Even when he's singing about love, which is quite often, it still feels like he's singing about revolution.
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And not only was Jones singing about it, she was singing about wanting it, and she was demanding that someone give it to her and giving them detailed instructions.
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Is Elle King back to singing about her "Ex's & Oh's"?
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Therefore, I had no idea what they were singing about.
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"I'm singing about unrequited love all the time," he explains.
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I would bet my bling he's not singing about Carey.
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But there is one major change: She's singing about sex.
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Rarely is a band singing about how great they're feeling.
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It's got that Led Zeppelin vibe that whatever Led Zeppelin is singing about, it's like the women that they're singing about have their own little island and this is what they're doing, you know.
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But that doesn't stop him from singing about romance and heartbreak.
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The "lie" Swift is singing about is a little more unclear.
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"Y'know what I'm singing about up here ... C'mon raise your hand!"
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Because if they're both singing about their exes, that's very awkward.
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"We've been singing about each other for years," Ms Lynne said.
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Ms. Hardy is well-versed in singing about partings and beginnings.
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It also signals that she's going to be singing about intimacy.
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Reseda, Mulholland, Ventura Boulevard, Tom Petty had people all over the world singing about my hometown and it felt like they were singing about me, about my own experiences, about my first boyfriend, about horse-loving me.
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And she's not singing about any of the show's leading men, either.
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I'm singing about something while the police are actually murdering innocent people.
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It feels like Kurt Cobain singing about the Virtual Boy or something.
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Let me clarify: this extends beyond dudes simply singing about feeling sad.
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They're singing about not fitting in and wanting to change the world.
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Or is he just hungry now after singing about all his feelings?
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Most importantly, who is Styles singing about in each of these songs?
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It is possible she's singing about a past time in her life.
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But then you'd follow it with "¡Olé!" where you're singing about Adidas.
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Namely, who is Demi Lovato singing about in "Cool for the Summer"?
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I awoke to Aerok and Juonran singing about Majuro, another sad song.
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" He said, "You guys are singing about how the poor costs us.
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Extremity isn't just a matter of playing fast and singing about evisceration.
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That's a hell of a lot more interesting than singing about Satan.
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" WizKid holds the chorus, getting romantic, singing about "love for the night.
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He noted that other musicians were interested in singing about social reform.
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At a microphone, he starts singing about how his grandmother just died.
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We weren't born in Mexico, and we're not singing about the ranchos.
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The soldier Martin is singing about is his actual grandfather-in-law.
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It sounds like The Stevens are singing about a detective TV program.
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And really, for the most part, they were singing about their lives.
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There he was, singing about transformation and absence over a bed of jazz.
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Theory: Maybe the Eagles were singing about the Underwood White House all along.
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What we can't get over: The fact that she's singing about Nick Jonas.
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You're singing about this serious subject, but it sounds so calm and relaxed.
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You been singing about this nigga for years and he still playing you.
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You're singing about something that was true at the time but isn't anymore.
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An advertisement for how great it is, featuring babies singing about sexual intercourse?
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Answers on a postcard as to what singer Ryan is actually singing about.
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I can't imagine living that way where I'm singing about shooting to thrill.
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But the other guys who said, "That's not what we were singing about"?
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" Listening to Tewfiq sing in Arabic, she wonders, "Is he singing about wishing?
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All of those wild music videos with star Joe Exotic singing about tigers?
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Funny enough, the wife of the guy she's singing about was there too.
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If you know what I'm singing about up here, c'mon, raise your hand!
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Once upon on a time, Bonnie Tyler was singing about falling in love.
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Sex. He's singing about sex like a 903-year-old sings about sex.
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He's singing about how to write down what he wants to sing about.
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Expectations is [me] singing about the present for the first time in my life.
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But the rapper produces perhaps his most emotional work when singing about his family.
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But I'm not interested in singing about the good times when you go out.
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It's as if to say she may be singing about something that she shouldn't.
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Especially because Zayn seems to be singing about women in a relatively consistent way.
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It all comes together in an outro that's just Makonnen singing about Porsche trucks.
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"Women in music are allowed to be singer-songwriters singing about their boyfriends," she wrote.
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Every single song on The White Album, he felt that they were singing about us.
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But the rapper produces perhaps his most emotional work yet when singing about his family.
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It was singing about and for cute white girls with big hair and nice tits.
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If you ask Roots drummer (and WIRED cover guy) Questlove, Jackson is singing about forks.
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Ferreira doesn't take herself all too seriously even when she is singing about something devastating.
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Its lyrics are more than suggestive, with Grande singing about taking charge in her relationship.
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On "Rehab" the woman you're singing about goes from being an addict to your drug.
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And 15 years ago, I personally wasn't very concerned with what Usher was singing about.
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Turns out, I finally get it: headache or not, it's one accessory worth singing about.
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Father John Misty should be singing about one night stands, crippling depression, and drunk driving.
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She is running around the woods with two clones of herself, singing about romantic obsession.
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Case in point: Shelton can't stop singing about his rockstar girlfriend... and her $9 lipstick.
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It was only a year ago that Moana was singing about how far she'd go.
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"Woman" I think we can guess what subject matter Styles will be singing about here.
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Bob Marley was singing about peace and love, but also standing up for your rights.
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Sometimes the weirder things are when I'm singing about breakups, because right now I'm engaged.
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"C7osure" finds Lil Nas X singing about a desire to live a more authentic life.
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Even as this young kid is singing about his eventual demise, he's still there singing.
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Like the singer is singing about his own experience, which not all the songs do.
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" She continues: "women in music are allowed to be singer songwriters singing about their boyfriends.
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"women in music are allowed to be singer songwriters singing about their boyfriends," she said.
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These kids didn't have the depth to understand what they really might be singing about.
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It wasn't just that Strait was singing about the romantic life of a traveling singer.
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She could be an idol, or a stand-in, for the guy singing about her.
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One minute they're singing about wearing shorts and thongs (flip flops to you) on Christmas Day.
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The lilting voices of the McIntyres immediately begin singing about tonight and who belongs to whom.
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"Yeah, I don't know what he's singing about but maybe he's just saying it's "on repeat.
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Protestors, many without shoes (this is becoming a theme), are strumming guitars and singing about peace.
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It taught me that what you're singing about matters more so than how you're singing it.
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Singing about self-invention, connections and independence, she emerged as a solo phenomenon online and onstage.
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When singing about a fucked-up relationship plummeting through its disintegration phase, she basically looks delighted.
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Wearing a white bob wig, he starts doing the robot and singing about his space pants.
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As far as our music goes, on stage, we're just singing about what we sing about.
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Even when you're singing about nostalgia, your sound sometimes pushes the envelope in some subtle ways.
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Men and women gather during long nights of religious singing about Hussein's death, with everybody weeping.
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She dominated the mid-aughts with her cotton candy dreamworld, singing about California girls and teenage dreams.
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You're singing about these issues—feminism, marriage equality—on the album, but with a lot of restraint.
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Maybe she really is just a girl, singing about her feelings, bleaching her hair a different blonde.
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There were people singing about Jesus and stuff like that, and I was just offering them joints.
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Called "I Love Magikarp," the song features a Japanese child singing about just how weak Magikarp is.
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Is there a particular night or moment that you are singing about when you perform that song?
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But in reality, Simon was singing about a chicken and egg dish at his local Chinese restaurant.
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When The Beach Boys sang their songs about surfing and cars, they were really singing about independence.
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I appreciated his courage in coming out in a mainstream hip-hop song and singing about Jesus.
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BTW ... Jasons' gotta be the guy George Thorogood was singing about in "Bad to the Bone," right?
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"Chocolate Rain" features Zonday singing about bell curves and neighborhood insurance rates in a distinctive bass voice.
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But Mr. McPherson rejects the idea that it necessarily represents Marianne singing about herself or her situation.
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The piece features Tawil performing fictional folk dances and singing about a homeland that doesn't yet exist.theinvisibledog.
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Descendents were bringing oodles of pop hooks to the table and singing about fast food and coffee.
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But then I often hear her singing about barnyard animals or twinkly stars, settling herself into sleep.
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Meanwhile, Selena Gomez is over in another corner singing about how much she loves herself in Rare.
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"Singing about something helps you to express it in a way that feels more accurate," Swift explained.
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For the lyrics, Mr. Longstreth set aside his more cryptic impulses; it's clear what he's singing about.
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Jessie J's love for Channing Tatum is the real deal — and now she's even singing about it!
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We don't need 6,000 bands singing about chugging PBRs while doing a second-rate Chuck Ragan impression.
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And everyone is singing about how their hopes and dreams of fame will come true one day.
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" Does that parent say, "oh honey, he's singing about being in a relationship with a meth addict.
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" Holley describes his music in simpler terms: "I just call it singing about life as it naturally is.
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I know he's not singing about Christmas but that's probably what we'll be listening to around the tree.
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Is The Weeknd singing about his past relationships with Selena Gomez and Bella Hadid on his latest album?
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It's gentle, with funk overtones weaved into a piercing falsetto that finds him singing about paranoia and fear.
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Swift is singing about her boyfriend Joe Alwyn and the timing couldn't be more perfect for the couple.
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But before they break into singing about being "fat and old," the song opens with a jaunty melody.
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It features nothing but Gomez, writhing around in bed, while singing about the latest love in her life.
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But sceptics point out that the majority of his audiences do not understand what he is singing about.
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"I don't think a lot of women are singing about their lesbian love to R&B," she says.
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By this point, Lady Antebellum have spent more years singing about teenage love than they spent experiencing it.
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Kiyoko hopes that, by singing about her own experiences and featuring same-sex love stories in her videos,
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O'Riordan, known for her strong distinctive voice singing about relationships or political violence, was 46 when she died.
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Racy as the originals may be, at least they have adults singing about adult lust and adult plight.
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"Night So Long," the album's closer, was stark, short on hope, Danielle Haim singing about lost love and loneliness.
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The moody, raven-haired vocalist who captured our teenage feels, singing about how her lover was...every freaking where?
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The major difference, of course, is that The Weeknd's demo features the performer singing about a woman he knows.
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Check out her answer -- Jerry's definitely family to E.B. Not exactly the same tune O'Shea Jackson's singing about Heller.
