Pop ballads

1970 Lara Fabian a Belgian pop songwriter and musician started singing and playing piano at a tender age, and eight years of age Her parents discovered her passion and talent for singing and therefore enrolled for music classes at the Royal Conservatory of…

The heavenly sound of guitars and pianos complement the angelic voice of Lori Lieberman as she sings, “Strumming my pain with his fingers.” The breakaway of the piano serenades the listener into a ballad of love. Generation by generation, the stylistics of “Killing Me Softly” has evolved to conform to a variety of genres and audiences. It has made its way through airways with notable artists taking a change of channeling the essence of the song. Although the song originated from a young vocalist…

resources, much discography and recordings of cumbia were created and extensively distributed throughout the surrounding areas garnering much popularity for the musical style. Around the 70’s many popular Hispanic singers began to “[transform] the ballad and other pop music into cumbia,” thus further increasing the popularity of the style (Olvera Gudino, 92). Later in the 90’s more popular artists, “took up cumbia as an appealing genre in which to construct their musical style” (Olvera Gudino,…

rhyme patterns. However, even though rap and poetry may share these things, they are different because of the topics each speaks about, the inclusion or exclusion of music, and the writing rules that apply. Firstly, rap has become a major part of pop culture in America. When one thinks of rap music, the first words they think of is sex, drugs, guns, women, and the “street life.” This isn’t far from the truth, but isn’t all that there is. Rap can be very political, like NWA’s “Fuck tha Police,”…

For this assignment I chose to watch the musical movie Rock of Ages. This movie is high energy and has fun and frisky choreography. With professional dancer Julianne Hough as our leading lady in the film it is tough not to get caught up in how the movement tells the story. After watching it I did realize there were several moments where they stopped dancing and that seemed to work for the story as well. From the start we get the urge to move with the opening song Paradise City. This number…

1920s. Similarly, Huber subjects Charlie Poole and his recordings to the same critical analysis and discovers a similar narrative. Huber illustrates how Charlie Poole and “the North Carolina Ramblers did record traditional southern fiddle tunes and ballads, the majority of the band’s recorded output consisted of arrangements of turn-of-the-century “coon songs,” vaudeville numbers, and sentimental parlor pieces such as “Leaving Home,” “There’ll Come a Time,” and “He Rambled,” which the band…

about the energetic melodies and vivid imagery emitting from his mind. This had a massive impact on major figures during this time. The British rock band, The Beatles were heavily impacted by Dylan’s sudden musical change. The Beatles’ mainly produced pop hits for teens and were inspired to experiment with their creative abilities. Bob’s Freewheelin’ album made a huge impression on them. “For three weeks in Paris, we didn't stop playing it," Lennon stated. “We all went potty about Dylan.” It…

• This playlist is aimed to assist removing a person from a negative headspace or despondence, lacklustre feelings to a buoyant, motivated state. Music with a slow rhythm begins the playlist to draw out negative emotions, and then transitions into songs of a combined jauntier and sombre note as a bridge between the first and last songs. Finally, it concludes with songs with a faster rhythm, crying out voices, primarily used as a cathartic headspace. Primarily, by enveloping themselves into these…

neurosis. He was introduced to poetry by his father, David John Thomas, an English professor. At a young age, he read all of D.H. Lawrence 's work. Poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, W.B. Yeats, and Edgar Allen Poe inspired him to use rhythmic ballads like theirs in his own work. At 16, Thomas dropped out of school to become a reporter for a local newspaper, which he pursued until he was 18. He then quit his job to write poetry full-time. During his late teens, Thomas wrote more than half of…

into summer break following the end of my 6th grade year, sitting on my bed and gazing at my laptop screen. I was scrolling through my feed on Quotev.com looking to see if any of my friends had decided to get online, when I seen the little red '1' pop up on the top right corner of my account. I clicked on it, expecting it to just be a notification telling me that someone 'liked' one of my recent activities, which is kind of like a post or a status update. But I was wrong. Someone had left me a…