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as in poems
a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect
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as in songs
a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment
the guitarist sang a gentle lyric while playing
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Recent Examples of lyrics
John wrote the music for the show and worked on the score with the Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears, who wrote the lyrics.
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Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
Tracks were quickly added to her Eras tour setlist, with new outfits to match, including a white Vivienne Westwood gown covered in album lyrics.
—Lisette Voytko-Best, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
With heartfelt lyrics and a powerful melody, the song encourages listeners to rise above their struggles and find strength in their beliefs.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 4 Oct. 2024
The song's groovy, slightly mysterious lyrics and dreamy synths (with plenty of space reserved for Miller's signature guitar) ultimately pushed it up to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in September 1982.
—Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2024
Thanks to the band’s mix of classic songwriting values, sharp hooks, and always-thoughtful lyrics, Fastball’s music has continued to earn critical acclaim.
—Bill Kopp, SPIN, 3 Oct. 2024
The married songwriters created all of the song’s variations in a three-week period, making only minor tweaks to the lyrics for plot needs.
—Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
Tracks were quickly added to her Eras tour setlist, with new outfits to match, including a white Vivienne Westwood gown covered in album lyrics.
—Lisette Voytko-Best, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
With heartfelt lyrics and a powerful melody, the song encourages listeners to rise above their struggles and find strength in their beliefs.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 4 Oct. 2024
The song's groovy, slightly mysterious lyrics and dreamy synths (with plenty of space reserved for Miller's signature guitar) ultimately pushed it up to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in September 1982.
—Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2024
Thanks to the band’s mix of classic songwriting values, sharp hooks, and always-thoughtful lyrics, Fastball’s music has continued to earn critical acclaim.
—Bill Kopp, SPIN, 3 Oct. 2024
The married songwriters created all of the song’s variations in a three-week period, making only minor tweaks to the lyrics for plot needs.
—Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lyrics
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The emotions and uprooting ignited the need to write at a feverish pace, filling the pages of notebooks with poems to let those feelings out.Roxsy Lin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
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His thinking is more aligned with that of literary scholar Harold Bloom, who contended that poems beget other poems, in a network of influence that owes as much to Darwin’s theory of evolution as to Freud’s notion of the Oedipus complex.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
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The songs get looser, longer, shaggier.Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
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Compare your picks with Pitchfork’s own lists of the best songs and best albums of the 2020s so far, and check out all of our half-decade coverage here.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2024
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Because Wisdom, from Havana (a tiny suburb of Tallahassee), fuses the tropical bounce of Florida street rap with the tenderness in the ballads of Southern and Midwestern truth-tellers.Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2024
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That boy might be a hip-hop lover, that boy might be a rock lover or love ballads.Jeff Benjamin, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2024
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Powered by ethereal melodies and splashes of Latin rhythms that build the intensity, the song allows Valenzuela and Spalla’s dreamy vocals to take center stage.Ingrid Fajardo, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
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The song got an award nomination at the 2000 Grammys, in the best pop performance by a duo or group with vocals category.Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Lyrics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lyrics. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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