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It's pretty simple ... dance your ass off to the remix of Shirley singing about the perfect Turkey Day feast.
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Travolta rounds out the video singing about the New England Patriots, who are actually playing in tonight's big game.
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He may be singing about a person from another place and time, but love, grief, regret—those are universal.
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And this is how I imagine this Torres: a young boy in a witch's mask, singing about his parents.
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Filmed secretly by an undercover reporter, England supporters can be heard singing about their hatred for Muslims and "Pakis".
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As if Chris Cornell's death wasn't shocking enough, it turns out the singer's final performance included singing about death.
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Auto-Tune was a tool for singing about partying, about popping bottles, about falling in love with a stripper.
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When I would listen to "You Shook Me All Night Long," I didn't know they were singing about rooting.
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"I had no idea what the hell he was singing about," Mr. Endo said in a recent Skype interview.
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In "Sober," singing about yet another fling entered with misgivings, she asks, "What will we do when we're sober?"
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Listen to Alice singing about being eighteen the rest of the year; tonight, it's all about referencing Vincent Price.
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By the second verse he's singing about walking through the streets "taking sips of the sky" through his nose.
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He's singing about sex like a 14-year-old who should have his internet cut off sings about sex.
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The tone she strikes while singing about a useless ex is full of weariness and the soul of Emmylou Harris.
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One minute he's singing about haulin' cattle, the next he could be a young Bob Dylan making a harmonica weep.
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What isn't simple is a sixteen-year-old in her expected setting — a high school — singing about grown-up desperation.
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But it's the hook of the song where she actually brings in who she's singing about - which is the Lord.
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She was more straight-edge than her fellow pop stars, not singing about sexuality or wrestling a python on stage.
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Thankfully, like all Disney movies, this movie has a happy ending and she realizes the dreams she'd been singing about.
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Here, her voice is reminiscent of Brandy, except she's singing about something we'd never hear from the 90s singer: threesomes.
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Selena Gomez might be rolling around on slimy egg yolks while singing about fetishes, but you're never really like "ew".
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"It's weird that I've committed to singing about this breakup for, hopefully, the rest of my life," he remarks soberly.
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Jackson was singing about an America in which people of colour could be tried and found guilty for unjust reasons.
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And yet, here is Jay Kay, singing about cosmic girls and space cowboys and giving me my absolute unfettered life.
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Tired of the flannel-wearing folk crowd too focused on singing about dusk, twilight, and other beautiful nature-y stuff?
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Standing on a balcony, he puts on headphones, then wanders among his friends, singing about his readiness to escape melancholy.
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An infamous scene at the end of the movie finds a group of crows singing about seeing an elephant fly.
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Grande's fans are keen for her to not be dismissed as yet another sexy pop star singing about her bedroom antics.
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If singing about your cat's pee on a global stage (yup) doesn't say love, then I don't know what love is.
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I have enough intelligence to know I have to move the needle from singing about trucks and back roads and fishing.
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When Carrie Underwood sings a tune, it's always a beautiful sound – even when she's singing about pee on a toilet seat.
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My feet were striking the pavement, lungs heaving as I ran to the sound of Beyoncé singing about 6-inch heels.
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Inclusion of a dollar bill has fans wondering if Swift was using it as inspiration while singing about the difficult experience.
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At 5, my orange-carrot marmalade bubbles jovially, like a soft samba bass rhythm under a woman singing about loving women.
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" But soon come the geese, who are also singing about the beautiful day without a "hawk or an airplane in sight.
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Now that we know where he lies politically, we can happily return to analyzing who he's singing about on his album.
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But even just singing about it, we would try to do our part to make a more positive atmosphere about Detroit.
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He only got caught when, after one break, he started dancing on the pool table, singing about shagging a governor's wife.
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"Certain people found that because we were young, the things that we were singing about were funny or cute," says Louis.
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Remember when fans used to dissect Taylor Swift lyrics to try and decode which ex-boyfriend she might be singing about?
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Liza Anne "Desire" Anyone who's had too much — be it tequila or feelings — knows the feelings Liza Anne is singing about.
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You don't want to be mid-makeout while the jewel-encrusted crab from "Moana" is singing about how shiny he is.
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With orchestral strings behind the strum, stomp and clap of a traditional-sounding beat, the women aren't singing about cheerful drunks.
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That's actually why I found Fetty Wap so refreshing, because he's singing about being truthful to his one trap queen lady.
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But what's a mother to do when her young daughter starts dancing around, singing about how sexy, sexy, sexy she is?
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Does it still feel radical to be a woman singing about sexual desire in a way that's both free and explicit?
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This time, instead of singing about a rapacious audience, she's confronting insecurities implanted by her family — ones she hasn't entirely conquered.
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"As a Taiwanese person, I felt strange singing about the typical extreme metal themes like vampires and Satan," said Mr. Lim.
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He was as convincing singing about drinking and heartbreak as he was performing sentimental and devotional numbers, topical material and novelties.
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It's as if, by the time Nicks got around to singing about something, she already knew that she would survive it.
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But they express it by singing about Islamic values, freedom for Palestine, and other social issues facing the global Muslim community.
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When one of them released a song about love and infidelity, we didn't automatically assume they were singing about each other.
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At this 1967 performance of the song in Antibes, France, and many others, Franklin wasn't just singing about a love affair.
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We didn't really know what it was or how to explain it, but we were vaguely singing about it through our song.
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After dating (and singing about) Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, Jake Gyllenhaal, Conor Kennedy, and Harry Styles, she stopped linking herself with men.
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That raw edge isn't wasted as she uses it to rough up her usually smooth delivery while singing about a shitty relationship.
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Dylan Desmond, singer and bassist of Seattle doom metal duo Bell Witch, has been singing about the dead since the band started.
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Before this tired tot was singing about being in his feelings, he was just another kid catching some z's in Toronto, Canada.
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The implication is that Frank wrote a song glorifying date-rape and that mom and Johnny gleefully went along singing about it.
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But it might give an idea of the range of topical phantasmagoria to say that one room involves cheerleaders singing about abortion.
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Two other employees joined in the rap, singing about the company's aim to raise doses and get Subsys prescribed to more patients.
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Backed by strong production UV Boi brings in some evocative moods that has him singing about falling in and out of love.
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It is an interesting juxtaposition to be able to dance to something while someone is singing about their relationship with their father.
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They're singing about that most archetypal of country song topics: a man who lied, cheated, and was generally up to no good.
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It can be melodic, singing about something like romance; it can seethe with frustration; it can switch to jagged, stop-start dissonances.
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Mr. Kiwanuka professes passion, wariness and vulnerability; Karen O starts out singing about being torn between love and the urge to disappear.
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There were no trans women singing about love and sex when I was growing up, but I wish I had heard that.
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Before this dressed-up Disney star was singing about the summertime, he was just another fancy fella growing up in Hollywood, Florida.
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But Eurovision 2016 winner Jamala — real name Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova — was covering Whitney Houston and singing about forced migration in Crimean Tatar.
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That theme of loss, and the passing of time — you've been writing and singing about it for a while, and more so recently.
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It's initially jarring to see someone like Yorke, who's made a career out of singing about dystopia and paranoia this vulnerable and open.
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If this were Grease, they would be Rizzo, mooning about on the black top, singing about all the "worse things" they could do.
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The way Samara holds back on her verses, singing so emotionally but not quite revealing what she's singing about, is also a seduction.
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In fact, plenty of badass ladies have taken to singing about being better off by themselves — even a reportedly newly single Taylor Swift.
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This is what Beyonce was singing about in "XO," each day feels a tiny bit like coming up on your first ever pill.
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This time, the movie is While You Were Sleeping, and the credits roll to the sweet tune of friends singing about Peter Gallagher.
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We find Tink on "On to the Next One" singing about a sour relationship, which could be interpreted as both personal and professional.
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Whether she's singing about snowmen or coral, her vocals are stellar and we're thrilled that she's lending them to such an important cause.
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"I thought we were singing about things that had never been done before," said Chip Zien, an "In Trousers" veteran recast as Mendel.
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Pain was a major component of punk—but instead of singing about inflicting it, Shelley waxed vulnerable about being on the receiving end.
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As far as we go, there are more important things than what we're singing about, which is just graphic stuff about horror movies.
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It starts with a heavy T. Rex stomp and vocalist Moses Brown singing about sexually insecure cops before burning guitar riffs take over.
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Jussie Smollett wants to move on from his alleged "attack" -- despite a pending trial -- and he's singing about it while on coronavirus lockdown.
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Even when singing about cocaine and his empty heart, the rapper/singer spins silk with his vocals over productions punctuated by jazzy keys.
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She felt people wouldn't take her as seriously if she were, simply, a girl standing onstage with a guitar, singing about her feelings.
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It begins with Smiths-esque guitar, and then the frontwoman Hannah Joy slides in with a clarion clear voice singing about ringing disappointment.
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I'll universalize things I might be singing about, because I have trouble with people who try to shove their ideologies down my throat.
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Instead of singing about the character "losing" so long, he had him "healing" so long, emphasizing the enduring positivity of his own persona.
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" When she started singing about self-love rather than imitating other artists she admired, Lizzo said, "it just vibrated better in the music.
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After years of singing about love stories based in fantasy and embellishing the details of failed courtships, "Lover" sees Swift grow into herself.
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Although it was frustrating not to know what Ms. Gong was singing about in the moment, I was continually riveted by her performance.
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The 1403-member cast singing about the Age of Aquarius is distinct for its abundance of unapologetic wrinkles, dad bods and artificial joints.
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Before this sugary sweet kid was singing about candy, she was just another feline-loving little girl growing up in Nashua, New Hampshire.
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But for every person who praises Blond(e)s vulnerability, there is another who feels "uncomfortable" by the fact that he's singing about men.
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Instead of singing about getting revenge on ex-lovers ("Cry Me A River"), Mendes is talking about issues that teens face all the time.
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A new J-pop girl group from Japan is capitalizing on the recent hype surrounding bitcoin and singing about cryptocurrencies, as spotted by Quartz.
