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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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In Blue Velvet, Dorothy Valence’s (Isabella Rossellini) rendition of the title ballad is a conduit for her internal life.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 Jan. 2025
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In the music video, released Monday, frontwoman Michelle Zauner sings the delicate ballad, while bassist Jungle twirls in a gleaming seashell, emulating a siren.—
Kalia Richardson,
Rolling Stone,
14 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Her husband, my grandfather, was not only a composer who wrote liturgical music, motets, symphonies, and string quartets but also a beloved music teacher who believed that music was as crucial to the development of the mind as math.—
Stephanie H. Murray,
The Atlantic,
18 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
Noun
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In a TikTok video posted on Dec. 1, Cassidy sits with her son and mother-in-law, who sings the lullaby written in honor of Jared.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
People.com,
1 Jan. 2025
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One of the loveliest moments of the opera comes as the children head to sleep, and an off-stage chorus (Potts, Wolverton plus Siena Forest and Alex Ritchie) sing a kind of lullaby.—
Sheila Regan,
Twin Cities,
21 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Now the pop star’s former digs have resurfaced on the market, asking a smidge under $6 million.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
22 Jan. 2025
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McKnight received his first Grammy nomination at the 36th annual awards in 1994 for best pop performance by a duo or group with vocal alongside Vanessa Williams.—
Olivia Munson,
USA TODAY,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Callas’s arias filled the halls in surround sound, and in our rooms, La Divina chocolate bars inspired by her performances showcased a Callas portrait on the outer box, and a history of the famous show on its interior.—
Eleni N. Gage,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Dec. 2024
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He’s lost in his leather aria, grinning, his wild grey curls alert, electrified by the music.—
Carolyn Figel,
Hazlitt,
27 Nov. 2024
Noun
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There were chants in support of Chelsea’s previous owner Roman Abramovich — as well as the club’s most successful head coach, Jose Mourinho — during the 90 minutes that February day.—
Simon Johnson,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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At a pro-Palestinian street protest in Columbus, Ohio, last fall, demonstrators march to the rhythm of liberation chants, punctuated by occasional horns from passing cars.—
Alfredo Sosa,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The rockers continue to chart new smashes to this day, and their Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection is a fairly steady performer across the country.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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The dates, which are part of the band’s ongoing Music of the Spheres World Tour, mark the rockers’ first-ever stadium show in the country, according to Coldplay's Instagram page.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Chanson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chanson. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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