ballad
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“I was desperate for something up-tempo,” she says, given that virtually everything she’d dropped so far had been a ballad.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
“I just love a ballad — I can’t help it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
For bands such as Styx, commercial success arrived in the form of a ballad.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
Raye, who scooped six awards last time she was at the Brits in 2024, performed a re-imagined version of her hit Where Is My Husband! - before diving into her new soul ballad, Nightingale Lane.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 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
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