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Nothing quite compares to high-pitched and somewhat synth-y sounds of three chipmunk brothers singing about their favorite time of year: Christmas time!
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But I didn't want to make it sound like I was singing about the modern world, because I never want us to do that.
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They miss the good ol' days of pop stars singing about how great life is through their big, toothy smiles and saying absolutely nothing.
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It possesses an innocent vibe but he's singing about hitting it in the morning and narcotic smoothies so it's kind of a funny juxtaposition.
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" Songwriter Jordan Brown lends his vocals to the track, singing about trying to find comfort and security "in the land of duck and cover.
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Vile sorta addresses it on "Over Everything" when he dedicates a whole verse to singing about learning to wear earplugs as he's gotten older.
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I figure if I keep singing about myself and digging deeper and coming to truths about myself there's no one that can imitate that.
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Especially since your lyric, "I won't have affairs, girl" tells me and whoever-it-is-you're-singing-about that you will indeed have affairs.
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The musicians argue they are merely singing about their personal experiences, and that their reputation as a far-right band is a media distortion.
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On his latest album, "Arca," Mr. Ghersi reveals more of himself than ever, singing about desire and loss in heart-rendingly direct Spanish lyrics.
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" But, he added, it "takes on the good work we are always asking new musicals to do: the work of singing about real things.
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Back in the 1990s, Anna Waronker was in her 20s, writing and singing about youthful infatuations, hopes, annoyances and prerogatives — sometimes passionately, sometimes playfully.
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If "Highest In the Room" is about Jenner, then she has no problem with Scott singing about their love life, even when it's rocky.
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This is celebration music—Burna Boy singing about lighting a spliff music, flying in the clouds music, grounded in the solemnity Dave does best.
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Pepper's singing about walking up stairs and fixing their ceilings and shit, which are things that, structurally speaking, have nothing to do with bridges.
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He's essentially a male version of Jess — he's a teacher at the same school where she works, and he, too, loves singing about mundane things.
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It starts with Frollo singing about his illicit attraction to Esmeralda and escalates disturbingly quickly into him wishing her dead unless they can be together.
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Randy Rogers has seen plenty of bar banter from the stage while performing across the country with his band – and now he's singing about it.
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The track features Ora singing about how she is "50/50" and "not gonna hide it" and that sometimes she just wants to kiss girls.
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He knows the cultural elite look down on his rural Georgia roots and slam him for singing about dirt roads and beer cans in koozies.
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Over the weekend, the rapper posted a snippet of a low-quality video she made wearing a cow suit and singing about being a cow.
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We should remember that the best art evokes the world that exists, from Loretta Lynn singing about the Pill to Bey sinking that police car.
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Everyone is very, very serious about crawling around on the floor with digital tails strapped to their asses and singing about Mr. Mistoffelees or whatever.
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Schaefer's lyrics are an us-against-the-world sort of thing, singing about the ways that the shitty state of affairs can bind people together.
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Pizza fans showed up not just because of Macaulay Culkin; pizza fans showed up because Macaulay Culkin was singing about and giving out free pizza.
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You get that vibe from that early Italo music in the 80s—really heartfelt singing about somebody, but you don't know what they're talking about.
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These songs are feminist because she's singing about who she is and what she's feeling even when the pictures she paints are not especially flattering.
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She's singing about an obsession — "I know even if I run from it/I'm still in it" — that, despite its sonic permutations, can't be escaped.
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But where others struggled, and where Chazelle sings, is in remembering that the emotions worth singing about don't have to just be the happy ones.
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Protest music has been around for centuries: As long as people have been getting fed up with the status quo, they've been singing about it.
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Arlo Parks "Eugene" Parks applies her magical voice to singing about that ambiguous relationship, the one that isn't quite a friendship and isn't quite love.
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She raised her hand as someone who loves books, and was teased for her passion by an actor singing about the virtues of television. Mrs.
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So as the Carters spent every night singing about how deeply they loved each other in front of adoring fans, divorce rumors swirled around them.
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Otherwise it is just kind of, you are just singing about your boring old self making music, which is what we do most of the time.
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There's only so much a band can do apart from singing about it, so I think it's important that people are politically involved in other things.
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Whether they're singing about Girl Scout cookies or making jokes that are so bad they're good, kids are pretty much the gift that keep on giving.
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It's also boring, and at least with millionaire recording artists singing about flaunting their money, it's a fantasy we can all indulge in aspiring to achieve.
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The two both have kind of a witchy vibe, and neither woman has a contemporary equal when it comes to singing about heartbreak and disaffected love.
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Sam Hunt may be singing about back roads, but he took another mode of transportation when it came to wooing his now-wife, Hannah Lee Fowler.
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In the video, k-os preaches in a church by day and serves drinks to his friends by night while singing about a now absent lover.
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Singing about ways to prevent getting cheated on, Mr. Charles is suave, bluesy, cagey and improvisational — and it's Mr. Marsalis's trumpet fills that sound over-excited.
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And when everyone else is singing about the Maccabees, I'll be saying a prayer for the Hellenized Jews and for the "renegade Jews" of our day.
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In Nashville, you can hear the song wafting from the open door of any honky-tonk on Lower Broad: Johnny Cash singing about love, about desire.
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I was born a full seven years after the show ended, long after the gang hung up their bell bottoms and stopped singing about sunshine days.
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They're very out there, definitely, but I think people just don't like Muse because they're very out there, with all the conspiracies and singing about weird stuff.
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The idea was to give Belle more of a background, and more of a purpose in life than wandering around singing about how her community disappoints her.
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What she was singing about hasn't gone away, and in fact, in many cases, it has only been calcified into hardline stances, and then ratified into policy.
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Without knowing Grande's history, who wouldn't be surprised to hear Grande go from singing about former relationships on "Thank U, Next" to the trap-infused "7 Rings"?
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It also marks another potential cut from Drake's upcoming mixtape project More Life, and features Drake at peak Drake, singing about how nice a girl's hair smells.
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"Love Galore," is presumably CNTRL's newest single and features SZA singing about a guy who needs to stop hitting her up because he's already involved with someone.
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As Page Six noted Cyrus was able to recall Hannah Montana's pop rock anthem "Beach Weekend," which has her singing about having some fun in the sun.
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He always had to keep it real, which is why I start singing about substance in the song, because we both do it all for the substance.
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There are very few elements of her career in which Beyoncé can be compared to Tudor poets, but singing about her personal life is one of them.
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She performed shortened versions of the four songs that open the album, singing about betrayal, jealousy and revenge, then concluded with "Formation," calling for pride and sisterhood.
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The Song of the Roustabouts sees several clearly African-American workers putting up the circus tent while singing about their lack of education and penchant for drink.
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A video regularly featured on Iranian state television shows a group of children wearing fatigues and combat boots singing about a religious duty to fight in Syria.
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He is singing about overload and over-consumption, about how possessions take over living space and information drives out imagination — and how guiltily cushy it can feel.
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He opens up throughout the album, singing about loves won and lost, the pressures of growing up, and the struggle to find one's place in the world.
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"211 Song Memoir" is also one of the first times Merritt is singing about himself directly and not the media caricature of Merritt as a lovable curmudgeon.
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"50 Song Memoir" is also one of the first times Merritt is singing about himself directly and not the media caricature of Merritt as a lovable curmudgeon.
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As with any pop star, you don't have to agree with what Grande is singing about, whether it be sex or God being a woman or both.
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You can't just keep singing about — we've always been a band who sing about things that mean something, we've always wanted to make people feel good about themselves.
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But whether posing nude as a pixie or singing about the beach while wearing a turtleneck and bikini bottoms, it seems abundantly clear that she's just bein' Miley.
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But Underwood still ensures that there's a good time to be had, singing about redneck margaritas—that's tequila and Mountain Dew, for the uninitiated—on twangy earworm 'Southbound.
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Your political pop platform is Girl Power, the idea that feminism could be this fantastic, sexually liberated, and, yes, commercialized orchestra of women singing about freedom and equality.
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The fan was quick to pick up on the fact that Lovato was really singing about herself, and the pop star confirmed as much in the comment section.
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In today's installment of insane sentences that became improbably catchy Saturday Night Live sketches: Peter Dinklage in a blond wig singing about his space pants with Gwen Stefani.
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You aren't thinking about hauling a Ford truck out of the mud with Bob Seger singing about the road, man, when you see a clown dragging a chain.
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What you hear on the country airwaves today are generic party tunes by gym-toned guys singing about beer and fast cars and sex on pickup-truck tailgates.
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So I'm singing about being a living soul, a spirit encased into a body and lasting for whatever time is given to us on this place called Earth.
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Anyway, here he is chatting about whether "the voluptuousness of women" and singing about vegetables are enough to inspire children to start eating their green and fulfilling vegetables.
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The easiest way to realize the power of a word like "fatherland" was to ask men if they would be happy singing about their motherland instead, she said.
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Mr. Edwards's seemingly effortless picking produced a palpitating sound that captured the vibe of the ocean a few years before the Beach Boys began singing about California girls.
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It came out a month after the stock market cratered and you had these ironic and cute dudes who dressed nice singing about aspirational Ivy League prep aesthetics.
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" The victorious, inspirational tasks of a movie theme are handled by the marching beat and by SZA's chorus, singing about dreams and proclaiming, "All the stars are closer.
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She was revered in Mali for her courage in criticizing the government, calling out corruption and singing about taboo subjects like female genital cutting, which is common there.
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Whether they're singing about schadenfreude in the Broadway show "Avenue Q" or something nonsensical like "Manamana" on "Sesame Street," these anthropomorphized piles of fabric and felt emanate hilarity.
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"I do feel like part of it is being a vulnerable male — a black male — singing about things that might not necessarily be particularly …" He trailed off again.
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I didn't think too deeply about its lyrics and merely treasured the song for delivering the same Gwen I loved: a crying, angry girl singing about her breakup.
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A fresh-faced former soap opera actor who's already hit number one in his homeland and broken into the top 10 in the UK. What's he singing about?
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The country artists who are singing about queer people still occupy a minority, and we've yet to see any country star come out as transgender or gender non-conforming.
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It apparently includes as a soundtrack a Guatemalan youth choir singing about the history of US invasions of Central America as a counterpoint to this display of US nationalism.
