Pop, then, is music that actually becomes part of the vernacular; lovable and often hard to pen songs that have achieved considerable commercial success. Historically, jazz, the blues, R'n'B, gospel and folk are among pop's roots, while electronica, dance, rock, metal and hip-hop are ...
Get yourself over a hump and conquer a tough scene by switching up your music. Listen to songs that get your pulse racing and your mood improved. Before you know it, the words will be flowing and you won't be thinking about how burdensome this project is, but rather how happy you are...
This week, we’re commemorating the art of the interpolation at its most successful by listing our 50 picks for the best examples of the form from this century — the songs that crossed genres and generations to revive old classics and make new ones. Some of them are head-smackingly obviou...
Welcome to our list of the 200 best songs of the 1980s. A great deal of today's music looks to the '80s for inspiration, but there are so many different ideas of what "'80s" as a descriptor can mean. Here we return to the source material. As we did for the 1960s, the 1990s,...
I wanted to at least record some songs I wrote for my kids when they were very young (they're now teenagers) and the pandemic gave me a heightened sense of mortality, to do it now so in case I was gone they would have some reminders of how much I love them (and a...
The Best Parts of Songs It could be the intro, the drum drop, the drum break, the drum solo, the bass hit, the sample, the interlude, the build, the peak, the breakdown, the loop, the skit, the extro... the best part of the song baby!
“Freak Like Me” not only served as Adina Howard’s sex-positive debut but paved the way for fellow female R&B vocalist to own their sexuality on record. It was one of the first 90s R&B songs where a woman talked unapologetically about her desires, plus the beat thumps to this day....
One frigid winterin Manhattan, a song came to John Phillips in the middle of the night. He woke up his young wife, Michelle, who was homesick for the West Coast, to help him finish writing “California Dreamin’,” one of the all-time sunniest songs of longing. The tune was first rec...
s most devastating songs about a relationship on its last pulse. Over a sample of her heartbeat, she delivers a gut-wrenching bridge that only a Sagittarius could write: Swift proclaims, “I’m the best thing at this party,” then immediately confesses, “I wouldn’t marry me either.” ...
The title track off of “Barbie,” last summer’s runaway blockbuster movie, Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” is the essential song to kick off your summer songs playlist and promises to instantly get everyone feeling those happy summer vibes. ...