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Does Blur's song MyTerracotta Heart signal another Blur breakdown?
The song is about the past, explained Coxon to NME:
In his track by track guide to 'The Magic Whip' for NME, Coxon
explained that the track 'My Terracotta Heart' was about his
relationship with ...
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Music in Dunkview "Knack" review on YouTube (from the game soundtrack?)
That's Junior Senior – Move Your Feet, originally released in 2002 in Denmark, and becoming a huge hit across the world the next year.
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What are the first lines of Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer"?
I would say is vocalizing some scat.
On these three lives, for example, he sings differently :
Live at Buenos Aires
Live at Athens (just says Hey!)
Live at Modena
It seems it doesn't say the exact ...
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Oh True Love - Everly Brothers
I am not sure that there is a specific name for this style that you could google and get a comprehensive list. It is very common for the time. One of the first things I did was to look up the chord ...
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What is Pop Music?
Wikipedia (currently) describes the core genre elements of pop music as follows:
Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus ...
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Anyone have lyrics to "Ich schenk dir mein Herz" by Peter Reusch?
I didn't quite get one word/phrase, but might be good enough for the shower ;)
enjoy
Halt dich fest, wir werden fliegen
Träume siegen irgendwann einmal
dein kleines Herz kannte nur Lügen
du, ich bin ...
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How has popular music singing evolved over the past 70 years to where it is now?
The modern pop vocal style has its distant origins in the black American gospel music of the 50s and 60s. Compare this early recording of Aretha Franklin from the 1950s for an example. It's a more ...
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Why are backing vocalists almost always older than the leads?
Backing vocalists neither have to overly cater to the "young and sexy" optics, nor do they have to provide a cutting voice for dramatic effect. As a consequence, their voice, control, and musicality ...
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Genre of two songs
I got the same results as you when I googled Love Yourself Justin Bieber genre and Dancing On My Own Calum Scott genre, which is where I'm going to assume you got those songs' genres from.
However, ...
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Why are Zap Mama's Iko Iko lyrics so different and what do they mean?
Zap Mama is known for their creative mix of African and European influences, and while they have no direct connection to New Orleans (as far as I know) they were likely drawn to this song because of ...
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Were the lyrics in Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" changed?
This is a classic example of a misheard lyric (sometimes known as a "mongdegreen"). If you read the lyrics on Coldplay's own website and compare it with the original song you can hear the original ...
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Male/Female Key vs. Octave
The reason is the different vocal techniques used by women in classical and pop music.
Male singers mostly use similar techniques in both genres. The higher part of their range is preferred, ...
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"Voyage, voyage"
Assuming you are asking about the son "Voyage, Voyage" by Desireless.
The song was sung by Claudie Fritsch-Mentrop under her stage name "Desireless" and composed and produced by Jean-Michel Rivat ...
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Need help trying to figure out the tuning / chords of a live acoustic performance of "Two is Better Than One" by Boys Like Girls
This is all standard stuff except for the fact that it's in B.
They're adding some extra notes to the chords but the basic changes are
B B G#m G#m E F# B B
B B G#m G#m E F# B B
E E F# F# E E F# F# E ...
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What defines the aesthetic of current American Top 40 Pop
In the 90s, music was dominated by California (San Francisco, Los Angeles), New York, Seattle, Miami, Chicago, and Nashville. That is, there was a lot of various urban presence in the charts within ...
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What is this song effect called?
(For future readers, the example cited by the OP begins at around the 0:52 mark, though it returns throughout the song.)
When I first read your question, my immediate thought was elision. This term, ...
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Name of note sequence present in many pop songs?
You may be thinking of the recently-named (and stupidly so) "millenial whoop." It's not a 3- or 5-note sequence, but rather an alternation between the 3rd and 5th notes of the scale.
(Here is a ...
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Name of note sequence present in many pop songs?
This is called an earworm. I'm not aware of one specific musical meme that dominates all others --if there was just one, I'm sure we'd all know it by heart --but the article referenced above ...
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Does Ed Sheeran sing out of key on a few studio songs?
To start with, even the best singer doesn't hit every note perfectly right. As such, singing out of key is a gradual thing.
For the two songs you mention, I would not say that Ed sings out of tune. ...
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What is this song from this youtube video?
Comments under the YT video suggest that the 2 characters
are from a (volleyball-themed) manga/anime series called Haikyuu, and that the song's Romaji
title is " Ifuudoudou " and the video is a cover ...
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Song from the 1960s ("Why, why, why do I have to cry")
Possibly "Teenage Failure" (YouTube clip) by English folk rock duo Chad & Jeremy, which contains the specified chorus.
Calling it a "hit" might be a stretch, it was released as a single, but ...
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Melody pattern in three pop songs - Gaynor, Erasure, Williams
An interpolation is an insertion from one song into another. Sometimes, in modern times, this is an actual sample of the original, other times it is just the melody or other element, as recreated. ...
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10cc "I'm not in Love" - Unique inclusion of bystander's vocals?
At least one other big hit record featured impromptu vocals from someone who just happened to be in the room: The female response vocals from Outkast's "Hey Ya!" sound like a crowd, but were all ...
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10cc "I'm not in Love" - Unique inclusion of bystander's vocals?
This has happened plenty of times before.
One classic example is Astrud Gilberto who was João Gilberto's wife. She had never sung before professionally, but when João Gilberto was recording an album ...
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Did John Lennon condemn the Free Love ideology on the 1970 track "Working Class Hero"?
The BeatleBible states that the song expressed Lennon's views of the exploitation of the working class
Lennon was disenchanted with the way he felt workers were used by the upper classes to build ...
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Pop Songs with Reversed Tonality
"Under the Boardwalk"; The Drifters (#4); G major/E minor
It charted at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on August 22, 1964 (Wikipedia)
"The Fool on the Hill"; The ...
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