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The stand-out tracks are "Jo" and "Untitled God Song," which borrow melodies from one another and showcase Heynderickx's talents for spinning a story and singing about the cosmos.
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But while it answered fans' demands for new material, the six-track EP raised many questions about who The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, was singing about.
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There are probably loads of artists on The OC soundtrack that I could compare this to but all of that is made irrelevant by Harry Styles singing about wanking.
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Bieber performed the track acoustically, "Love Yourself"-style — just him and his falsetto on a couch onstage, singing about how he wants to "fix" all of his girl's insecurities.
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Related: Justin Bieber again caught in racial controversy The month prior, a video circulated of the singer using the "N-word" and singing about joining the Ku Klux Klan.
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The ultimate recent example of heartbreaking work inspired by a pet is Miley Cyrus's "Pablow the Blowfish," during which she was moved to tears singing about her departed fish.
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" Even in songs about women, The Lonely Island are the butt of the joke: in "I Just Had Sex," they're singing about "the best 30 seconds of my life.
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In the episode centered around Parton's 1974 hit "Jolene," Julianne Hough stars as the infamously auburn-haired beauty Parton has been singing about for decades — but with a twist.
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The express train he's singing about starts at an optimistically named station in Rio de Janeiro, Bonsucesso, and rushes not only into the future but also into the hereafter.
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It feels weird to say Andy Samberg singing about jizz altered the paradigm in which YouTube operated, enabling vloggers to build pseudo-empires off the back of unboxing mascara.
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But there was some backlash in certain critic circles where there were allegations of these four being privileged Ivy League white dudes in preppy clothes singing about Cape Cod.
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France — 19973:1 Who doesn't like a cute French man named Amir dancing around a stage with a giant smile on his face, singing about how great you are?
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If she did not have great ambitions to become a songwriter (a thing critics subsequently used to discount her artistry), Ms. Houston knew exactly what she was singing about.
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Following Kesha's departure from her party persona, and her powerful ballads like "Praying," the singer says she was uneasy about singing about the more fun aspects of her life.
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" She's singing about tricky long-distance relationships and about the euphoria and exhaustion of losing herself in music: "Grab me by my ankles/I've been flying for too long.
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Otherwise, Springsteen, who recently received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, might be singing about us one day, except by then we won't be able to afford to hear the show.
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Although Lady Gaga only started singing about it in 2011, people have theorized that gay, lesbian, bisexual, and otherwise queer people were "born that way" for more than 20 years.
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" It's impossible to tell whether she's singing about a lover or a computer, but the ambiguity drives home the point: "I know you love me/ Cause you're always watching me.
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I was talking to someone who was so used to straight relationships that they immediately thought if I was singing about a girl, it must be just about making friends.
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Everything Madame Gandhi is singing about here, about giving yourself an emotional makeover and letting go of self-destructive behaviors, is seriously helping to set my intentions for next week.
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There are those who go after Hayley Kiyoko for daring to point out that she shouldn't be criticized for singing about women when Swift sings about men all the time.
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It's fine to point out the problem, Jasper, but maybe get on your high horse after you've stopped singing about hating Mondays and actually saved the day a few times.
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Despite a then-16-year-old Britney Spears singing about literal sadomasochism, 1999 was a year when pop culture began to look more meaningful and less manufactured through my eyes.
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You won't catch them singing about muddy tires or flying the Stars and Bars, though, or giving into any of the other tired, often sexist stereotypes that litter country radio.
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Some even offer subversive twists on their characters, such as a scene in which actors playing copper industrialists break into song; usually strikers are the ones singing about their struggles.
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As they floated, they would listen to a Norwegian string orchestra, a choir of 100 and two Metropolitan Opera stars singing about the parallel life cycles of stars and humans.
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I basically felt like I couldn't go around singing about it if I wasn't going to do something about it, so I got involved and helped lead a student walkout.
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The video for "Pet Cemetery" captures that play between light and dark, showing Tierra hanging out with giant Muppet-like creatures in a graveyard while singing about death and mourning.
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In crucial moments of an opera, despite what characters on stage may be singing about, the orchestra can signal what's really going on and suggest subliminal emotions and disguised feelings.
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She's singing about depression and withdrawal, perhaps with a partner — "If you disappear, then I'm disappearing too" — and passages in French trace her wounds back to a lonely, misjudged adolescence.
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He turned away from video clips and live shows; he set out to make more mature statements in his songs, though he never completely abandoned singing about love and desire.
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Strip away the sumptuous production of opening track "Come Back To Earth" and you're left with Miller strumming his guitar alone, singing about needing a way out of his head.
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And just in case you missed it at the top, an encore: Oh, Justin Timberlake, we remember when you singing about baby back ribs sent us running to the nearest Chili's.
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Among the 12-tracks are a mix of holiday classics and fresh seasonal tunes, including the title song which features Shelton, 21, and Stefani, 47, singing about the red-hot romance.
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Whether it was Billie Holiday singing about "Strange Fruit" in the 1930s, or the Clash in the 70s, music, politics and challenging authority and power have always gone hand in hand.
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Whether she's admitting defeat by apologizing for all the public squabbles that went down last year, or just simply singing about being happy and in love, there's certainly something different here.
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He takes a few digs at pop culture too, singing about the confusing ending of the Bachelorette, the birth of Beyoncé's twins and Harry Styles' acting debut in war film Dunkirk.
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There's a point at the end of Knife in the Water's "I Sent You Up" when Aaron Blount and Laura Krause are singing about angels turning a soul away from heaven.
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Francis' feral delivery makes the subtext text: in heaven everything is fine, but he's so far down in hell that singing about paradise is the closest he'll ever get to it.
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Still, there's a newfound confidence there—the sense that you're catching a new glimpse of him with every word, whether he's singing about his past or of pouring out another shot.
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No one on this planet knows what the hell Matt Bellamy is singing about but it doesn't matter because who said he was singing to this planet and its puny lifeforms?
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Blanco repeats a ten-second segment of the song—which features Lanez's disembodied croon, singing about a lonely night in—for minutes at a time, tinkering with the layers of percussion.
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It highlights real people, with very real struggles in an era of "woke" celebrity music videos from artists who aren't really part of the communities or social movements they're singing about.
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That didn't make Hopelessness any less quixotic, any less crazy of an undertaking; it just reminded us that it was only as crazy as the world that ANOHNI is singing about.
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The two celebrities, both known for their inspirational words of empowerment, were singing about Obama's latest book — or journal, as Obama corrects DeGeneres — Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice.
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The delighted audience chuckled at the girl's slightly altered lyrics at the beginning of the song when, instead of singing about Christmas lights, Sadie and Sunny replaced it with Hanukkah lights.
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But actually, Elvis J. Kurtovic and his Meteors were singing about — in an extremely brutal way that should have been unacceptable to the Communist authorities — Yugoslavia's own prime minister, Milka Planinc.
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It was a real return to his roots—there's something of a Billy Madison quality to his voice when he's singing about how "it's gonna be shorts again," whatever that means.
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That counselor pointed out to us that in the music video, Michael writes "explore monogamy" on a woman's body in lipstick, telling us that he was singing about sex inside loving relationships.
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Mashrou' Leila, which is on a world tour, has made headlines for singing about subjects that are largely taboo in the Arabic pop scene, including politics, religion, social justice, and sexual freedom.
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This should not be a surprise—hardly anyone can pull off building a fashion empire around androgyny, wearing a raw meat dress to an awards ceremony, or singing about life on Mars.
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For all the lightheartedness of the music, the translated lyrics will break your heart once you know she's singing about revisiting a summer love that was better left for one season only.
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The lyrics push everything up to the present day (you wouldn't hear Britney singing about citalopram or Instagram, for instance) and the production is so tightly wound that it actually sounds subversive.
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Not only is the group now dancing to their own tunes, they're also singing about the heartbreak and strained relationships in their own lives, as well as the people closest to them.
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"I believe in truth and that if I'm truthful in what I'm singing about that comes across as being passionately upset with what is happening to my country," Streisand told the magazine.
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The R&B singer starts her emotional song from her iconic debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill with, "One day you'll understand, Zion," before singing about her experience becoming a mother.
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Before that, Cat Stevens, born Steven Demetre Georgiou in London, had been known as a voice of kindly introspection, picking an acoustic guitar and singing about affection and a search for peace.
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They are princes of puerile who have literally made millions singing about their dicks with a childish excitement that subverts the aggressive BOOBS LOL AMIRIGHT BOYS comedy that previously dominated pop culture.
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"It's hard because you can very easily fall into that trap of just singing about love," she says, rolling her eyes, pushing her fries aside and moving onto her dripping double cheeseburger.
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I find making things bigger and producing them to be so exciting, but you can run away with it sometimes and you lose the core of whatever the hell you're singing about.
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In Tijuana, south of the California city of San Diego, more than 50 asylum seekers marched to the port of entry, singing about winning asylum and helping one another carry their luggage.
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She's singing about being a ride or die in a relationship that is maybe noooooot the greatest for her, but damn — we don't all know that sort of passionate attachment to someone.
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Only Lana Del Rey, who gave a surprise performance at the end of the event, ended up looking small — alone and weird singing about nostalgia and heartbreak first thing in the morning.
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The very last song we did was called, "There Should Be Unicorns," which was, to me, okay, now we really are singing about this futuristic fairy tale world that is in the future.
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"Leave" became an anthem I belted out — sprawled flat on the rug, in the shower, in the car, even though as a high schooler, I had no clue what I was singing about.
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"Ship Him to Shanghai," one of the oldest songs on the record features Moore's pretty guitar that contrasts with Scott singing about maritime indentured labor in California at the turn of the century.
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That was something I thought might be kind of cool, sort of transposing dissatisfaction with the modern world and make it sound like I'm singing about the Hyperborean age of Conan The Barbarian.
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The Fall create a "tissue of allusions", singing about "men with butterflies on their faces" and making a thick montage of literary references and self-referential sounds, like the hiss of recording cassettes.
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Katy Perry's hook is catchier and more satisfying than just about anything on Witness, Pharrell sounds like he's having fun singing about virtual reality, memory, and electricity, and Big Sean... he's there too!
