| 单词 | love song |
| 例句 | Another plaintive love song, she didn’t recognize this one; though as she listened, she began to hear, beyond his voice, the delight of her family. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He has sung whole love songs to the cynical crowds, told tall stories of courage and honor, doing all this without any mythic display, without savvy, almost embarrassing the urban throng. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Hour after hour of ballads, love songs, mountain airs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He called the love song over cliff and river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When they say the heart wants what it wants, they’re talking about the poetic heart—the heart of love songs and soliloquies, the one that can break as if it were just-formed glass. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z She’d have to conjure up an imaginary person again for the love songs. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Similarly mournful love songs were cropping up all over Europe during this period, their woeful lyrics gaining popularity in courts, noble houses, and other places where a sheet of printed music could be afforded. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The man tipped his head at them and kept playing, something that sounded like the saddest love song ever. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I feel like I’m living inside a love song. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Perhaps when separated by 15,000 kilometers, their vocalizations are love songs, cast hopefully into the vastness of the deep. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z People belt out sappy love songs around the karaoke machine, and all the aunties in the kitchen make chismis, gossip. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The music of Rabindranath Tagore is playing softly in the background—the same love songs Ranee used to sing to her husband when they were first married. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Dancers danced; musicians played queer tunes with bells and squeaks and bladders; singers sang ancient love songs in the incomprehensible tongue of Old Ghis. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Eight Luftwaffe men, none of whom will survive the hour, singing a love song to their queen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Most of the songs were heavy, sad love songs that made you feel like you were drowning in tears. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I hear her singing in the shower one night—a love song. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The trees reverberated with the joyful cry of a Hindi love song from Shanti’s Greatest Bollywood Hits CD. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z But I was happy to get a glimpse of the oldest one and wished he sang the love song. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He called the love song of the peregrine falcon. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When I sing love songs, it helps for me to picture someone in my mind. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z It was the opposite of a sad love song. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z It is, as much as the sounds of any baleen whale, a love song cast upon the vastness of the deep. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dimple grinned, her ears pounding with the rhythm of a thousand Bollywood love songs. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Tonight the singing had come first, squeaking out of the iron bed, a man singing in Spanish, the melody of a familiar love song, two words again and again, “Y volvere. ” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The music slows, and a bright Urdu love song takes over from the sonorous dhol. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “So,” he said, “the stupidest things can be set to music. You’d be better off learning love songs.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a love song he was yelling, although only I could hear him yell, to the rest he was whispering. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The large television system and all those French love songs and rara records, with the talking drums and conch shell sounds in them. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “So what are the love songs really about?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z A love song for the wife, a joyful melody for the kids, all of it backed up by the steady beat of a man marching to make a living. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It was a popular love song, but they had changed the lyrics. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Then Joe slipped into soft, slow, sweet love songs and Joyce grew quiet, listening carefully, happy in a different, deeper way. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Frightful slowed down, instinctively recognizing the love song of the male peregrine falcon. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Others are romantic comedies, a meet-cute ruined by mishaps and bad timing, finally leading to a kiss atop a tall building—the metropolis glimmering in the background, moon rising, love song playing over the credits. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z All he could do was again to sit wretched and helpless on the shore, but this time not trying in fury to kill people, only singing mournful love songs to soften the sea nymph’s heart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I will say you, you, like an old love song. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z And then for some reason I started thinking about “Something in the Way She Moves,” so I asked, “Is a love song a love song?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She could hear the soft whisper of his labored breathing, the endless rush of waters, the faint chords of some love song drifting up from the yard, so sad and sweet. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On the Digital Songs chart, which measures online single sales, Ed Sheeran’s love song “Perfect” climbed to No. 1 from No. 3 with nearly 60,000 copies sold. Taylor Swift spends third week atop Billboard 200 chart 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z A perfectly calibrated power ballad, with the Lady Gaga chorus trademark of repeated syllables, does movie-musical triple duty as love song, vocal showcase and plot pivot. The 65 Best Songs of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z By way of apologizing for destroying his set, Murray serenaded Letterman with a love song that topped the charts 20 years ago. Bill Murray Pays a Special Visit to David Letterman 2013-08-30T18:11:23Z The bluesy love song "Chains" was first recorded by the Cookies but later covered by the Beatles. Lyricist Gerry Goffin, ex-husband of singer Carole King, dead at 75 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z “I was like, I’m not going to write one single sad love song,” she said. How Robyn, Pop’s Glittery Rebel, Danced Her Way Back From Darkness 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z At the end of it, Sweeney sings his only love song — the sinuous “My Friends” — to his razors. It’s Not the Music. It’s Not the Lyrics. It’s the Drama. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z "The irony of the track is that it's a love song to a place I'd never visited." Owl City will say 'Hello Seattle' on April 1 2010-03-26T00:24:00Z She’s outgrown the old stuff — all those easygoing love songs — and is fired up with enthusiasm about singing of where’s she at now. Theater Review: ‘I’m Getting My Act Together’ at City Center 2013-07-25T21:07:09Z The Songs For their first dance, the couple chose “If We Were Vampires,” a love song by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. You Could Write a Country Song About Them. (He Probably Will.) 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Kaplan began, he told me, with his own arrangement of a Liszt piece that is itself an arrangement of Schumann’s love song “Widmung,” and which fit his ruminative mood. ArtsBeat: A Musical Impromptu 2011-07-05T17:23:56Z The grand opening features former Seattle singer Dee Daniels, who invests a gospel undercurrent into her soulful way with a love song. As Bake's Place reopens, Bellevue jumps with jazz 2012-05-11T01:22:04Z Extasy is a love song to the drug ecstasy, in which Ty' confirms she likes to pop one "before I get into bed, then I pop two right before he give me head." The 101 strangest records on Spotify: Chocolate Ty – Queen of the City 2013-06-19T06:30:00Z Other love songs on the album, like “Comeback Kid” and “Seventeen,” feel aimed at Van Etten’s younger self. The Many Lives of Sharon Van Etten 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Reduced to almost childlike wonder, he describes it as “one of the prettiest love songs ever written.” ‘Harry Connick, Jr.: A Celebration of Cole Porter’ Review: 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z “Even some of the straight up love songs that we wrote, you can still feel this sort of maternal long game approach to life and love.” Maren Morris is grounded, but not silenced on ‘Humble Quest’ 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z “Today I Started Loving You Again,” a plaintive love song about obsession co-written with Bonnie Owens, became one of the country genre’s most covered songs. Merle Haggard, revered country singer of common man anthems, dies at 79 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z It might have made a sad story but, told as it is with zest and humour, it becomes a love song to her adoptive parents. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z "That Girl" is a sweet throwback R&B love song, while new single "Mirrors" is an ode to his new wife. Justin Timberlake puts the sexy into married life in new album 2013-03-17T13:19:08Z “If I Loved You” and “Make Believe,” from “Show Boat,” were both experiments by the lyricist Oscar Hammerstein in “hypothetical” love songs. Music Review: Back at Midcentury, When Broadway Knew Romance 2011-03-22T20:15:03Z Because I Could Not Stop for Death – Natalie Merchant A ballad simply constructed on guitar with occasional flourishes of piano, this contemplation of mortality becomes something approaching a love song. Readers recommend: songs about fate and destiny 2010-09-16T23:01:00Z The first disc was mainly a collection of love songs, albeit with a singular, reliably dark humour, but the second was a concept album about a teenager struggling through his parents' protracted, bruising separation. Cosmo Jarvis: 'My generation is the worst' 2011-08-11T21:30:01Z It is not clear that Mr. Vitolo has any interest in music beyond Neapolitan love songs. Emilio?s Ballato: Like Rao?s, but You Can Get In 2011-10-25T22:32:35Z When Richie visits his father, who has dementia, the two hum their favorite tunes — the son, his most popular love song; the father, a Nazi jingle. ‘Rimini’ Review: Just an Austrian Gigolo 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z His music continued to explore repetition, drones, improvised lyrics and startling subject matter, but he also revealed his roots in rockabilly and sang an occasional love song. Alan Vega, Punk Music Pioneer and Artist, Dies at 78 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Writing a love song when I was 19 is very different than writing a love song when I’m 25. Jason Derulo: Meghan Trainor 'Insisted' on Singing My Name 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z “I think it was one of the first real dramatic love songs for young kids,” said Medley, 74, who was 24 when the record hit the charts in 1965. Library of Congress welcomes recordings by the Doors, Righteous Brothers But with this meticulously reported microhistory, Hale, who once played in a band and ran an underground club in Athens, delivers more than a love song to the music. Dance This Mess Around: When Georgia Recreated Rock ’n’ Roll 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z The closest thing to a sweet moment was “Breeze Off the River,” from “The Full Monty,” a father’s love song to his young son, sung by his special guest, Patrick Wilson. Review: David Yazbek and a Few Cheery Songs About Death 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s not a love song; a verse refers to HeLas, a so-called immortal cell line used by researchers that was derived from the cells of a woman named Henrietta Lacks. New Music: Music From Yeasayer, Tamia, Lionel Loueke and Divine Fits 2012-08-27T21:53:22Z Since the breakup of the Beatles, Mr. McCartney has been a staunch devotee of the kind of moon-June-spoon love songs that rock ’n’ roll was supposed to have made obsolete. Review: John Pizzarelli Channels Paul McCartney and Antônio Carlos Jobim 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z But the album peaks with its acoustic title track, one of his most tender and heartfelt love songs. Listen to 14 Essential Tom Petty Songs 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Earlier in the evening, Erin Regan sang a haunting set of sleepy love songs in a rich and expressive soprano. ArtsBeat Blog: Staying Undefined at the Antifolk Festival, and That's Fine 2011-09-23T07:40:41Z The Colourfield’s sunny love song “Thinking of You” hit No. 12 in Britain the next year. Terry Hall, a Face of Britain’s Ska Revival, Is Dead at 63 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z “Everyone has a person they sing their love songs to,” Jobi Riccio sings in “For Me It’s You,” a slow, terse, old-fashioned country waltz complete with a plaintive fiddle. Rosalía Issues an English Request, and 9 More New Songs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z It's a love song as uttered by a ghost and Robeson's tethered vocals are still awesomely powerful. Readers recommend: Songs about South America 2010-06-17T23:01:00Z Like her other albums it juxtaposes rockers, lullabies, elegies, incantations, love songs and myths in the making. New Music: New Albums from Patti Smith, Ravi Coltrane and Neneh Cherry 2012-06-18T21:55:59Z The title track from Reed’s 1975 album is a powerful and plaintive love song that demonstrated his vulnerable side. Lou Reed: 11 Essential Songs 2013-10-27T22:56:46Z The group was given the Choice single trophy for “Who Says” and the Choice award for love song for “Love You Like a Love Song,” which the 19-year-old Ms. Gomez performed at the Sunday ceremony. ArtsBeat: Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift Are Teens' Choices 2011-08-08T16:14:48Z One of the more startling newcomers last year was Zola Jesus, a recovering midwestern goth who now pens full-blooded love songs of exquisite desolation. Esben and the Witch; Trophy Wife ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:35Z The young Steersman, charged by Daland with keeping watch, was the youthful tenor David Portillo, wonderful in the role as he sweetly sings a love song to the girlfriend he soon will see. Review: A New ‘Flying Dutchman’ Makes Landfall at the Met Opera 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Befitting that lineage the album mingles love songs with social commentary. Esperanza Spalding on a Year in the Spotlight 2012-03-16T15:58:59Z They were tall tales, surreal travelogues, love songs, existential riddles and exercises in wordplay — unmistakably Dylan. Albums by Nick Jonas, Bobby Shmurda and New Basement Tapes 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z You could even say to a certain extent that "Take Me For A Ride" is a love song in a way. Sparks talk new album, ever-growing fanbase: "Our audiences are pretty accepting of eccentricities" 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z Anyone feeling even vaguely troubled by matters of the heart should avoid their programme of fervent love songs or the vapours will surely ensue. Porgy and Bess; the Prince Consort; Live Music Sculpture – review 2012-07-14T23:06:10Z “There is simply no greater love song than what you find in the Book of Psalms.” Music: Israeli Singer of the World 2011-06-23T11:54:54Z In an era when love songs topped the charts, Temple had major pop hits with “On the Good Ship Lollipop” and “Animal Crackers in My Soup” — numbers tailored to her precocious showmanship. Shirley Temple: A Cute Cocktail of Talent and Charm 2014-02-12T16:13:08Z WED Three-class series, how to bird by ear as birds sing to attract a mate, bird behavior and migration of birds and their love songs, starting 7 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-04-08T13:33:41Z Finally, Ward has written the Fire Safety Officer's song – a love song between the fire safety officer and the recorded female voice that tells everyone to leave the building. On stage and on screen: making our opera The Answer to Everything 2013-04-23T12:10:23Z Their union seemed like a honeyed country music matchup: They duetted on a June and Johnny Cash tribute, and Musgraves wrote the floaty love song “Butterflies” for her breakthrough Grammy-winning album “Golden Hour.” Ruston Kelly Survived Addiction and Heartbreak. It’s in His ‘Dirt Emo.’ 