of hip-hop artists repeatedly sampled her.
Anyone who's listened to one of the National's albums in the past decade knows how good this band is at making finely crafted ballads.
She's always had a cutting, no-nonsense attack, which often leads her away from ballads and toward a kind of defiant, teasing blues approach.
The arrangement was pared down, by Rihanna standards, at least — there wasn't any flash, just Rihanna belting out those ballads accompanied by an orchestra.
The Captain and Tennille, whose specialty was romantic ballads featuring Ms. Tennille's silky voice, reached the Top 22016 seven times from 21975 to 1979.
The songs she writes with her brother and producer, Finneas O'Connell, are usually hushed ballads that glance back at Lana Del Rey and Lorde.
His new album with the Big Machine is "Anomaly," full of original compositions with a weird, seductive darkness — from ballads to scorching, unsettled postbop.
Listen again to the quieter ballads from "Fortress of Solitude" or the song "Beautiful" from "Pretty Filthy," the Civilians musical about the pornography industry.
"This is a waltz thinking about our bodies," Thom Yorke sings in "Suspirium," which joins the long list of his sweetly chilling piano ballads.
"I'm kind of enjoying Midwestern ballads from the '40s and '50s at the moment right now, back when the Midwest was amazing," Entwistle said.
"On the Line" showcases some of her best and most personal writing, chronicling addiction, heartbreak and loss through sprawling ballads and cynical pop ditties.
Some people have dismissed "Pure Comedy" as an undifferentiated trudge of mid- and slow-tempo piano ballads in the mode of early Elton John.
He began with a song about a damaged combat soldier, "Sam Stone," that now ranks among the most searing ballads of the Vietnam War.
Echo Del Africa National and Les Imbattables Léopards, which share the third CD, are smoother; though their ballads sag, they also find some funk.
He takes traditional verse forms — sonnets, sestinas, ballads, pantoums — and retools them, as if they were engine parts, for his own purposes as well.
"Nights of Ballads and Blues" was an album clearly designed to show Mr. Tyner's gentle side, but he refuses to let the gimmick win.
From pop-star power anthems to country ballads, women made enough powerful music to get us through this year — and on to the next.
It's a gorgeous, classic country song about love and loss that reminds me of a lot of the '90s country ballads by great women singers.
Jessie Ware is a very accomplished singer whose songwriting style seems more suited to an era in which American Idol ballads tore up the charts.
Its dramatic minor key hearkens back to not only the great flamenco ballads of the Andalusian steppes, but also the elegiac fado music of Portugal.
They are Iceland's entry for this year's Eurovision song contest, best known for featuring cheesy ballads and launching the careers of ABBA and Céline Dion.
Ellen DeGeneres convinced the "My Heart Will Go On" crooner to turn popular rap tracks into ballads worthy of your mom's favorite easy listening station.
Sleep Well Beast got a lot of attention for its electronic flourishes, but the record's more consequential decision is its laser-like focus on ballads.
In my tests, the Max sounded good for all kinds of music, from soft acoustic ballads, to driving speed metal, to thumping hip hop tracks.
There's simply no box that the singer — once just as known for her avant garde fashion as she was her power ballads — won't escape from.
A listen to any of the honky-tonk rippers and heartsick ballads below will make that clear enough (that Merle Haggard cover doesn't hurt, either).
"Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs" includes some of his most famous songs like "El Paso," which won a Grammy Award for best country recording. 225.
Often saccharine and always dramatic, you could count on these dude ballads to have some post-grunge hard guitar, because you were a man, godammit.
He's also a recovering alcoholic who hasn't had a drink in 10 years, and a singer-songwriter with three CDs of rock ballads on iTunes.
She played "Vision of Love" and "Hero"—sappy ballads both—and made what seemed to be a gentle reference to last year between the two.
"Let It Be" from 1984, arguably the band's peak, expressed Midwestern desperation and youthful longing in underachiever anthems, managing both poignant ballads and blazing rockers.
Following last week's trap-focussed self-titled album, today Atlanta rapper Future dropped HNDRXX, a 17-track offering heavy on woozy, heart-on-sleeve ballads.
