What was the biggest selling record in the year of “Strawberry Fields Forever,”“Light My Fire” and “Respect”? The answer is a TV sitcom band’s take on a Neil Diamond song. “I’m a Believer” had reached the Monkees by way of Brill Building publisher Don Kirshner, who reached ...
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The La's "All By Myself": The seasons change but always seem To feel the same the change will wait again, again Life is all a...
Yet, unlike most artists with a literary bent, she focuses on sensual detail just as much writerly scenes and imagery. Few songwriters use repetition as skillfully as Williams: on 1988's "I Just Wanted to See You So Bad," she ramped up the song's sexual obsession by restating the ...
English composer of choral works, opera and song; Aldeburgh Festival founder Cheryl Frances-Hoad on Britten The first ‘modern’ music that I remember discovering was by Britten –as an eight year-old attempting to play his Tema ‘Sacher’ on my cello. Ever since, his music has enthralled me...
who recordedhis ownemotionally-charged rendition of “All Too Well” in 2019, which Swift approved via social media. “I really appreciated her music, but it wasn’t until that song came out and I was going through a breakup myself, that it really hit home. All the pieces kinda fell in...
And while we may never know the real identity of the writer of the "Song of Solomon," that sizzling bit of erotica did end up in the Bible! Thus there seems to be a very close and intimate connection between sexuality and spirituality ......
It’s unlike Lana to openly admit that she “fell for another loser,” but “In My Feelings” is her shadiest song — an almost alt-R&B track allegedly inspired by her brief dalliancewith G-Eazy. In fact, she’s never depicted a lover with so few redeeming qualities: “Get that ciga...
(“I’d never written a song like that before,” she points out. “And I loved that version of myself.”) The third day, the post-disco pop of “Whatcha Doing.” In bright, airy studios in London and Malibu, they finessed what would become Lipa’s most ambitious — and euphoric-...
wrote mostly when I was around 19 years, so it reflects a very transitional stage in my life," Joaquina explained. "Where, for the first time, I was learning to be an adult, discovering many things about myself and the world, and thinking about the person I want to be in my life....