She does not sing that emo, but she sings about what's going on a swell but she sings about hating someone.
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" Drake sings about it in "305 to My City.
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When Jordan Smith sings about love, he's singing from experience.
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" Hopkins sings about an ex on the opening track, "Silly.
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But the love Tunde sings about is not unfettered and free.
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She sings about her brother, her son, some of her lovers.
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The Australian musician Courtney Barnett often sings about anxiety and depression.
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Bill Murray as the lackadaisical bear who sings about the "Bare Necessities"?
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Mr. Yorke sings about a "low-flying panic attack"; this is it.
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He sings about love and desperation and shouts like a military sergeant.
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In "Siphon," for example, she sings about depression and suicide through pounding drums.
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Bieber sings about being a "life line" to someone having a low moment.
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Beach Slang is remarkably divisive for a band that sings about having feelings.
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He sings about poverty, but not explicitly about the causes of that poverty.
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She sings about seeking the "light you have inside you," patiently but resolutely.
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Mr. Glover often sings about lessons from elders and the responsibilities of parenthood.
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In "Vulnerable," Gomez sings about her wariness in new relationships after past heartbreak.
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She sings about living alone after being cheated on by her boyfriend, Steve.
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Sex. He's singing about sex like a 903-year-old sings about sex.
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Bono, their frontman, sings about the cross and resurrection on the group's "October" album.
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"Based in Los Angeles, Sakellarides mostly sings about "love, science, politics, socially awkward people.
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In the hot Spanish-language single, J.Lo sings about the thrill of new love.
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On opener "Supermodel" she sings about sleeping with her ex-boyfriend's friend as revenge.
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Yet even when Mr. Longstreth sings about mixed emotions, the music tilts toward exhilaration.
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In "Teacher," the group sings about willingly having girls take the reins in a relationship.
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She sings about traffic jams and computers as well as "cruel rocks [and] wild waves".
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Just going off the way he sings about shit and the way the songs move.
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It's packed with conditioning moves that you'll repeat every time Swift sings about something specific.
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The stuff that she sings about and raps about are things that I experienced, too.
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She also sings about her exes Big Sean, the late Mac Miller and Ricky Alvarez.
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The country legend sings about the heartbreak on her new album, Stronger Than the Truth.
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She holds an actual lightbulb over her head when she sings about having an idea.
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Kelela sings about restlessness and romance, all in the context of some neverending club night.
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She sings about knowledge and disorientation, discord and reconciliation; the music tells the same story.
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Mr Keith is an American country-music star who sings about drinking beer and chasing girls.
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In the sultry tracks "Dress" and "So It Goes," she sings about their deep physical connection.
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"Carte Blanche," too, is a dream-pop synth tune where she sings about solitude and revenge.
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In another number, the cast sings about companies that have pivoted while dancers literally pivot onstage.
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As he sings about "the stars gittin' blurry," Daunno ventures a few moments of welcome earnestness.
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Using her voice as a vessel, she sings about fighting for our rights, love and peace.
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In "Wardina," Saad Al Harbawi sings about a girl who is wearing a golden nose piercing.
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As she sings about self-invention and self-discovery, she accomplishes exactly that in the music.
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It also mirrors what Mr. Garratt sings about: love battling against itself, damaged by self-destructive impulses.
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"He sings about the situation a person faces: unemployment, poor health, poor education," says one young man.
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In another he sings about kikomando, a humble snack of chapati and beans eaten by the poor.
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In the sultry hip-hop tune, Grande sings about wanting a man who is dating another woman.
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In Beyoncé's, she sings about herself — and reminds us that a hardworking woman is something to admire.
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He sings about going out to a bar on a Saturday night like he invented the concept.
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It's said that he sings about the world, mankind, climate change, technological autonomy and sheep clone Dolly.
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In a quiet voice, Mr. Scheuer sings about learning the results of testing done after 12 treatments.
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As she sings about fighting the ocean you can almost feel the Puget Sound mist floating by.
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There's a reason Bruce Springsteen sings about cars, and it's the same reason Jay Leno collects them.
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She sings about the bad things that are going on in her life, which is pretty emo.
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If you are going to go through it, do it as eloquently as Capaldi sings about it.
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She sings about singing in "Crossing," with words dissolving into wordless syllables, turning into an elusive lullaby.
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He sings about a happiness that is constantly fleeting and a safety that is under constant threat.
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Displaying a surprising depth of soul, she sings about life, boys, and her art, with an easy jive.
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On the sixth track, "I Think He Knows," Swift sings about her beau knowing she's fallen for him.
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She sings about being her own soulmate, feeling good as hell, being her own inspiration, and feeling herself.
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When Ludacris sings about li-li-licking someone from their head to their toes, it sounds super sexy.
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On "Eraser," the opening track on his new album ÷ (pronounced "divide"), Sheeran sings about the downside of fame.
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Swifties felt like the quote was an insult to Taylor, who frequently sings about her relationships with men.
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Caroline Polachek sings about change and the song starts to melt, stuttering and ballooning before snapping into place.
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Miley Cyrus sings about heartbreak just a few days after her and Liam Hemsworth announced they've split up.
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Clark sings about women haunted by this feeling, desperate to hide from the void through performance and costuming.
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As they escort her out, she sings about not being silenced anymore and imagines breaking free from the guards.
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Though Parton jokes about her physical assets, she rarely sings about them (though she sometimes references her blonde hair).
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On the album's sixth track, "I Think He Knows," Swift sings about her beau knowing she's fallen for him.
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Among the more explicit lyrics, Justin Hawkins sings about the Heaving carriages of indignationGrown men weeping in pure frustration.
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In 2013, Taylor received a lot of attention for the fact that she sings about her relationships with men.
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God love a girl who sings about socks and slippers over a hip-wiggling beat and a Bhangra groove.
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When he sings about love and desire, he places himself at a confluence of the intimate and the sacred.
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I don't think I could ever be a folk singer that just sings about my feelings all the time.
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She sounds exasperated as she sings about vapid, hypersexualized women being an epidemic for which there is no cure.
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Political commentary rarely sounds as sunny as it does when the 56-year-old Mr. Kuti sings about it.
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Washington (CNN)Taylor Swift sings about youth mobilization, endorses Democrats on Instagram and makes music videos with LGBTQ icons.
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Ms. Grande often sings about the overwhelming strength of temptation and how much pleasure there is in giving in.
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Adam Granduciel sings about dreams, journeys and love over a steady, leisurely strum through two and later three chords.
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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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Rozali sings about life, love, and death in a mix of languages: Bahasa Indonesian and his local tongue, Bahasa Lampung.
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The creative pseudonym of Gina Karlikoff, Kimchi sings about awkward social moments and relationships, both the online and IRL kind.
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She's got an assured manner when she sings about her power that makes me want to slip into her groove.
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Elsewhere, she sings about ethnic cleansing in Kosovo ("The Wheel") and war-torn communities in Afghanistan ("The Ministry of Defence").
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Yes, Trump is still president and all the things that this fun song sings about are in fact completely terrible.
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Sure, he sings about women often, but to create an anthem for us to twerk away our fuckboy woes to?
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In "Golden Hour" and "Rainbow," the final two tracks, she languidly sings about how everything is going to be alright.
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Crack open a cold one with the boys and listen to The Harry Styles Album where he Sings About Wanking.