All of "Black Orpheus" is improvised, in self-sustaining pieces of four to eight minutes (each called "Tokyo"), other than two ballads he'd recorded before.
He could blend to the point of invisibility within a saxophone section, but he was also a gallant soloist with a special gift for ballads.
A Robin Hood-like figure celebrated in ballads in his native Mexico, he was once featured in Forbes' rankings of the world's most powerful people.
Singing a medley of bossa nova ballads that require a soft caressing voice that swoons into the melodies, Ms. Errico was unable to let go.
"Hamilton" tells the story of U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton in a musical blending, hip-hop and rap, rhythm and blues, ballads and Broadway showstoppers.
No matter how Columbia tried to dress up her ballads, elements of gospel, soul, and eventually her trademark blend of hip-hop would seep through.
The pedestal upon which you placed your favorite thing will crumble into a ruin of plot holes, replacement actors, shit ballads, and bad character development.
Scorpions, they are the masters of hard rock or heavy ballads, and this is a bit different, and it has a connection to the lyrics.
Meanwhile, her impressive impersonations of singers and rappers, from Rick Ross' dancing to Celine Dion's ballads, have been wowing audiences since her early YouTube days.
Nothing on the new album matches its visceral intensity, but piano ballads like "True Love Waits" have nevertheless been live favorites for over a decade.
This new ballet is done to seven songs by the English musician James Blake, who writes delicate, poetic ballads over electronic keyboard and syncopated percussion.
Near midnight, miles from the village, the pained ballads carried in the dark, fixed to the rhythm of drums fashioned from buckets and tin plates.
At the time, Funkadelic was basically a psychedelic-rock band that took apart soul ballads, and its heavy, sprawling jams felt like an endurance test.
Mr. Trincale also self-published, moving from the traditional lyric sheets of the ballads that cantastorie sold in town squares, to music cassettes and CDs.
Mr. Allen opens "Love Stone," his ballads record, with "Stranger in Paradise" — his quartet floating in a taut rubato from tentative major to melancholy minor.
That break ended this summer with the excellent new album "Painted Ruins," on which Grizzly Bear gives its elegant psychedelic ballads a new rhythmic swing.
Fights rage in almost Kandinsky-esque flurries of light and color; time stretches for the length of a single kick to encompass elegiac pop ballads.
He was still in his teens when he encountered "Lyrical Ballads," published anonymously in 1798 and in a second edition, signed by Wordsworth, in 1800.
From everything to modern hip hop to romantic 1950s ballads to classical music, click through to see the best songs from season one of Watchmen.
We have a horrible weakness for triumphalist sentimentality and EDM power ballads that diagnose our perceived generational maladies ("Last Day Alive," also the whole record).
He pours us some excellent local whiskey, and we sit back and listen to his collection of music, everything from Japanese pop ballads to Simon & Garfunkel.
We're guessing that Vergara's birthday festivities will be a little more low-key, since she's not exactly a vocal fan of hair bands and power ballads.
She fared better, showing off longer phrases and bigger buildups, in the more or less acoustic ballads, like "Stars," that also provide variety on the album.
Barrack Room Ballads is out November 11​, and for the first month of release all profits will go to the veteran's mental health charity Combat Stress.
Songs like "Stay Strong Beautiful" remind of the acoustic-led ballads of Avenged Sevenfold, and leave the growls out altogether, showing the band's radio-friendly side.
Morris was already stylistically at the crux of pop, hip hop, and '80s power ballads with her previous album and major-label debut, 2016's Hero.
Slaves' Graves & Ballads is actually two records rolled into one, the former, Slaves' Graves, a collaboration with The Orchestral Society For the Preservation of the Orchestra.
Their reggaeton-meets-club-rap is structured around ballads as much as it is bangers, and it's loaded with live vocals, twinkling melodies, and pummeling drums.
Those guys could sing these ballads that break your heart, but it's just so smooth, like you know they're singing from the bottom of their hearts.
