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"Gone Too Soon" was promoted with a music video directed by Bill DiCicco, which showed footage of Jackson and White together, as well as scenes from the latter's funeral. In January 1993, a live performance by Jackson at Bill Clinton 's inaugural celebration also served as a promotional platform, for both the song and AIDS-related funding.
A teenage tragedy song is a style of sentimental ballad in popular music that peaked in popularity in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Lamenting teenage death scenarios in melodramatic fashion, these songs were variously sung from the viewpoint of the dead person's romantic interest, another witness to the tragedy, or the dead or dying person.
"Candle in the Wind" is a threnody style ballad written by English musician Elton John and songwriter Bernie Taupin, and performed by John. It was originally written in 1973, in honour of Marilyn Monroe, who had died 11 years earlier.
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The Ballad of Spiro Agnew; The Ballad of the Green Berets; La Ballade des gens heureux; Ballade pour Adeline ¡Basta Ya! (song) Battlefield (song) Be Free (song) Be My Girl (New Kids on the Block song) Be My Last; Be Strong (song) Be the Man; Be There with You; Be with You (BoA song) Beautiful (Mariah Carey song) Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me ...
Popular sentimental ballad vocalists in this era include Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis, Connie Francis and Perry Como. Their recordings were usually lush orchestral arrangements of current or recent rock and roll or pop hit songs. The most popular and enduring songs from this style of music are known as "pop ...
This category contains sentimental ballads - the slow form of popular music such as love songs and pop and rock ballads from the 20th and 21st centuries. Songs which are sourced in their respective articles as only ballads and not as a specific genre of ballad should be included here.
"My Immortal" is a piano power ballad. [14] [15] [16] John Bean of The Providence Journal called it a "gothic ballad". [17] Michael Clark of the Houston Chronicle viewed it as "goth-meets-pop", [18] and MTV described it as a "delicate, heartfelt ballad". [19] A writer for IGN said "My Immortal" is thematically a song of pain and despair". [20]