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Is there a secret formula to unforgettable musical hits? A deep dive into 2,000 of ...

The Daily Mail 26 Mar 2025
Classic show tunes from Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and Six also exhibit similar patterns, showing that structure and musical elements play a crucial role in a song’s longevity.
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They Might Be Giants never saw making kids' albums as a permanent career pivot

AV Club 24 Mar 2025
... saying this when we taped the session—that it might have actually been the closest thing to a They Might Be Giants song, because structurally it was so unusual, because it was not like a pop song.
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Labor targeted over salmon farms, Canada calls election after Trump threats, Piastri wins Chinese GP

AOL 23 Mar 2025
Dr Jenny Allen, an expert in whale song structure at Griffith University, speaks with Reged Ahmad about the years of recording, listening and analysing that led to this greater understanding of how humpback whales learn their tune.In-depth.
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Morning Mail: Labor targeted over salmon farms, Canada calls election after Trump threats, Piastri wins Chinese GP

The Observer 23 Mar 2025
Dr Jenny Allen, an expert in whale song structure at Griffith University, speaks with Reged Ahmad about the years of recording, listening and analysing that led to this greater understanding of how humpback whales learn their tune.In-depth.
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Reminiscences of War in Nimi Wariboko’s Songs of Childhood

This Day 22 Mar 2025
In this new collection of poems, ‘Songs of Childhood ... Structurally, the poems are of varying lengths ... ‘Songs of Childhood’ is broadly structured into three parts with the subtitles, ‘Past Echoes’, ‘New Griefs’ and ‘Grief, endless grief’.
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Mariah Carey wins copyright dispute over 'All I Want for Christmas Is You'

The News International 21 Mar 2025
Stone and Powers sought $20 million in damages and a jury trial, but the court found their case —claiming Carey's version of the song imitated the "compositional structure" of their ballad— insufficient to proceed.
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Judge rules Mariah Carey didn't steal All I Want For Christmas Is You

RTE 21 Mar 2025
Stone and Powers argued that their song featured a "unique linguistic structure" in which the singer, unimpressed by material gifts, writes a letter to Santa wishing to be with their loved one.
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Judge dismisses copyright lawsuit against Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas is You'

Oakridger 21 Mar 2025
A federal judge in Los Angeles sided with Mariah Carey in a lawsuit alleging she illegally copied elements of her holiday classic "All I Want For Christmas Is You" from a song of the same name that released three years prior.
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The hot new trend for pop stars? Being madly in love.

Business Insider 21 Mar 2025
If Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco want you to take away one thing from their new album, it's not that they can make a great song — it's that they're madly in love ... Then we'd go into the other room and create it, and it became a song.
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Brain scans reveal how drum and bass influence music perception

PsyPost 19 Mar 2025
Drums establish a predictable framework of beats, while bass lines reinforce the harmonic structure of the song ... Participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans while listening to different versions of 18 Korean pop songs.
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Former Eminem employee accused of stealing, selling unreleased music for $50,000

Press & Guide 19 Mar 2025
This image looks like an older model computer file structure with approximately 50 sub files that are listed with the title of the song in alphabetical order ... Strange provided images of the sheets and list of songs to which he had access.
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Playboi Carti Gets Lost in the Music

New York Magazine 19 Mar 2025
... that even the radioactive clout lord wants in on the action.) “Fine” weaponizes the sound and structure of a rap Song for the Ladies, mostly to flex on the riches and influence attracting women.
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Todd Rundgren honors Burt Bacharach on new tour: ‘You don’t want to murder the melodies!’

San Diego Union-Tribune 18 Mar 2025
The many classic songs Bacharach co-wrote with lyricist Hal David, who died in 2012 at the age of 91, quickly became staples for artists around the world ... “His songs are pretty much sewn into the fabric of living.”.
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Trump uses Kennedy Center visit to criticize the venue and tout his efforts to remake it

CNN 18 Mar 2025
Lee Greenwood wanted to sing a little song today, and because of the cost of the union structure, for him to sing a song just for the board, just a board meeting, it was going to cost $30,000.
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Album Of The Week: YHWH Nailgun 45 Pounds

Stereogum 18 Mar 2025
Across its 10 songs are no familiar pop song structures, and its “hooks” more often come from a drum machine rather than in a melody; songs like “Animal Death Already Breathing” builds off ...
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