Word: melodye
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In stark contrast with her previous work, Britney has none of Spears’ trademark overpoweringly catchy tunes. For all her critical failure, at least songs like 1999’s “Sometimes” and 2000’s “Lucky” possessed melodies...
Spears extensively substitutes melody with a curious style of quasi-singing that can only be described as guttural muttering. The technique is featured prominently on the album’s first single, the ridiculously titled “I’m a Slave 4 U.” Even...
In “Another Star,” Frankie put down his trumpet, picked up the microphone and did something uncharacteristic for a jazz performer—he encouraged audience participation. Supported by Castrillo, he urged the audience to sing, recapturing the introduction of Wonder’s original...
The atmospheric “Prologue” that begins the soundtrack, with its tinny, haunting melody, conjures images of fallen leaves swirling in an autumn breeze under a full moon. It is the music of cinematic anticipation, of something wondrous about to happen. A movie cliché, perhaps, but...
The “Prologue,” which so readily evokes images of midnight mystery, may remind you of similar music that accomplished a similar goal in Williams’s 1982 score for E.T. The sweeping melody of “Harry’s Wondrous World?...