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At any rate, the song that Podrick sings about Jenny is not about the joy of Duncan and Jenny's love.
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On "Take You There," she sings about creating heaven on earth in her relationship at a Janet Jackson-esque whisper.
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Over two loud but melodic guitars, vocalist and bassist Nic Warnock sings about feelings and emotions, and crying on shoulders.
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"I became obsessed with writing their stories in musical form," said Gaga, who sings about fragility while kicking butt rhythmically.
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Here, Sarah Stiles, nominated for portraying the actress Sandy Lester, sings about her frustration as she anticipates another unsuccessful audition.
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He often sings about how things go wrong: relationships ("Stockholm Syndrome"), youthful hopes ("High Horse"), a family's luck ("Easter Egg").
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"The Affair" — angry, guilty, horny, and as restless as the ocean Fiona Apple sings about in the opening credits — does.
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Tom Verlaine (93) sings about how "Broadway / Looks so medieval," and so it is, our moment the great shipwreck of time.
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As Grande sings about ex-boyfriends Big Sean, Ricky Alvarez and Pete Davidson, the camera pans to pages dedicated to each.
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These extensive references are not self-conscious or self-congratulatory, because Ms Monáe is embedded in the movements she sings about.
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However, unlike the one Cara sings about in "Here," this is one event you would never want to slink out of.
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In "Hesitate," Joe sings about kissing away Sophie's tears, and taking away her pain and putting it on his heart instead.
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"Got Friends" is smooth as hell, as Miguel sings about having unlimited options of women to choose from on the hook.
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There's something uncomfortably ghostly about listening to songs in which a person who is already dead sings about wanting to die.
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The video they link to, however, is "Thunder on the Mountain," in which Dylan sings about wanting to bone Alicia Keys.
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Throughout the album, Davis sings about her desire for a sensible balance between having unrequited love and having a successful life.
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Ms. Cloher sings about that, too — some of her most poignant songs deal with the vexed intersections of fame and love.
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"95 Radios," the record's other single, takes a smoother tone as Eagle sings about listening to the radio during his childhood.
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Like the outcasts he often sings about, the songs on House of Sugar tend to oscillate wildly between meanings and moods.
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Sting sings about crumbling romance, climate change, refugees on the move and what it feels like to read rock stars' obituaries.
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Popcaan slows it down on "Through the Storm," a sweeping love song where he sings about seeking redemption for his mistakes.
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Balthazar Getty not only sings about the Black Panthers ... he carried the bones of Panther leader Huey Newton in his pocket!
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For when she drags a gagged Perez Hilton around on a leash and sings about how she's well into whips and chains.
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She sings about the kind of naked insecurity we all feel, but she does it in her own earthy, and real, style.
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Lovato was six years sober from cocaine usage when she released "Sober," in which she sings about the difficulty of staying clean.
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In "Cai de Boca" ("Drop Your Mouth"), a putaria hit from 2018, MC Rebecca sings about men performing oral sex on women.
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Carly Rae Jepsen, though she doesn't make the same explicit references to technology, sings about ghosting, yearning, and jealousy with conspiratorial authority.
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Paulina's vocals start as matter-of-factly self-confident rapping and rise into melody, as she sings about dancing on burning ground.
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It's almost like 'It's part of the job, you have to take that, especially if you're a girl who sings about sex!
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His songs and beats live somewhere in-between established musical home keys, hovering uncertainly like the fraught, poisonous relationships he sings about.
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There he sings about "Robert Johnson and the devil"—about the legendary thirties bluesman selling his soul in return for guitar lessons.
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Kelela sings about a potential one-night stand in "LMK," the single preceding her official debut album, "Take Me Apart," due Oct.
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She sings about learning to love herself in the absence of her father, and how trauma helped her become who she is.
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In the album's title song, Blake sings about choosing to become embodied: "I'll leave the ether/I will assume form," he croons.
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When he lightly sings about "flip-flops and tank tops and tan lines" on "Sunshine Overtime," you can tell he doesn't mean it.
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In the song, Cardi raps and sings about a man who decided to "creep and s—" after she "poured my whole heart" out.
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"All Night" is the final ballad on Lemonade, in which Beyoncé sings about letting go of the past and looking to the future.
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Also while on the road, the singer released an emotional new song called titled "Sober ," where she sings about falling off the wagon.
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Over a Jay Eaux-produced beat, she sings about how she and a lover end up " obsessed with mistrust and mistakes we've made".
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Her face remains petulant and unrepentant as she sings about keeping her freedom in a shift as the pyres burn under her feet.
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Mr Hyde's father (played by Neil McCaul) sings about the moment he held his son and the rest of the world fell away.
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Fans are in a tizzy over the photos — this is concrete proof that the hero Swift sings about on reputation in fact exists.
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Friendzone sings about everything from drug use to gender issues to suicide — and they, too, found themselves in the crosshairs of the crackdown.
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But beyond that, the two are as dissimilar as the boardwalk saturnalia of the Jersey shore Bruce sings about and Dylan's opaque mindscapes.
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Down fall Shakespeare's "darling buds of May": Love sings about tearing the petals off flowers, while all she really wants is the truth.
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The 22-year-old Australian musician sings about his girlfriend being a "Cali queen" and having a "Diamond throne / All on her own."
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She sings about our heartbreaks but also our unyielding ability to believe in love in a world that shows us so much hate.
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The track features a quick introduction and verse from the late Pimp C as Drake raps and sings about his favorite topic: relationships.
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Gorillaz lend both their writing and production credits to "In My Dreams," a strange, antsy song in which Damon Albarn sings about happiness.
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Lauren Jenkins writes and sings about disappointment, disillusion, drinking and holding on despite it all with a Stevie Nicks rasp in her voice.
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She's loosened up: she says "shit," she sings about sex and swooning after a guy who she isn't dating, and she likes whiskey.
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His voice is reedy and weathered as he sings about faith, identity, and big existential questions that come from a loss of faith.
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Twenty year old rising Aussie artist Troye Sivan is in a similar position: he sings about boys, but is equally swooned over by girls.
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That is certainly the case for Rockwell's barn burner of number, "Sexy," wherein Karen sings about her ardent, unapologetic love for sexy Halloween costumes.
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Correction: The original version of this article said that the pop song Christine Lahti sings about bees is fake, but it's very, very real.
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There is also a bit where Rihanna sings about waking up and hugging her money, because who needs men when you can do that.
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When he sings about how "a loved one perished at the hands of the barren-hearted right" he's referring to his late, disabled mother.
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In this way, all the dark shit he sings about no longer feel like 'the unknown'; it's just out there, like a sonic exorcism.
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It also features Lil Aaron who swings his neon hair around at the end and sings about double-stuffed blunts and getting fucked up.
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On "Doesn't matter," she sings about being at the precipice of an abyss, dealing with "suicidal thoughts," and questioning the cosmological origins of selfhood.
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When they are, they could do worse than recall what "Dear Evan Hansen" says (and sings) about the compromises and heartbreaks of the job.
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In it, she sings about standing behind your decisions, even the hard ones, in a Handmaid's Tale "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum" kind of way.
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J.P. The Argentine songwriter Juana Molina sings about waiting in "Lentísimo Halo," an imperturbably spooky ballad that previews her album "Halo," due May 5.
