popular song

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There’s a scene in Martin Scorsese’s “Rolling Thunder Revue” documentary where Dylan is speaking about Allen Ginsberg and how Ginsberg had achieved heights that no other modern poet had, and he explains that the role that poetry once filled was now instead taken up by popular song: “We still remember those lines today,” he said, referring to poets at the level of recognition of Whitman.

From Salon

Its most popular song, “Lowdown,” was a dance-club hit and peaked at No. 3 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and No. 5 on the R&B chart before winning a Grammy for best R&B song.

From The Wall Street Journal

It feels like what a musical AI would create when asked to write the most popular song imaginable.”

From The Wall Street Journal

I grew up on the New York Jewish sound of Brooks as the 2000 Year Old Man and the soundtrack album to “The Producers,” which included large sections of dialogue; I know its inflections like one might internalize every element of a popular song.

From Los Angeles Times

Instead, Williams is doing what he does most Sundays between September and January: recapping the game with a parody of a popular song.

From The Wall Street Journal