6 Pop Songwriters Turned Film Score Composers
Who’s the first composer you think of when you think of film scoring? They probably started in pop music, and that says something!
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Crying in the Club: Songs Within Songs and Intertextuality in Pop Music
A lengthy, in-depth look at the self-referential nature of pop music and what that means for legality and creativity in music.
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The 6 Best Music Books of 2022 (So Far)
We’re back for another annual roundup of our favorite music books published this year. Enjoy these 6 instant classics. (We sure did!)
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The New Faces of R&B: 6 Artists Tugging Us Back Into Harmony
We took an audit of modern R&B and found 6 exciting artists pushing the boundaries of what this genre could be for futures to come!
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Thundercat Chord Theory
In this post, courtesy of Reverb Machine’s Dan Carr, we break down the chord progressions of Thundercat’s most beloved jazz-inspired songs.
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2021’s Breakout Songs That Nobody Saw Coming
Here’s our list of our favorite breakout pop songs of 2021, can you claim to have listened to all of these artists?
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Here’s Why Your Song Title Matters…
Song titles are most often copied from the hook, or complete afterthoughts, it’s time to pay closer attention when we finalize them.
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What Are Your Favorite Songs by “One-Hit Wonders?”
In Ep. 34 of Themes and Variation, we dissect some of our favorite “one-hit wonders” with songwriter and Soundfly veteran, Lina Farah.
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A Harmonic Analysis of Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way”
One of the biggest pop songs of all time, and the most “boy bandiest” of boy band hits, “I Want It That Way” features some savy theory…
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Unintentionally Spooky, Creepy and Just Plain Weird Music Videos (Not for Halloween)
We know it’s Halloween, but we got kind of sick of ghosts, ghouls, and zombies, so here’s a list of videos that are creepy in other ways.