Many young women can empathise with the appeal of a cad like Daniel Cleaver or a stiff drink and some mopey ballads on a lonely night.
Most of her works, set to eclectic selections of classical and world music, folk songs, popular ballads and dance music, essentially offer a series of vignettes.
The performances and videos are the best part, of course — inspired and inventive beats and ballads that have sufficient musical integrity to make them credible jokes.
He clearly has a soft spot for songs that delicately pull at the heartstrings, and emotional ballads that are best listened to while scream-singing along.
And through the album's stripped-down ballads, she opens up about body image, creative difficulty, and the pressures of being both an artist and a woman.
Logic, who is mixed race, nonetheless makes white rap because his music is usually a chore to get through, as it's nothing but piano-driven ballads.
It's an anthem for those with a tendency to get lost in their own heads—a demographic that's traditionally been well served by Radiohead ballads anyway.
This Spanish-language biographical musical series is about the Mexican singer José José, who became prominent in the 1970s and is known for his love ballads.
Apart from loving power ballads, everyone here had one thing in common: they were here to let the good times roll, without any sense of inhibition.
Among her biggest hits were the rumba "Babalu" and the ballads "Não Tenho Você" ("I Don't Have You") and "Vá, mas Volte" ("Leave, but Come Back").
The teenage contestants warble ballads, show off their fan kicks and smile until their faces hurt in an attempt to win college scholarships and cash prizes.
His biggest hit, "Where the Wild Roses Grow," a duet with Kylie Minogue, comes from his 1996 album, "Murder Ballads," some of which he wrote himself.
Broadway's sold-out musical "Hamilton" which mixes rap, jazz, ballads and casts black and Latino actors as the U.S. founding fathers, performed live from New York.
Host Jad Abumrad begins the nine-episode podcast with Parton's early sad songs, inspired by Appalachian ballads with roots in storytelling in England, Ireland and Scotland.
By 2017, she had a folder of more than 40 demos, including what she described as a whole country album and another of only piano ballads.
Mr. Saft, a pianist, has played psychedelic Brazilian dub with his New Zion Trio and dark, foreboding ballads with Iggy Pop (on last year's "Loneliness Road").
The songs that appear most on "love" playlists on Spotify feature a strange mix from heartbreak ballads to heartfelt crooning — and even "No Diggity" by Blackstreet?
Three new re-releases showcase Ono's technical innovations and vocal range, from screams, yelps, wails, grunts, and guttural bursts to ballads, Latin beats, and the blues.
If you are unfamiliar, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical—but think less sparkly ABBA covers and more ballads about cannibalism. Yeah.
Easily one of Madonna's better ballads,"Live to Tell" was featured in the 230 film At Close Range, which starred Madonna's husband at the time, Sean Penn.
Over the next two decades, The Coup put out five more albums, with ballads about pimps named Jesus and musings on ways to murder high-powered execs.
Mendes also shared his desire to make a song that was dancier than his usual love ballads — and maybe even something that people could get down to.
His soulful slow-burning ballads require not just multi-octave range but also a grasp of emotional nuance that goes light years beyond any old karaoke belter.
It's been a smooth two decades since boy bands occupied the Billboard charts without releasing a succession of ballads or flogging a reunion horse in the process.
Manilow said he met Kief in 1978, just a few years after he skyrocketed to fame with romantic ballads like "Mandy" and "Looks Like We Made It".
The same thing he's always done — even on his pop-star tribute: plaintive acoustic ballads, '70s arena rock homage, some harmonica and a dash of alt-country.
But in '58, Little Richard turned away from rock toward gospel; His '19823 album, "The Fabulous Little Richard," dug into his rock outtakes, including some bluesy ballads.
Rihanna performed four times over the course of the night, in four different modes — her reggae set was a block party, and her ballads were surprisingly strong.
Forget the saccharine ballads wailed by Disney princesses and other kitsch associated with the Broadway singer Lea Salonga, who appeared on Wednesday evening at Feinstein's/54 Below.
Dorys Bello and Eli Oviedo sat across from each other, gazing into each other's eyes, Oviedo on guitar, singing covers of folk songs and Spanish-language ballads.