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" In the music video, Siwa, 15, sits among friends in a movie theater while singing about how she has always dreamed of seeing her "face on the screen" and "name in the lights.
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" Kurt Cobain was singing about the dimness of his band's late adopters, but Mr. Simpson heard in the lyrics a take on "that raw, primal, lusty nature of a 16-year-old boy.
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True to form, Dunsmuir sees Fallon—a wild streetpreacher of rock'n'roll if there ever was one—haul out some of his trademark surrealist lyrics, singing about tentacles and heathen gods with grizzled fervor.
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" He added, "The band fails to appreciate the irony of singing about freedom while attempting to use a secret gag order to prevent other artists from expressing views with which the band disagrees.
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After a while, you start wishing you were watching that TV ad with a bunch of people on a bus, singing about how they have a structured settlement but they need cash now.
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By the chorus, he and Jan are playing patty cake, and pretty soon the whole joint is singing about the satisfactions of a lover who is built for comfort rather than for speed.
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It didn't seem to matter much in some of the bluegrass numbers, which raced by in a delirious gallop with snippets of text — was he really singing about a chicken on his back?
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They are twisted, feline mutants, the kind that should be writhing on the ground and meowing pleas for a merciful death, The Fly-style, not dancing and singing about whatever Cats is about.
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And while Simpson is singing about all the things that compromise heartfelt songwriting — image, commerce, "you know they don't like it when you take a stand" — the video clip is all artificial glee.
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Young people aspiring to a life in show business, but currently just stuck in gridlock, climb out of their cars and dance on the rooftops, singing about big dreams and the California sunshine.
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"The Dream," a new track lifted from the album takes in elements of 70s folk pop and 90s alt rock, has Hamilton singing about greener grasses and a yearning for new places and faces.
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Female-fronted post-punk bands were already singing about sexual assault, abortion, orgasms, and just generally blowing minds by acknowledging that sometimes women's bodies are gross and scary and oozing and non-titillatingly-sexual.
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As someone who has built her career writing and singing about love and relationships, it is especially touching for Swift to celebrate everyone's right to have those same love stories with whomever they choose.
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While singing about people in Hollywood taking precaution to keep a safe distance from each other amid the #MeToo movement, Bryant didn't seem to get the memo and playfully tapped Ventimiglia on the shoulder.
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You may not have known that you wanted to see Channing Tatum in a sailor suit, wistfully singing about dames in a musical number that is not at all subtle about its homoerotic subtext.
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You could hear the chains clang, but you could hear this man singing about higher ground, and that was the moment that I realized I wanted to help condemned people get to higher ground.
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Few bands are more admired, in the world of Christian rock, than U2, precisely because Bono has spent four decades singing about his Christian faith, and his Christian doubts, without ever being boxed in.
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The duet, which was written in the 85033s, features a woman singing about how she must be leaving a man's home, while he tries to convince her not to, pointing to the winter weather.
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But for a brief moment, thirty years ago, I thought a bunch of dudes that looked like ladies just might be singing about me and Wet Cherry thought success was just around the corner.
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Where most listeners could just headbang along to the death growling and fast-picked arpeggios without thinking too hard about the words, Sosebee had to draw more concrete conclusions about what they're singing about.
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And so here, on "Uno Más," the opposite is true: Mr. Williams is doing his now-routine casual speak-singing about personal growth, and N.O.R.E. raps at his most flirty, bouncing instead of barking.
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When we sing "never was a cloudy day," what we're really singing about is the eternal human spirit that refuses to accept defeat and stop loving when there are apocalyptic storm clouds rolling overhead.
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While almost none of these men are referenced by name, those following Swift's career know exactly who she is singing about thanks to some not-so-subtle clues, starting with the "no scooters" sign.
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The duet, which was written in the 1940s, features a woman singing about how she must be leaving a man's home, while he tries to convince her not to, pointing to the winter weather.
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Guitar and synthesizer parts overlap in dizzying stereo counterpoint as the 9/4 meter keeps things off-balance; Yannis Philippakis casts himself as a baby boomer singing about childhood memories and present-day regrets.
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This is how, over the course of our show, she has ended up sailing through the air on a pretzel or licking a hamster water pipe or tap-dancing while singing about anti-depressants.
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Green hits on feelings we've all had when people decide things about us that are incongruent with how we see ourselves and she's singing about it on top of a very British indie rock sound.
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I just wonder who he's singing about... Maybe we'll get clues with other forthcoming tracks off of his upcoming album, The Search For Everything, which has no official release date but will be out soon.
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The current iteration of the show often finds comedy gold when its female cast members unite onscreen, whether they're singing about having sex in their childhood bedrooms or reminiscing about awkward high school theater parties.
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Father John Misty right in the middle of singing about Oculus Rift for some fucking reason (Screenshot from YouTube)I woke up to learn that Father John Misty was on Saturday Night Live last night.
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Then at the 2015 Super Bowl halftime show, she sang "I Kissed a Girl" with a man, Lenny Kravitz, which freed her from being criticized as a straight woman for singing about kissing a girl.
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The die-hard fans will tell you it's their unique take on a genre meant for the masses, singing about the stigma surrounding mental health and creating a half-dangerous, half-sweet outward-facing image.
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Songs start with a plucked outar, a lute-like instrument, or a zokra, the predecessor to the oboe, along with plaintive singing about, say, wishing to be the bird in the bosom of one's lover.
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She's singing about jealousy, fear of abandonment and a gaze that feels like "a bullet in the chest"; in the video, men appear with spreading bloodstains, while Rosalía is at the center of an insurrection.
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Singing about desperate loneliness and 180-degree mood swings, the Black Keys reach back to a late-1960s combination of primordial three-chord simplicity (hinting at Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky") and overdubs galore.
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"He took one more long pause and said, "I had never read any Walt Whitman but he's talking about how he's thinking about all those things even though he's singing about every day life stuff.
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"When I heard her sing, I might not have understood what she was singing about, but something, the quiver in her voice, the emotion in her voice, sucked me in," she said of Ms. Parton.
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The video depicts a winged Eilish, doused in what appears to be thick, black oil, stumbling through a burning street and singing about rising waters and California wildfires — environmental phenomenons all linked to climate change.
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Thom Yorke does his trademark echoed warble, singing about a "low flying panic attack," and those violins are so very Hitchcock-cray, but it really does sound like a band excited to return to the fray.
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His old pal Justin Timberlake was nominated for his first-ever Oscar nomination yesterday, fetching a Best Song nomination for Trolls' "Can't Stop The Feeling" Dude's come a long way from singing about baby-back wings.
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When one contestant inevitably sings in a language apart from English, you can bet much of the audience will not be sure what is going on — they could be singing about carrots, for all we know.
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For stans, this is nothing new: perennial Sad Boy that he is, Drake has always loved talking (and rapping, and singing) about how much technology and the internet only serves to alienate us from each other.
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They did, and something about that success seems to have clicked for him: That same year, albeit much less memorably, Levine had found himself on the Ying Yang Twins' "Live Again" singing about a sad stripper.
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You're telling me Twitter would not take issue with a grown man singing about a girl who "was just 17, you know what I mean," as Jack does when he performs "I Saw Her Standing There"?
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In video clips and in his songs, Usher situates himself in an Atlanta of skyscrapers and strip clubs, and he can be as brazenly materialistic as his hip-hop contemporaries, singing about luxury cars and champagne.
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The next song "Do You Remember" is a nostalgic follow-up to one of his best songs "Summer Friends," and features Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard yearningly singing about youthful times out in the sun.
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Her work is simultaneously delicate and sturdy, with spare, often skeletal guitar and piano creating a foundation for her rich, feathery voice, the lightness of which often betrayed the seriousness of what she was singing about.
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In a recent radio interview, Swift described her approach to creating the song — which involved contrasting Victoria's life with Grizabella's: 'Memory' is Grizabella singing about how she had all these beautiful, incredible moments in her past.
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When Mr. Haddad struck back on his next show, appearing in prison scrubs and singing about the prosecutor while a belly dancer gyrated nearby, a council of judges called for further charges of insulting the judiciary.
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The musical opens with a dead prostitute in a dumpster, just like the movie, but this time, she is surrounded by the prostitutes and panhandlers of Hollywood Boulevard, dancing and singing about their hopes and dreams.
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Embraced by a youthful fan base for its catchy (and social-media-amplified) score, the new musical "Six" conceives a concert in which the Tudor queens compete for audience approval, singing about oft-grisly marital misfortune.
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They then perform their single "Backdoor Lover", which is presumably named as a response to the then-current trend of giving pop songs double entendre titles that led to 11-year-olds unwittingly singing about jizz.
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It totally blew my mind that he's really singing about how "doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break" (a lyric that either got back masked or completely edited out of most radio versions).
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A month after wistfully singing about frying the dude's testicles on an open flame, she's aligning with the many Women's Marches that are happening around the world to protest America electing a sexual predator as President.
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In the middle of the record, a loose, harmonica-punctuated country song called "Infinite Mile" has him singing about being a "starry-eyed child / Before all that shit went down," taking solace in the endlessness of existence.
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"Roots of authentic country music, in Texas especially, if you were to take that back 150 years, it was singing about politics, alcoholism, prison, jail… telling the human condition and doing so in brutal honesty," O'Donnell said.
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Instead of singing about Mia's aunt, the funny host launches into a song about how the movie was briefly named Best Picture, perfectly parodying Stone's Oscar-winning scene while clips and photos of the flub are shown.
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These kids are singing about freeing Nelson Mandela, then all of a sudden there's 30 vicious, horrible skinhead Nazis who live in King's Cross and smash up every left-wing gig—that's a bit odd, isn't it?
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A lot of what I end up singing about is political and it's presented in a kind of comedic fashion or a rant–and I know this sounds kind of sentimental–but those things can be important.
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All of this would be cool if the song were simply Jeezy and Wayne, but let's not forget that Akon is involved, too, singing about blasting Do or Die and ordering snipers to post up on rooftops.
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Future Islands' Sam Herring shows up on single "Time Moves Slow," and you can almost imagine him fronting the band in some abhorrent velvet blazer, singing about love and loss into the bottom of a whiskey glass.