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Though lyricist Lauren Mayberry sings about how volatile discourse has become, it could also be interpreted to be about a romantic relationship or a friendship.
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A man sings about Trump's love for Russia over carnival music, as Photoshopped images of Trump and Vladimir Putin dance under a rain of money.
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When he sings about the codeine concoction in his hand that's making him feel "waaay better," it sounds like it's actually just numbing the pain.
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In addition to threatening to burn down the local Walmart (very Grimes), the pair also sings about slicing up your face and breaking your toys.
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Bussiere sings about glumly sipping on rosé and feeling a kind of overwhelming sadness, like thick storm clouds forming above, that have no immediate dissipation.
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Take Lana Del Rey, whose teenage fans find her music relateable even if they themselves haven't yet experienced the heartbreak she so often sings about.
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On the title track, she teams up with her male mirror image, the Weeknd, and sings about dancing on the H of the Hollywood sign.
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On "You All Loved Him Once," for example, he sings about the phenomenon of hero worship that builds artists up only to tear them down.
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The effect is at once delightful and haunting, particularly on "Lying With You," a stark highlight where Gainsbourg sings about lying beside her dad's corpse.
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In Harry Styles' latest album, Fine Line, he downs in his feelings as he sings about the joys and pains of having and losing love.
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In rapturous yet playful lines, she sings about her man: the bigness of his frame and smile; his head "full of big ideas"; his voice.
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In 1996, the company banned her self-titled album from its stores because of a lyric in which she sings about the company selling guns.
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As she sings about how much love she has to give, the whole track feels tense and tight, ready to catch alight at any moment.
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In rapturous yet playful lines, she sings about her man: the bigness of his frame and smile; his head "full of big ideas"; his voice.
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" He sings about this logic, the accumulation of debt, and "normalized anti-sympathy" on the 11th track of the album, "They'll Take Everything You Have.
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She specifically mentions her former partners by name (Big Sean, Ricky Alvarez, Davidson and Miller), and she sings about what each of those relationships taught her.
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While on Deftones' 2000 album White Pony, Chino Moreno sings about being abducted by aliens and riding around with Keenan, solidifying the singer's increasingly legendary status.
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"Friends don't try to trick you / Get you on the phone and mind-twist you," she sings about the infamous edited call leaked by Kardashian West.
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For Isabelle (Juliette Binoche), her life plays this song often, but her life is not like a song—not in the way James sings about, anyhow.
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Here's Dan Auerbach, who plays guitar and sings about railroads or whatever: It's always so easy for a fucking artist to rag on a big institution.
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"Greener Stretch," the brightest song on the record, layers arpeggiated synth loops over one another while Scott sings about water at least up to her neck.
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This week, War on Women bashes out a new track with Kathleen Hanna, Sidi Touré sings about joy, and Rae Sremmurd previews its upcoming triple album.
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She sings about pop's eternal topics as a young woman caught up in them: love and lust, intimacy and betrayal, longing and loneliness and tentative trust.
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It's a window to the mind that reveals a room, one revealing the complex but everyday issues she sings about: love, fear, memory, and self-worth.
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She contemplates death as she sings about carrying on her maternal lineage—and then dedicates an entire song to staring at her ex's hot new girlfriend.
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Taylor Swift is finally getting the chance to leverage her cat obsession as a kitty who sings about "Macavity the Mystery Cat," likely played by Idris Elba.
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When he sings about love, it's "enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best" and make us root for two cartoon lions to make out.
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She blends her voice into the lush orchestration of "Tabula Rasa," as she sings about her desire that the "fuckups of the fathers" will skip a generation.
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All in all, to visit all of the places Swift sings about in "London Boy," she'd be looking at at least three hours of travel time alone.
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In one number, "The Music of My Soul," he sings about how closely he identifies with the music he hears when he visits a black-owned club.
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The music video features the Grammy nominee donning a red latex catsuit and high-heeled boots as she sings about gender identity, freedom, sex, inclusion and more.
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On "Shangri La," his second album and one produced by Rick Rubin, he sings about social inequality and finds a measure of peace after a destructive relationship.
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For example, when Sheryl Crow sings about "my favorite mistake" and puts the words "favorite" and "mistake" together, that gives you a sound you don't normally hear.
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In "Liar," she sings about temptation and not being able to resist, letting go of the walls and excuses she's put up to avoid falling in love.
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Aries"Flirtatious like an Aries," is all Beyoncé sings about Aries, and it's hard to tell whether she thinks the sign overall is good or bad. 8.
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Album Review On his debut album for Dan Auerbach's label, the 26-year-old sings about disillusion in styles that glance back to the 1970s and before.
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There's something so Summer of Love about the guitars and zen about the song but still a hint of fear in the way she sings about it.
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On "Silences," she sings about fear, love, death, salvation, the devil, artistic compromise, a woman's self-determination, the allure of the city and solitude as a refuge.
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At one point, she sings about a vague situation she may have been in, where she couldn't tell if it was a business lunch or a date.
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And in "thank u, next," when she sings about picking herself up and believing in herself after a breakup, that's something we all want to believe in.
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Similarly, Iraq's Special Operations Forces produced a video where a singer in full military gear sings about the glory of the operators while brandishing an assault rifle.
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" Similar to her Instagram caption, the 32-year-old's latest song faces her demons, as she sings about "heartbreak" and her personal feelings of being "numb" and "lonely.
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Nicki Minaj just posted the cutest message about Katy Perry to Instagram, and it may make you catch the feels that Perry sings about in her new song.
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Like a Woody Guthrie for the too-online twenty something, Patrick sings about his generation's malaise: going out too much, navigating the gig economy, and finding true love.
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On the heartbreaking new Lukas Graham single "You're Not There," frontman Lukas Forchhammer sings about his father's death and the events he won't get to share with him.
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Nick Cave just knows we, quite reasonably, feel pretty bad about this, and he sings about these feelings and all our potential endings as evocatively as he can.
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Fatouma Diawara, a Paris-based singer who grew up in Mali, sings about love for an emigrant who may never return, lacing Malian rhythms with tendrils of guitar.
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" Shirley Manson sings about a society collapsing into brutal totalitarianism: "There will be no apologies and no more security/There will be no cops, just men with guns.
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But if the sound is retro, de Casier's concerns definitely aren't; on "Good Time," she sings about the role that phones play in our modern conceptions of romance.
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Kelly sings about his troubles and battles in a new 19-minute song, addressing sexual abuse claims against him that remerged and put a screeching halt on his career.
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My favorite of all these postmod fantasy songs is "Goin' to Bombay," in which he sings about his hometown the way Mississippi bluesmen used to sing about the Delta.
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On "Playin' Along 99," that ease comes out; Cummings sings about what it is like to go from a creative burst to a period where songwriting doesn't feel natural.
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This is most evident in Young Thug's rap interlude, but also in Cabello's vocals as she sings about a boy who took her from Havana back to East Atlanta.
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Twain sings about deserving love, about the ups-and-downs of life—expecting pain that will be followed by joy—with a chorus of backup singers to help her.
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On one of Ty's songs from those tapes, "My Cabana," he sings about how many women—and how many varieties of them—he can fit in his beachside bungalow.
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For instance, in "Alewife," the album's opener, she sings about how her friend, Alexa, stopped her from committing suicide in the eight grade, and thanks her for being there.
