Word: balladic
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Matt FitzGerald, Tom Schutzinger and Pete Kelly of Decoder Ring are trying to decipher the lyrics sung by guest artist Lenka on the title track to their score for Somersault. It's a floaty ballad in which the film's ethereal Heidi imagines seeing a vision of her lover in snow clouds above the Australian Alps. As they do for the rest of the movie, Decoder Ring provide a soundscape of dark valleys and sunny alpine flourishes, from the deep chime of the glockenspiel to high-pealing piano and xylophone. But how exactly do Lenka's lyrics...
Although Corrigan was not yet sure what song the band will close its final encore with, he said that he hopes for one in particular: “The General,” the immensely popular ballad about an army officer who turns his back on and saves his men from needless conflict...
...Sing for Your Supper" trio (Gravitte, Luker and Sarah Uriarte Berry) from "The Boys from Syracuse"... Kuhn, an angel lost in hell, turning a 2684-seat theater into a confessional when she performs "The Man I Love" from "Strike Up the Band"... Ruthie Henshell, beautifully torching the ballad "Words Without Music" from "Ziegfeld Follies of 1936"... The second-act overture to "Babes in Arms," when the orchestra began playing "Where or When" and the audience joined in, dreamily humming along and swaying in unison... The chorale rendition of "Stout-Hearted Men" from "New Moon," which had the crowd stomping...
...secret of this breakup ballad from one of the better albums ever made by a teenager is revealed in tiny notation at the end of the lyric sheet: CHORUS X 2. It's the oldest trick in the pop songbook, but when Lavigne, 19, trembles through the chorus once--"You were everything, everything that I wanted/We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it"--only to emerge stronger at the end of the second go-round, millions of adolescent girls will close their eyes and know they are a few minutes closer to getting over...
...tear. Now Nashville's big guns want buckets. For those who gulped their way through George Strait's Desperately and sat stoically by as Alan Jackson asked Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning), McGraw has composed the toughest test to date: call it Tuesdays with Morrie, the ballad. McGraw wrote this elegy following the death of his father, charismatic ex-Big League pitcher Tug McGraw, from cancer in January. Lyrically, it's shameless--and that's from a fan--with life lessons ("love deeper," "read the good book") so trite they might raise a skeptical eyebrow...