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With "All the Time," Vivian Girls announced itself as a punk record from the jump, with Ramone talk-singing about a toxic crush in her hypnotizing warble over thrashing guitars, manic drums, and Goodman's falsetto backing vocals.
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The music video (which you can see above) was directed by Kesha and her brother Lagan, and basically depicts Kesha raging around in a bar, wearing a giant red stetson and singing about how she's a 'motherfucker.
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Gaga upholds the pop tradition of contradiction eked out by those like Prince before her: She's a queer practicing Catholic, a body image activist sponsored by Doritos, a patriot singing about transgender life at the Super Bowl.
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Lorde, a two-time Grammy winner, finds herself closer to Ellie Goulding than mournful Lana Del Rey in this track while singing about drinking at bars and waking up in different bedrooms over an upbeat, singalong chorus.
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A wildly successful band, TFBoys, is winning awards, amassing social media records and selling more than $18913 million in merchandise each month — all by singing about positive, Beijing-approved subjects like studying hard and serving the nation.
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In Gov't Mule he upholds the Southern rock tradition, slinging muscular guitar riffs and singing about the lessons of a long, hard road; a song by Jimi Hendrix or the Police might easily slip into the set.
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You won't find her singing about dancing in the rain with her angelic-faced crush in her latest album, 1989, or anything in the future, but teenaged Taylor wrote the best love songs back in the day.
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It seems relevant that it took Kärki decades of song writing to eventually shed his pseudonym alongside his metaphors, to be comfortable singing about tucking his son in while simultaneously providing an overarching critique of fascism and totalitarianism.
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In this exclusive new clip, we see a young Bobbi Kristina clinging to her mother as Houston performs an ode to her live onstage, singing about how she finds inspiration in her daughter with then-husband Bobby Brown.
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Her 2009 video for "Tik Tok" starts with her waking up hungover in a stranger's bathtub, leads to her getting arrested while singing about drinking, and ends with her in another bathtub at another party, missing a shoe.
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When Morrissey and Johnny Marr wrote There Is a Light That Never Goes Out for the Smiths, they were obviously singing about falling in love so hard that you don't mind getting trampled by a double-decker bus.
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So I just kept listening and pretended that was some other singer on the jukebox singing about "The Fightin' Side of Me." Denial, I suppose, was as close to transcendence as my teenage self was going to get.
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Case in point: Dalton Rapattoni and MacKenzie Bourg's tired, paint-by-numbers rendition of the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way," after which Harry Connick Jr. badgered them to explain what exactly they'd just been singing about.
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After years spent singing about animal rights and women's liberation down South, she moved to New York City in 2014, picked up a bass and joined the Queens black metal band Nite Rite as a bassist in 2017.
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The ad, which features an upbeat Minogue singing about Australia as a place of respite where a British citizen could relax in the face of its country's troubles, premiered just ahead of Queen Elizabeth II's annual Christmas speech.
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Many comments on social network Twitter pointed up the contrast between his two roles, first as a pop sensation singing about love and heartbreak, and then as a stern, bearded preacher admonishing young people for straying from Islam.
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Still, even in the course of singing about their struggles trying and failing to write a gorgeous and great feminist anthem, the cast realized they were being pretty feminist anyway with this "tough and tricky landmine of a song."
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Instead of relating it to be something out of a Conan story, why don't I make it as if I am in that world myself, and I'm singing about how brutal it is, or about how difficult life is?
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Here he is singing about the "cowboy life": But mostly, Cop Rock remains stubbornly insistent that this show about singing cops is supposed to be a serious meditation on race relations, law and order, and life in American cities.
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That's probably not the point, though the studio has used this opportunity to signal to consumers that it's no longer an entity that would thoughtlessly depict a Siamese cat playing the piano with chopsticks while singing about fortune cookies.
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Coming out of country's tepid gentleman era, full of edgeless men with thin voices singing about romantic fealty, Brown was a refreshing alternative: His voice is lustrous, if not especially powerful, and his reference points are often historically minded.
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The show, with a book by the screenwriter Diablo Cody ("Juno") and staging by the director Diane Paulus ("Waitress"), takes on the good work we are always asking new musicals to do: the work of singing about real things.
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On his early demos, it was hard to figure out exactly who or what he was singing about, but that feeling was there all along, close-mic'd and squished-sounding in the way that only iPhone recordings can be.
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On this new album, his first in six years, whether he's singing about getting old ("Long in the Tooth"), boozing ("Last Call for Alcohol"), or being a perennial outsider ("Checkers and Chess"), Billy Joe Shaver is in fine form.
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K.Flay "Bad Vibes" You know the kind of person K.Flay is singing about here, because there are probably some in your life: the bummers, the negative nellies, and the people who only see the dark cloud despite the silver lining.
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" The track opens with Belos singing about waking up on the bathroom floor over clanging guitars, "My mouth is bleeding and this day's starting too soon / I welcome kisses from the floor / I said, for real this time no more.
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In "I Want it That Way" the Boys dance around in angelic white with heavenly crossfades taking us from scene to scene, but they're singing about how they never want their woman to express a desire antithetical to their own.
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It opened five months after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; America's role in the Vietnam War was quickly expanding; Bob Dylan was on the radio singing about current events; and the fight for civil rights, led by the Rev.
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When, many years later, he sang in London, China and New York; when he performed to standing ovations at the Sydney Opera House, and his debut solo album, "Gurrumul", went triple platinum in Australia, this was what he was singing about.
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The one good thing that came from this interview—other than an increase in donations to shark-related charities—is that a pizzeria in Lawrence, Kansas was inspired enough by fake Trump singing about fake pizza to make it a reality.
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At the least, it's a unique blend of humanity, where it isn't surprising to see a new-age fairground manager riding a ten-foot-high flame-shooting tractor in walking distance of planet earth's biggest popstar singing about her devastating heartbreak.
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He'd get even stranger later on, stitching together disparate song fragments and sound effects with his wife Linda on "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey," singing about Marvel Comics characters and recording a version of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" with Wings.
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I promise I don't actually think the above lyrics are interesting, but I do think it's interesting that this song sounds freakishly like "Ave Maria" (a hymn), and Zayn's opted for religious imagery to describe the woman he's singing about.
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Now, after several waves of immigration, a Civil War, the abolition of slavery, two World Wars, and multiple transformative civil rights and social movements, we're still singing about the Battle of Baltimore, but the way we sing it has changed completely.
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Mr. Rogers is singing about how it's ok to hug a pillow or pine after a teddy bear, and even though it seems like I'm too old for such things, I feel my stomach drop and I'm suddenly having trouble breathing.
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"We play in many places where people don't even understand what Liliana is singing about, but they connect through dancing, and that's beautiful; it's an almost ancestral phenomenon in humankind, to connect through our bodies and through movement," says Mejía.
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In the video for "All Around the World," from his forthcoming solo album, "Resistance," he's dancing blithely by the ocean with a group of young women, singing about the touring life as if it were a parade of easy living.
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J.P. Maybe it's a little late for La Luz to be singing about finally seizing "my golden dream" of moving to California for "one endless summer after another," since the band relocated to Los Angeles from Seattle back in 2015.
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In the student center in Ames, they played Tracy Chapman singing about how finally the tables are starting to turn, while Ben Cohen, the wild-haired Ben and Jerry's guy, introduced the similarly wild-haired Brooklyn-born Vermonter with flavorful assurance.
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With 4:44 and the new collaboration Everything Is Love, Jay-Z followed the model set by Beyoncé, one they're now taking on tour: As long as the Carters are singing about their relationship and its problems, we believe in them.
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Sandler drew a pretty sizable crowd for being dressed in multiple jackets and wearing sunglasses underground, but a few stoic straphangers breezed right by him, perhaps failing to realize that the strange, hooded man singing about dicks was a major celebrity.
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Some artists have begun to speak out about gun violence, but "there's not going to be a corporate radio artist singing about gun control," Nashville singer-songwriter Will Hoge, the author of a protest song supporting gun control, told Rolling Stone in 2017.
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What makes Bathgate's take on this well-tread material, though, is how far removed Bathgate seems to be from what he's singing about, as if he's taken a step back from the world he inhabits, simultaneously celebrating and critiquing himself and the industry.
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Around the same time, the "Wizard Rock" trend (shorthanded Wrock) gained momentum as Harry Potter fans on YouTube formed a litany of music groups — the first one being Harry and the Potters — devoted to personifying and singing about various characters from the books.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Refugees wandering and unwelcome, environmental disasters wrecking the land, poverty pushing people to the margins — Woody Guthrie was responding to the hardships of the Great Depression, but he may as well have been singing about now.
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By casting herself in the role of hardcore frontperson-cum-Hollywood action hero, and singing about gender, power, and the movies—sometimes while standing on an actual man's face—Singh takes us beyond the visceral thrills of punk while still indulging in them.
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In case that message wasn't strong enough, Beyoncé followed it up with a Super Bowl performance featuring dancers were dressed like Black Panther members, singing about negro noses, afros and hot sauce in her bag on the most-watched telecast in the country.
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Grande's voice and vibe make the song so heartbreakingly earnest that you can feel both the real love she had for the exes she's singing about and the resolve she has to move past them and become someone who doesn't rely on relationships.
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Though it has all the bogus hallmarks of rich rock stars singing about the downtrodden ("Salt of the Earth" by the Rolling Stones comes to mind), "Sans titre (Gérard)" communicates well a sense of pity within the capitalist overindulgence of the architectural space.
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"Then we emailed Peter Dinklage, because we had a great time with him doing 'Space Pants,'" Day remembers, referring to the sketch when Dinklage hosted in which he wears a white bob wig and does the robot while singing about space pants.
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" Edwards may be getting her revenge, though, Little Mix's latest single happens to be called "Shout Out To My Ex." Said song includes Edwards singing about "fakin' it" in the bedroom and hoping that her ex's new lover is having "better sex.
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It's a subject so universal and central to our human experience (name one person over the age of 21 who hasn't been dumped, other than Beyonce) that even though the artist doesn't know us, we feel as though they're singing about our experiences.