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On "16 Beat"—a jazzy drums mix with wonky Yamaha chords— Mount, ever the geek, sings about a lover with the same affection he has for that particular drumbeat.
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You know what, when Christina fucks up the lyrics and sings about the "twilight's last reaming" instead of the ramparts that were "so gallantly streaming" it's almost a finesse.
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Tinashe sings about independence and connection amid gluey bass lines, echoey ambiences and twitchy synthetic percussion, asserting her free spirit with a blend of sensuality and sci-fi cool.
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As he sings about reality versus consoling illusion, the music trudges through Beatles-like chords with an undertow of simulated, sustained strings, building to a chorus with sighing harmonies.
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But consider the Book of Jonah 290:16003 in which Jonah, caught in the depths of a giant fish's gut, sings about the terror of near-death by water.
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Amelia Meath sings about "faking the truth in a new pop song/Don't you want to sing along?" as the music percolates along for three-and-a-half minutes.
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When the Ottoman Turkish overseer, Osmin, enters and sings about his rage against the Christian prisoners, he fantasizes about hanging them, impaling them on hot stakes and beheading them.
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Over a sleepy, meandering piano part, Martin sings about a donkey drinking moonlight from a pond, fireflies blinking in the darkness, seeing a ghost in a flicker of starlight.
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In "1944", Ukraine's 32-year-old Jamala sings about strangers coming to "kill you all", saying "we're not guilty" - remembering a time when Josef Stalin deported Tatars from Crimea.
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Billy Ray Cyrus sings about diamonds and Maseratis on Lil Nas X's genre-bending rap/country song Absolutely no one asked for this, yet everyone kind of loves it.
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His falsetto vocals in "Feed the Babies" and "Pearl Cadillac" echo Curtis Mayfield and Prince, as he sings about parental responsibility and about his own gratitude to his mother.
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Where once Monáe wore gender-ambiguous clothes in a palette of white and black, she now sings about her pussy, both with reverence and the threat that it grabs back.
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Ari Lennox "Whipped Cream" Ari Lennox sings about a familiar moment: when you're killing time (possibly indulging your sweet tooth) and waiting for your love to come back to you.
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The Weeknd One fan got a Weeknd "XO" tattoo in tribute to his favorite guy who sings about not being able to feel his face — live on Facebook, no less.
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On "Breu (Tar)" from her 2017 album, Xênia, she sings about the collective pain felt by black woman no matter the age, over the sounds of piano and clanging percussion.
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On "Killers Who Are Partying", she sings about identifying with the downtrodden ("I will be gay, if the gay are burned / I will be Africa, if Africa is shut down").
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Mancari sings about dishes as a metaphor for lingering on a past relationship — "I can't face myself," she sings, admitting that the chore is a handy form of emotional escape.
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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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The two-time Grammy Award-nominated rapper, 29, dropped a new freestyle rap on Monday called "No Pressure," in which he sings about his negative feelings towards the music industry.
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" In "So It Goes," she sings about leaving "scratches down your back" and in "Dancing with Our Hands Tied," she reveals her bed has been turned into a "secret oasis.
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Carey, who recently ended her engagement to James Packer, is deeply acquainted with the drama of love as it ebbs and flows, so she sings about it soulfully and truthfully.
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Kircher's publisher, Janssonius (Steven van Watermeulen), sings about their contracts; Janssonius, Kircher and Pope Innocenzo XI (Marcel Beekman), a patron, have what can only be described as a brief threeway.
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Streisand dramatically breaks out into song at major plot points—in the first song, "Where Is It Written," she sings about having grand dreams she should be able to pursue.
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When he sings about violence and self-harm on tracks like "Lover," he's not afraid to make them sound foreboding and scary, to push the tracks themselves to uncomfortable places.
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In "She May She Might," Mr. Kaplan sings about a woman who wishes she could "get outside her mind" or simply run away, in a tangle of unresolved modal harmonies.
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As a sluggish waltz eventually lurches into 4/4, she sings about trying to admit the end of a romance; the track suggests how hard it is to break away.
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All over his new album, "Goodbye & Good Riddance," he sings about various forms of excess, the women who've let him down, and the anxiety both of those things cause him.
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PARELES On this amiable song about tragic attractions, Bakar — who is from London, and delivers a bit of King Krule-esque dryness — sings about heartache with a stop-start casualness.
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By the end of the song, the white picket fence she sings about in the first verse has been dismantled and turned into a canvas for the United States Constitution.
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Still, I wish that when I was younger I'd had films such as "Love, Simon" and artists like Troye Sivan, who not only experiences queer love but sings about it.
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When Beyoncé sings about Jay Z's alleged cheating, how much of that is a measured move by a singer notorious for controlling her image, her albums, and even Anna Wintour?
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Sure she sings about heartbreak like no other — including what she's liable to do to a cheater's car with a Louisville slugger — but Carrie Underwood's real love life couldn't be better.
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The singer-songwriter's voice is sweet and brash in turns, carried by her own guitar licks, while she sings about not needing any affection from a man, thank you very much.
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In this new track, the 39-year-old IRL-bachelor sings about how excited he is to meet up with his love interest and take her on a special weekend trip.
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On DNCE's new album, the star sings about S&M on "Be Mean," and Jonas reveals the track was inspired by his real-life experience in a new interview with PrideSource.
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Its cumbia beat, acoustic percussion, and electric guitar riffs work as that electricity Paulina sings about enters our bodies through our feet and shock us all the way to our hair.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Perennial chart-topper Ariana Grande has lost the race to top the British singles chart at Christmas - to a blogger who posts about fatherhood and sings about sausage rolls.
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Midori Perry sings about how much better life would be if we jumped on trampolines all day on "Trampoline" and it's easy for one to lose themselves in the song's repetition.
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True, the "child" of the song's title is no child, but when John Denver sings about how the sunshine makes him "high," you don't really think he means "happy," do you?
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" In the elegantly brooding title track, she laments, "I don't know why no one sings/about drowning in pitchers and half-priced wings/and trying to wish back everything they've lost.
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Swift doesn't mince words as she sings about male privilege, specifically throwing shade directly at men in Hollywood who are given a pass for the same behavior that's weaponized against her.
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In "A Palé," a hypnotic fusion of flamenco and hip-hop, Rosalía wears a gold grill and channels Frida Kahlo while she sings about how her own copycats imitate her creations.
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The 19-member, almost all-male band writes and composes its own music under music director Tenma and sings about socio-economic injustice, marginalization, and other mistreatments that have troubled Dalits.
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In "Love Someone," the country singer, 31, sings about the special someone who laughs at the way he dances, holds him in the middle of the night and smiles while holding hands.
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But the song and accompanying video, which features Perry floating around a field in hippie muumuus while she sings about a never-ending relationship, initially trended on YouTube but quickly fizzled out.
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Halfway into their new music video for "Mouldy Beauty," Julie Rens and Sasha Vovk tie Brussels' top MC to a chair while he sings about how he likes his women to look.
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The interruption came nearly halfway through Act I, during Desmond's ballad "With One Look" — a song in which the cast-aside actress sings about her desire to return to her glory days.
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She is an ethnic Tatar who sings about Soviet abuses under Stalin in her native Crimea, a full 70 years before the peninsula was annexed for Russia by President Vladimir V. Putin.
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Every time something like this happens—like when Ty Dolla $ign sings about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or some shit—I start to wonder: are all our beloved celebrities giant nerds?