It's the same thing like with me, what we were doing when we were creating these like Marvin Gaye-ish type ballads and Roy Ayers type things.
"A lot of their ballads really do sound like they're talking to you and confessing to you, more so than a lot of pop standards," he said.
" As Bruno Mars put it when he won record of the year for "24K Magic": "Come on, turn it up one more time — too many ballads tonight!
By dressing up the melodies you sang in the shower in opulent gaslight-era drag, Mr. Luhrmann created an equalizing paean to love ballads of all ages.
There were plaintive ballads sung in the traditional sean-nós style; there were flutes and fiddles; and, naturally, there was plenty of percussive stomping and intricate footwork.
So, though my eyes occasionally glazed seeing "War Paint" for the second time, I wouldn't have missed it, if only to hear its leading ladies' climactic ballads.
Journey, whose "Don't Stop Believin'" has become one of rock's most enduring power ballads, was nominated for the first time, despite having been eligible for 9003 years.
JULIEN BAKER "Turn Out the Lights" (Matador) Julien Baker's first album testified to trauma and self-destructive tendencies in pristine, barely adorned ballads that could be shattering.
It may or may not have been a parody of country ballads, but "The Cover of Rolling Stone," also written by Mr. Silverstein, was certainly a gag.
For good or ill, Aimee Mann has earned a stellar reputation as a purveyor of introspective, softly-strummed acoustic ballads that will make you reflect and possibly weep.
Romantic art comes in many forms, but around Valentine's Day, fine art, such as painting and sculpture, is often downplayed in favor of cutesy poems or soaring ballads.
When you're losing yourself in the delivery of a song, buttons are precisely tapped, rapidly hammered and carefully held in time with an array of rockers and ballads.
She transitioned from rock ballads into dance, single-handedly turning Auto-Tune-as-effect into a thing with the 503 single "Believe," which shot to number one worldwide.
Avoiding upbeat bangers and schlock ballads in equal measure, he instead occupies the mild, juicy, fragrantly sugary essence of synthetic pop softcore, delicious until it starts to cloy.
" As such, the music on her new album isn't full of mournful ballads or anti-terrorism anthems— see the upbeat dance vibe of "No Tears Left to Cry.
THE Eurovision song contest, the 63rd final of which takes place in Lisbon on May 133th, is as notorious for its politics as for its cheesy power ballads.
If users speak "Kelly Clarkson tour" into their voice remote, they're sent to a dedicated Kelly Clarkson destination (which, surprisingly, isn't a purgatory of bland pop power ballads).
So they changed directions somewhat and shifted more of the vocals to Bennington, who produced heartfelt ballads like this song, about coming to terms with a friend's death.
Samuel Pepys, a 17th-century diarist, noted down ballads, but the first true collector was Bishop Thomas Percy, whose "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry" was published in 1765.
The Voice's Lauren Duski has become season 12's resident queen of country ballads — but during Monday night's live show she showed a different side of her talent.
The duo previously released two more low-key original country ballads: Let the Night Shine In and Hold On and produced a renovation-themed spoof of Macklemore's Downtown.
Linkin Park's "In The End" is the ultimate in dude ballads, combining the whiney lyrics, rapping and hard guitars that were a feature of the nu-metal genre.
As two mega-talented British singer-songwriters who belt out soulful torch ballads with their multi octave-spanning voices, Adele and Sam Smith have faced comparisons for years.
Perhaps there is one thing that links Patrick to the revellers who will be drinking green beer and singing sentimental ballads from Chicago to Sydney on March 17th.
Pink Floyd, and Mr. Gilmour on his own, made themselves masters of slow tempos: dirges, processionals and ballads that might start quietly but took on a majestic richness.
Much has been said by scholars like Christopher Ricks and Sean Wilentz about the way Dylan draws on English ballads, American folk music, minstrel songs, blues, the Bible.
It's vapor-funk, dream-soul, the result of a vision that extracts the latent etherealism of innumerable late-80s R&B ballads and brings it to the forefront.