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But instead of angry boys in eyeliner and dyed black hair singing about how girls ruin their lives, Alex, Meghan, Sydney, and Nicole write songs about making it through hard times, and how they will totally destroy you if you cross them.
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Sample lyrics: "Pretty woman, walkin' down the street / Pretty woman, the kind I like to meet / Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth / No one could look as good as you" OK, so she was singing about Austin Powers.
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As time's gone on, his sound's drifted ever closer to these sounds (including the lounge curios in between the spikier moments on last year's ken), and his lyrics have grown steadily more venomous, singing about Marxist revolutionaries in between mournful trumpet instrumentals.
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" The prose can feel as cool as Rat Pack-era Sinatra and as sad as Lou Reed singing about a perfect day: "I was terrified that I might lose him, the one person I loved, my deepest connection to this rotten planet.
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While her parents work, we spend the day doing toddler stuff — reading favorite books six times in a row, singing about spiders and stars, placing objects into containers and dumping them out again, going to the park, napping (baby, not Bubbe, alas).
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And that she doesn't owe or give anyone an explanation about which parts are real, that she doesn't have to make her life and her art more helpful for our understanding, is much more intriguing than any side chick she's singing about.
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Manchester United says it wants to slap lifetime bans on the people who threw flares at the vice chairman's house while singing about him dyingManchester United players were once allowed to turn up to training drunk on New Year, a former player says
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Trevor Noah's 'In Demoriam' honors the lost presidential candidates of 2019 Baby Sonic sprints into our hearts in Japanese trailer for 'Sonic the Hedgehog' Behold this ridiculous Cybertruck knockoff Here's Yoda singing about his big boy stick, courtesy of Bad Lip Reading
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They might duet on a "Crazy in Love" here or a "Deja Vu" there, but when Beyoncé sent a man to the left, to the left in "Irreplaceable," there was little public speculation over whether she was secretly singing about Jay-Z.
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J.P. Presented as a conversation with a now-married ex, "Chilly" sinks into post-breakup numbness: "Been so long since the love bug bit/I'll admit, maybe I quit," Niki sings in a constricted melody that only expands when she's singing about him.
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If she's not rapping about justice for the victims of the violence that rocked the country during the 36-year civil war, she's singing about the freedom to love whoever and however you want despite what a conservative Catholic society may say.
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Split came out in 1994, which was kind of when Britpop was just starting, and we were a bit dismissed because we were just singing about fluffy clouds, while all of these new bands were coming along and we were pushed to the side.
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It's believed that the woods witch and the ghost of High Heart are one and the same, which means that, regardless of the lyrics that were written for the show, in the books she's possibly singing about Targaryens and their children — including Jon Snow.
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A Dogbrain: Blue Dog (dogbrain) Wondering why these six slices of slide-guitar Americana cut through with such uncommon truth power, I learned that Jay Ward is a lifelong stutterer who escapes his prison not just by singing but by singing about his prison.
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These days, rather than be the cool girl at the party, it's far cooler to be girl at the party singing about how coolness is a total sham in the first place (just see Alessia Cara's "Here" or Hailee Steinfeld's "Hell Nos and Headphones").
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"'Big Cat' the song was about the first track we wrote for the record, and probably the first where we really hit upon the sonic template—synth bass, sequencers, rude guitars, minimal drums, swaggering songs with Hayden singing about his pain," explains co-vocalist Tom.
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In the nineteen-nineties, Brooks changed the genre, roaming stages with a wireless microphone, singing about ending racism and domestic violence; he also feuded with executives, retired for much of the aughts, and briefly tried to reinvent himself as a brooding rocker named Chris Gaines.
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"Marilyn," with Micachu, sounded laconic on first listen, but everything was slightly imbalanced: the popped snares were a fraction of a second off the beat, the mix was a clutter, and Micachu was singing about shining teeth and watery graves the whole time anyway.
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I don't think about it in terms of, 'man, things suck, I've got to blow off some steam by singing about dragons'—it all comes from the same place for me with Cormorant, with Ursa or even if I'm just writing riffs in my room.
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The record's conclusion mirrors changes in the life of Ms. Ballerini, who has recently gotten engaged, — but it does not diminish its power to note that she is at her most effective, and most savage, when writing and singing about scorn, dismissal and disappointment.
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Some people might be swayed by that shit-eating defense lawyer's cheap ploy, but I promise you that no reasonable jury could hear both of these artists singing about Christmas and come to the conclusion that they should be allowed to work in tandem.
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Product placements are a staple of the modern music video, with Miley Cyrus applying EOS lip balm in "We Can't Stop," Migos prominently displaying (and singing about) 19 brands like Chanel and Segway in "Bad and Boujee," and just about everyone shilling for Beats by Dre.
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"I'm confused is this written or is this their 'IMPROV' he rhymes joking with joking like four times…" Bell wrote in reaction to the video, which features the new cast members, whose ages range from 12-15, in a mock audition, singing about how funny they are.
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Not only do such effects cater to the tastes of today's gaming generation, but their excess also helps capture the shock value Doom had back in the days when Depeche Mode was still topping the US music charts and Britney Spears was still singing about Mickey Mouse.
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Here are the facts: he is 20 years old, he is from Long Island and he has racked up millions of plays on Soundcloud by singing about depression, heartbreak and cocaine over samples from all the band that made an appearance on your Myspace 'influences' list.
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But time and again, we've been heartened, cheered, inspired and, sometimes, astonished by a new generation of innovative female singers and musicians — punk in style or spirit, and coming from the all-ages warehouse and D.I.Y.-venue ecosystem — singing about tactile emotion, rousing politics and far more.
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FARAGO Toward the start of "Asia One," as a robotic vehicle glides across the empty factory floor, Ms. Cao plays a clip from a Mao-era patriotic song: an early ode to logistical infrastructure, with a soprano singing about piers and cranes and the Great Leap Forward.
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I didn't know what she was singing about; I didn't know what harmonies were being played; I didn't know the composer, or the poet, or the content, but I knew that it was affecting my body and mind in ways that I had yet to experience.
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Ms. Phair was defiant and sexual and unapologetic and vulnerable at once — a kind of girl-next-door casually swinging a sledgehammer at rock 'n' roll as we knew it, singing about sex, love and power in a direct, unmediated way that few women before her had.
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If there was a common thread holding their releases together, it was the band's generosity of spirit: few of their contemporaries were singing about the simple pleasures of domesticity, let alone using the image of scared babies pooping to express the overwhelming power of the world around us.
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Whether Healy is singing about someone who "took a picture of your salad and put it on the internet" (on "A Change of Heart") or how "getting STDs at 27 really isn't the vibe" (on "Give Yourself a Try") their words are consistently casual, funny, direct, and relatable.
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It includes Alec Baldwin talking about his favorite holiday treat, Schweddy Balls; Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake singing about the best Christmas gift of all time — you know the one; a TV Funhouse sketch that shows what it's like to be Jewish during Christmastime; and so many more.
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I realized as I started writing songs that I like singing about relationships and women that I like and being a gay person, so it sucks that you feel like you have to exceed expectations to be just as good as someone who doesn't try half as hard.
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While there's a fine line between Tom Verlaine singing about dressing like cops and seeing what we can do and Rønnenfelt's somewhat more vague poetic allusions to staying up late as a mutiny in heaven, it's no less hogwash than the diaristic impulses of so many of their rock peers.
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Most people are doing art because they like it and because it allows them some escape from other insecurities and even though there may be pain that they're obsessed with talking about or singing about or painting about, the actual doing it...You wouldn't do it if you didn't like it.
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Singing about loving yourself the way that you are (the essence of "Unpretty") or demanding higher standards from men ("No Scrubs") stood in stark contrast to the underage boy-candy image of another newly minted pop star from that era: Britney Spears, who sparred with TLC on the charts that year.
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The former One Direction boy-with-the-good-hair is releasing his debut album next month and as we prepare ourselves for one of the most talked about projects of the year (it's inevitable), we are breaking down and hypothesizing everything Styles will be singing about once the album comes out.
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While Jessie may have been touring the world, singing about how she can "give it to you all the time," or sitting in her big swiveling chair on The Voice, she's also posted a combination of inspirational quotes, behind-the-scenes shots and the odd food pic to her 'gram.
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I do not know what Kiedis is singing about in "We Turn Red" at all, but there are some lines about avacados, prawns, fishing, swimming, Desperados, lawns, lakes and basically all the other intensely peaceful things you close your eyes and think about when you are in a stressful situation.
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By singing about the old mammy days, when don't you know, nobody minded a bit being called "chocolate drop," Williams and Walker were laughing back at the white audiences who were laughing at them — with an irony that said out the side of its mouth, Are they actually buying this?
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But this is Yeah Yeah Yeahs, so when she's singing about having "a man who makes me wanna kill" over Nick's piercing guitar on Fever to Tell's "Man" it is definitely not a hand-holding, swaying kind of love, but about one that burns with a heat you could cook over.
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A group of burly lumberjacks (members of the local Camerata Vocale München) periodically invade, singing about the "strategic displacement of the binary relationship" and other nuggets of gender theory that the captain's children (this production invents a brother — or possibly a male double — for Bertha) like to sound off about.
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The violins and horns swell to heighten the dramatic effect, but the sound of it doesn't stay in your head; it's just a din that requires the artist to belt—which Close, Xavier, and Johanson do handily, though you have to keep reminding yourself what they're singing about with such urgency.
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Barely a minute and a half into the film, and it has already pointed fingers at the weird 90s phenomenon of pop stars singing about sex while also pretending to be virgins, the concept that pop music is exclusively for the girls and the gays, and the Backstreet Boys at large.
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I had been living overseas for a couple of months when I started to hear from Christchurch friends about some impossibly handsome country singer, just 18 and singing about how whiskey was his only real friend, who had situated himself among my friends and had started seeing my most immediate ex-girlfriend.
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One Direction brought boy-bandom back into the UK and US mainstream in 2011, singing about being overwhelmed by hair flips, loving imperfections, as well as less chaste fare ("If you don't wanna take it slow / And you just wanna take me home / Baby say yeah") masked by handclaps and na-na-nas.
