Features
Warner Bros. TV And The Friends Writers Were Furious When The Rembrandts Finished Their Theme Song Without Asking
More Than a Songwriter: Dolly Parton Donated Over 300 Million Books, and Even Turned Down Elvis Once
Inside 'Life On Mars?': David Bowie's Revenge on 'My Way,' and the Late-Arriving Tonic That Makes It Work
Chopin Took Opium for Years. No One Can Prove Whether It Shaped His Music or Not
Rewritten from Scratch, but the Title Survived: Jerry Lee Lewis' 'Great Balls of Fire' and Its Odd Songwriting Split
'Bella Ciao': The Antifascist Anthem Nobody Can Actually Trace
Radiohead's 'Karma Police' Quietly Lifts a Beatles Chord Move, and the Resemblance Is Real
'The Song Stays or I Go': How a Producer's Ultimatum Saved 'Over the Rainbow'
One Chord Makes 'California Dreamin'' Undercut Its Own Lyrical Promise: The Word 'Warm' Lands on C# Minor
Bare Power Chords and One Simple Bass Line: Why 'Eye of the Tiger' Hits So Hard
The 'Orchestra' in 'Nights in White Satin' Isn't Real Strings, and the Song Never Resolves Its Own Chords
How One Relentless Bass Line Drives Michael Jackson's 'Smooth Criminal': The Song Never Changes Chords
'Entry of the Gladiators': How a Serious Roman Triumph Became America's Clown March
'You've Got a Friend in Me' Still Works: The Randy Newman Chord Tricks Taylor Swift Just Sang Over
Disturbed's 'Sound of Silence' Feels So Different From the Original, and They Didn't Even Change the Key
The Gen Alpha Melody Appeared in Hundreds of Pop Songs for 20 Years and Nobody Ever Sued
Why 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' Is One of the Most Enduring Melodies Ever, and How It Quietly Became Three Different Songs
A Near-Perfect Earworm, J.G. Wentworth's '877-CASH-NOW' Is Built on Fake Opera and One Chromatic Note
Mancini Already Hired His Saxophonist Before Finishing 'The Pink Panther Theme': The Melody Was Built Around Him
It's Not the Disco Groove: ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' Greatness Is in a Melody That Refuses to Resolve
Although in 5/4, Lalo Schifrin's 'Mission: Impossible' Theme Flows Naturally. It's Thanks to the Bass Line
Don't Lock to a Click With Gigi Perez's 'Sailor Song': The Vocal Is Driving the Time, Not the Other Way Around
