ballad

Later in the collection, the Amy Winehouse cover “You Know I’m No Good” is an interesting choice, but it adds nothing to the original, while the penultimate “Back in Your Life” is a fine ballad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

“It’s a ballad for the real lad, an acceptable point where men can show a bit of emotion.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Rein Me In is Fender's first number one, while the pop-rock ballad is Dean's second chart-topper after the success of her single Man I Need.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Meanwhile Bonnie Tyler, who has died at the age of 75, is remembered by the paper as the "queen of the power ballad".

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Hadn't he heard ballad sellers fling that name about the streets?

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

A peak of pop excess, Raye's second full-length album is a 73-minute melodrama, sprinkled with golden age Hollywood glamour, show-stopping ballads, tongue twisting wordplay and genre smashing handbrake turns.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Dance Quest’s silent disco hike takes guests on an hourlong adventure through Griffith Park, complete with a curated playlist of bangers and ballads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 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

Popular throughout New England in the late 1960s for their vocal-harmony ballads and club performances, the Tavares brothers—first performing as Chubby and the Turnpikes and then as just the Turnpikes—struggled to gain national exposure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026

For centuries, ballads, and epics were all sung, as were Biblical chants and Vedic hymns.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin