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The song is a rhapsodic ode with a theme of unrequited love. [2] Though lyrically genderless, the video for the song depicts a schoolboy with a crush on an older boy; [3] Elton John told Rolling Stone that it was "the first gay song that I actually recorded as a homosexual song". [4]
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 ...
A new TikTok trend is allowing people to share their kookiest crushes in a creatively comedic way. TikTokers have been recording themselves gathered around a cake with prepared cutouts of their ...
NEW YORK − Young musicians don't make love songs like they used to. At least that's what Nathan Morris, one-third of Boyz II Men, tells me. He's sitting backstage squeezing in a quick dinner ...
Presley recorded the song on January 30, 1956, at the RCA Studio in New York. [ 15 ] [ 1 ] There were six songs handpicked by A&R person Steve Sholes himself for Presley to record for his first album at the sessions, but "One-sided Love Affair" was the only one Presley liked and recorded.
Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Tara Reid and their 'American Pie' co-stars got together two decades after the film's 1999 release.