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z As Edward’s patient and insightful wife, Sandra, Todd sounds terrific in the resigned love song “I Don’t Need a Roof,” as well as in the more upbeat “Magic in the Man.” Review | ‘Big Fish’ looks for the truth in a father-son relationship 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Groban: The reason I think people relate to Stevie Wonder's love songs is because they really, truly, genuinely make you feel the way you feel, the way love is. Q&A: Josh Groban sings about love lost _ again 2013-02-05T14:51:28Z He’s been a solo artist since, and become one of the masters of the dark love song. “What’s my purpose on Earth if I’m not playing solos?”: Guitar hero Richard Thompson says every song absolutely, without question, needs one 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Her love songs are so idealized that she actually wrote one about Romeo and Juliet. Taylor Swift, Rule Follower, Releases 1989 in Completely Expected Way 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z There’s also a love song on the album, approached from a typically unexpected angle. Sylvan Esso Keeps Electronic Pop Human 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Immersed in the part, I came to see the musical as a love song to a woman and her work. I Love Performing Those Songs. But What About the Gender Politics? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Moonlight and love songs, hearts full of passion, jealousy and hate. Can romantic musicals survive Twitter, Facebook and hookups? 2012-03-14T20:17:04Z Petty tackles optimism on "American Dream Plan B" and recalls midnight interludes on the lovely midtempo love song "Red River." Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, an L.A. band, stare at 'Hypnotic Eye' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Even so, the lyrics for Guthrie’s sometimes mystical love songs had the same rough-hewn diction as his broadsides. Music Review: Jonatha Brooke Recalls Woody Guthrie at Allen Room - Review 2012-01-19T23:23:11Z He called it Siboney Beach Club, after the indigenous tribe and a Cuban love song he will sing unprompted, eyes closed, shoulders swaying. Seeing the Whole of Antigua 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z "Most of the songs are almost love songs that don't have any dissonance or irony, or second-guessing," said Sparhawk. Alan Sparkhawk talks about his trio, Low 2011-09-15T19:24:03Z Houston, who died in a Beverly Hills hotel room last week, recorded stirring love songs and vibrant, dance tunes during a 30-year career that peaked with her 1992 signature hit "I Will Always Love You." Family, fans, stars to mourn Houston 2012-02-18T13:23:00Z Many of the arrangements are eerie and astringent, and the mood, even in love songs, is desolate. Peter Gabriel Says, ?I?ll Sing Yours, You Sing Mine? 2010-03-01T22:48:00Z In “Run Away,” a shimmering, messianic love song, he urges, “Come run away with me” and promises, “I will bring you life, a new communion/With a paradise that brings/the truth of light within.” Sufjan Stevens’s Cry of Despair and Prayer for Redemption 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Taylor Swift Taylor Swift and Owl City singer trade love songs Taylor Swift has never been one for enigmatic ballads. Taylor Swift and Owl City singer trade love songs 2011-02-16T12:52:00Z For "Almost Blue," one of Costello's most enduring, and brilliant, love songs, the artist filtered dense, complicated emotions through the breath and fingertips of expert dozens, and his work blossomed. Elvis Costello, Ben Folds harness the L.A. Phil at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Nor is it a love song to bop along with, a fashionable illness, or a fad for bloggers to wear for a few weeks, post about on Instagram, favorite and then disregard. Please Stop Merchandising Mental Illness 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z But even if you look back to the greats who did make social statements, still the bulk of their work was love songs. John Legend talks 'Love In The Future' 2013-04-17T00:14:07Z An elegant, yearning love song about loyalty and trust, “Believe” could be about a family member, a girlfriend, or really, millions of fans. Kuk Harrell, Justin Bieber’s Vocal Producer 2012-06-29T12:43:09Z My favourite lyrics on Vivadixie are the strange, conflicted sentiments of his love songs. My favourite album: Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot by Sparklehorse 2011-08-22T10:54:28Z A series of 2 Chainz love songs are emotionally leaden, but almost clumsily credible: “I love you now/I don’t care about your ratchet past.” Critic’s Notebook: 2 Chainz Is Hip-Hop’s Rising Star 2012-08-15T22:26:48Z "Of all the dead volcanoes on earth, you just had to wretch and roll through mine," he sings on Duet, a love song set in a dystopian wasteland. Everything Everything: Arc boasts "proper songs" 2013-01-24T08:03:39Z In the love song “All You Gotta Do Is Touch Me,” Guthrie made an astounding leap of identification with all humanity: I fully aim, to get my soul known again. Music Review: Jonatha Brooke Recalls Woody Guthrie at Allen Room - Review 2012-01-19T23:23:11Z Katie writes love songs that are forgotten the moment she stops singing. Review: In ‘Midnight Sun,’ the Dawn of Romance Can Be Fatal 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Minchin's cerebral love song If I Didn't Have You is overwhelmed by its orchestration. Tim Minchin ? review 2010-12-15T21:29:00Z Tom Krell, who records as How to Dress Well, sings love songs that are also songs about songs, songs about tenuous human connections, songs about time and songs about sound. New Music by Phish, Popcaan and How to Dress Well 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z A love song that sounds like rowdy ground warfare, “Geyser” is the first song from the forthcoming Mitski album, “Be the Cowboy.” The Playlist: Lil Peep’s Sweet Gloom, and 8 More New Songs 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The finale was a love song, “Baby,” in English and Ukrainian. DakhaBrakha Plays at the Global Beat Festival 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z Together, they offer a heartfelt love song to the theater, rooted in ancient traditions but always reinvented by new generations for new audiences. Review | ‘Noël Coward On (and In) Theatre’ reveals the playwright’s nimble way with words 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, if R Kelly is bringing back love songs, then K Michelle, the Tennessee singer he has signed to his label, is bringing back honest-to-god emoting. Real R&B fans aren't waiting for the Weeknd 2011-03-29T08:50:31Z Crosby applied his soothing baritone to love songs, folk songs, Irish songs, Hawaiian songs, country songs — he sang almost everything and revealed almost nothing. How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Along with the Oscar nominee's broody rendition of the love song, she had a homemade video montage that paid tribute to the British actress. Watch Anna Kendrick steal John Krasinski's girl on 'Lip Sync Battle' 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Come for Barbra Streisand, stay for the gorgeous gowns, sharp dance numbers and aw-shucks love songs. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Hannibal’ and ‘Star Trek’ Films 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z He also finds that some aspects of the love song — and of the West’s notion of romantic love — originate in the Muslim world. 2015 was a banner year for nonfiction — here are 10 books you don’t want to miss 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z In the evenings all over Phnom Penh, the sound of plaintive Khmer love songs leaks into the darkness, feedback and all, from their giant speakers. Virginity for sale: inside Cambodia's shocking trade 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Her role was added after several revisions and was a short scene in which Britt needled her on-screen husband about how to write a love song. 'Housewives' actress says she was stunned when hit 2012-03-02T01:53:13Z She was equally vivid in far quieter acoustic arrangements, like the fingerpicking of “I Belong to You,” which she announced as “a little love song I wrote about my wife, Catherine.” Review: Brandi Carlile’s Life Is Embedded in Her Music 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z I wasn't ashamed of writing love songs because I'd spent a lot of my life without it. Domestic bliss 2011-06-24T07:47:40Z The mixture of their distinct voices and the blending reggae and R&B on a sweet love song is just beautiful. He said, she said: AP writers predict 2021 Grammy winners 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Ai has already been in the studio recording his second album, which will be a collection of love songs, he said. China's Ai Weiwei launches musical career with heavy metal "Dumbass" single 2013-05-22T05:07:26Z But I can say that the evening’s accumulated frustrations blend joyously into a wholly original love song to the maddening art of the theater. Review: In ‘10 out of 12’ at Soho Rep, the Audience Tunes In to the Crew 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z But the ancient flags and stained-glass windows of Manchester Cathedral still create a hushed atmosphere worthy of one of America's finest creators of pithy, sardonic love songs. The Magnetic Fields | Pop review 2010-03-21T21:45:00Z It’s an unexpected companion piece to “Best of Joy,” a love song that promises, “We are forever” over acoustic guitar and twinkling synthesizer. Arts & Leisure Preview: After Death, the Remix 2010-12-09T16:58:00Z Rita Ora enters the race for song of summer with an assist from Calvin Harris, who adds some EDM-beats to the sumptuous pop love song. Here Are 14 Songs Battling It Out For the Song of the Summer in 2014 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Aznavour piqued the love song and made it dangerous; what he wrote were often tributes not to love but to lust. Remembering Charles Aznavour, the Last and Greatest Troubadour 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Does she have any idea why a love song to New York has become her biggest British hit? Alicia Keys: 'Everything I do comes from a primal place' 2011-07-14T20:30:02Z Other highlights included the sweet country lilt of the Dead’s “It Must Have Been the Roses,” the ominously descending “Black” and Jones’ alluring whisper on her fetching new love song, “And Then There Was You.” Norah Jones defies labels in genre-, career-spanning concert 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z “Different Drum” is a kiss-off dressed up as a love song. Perspective | Michael Nesmith invented country rock. Or maybe something even better. 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z There were rough mixes of most tracks, songs about Paula, love songs, and other, darker songs. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z An Arab love song sung by an Englishman, tenuously linked, if at all, to the real grandeur of Arabic literary tradition, the poem is a cunning disguise. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z Still, a broader message seemed to bloom when the band segued from “You Can’t Mute Us” into a percolating rendition of Sade’s classic carpe-diem love song “Cherish the Day.” Perspective | In the streets and online, go-go’s drumbeat for social change remains a constant 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Joss Stone, the British soul singer, started out mellow but ended up sleepy in her set of reggae-inflected love songs. Bruno Mars closes out Rock in Rio festival with a bang 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z In the show's ingenious and winning number, "The Moon and Me," Hammond chirps a love song to the moon and ascends for an aerial dance duet with the balloonlike orb. A night with 'The Addams Family' scares up laughs 2012-10-27T02:16:04Z The friend complies with a mournful love song, and the movie seems to hold its breath until the final notes rise into the night air. Review: Seeking Connection in a Busy Town in ‘Autumn, Autumn’ 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Is it a love song or a rush of hallucinations? David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Of course, it's not impossible that Thompson had heard real Arabic love songs. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z When a teenager posts the lyrics to a suicidal love song on her Facebook page, her mother may panic while her friends know it’s just a reference to an annoying ex-friend. Danah Boyd: Cracking Teenagers? Online Codes 2012-01-20T23:56:23Z Are they just singing love songs, or do they have broader messages? Review: Global Citizen Festival, Including Beyoncé and Pearl Jam, Mixes Music and Activism 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z The sparkling, sighing “Play,” featuring Sampha, strikes a happier note: it’s a love song couched in musical terms, stuffed full of charming cues and bright, technicolor synths. Katy B Makes Cool, Compulsively Danceable Pop on Little Red 2014-02-10T15:01:16Z I couldn’t listen to passionate love songs or watch sitcoms where there was a funny dad just bumbling around, just taken for granted. 'What should I have done differently?' A conversation with my son about divorce 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Later this month Ocean will release Channel Orange, rumoured to contain several love songs addressed to another man. Frank Ocean and the courage to come out 2012-07-04T17:03:00Z This is what love songs should sound like in 2010: hedonistic, dangerous, aware that things might look different in the cold light of day, but not that bothered all the same. This week's new singles 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z The entire album is full of emotion and offers Yoakam's first love songs in 25 years. Dwight Yoakam to release '3 Pears' on Sept. 18 2012-07-19T10:39:08Z Leigh-Anne: It's not just a love song, it's about being obsessed with someone to the extreme. Little Mix: 'We all look like dirty mingers underneath!' 2012-11-22T16:02:00Z It’s filled with camouflaged love songs like “No Such Thing” and “If I Can’t Have You.” Amidst the chaos, Sara Bareilles finds a new voice 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z A good choice, all things considered, because there aren’t many love songs about Nantucket — but there are some sweet love stories. Perspective | Ben from Nantucket? How summer buddies found year-round romance. 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Pegi met Neil when she was working as a waitress near his Northern California ranch, according to Rolling Stone, and was the inspiration for his most popular love songs. Neil Young files for divorce from Pegi Young after 36-year marriage 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Blur's much-loved London is sinking, its skies are on fire, the Last Post sounding "like a love song". Blur – review 2012-08-04T23:05:46Z In another, less fragmented pop era, this would be the album of thoughtful but radio-ready love songs to finally get Mr. Escovedo the big national audience he deserves. