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Jan 22, 2020 · 🎵 Follow our Spotify playlists: http://bit.ly/7CLOUDS🎧 Doja Cat - Say So (Lyrics) "Why dont you say so?"⏬ Download / Stream: https://smarturl.it/xHotPink ?...
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- A Christmas chord?
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A 50 second-long intro really hooks in the listener. After some trademark Carey melismas on ‘true’, we get a classy rallentando which leads into a perfectly placed appoggiaturaon ‘you’. It might be long, but it creates suspense by the bucketload. Here are 9 incredible Christmas songs (from a classical music perspective) >
It’s a scientific fact that sleigh bells equal snow, winter and Christmas – and Mariah uses them aplenty. Straight out of Leroy Anderson’s 1948 hit ‘Sleigh Ride’, they’re an essential element of the song’s orchestration. Tubular bells ring throughout, giving a nostalgic, ecclesiastical feel. There’s also a certain genius in the simplicity of the pi...
The song is in G major, but the intro takes us through a G - B - C - E flat - D - Em - E flat - D - Am - D - G chord sequence, packing in a whole load of harmonic tension that will finally be released when we hit that first verse. Slatemagazine’s resident musicologist counts 13 distinct chords at work throughout the song, giving it a sumptuous chro...
Time for a lesson in scrunchy harmonies, guys. There’s a theory, put forward by Slate and later illustrated by Vox, which says the chord under ‘presents’ in the opening line – a scrunchy half diminished chord, or D minor 7 flat 5to be exact – is what makes this song Christmassy. It’s a deliciously appealing idea, a secret chord that injects a feeli...
A few months ago, we asked Classic FM presenter and legendary Baroque soprano Catherine Bottto share her thoughts on the iconic voice. She said: “Mariah is brilliant because she takes that shouty voice higher in pitch than any classical singer that I’ve ever met. It’s really, really impressive.”
Dec 11, 2020 · Research has shown that this spirit of Christmas manifests as a multitude of positive feelings and behaviours that are experienced collectively, including greater altruism, goodwill and...
- Nilufar Ahmed
Dec 11, 2023 · NEW YORK (AP) — If anything about Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” annoys you, best to avoid shopping malls now. Or the radio. Maybe music altogether, for that matter. Her 1994 carol dominates holiday music like nothing else.
- dbauder@ap.org
- National Media And Entertainment Writer
When can you start playing Christmas songs? Is November too soon? Should you wait until 1 December?
In 2010, The Daily Telegraph named "All I Want for Christmas Is You" the most popular and most played Christmas song of the decade in the United Kingdom. [152] Rolling Stone ranked it fourth on its Greatest Rock and Roll Christmas Songs list, calling it a "holiday standard."
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Why did 'all I Want for Christmas Is You' never hit number one?
Dec 23, 2014 · The only reason “All I Want for Christmas Is You” never hit number one on the Billboard Top 40 is because of poor planning on the part of Carey’s record label.
