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...Gonzalez has a knack for melody which at least partly mitigates his lyrical limitations....
...“I took references from TikTok trends, K-pop idols, role-playing, and ‘VTubers’ [who live-stream as digital avatars]. It provides a very rich palette to play with.”...
...With its strummed guitars and breezy melody, the holiday romance bop “Summer Vibes” feels comfortably positioned as a commercial hit....
...There are hip-hop chants, big booming basslines, EDM peaks, Bollywood-style melodies, Paganini samples (yes, really: “Shut Down”) and, topping it all, the pure-pop sugar-rush of precisely engineered, addictive...
...The super group was instrumental in taking K-pop to a global audience with catchy melodies and slick dance routines....
...Who can resist those tinkling ’80s pop melodies or that effervescent grin? I’m not even going to try....
...Meanwhile, the song precisely channels the higher power of 1980s pop, all starburst synths, big drums, slick bass lines and expansive melodies....
...“Lessons”, with a guest appearance by Wretch 32, sets reflections about poverty, crime and personal responsibility to a mournfully cyclical guitar melody....
...To begin with, on the opening tracks “K.G.L.W.” and “Automation”, they play a kind of folk-rock, with guitar melodies that are more memorable than the vocal lines....
...Spitzer’s darting, kingfisher mind moves giddily from Stormzy to Mozart by way of Whitney Houston, K-Pop and the Aztecs....
...The K-pop boom continues....
...It pulled its printed edition in 2018 as rival titles including Sounds and Melody Maker collapsed. Q, another music magazine, ceased publication in July....
...Charles K Harris’s How to Write a Popular Song was a best-selling pioneer in 1906....
...Had Sleater-Kinney eschewed scrappily melodic punk rock in favour of tightly choreographed K-pop? Was this to be a sonic cataclysm that would rewrite pop history? No, of course not....
...BTS were designed around him by the veteran K-pop impresario Bang Si-hyuk in 2013. Despite being manufactured, they were granted more autonomy to develop than other K-pop acts....
...Rivalries are common: aptly, the followers of K-pop supremos BTS are nicknamed the “Army”....
...” ‘80s Symphonic’ (Warner) and ‘Unchained Melodies’ (Sony) are both on release Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...John on the idea for ‘Imagine’ “Imagine” is a song conceived in my head without melody....
...And, not content with Mozart’s cadenza for his Piano Concerto K 246, “because he’d written it when he was very young, so it just stayed in the same key all the time”, she has found time to pen her own....
...University of St Andrews Isobel Murray Prof Emeritus Modern Scottish Literature, Aberdeen University Dr Kath Murray Criminal Justice Researcher Andrew Ormston Director of Drew Wylie Projects Alex Orr...
...J-pop acts from Japan and K-pop acts from South Korea visit in search of followers....
...He starts with beats, throws in phrases and melodies, then invites the audience to join him in building a composition from human voices....
...Musicians wake up with a melody in their head and within hours it can be online and you can reach people directly. And performing on stage is very special....
...Two years later, acting as arts group The K Foundation, he and Cauty burnt £1m — the remainder of their KLF earnings — on the Scottish island of Jura, then took a film of the burning on tour....
...Highlight was flautist Finn Peters getting inside the haunting melody of Yusef Lateef’s “Like It Is”. The second half concentrated on the 1980s and again dealt Ra and reggae in equal measure....
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