Have you ever noticed that some songs start with a “one, two, three, four”? You can hear it in songs by artists as different as The Beatles, OutKast, and Taylor Swift. But why are they counting? The counting you hear is a small clue to a big fact—math is behind almost everyth...
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Bob Dylan is an American folksinger and songwriter who moved from folk to rock music in the 1960s, infusing the lyrics of rock and roll with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry. Dylan wrote more than 500 songs recorded by more than 2,000
I did an Internet search on “what are the tunes at the beginning of dueling banjos” … and yes Yankee Doodle was there, but I think Arkansas Traveler (I'm Bringing Home a Baby Bumble-Bee to the under-10 set) is the descending line at the beginning, that is, after the chord th...
(æ-aespa) and an AI-inspired lore in their music. As their discography has grown, their concept and sound evolved to encompass new styles that reflect a bulletproof self-esteem. With "Spicy," aespa have proven to be more than just a hyper-tech fad, and entered main character territory...
It's no secret that a pop star's biggest hit may not have been written by them, a tradition that's probably as old as recorded music at this point. But when you start getting into the upper echelons of sending a song around to be recorded, you have no idea where it's going to ...
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Resident in Munich, Freddie recruited the best local musicians to create an album that lived up to the standards he’d set as the lead singer of one of the world’s biggest rock acts.Mr. Bad Guywas a real labor of love: “I’ve put my heart and soul into this album,” he said....
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“Put your lips close to mine/As long as they don’t touch” – now there’s an entrance line. Taylor braves the ski slopes of love, with a seething acoustic guitar that finally detonates halfway though. A weird sonic detail: if you play this immediately after Joni Mitchell’s “People...