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Recent Examples of torch song
By gracefully expressing Evan’s longing for Zoe and unpacking her fractured relationship with Connor, the torch song fuses these characters’ parallel quests for connection.
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Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
A lot of your songs do feel like classic torch songs — but then, a lot of Taylor Swift songs are torch songs, really.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Dec. 2023
For many, in other words, a torch song written from the POV of an underappreciated grown-man doll has become the unlikely anthem of the summer.
—Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
In the ensuing decades, O’Connor continued to produce albums, calling on many different styles, including punk, rap, rasta, hip-hop, torch songs, Tin Pan Alley standards, and Disney showtunes.
—Daphne Merkin, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
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Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
A lot of your songs do feel like classic torch songs — but then, a lot of Taylor Swift songs are torch songs, really.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Dec. 2023
For many, in other words, a torch song written from the POV of an underappreciated grown-man doll has become the unlikely anthem of the summer.
—Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
In the ensuing decades, O’Connor continued to produce albums, calling on many different styles, including punk, rap, rasta, hip-hop, torch songs, Tin Pan Alley standards, and Disney showtunes.
—Daphne Merkin, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for torch song
Noun
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Today, a carol is a religious folk song or popular hymn (like a Christmas tune).—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
20 Jan. 2025
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Dylan appeared in various other Greenwich Village music clubs, performing folk songs, ballads and blues.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Jan. 2025
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The music moves from inventive, engaging art song to smoldering improvisations in which Wilkins and his bandmates—anchored by his regular colleagues Micah Thomas on piano, Rick Rosato on bass and Kweku Sumbry on drums—push to the outer limits.—
Steve Hochman,
SPIN,
21 Oct. 2024
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As a map of Austin’s musical journey, the recital moved through spirituals and standard repertoire into 20th-century and contemporary art song and opera.—
Michael Andor Brodeur,
Washington Post,
14 Dec. 2023
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Knits were slouchy but perfectly contoured to a woman's body, jackets nipped at the waist and layered over A-line skirts and sporty trousers, fuzzy bag charms and belt charms unite, and tasteful pops of color highlight earthy tones.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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But however adaptable Malone is to rapping, singing pop and more recently going country, something didn’t click here.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2025
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Within moments, a laughing chorus mimics it; our little group is belting out our rallying cry, established over the past few days of wandering up and down the Nile River.—
Matt Dutile,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Feb. 2025
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Lisa and Raye trade off on the first verse and chorus before passing the baton to Doja, who drops a verse as the song rides out.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Torch song.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torch%20song. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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