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"Shine a Light" is a song by the English musician Banners. Written by Stephen Kozmeniuk and Michael Nelson (Banners), it was released in August 2015 as the second single from Banner's self-titled debut EP Banners. Banner told Consequence of Sound "The song is about feeling lost at sea and desperately searching for a beacon of light. It's about ...
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the "Defence of Fort M'Henry", [2] a poem written by American lawyer Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, after he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...
The EP's first track, "Start a Riot", is a "soaring pop track", [2] an "emotional, sensitive and melodically organic indie rock" song. [citation needed] It opens with electronic, echoing backing vocals and a simple piano line. Banners' falsetto vocals emerge in the chorus and "the heart of the song is exposed".
2. The Chicks, "Travelin' Soldier" The Chicks covered the Bruce Robison classic "Travelin' Soldier" and made it their own courtesy of their signature harmonies.The heartbreaking song tells of a ...
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as simply "America", is an American patriotic song, the lyrics of which were written by Samuel Francis Smith. [2] The song served as one of the de facto national anthems of the United States (along with songs like "Hail, Columbia") before the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the official U.S. national anthem in 1931. [3]
"Someone to You" was released in June 2017. [2]In 2020, it was used in a trailer for a TV show, in a movie, in a T-Mobile commercial and on TikTok.The song's success took Banners by surprise saying at first, he had no idea why the track was getting so many unexpected streams: "I try not to look at my Spotify numbers too much...but every now and then I was just checking it and it was like ...
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.