“Anti-Hero” is a song by the American singer-songwriterTaylor Swiftand thelead singlefrom her tenth studio album,Midnights(2022). Swift wrote and produced the song withJack Antonoff. It is apop rockandsynth-popsong driven by a 1980s-inspired drumloopgenerated with aLinnDrumand retrosynthesize...
The Lilac Time (fun fact: name taken from the lyrics to a song by Nick Drake) with the Duffy brothers Nick and Stephen at its centre, seem to aspire to join Salvador Sobral’s club of brilliant unknowns, which they can never be. The dark and poltically heartfelt lyrics and music domi...
the composer, after the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. with additional song lyrics by Murray Horwitz Performances View Past Performances Programme NoteMediaScoresFeaturesReviewsMore Info First performance December 20, 1999 Metropolitan Opera Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Jerry Hadley, tenor; Mark Baker, tenor;...
…a couple of ads from the back pages, the first touting the smart-set writing of columnist and foreign correspondent Alice Hughes for the New York American, and the second an advertisement for Chase & Sanborn coffee, which relayed the story of a marriage on the brink due to stale coffee...
This is the denial that must exist at the start of any Campbell-approved hero’s journey. It’s up to you whether you sit in that denial for the song’s full 90-second duration, or leave the First Threshold in the dust the second your eyes alight on the “Start Game” option. ...
The song, “We Shall Overcome” has its roots in the time of slavery in America. Its impact has lasted for over a century and has inspired change-makers around the world. The lyrics are interspersed through the book, along with gorgeous art showing moments in history when the song was sun...
Music is by Jeanine Tesori with book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. Opening night at The Candlelight was exciting. The cast and crew were in great form, and obviously looking at a long run. My only concern was understanding all that was said and sung. The diction will undoubtedly ...
lyrics. The album opens with its best track: “Going Way Back“, an oral history of Hip Hop’s origins in the Bronx, followed by the beatbox-driven “The Original Gangster of Hip-Hop” (an explicit version of his first LP’s “Gangster of Hip-Hop”). The third song “Freedom Of ...
Cray still has a soulful voice and perhaps has the smoothest voice you'll find singing the blues these days. His lyrics still employ that conversational directness Pareles wrote about back in the 80s, and Cray's music still tells the stories of ordinary people who could be your neighbor or...
and also seemingly an anxious depressive. His music is a manifestation of his inner life, and thus his lyrics, delivery, and the beats he raps over are self-consciously disorienting and bizarre. Imagine being a rapper and hearing the beat that would become “Downward Spiral.” Where do you ...