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When Sarah sings about the exhaustion of social-media posturing on Time 'n' Place's "Only Acting," she can speak to people who remember the drudgery of the suburbs, and those who don't.
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Over busted guitar and woops and hollers, frontman Marcus Rechsteiner sings about missing his baby and there not being any snow at Mount Baw Baw, one of Australia's more basic alpine resorts.
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"My baby's fly like a jet stream/ High above the whole scene/ Loves me like I'm brand new so call me what you want, yeah," the Grammy winner sings about her boyfriend.
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"Don't You Worry 'Bout Me" starts with the piano and organ of an old-fashioned gospel song and turns into lilting, upbeat soul as Mr. Forchhammer sings about transcending sorrow via careerism.
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Brahim's voice remains in the spotlight—as it well should—as she sings about injustice, diaspora, love, her people's oppression, and all the longing and ache that comes with the aforementioned issues.
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Later, in a music video parody in which Schumer sings about wearing her boyfriend's clothes when she misses him, she takes it so far as to even pee standing up like him.
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Even in the recent, universally despised Frozen short that accompanies Pixar's Coco, Olaf patronizingly sings about the Jewish children who are somehow celebrating their very own "holiday tradition" in a Scandinavian village.
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Dalit rapper Sumeet Samos, has seen his music reach international shores, while a group called Dhamma Wings, a Buddhist Rock band that sings about Dalit pride, has attracted 11,000 followers on Facebook.
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On it, Robyn sings about watching her ex-lover kiss someone else in a club, turning her pain into a bouncy track that feels just as joyful as it does heart-wrenching.
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Remy sings about personally affecting, relatable experiences, like on "Pearly Gates," a jazzy glam song that got its inspiration from an anecdote she'd heard about a man promising to pull out during sex.
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In the haunting song, she sings about the emotional distance that develops between two people, suggesting their relationship is no more than a fine acting job that everyone pretends is the real thing.
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John Legend's gentle but decisive nature is similar to Sheeran: he sings about a woman's "beautiful mind" and how he'll be "around for every mood" as much as he praises her physical beauty.
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At Steve Allen, he plays very nice, making jokes about failed relationships and sings about the sarcastic benefits of being alone (you can watch the real Lenny Bruce's rendition of "All Alone" here).
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Between "All Too Well," where she sings about "dancing around the kitchen in the refrigerator light," and "Thug Song," which references "baking cookies at night," she could probably put together a whole playlist.
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When the musician sings about food safety, for example, a wide-eyed cartoon man with a goatee is put in handcuffs after he serves a customer a toxic-looking green bowl of noodles.
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Rankin truly doesn't subscribe to any sort of mystical thought (as one can hear on "In Undertow" when she sings about not buying into astrology, the one recognizable autobiographical moment on the record).
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LONDON (Reuters) - A new track recorded by George Michael in his last studio sessions before his 2016 death was released on Wednesday, in which the late British pop idol sings about social ills.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A new track recorded by George Michael in his last studio sessions before his 2016 death was released on Wednesday, in which the late British pop idol sings about social ills.
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Lukas Graham, from Denmark, writes neatly turned songs that merge the lilt of pop-soul with the quick cadences of hip-hop, and he sings about earnest striving that gets its deserved reward.
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J.P. As Kenny Chesney sings about the urge to explore uncharted wildernesses in "Ends of the Earth," from his new album, "Songs for the Saints," the music gives him heroic, wide-open spaces.
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Dressed not unlike Kelly, in a pair of dark sunglasses and a bandanna, Chappelle stars in a music video in which he sings about wanting to urinate on the object of his affections.
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" In "A Song for You," amid countryish guitars and a hook joined by whistling, Bashi sings about separation and the slow erosion of memory, "as faint as anything we etched into the walls.
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JON CARAMANICA "I pray that I'm not a ghost," Georgia Nott sings in "Won't Hurt," making her voice small and frail as she sings about pretending to be more confident than she feels.
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On "I Wanna Boi," Mx. Bruce sings about longing for a partner "to keep the bed warm when the whole house is freezing," and offered an actual Bard email address in a verse.
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Okwui Okpokwasili (above) revisits Nigerian protest movements, in a Governors Island fort; Alicia Hall Moran sings about African-American finance, in Federal Hall; and the wraithlike Japanese dance legend Eiko indicts Wall Street.
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Penn Jillette sings about his love for everyone but is a research fellow of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank that has never encountered a rationale for welfare cuts beneath its dignity.
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You can also find Daniels's Strata-cut animation in Peter Gabriel's "Big Time" music video, especially in the last minute when Gabriel sings about his car, house, eyes, mouth, and belly getting bigger.
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Opener "Topanga," which is not an ode to Boy Meets World's iconic character, turns on a high-pitched sample and church-inspired keys while Trippie sings about gun violence in the small California city.
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" In between lyrics that address the little girl and welcome her arrival, the rapper sings about how "last time the miscarriage was so tragic/We was afraid you disappeared but nah baby, you magic.
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In an ad for the game's Super Duper Graphics Pack set to release next year, Benoist sings about Minecraft and all the possibilities there are to be had...from an optional DLC graphics pack.
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Chad, whose deep cut "Pornstar Dancing" has more emotional punch than that any song Kanye has ever made, especially that one track where he sings about jogging while playing the piano for ten minutes.
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Benjamin Clementine lends his earth-shaking vocals to the track and sings about power and corruption, and the video features everything from people in white hoods to clowns to scenes from within Trump Tower.
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Del Rey's remake has an echoey, nostalgic undertow, a crisply unhurried hip-hop beat and a choir of ghostly backup Del Reys; she keeps the original genders as she sings about the "evil" girlfriend.
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Steve Harwell sings about how love is a battlefield or something, and not in a cool way like Pat Benatar, over a bass-heavy beat that builds to a thunderous Top 40-worthy drop.
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As he sings about love at its most devotional and all-consuming, his androgynous voice arrives as a multitude — tenor and falsetto, whisper and proclamation, moan and chant — and it appears from all directions.
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He sings about his unexpected career, proposing to his wife young, how she is now verified on Instagram, and how they adopted a child from Uganda, and then had another child of their own.
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But it's a song turned inside-out, with its looped six-beat punching-bag rhythm in the foreground and ambiguous chords wafting in and out as Eustis sings about time, war and lingering emptiness.
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As Bryan, 21, sings about yearning for respite from an ongoing relationship rough patch, clips show her and Johnson, 31, doing everything together from lounging around in sweatpants to taking in the city sights.
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He sings about getting your union card and drinking beer by the lake in the summertime, and why those moments, no matter how trivial in the grand scheme of things, feel so vital and important.
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On Bloom, Sivan writes and sings about falling in love and being in a happy relationship; that comfort has allowed him to venture outside the traditional heteronormative gender roles thrust on gay male pop stars.
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The rapper sings about women trying to link themselves to his celebrity, whether it is "airing his dirty laundry" by tagging him in photos on social media or claiming they are pregnant with his child.
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Doing high knees every time she sings about an ex sounds like a killer way to get some seriously strong legs — with Swift's lyrics, would you ever be able to get to the other moves?
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"One taught me love / One taught me patience / One taught me pain / Now I'm so amazing," she sings about her former flames, dancer Ricky Alvarez and rapper Big Sean in addition to Miller and Davidson.
