melodrama

When the song outgrows the blue-ribbon crowd, they’re flown to Los Angeles for one nationally televised performance before falling out in a bit of dressing room melodrama.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

It’s not like furniture or jewelry or cars; it comes entangled with thin skins, volatile tempers, melodrama galore—our whole business model is built on emotion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Inspired by the transient beauty of cherry blossoms, known in Japan as sakura — which is illustrated in their album cover, alongside a dark pegasus — much of the LP also hinges on melodrama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

A peak of pop excess, Raye's second full-length album is a 73-minute melodrama, sprinkled with golden age Hollywood glamour, show-stopping ballads, tongue twisting wordplay and genre smashing handbrake turns.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Jeanine Basinger was the first film scholar to elevate the mid-20th-century melodramas known as “women’s weepies” as a genre and art form.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

There’s a distinctly mesmeric quality to these modern melodramas.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

Market participants have come to assume they will come out of these recurring melodramas intact.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

It’s also a tender tale about the perils and promises of starting over that owes as much to Mexico’s trite telenovelas as it does to its big-hearted melodramas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024

From the look of it, one of her favorite Israeli melodramas.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny