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Pop music has been influenced and inspired by poetry, resulting in famous music hits that blend language and music to create unique and powerful artistic expressions. Artists like Bob Dylan, Mike Scott and the Waterboys, Christy Moore, Patti Smith, and Leonard Cohen have all embraced the fusion of poetry and pop music, creating vibrant anthems ...
Nov 4, 2016 · As pop music has become more promiscuous—mixing with other genres like hip-hop and EDM to form an FM Frankenstein—so, too, have the borders of poetry grown looser, thanks to the rise of the ...
- "Hope is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman to Have - but I Have It" / Lana Del Rey. Lana Del Rey's poetic pop has graced radios around the world since 2012.
- "Red" / Taylor Swift. Composed almost entirely from simile, "Red" by Taylor Swift is a love song built on figurative language. Swift compares aspects of a relationship to colors: loss as blue, longing as grey, and love as red, so the listener experiences the emotions in greater depth.
- "What About Us" / P!nk. P!nk has been writing poetic music since the 90s. In her current albums, many of her songs focus on relationships, but the single "What About Us" takes a more global view.
- "Sugar, We're Goin Down" / Fall Out Boy. Pop-punk classic "Sugar, We're Goin Down" mixes word play with punk themes in a breakup banger. Lines like "Drop a heart, break a name" and "A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it" remix common sayings into new meanings with lyrical flow.
Mar 30, 2017 · The dance of word and music makes songs act on our imagination and emotions just as the best poems do. Attentive readers, like the nine poets below, unlock mysteries of lyric expression through the poetics of form, as well as through ineffable qualities of voice and music. This is the poetry of pop. * H. L. Hix picks Bobbie Gentry’s “Ode to ...
Mar 28, 2017 · About this book. Encompassing a century of recorded music, this pathbreaking book reveals the poetic artistry of popular songs. Pop songs are music first. They also comprise the most widely disseminated poetic expression of our time. Adam Bradley traces the song lyric across musical genres from early twentieth-century Delta blues to mid-century ...
Love in the time of COVID-19 playlist: 14 Filipino Love Songs with Poetic Lyrics. Viral hit ‘DOTA o Ako’ now ten years old, celebrates with a music video sequel. Never mind your zodiac sign ...
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Modern and contemporary examples: Poetry and music have continued to intersect in various ways in modern and contemporary times. Popular music genres such as rock, pop, and hip hop often feature poetic lyrics, and spoken word poetry, which is often set to music, has gained popularity in recent years.
