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By the early seventies, Jones was a much more nuanced singer than he had been a decade earlier, and "Sometimes You Just Can't Win," which rose to #10 on the charts, was a prime example of how his singing could be, at times, frightening in its intensity. The song, a suicidal lament about unrequited love, begins softly with gently picked mandolin:
Torch-singing is more of a niche than a genre and can stray from the traditional jazz-influenced style of singing; the American tradition of the torch song typically relies upon the melodic structure of the blues. [2] Examples of a collection are Billie Holiday's 1955 album Music for Torching and Entre eux deux by Melody Gardot and Philippe Powell.
The song is in B Dorian, [4] performed in what AllMusic describes as a "brooding, sorrowfully conflicted" tone. [5]Although it is often interpreted as a ballad about unrequited love, [6] [7] Chris Isaak has said that the song was inspired by a telephone call from a woman seeking to arrange a hook-up and is about "what happens when you have a strong attraction to people that aren't necessarily ...
One Thousand Years of Trouble is the debut full-length album, and second album overall, by English electronic rock band Age of Chance, released in 1987 by Virgin Records. After attracting the attention of Virgin with their industrial cover version of Prince 's " Kiss ", the band signed to the label and began working on the album with producer ...
The supposed death of the love song is "why most people don't fall in love anymore, don't want to be in love, or whatever the deal is," Nathan says.
The music and lyrics, as well as the singing, belong to Shelley. [11] The song uses the verse-chorus formal pattern and is in the key of E major. Both the verse and the chorus start with C♯ minor chords (sixth degree in E major, and relative minor key of E major), which "give [the song] a distinctly downbeat, edgy feel."
Chance said both singers were “fire.” (And apparently Chance using the phrase “awards show performance” is the new Voice drinking game, as he exclaimed, “We’re gonna win an Emmy! This ...
Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Tara Reid and their 'American Pie' co-stars got together two decades after the film's 1999 release.