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New music from Alejandro Escovedo, 3OH!3, Kylie Minogue 2010-07-04T21:55:00Z As a love song, it seemed to resonate with an ever closer bond between Elizabeth and Philip, as they confront the challenge of Paige and their increasingly problematic feelings about their jobs. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 3 Recap: More Than This 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z “I’m a sucker for a love song,” she said. Their Love Inspired Its Own Soundtrack 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Gentler and less specific than Mr. Joel’s compositions, Mr. DeSare’s original pop love songs are plain well-made ballads in a flexible soft-rock mode. Music Review: Tony DeSare at 54 Below 2012-10-05T04:30:05Z He, and his oblique love songs, and his baritone voice pushed into falsetto range through soul shudders, almost evoke a American archetype, maybe somewhere among Thoreau, Donny Hathaway and David Foster Wallace. Music Review: Lyricism With a Dash of Soft Rock 2011-08-10T22:15:29Z TONDER, Denmark — The folk musician Billy Fumey strode onstage on Friday night in this quaint market town in rural Denmark and launched into an intense love song in the endangered language of Franco-Provençal. Catalan Pop? Corsican Rock? It’s Europe’s Other Song Contest. 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z After writing his first love song at 11, Mr. Figueroa entered a seminary at 14, intending to become a priest. Joan Sebastian, Mexican Singer and Songwriter, Is Dead at 64 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Cohen creates an atmosphere for this love song that is surreal, somber and immediately captivating. We Asked Some Musicians to Pick Their Favorite Songs of All-Time 2011-10-26T13:25:58Z “Really,” he said, “the crux of it was that she was an African American woman singing these sensual love songs.” Joyce Bryant, Sensual Singer Who Changed Course, Dies at 95 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z My life was as romantic as a love song. Perspective | I ignored warnings from friends and family not to marry my husband. Was I making a big mistake? 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z But he is a dreamer, too, with a fondness for the love songs of his region. John Adams’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s an album of love songs, cackling contemplations of death and, most often, songs about hitting the road. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z It is a sublime love song, that is sung from the heart. My favourite Beatles song: Something 2013-04-10T10:07:51Z We’ve made the song a love song, for Thaisa, who Pericles is wooing, and then that same song becomes a lullaby that Pericles sings to the baby Marina, after Thaisa dies at sea. The Continual Riddle of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Mediterranean love songs with extra cheese at the tenor's outdoor soiree. This week's new films 2013-02-16T06:00:16Z It’s time to get back to the love songs.” Richard Thompson: Innovation in, nostalgia out 2013-03-10T23:57:00Z There's nothing revolutionary in the love songs of Katy Perry and the hedonism of Gaga, despite her good works. Riot grrrl: searching for music's young female revolutionaries 2013-03-18T16:33:46Z There are a few scattered moments of dialogue — mostly from pitiless bosses firing the poor T4 robot — and there’s a brief love song, written by the robot and sung through a vocoder. Review: ‘Nufonia Must Fall’ Shares the Heart of Kid Koala’s Robot Tale 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Above all else, however, it's a love song. Adam Nicolson: The Constant Gardener 2010-05-20T11:30:00Z As two happily married men, is it strange writing love songs that other women will listen to and imagine you are singing to them? Nick Carter and Jordan Knight: Nick & Knight Are Not a Boy Band 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The only thing that might be more oblique than the lyrics is Smith's explanation for the love song's cryptically esoteric poetry. 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Intuiting that their story isn't quite finished, she sings a moody love song that holds out the possibility of a reunion. 'Bright Star' wears its old-fashioned heart on its gingham sleeve 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Both singers are bi, and it is the first ever chart-hit love song to be sung by two women using female pronouns. Girl Talk! How queer pop came out 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z They are all at some private party, dancing to love songs by Brahms. Review: City Ballet Celebrates Balanchine and Heeds Mother Nature 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z They’re love songs about persistence, and that’s embedded in the sound of the record; you don’t need a lyric sheet to hear it. New Music: Superchunk and Tedeschi Trucks Band Release Albums 2013-08-19T22:29:24Z There is a twist, though: love songs about holding hands and first kisses are being repurposed into a boy-meets-boy tale of young love. Spring and Summer Theater Listings 2010-02-21T00:33:00Z The rare love song that suggests men as a decoration for women, not the other way around. Grammy predictions: 4 writers, 4 categories, 4 opinions 2013-02-08T00:31:32Z Released in 1981, it featured Mr. Domingo’s lustrous tenor in duet with Mr. Denver on a program of love songs. Milt Okun, Who Turned John Denver Into a Pop Star, Dies at 92 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z "My audience was made up of people who came for the politics, and other people who came for the love songs," he later reflected. Billy Bragg: Barking's Woody Guthrie on 30 years of songs and activism 2013-03-26T17:00:32Z Rome’s lyrics in the love songs are declamatory and direct, at times seeming even crude, but they reflect the feelings of these earthy characters with a fitting simplicity. 2010-02-06T06:35:00Z Listen to the mechanical beat of the drums and the ultraprecise mesh of the twin guitars in “Ain’t No Use,” an unrequited love song complaining, “It ain’t no use to talk to you about love.” John Coltrane’s Unearthed Live ‘A Love Supreme,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z The record ends with “Dream Baby Dream,” an unblinking stare of a love song. New Music: Albums From Bruce Springsteen and Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland 2014-01-13T23:21:05Z Aurora’s lyrics, full of quests and transformations, show ambitions beyond love songs: “The sky is open wide,” one song declared. Eras Mix Among 1,300 Groups at CMJ Music Marathon 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z “There’s love songs in the Arab world, but there’s nothing explicit, no references to sex.” For Saint Levant, Sexy Music Is Personal, and Political 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Priest keeps the fire burning on the affectionate love songs that follow. Review: First-class selection from Maxi Priest 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Lester is an unsuccessful composer of musicals in the grip of a sort of writer’s block: He can’t seem to come up with a decent love song. Review: In ‘The Man in the Ceiling,’ Jules Feiffer Adapts Himself 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Alade turned another love song, “How I Feel,” into an ode to the audience, which enthusiastically sang the refrain. Review | In concert, Yemi Alade shows her audience, and her homeland, some love 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z McKeehan included a DC Talk song, “In the Light,” as well as “Hold On,” a rare love song directed on Saturday not at God but a person — in this case, McKeehan’s wife, Amanda. Christian songster TobyMac delivers music, message 2014-02-24T21:30:25Z Really I don't see the divide between love songs and political songs as that wide. Billy Bragg targets relationships in new album 2013-03-19T14:58:43Z While Haggerty says these artists are “playing a great role,” he notes that an expressly gay love song has still never been a bona fide country hit. WA’s pioneering gay country band Lavender Country releases first new album in 50 years 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z I spent most of my childhood nights listening to Fran Lane, the host of a love song and dedication radio show in Baltimore. Reflections of a Wedding Singer 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z The song, written about one of Mr. Cohen’s many girlfriends, is on one level a simple love song: Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter of love, death and philosophical longing, dies at 82 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z This is a love song, but a refreshingly resentful one. In Lorde’s Wake, a Groundswell of Female Rebels in Pop 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z It's a tender love song to depression, whose video – again, beautifully shot, this time atop the Empire State Building – uses the New York dawn to nudge the track towards hope. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – review 2013-07-20T23:07:01Z Howard is the classic songwriting introvert, hiding in the shadows to play his love songs. Ben Howard – review 2013-06-13T16:52:47Z Guests were seated in five rooms of the club’s elegant second floor, awash in candlelight and roses, while a small band played love songs all evening. At 81, Diane Rehm is once again a blushing bride 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z This Night is a tender love song in the vein of many a gentle western indie-rock ballad, featuring the refrain: "I want to live in your dreams." The only rockers in Afghanistan ? but Kabul Dreams take wistful approach 2010-03-31T16:17:00Z After watching Mr. Andrew sing a love song to Ms. McGowan, Mr. Lewis halted the number. Jerry Lewis Directing a Musical ‘Nutty Professor’ 2012-07-18T12:00:00Z But I was healed, just as that love song promised. Modern Love: What Lou Reed Taught Me About Love 2014-03-06T20:37:16Z Performed back to back, they reiterated his defiant songwriting declaration of independence summed up in the words: “Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs/And what’s wrong with that?” Review: John Pizzarelli Channels Paul McCartney and Antônio Carlos Jobim 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Later, the two men take turns playing the piano and singing the Gary White love song “Long, Long Time,” made famous by Linda Ronstadt. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 3: One More Good Day 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z “I’d never want to be without him, and I don’t need anyone but him. It sounds like a love song, but it is.” Howard Stern’s Superagent Is Getting With the Program 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z So it's not like I was writing love songs to join in the party and get into the top 10. Domestic bliss 2011-06-24T07:47:40Z Fifteen years and a million love songs later they are back. Robbie rejoins Take That 2010-07-15T16:05:00Z Another, “Follow You,” is a love song written by Reynolds after re-marrying his wife following a separation. New this week: ‘Cinderella,’ Imagine Dragons, Selena Gomez 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z “Pure & Simple” is an album of love songs. Dolly Parton Is Proud of Her Gay Fans and Hillary Clinton 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z But for T. Oliver Reid, it isn’t a discreetly added emotional flavoring to a love song; it is its essence. Music Review: Sensitive Revelations, Free of Anguish 2011-02-11T22:31:59Z It’s a youthful and poppy love song with all of the band’s influences right on top, harmony vocals and surf guitar. Bruce Springsteen’s “Chapter & Verse”: A close read of the companion album to his memoir “Born to Run” 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Carlos said in a phone interview from Miami this week that he'd "like to make an even greater love song - one that says something that hasn't been said." Brazilian crooner still looking for perfect song 2010-04-14T13:00:00Z "Little Record Girl" is a Mark Knopfler-ish country-rock shuffle of a love song that extols the way music so effortlessly worms its way into a fan's heart: Bahamas wants listeners to lean in to hear 'Bahamas Is Afie' album 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z One of the greatest love songs ever written – or an example of Morrissey’s razor-sharp wit and withering irony? My father is a womaniser. I’m terrified I’ll become one, too 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z “Come Away With Me” is a Stephen Stills-like love song that doubles as an escapist fantasy for fleeing the hot, stinking city before it’s too late. Tim Heidecker found fame through absurdist humor. His new album ‘Fear of Death’ is no laughing matter. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z His versions of “A Song for You,” which he called “my favorite show-business love song,” and “Luck Be a Lady” cut directly to their essence. Music Review: Peter Gallagher at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-11-17T02:02:20Z “Adore” is the most beautiful love song ever written. ‘Prince Was Our True Artist’: Readers Share Their Memories 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z So he ad-libbed the lines “I think we just wrote an octogenarian love song” and “I’ll have to turn up my hearing aid.” At 81, Ann-Margret Is Finally Living Her Rock ’n’ Roll Dream 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z He told us that he could never write purely romantic love songs, as Smokey Robinson and other masters could. Elvis Costello at the Beacon: Misery and Splendor 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z In its original form, Red Rose Speedway was chock full of silly love songs. Wings was a better band than Paul McCartney or his critics think 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z “Here’s the true love song on the album,” Jenny Scheinman said at Le Poisson Rouge on Monday night, holding her fiddle across her midsection like a mandolin. Jenny Scheinman Features Her Own Songs at Le Poisson Rouge 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z She performs ballads and love songs from around the Americas with restraint and real intimacy. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Another gorgeous teaser from "Short Movie" was a love song called "How Can I?" A beautiful L.A. kiss-off from the departing Laura Marling 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, Old Before Your Time emotionally addresses poverty and the sublime Like Rock & Roll and Radio is simultaneously a heartbreaking lost love song and critique of pop FM. Ray Lamontagne and the Pariah Dogs: God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise 2010-09-02T23:16:00Z There are also love songs — uneasy ones, but love songs nonetheless. 2010-01-30T00:57:00Z Mr. Lieberson writes that he thinks of these pieces as “love songs,” even though the poems are not specifically about love. ?Peter Lieberson: 'Red Garuda,' Rilke Songs, Bagatelles, Piano Quintet? 2010-08-01T02:00:00Z It’s a love song with a backdrop of war and transformation, delivered like a momentary glimpse into something much vaster. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z There are so many ways to write a love song, and most of them involve suspicion. 2010-02-12T22:21:00Z The writer went on to lament the pain of separation and spoke of arms aching for an embrace, of love songs written as company during long, lonely nights. Opera Over the Phone Offers Passion in a Pandemic 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z “I miss them. Yeah, I wrote love songs about the Obamas,” she said. Sara Bareilles: 'I wrote love songs about the Obamas' 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z He went back to Los Angeles, wrote a love song and killed it. Pedro Winter on Daft Punk and the Paris Party Scene He Defined 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Those who heard the album reported that several tracks were love songs addressed to a man. Frank Ocean: 'My first love was a man' 2012-07-04T09:48:34Z He defended, slightly, his new record, “God, Love & Romance,” a double album of, in part, earthly love songs that he hadn’t performed much. Music Review: Fred Hammond at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center 2012-12-23T21:52:30Z He called it a "love song to my family," borrowing a phrase from "A River Runs Through It" author Norman Maclean. Novelist Helprin spins a good yarn in life and art 2012-10-03T19:06:52Z Dolly Parton is one of my heroes, and she wrote the most tender love songs draped in a gladiator costume of tackiness. Wigs are my superhero costume 2012-10-12T23:30:00Z The narrator of David Gates’s 1971 love song “If” imagines that if the end times come and the stars go out, “you and I would simply fly away.” Music Review: Michael Feinstein Performs at Birdland 2013-12-18T22:22:27Z The love songs and goodbye songs are perfectly professional, ready for soundtrack placements. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-09-05T21:33:00Z How a walk down Central Park West inspired the love song that Diana Ross took to the top of the charts. ‘Being Boring’: the Path to a Pop Elegy 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z This is Chanticleer, the renowned choral ensemble from San Francisco, established in 1978, whose concert of love songs Tuesday night was part of the Kennedy Center’s Jukebox series. Review | Chanticleer shows the power of music 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Jacobson’s children said he had written about 100 published songs, mostly love songs but also some novelty tunes, including “Yen Yet” — which they fondly remembered hearing on the “Captain Kangaroo” TV show. Sid Jacobson, Comic Book Writer With Range, Dies at 92 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Yet the album almost became more notable because it was reported to be full of love songs. R.E.M.’s leap of faith: 25 years later, every curveball on “Out of Time” makes perfect sense 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z I stopped writing dopey monster stories about planets I’d never visited and started writing love songs about girls I’d never touched. Rick Springfield’s guide to writing 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z She wrote a country love song for Mr. Altman, a former lawyer who is the chairman and chief executive of ZeniMax, a video game company. What Is Former Wonder Woman Lynda Carter Doing These Days? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z For a video to accompany “Mine,” a love song he wrote for Ms. Holmes days after they met, he combed the internet to find clips of joyful weddings taking place during the pandemic. Finding Hope and Their Own Magical Moments 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Packed with love songs, the album is an exercise in repetition. There’s more to Charlie Puth than love songs 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z That couple would kiss during any number that resembled a love song. Theater Review: ‘Cabaret’ Opens, With Alan Cumming and Michelle Williams 2014-04-25T02:00:02Z Sheeran’s love song “Perfect” again dominated the digital songs chart, which measures online single sales, thanks to a newly released collaboration with Beyonce. Luke Bryan's 'What Makes You Country' debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z “Valentine’s Day” is a tragic ballad, almost a love song, to a high school shooter. David Bowie Challenges Listeners on The Next Day 2013-03-11T15:50:39Z But sometimes he’ll hold a note for an unexpectedly long time, a cappella, until a love song becomes a meditative chant, or he’ll move his mouth around a protracted sound to create vowel overtones. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-05-16T19:58:50Z "In my head are a thousand words for each and every love song." SXSW: Achieving 'cult artist' status 2014-03-13T21:05:00Z His influence can be felt in pieces by much younger composers, like “sweet light crude,” a brooding mock love song to fossil fuels by David T. Little, who has also performed Mr. Rzewski’s music. The Composer Frederic Rzewski: In His Notes, Protest and Politics 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z But the 10-track record of smooth love songs with a throwback R&B sound is already No. 1 on the iTunes charts after it was streamed online last week. Justin Timberlake puts the sexy into married life in new album 2013-03-17T13:19:08Z Pushing the boundaries of gender identity is nothing new at Europe's annual song contest -- an extravaganza known for its eclectic, sometimes-unlistenable lineup of techno beats, love songs and pop tunes. Bearded drag queen in Eurovision spotlight 2014-05-08T06:26:15Z He lingers at drunken parties, appreciates the solemn ridiculousness of ballroom dancers performing at a funeral and revels in the full-throated emotion of a cheesy love song. ‘Ash Is Purest White’ Review: Love Smolders and Crime Pays in a Changing China 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Other works were poetry and love songs to the Harlem neighborhood that raised and sustained him. Walter Dean Myers, multimillion-selling children’s author, dies at 76 That’s her opportunity to write love songs and invoke strong female role models — her mother included — as she continues to traverse pop history from hip-hop back to big bands, lingering at R&B and soul. Lorde Rules a Year-End List 2013-12-13T18:39:26Z This love song to naturalism makes a case for Chekhov as one of the few playwrights who can somehow capture life as lived experience — its boredom, its disappointments, its fragile hopes and giddy late-night interludes. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Crow has already scored a top 30 single on Billboard's county music chart with "Easy," an up-tempo love song about domestic happiness. Sheryl Crow finds new 'home' in country music's Nashville 2013-08-29T21:05:08Z At that point, Ally has begun eulogizing Jack in high style, singing his love song in a gown with an orchestra in a scene that feels like a rebuke to her pop celebrity. In ‘A Star Is Born,’ Equality Is Deadly 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z It’s a love song with a long view. The Playlist: Missy Elliott Reappears With a Boast, and Wire Returns With a Blast 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z You get that from the handful of quiet love songs on “Pageant Material”: beautifully crafted ditties such as “Miserable” and “Late to the Party” that signal Musgraves’ happy alignment with commercial country’s bread and butter. Kacey Musgraves is not here to flatter your progressivism 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z "Dissolve Me" is an alternative lullaby - dreamy, sleepy and more optimistic with beautifully whimsical lyrics - and "Matilda" is positively a love song. Review: British quartet Alt-J rides 'Wave' to US 2012-09-17T17:31:04Z According to the Forum's general secretary, if you would not use Islamic or Hindu prayer words in popular music, why use the word hosanna "in a carnal love song"? Religious censorship crushes creativity. So is it ever right to ban art? 2012-08-10T21:30:01Z “We were four men singing all these love songs,” Mr. Sbraga said. In Philadelphia, Juniper Commons Offers Comfort Grub of the ’80s With a Soundtrack 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Women, he notes, were traditionally associated chiefly with “the three L’s: the lament, the lullaby, and the love song”— and these are, he ruefully adds, “the three genres that rarely got preserved for posterity.” Review | A celebration of the outsiders and outcasts who have made music great 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z It gets to a middle section which is a sort of slow siciliano, which has a feeling of prayer, or a really beautiful love song, the most tender one can imagine. ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z From within the most seemingly trivial love song, she uncovered a stunning depth and complexity of feeling. Review: Barb Jungr Applies Her Emphatic Voice to the Beatles’ Music 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Keys reclaims most of her usual composure on “Alicia,” but it’s often tinged with ambivalence, even in love songs. Alicia Keys Has Passion, Advice and Aplomb on ‘Alicia’ 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Her duet with Ms. Furtado, “Where It Begins,” was a lightweight but more promising pop fusion: an optimistic love song in English meshed with a Brazilian beat. Music Review: Arena Full of Fans Caught Brazilian Fever and Had to Sing Along 2010-09-05T22:24:00Z But writing love songs, it can definitely be cheesy.” 2010-01-30T00:57:00Z At the same time it implies a condition of emergency, which takes us back to Mr. Kelly’s rendition of a love song that sounds like a lament. Art in Review: JANET BIGGS: ?The Arctic Trilogy? 2011-02-17T23:26:44Z “Feel It” is a love song, a pledge of fealty to a dedicated woman: “All my dog ways, had to put them in the kennel.” Lil Yachty and 21 Savage: Atlanta Shows a Range of Hip-Hop 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z For the simplest number, Mr. Crosby’s love song “Guinnevere,” the orchestra held back while Mr. Marsalis strode to the fore to play some evocative, muted trumpet in an arrangement that paralleled the original. Music Review: Crosby, Stills and Nash With Jazz at Lincoln Center 2013-05-05T21:08:05Z Push the Sky Away shares some ground with the Bad Seeds' early 00s output on love songs such as Wide Lovely Eyes. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Push the Sky Away – review 2013-02-17T00:07:20Z At the Hollywood Bowl years ago, she recalled in a telephone interview last week, Keys “started singing ‘Diary,’ this beautifully epic love song. ‘Love and Basketball’ director explores love and music 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z “I wanted to write a record that refrained from desperate love songs,” she said of the song on Twitter. Hear the Title Track from Ryn Weaver's 'The Fool' 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Entertainment Weekly recognized The Cure's synth-slathered love song as the 25th greatest love song of all time, but also questioned, "Just what is this scream/laugh/hug inducing trick?" 25 famous songs with misunderstood meanings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z At its best, artists examined the range of ideas about what patriotism and empowerment -- and tossed in some love songs for good measure. Five highlights from The Concert for Valor on the National Mall 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z And there is a very familiar sort of love song here as well: “Birthday,” which begins, “Even though it’s your birthday/you’re still working/it out for me.” Holiday Hits, Christmas Comebacks and Some Jingle Bell Schlock 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Something was described by no lesser light than Frank Sinatra as "the best love song for the last 50 years". My favourite Beatles song: Something 2013-04-10T10:07:51Z But “My My My!,” an ecstatic love song and especially its music video, is a celebration of the tell. Troye Sivan Is a New Kind of Pop Star: Here, Queer and Used to It 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Both singers blend sweetness with mournfulness, and this is a love song that blooms slowly. The Playlist: Esperanza Spalding’s Intoxicating Groove, and 12 More New Songs 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z On his new album he fully emerges as a purveyor of love songs, his true destiny ever since it became clear that he wasn’t meant to be the redneck revivalist he was initially pitched as. Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line Have New Albums 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Not in "Dead Inside," about the loss of the psyche, or in "Aftermath," the telegraphed "love song" told from the perspective of a homesick soldier. Concept album by Muse just drones on 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z I think it’s the most exquisite love song ever written. Sarah Paulson Has a Thing for Vulgar Performances and Good Cries 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z But when is a child old enough to sing a love song with heart? The musical family reunion that has Quetzal fans and East L.A. talking 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z But it's achingly beautiful with it, and nobody said that the perfect love song had to have a happy ending. Six Songs of Me: Si Forster of 6 Days from Tomorrow 2012-08-15T09:07:04Z He goes completely heart-on-sleeve in “Firebabe,” crooning the kind of unabashed love song that might make it to a wedding playlist. Bruce Springsteen’s Exuberant Soul Cover, and 10 More New Songs 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z If more evidence were needed, "Push" proves that Jonas has matured past syrupy love songs into ones that probe sex and more realistic heartbreak. Nick Jonas drops brother act for grown-up moves with album, TV show 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z There are also love songs: He wrote “Song for You” for his wife, though some parents say it sums up their unconditional feelings; a fan in Michigan recently played it at his sister’s funeral. Justin Roberts?s Children?s Songs Touch Serious Themes 2010-04-28T20:55:00Z Because when you're crying in your car over a love song, the gender of the person you're crying over matters far less than the deep emotion the song evokes. The rise of Adele, new gay icon 2011-02-25T21:40:00Z Is it easier, then, to write a love song, because it’s a universally understood form? The Carpetbagger: Bono and Edge on ‘Mandela’s’ Melancholy Love Song 2014-02-18T13:30:35Z With The Sweetness Game he even manages to combine political fury with a highly personal love song. Chris Wood: None the Wiser – review 2013-07-04T22:14:00Z “It’s a New York love song to Nepal,” Gurung said in an interview before the show. Prabal Gurung sends a ‘NY love song’ to homeland of Nepal 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z So beautiful that people composed love songs to it. A Remote Canadian Lake and Its People: Protecting a Last Refuge 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z “She’s Tired of Boys” is a classic Brooks love song, with a crucial, unusual detail that makes it stand out. Garth Brooks Is Back With a New Album, ‘Man Against Machine’ 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Songwriter Eric Stewart was inspired by his wife’s question to write 10cc’s ‘I’m Not In Love,’ a love song that never says ‘I love you’. ‘Being Boring’: the Path to a Pop Elegy 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z She recognizes the distance between a love song and what it wants to express. This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on the Drive to Identify What’s “Normal” 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z There is throughout some lovely interlacing of bubbly pop and more somber, contemplative strains, as when Moran’s priest intones a prayerful counterpoint to the band’s aching love song “Dream for You.” ‘Sing Street’ Review: New Wave Music as Sweet Deliverance 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Jive followed “Make It Rain” with “College Girl,” an almost comically tame love song with a video featuring the group dressed like neo-preps, neutering its rowdy charm. In Atlanta, Where Hip-Hop Meets Strip Clubs 2012-09-05T17:39:14Z Inspired by American R&B groups like the Drifters and the Impressions, the Heptones progressed from lighthearted love songs to weightier themes on records like “Equal Rights” and “Sufferers Time.” Barry Llewellyn, a Founder of the Heptones, Dies at 63 2011-11-29T19:34:24Z The Tony-winning score's most haunting number, "I Miss the Mountains," is her love song to the highs and lows of her illness. In this 'Next to Normal,' the message is loud but not clear 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Both are upbeat love songs that draw inspiration from the Wall of Sound era. Where are the new Christmas classics? It’s increasingly hard to write a seasonal song that becomes a standard. 