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Relationships are hard work, and no one knows this better than Jersey City-based Jay Hype, who sings about her relatable romantic struggles in "Days," released as part of the Noisey x SoundCloud video series.
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Father John Misty is a singer-songwriter who sings about being a dissolute drunk in Los Angeles in a way that's joking, not joking, and joking about the possibility of being in on the joke.
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In "Baguio Country Sounds" Raul Beray sings about the Cordilleras in Ibaloi, while "Bobby" Carantes' "I Miss the Old Baguio," leads the listener on a tour of the city and its surrounding mountains in English.
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Pink has always been well suited to sing about messy love, but on "What About Us," the first single from a new album due in October called "Beautiful Trauma," she sings about a messy world.
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I feel like she's the secret bad girl of country: That's why people love her because a lot of the things that she sings about or talks about aren't traditional in the cookie-cutter country world.
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On her new album Be the Cowboy, Mitski Miyawaki sings about a push-pull kind of love that will sound familiar to longtime fans: "Sorry I don't want your touch," goes the singer's glum fourth track.
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" Opening the song by sampling brief clips of interviews with her Cats costars Idris Elba and James Corden, Swift sings about Alwyn's laugh, dimples and accent while cheekily admitting: "You know I love a London boy.
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Basically, it takes its cues from two moments in the film: The line Danny (John Travolta) sings about saving Sandy's life when she "nearly drowned" at the beach, and the flying car moment at the end.
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He sings about their immediate connection (he told Vogue for their December 2018 cover story that it felt like they had met in a past life), and that there isn't any turning back on their love.
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After duping people on the street into believing the musical Hudson, We Have a Problem was a real thing, Kimmel surprised his audience with the actual musical in which Broderick sings about the clear skies ahead.
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On "Use Me," featuring 2 Chainz, Gucci sings about how he doesn't usually get used up by women, but one in particular was so beautiful that he had to let her (and wants her to continue).
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On "Love in a Bar" (which, naturally, is about Morris) he sings about falling hard for someone while sharing a few beers; his latest single, "To a T," is an ode to a cozy night in.
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Mr. Matthews has decided he's not going to be the grumpy old man he sings about in "Come Tomorrow," but he doesn't sugarcoat things either; each song notes the fears and sorrows it's determined to overcome.
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Grande also sings about what she's learned from each of these past relationships, and how they've made her a better person: One taught me loveOne taught me patience And one taught me painNow, I'm so amazing.
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On the track, a departure from the lackadaisical melodies on the first half of the album to a somber piano, she sings about the futility of living and dying while trying to make a dysfunctional relationship work.
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" Now she repeats the opening lyrics to me, where she sings about lying in bed, where " the distance is clear / your hands all over my body, but your spirit's not here / he's been gone for too long.
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Meanwhile "God Save The Jungle" skillfully weaves Guns n Roses lyrics into a new protectionist national anthem of shame, where he purrs like Eartha Kitt over exquisite latin rhythms and sings about the plight of child refugees.
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Read more: Miley Cyrus sings about heartbreak and seems to reference Liam Hemsworth in her first song since their breakupIn the days following the split, we also learned thatMiley and Liam weren't even in contactwith one another.
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Male performance groups are generally permitted a broader range of topics than K-pop's women: BTS notably sings about serious issues like teen social pressures, while many other boy bands feature a wide range of narrative concepts.
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It's funny, really, that when Devourment sings about butchering and raping women's corpses, few eyelids are batted, but when the genders are reversed, some fans demand that so-called 'social justice warriors' be kept away from metal.
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Add to that how she openly sings about sexuality and love and insecurity and all the things that matter the most as you wobble through your teens and twenties, and you've got the makings of a star.
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Ms. Laferte usually sings about fiery romance, with all its ecstasies and disasters, and on her albums the settings have reached back to folklore and 1950s rock as often as they have harnessed synthesizers and loud guitars.
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At this club in Ridgewood, Queens, they will receive support from, among others, Loamlands — an Americana group helmed by Kym Register, who sings about L.G.B.T.Q. issues with a warm Carolina twang on songs like "Little River." thetranspecos.
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Billy Ray Cyrus sings about diamond rings and Maseratis in Lil Nas X's genre-bending song The Atlanta rapper celebrated his new No.1, posting a screen grab of the Billboard chart on his official Instagram account.
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KIEV (Reuters) - A Crimean Tatar who sings about Joseph Stalin's deportation of hundreds of thousands of people from her Black Sea homeland will represent Ukraine at the Eurovision song contest, two years after Russia annexed the territory.
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The seafood restaurant chain Red Lobster said sales surged 33 percent on Sunday, compared with last year's Super Bowl Sunday, after Beyoncé released a song, "Formation," in which she sings about taking a romantic partner to the restaurant.
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In that final song, Eliza, sings about how she tried to preserve her husband's legacy — but until Hamilton, he was probably still best known for dying in a duel, which likely wouldn't be his choice for a legacy.
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Jenny sings about the weight, how it crushes and terrifies her, how her awful phone calls with her mother don't help, how all she can do is stay in bed and try to remember when things were better.
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He often tells their personal stories through his own music, such as his song "Life Changes," where he sings about becoming a parent of two children within three months after adopting Willa Gray from Uganda in May 2017.
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And "Voyager One" is a kind of multidimensional hoedown, with piano and yMusic meshing in overlapping riffs while Hornsby sings about space exploration and wonders if humanity will destroy itself before Voyager makes contact with other life-forms.
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As she sings about a mysterious experience, the sustained, modal melody and stretches of drone harmony hint at North African and Arab underpinnings, while its electric and electronic instruments pulse and hover in virtual space, maintaining the enigma.
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He'd watched the movie — twice — and was smitten with the princess Elsa, who sings about leaving her old life behind to embrace her heart-freezing nature and transform into the cursed ice queen she believes herself to be.
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I'll take him dragging the word "lawyer" out for 40 whole second over complete silence on the uncharacteristically breezy "Rock 'n' Roll Singer," and I'll get all misty-eyed when he sings about saying goodbye to his ailing cat.
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You'll never feel as 'indie film lead in emotional scene' as when you play it on headphones while descending the filthy steps to a train platform, while Karen sings about being lost and underground – surrounded by people, yet alone.
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In the album's title song, robotic voices rhyme "mass eduction" and "mass destruction" while she sings about being torn between temptation and conscience: "I can't turn off what turns me on," she sings in tones both desperate and sultry.
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Bikini Kill's 1993 "Rebel Girl" sings about lesbians in love (and was used in a viral Hillary Clinton video during the 2016 campaign season), while Sleater-Kinney's "A Real Man" from 1995 roars about not wanting a man's advances.
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As she sings about the expansive possibilities of a wider world — "It's worth it to show 'em everything you kept inside" — a beat and a band gather behind her, but evaporate before they can frighten away that skittish listener.
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" Folk-rock electric guitar chords are soon joined by a hefty kick drum; she sings about past insecurities, current contentment and "Hoping I just stay the same, and nothing will change/And it'll be us, just for a while.
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Mr. Sheeran sings about a woman who's moved on, unhappily, to an absurd cliché of a terrible boyfriend: He spends too much money on clothes, has a tribal tattoo, works out incessantly and is a fan of anal bleaching.
