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"Every Light in the House" is a song written by Kent Robbins and recorded by American country music artist Trace Adkins. It was released in August 1996 as the second single from his debut album Dreamin' Out Loud. It was his first Top 5 single on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart, where it peaked at #3.
Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance. In this broader sense, antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy and simile would all be considered types of metaphor. Aristotle used both this sense and the regular, current sense above. [1]
A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).
The song was voted the no. 1 "worst pop record" by Channel 4 viewers in a poll broadcast in January 2004. [141] "Big Yellow Taxi", Counting Crows featuring Vanessa Carlton (2003) A cover of the 1970 Joni Mitchell song, "Big Yellow Taxi" was featured in the film Two Weeks Notice. The Village Voice named this cover the worst song of the 2000s. [142]
"The House of Blue Lights" is a boogie woogie-style popular song written by Don Raye and Freddie Slack. Published in 1946, it was first recorded by Slack with singer Ella Mae Morse and Raye. The song's intro includes a " hipster "-style spoken exchange:
Joni Mitchell's song "Crazy Cries of Love" on her album Taming the Tiger (1998) opens with "It was a dark and stormy night". In the December 1998 issue of Musician , Mitchell discusses her idea of using several cliche lines in the lyrics of multiple songs on the album, such as "the old man is snoring" in the title song "Taming the Tiger".
"Brick by Boring Brick" is a song by American rock band Paramore. The song was released in late 2009 as the second single from their third studio album , Brand New Eyes (2009). "Brick by Boring Brick" was also featured in The Vampire Diaries episode "Under Control" that aired on April 15, 2010.
"The Spectrum Song" was written by the Sherman Brothers in 1961 under assignment from Walt Disney to be a signature song for the fictional character Ludwig Von Drake. Nominally about different colors in the spectrum , the song's lyrics initially consist of the repeated color names red, yellow, green and blue, but soon veer wildly off into ...