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Recent Examples of chanson
Spectacular to look at, the production is unfailingly exuberant, a parade of color and catchy chanson.
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Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2024
Inside the spell of Diamond Jubilee’s ’60s psychedelic chanson garage-pop there is unbridled romance and hope, yet to consider its obstinately antiquated and luddite qualities in the stark reality of the 2020s is to feel total hopelessness.
—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
Nueva Canción draws inspiration from French chanson.
—Daniella Tello-Garzon, refinery29.com, 18 Jan. 2024
As with other yé-yé singers, Hardy’s music blended mid-1960s bubblegum pop, groovy guitar lines and France’s romantic chanson tradition to create sticky-sweet love songs.
—Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
Audiard makes a case that the movie musical is the only genre that could have contained all this, enlisting nouvelle chanson artist Camille to write the songs and her partner Clément Ducol to compose the score.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
There’s a little Edith Piaf in Peyroux’s singing as well, evocations of the famous French cabaret and chanson vocalist.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2024
Mélusine is half French chanson/half idiosyncratic art song, which in its course reveals its own soaring majesty.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 June 2023
The opening reminds me of the essential French genre the chanson, which people associate with someone like Edith Piaf.
—Charlie Harding, Vulture, 5 May 2023
Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2024
Inside the spell of Diamond Jubilee’s ’60s psychedelic chanson garage-pop there is unbridled romance and hope, yet to consider its obstinately antiquated and luddite qualities in the stark reality of the 2020s is to feel total hopelessness.
—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
Nueva Canción draws inspiration from French chanson.
—Daniella Tello-Garzon, refinery29.com, 18 Jan. 2024
As with other yé-yé singers, Hardy’s music blended mid-1960s bubblegum pop, groovy guitar lines and France’s romantic chanson tradition to create sticky-sweet love songs.
—Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
Audiard makes a case that the movie musical is the only genre that could have contained all this, enlisting nouvelle chanson artist Camille to write the songs and her partner Clément Ducol to compose the score.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
There’s a little Edith Piaf in Peyroux’s singing as well, evocations of the famous French cabaret and chanson vocalist.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2024
Mélusine is half French chanson/half idiosyncratic art song, which in its course reveals its own soaring majesty.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 June 2023
The opening reminds me of the essential French genre the chanson, which people associate with someone like Edith Piaf.
—Charlie Harding, Vulture, 5 May 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chanson
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At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
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After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
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By the end, we’re also given a typically emotive Diana Warren ballad, sung by H.E.R. The performances, too, couldn’t be better.Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
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And a reprise of a ballad about happy days, first played as a falsehood only to be refashioned as a genuine statement of rebirth, suggests inspiration momentarily winning over perspiration.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
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Repetition with fidelity led, with the aid of print, to longer organized forms such as the motet, a vocal music composition, and the conductus, a Latin song with a rhythmic structure.Lynn Whidden, Scientific American, 26 July 2024
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According to Francisco, the composers represented no less than 30 print collections of solo songs, cantatas, motets, polyphonic works, settings for psalms and masses, a magnificat, a vespers service, a dozen sonatas, and scores for nine operas and other staged works.Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
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Twain chose to write a lullaby to commemorate his adult daughter, which Stephen recites to himself wading waist-high in the Ligurian Sea.Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
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Luckily, a lullaby by her mom is filled with magic that sends her off into a slumber filled with adventurous dreams.Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 5 Sep. 2024
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But even for its heightening visibility in pop culture, the term is still somewhat nebulous — evoking a range from curiosity to dread.Rebekah Pahl, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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Brenda Lee's 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' Hits No. 1 65 Years After Release The festive rivalry between the two pop divas is a friendly one.Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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According to the station’s records, the aria was performed on WEVD in 1963, 1964 and 1965.Jon Kalish, Sun Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2024
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Popular pop and country songs blaring over the sound system were punctuated by an Italian opera aria, and finally the warm-up speakers, all local politicians, made their dutiful speeches.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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These rallies, filled with chants, music and group dances, are so far going peacefully.Ian Pannell, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2024
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To his credit, Barkley isn't letting the chants get to his head and is keeping himself focused on his No. 1 goal: helping the Eagles score wins en route to a Super Bowl berth.Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recently, it was announced that the title would be re-released on colorful vinyl in early 2025, and that reveal surely excited those who still love the rockers.Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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This marks the second time Australian fans have missed out on seeing the Canadian rockers due to Whibley’s health.Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Chanson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chanson. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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