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It's great to have pop songs that break the heterosexual norms...but just because a woman sings about kissing girls, doesn't mean that the track isn't playing into the idea that doing so is "sexy" or even mostly for male enjoyment.
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In the final scenes of My Fair Lady, Eliza suggests that given her new knowledge, she could marry up or even teach phonetics as Professor Higgins taught her, which offends him so horribly he sings about it in the next scene.
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A song in which Morrissey sings about burning down a disco because he hates what the DJ has decided to play probably doesn't seem like the inspiration behind one of the rare optimistic episode Black Mirror gives fans this season.
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" Although the American Idol judge performs year-round, he loves his shows in the summer because they relate most to what he sings about and what fans "flock to": the outdoors, hanging out with friends and "putting on a big party.
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Matt Korvette doesn't sing about smashing the system, he sings about the system smashing him and trying to grow old in it, set to droning punk that's an update on the sludgy sounds of Flipper, Kilslug, and The Jesus Lizard.
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Lynzy Lab Stewart shared a ukulele-backed song titled "A Scary Time" in which she sings about male privilege and the many reasons women have to fear men, ranging from being raped to feeling belittled for speaking out about sexual assault.
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It starts out as a nostalgic idyll: But in the second verse, in the same careful and quiet tone, Stevens sings about familial terror: The protagonist slips into some incantations of his own to stave off the fear and misery.
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The pop and R&B star's backing dancers were "dressed in attire that paid tribute to the Black Panthers and, by extension, the Black Lives Matter movement that Beyoncé sings about on the new cut," Entertainment Weekly wrote of the performance.
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From his little known cover of "Rye Whiskey" (first available as a flexi-disk insert in Reflex Magazine) to the bar jukebox standard rager, "Brother My Cup Is Empty," Nick Cave sings about hard liquor fueled oblivion like it's a vocation.
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I suppose that idea — making a "real" Carlos Santana song — is why Thomas, a gringo, sings about "my muñequita, my Spanish Harlem Mona Lisa" in the first verse and casually drops in "barrio" in the back end of the song.
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Tell the DNA machine that you have "French" genes, and it may return music by an artist from the 9th arrondissement, who sings about being in love and being young, and also about his Ivorian roots, in his native French.
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Norah Jones "Flipside" (Blue Note) An insistent four-note riff underlines the newfound self-assertion Ms. Jones sings about in "Flipside"; while she worked with jazz musicians and delves into some abstruse chords, she didn't leave her pop instincts behind. 17.
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" We all know the 27-year-old sings about the devastating heartbreak over her breakup with Justin Bieber, 25, in the song "Lose You To Love Me" and how she picked herself back up in the inspirational "Look At Her Now.
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"Dark Ballet", a piano ballad infused with electronic pop, was inspired by Joan of Arc and references a world "up in flames", while in "Killers Who Are Partying" she sings about the poor, exploited children as well as a woman raped.
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In "Eyeballs," Savage sings about trying to keep a girl in New York before she leaves him for healthier alternatives; "Winter in the South" gallops through different abstract descriptions of Savage; "Phantom Limb" slips into a country twang with a rousing chorus.
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" Her initial fans, however, were loyal, and she notes that when people called her "the 'backseat of your Rover' girl," her fans stepped up and said, "No, the girl I've loved for three years and sings about mental health and self-love.
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The uplifting video begins with a trip to a hippie-style retreat, where Perry, 34, sings about starting to feel closer to an ex once again — perhaps a nod to her one-time on-again, off-again love (now fiancé), Orlando Bloom?
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He sings about suicide, dresses like a cartoon and toes a line between sexual, violent, and childlike—which is most apparent on Instagram where he mostly posts about drugs, oral sex, and anxiety when he hasn't got someone's foot in his mouth.
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In an improvisational planning session, they came up with a playful story for "Anta Gata Doko Sa," about a girl who can roll into a ball, fly, and generally do whatever the hell she wants as she sings about greeting strangers in Japanese.
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" As Nick Sanborn's analog-sounding synthesizers boop through quick, perky arpeggios over a ticking backbeat, Ms. Meath sings about following the format rules while chafing against them, about "faking the truth in a new pop song/Don't you want to sing along?
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Very thoughtfully, she considers her own position, and the escapism from the state of the world that the walled off Coachella environment provides: As someone who frequently sings about America, it's not surprising that the political landscape would spur Lana into musical action.
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Over a track that fleshes out the skeletal beat of most reggaetón with horns and Latin percussion, Ms. Lopez sings about the uncontrollable power of love, working from breathiness to gutsy rasps; Gente de Zona heartily agrees with her, growling in satisfaction.
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Neither is Katy Perry, who sings about them, or Mischa Barton, whose most famous role as spoiled, sad teen Marissa Cooper in The O.C. revived the California Girl aesthetic for a generation of millennials; Barton, the person, is far too unchill to qualify.
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Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown's mothers are again pictured, this time among other black women, while Beyoncé sings about celebrating her freedom, their freedom: The penultimate song on the full album, "All Night," was actually the end of the Lemonade HBO special.
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"Human Error" merges her early dance-pop electronics with skeletal piano and unfurling orchestral arrangements as she sings about the difference between calculated planning and real life: "No missing digits, no real mistakes/Just human errors make human hearts break," she realizes.
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He sings about the perils of global warming, and bemoans the ways we let smaller problems occlude existential threats, all the while he and drummer Alex Audette and bassist Michael Geacone churn out #riffs that that chime and grind in equal measure.
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Over simple, bright, hooky jangle-rock, coated in the crispest of pop surfaces, she cheerfully sings about mortality, drug addiction, the bleaching of pleasure from things she used to enjoy, the tension between being alone and being lonely, the endless search for love.
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At the time, critics tried to shove her under the riot grrrl umbrella—probably because she's a woman with a guitar who sings about gender sometimes—but PJ never belonged to any scene, and she certainly doesn't owe much to hardcore punk in America.
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So, it only makes sense that the entirety of her video for "The Community of Hope" doesn't focus on Harvey, but instead shows a variety of shots of Washington D.C. neighborhoods most at risk for falling to the fate she sings about in the song.
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The love interest that she sings about can be seen taunting her throughout but gets what's coming to him in the end when SZA and her fairy friends have him tied up, giving the singer her chance to shoot fireworks at him from her fingertips.
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Bill Murray whispers in Scarlett Johansson's ear and leaves Tokyo behind, riding off into the sunset on Mark Knopfler's wistful synth-organ melody; the titular Friends decide to grab one last coffee at Central Perk while Knopfler sings about some dude busking in the subway.
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Over a flowing, sun-dappled arrangement — produced by the former Wilco associate LeRoy Bach, and reminiscent of recent work by Jim O'Rourke — Mr. Walker sings about homecomings and misgivings, along with the feeling of being one step out of sync with the crowd. N.C.
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Villaseñor taps into some of the frustrations following the 2020 nominations announcement as she sings about the various releases of 2019 and the common theme that, in addition to tying many of them together, also helps explain who got nominated and who got snubbed.
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BJÖRK "Utopia" (One Little Indian) Björk's latest alternate musical universe is an airy realm filled with flutes, birdcalls and electronics, all fluttering and gusting around her voice in thoroughly unpredictable ways, as she sings about stirrings of romance, thoughts of community and ways of healing.
