"The Monster" didn't go home empty-handed, winning Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 2015 ceremony. The boogeyman hiding under the bed here, of course, isn't a Frankenstein-esque creation, but the mix of paranoia, self-doubt, and OCD that leads the Real Slim Shady into thinking he nee...
Dale Evans wrote "Happy Trails" in 1951, inspired partly by the chorus of a song of the same name that her husband Roy Rogers had sung in his 1951 film "Spoilers of the Plains." As a duet, it soon became the theme of the couple's radio and television programs, and it ...
Some of Guthrie's original lyrics were far more radical than the ones still sung in classrooms today—including the final verse: "One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple/ By the Relief Office I saw my people/ As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if/ This land was...
(Skit)” actually spurred Eminem to write “My Fault,” the intricate story song that follows it on the tracklist. The skit’s silly tune, sung by Bass Brothers producer Jeff Bass (“I never meant to give you mushrooms, girl”) got Em thinking about the time one of his friends had ...
Even given the candor of today’s pop lyricism, there’s something especially vulnerable about a singer admitting to “All the times I waited / For you to want me naked” — Eilish has sung about being publicly objectified, but she can write about how bereft the opposite of that can feel...
"Colors of the Wind" was written by Stephen Schwartz and Alan Menken for Pocahontas. This 1995 movie theme song won Best Original Song at the Oscars, the Golden Globes, and the Grammys. PurchaseView on AMAZON 16 Everything Is Awesome 876 votes "Everything Is Awesome," or as ...
Artists have been performing songs written by others since ancient texts were sung in ancient melodies. While it’s commonplace today, in the early days of modern music, performers and songwriters were not typically one in the same – songwriters wrote the songs, and singers sang t...
"Colors of the Wind" was written by Stephen Schwartz and Alan Menken for Pocahontas. This 1995 movie theme song won Best Original Song at the Oscars, the Golden Globes, and the Grammys. PurchaseView on AMAZON 16 Everything Is Awesome 876 votes "Everything Is Awesome," or as ...
as a single package) topped theBillboardalbum chart. The first album yielded two more Grammys, including best R&B song for “Pusher Love Girl.” In2018Timberlake returned to the Super Bowl halftime show in a performance that coincided with the release of the country-inflectedMan of the Woods...
In 2013 Williams cowrote and produced “Blurred Lines,” which was sung by Robin Thicke and featured T.I. and Williams. The song was a huge hit, but in 2015 a federal jury held that Thicke and Williams had committed copyright infringement by using parts ofMarvin Gaye’s “Got to Give ...