Perhaps the reason that there are so few making up songs is that their emotional role is filled by the enormous number of songs about being in love. Going from being in love to breaking up, and from breaking up to making up, are important kinds of emotional change that it would be ...
jazzy ballad for a full 1:42 before the tempo picks up with a light disco shuffle. Besides being one of the year’s most gorgeous ballads, this ode from Eilish to her future self makes an important point about the need for self-love: “I’m supposed to be unhappy ...
It didn’t matter what street you turned down: This bouncy, head-bopping earworm was the song coming from everyone’s car in late 1998, warning listeners, to the tune of triumphant horns and a crisp piano hook, about being used forthat thing— be it sex, drugs, money, or otherwise. L...
from Primrose Hill to Kensington. Though the track and its video directly deal with England’s metropolitan hub, the larger theme of “For Tomorrow” is one that applies to life in any big city: the struggle of being there can be, in part, the promise of tomorrow’s opportunities. ...
59. “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!,”Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band(1967) The words were mostly swiped from a Victorian-era circus poster Lennon bought while visiting some local shops during the video shoot for “Strawberry Fields Forever” (see No. 2 on our list of Top...
"Downtown" is, on one level, a song about the good times in a relationship, when things are flush with excitement and discovery and everything seems perfect: "Nothing you say/ Will ever be wrong/ Cause it just feels good being in your arms." But the way Devon Welsh sings the words,...
But spring will do him all right, For the time being. but even at that age he knew there was some- thing about his spirit that could escape; and the final stanza tells of his life at the time of writing the poem. In the final stanza, Wright explains that in San Fermo, above ...
Perhaps the reason that there are so few making up songs is that their emotional role is filled by the enormous number of songs about being in love. Going from being in love to breaking up, and from breaking up to making up, are important kinds of emotional change that it would be ...
Written "for a former best friend of mine," about "being really disappointed with someone who you really once truly admired," "Flesh Without Blood" contains some of the most quietly devastating lines of the year: "I don’t see the light I saw in you before/ ...And now I don't ...
(Never mind that Nick Carter was only 17 when he recorded that head-scratcher of a lyric.) The song, recorded for the group’s second international LP, was originally excluded from their U.S. debut, as label execs worried that the lyrics about being “back again” might confuse first-...