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When Taylor Swift sings about Kanye's crooked stage, or about a paper airplane necklace in reference to Harry Styles, is she conveying genuine feelings of revenge or longing, or have her lyrics been carefully calculated to send a specific message and appease an audience?
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Cohen's voice, supplemented by an orchestral, repeating chorus, is urgent and gruff, comparable to the style he uses on similarly themed songs — including "You Want It Darker," from the album he released this October, in which he sings about darkness descending after smothering a flame.
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As he puts it in "Born to Run", his new autobiography, he sings about "the joy and heartbreak of everyday life", of humdrum defeat and defiance, the pull of home and the road's allure, familiar dichotomies somehow elevated, in his ballads, into a new American mythology.
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In several songs, the Grammy winner, 27, sings about intimate moments in her bedroom (most signs point towards her 26-year-old boyfriend Joe Alwyn), and the lyrics are so hot on one particular song her parents reportedly left the room during one of her secret sessions.
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When Post Malone sings about all the excesses and indulgences he's enjoying in "rockstar" (20173 million Spotify streams), he's crooning a minor-key melody, and he doesn't sound any more cheerful or hopeful than he does in "I Fall Apart," an utterly desolate post-breakup song.
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Some academics and Twitter activists criticized her use of the word "feminist" as a backdrop during her 2014 VMA performance and highlighted the contrast between a song like "Flawless," a triumphant anthem that flaunted her independence, and "Partition," where she sings about trying to be hot for her husband.
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He can pitch a Peter Pan ending on "Same Drugs" ("Don't forget the happy thoughts, all you need is happy thoughts") after singing through addiction and fading memories; on "Smoke Break," he sings about parenthood and its strain on his relationship, sharing the track with (who else?) Future.
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" But the chorus gets noisier and punkier as she sings about walking "through the park in the dark" and paraphrases a widely cited Margaret Atwood passage to sing, "Women are scared that men will kill them," and goes on to announce, "I hold my keys between my fingers.
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Sitting in the front seat of Jeff Stevens's pickup truck one evening on the tour, I asked him what he thought of the criticism Bryan has taken over the course of his career: that he mostly sings about his truck and bluejeans and boots, that he's shallow or opportunistic.
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The track layers traditional instruments — particularly a Middle Eastern-tinged hook played on flauta de millo, a nasal-sounding reed flute used in Colombian cumbia — atop a leisurely beat mixing programmed drums and a ringing telephone, as Liliana Saumet sings about post-breakup loneliness and a longing to reunite.
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On the surface, the fight looks pretty simple: Country music is a conservative space, and Beyoncé, particularly in her most recent album Lemonade, sings about and uses imagery in regards to race, the Black Lives Matter movement, and police brutality — subjects that are seemingly incongruous with contemporary conservative ideals.
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There's a certain richness and honesty to Mabel's jams that sets her apart from her fellow up-and-comers, and she sings about relationships in a way that feels totally real, raw and unique (which is no small feat considering 90% of music is about relationships in some capacity).
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She sings about all of the usual things that matter a lot when you're in your twenties: heartbreak, that wobbling lack of self-esteem from still feeling like a child but being expected to act like a Real Grownup, realising that actually the world is rife with injustice and trauma.
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In death, Felix's head has become almost insignificant to the song the work sings about the underworld—the mad swirl of colors and patterns—to which he has given up his being Another poem in the book, one of its most brilliant, takes the viewpoint of Saint Joseph: Not mine.
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Though Eilish isn't the first to reference The Office on an album — AJR sings about the show on the song "Netflix Trip," and Post Malone name drops Michael Scott on his track "Candy Paint" — hearing actual audio from the show spliced throughout lyrics and a sick beat definitely delivers a special vibe.
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As Hedwig sings about the American GI who gave her favors in exchange for sex, Harris, fully in character in fishnet stockings and skyscraper heels, gives Sting a lap dance and licks Samuel L. Jackson's glasses (Jackson's look of utter shock in response may be the best moment of the whole thing).
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Wide swaths of Sufjan's songs have to do with Christianity, or also, maybe being in love with a man, which has sparked a cottage industry of thinkpieces ("We Can't Stop Wondering if Sufjan Stevens Sings About God or Being Gay") and playlists ("Is This Sufjan Stevens Song Gay or Just About God").
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But when Perry, who cowrote the tune with Sia Furler (yes, that Sia), Max Martin, Ali Payami, and Skip Marley, sings about "living in a bubble" and being unable to "see the trouble," she's not referring to finding your main squeeze in a dark corner of the club with your best friend.
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Maroon 5 and Cardi B just dropped a music video for their new single, "Girls Like You," and, uh, let me tell you... EVERYONE'S IN IT. While Adam Levine sings about a certain type of girl, some badass women from Hollywood, including Gal Gadot, Jennifer Lopez, Sarah Silverman, Tiffany Haddish, and Millie Bobby Brown, each appear behind him.
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The lighter, more propulsive "What About Us" glides casually over the counterpoint between muddy, sturdy rhythm guitar and Clark's higher, more defiant, nose-thumbing lead; as Clark overdubs chattering street voices from the neighborhood he sings about, the playful, ambiguous song could be an extended comedic routine about generational warfare or a cautionary tale about gentrification.
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The "trees of green and red roses, too," that Louis Armstrong sings about in "Wonderful World" seem no less mysterious and marvelous to Sokeo, whose cultural frame of reference is not Santa Claus or American popular music but the nightmare stories he hears from his parents when they recount the experiences that led them to flee Cambodia.
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As she sings about how a certain kiss makes her lose control despite herself — "Clothes are on the floor," she notes at the end — the ultra-canny track segues from mariachi horns to the stark electronics of Latin trap to flamenco handclaps (hello, Rosalía!) to a ska-pop chorus: border-hopping at the speed of pop.
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" Hints of disaster creep in, line by line: she hated (past tense) the number nine; her sister was out on the ice earlier, alone; he sings about "Good Heaven..." and the "Northern star..." In the third verse, the song erupts in a clash of major chords: "Baby you promised me you'd never leave / Then you died on the 25th day of December.
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In Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar (you may remember its live TV revival last year), Jesus and Mary don't have a romantic relationship, but Mary is portrayed as a former prostitute, and the song "I Don't Know How to Love Him," which she sings about Jesus, could be read as a confession of unrequited romantic love and desire.
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Many of us knew about AIDS long before we had sex, and we watched the Challenger explode on live TV. Raised on the promise of Title IX and that Enjoli perfume ad where the woman sings about how she can bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan, we're disappointed in ourselves for not taking advantage of supposedly limitless opportunities.
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Since she sings about anxiety and failed relationships and emotional metaspirals veering out of control and the struggle to be happy, those invested in an emo revival tag her crunchy, strummy style as emo, especially insofar as her full, max-volume choruses recall Weezer's, but to me the term implies an anthemic pathos whose tenderness in the punk context conveys doomed struggle against the inevitable failure of punk energy.
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The trio formed, in 2007, as New York college students whose musical interests drifted between lo-fi folk, brainy electronica, and slow-burn R. & B. In 2013, they stirred those three disparate sounds into an arresting self-titled E.P. On its four tracks, the lead vocalist and songwriter, Kelly Zutrau, sings about heartbreak, dishing out honeyed, first-crush platitudes ("My baby, he don't love me no more") over the ruminating laptop compositions of her bandmates, Joe Valle and Marty Sulkow.
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