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On 27 August 1992 Lennon's handwritten lyrics were sold by the estate of Mal Evans in an auction at Sotheby's London for $100,000 (£56,600) to Joseph Reynoso, an American from Chicago. [123] The lyrics were put up for sale again in March 2006 by Bonhams in New York. Sealed bids were opened on 7 March 2006 and offers started at about $2 million.
"Create" (Japanese: 創造, Hepburn: Sōzō) is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter and musician Gen Hoshino. The theme song to the 35th anniversary of the Nintendo video game Super Mario Bros. (1985), the song first appeared in a June 2020 commercial before Speedstar Records released it as a digital single on February 17, 2021; a physical double A-sided CD with "Fushigi" was released on June ...
After the song's rise, the duo's previous single, "Love Is a Stranger", was re-released and also became a worldwide hit. On Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time issue in 2003, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" was ranked number 356. [8] In 2020, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [9]
In the classical music tradition, this type of setting may be referred to as an art song. A poem set to music in the German language is called a lied , or in the French language , a Mélodie . A group of poems, usually by the same poet, which are set to music to form a single work, is called a song cycle .
Lyrics can be studied from an academic perspective. For example, some lyrics can be considered a form of social commentary. Lyrics often contain political, social, and economic themes—as well as aesthetic elements—and so can communicate culturally significant messages. These messages can be explicit, or implied through metaphor or symbolism.
The song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is a holiday classic, but its genesis goes back to Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis. It turns out, she helped this melancholy Christmas ...
Eilish, 22, said some people were surprised to hear she was writing a song for the “Barbie” soundtrack, given her music’s usual darker edge.
"Art" is a song by South African singer Tyla from her self-titled debut studio album. It was released on 12 April 2024 through Fax and Epic Records , as the album's third single. The R&B -infused amapiano song was produced by Sammy Soso and was accompanied by a music video that premiered on YouTube on the day of the album's release.