ballad
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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
Sunhyeji effortlessly grooves to brand new pop hit Catch Catch, while Enyo belts out a ballad.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“You Got Me Rocking” sounds like a throwback to something on “Exile on Main St.,” while the ballad “Out of Tears” echoes “Angie.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
We’d open with a ballad: “Sunday at the Mall.”
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
Cold Goodbyes, in particular, is set to the sound of an unsettling synth drone – a world away from the gently-plucked ballads of her earlier work.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Years later, after arriving in the South, she discovered it was It's Not Too Late by Green Zone, or Noksaek Jidae, a popular male duo from the 1990s, when sentimental ballads dominated Korean music charts.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The distinctive jazz vocalist teams with the Metropole Orkest and arranger Darcy James Argue on an album of expressively rendered ballads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
The books of ballads and histories make an enormous splash, then lodge between two stones and will not budge.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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