To my ears that song always portrayed an underlying message of fading hope mixed with regret. The chords and lyrics of the verses lean into a surrender, edging toward a Dylan-esque point of view. Reflecting on observational honesty within the context of the era and his own life, McCartney r...
While "Green Light" opens with simple piano chords that wouldn't be out of place onPure Heroine(notably, it's one of only two tracks that Little co-produced), it quickly ramps up into something so much more. By the time the first chorus hits, it's clear something new is ...
It's the perfect example of, oftentimes, the chord I've tried to strike with this band with some of our bigger records, [which] is happy sad. Where you feel nostalgic and kind of melancholic, but at the same time, euphoric. That's what those chords and that melody did for me. I ...
Chris Martin has inspired so many melodies and also piano voicings. I absolutely love their voicings and how they use these pop chords, but if you actually look at the inversions and structures, it's really complex but they communicate in a way that's so accessible. Anyone from, say, ...
she still had to defend herself against claims that her voice didn’t stack up against the more powerful vocalists in the field. Cut to “Stay,” another ballad onUnapologetic. Over a few piano chords, Rihanna delivers one of her most emotional and vulnerable performances to date, featuring ...
At least on the surface, it’s also the most overtly down-home Waxahatchee song to date, with a banjo arpeggiating melancholy chords throughout. But Crutchfield’s writing and phrasing is her own: You never know whether she’s going to cut a line off at the expected point or let it ...
She plays a jaunty, propulsive guitar line on “Crash Course,” echoing the Turtles’ “Happy Together” and early Jonathan Richman, but she sings a keening, building chorus over the chords: “I’m sorry” — dramatic pause —“that I don’t trust myself too much.” Some tracks are ...
Mitchell between numbers, and the entire SRO audience at Los Angeles' Universal Ampitheater cracked up, along with their favorite female performer. Nodding a smile of acknowledgment, the blonde balladeer strummed the opening guitar chords to one of her most insightful and personal self-pennings: ...
Joni Mitchell has every right to have her opinion of Dylan and his works. She’s an artist, via lyrics, painting, piano, composing opera, creating her own “innovated” guitar chords, her poetry and than there’s her voice. Yes, and than...
Studs Terkel I had the impression, Brick, see if I'm right about this interpretation, I have the impression that Porter wrote the thing as though it were this white guy, an established guy in town, had a beautiful Black mistress, and she was Black! That's the way I interpret it, ...