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z “Big Green Tractor” was an emphatic love song, and “Why” was emphatic about rescuing collapsed love. Critic?s Notebook: Eric Church and Jason Aldean, Country Music Outlaws 2012-03-28T23:11:05Z He’s also wrapping up a new album that he says includes “the first love songs I’ve ever written.” Roger Waters announces 2017 North American 'Us + Them' tour 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z And yet it is, somehow, a love song. Mustafa, a Folk Hero for a Weary Generation 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Soon Arthur, an ambitious composer at the start of his career, is writing love songs for Trevor to perform, and stubbornly refusing to change the lyrics so they’ll pass as straight. Review: A Song of Eternity in ‘Midnight at the Never Get’ 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z The love songs are more ambiguous than they first appear. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh | CD review 2010-04-01T14:35:00Z Lena directed the video for your song “Tucked In Tight,” a love song about your phone. Luis Felber Has Never Seen ‘Girls’ 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z But with its mix of rave-ups, rockers, waltzes, and sad love songs, it’s a statement of Stapleton’s prodigious talents, and a testament to experience—to the long haul. Has Chris Stapleton Cracked the Country Code? 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Edie suggests they write a love song and an initial script called for Sheridan to sing a few bars of The Beatles tune "She Loves You." Jury will soon offer finale in 'Housewives' trial 2012-03-11T16:31:09Z In love songs, words could preen in bright colors; in anti songs, they attacked in camouflage. Opinion: K’naan, on Censoring Himself For Success 2012-12-08T18:30:19Z It’s a love song, but a strange, sad one. Percy Sledge, Pop Miracle 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Cummings poem; and Marina Allen, a daughter of the groom, sang “Let Me,” a sweet, quirky love song she wrote for the couple. The Writer Anne Lamott Gets to the Happily-Ever-After Part 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z “I Feel a Change,” from a collection due in November, is a long, aching crescendo, a fraught love song set over a patient vamp, exulting in togetherness only to realize it’s not to be. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Yes, my favorite love song starts with, ‘I may not always love you.’ The Screenwriting Team Behind ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z "It reminded me that I write love songs, and I shouldn't make any bones about it," he explains, down a phone line from a tour stop-off in Mesa, Arizona. Billy Bragg: Barking's Woody Guthrie on 30 years of songs and activism 2013-03-26T17:00:32Z Best known for his love songs, he built his musical legacy on his use of idiomatic Turkish to describe emotions. Kayahan, Turkish Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 66 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Unlike many musical-theater love songs nowadays, they don’t flatten emotions into declamatory slogans. Music Review: Jason Robert Brown at 54 Below 2012-09-13T21:56:24Z Especially after “Folklore,” with its teenage love songs that traded on age and nostalgia, and similar tensions between the author, performer and character, as Lindsay wrote about recently. Taylor Swift Remade ‘Fearless’ as ‘Taylor’s Version.’ Let’s Discuss. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z He’s written open, clear love songs; he’s made some abstruse sound art; he’s made elder-statesman records, with strings, enshrining his own imagist poetry or his historical theories about Brazil. New Music: New Music by the Hold Steady, Future Islands, Caetano Veloso 2014-03-24T22:45:20Z It's a fitting transformation on a night whose key nominees are "Hugo" and "The Artist," two love songs to forebears of the flickering image. Nostalgic Oscars party like it's the 1920s again 2012-02-23T17:24:08Z He has sung about drunks, tramps, carnies and killers, spinning tall tales and reeling off free-associations that somehow add up; he has also shown a vulnerable side in tender, unironic love songs. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z Las Acevedo, the hippie twin sisters of folk, present this breezy love song about dining in terraces, chasing fireflies and packing away your significant other inside a trunk with flowers in their hair. February's best music from across the MAP 2013-02-15T09:17:22Z They ably croon the show’s lilting love songs and fling themselves into the farcical whirl of the plot with energy to spare. Theater Review: ‘Irma La Douce,’ Back on the Streets 2014-05-08T19:50:34Z And Womack wants to sing whatever she wants — lush love songs, tough drinking songs, one of Legend's light pop-soul confections — in spite of the prevailing trends in Nashville. Lee Ann Womack takes an introspective path to the Grammy Awards 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z For the Mars Volta, a shift toward pop didn’t mean sappy love songs or upbeat sloganeering. The Mars Volta Returns With a Swerve: Its Own Version of Pop 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Twombly was the romantic of the three, and still sang love songs in his old age. Why did Robert Rauschenberg's art burn out? 2011-08-02T15:04:53Z The National – Fake Empire I'm not really sure if this is a love song but it's a beautiful piece of writing. Six Songs of Me: Andrew Evans of When the Gramophone Rings 2012-08-23T10:10:40Z He's got serious guitar chops, and his honey-mellow tenor is perfect for singing his trademark country love songs, many of which feel intimate and yet could apply to anyone. Seattle bear-hugs Keith Urban 2011-09-30T19:48:04Z Yet “My Way” isn’t even a love song. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Perhaps Blake couldn’t bring himself to write something as clichéd as a hit-seeking pop love song. James Blake Finds Love, Moodily, on ‘Assume Form’ 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Treat your other half to the Cupid Capsule or a variety of Valentine specials on the London Eye, or just enjoy love songs by the Vernon Sisters set against a suitably romantic backdrop. This week's new events 2011-02-12T00:05:47Z As a standard for love songs, Skinny Love set the bar. Six Songs of Me: Shaun Mooney 2012-08-20T10:07:00Z What, for example, should they do about the pronouns in their love songs? Theater to Stream: A Musical Throwback and ‘The Normal Heart’ 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z "South Park" has made fun of it, of course, in an episode in which Cartman's band Faith + 1 covers love songs, swapping in Jesus as the object of desire. Churches are preaching the Gospel of Lizzo now 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z They’re articulate, playful love songs that, she said backstage, are about not only romance but also “spiritual freedom.” SXSW Music 2015: The First Day's Worthy Showcases 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z But she would allow that the songs on “Divers” are “all kind of love songs.” With ‘Divers,’ Joanna Newsom Is Clinging to Her Every Word 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z A love song called “Laugh” brightly sketches a romantic relationship. Singer-guitarist Benjamin Scheuer purrs his life and times in ‘The Lion’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The album's title song, a soaring love song, was released in April as the first single. Country music party crasher Luke Bryan tests crossover appeal 2013-08-13T22:41:00Z "One Man Guy" is a wry love song by Loudon to himself; the four sing it together in an act of mutual recognition and, you can only conclude, forgiveness. Rufus Wainwright and Loudon Wainwright III ? review 2011-07-23T23:06:43Z It’s recognizably him, with the same strategy of dissonance as in “The More You Ignore Me”: a love song that isn’t. Morrissey Releases ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z A tale of murdering a wife turns into a love song inspired by a terrified shout from a man who suddenly realizes that he might forever lose the woman of his dreams. My Rear Window 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z He sang work songs, love songs, spirituals, blues, calypsos and, as early as the 1960s, African music. Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z For fear of self-incrimination, Hurley doesn’t say much about the subjects of his love songs. Michael Hurley, an Original Folk Iconoclast, Turns 80 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z The grim lyricism of Adès’s love songs and lullabies returns with another Berceuse, followed by the finale, “Waltzes,” a rhapsodic assemblage that evolves into a relentless danse macabre analogue to the opera itself. Review: A Conductor Takes a Victory Lap With Her Orchestra 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z At times it felt like prime time itself was thumbing its nose at my loneliness in the same way that jilted lovers notice there’s nothing on the radio but love songs. “GLOW” wrestles with the particular pain of friendship divorce 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Those “anti songs” were different from love songs, or folk songs. Opinion: K’naan, on Censoring Himself For Success 2012-12-08T18:30:19Z Radio stations wouldn’t play it, partly because they thought it was a boy singing a love song to the famous Beatle. They always said Cher (and cockroaches) could survive the end of the world. Lately, she’s not so sure about that. 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z He introduced her to his friends, and partly inspired many of her songs, including “Paparazzi,” “Heavy Metal Lover” and “You and I,” a love song in which she sings nostalgically about her “cool Nebraska guy.” Rocking on His Own, Lady Gaga?s Ex 2012-03-07T20:50:25Z That he did, but his own poignant love songs, including “New England,” were the most magical moments during a night of many highlights. Billy Bragg warm and inspiring at Neptune Wednesday 2013-04-04T19:17:18Z There are simple love songs and pastoral descriptions, with the occasional whiff of exoticism. This week's new live music 2012-12-29T00:06:11Z After seeing the faux documentary I'm Still Here, Soso became obsessed with actor Joaquin Phoenix, penning him a love song of sorts. Hidden treasures: Soso – That Time I Dug So Deep I Ended Up in China 2013-02-21T17:43:54Z His shows always combine political anthems with romantic love songs, and his appearance here at the Neptune on Wednesday will no doubt do the same. Billy Bragg brings his open heart to the Neptune 2013-03-28T21:02:29Z He walked his bandmates through the chord changes for the shuffling love song. Neil Young made ‘Barn,’ his new album, in a barn 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Every morning, I sneaked into the back of the log chapel, raised my hand in the air and sang love songs to Jesus. ‘How Much of My Story Am I Supposed to Share?’ 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Both fused rock and dance music, but HoG was a straightforward love song, while Atomic was ambiguous: an outer shell of synth and guitar twang concealing a dark core of sleaze and insinuation. The best No 1 records: Blondie – Atomic 2012-05-31T20:32:00Z Here, we discuss her legacy, the new album, the upcoming election, and what it’s like to be the public subject of a love song. Eleanor Friedberger on leaving Brooklyn, approaching 40 and why she’d be happy to sell out: “I don’t think that attitude really exists anymore” 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z But his love songs have always been bittersweet. John Legend talks 'Love In The Future' 2013-04-17T00:14:07Z The bass pulses steadily; around it, Bernice’s singer and songwriter, Robin Dann, unfolds an analytical, self-dissecting love song, teetering between present and past: “He gave me something to think about,” she notes. The Playlist: John Mayer Laments the Friend Zone, and 11 More New Songs 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Highlights include the shimmering love song "Angel," the fatalistic "World's on Fire" and the dreamy "Mermaid," which offers an image of Smith singing her daughter to sleep. 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z He has spent three years on The Lady Killer, recording close to 70 songs, reining in the eccentricities of the two predecessors, swapping the emotional evisceration of his Gnarls Barkley material for love songs. Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could' 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z My Funny Valentine: Santos's Fragments of Love Songs, drawings that look like gravestones or memorial tablets, seem engraved with lyrics from love songs. Artist of the week 100: Jorge Santos 2010-08-11T14:54:00Z Another new love song, “Will Do,” proffered its uncertain devotion — “I think we’re compatible/ I see that you think I’m wrong” — with a jumpy melody over a doomy undertow, as the guitars plunged low. Music Review: Frenetic Intimations of, Yes, Positivity 2011-04-14T21:41:50Z “Bottle” is a raw yet beautiful love song, and “Lost in the Soul” is a delicate, infectious ballad that contrasts with the album’s harder tone. Turn up ‘Shiver + Shake' by My Goodness, and let it howl | New recordings 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Brendan’s not writing love songs, they are songs about where we are, what we experienced, how we reach our potential. Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard, the interview: 'It hurts, there is pain, there are blessings' 2012-08-16T04:25:00Z More than 2,000 adults who voted in the online poll were asked to pick their favorite love songs from a list of more than 40 tunes spanning several decades. Whitney Houston's hit voted best love song in U.S. poll 2013-02-07T18:29:29Z Gioia finds that the love song has been assailed over the centuries, but has survived and reinvented itself. 2015 was a banner year for nonfiction — here are 10 books you don’t want to miss 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Bieber rose to fame as a baby-faced pop star on YouTube, singing innocent love songs such as "Baby" and "One Less Lonely Girl." Bieber spotlights his grown-up side in flashy new video 2012-08-01T22:33:10Z In a way, you could say it's a love song too — but a love song coming from hopefully a completely fresh angle. Sparks talk new album, ever-growing fanbase: "Our audiences are pretty accepting of eccentricities" 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z Were a computer able to track play-count, I’d wager my psyche spun random parts of this sticky love song at least 27,500 times over the weeks and months of 2014. Tortured by music: The year's most insidious, relentless earworms 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z But don't get too comfortable: "I'm not your love song," Case snaps near the end of the tune. The New Pornographers lighten up while sharing life lessons 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z During the scene where women in ballgowns are swung through the air to the soundtrack of 1930s love songs, the stage floods with joy. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Viktor – review 2012-06-07T10:41:17Z Right now, he said, it’s impossible to imagine being in a session with a famous songwriter writing a love song, which is his bread and butter. ‘Heck Yeah, We’re Dancing’: It’s Diplo, Live From His Living Room 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Yeah, she was commissioned to write an adaptation of “Cyrano,” and she had the great idea of stripping it down to its bare essentials, replacing the long monologues about love with love songs. Peter Dinklage on ‘Cyrano’ and Life After ‘Game of Thrones’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z “I love love songs, but sometimes it’s okay to just be young and talk about something other than getting married or falling in love,” Morris said. Maren Morris isn’t trying to be a country music ‘savior,’ but she’s just what Nashville needs 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z It made him a patient editor who refused to be confined by whatever the world normally expects from a love song. Perspective | Bill Withers, on repeat 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Featuring on Simon & Garfunkel's fifth and final studio album, Bridge Over Troubled Water, it has been described as a "love song for a friend", and foreshadows the end of the Simon-Garfunkel partnership. Paul Simon: a beginner's guide 2012-07-19T15:00:00Z Earlier this year, she posted lyrics to a love song about Diet Coke, photos of herself and her husband dressed for a Renaissance fair, and links to Twitter job openings. She Worked for Twitter. Then She Tweeted at Elon Musk. 