She was at her most insightful when she slowed the pace so that you couldn't help listening to the words of ballads sung in an unaffected, vibratoless voice.
A ninth-grade teacher required his students to memorize everything from Dickinsonian quickies to middling Frosties to the insomniac visions of Poe and the galloping ballads of Noyes.
Maybe the many soft love ballads and twitchy fucksongs that dominate Sign o' the Times suggest a similar deliverance and maybe they don't, but the grandiosity is gone.
Last year's Out of Time continued in this vein while also smoothing things out for what could count as crossover ballads if they weren't still tough-as-nails.
When peaceful protests broke out against Mr. al-Assad in 2011, Mr. al-Sarout led rallies and became known as the "singer of the revolution" for his ballads.
Two days earlier, Mr. Tyner had taped "Nights of Ballads and Blues" there (it's an underrated gem that shows the lush shading and ardent poise of his playing).
In Rio de Janeiro, tens of thousands attended a "Free Lula" concert where some of the country's most popular musicians performed defiant ballads written during the military dictatorship.
Chapo Junior had barely been whisked to safety when the internet began flooding with narcocorridos, flattering ballads about gangsters that often featured his father and his epic escape.
There was a sequence of songs from "The Wizard of Oz" that were sung by Dorothy's partners on the Yellow Brick Road, and a medley of Garland ballads.
He was a wildly versatile singer, songwriter and performer, with an affinity for a variety of styles — outlaw country, ballads, the Bakersfield sound, Western swing, jazz and more.
Following the template of other contemporary evangelical churches, Zarephath Christian Church embraced power-chord-driven prayer ballads, line-by-line Bible study, and direct, informal prayers to Jesus.
The Witcher's blend of fantasy, realism, and straight-up folk rock ballads make it one of the more interesting new shows to come out of Netflix in 2019.
In a small room nearby, I picked up a Sudanese machine gun simulator and blasted away at targets on a screen as martial ballads played in the background.
On his solo albums, Mr. Morrison sang flirtations, dance invitations, philosophy and social commentary in tunes that drew on funk, ballads, jazz, blues, rock, reggae and Latin styles.
Harry Styles's long-awaited solo album is an interesting mix of sweet ballads and rock 'n' roll — and a total transcendence of his One Direction boy band days.
Lady Gaga then took the stage to sing her ballads "Joanne" and "Million Reasons" at a white piano draped with the wings of a bird or an angel.
The shows that succeed — especially 1979's Sweeney Todd and 1984's Sunday in the Park With George — succeed in part because of their climactic Act I ballads.
What it is: The best of Joanne's ballads, a country-rock tune in which Gaga cuts open her heart and lets it bleed all over a mournful piano line.
On Anya's Garden, his 2015 EP for UNO NYC, sputtering noise tracks collide with bombed-out synth landscapes, composed orchestration, and splintered ballads, all desperate unease and hesitant joy.
She's equally adept at full-throated anthems and cobwebby, fingerpicked ballads, all of which take on even more emotional significance on her new Long Neck album Will This Do?
Garcia, who has no other acting credits before or since, carries the film — starring in all of its biggest toe-tapping musical numbers and its most heart-wrenching ballads.
There's the Child Ballads, which is a five-volume set of old the folk songs that've been collected; those are just the lyrics, the music is harder to find.
"Deadpool 1.53" follows the proudly foul formula of the first, mixing the usual superhero set pieces with gore, gross-out jokes, 21.5s power ballads and frequent fourth-wall violations.
For some, the simple suggestion that Nazis should be resisted—not punched upside the head, just resisted through yesteryear's ballads—was enough impetus to side with the Nazis themselves.
It, too, moves through ballads, straight up pop dance hits, pulling from from other genres (hip-hop, like "Giddy Up") but they all fall flat in comparison to BSB's.
This article originally appeared on VICE UK.Last week, I spent three days dribbling like an infant, rolling around on my floor to a blitzing crescendo of Sam Smith ballads.
