ballad

On the dreamy ballad “Después de Ti,” she was joined on guitar by Greg Gonzalez of Cigarettes After Sex, reenacting their performance together from April, when Karol headlined Coachella.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

With her distinctive husky voice, tousled mane of blonde hair and black eyeliner, Tyler was instantly recognisable as the queen of the 1980s power ballad.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

The ballad spent two weeks at UK number one and four weeks in the US.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Then comes the sound, clams tossed in hot pans, cleavers pounding roast pork, a Cantonese rock ballad barely rising above the crowd.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

The fiddlers are playing a lilting ballad, and at my nod, the boy takes my hands as confidently as if we've been friends for years.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

There were hair-metal bands that only had power ballads — Firehouse or some band with 17th century French aristocrat hair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

In the mid-to-late 2010s, as K-pop was going global, new music sat alongside decades-old ballads on SD cards circulating in North Korea.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Though she’s no conventional jazz singer, it’s no surprise she felt compelled to sing ballads with orchestration, a time-honored formula for so many great jazz vocalists, including her earliest musical obsession, Sarah Vaughan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

On the last Unusual Tuesday of April, Zabaglio performed soft electric-indie ballads to a roar of applause as the first act of the night.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

The whereabouts of Franklin and his men would become one of the world’s greatest mysteries, inspiring scores of books, poems, and ballads.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler