The Pop Song Professor project is all about helping music lovers like you to better understand the deeper meanings of popular song lyrics so that you know what your artist is saying and can enjoy your music more.
I've been pleasantly surprised with Panic! at the Disco's songs that weren't the lead singles. There were plenty of good singles--sure--but I wasn't thrilled by the lyrics. Now, I'm kind of freakin' out over how good the album sounds. Death of a Bachelor sounds legit, and I'm loving it. There's a lot of throwback sound on here, and I've really been enjoying that. But I've also been enjoying the energy put into the singing; Brendon Urie's been doing a great job of making that energy powerful.
"Golden Days" is the 8th song on Panic! at the Disco's Death of a Bachelor album that was released on January 15th. The song is about the "golden days" and things changing and greying as time goes on. It's a little sad, but also touches on an important theme, one of the more solemn and lasting themes, I think, touched upon in Death of a Bachelor thus far.
While he wants to be "[f]orever young," he's "[g]rowing older just the same." Of course, when we think of the past, it doesn't change in our minds: "All the memories that we make will never change / We'll stay drunk, we'll stay tan, let the love remain." "We'll still have those memories," he's saying, "and we don't have to worry about them." He finishes the chorus by singing, "And I swear that I'll always paint you," and launches into the hook: "Golden days."
We've found that Urie is treating these memories as a painting that fades as time goes on (something that all paintings do). But he will continue to repaint them as the "golden days," wonderful times of youth and passion.
The last unique stanza in the song is the bridge. In it, Urie sings, "Time can never break your heart / But it'll take the pain away." Time has passed since the glory days for the couple mentioned in the first verse, and they still remember their vitality. Thankfully for them, their distance from other events or the fact that they've lived in the "days after" the glory days means the sting has lessened.
The song appears in the 1953 British/French movie Innocents in Paris, in which it was sung with its original Russian lyrics by the Russian Tzigane chanteuse Ludmila Lopato. Mary Hopkin's 1968 recording of it with Gene Raskin's lyric was a chart-topping hit in much of the Northern Hemisphere. On most recordings of the song, Raskin is credited as the sole writer, even though he wrote only the later English lyrics (which are not an English translation of the Russian lyrics) and not the music.
In the early 1960s, Raskin, with his wife Francesca, played folk music around Greenwich Village in New York, including White Horse Tavern. Raskin, who had grown up hearing the song, and his wife wrote[7] new English lyrics to the old Russian music and then copyrighted both music and lyrics in his own name.[8] The Limeliters subsequently released a recording of the song on their 1962 LP Folk Matinee.[9] The Raskins were international performers and had played London's "Blue Angel" every year, always closing their show with the song. Paul McCartney frequented the club and, being quite taken with the song, he attempted to get several singers or groups (including the early Moody Blues) to record it.[10] Failing at that, after the formation of the Beatles' own Apple Records label, McCartney immediately recorded Mary Hopkin performing the song at Abbey Road Studios in London.[11] He later said, "I thought it was very catchy, it had something, it was a good treatment of nostalgia... (Hopkin) picked it up very easily, as if she'd known it for years."[12] The song was eventually recorded in over twenty languages and by many different artists, including Gene and Francesca.
At the peak of the song's success, a New York company used the melody in a commercial for Rokeach gefilte fish, arguing that the tune was an old Russian folk-tune and thus in the public domain. (The commercial included the line "The perfect dish, Rokeach Gefilte Fish" where the English-language song would go "Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days.") Raskin successfully sued and won a settlement, since he had slightly altered the tune to fit his lyrics and had taken out the valid new copyright.[citation needed]
I actually added the lyrics and synced it using Musixmatch when the song was released. The lyrics are available with my song on Instagram. But not yet available on Spotify. It's been 4 days after I uploaded and synced the lyrics using Musixmatch. Any Idea what the problem is? Or when will I be able to see the lyrics on my song on Spotify?
Whenever the lyrics of a song are uploaded, it might take multiple days to synchronize from our end. However, we suggest you reach out to Musixmatch so they can check that everything is fine from their end as well.
Ohhh... It's so bad to hear that. I'm sorry for the time and effort you put into that job. I edited a song three months ago and it still shows up on Spotify full of misspellings and out of sync with the music... I don't think I'll try again, although I would have liked to put lyrics to songs that don't have lyrics yet. Too sad.
I was working on my lyric video today and decided to upload and sync the same song in DistroKid before it comes out the 30th. I came to notice they (mUsiXmATcH) now charge $14.99 to have lyrics show up on Spotify, Instagram and Facebook while everywhere else the free option is available. Besides that, I also notices that a song I released MORE THAN A YEAR AGO hasn't been linked to Spotify... This is so stupid, makes you as an artist feel like the bottom of the food chain.
The song intends to depict the depth of emotions that one can feel on days characterized by rain. Just as the rain can be relentless and ongoing, so too can our feelings of nostalgia and the desire to recapture lost moments. The mood of the song is heightened by the Alternative POP R&B genre, combining vintage percussion and contemporary drum beats, which reflects the blend of old memories with the current emotional state.
Macklemore just unleashed his newest song, "Good Old Days," featuring Kesha onto the world. It's the latest and greatest off his upcoming album, Gemini, and it's amazing. Macklemore's "Good Old Days" lyrics are beautiful and will make you want to hug your BFF.
The song is all about appreciating where you are in life because, in the future, you will look back and think these were the "good old days." During the verses, Macklemore recounts a few life-defining moments that he remembers fondly, and a few he wishes would've played out differently.
Beautiful, AMIRITE? It makes me think of those late nights spent with friends. Sigh, love you guys! As always, Macklemore lays it down with enticing lyrics that paint a strong backstory. For example, in the second verse, Macklemore says,
Twelve Days of Christmas Pidgin lyrics by Eaton Bob Magoon, Jr., Edward Kenny, Gordon N. Phelps Numbah one day of Christmas My tutu gave to me One mynah bird in one papaya tree Numbah two day of Christmas My tutu gave to me 2 coconuts and One mynah bird in one papaya tree Numbah three day of Christmas My tutu gave to me 3 dried squid 2 coconuts and One mynah bird in one papaya tree Numbah four day of Christmas My tutu gave to me 4 flower leis, 3 dried squid 2 coconuts and One mynah bird in one papaya tree Numbah five day of Christmas My tutu gave to me 5 big fat pigs 4 flower leis 3 dried squid, 2 coconuts and One mynah bird in one papaya tree Numbah six day of Christmas My tutu gave to me 6 hula lessons, (continue 5 4 3 2) One mynah bird in one papaya tree Numbah seven day of Christmas My tutu gave to me 7 shrimps a swimming (continue 6 5 4 3 2) One mynah bird in one papaya tree Numbah eight day of Christmas My tutu gave to me 8 ukuleles, (continue 7 6 5 4 3 2) One mynah bird in one papaya tree Numbah nine day of Christmas My tutu gave to me 9 pounds of poi (continue 8 7 6 5 4 3 2) One mynah bird in one papaya tree Numbah ten day of Christmas My tutu gave to me 10 cans of beer (continue 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2) One mynah bird in one papaya tree Numbah eleven day of Christmas My tutu gave to me 11 missionaries (continue 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2) One mynah bird in one papaya tree Numbah twelve day of Christmas My tutu gave to me 12 televisions (continue 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2) One mynah bird in one papaya tree Source: Lyrics sung to tune of Partridge In A Pear Tree
Instagram account OCD VS THE WORLD posted a lyric video for the song a week after it leaked, with Frank Ocean then coming across the post and jumping into the comments section to confirm the actual lyrics.
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Embark on a lyrical journey with 6 Business Days by Blaqbonez featuring Projexx. This dynamic collaboration brings together two talented artists, and their lyrics offer an intriguing narrative that's worth exploring.
For the qualitative approach, we developed a semi-structured coding scheme that was applied to each song. Two coders independently examined written lyrical transcripts utilizing 1st-level and 2nd-level codes to systematically evaluate each song and determine their primary theme, secondary theme(s), and valence. The codes were identifed after several reviews of the lyrics as well as guidance from the literature on factors associated with mental health, especially depression and suicidal ideation.
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