It’s a burbling stomp about being emotionally and literally destroyed, about how his heart has been ripped from his chest and his floor is covered in blood. (It’s worth noting that this man has a well-documented love of samurai films.) Thundercat seems dazed and panicked here, unable ...
in June, the song allows for nature’s own musicality to intrude a bit, with birds singing and the wind blowing in the background. But it’s how singer Emily Sprague channels the memories of her father into such an intimate stream of specifics which makes the track so emotionally ...
“Dealer” begins with Kane pleading for his whereabouts to be kept secret over a sultry groove, Lana enters the picture for a near-rapped pre-chorus before totally stealing the show with a startling vocal performance in the chorus. She sounds near-hysterical and emotionally exhausted – ...
“Heart To Break” is a song about the strongest type of emotion — the feeling of being so hopelessly devoted to someone else that even if the whole things cataclysmically, it would still be worth it — and Kim Petras, a German singer whose Scandinavian-influenced electro-pop sounds cryogen...
Even on paper, the song is emotionally loaded: a plea for protection to a man the narrator has come to trust. In emotional terms, Billie Holiday’s 1948 version feels optimistic, guardedly bright; Simone’s feels concentrated and gravely serious, almost private, even as she adds trills and ...
Lennon allows himself to experience both the pleasure and the pain of love, sighing with a barely contained sense of sexual anticipation. But there’s also an embedding wink: He later revealed that the insistent “tit-tit-tit-tit” backing vocals were about just what you think they are. ...
I talked about how I feel I healed a big trauma-wound—an abandonment wound from the time when I was only 1 and 1/2 when I was hospitalized for a week. I couldn’t remember it of course but the emotional pain had been dormant within me and in my body in the form of an energy ...
Songs have been written for thousands of years and we still have not exhausted the possibilities. But it isn't easy to 'manufacture' a Song that truly offers something new. Again, people will 'buy' it, on some scale, enough to keep the 'business' going for those in it, but ...
professionally. Starr was without a label, meaning the album was issued piecemeal on different imprints worldwide. The results have a similarly meandering, rootless feel – outside of Starr's cheeky cover of the Sir Douglas Quintet's "She's About a Mover." An exhausted Starr disappeared for ...
professionally. Starr was without a label, meaning the album was issued piecemeal on different imprints worldwide. The results have a similarly meandering, rootless feel – outside of Starr's cheeky cover of the Sir Douglas Quintet's "She's About a Mover." An exhausted Starr disappeared for ...