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z “God Only Knows” is an absolute masterpiece and one of the defining love songs of the 1960s. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z It begins with a lush, seemingly tongue-in-cheek evocation of romantic love songs from around the 1950s. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-10-16T20:08:49Z But Ireland can also create stripped-back tunes such as The Best Day – a simple and delightful love song. See Emily Play: New Band Up North #31 2013-06-17T11:48:00Z Sheeran’s love song “Perfect” again dominated the digital songs chart, which measures online single sales, thanks to a newly released collaboration with Beyonce. Luke Bryan's 'What Makes You Country' debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Halfway through this mess, Lady Antebellum sang a despairing love song, and one lyric jumped right out of context: “What if it never gets better?” Perspective | Women aren’t the future of country music. They’re the present. 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z "All of Me," a love song turned pop hit that he wrote for Teigen, is nominated for a solo performance Grammy. For John Legend, love and social protest make for an 'interesting mix' 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Johns conjures otherworldly drone on the dreamy love song "Hosanna." Paul McCartney tries to make everything new again 2013-10-15T05:00:00Z I often wonder if her love songs are written about a man in her life, or a bigger spirit that envelops all of us. Wendy Shanker: Madonna is my guru 2010-05-09T21:00:00Z “I was like, I’m not going to write one single sad love song,” this Swedish pop singer told The New York Times of her latest album, “Honey.” 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z It's a love song set at a seminar or industrial conference taking place in a modernist conference centre in a pine forest – somewhere like Canada or Scandinavia, maybe. Waxing Lyrical: Gruff Rhys, Super Furry Animals 2011-02-24T14:32:51Z "It's like an old-school love song, about someone who feels: 'I need to touch you.'" Doom: 'It's all new, all fun' 2012-08-16T13:35:39Z They are tasked with writing a country love song with a little help from country stars Big & Rich. 'The Bachelor' Watch: Battle in the Badlands 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z At 775 pages, it’s a grand diva of a book, a wheezing jukebox of filthy jokes, political hit jobs, killing gossip, love songs and fluky mutterings. Review: ‘The American People, Volume 1’ by Larry Kramer Retells History With Passion 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The woman especially loved “Just Between You and Me,” a brokenhearted love song that had been Pride’s first real hit, a couple of years before. What Country Music Owes to Charley Pride 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z The only exception is “Look Up at the Stars,” an ambivalent love song about the relationship between idol and idolizers. Shawn Mendes, the Lonely, Uncertain Pop Heartthrob 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z On Thursday, Here We Go Magic played its intricate songs, with ballooning Minimalist patterns, and the XX performed its skeletal love songs — two notes, a beat, a male or female voice — with dramatically expanded dynamics. Music: Today and Yesterday Sing Harmony as Bonnaroo Closes 2010-06-13T22:48:00Z A lot of my songs sound like love songs, and they’re usually really not. Dev Hynes: New York’s Last Bohemian on the City and His New Album 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z “Bottoms Up” is more melancholy love song than a sloppy drunk anthem, and Gilbert’s vocal is subtle. Review: Brantley Gilbert’s star-making album 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Vibhakta is another duet for singer and dancer, in which the two performers engage in a love song that is also a celebration of the unity of mind and body, reality and illusion. This week's new dance: Edinburgh special 2011-08-19T23:10:11Z The loveliest track here, Summer Rain, is seemingly a trademark dewy, nostalgic love song, but reveals a subtle environmental message. The Pastels: Slow Summits – review 2013-05-23T20:50:01Z Most of the bands had to repurpose love songs as tokens of commitment, or simply offered up a few hits. Music Review: ‘Bringing Human Rights Home’ at Barclays Center 2014-02-06T23:46:07Z In its United States debut, Focus Cia de Dança brings an anthology of Mr. Carlos’s mostly Portuguese love songs to the Joyce Theater, extracting the silly, quirky and desperate qualities of love. Dance Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:25:40Z Her “No One” was better suited to the event; it’s a love song that translated more easily to love for a city. At Concert for Sandy Relief, Big Names Find the Right Tone 2012-12-13T12:52:08Z One of the tracks, "Hey You," was a love song 10 years in the making addressed to her husband. Nancy Wilson and Cameron Crowe divorcing 2010-09-24T04:57:00Z Monty gets some serious music, too, especially the wonderfully shadowy love song “Sibella,” which leaves no doubt about how haunted he is. Tony winner ‘Gentleman’s Guide’ is good but not a killer 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Your albums mix social commentary and love songs. 30 minutes with … Damian Marley 2012-07-19T10:43:07Z And the sky is filled with the handwritten words of a Piñero poem as piercingly anguished as a pop love song. Martin Wong, an Urban Visionary With a Hungry Eye 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The title track is anything but a love song. Pete Seeger delivered the news for generations 2014-01-28T22:14:00Z “Slide Away”, the last rocker on the album, and a love song on par with “Wonderwall” but with more “grr” and less “ahh,” was originally slated for release until Noel objected. REVIEW: Reissue of Definitely Maybe Is (Definitely) a Reminder of Oasis' Greatness 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z How do you feel about creating a "love song" to the legacy of someone many people think is a murderer? Reclaiming Phil Spector's troubled genius 2010-07-03T14:01:00Z To the sound of Jewish love songs in various diasporic languages, five women were bound, dragged, carried and discarded by five men. Dance Review: Bodytraffic in Gotham Dance Festival at the Joyce 2012-06-07T22:49:34Z "What you're trying to do is to do something totally original. So we set about writing songs that were very emotional, that were love songs ... It was kind of an act of rebellion." ABC's Martin Fry on writing '80s love songs to be original: "It was kind of an act of rebellion" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z It’s his first album in three years, and came after he got married; he calls his wife, Gabi, the inspiration for all of his love songs. Country star Scotty McCreery knows pressure NFL players face 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Apparently dissatisfied with the answer, he launched into the rollicking teenage love song “Rosalita.” Born in the U.S.A.: When the president met the Boss 2012-05-28T18:00:00Z The songs on The Defamation of Strickland Banks work as love songs as well as telling Strickland's story. Plan B's new Motown sound 2010-04-10T23:08:00Z Now a troubled love song has become a double eulogy. The Playlist: Unreleased Chris Cornell, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z She’s impressed with his bravery in writing the unabashed love song at a time many in the media were critical of their relationship. Ani DiFranco to be honored at John Lennon benefit show 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s a love song but it’s saying don’t look at me I haven’t got any answers. Paul McCartney Plans To Answer ‘New’ Questions in a Live Twitter Q&A 2013-10-02T12:29:00Z Even his love songs like “Love Your Love the Most” were delivered with belligerent edges. Critic?s Notebook: Eric Church and Jason Aldean, Country Music Outlaws 2012-03-28T23:11:05Z A suite of euphoric early love songs segued into more mature work that began with “Getting Better,” whose narrator was once a wife-beater. Review: Barb Jungr Applies Her Emphatic Voice to the Beatles’ Music 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z And the core of the picture translates beautifully — the gorgeous, savage way Guy hammers his acoustic guitar, crooning and bellowing desperate love songs that seem written in blood. ‘Once’ again bares the soul of a Dublin busker, this time on stage 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z On the Digital Songs chart, which measures online single sales, Ed Sheeran’s love song “Perfect” climbed to No. 1 from No. 3 with nearly 60,000 copies sold. Taylor Swift spends third week atop Billboard 200 chart 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z He also shined on “Withdrawals,” the anguished breakup song that’s a highlight of the new album, and the muscular love song “Better in Boots.” Review: Tyler Farr Flaunts Arena-Size Ambitions at Irving Plaza 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z So we set about writing songs that were very emotional, that were love songs, hate songs: "Poison Arrow," "The Look of Love," "All of My Heart." ABC's Martin Fry on writing '80s love songs to be original: "It was kind of an act of rebellion" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z On their latest, “Shape Shift With Me,” Ms. Grace wrote punkified love songs and charted a wide range of emotions. Pop & Rock Listings for Sept. 30-Oct. 6 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The peak moments of the concert included four quiet love songs composed by Mr. Valle that express a mixture of passion and vulnerability rarely found in American songwriting. Stacey Kent Performs With Marcos Valle at Birdland 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z One of the most direct love songs is the excellent, All I Want – premiered here. New music: Out Cold – All I Want 2013-04-24T10:00:00Z Having grown up in Essex, he first fell for Bragg's love songs, and felt their impact all the more because of the author's familiar vowel sounds. Billy Bragg: Barking's Woody Guthrie on 30 years of songs and activism 2013-03-26T17:00:32Z But it was only when I started to hear him play a full set that I discovered all the romanticism in his writing, and that he wrote great love songs too. Billy Bragg: Barking's Woody Guthrie on 30 years of songs and activism 2013-03-26T17:00:32Z The personal is the political in This IS a Rebel Song, or "This is a love song", as Sinead O'Connor introduces it. Readers recommend: songs about anger – results 2012-12-20T14:00:00Z This inspirational love song was one of the last ones Davies wrote and the last song Morrill ever recorded, bringing the story full circle. Seattle musicians celebrate the songs of Ron Davies 2011-06-22T22:00:06Z Where One Direction makes ecstatic love songs meant for universal recognition, Malik creates—or exudes, really—a downcast swirl of muted soul and R. & B. designed to establish a sense of intimacy. Zayn Malik Would Like You to Know That He Is a Cool Adult Now 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z However, this love song isn't as strong as other romantic ditties such as "Love is Only a Feeling" on the quartet's 2003 debut "Permission to Land." Review: The Darkness return, offering 'Hot Cakes' 2012-08-20T16:59:11Z It’s what makes “The Circuit” such a joy to read: a poet’s love song to the game of tennis. A Poet Who Loves Tennis Follows the Grand Tour, in Prose 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Ocean also performed his song “Forrest Gump,” the love song written about a man that first started the buzz that led to his announcement that his first love was a man. Mumford & Sons, Gotye and Fun. take home Grammys 2013-02-11T05:30:09Z He toured with a reconstituted Mamas and the Papas and, with Mr. Phillips, Mike Love and Terry Melcher, wrote “Kokomo,” an upbeat love song that became a No. 1 hit for the Beach Boys. Scott McKenzie, Singer Known for ‘San Francisco,’ Dies at 73 2012-08-21T04:43:04Z Many of these performers’ celebrated numbers were dainty love songs of smitten swains, often with a deep tincture of sentiment, as in the wistful “Down by the Old Mill Stream,” performed by Wesner. Theater Review: ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me,’ at 59E59 Theaters 2013-05-06T02:00:02Z The first act closes with a love song for Henry and Danielle in which love takes a back seat, with Danielle urging him to become “the king you’ve been waiting and wanting to be.” Review: ‘Ever After,’ a Slipperless Cinderella Tale, at the Paper Mill Playhouse 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s as straightforward a love song as anything in U2’s repertory — sparked, band members said, by the example of vintage Motown songs, though it ended up sounding far different. U2 Offer ‘Songs of Experience’ to a World That’s on Fire 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Although they are sometimes smoothly woven into the plotline, these blandly generic love songs can also be a drag on the production’s energy. Review: ‘On Your Feet!’ Rides the Rhythm of the Estefans 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z “I just love songs,” Sexsmith says, and, after you meet him, it almost seems like an understatement. The Songwriters' Songwriter 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z With “Revolver,” they had embraced studio surrealism and partly jettisoned love songs, and for its successor they would have more time to think and tinker. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ at 50: Still Full of Joy and Whimsy 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z On the love song Still Static, Scott addresses a woman. New band of the day – Hannah Scott (No 1,339) 2012-08-29T08:08:23Z “Lately I’ve been singing love songs to myself,” the voices sing, revealing themselves in the opening like a summer sunrise, muffled and withdrawn at first. DJ Dodger Stadium: House music and 'the hypnotic loneliness of L.A.' 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z It sounds so much like so many other love songs, which is entirely antithetical to almost all the rest of Spektor’s catalog. Regina Spektor’s “…Cheap Seats”: The Return of the Pop Maverick and Her Piano 2012-06-01T10:45:25Z Even if we are singing a love song, it's definitely a Devo love song. Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry Casale: Men of Devo 2010-06-23T08:00:00Z A chance for him to sing another beach love song, and I had this idea, Davy needs another song, and lo and behold there was this song. “The Monkees songbook is maybe the third-best”: Peter Tork claims the bronze—right after the Beatles and the Stones 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z On “Just My Salvation,” the Allen Group reworked the Temptations melancholy love song “Just My Imagination” into an uptempo hymn. Gospel star Bishop Rance Allen dead at 71 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z The trouble is, the more Coldplay turn their attention to big electronic numbers, the less impressive these sound next to Martin's rueful love songs. Coldplay – review 2012-06-02T23:05:27Z Gunning's singing style was forged in the Appalachian tradition, built upon the love songs, ballads and dance tunes brought over by the Scots, English and Irish. Hail, Hail Rock'n'Roll 2010-06-17T21:40:00Z Huge, ecstatic, complex, beautiful, it is, in the composer’s words, both a “love song” and a “hymn to joy.” Seattle Symphony brings Messiaen’s ‘Turangalîla’ to Benaroya 2013-01-26T05:57:23Z She showed that it works just as well as a parent-child love song. Music Review: A Plush Voice Discovers Some Room to Be Frisky 2010-10-22T21:27:00Z "Most of us know 'Maria' as the name of a really great song in West Side Story, a really great love song." Lin-Manuel Miranda on the Making of His Song for Puerto Rico 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z There are plenty of moments where one sibling takes the lead, like on Julia’s mercenary love song “Death Defying Acts” or the tender “Get Home,” sung by Angus with an appropriately haunted voice. Angus and Julia Stone experience sibling revival-ry | Concert preview 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z "Crash My Party" is the fourth studio album from the rural Georgia native, who is known for his facial stubble and sing-along love songs. Country music party crasher Luke Bryan tests crossover appeal 2013-08-13T22:41:00Z He also helped write “Body Party,” which is a better fit, languorous and wistful and incorporating some sweetness from “My Boo,” the 1995 bass-music love song by Ghost Town DJs, an Atlanta classic. Critic’s Notebook: Ciara, Not Quite at the Center of Her Newest Album 2013-07-10T20:25:20Z As any romantic knows, a love song always carries the minuscule threat of disappointment and devastation. The Extreme Highs and Lows of Cuco’s Début Album, “Para Mí” 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Current single All I Wanna Do is another woozy love song, this time mounted on the robust chassis of a New Order bassline. Splashh – review 2013-06-02T14:30:01Z Those fans, many of them teenage girls and twenty-something young women, sang every word to his sly love songs and candlelit confessionals. Ed Sheeran at Staples Center: The boy next door steals hearts 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z It’s an album sung mostly in Spanish, Shakira’s original language — though she is now fluent in English — and it’s full of love songs carried by tropical rhythms. Shakira Finds Liberation, One Song at a Time 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z But she has since become a national celebrity with the catchy love song "Satellite", her infectious enthusiasm and her signature short black dresses. Germany finally feels loved with Eurovision win 2010-05-30T08:30:00Z And then there were his love songs, for which he had a specific goal. Kenny Rogers says he really isn’t bluffing — this is definitely his last tour 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z "Lipstick," for example, is a creepy gothic love song about a murder and a Lothario in lipstick. Ariel Pink plugs into 'Pom Pom' buzz in his own singular style 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z The last decade has seen a continuation of the trend toward dance grooves and away from simple love songs. Here Are the Last 50 Years' Songs of the Summer 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Death, in its capacity as an unseen TV character, loves to be tempted with love songs about breakups. Our big issue with "And Just Like That..." has nothing to do with the 911 debate 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The wistful drunk singing a love song in Spanish and the patient suffering a psychotic breakdown and convinced nurses are trying to kill him — they're all in a day's work. 'Code Black' a riveting doctor's-eye view of the emergency room 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z It’s a syrupy love song, and Popcaan has a smooth voice with a hint of shrillness, and a casual manner, never oversinging the sentiment. Playlist : New Releases From Ka, Popcaan, Vena and Bleeding Knees Club 2012-04-13T20:22:31Z “History of Touches,” a last-chance love song, uses only watery synthesizer chords with their own, separate pulse, like someone else’s breathing. Björk’s ‘Vulnicura,’ From Deep Within 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z It was the redeeming feature of lumbering behemoths such as Linger and Zombie, and made misty love songs such as Dreaming My Dreams positively lovely. The Cranberries | Pop review 2010-04-02T21:30:00Z "I see it as a relatively simple love song," Webb once explained, "about things passing away and never being the same again." Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2010-06-03T22:22:00Z At Electric Daisy, machines generated an artificial paradise; flesh and blood was for dancing, and even the most tormented love song quickly resolved into triumphal chords and a booming beat. Music Review: Electric Daisy Carnival New York at MetLife Stadium 2012-05-21T03:57:17Z These reflections steadily gave him inspiration as he created music that strayed from traditional love songs: tracks that touch on heartbreak, complacency, comparison and hope. James Blake’s post-pandemic album finds clarity in chaos 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z She recast it as a yearning love song performed to the audience, whose admiration she needed, and appreciated, but probably never ceased to question. A Critic’s Appraisal: Elaine Stritch 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z He is more convincing on the attack, like when he goes after pop singers who peddle cynical, vague love songs directed at a fictional specific girl. On Comedy: Bo Burnham Releases His Comedy Special 2013-12-25T22:24:40Z A few years after they were made, Jones would write the melody to one of the great American love songs, "It Had to Be You." Grammys 2015: An archival bounty within best historical album category 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Both women develop a relationship by bringing food to the animal and dancing with a mop in front of the tank to the tune of a love song. Exclusive: playwright's estate says The Shape of Water used his work without credit 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z This is sweaty, soulful music, mostly love songs suggestive of the bedroom, with deep funk kept subtle and spare on a low burner so as never to break the mood. Review: Kyle Abraham’s Theatrical Love Letter to Social Dance 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z “And then when I started writing, it was sad love song, sad love song, sad love song. But it’s in a different way.” How Robyn, Pop’s Glittery Rebel, Danced Her Way Back From Darkness 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Writing an album of love songs when you’re on probation for beating your famous girlfriend is nothing short of hubris, and like most Greek heroes it’s also Brown’s fatal flaw. Chris Brown's Fortune: A Mix of Beats and Ballads, But No Regrets 2012-07-03T14:45:47Z Ms. Plexus said, “I sing it as if it’s some sort of love song, where I sing to someone who’s kind of ignoring me.” Bec Plexus’s New Album Is a Digital Confession Booth 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z In a small space, the most moving moments are not the lamenting love songs but the surprisingly nuanced group numbers. Pint-sized powerhouses: do big musicals work better in smaller spaces? 2011-08-18T12:31:56Z And there was her own “Boom Clap,” a million-selling love song that was on the soundtrack of “The Fault in Our Stars” and is also on “Sucker.” Review: Charli XCX’s ‘Sucker’ 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z We’ve been diminished over and over throughout our careers for only writing love songs. Nine Albums Later, Tegan and Sara Are Finally Ready to Discuss High School 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Brown also tries to convey his softer side through ballads such as the piano-led "Stuck On Stupid" and acoustic love song "4 Years Old." Chris Brown's 'Fortune' a miss for critics 2012-07-04T02:06:16Z And we played James Taylor, Crosby, Stills and Nash, some really cheesy original love songs, so that was my first thing, and then my father was a musician, a choir conductor and college teacher. J.K. Simmons and the Further Joy of Razzing Your Co-Star 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z The 23-year-old Bangkok-based artist brought his cinematic love songs to Washington’s U Street Music Hall on Monday night, the last show on his North American tour. Songwriter Phum Viphurit brings his rom-com indie rock to the stage 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z True Love Will Find You in the End is honest and emotional – everything a love song should be. Six Songs of Me: Joe Taylor from the Music Hoarder 2012-08-14T13:00:00Z Beck drops in for the relatively straightforward love song “I Guess That’s What This World Is Coming To”; Jeff Tweedy contributes guitar to the echoing ballad “Take It Back.” Review: Nate Ruess' 'Grand Romantic' Is a Declaration of Intent to Live 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z While the album’s back story is part of its charm, “I’m Having Fun Now” is not a collection of love songs. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-08-29T21:53:00Z "The thing is Billy just loved the sound of violins on a love song," said Kyle Young, director of the Hall of Fame. Husky, Sherrill inducted into Country Hall of Fame 2010-05-24T00:26:00Z Frank was right, except now it's the best love song for the last 93 and a half years. My favourite Beatles song: Something 2013-04-10T10:07:51Z Compared to a clever love song like “Tim McGraw,” written by Taylor Swift when she, too, was 17, lines like, “Don’t be everything she wants, be everything she needs,” become somewhat laughable. Echosmith: A young band finding its way | Concert review 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z “I find myself always singing within the vernacular of the love song, so I always speak about the relationships,” he said. Pop: Glen Hansard, Touring Behind His ‘Rhythm and Repose’ 2012-06-22T16:00:01Z The identical twin sisters won group of the year and best single, for the celebratory love song . Justin Bieber booed at Juno Awards 2014-03-31T10:19:25Z On their new albums, these Latin pop superstars stick to one international common denominator: love songs. Critic’s Notebook: New Music by Shakira, Juanes, Enrique Iglesias and Wisin 2014-03-27T20:50:23Z Pushing the boundaries of gender identity is nothing new at Europe's annual song contest, an extravaganza known for its eclectic, sometimes unlistenable lineup of techno beats, love songs and pop tunes. Austrian drag queen wins Eurovision song contest 2014-05-11T15:34:29Z From the late 1960s through the early 1980s, Charley Pride was one of the genre’s marquee names, notable for his gentle love songs. Nashville Embraces Kane Brown and Jimmie Allen, Black Singers Upholding Genre Traditions 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z And he meant the audience, a love song for the audience. Chick Corea, the Master Mixer of Jazz’s Past and Future 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Bragg’s career includes 16 albums since 1983, filled with political anthems and sentimental love songs. Billy Bragg plans to extend bridges, knock down walls with Neptune Theatre show 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z You can imagine a mischievous grin on Sondheim’s own face as he dreamed up this ironic love song. Review | Insanity thrives, giddily, in Signature’s ‘Assassins’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Then, on Thursday, the Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Company, a band of hillbilly balladeers, will sing 1950s rockabilly and hillbilly love songs, as well as originals, starting at 8 p.m. Weekend Miser: Rockabilly, Barbecue and ?70s Movies, on the Cheap 2010-08-19T20:56:00Z But he is also highly regarded for continually developing his own postmodern take on the Cuban bolero form: a rhythmic love song synthesizing Spanish and African musical elements. Romance and Romanticism in Valentine’s Day concerts 2013-02-07T23:24:23Z Forget for a moment the audacity of beginning a love song with that phrase. “It is so beautifully written, it sings itself”: The Beach Boys’ sublime “God Only Knows” 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z The lighthearted theme carries through a variety of love songs. Review: Corbin aims for escapism on latest album 2012-09-17T16:46:04Z It’s not the most obvious love song, but who cares — it’s good. Happy Valentine’s Day From JoJo: Hear the Singer’s Excellent New EP 2014-02-14T19:25:24Z In 2020, Billboard included the song on a list of the 25 greatest love songs. Bobby Caldwell, Silky-Voiced R&B Crooner, Dies at 71 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z A love song of forbearance and internal catharsis rolls itself out for the next six minutes; sound and ardor build steadily without piling up. Yo La Tengo: Indie rock’s standard-bearer is still changing the formula, 30 years in 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z On her delightful album issued earlier this year, "Strictly Romancin'," Russell hung a hint of a blue scrim over her girl-next-door innocence, singing old love songs without a trace of self-consciousness about their vintage status. 17 top entertainment picks for the week of Sept. 23-29, 2012 2012-09-19T20:42:04Z It's more like love songs, it will be softer than the first. Ai Weiwei to release heavy metal album 2013-03-11T10:22:02Z The 100-member Bureau of Corrections Grand Orchestra and Chorale at the New Bilibid Prison in Manila played Broadway pieces and love songs in the local Tagalog language to prison officials, relatives and media. Philippine prison orchestra in 1st public concert 2010-06-15T14:16:00Z The genius of “A Case of You,” the quintessential after-the-fact love song, is that Mitchell understands we have to feel the love enough to mourn its passing. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Album opener "Beautiful Tango" is a breezy love song touched by a little whistling; it would be an instant hit if it were taken up by Radio 2. Hindi Zahra: Handmade 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z Back in the early ’90s, they were indie rock’s most indomitable pinball — a band perpetually bouncing between weirdo love songs and lovely weirdo songs, delivering a gust of fresh air to the American underground. D.C.’s indie music scene thrived in the ’90s. A look back with one of its most beloved acts. 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z “If you look at the history of pop music, love songs have predominantly come from one heterosexual perspective,” said Tom Murphy, a co-producer of “Universal Love.” Bob Dylan Sings About Gay Love 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Halfway through his magical concert Tuesday at the Smith Tower, Ben Gibbard played his love song about the building he was in. Ben Gibbard, solo, delivers magic at the top of the Smith Tower 2012-10-10T17:50:04Z Then came a bristling electronic excursion: the cryptic love song “Art of Almost,” which blipped and buzzed with synthesizers over a motoric ostinato, building to a frenetic squall of guitars. Music Review: Wilco at Central Park SummerStage - Review 2011-09-25T22:40:39Z A love song in which both MGK and Willow bemoan falling for the emo girl who’s just out of reach, sulkily celebrating her the way songs in the 1950s serenaded the prom queen. Kamasi Washington Blasts Into a Fresh Era, and 13 More New Songs 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z “This is a different kind of love song, a different thing,” she says of the Honors. They always said Cher (and cockroaches) could survive the end of the world. Lately, she’s not so sure about that. 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z It’s a homage to Springsteen’s automotive love songs and arena-scale brooding — the sustained synthesizer hints at “Tougher Than the Rest” — and to their shared home state, New Jersey. Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa’s Retro Rock, and 8 More New Songs 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z But none better Harper's original version, which Harper himself believes to be one of the "best love songs I wrote". Old music: Roy Harper – Another Day 2012-06-28T08:51:26Z “Always have a love song for your women … that’s all that fussing is anyway … loving.” Lovecraft Country recap: season one, episode four – misogyny, murder and Montrose 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Recorded in Montell Fish’s bedroom in Brooklyn, “Darling” — from his new album, “Jamie” — is a love song infused with fragility, delivered as a serenely undulating waltz. Billie Eilish Contemplates Distraction, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z “Yesterday this time, I sang a love song.” Aretha Franklin Is As Immortal As Can Be 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The famous tenor sings arias, love songs and crossover hits in the last concert of his current tour. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for June 2018 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Especially for us, the listening public, because as Donna Kaufman of iVillage writes: “No one wants to listen to sensitive love songs from an insensitive guy.” John Mayer is still gross 2012-06-06T18:50:00Z Eventually, Mitski posted a note on Facebook explaining that, as far as she was concerned, “Your Best American Girl” was a love song. The Misreading of Mitski 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The concert featured two extended, diverse suites — one concentrating on Mr. Moradi’s own pieces, one drawing on older traditional material — with a mournful love song as an encore. Review: Ali Akbar Moradi in Concert at Elebash Recital Hall 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z We sang positive songs – not love songs, but songs giving love: 'Life will continue and you will be OK.' The Creole Choir of Cuba: the a cappella aid agency 2010-08-19T21:15:00Z The program, devoted to Mediterranean-flavored love songs, was as unconventional as the group’s constitution. Music Review: The Food of Love, Coaxed From Ancient Instruments 2011-03-07T22:05:43Z So when two men sang a love song, clearly engaging with each other, as part of a cherished national competition, it was a first. Italy’s Eurovision Entry Signals the Country’s Changes 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Katy Perry hasn’t charted with a love song since the beginning of the decade, with “Teenage Dream” and “The One That Got Away.” Carly Rae Jepsen’s Ecstatic Hymns to Love 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z “I wanna bring the love songs back to the radio,” he sings on “Lost in Your Love,” and serves up a series of tributes to heroes past, a personal tour of soul history. R. Kelly brings back the 'Love' 2010-12-13T23:10:40Z “Ever for Love” was a retread of Mr. Nemr’s 2005 “All for Love,” both set to a collection of pop love songs. Review: Cats Paying Dues Tap and Sing, Don’t Meow 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The country-styled love song subverts the prevalent mentality of macho insensitivity in American culture. Dear straight Springsteen fans: If you’re shocked that Bruce canceled his North Carolina show, you haven’t been paying attention 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The show allowed enough room for love songs to certify the couple’s marital coziness, including “Two for the Road” and “I Thought About You.” Review: Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano Croon at the Metropolitan Room 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Guests danced to a Valentine’s Day-inspired playlist of love songs that spanned soulful standards to contemporary R&B ballads. On Love: Tenisha Campbell and Ron Holloway 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z But eventually, she found herself writing wary love songs and counting her blessings. Karol G’s Songs Conquered the World. On a New LP, She Reveals Herself. 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z That year they released the album Bad Moon Rising, and buried among the tales of murder and rage is Moore's straightforward love song, I Love Her All the Time. Til musical differences do us part 2011-02-10T21:29:00Z “A strikingly beautiful love song,” Mr. Hamelin calls it, and that was how it sounded in his initial presentation of the theme, but it was never to be heard with any clarity again. Marc-André Hamelin Gradually Ups the Ante at Carnegie Hall 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z For the ’70s and her solo career, she set aside teenage love songs, playing Billie Holiday in “Lady Sings the Blues” and moving into ballads like “Theme From ‘Mahogany’ ” and “Touch Me in the Morning.” Music Review: Diana Ross at Radio City, From Motown to Disco and Beyond 2010-05-20T21:19:00Z For Lesley Gore he had written two pop hits: the perky 2/4 love song “Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows” and the Beach Boys-derived “California Nights.” Nobody Did It Better: Memories of Marvin Hamlisch, 1944-2012 2012-08-07T21:50:31Z Ray’s singing about love, but he’s also singing about other love songs that tell him love won’t always be around. An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The 21-year-old, often praised for writing her own material, sings immaculately produced love songs accompanied by drum machines and sweeping synth strings. China in your hand: the lowdown on Chinese pop 2012-12-25T22:20:21Z “Le Villi,” though, fascinated nonstop, from the scintillating introduction to the soprano’s opening love song, through the obsessively self-lacerating aria for the sinful tenor. For Many, Opera and Puccini Are One (Trump’s Campaign Knows the Appeal) 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z "They didn't know they didn't have to memorize the song or look each other in the eyes when you're singing a love song," Miller said. Songs take starring role in TV drama 'Nashville' 2012-12-11T15:45:18Z Rarely did Mr. Bentley let sentiment get the best of him, notable because many of his best numbers are slow-burning love songs. Music Review: Dierks Bentley at Irving Plaza - Review 2011-10-21T23:29:54Z It’s a condemnation of the stringent sexual mores of 1950s Hollywood, a glimpse into the life of an increasingly reclusive Hughes and purveyor of one of the sweetest original love songs in recent movie memory. Here Are TIME's Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2016 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z “Suspended Sentences” is among other things, as its translator, Mark Polizzotti, writes in his introduction, “a three-part love song to a Paris that no longer exists, or that most people’s eyes do not see.” ‘Suspended Sentences,’ Novellas by Patrick Modiano 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z “I’m trying to write my love songs with a little more depth, rather than our life is rainbows and fairytales,” Rhett said. Rhett looks to get more relatable with love on new record 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Though it’s more of a love song, she says, “There’s a patriotic element, so maybe that’s why he clicked play.” How It Feels to Be on President Obama's Summer Playlist 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Yes, there are love songs and rock 'n' rollers on the album, but there are some things that have special meaning for me too. Childhood memories inspire new songs for Frampton 2010-03-19T21:20:00Z As he sang all those years ago in a slightly defensive tone: “Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs/ And what’s wrong with that?” New Music: A New Album From Paul McCartney 2012-02-06T16:02:08Z And to assure you that I’m not completely turned off by Valentine’s Day, I close with a straight-ahead love song that’s not really very straight ahead at all. Perspective | Scrap the romantic ballads. Use this eclectic playlist for your first Valentine’s Day stuck at home. 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z It’s a little more cold, and so if you’re trying to insert love songs in that, it’s kind of a fun challenge in the way that you work, to provide contrast. 2010-01-30T00:57:00Z That despite all this they could also write a hell of a love song. The Replacements' story is told bottle by bottle, song by song, in the new book 'Trouble Boys' 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z He's also wrapping up a new album that he says includes "the first love songs I've ever written." Roger Waters announces 2017 North American 'Us + Them' tour 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Like Taylor Swift, whose most recent tour they opened, they write love songs. Listening Booth: HAIM Returns with a Summer-Ready Dance Track 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z A long-haired guitarist in a black leather jacket crooned Chinese love songs from a small stage. The Asia Issue: Next Stop: In Nanjing, China, Art and Youth Help a City Recover From Its Tragic Past 2011-03-18T18:55:00Z Episode 2 finds Galavant in a pretty funny jousting scene, and it ends with a catchy love song. ‘Galavant’ Musical on ABC Has Some Naughty Laughs 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z She slips into some confession when she says “I even fell for that stupid love song.” Rating Breakup Anthems: How Does Gotye?s ?Somebody That I Used to Know? Stack Up? 2012-05-15T10:00:50Z Tre Williams writes and sings about unemployment, incarceration and poverty before he moves into equally desperate love songs carrying phrases like: “What you do in the dark/Oh, it sure comes through in the light.” Music: Listening to Sia Tolno, Wye Oak, Etta James and Givers 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z Grungy guitars, sputtering trap beats and Lil Peep’s raw-throated voice add up to a tormented, abrasive love song from the singer and rapper who died this year at 21. The 54 Best Songs of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The central Adagio, an affecting love song, was rendered with supple restraint. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson packs Disney Hall for a thrilling, sometimes punishing, performance 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z That could leave the listener thinking this is a love song, when it’s really a declaration, from one of American culture’s dominant personalities, that a crucial part of any affair is surrender. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z No romance was too saccharine to become the stuff of Kasem’s long-distance dedications; no adolescent’s attachment to a silly love song was ever to be poked fun at. As radio and pop culture splintered, Casey Kasem was keeping it together She sang love songs for her husband, too, like the Cajun-flavored “As Long as I Got You.” Lily Allen Brings Biting Sincerity to the Highline Ballroom 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Yet it was a maternal love song, “Remedy,” that restored Adele’s confidence, she said, and was the turning point for “25.” Adele Cries to Her Music, Too 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Together they summoned impetuous exuberance for Strauss’s restless love song “Cäcilie.” Review: Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sings of Life, Love and Sadness at Carnegie Hall 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Lucinda Williams “I’m So Happy I Found You” I immediately picked this one, because it was so unusual for a Hank Williams song: it’s a happy love song. Music: Bob Dylan Assembles ?The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams? 2011-09-23T19:16:45Z On Lost In Your Love, R Kelly sings, "I wanna bring the love songs back to the radio". Real R&B fans aren't waiting for the Weeknd 2011-03-29T08:50:31Z A heart-rending love song, the famous Adagio, and then a frisky Finale indicate a way forward. Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z It sounds simple: take the silky smooth vocals of a British crooner, add one slow-burning love song, mix in a backing gospel choir and — boom! — you have a chart-topping ballad. Here Are the 25 Best Songs of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z I heard it, I don't want to say as a spiritual, but I didn't hear it as a love song. Emmylou Harris lives in the moment, sings about the past 2011-04-25T16:03:05Z He quickly wrote a love song about their first encounter, “Smiled First,” for his 2014 album “Affirmation.” A Dynamic Duo, on and Off the Stage 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z And isn’t that how all the best love songs should be? Robert Christgau: How One Man Survived Writing 13,000 Album Reviews 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z I think it’s one of the deepest love songs ever written, and it’s extremely personal to me now. Kelly Rowland on Playing Gladys Knight: ‘I Just Wanted to Soak Her Up’ 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z “A Night in the Cosmos” is much more than a collection of love songs about romantic stargazing and the dreamy contemplation of heavenly orbs. Review: Jennifer Sheehan at 54 Below, With Stars Her Eyes 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z A love song to his ideals no less. Readers recommend: songs about leftwing politics – results 2013-04-18T10:56:59Z Maori people sing other songs — love songs, naughty songs, insulting songs — in everyday life, too. Bringing Attention to the Maori Language, One Song at a Time 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z The evening was particularly intense because of the death of her friend Leonard Cohen, which she only acknowledged after a performance that culminated with a somber rendition of his love song “Suzanne.” Review: Judy Collins’s Clear, Pure Brook of Song 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But on “Uncaged” that gear is used mostly on love songs, which are not Mr. Brown’s comfortable space. Critic’s Notebook: Zac Brown Band Releases ‘Uncaged’ 2012-07-11T22:10:41Z “He told me I shouldn’t wear nail varnish and I shouldn’t sing so many love songs,” Ms. Collins said. For Shirley Collins, a Folk Revival of Her Very Own 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Later in the set, Anything for You feels even more straightforward, a love song with just guitar as accompaniment. Frank Ocean – review 2013-07-13T23:05:30Z On its surface a love song, in it's effect a call for freedom. Readers recommend: songs about bravery – results 2012-08-30T08:31:39Z In contrast to her often brooding 2012 album “Halcyon,” “Delirium” is upbeat and populated with exuberant love songs. Ellie Goulding’s Cordial Breakup With Electronic Dance Music 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z In the modern country context — denuded accents, love songs, winks to pop and hip-hop — it feels practically heretical. Review: Chris Janson, With ‘Buy Me a Boat,’ Separates Himself From Bro-Country Genre 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Innocence drifts in freefall until it becomes a softly swaying love song. Keith Jarrett: Sleeper – review 2012-07-12T20:53:01Z A YouTube search provides video evidence of this: There's Gosling crooning some non-threatening love song, dressed in baggy clothes with way too much product in his hair. 5 most famous ex-Mouseketeers 2010-12-30T09:31:04Z Alongside the uneasy love songs, Ms. Lo takes up a new topic on “Lady Wood”: stardom. Tove Lo’s ‘Lady Wood’: More Professional Than Passionate 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Marley’s aching voice suits love songs just as well as protests. Review: Stephen Marley Uses His Father’s Roots Reggae as a Springboard 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Buddy Miller says these days it's not unusual for duet partners to cut their love songs syllable by syllable while never even seeing each other: "In this town especially that's what happens." Songs take starring role in TV drama 'Nashville' 2012-12-11T15:45:18Z At first, “When I Get There” sounds like a love song. Feist’s Electrifying Return, and 9 More New Songs 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z From end to end, it’s an album of love songs: love progressing through childhood crushes, adult lusts, parental nurturing and benedictions for unknown descendants. Dave Matthews Sings to the Next Generation on ‘Come Tomorrow’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Azerbaijan won the right to host the contest by winning last year's event in Germany with the love song "Running Scared". Azeri police hold critics days before Eurovision contest 2012-05-21T17:46:08Z Another is a love song from Serbia, White Roses, delivered with fists clenched to the side, and lachrymose melancholy. Amira Medunjanin, the Balkan Billie Holiday 2013-01-20T06:30:00Z The fans started singing again, a love song to their team. Brazil, Where the Beautiful Game Struts 2013-04-12T18:36:34Z “Bro-country and all these happy party and love songs have been on the radio for the last 15 years. I still don’t get it, but radio, unfortunately, kind of defines what country music is.” Dave Cobb: Wrangling Rough Country Beasts Toward Nashville 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z |
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