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Though The Weeknd hasn't confirmed who he's singing about (fans also think some tracks, including "Privilege," could be about his year-and-a-half relationship with ex Bella Hadid, which ended in November 222), the viewers of his Coachella set still couldn't help but make the Gomez connection when watching his Coachella set.
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The father of two has devoted a lot of time and effort over the past few months to entertaining his 12.7 million followers by posting top-notch dad content, including everything from videos of himself singing about the dangers of drinking too much to full-blown recreations of his kids' music videos.
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The song sees the band leaning on their poppier, dancier side, recalling the more buoyant moments of Cuban Ballerina and the Little Brother EP. Annicharico and Dalrymple trade off verses and choruses, singing about the declining state of the world and the perverse rush we all feel from endlessly tweeting about it.
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And the good thing about Princess Nokia's A Girl Cried Red is that is basically subverts the toxic masculinity that sits at the heart of the genre; it is pure emo, because it's someone singing about their pain and longing, but it feels fresh because its creator isn't another whiny white guy.
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"It's so, so fucking frustrating to me to watch a bunch of rich ass motherfuckers playing pop country parading around in skin-tight jeans with their fucking bleached teeth and perfect hair singing about how hard their life is and how they have to drink whiskey every night to cope," she says.
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Turns out Lit ended up replacing Silverchair – the Australian post-grunge band advertised (and therefore doomed) as Nirvana's replacement – on the main stage at the last minute, because who wants brooding teenagers with lyrics like "You're the analyst, the fungus in my milk" when you can have four would-be car mechanics singing about jizz.
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"Privilege," meanwhile, has The Weeknd singing about helping an ex through her suffering as she took "two red pills to take the blues away, away, away" — a line fans speculate might have to do with Gomez's treatment for depression and anxiety and the two-week program she completed in January 220 to address her issues.
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Regardless of the contents of his album (which also, by the way, features Fred Durst and Snoop Dogg), or his slightly uncomfortable Hugh Hefner-reminiscent relationship with women, or the fact that nobody has ever looked so earnest while singing about hitting the club, I think, probably, we should all just let Corey Feldman live.
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"Wake Me Up," a song that lingered on the Hot 100 for more than a year, featured soulful vocals from Aloe Blacc singing about the lessons of youth: So wake me up when it's all over,When I'm wiser and I'm older,All this time I was finding myself, and IDidn't know I was lost.
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A photographer captured how eerily empty Shanghai's normally bustling streets are amid the coronavirus outbreakManchester United says it wants to slap lifetime bans on the people who threw flares at the vice chairman's house while singing about him dyingManchester United players were once allowed to turn up to training drunk on New Year, a former player says
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But even when they weren't overtly embracing 60s signifiers, Soundgarden delivered hippy-dippy sentiment with heavy-metal menace: "Hands All Over" was certainly fearsome enough to make a humdrum Michael Keaton psycho-killer flick a little more intense, but when Cornell wails, "you're gonna kill your mother," he's actually singing about the ecological devastation of our Earth.
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Meanwhile, "Privilege" has the three-time Grammy winner singing about helping an ex through her suffering as she took "two red pills to take the blues away, away, away" — a line fans speculate might have to do with Gomez's treatment for depression and anxiety and the two-week program she completed in January 2017 to address her issues.
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John Mayer is known for a lot of things: singing about bubblegum tongues, being Katy Perry's favorite lover, tweeting with Nicki Minaj, dating and subsequently shading Taylor Swift, making weird faces while playing the guitar, saying some problematic things, writing songs the kids can relate to, and wearing two bluetooth earpieces in my favorite Funny-Or-Die video.
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Queens are supposed to lead, they don't step on the spirits of the girls who come after them then to just try and take that same spirit This heartbroken black female narrative you keep trying to push is the Antithesis of what feminism is You been singing about this nigga for years and he still playing you.
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The music is on full display in the fall during the Celtic Colours International Festival, when the sleepy Cape Breton Island comes alive with fiddle music and step dancing, community suppers and singing — about 350 energetic events crowded into a little more than a week in October across a few thousand square miles of spectacular, autumn-tinted countryside.
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But rather than get too wrapped up in what is now an age-old exercise of figuring out who Swift is singing about, what code words appear in her lyrics, and which boyfriend inspired which song, I'm proposing something much simpler: a completely biased ranking of the most enjoyable songs on Lover according to your faithful correspondent.
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Best known as Miss Katie to families in Brooklyn, where she's an early-childhood educator, she's celebrating her first children's album under the name Katie Ha Ha Ha. At this album-release concert, which will also include singing about silly things that don't go together, Ms. Mullins will be joined by Amelia Robinson, of Mil's Trills, singing backup.
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" Miller drifted into that territory himself three years ago on "Days," singing about new love, a theoretically positive thing: "I've been floating for so long / think I'm ready to drown" For Laing, Berryman wasn't writing about a "fantasy of death," but "a dream of entering some other realm, both protective and destructive: an underwater world, where you are naked, unreachable, and entirely alone.
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Ryan Bassil Brandon Flowers may have soul and a gospel choir confirming such, but if they all piled into a car, pulled up to a pedestrianised road full of wrecked people and started singing about it would everyone start immediately punching the air before being magnetically drawn towards the vehicle and mobbing it as though driven by some ancient, Darwinian impulse?
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It's hard to see Dua Lipa singing "boy, I don't give a fuck" on commercial radio or Tove Lo releasing a record called Lady Wood, or any number of Charli XCXs and Zara Larssons doing what they do without Allen before them telling George W. Bush to go fuck himself and singing about "the wet patch in the middle of the bed".
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Whether they are singing about how our President is "criminally insane" on the opening title track or chanting, "No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA" (based on a phrase they coined and which Green Day famously paid tribute to at last year's American Music Awards) during the album's finale, Mein Trumpf is a scathing indictment of our Commander in Chief.
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Monáe makes it a point to use the word "pink" to describe more things than pussy ("like the tongue that goes down... like the folds of your brain... like the holes of your heart")—and then immediately turns around to remind us that she's still (and perhaps always) singing about her queerness, love, and yes, pussy ("pink is my favorite part").
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But putting on the first song of High Road, "Tonight," will transport you right back to the feeling of being a teenager, of singing about drinking and partying when the closest thing you've had to alcohol is a sip of your parents grenadine — which you'd later learn is zero percent alcohol (I assume this is true for all of us).
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Country singer Kelsea Ballerini may have been singing about an ex in her new her song "Miss Me More" (the video just dropped this week), but her outright refusal to listen to the demands of a man and how he thinks she should look or behave is just as much, if not more, about the gender inequality in country music as it is about any relationship.
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As she sings the lyrics, "Takes an army just to bend her/Be careful where you send her/'Cause you can't hold her back for long/A river is just too strong/And she's a river," one can't help but guess she's singing about her own life story after recently battling — and defeating — breast cancer, but Griffin says she hasn't thought about it that way.
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But from Woody Guthrie singing about the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression's devastations in the 1930s to rock and soul bands of the '22012s and '22011s writing about war and civil rights to British punks shouting about unemployment and the working class to rappers spitting about injustice and racism, popular music has always also delivered social critique — much of the time including economic issues.
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For those who are still somehow unfamiliar with Lemonade, however, the single Beyoncé chose to break out into its own video, "All Night," is meant to be the turning point in her visual album in which the couple she's singing about (which may or may not be her and Jay) are finally able to move past their infidelities and fall in love with each other all over again.
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In honor of his first state visit to the United States, Trudeau along with his wife and "friend" Weeknd attended a dinner in Washington, DC. And we can imagine it wasnt long before fellow Canadian delegators and Obama administration officials broke out into song and dance as the popular singer serenaded them with sweet words about being a horrible lover before smugly singing about "white lines" near the White House.
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Whether he's singing about infidelity on "Nikes" ("You got a roommate he'll hear what we do / It's only awkward if you're fucking him too") or making extremely literal references to the times he gets to fuckin' – "All this drillin' got the dick feelin' like a power tool" on "Comme Des Garçons" from Endless – Ocean has us relating to gay relationships in the way we've been hearing rappers talk about heterosexual relationships for decades.
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That disconnect is one of the reasons that mainstream artists like Maren Morris, Margo Price, and Kacey Musgraves and independents like Sarah Shook and Angaleena Presley feel so refreshing to hear even in 2017, when everyone and their dog is woke: They're singing about being sad and making mistakes, too, but they're doing in in a genre that only thinks of them as a crazy-ex girlfriend (no disrespect to the GOAT Miranda Lambert).
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Since releasing her 2014 album, "Bury Me at Makeout Creek," Mitski has built a following the old-fashioned way: touring constantly and wielding her big hot-pink bass guitar, singing about torturously ambivalent relationships and her own evolving identity — as a woman growing up and finding her own path, as an ambitious artist and, in songs like her online hit "Your Best American Girl" from her 2016 album, "Puberty 2," as a Japanese-American.
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" As advertised, Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas pile on the disco like a Studio 54 regular who can just never have too many sequins, but not even the zero-gravity bassline can mask the original track's underlying sadness of a young woman singing about her existential crisis, the confusion of it all exacerbated by cyclones of whirling and bleeping sound effects, plus what Fader identified in an interview as "a sample of her three-year-old self screaming.
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In one moment, Khalid is singing about wanting to know how someone feels and asking them for honesty in "Love Lies," and only a couple songs later, Matty Healy of The 1975 is confident and cavalier when he tells his audience to love him "if that's what you want to do" in the song "Love Me." The teetering between the feelings I had when I was 16 and unsure of what I wanted yet in the next moment emboldened by the sense that I could take on the world is relatable.
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Whether Molko is singing about a directionless goth who spends all day cruising for shit sex on "Burger Queen" ("Chooses his clothes to match his pallid complexion / Now it takes him all day just to get an erection") or drawing comparisons between taking drugs and having sex with someone who's bad for you on "My Sweet Prince" ("Never thought I'd fill with desire / Never thought I'd feel so ashamed") or how passion can make you act in ridiculous and damaging ways on "Every Me and Every You" ("My heart's a tart, your body's rent / My body's broken yours is bent") Molko presents relationships in a way has absolutely nothing to do with gender, but everything to do with sex.
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