Psychopath Ballads is similarly varied, with clear influence from longtime Yung Lean favourite Daniel Johnston ("On the Road") and even, dare I say it, flashes of emo ("Primal Fear")?
At first, the A side is pretty much rock and roll-blues I would say and the B side is more of the ballads, more of the folk stuff.
In an exhibition, Ballads of Shanghai, which opens today at the Riflemaker gallery in Soho, London, photographer Graham Fink puts on display his last five years documenting these sites.
The 10-time Grammy winner, known for heart-wrenching ballads such as "Someone Like You" and "Rolling in the Deep," said she had always been drawn to sad music.
Another is Rico Nasty, a rapper who dresses like a punk-inspired club kid and teeters between screamo bars and dreamy rap ballads on her Sugar Trap mixtape series.
He was newsworthy enough to have ballads and poems written about him and to inspire errors in the newspapers (he was reported dead 17 years before his actual passing).
The Canadian singer is only 22003 but she's been playing guitar since she was ten and has already started racking up fans worldwide for her captivating Winehouse-esque ballads.
The aforementioned four albums from the early/mid 1990s that brought Nick Cave fully into the alternative mainstream were Henry's Dream, Live Seeds, Let Love In, and Murder Ballads.
Some straighter rock ballads like "Downtown Train" and "Hang Down Your Head" from Rain Dogs demonstrate his knack for writing irresistible hooks in and among more trying material, too.
Honestly, she'd be no fun if all she did was sing ballads about her ex-boyfriends all the time—this is a fair and savvy move on her part.
Our dads might not have been from New Jersey, but damned if that was going to stop them from applying Bruce Springsteen's ultra-local ballads to their own lives.
Yes, you're sure most of those early albums contained multiple boy band ballads, but which one had your favorite Backstreet Boys tune, and which had the biggest *NSYNC hit?
After signing with Columbia, the volume of ballads slowed, but as is the case with much of Miles's discography, this period yielded the best of his baby-making music.
Such, anyway, is always my view of the human race after listening to a cast recording of a Stephen Sondheim musical, or even to just one of his ballads.
For the Velvets' debut album, Andy Warhol created the album cover and teamed them up with the deadpan German chanteuse Nico, who delivered some of Mr. Reed's barbed ballads.
J.C. As bachateros go, Prince Royce is versatile, a singer who embraces a real range of music, from classic ballads to chintzy pop to street-friendly trap and reggaeton.
The eye-popping visuals, funny one-liners, and randomly placed pop ballads of The Lost Village are enjoyable at first, but they quickly start to pull in diminishing returns.
The score's many, country-tinged power ballads bring to mind B-sides of Top 40 hits from the 1980s, the era in which Mr. Adams became a rock star.
Last year she released a diffuse but smartly constructed album, "En Vie," on which she builds rich vocal harmonies and digs in deeply across lithesome ballads and dashing postbop.
On "Earfood," a late-career highlight, the quintet capers from savvy updates of jazz standards to original ballads and new tunes that mix Southern warmth and hip-hop swagger.
Rebecca Parris, a husky-voiced jazz singer known for both her blistering scat runs and her deeply affecting interpretations of ballads, died on June 19843 in South Yarmouth, Mass.
They never interact directly, though they are both accompanied by folk ballads delivered by Mr. Green and three musicians who double as stagehands and triple as bunraku-style puppeteers.
Don Williams, a singer of heartfelt country ballads who emerged as one of the biggest stars in country music during the late 20103s, died on Friday in Mobile, Ala.
Following Kesha's departure from her party persona, and her powerful ballads like "Praying," the singer says she was uneasy about singing about the more fun aspects of her life.
Open your debut album with a nine-minute paean to bisexuality ("Like Me") and end it with one of the most affecting love ballads of the decade ("N Side").
Otherwise, rest assured that musically, he's a much nicer guy than his sarcastic invective (ironic invective is beyond him) suggests, specializing in mildly pretty melodies and midtempo acoustic ballads.
As with much Indian pop, what startles about Ashik Reza's album is a demented collision between abstract form and physical recording: grandiosely melancholy ballads meet the harshest textures available.

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