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A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love, either where one party is oblivious to the existence of the other, where one party has moved on, or where a romantic affair has affected the relationship.
This category is for torch songs. In the songs included here, the singers express their devotion or unrequited love for someone who does not return their love, has moved on to a new partner or whom the singers have taken for granted, hurt or otherwise mistreated.
"Torch Song" is a short story by John Cheever which first appeared in The New Yorker on October 4, 1947. The work was included in the short fiction collection The Enormous Radio and Other Stories (1953), published by Funk and Wagnalls .
"Death by a Thousand Cuts" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for her seventh studio album Lover (2019). Written and produced by Swift and Jack Antonoff, it serves as the tenth track of the album. It is a pop torch song with an upbeat production. Unlike the singer's previous break-up songs which were diaristic in the ...
Torch Song Trilogy is a collection of three plays by Harvey Fierstein rendered in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a Jewish homosexual, drag queen, and torch singer who lives in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Thomas S. Hischak, author of The Disney Song Encyclopedia, wrote that "When she Loved Me" is a "heart-tugging torch song" about losing a friend as opposed to losing a romantic interest. [45] However, Hischak said that the "simple but moving" song can also be interpreted as a love song out of context. [45]
Patrick Mahomes is standing on the verge of an unprecedented career: he’s in his fifth Super Bowl, won of three them already and trying to win another to pull off a three-peat that has never ...
The song itself, by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin, is the apotheosis of the torch song, and Garland kicks its drama up to frenzied intensity early on, as much with the searing pathos of her voice as with convulsive, angular gestures that look like an Expressionist painting come to life. [36]