"The genius of Lady Gaga using the harmonic style of 18th-century European musicians highlights her song 'Bad Romance's use of the raised leading tone in a minor key."
"What makes this level interesting is its ability to step outside of traditional musical concerns like notes, chords, and bars and engage with one of the most important elements of vocal music: the lyrics."
"I think the name of the song is representative of BoJack's mental state."
"This melody is structured exactly like a limerick: the first phrase establishes an idea, the second phrase responds to that idea, then we have two shortened phrases back to back that end with a final phrase resolving the whole thing."
"It's funny because, as we go through verses, it's dope to say who we think has the best verse, but on songs with multiple people, I like to see where people's heads are at with the ranking."
"Doom's insane rhyming style... so many of his lyrics take multiple listens to fully unpack the references and connections."
"Medulla...is maybe Bjork's most interesting and fully-realized instrumental concept."
"As I was going through the background and lyrics, I was struck by how applicable they are today."
"What makes the song great? I do top 20 countdowns. I talk about current music."
"Sometimes you can see that there's a lot of talent a person has, even when in the rhyme schemes, the way the rhyme has been created."
"There is more than one way to analyze a chord progression."
"Music theory is just a way of describing what is there to be used."
"Sgt Pepper is the perfect combo of convention and experimentation."
"Thirteen seconds into the Cranberry second single Zombie, the distorted crushing guitar riffs and melancholy melody set the tone for what's to come."
"It's called breakthrough, in this show we break down songs, albums or events that kicked open the door to an artist or band's career."
"Kendrick's bars really come to fruition when you observe what he's trying to say."
"Fear... Kendrick taking you through the different stages of fear... it gets a lot more violent as consequences go through... my favorite hip-hop song of all time."
"That's the sound of the Beatles in my opinion, the dominant seven chord."
"This is the album where it all makes sense..."
"Kendrick took so many creative risks on 'DAMN' that make it such a rich and layered body of work that you can always discover something new from each time you listen to it."
"The Art of Peer Pressure" - "That is the sleeper hit on to pimp a butterfly, you got the Snoop Dogg verse that Kendrick wrote, stashed it in the Mosi Rosi like, oh it's so good."
"Drake is consistently good, he's consistently great, but we know what to expect from Drake, and what he does is always going to be good enough and great enough until somebody comes along and shows people better."
"Basket Case represents all of the frenetic energy that accompanies their best singles."
"Would you say that 'Don't Cry' is kind of like the norm for the songs now? Or would you say it's just like a general vibe of the songs?"
"A pattern recognition software to analyze the works of classical composers and then synthesized its own songs in a similar style."
"It's a song about Little Nas X letting go of his feelings of internalized shame about his sexuality."
"It's almost funny that Pink Floyd is thought of as just about the darkest band imaginable."
"The most cerebral of all the Autechre releases."
"The real magic of Ring Fit's music is in its dynamics."
"Remember how I said 'The Hills' was Abel getting to have the best of both worlds when it came to his usual depressive demeanor and pop song glory? This is him doing that for a whole album."
"Why are all these secular lost rock groups talking about September and talking about the leaving of the church and talking about how they can't wait to rule in their kingdom?"
"It's so good it's so captivating it's so deeply personal about so many different things it's really special."
"The downward spiral perfectly reflects the mood and the tone of the album."
"Tell me the difference between a great album and a classic album."
"He's not saying Kendrick's dead, we're just like... see my thing goes back to the fact that Kendrick has two good albums and one amazing album."
"When you listen to the whole album all the way through, you end up noticing so many interweaving moments in the lyrics and the melodies."
"J Cole, why? Because I felt like the album, him giving the three different meanings."
"Lyrics and imagery hit hard, that's what makes it heavy."
"Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: tunes, chords, and vocals that sell."
"Pink Floyd's otherworldly albums explored the dark side of the moon and the dark side of mankind."
"The delivery of the third verse is the brilliance for me."
"Overall, this song is just full of Awesome riffs honestly maybe too many riffs."
"There's something quite operatic about much of the vocal work on this record."
"It's like a slow-burning agitation, a restlessness that's retained throughout the whole of the record."
"It's a lot of different weird flavors all coming together on this one track and actually like kind of the sad tone and the wit of the lyrics I guess I would say on the song too."
"Anaconda by Nicki Minaj samples Sir Mix-a-Lot's 'Baby Got Back,' focusing on the song's positive messaging."
"The compositional elements, the aesthetic elements, what is it saying in the lyrics, what is the meaning behind it?"
"While today’s artists may have more dedicated, more involved fans than ever before, the tendency to look at songs as a conversation means those listeners might miss the bigger picture of what the music is really saying."
"Sophia's failure tears her apart, just saying that Joy Division is Gnostic scripture sometimes."
"Thanks so much for watching and thanks again to Rod and Vince from RKVC for helping out with all these musical analysis videos."
"Their music is so good and I love their b-sides. I think their b-sides sometimes are better than their title tracks."
"I think more intellectually substantive music and music that's maybe more visceral, you know, I don't think either is mutually exclusive."
"Interstate Love Song blends two of Purple's most common themes into one track."
"It's absolutely ingenious in the way that Reznor uses chaotic instrumentation quite often to show the listener what our protagonist is feeling."
"Your attention and patience is rewarded on The Wall, a sprawling release that musically draws from the genres of prog rock that Pink Floyd are of course known for."
"For that little section of the album I would argue that they did hit that vibe."
"The vast majority of these songs included some words that are just very basic and essential to basic expression."
"The real reason I made this spreadsheet was to look at lyrics and find out if the common stereotypes of overused country lyrics were actually true."
"Clapton's frustration for his unrequited love for Boyd becomes even more desperate in verse three."
"Biggie was the better emcee and lyricist, and Tupac was the one who affected people's lives more."
"I do kind of wish that it was a little bit more innovative than it is because it feels to me like it just sort of ended up being the same thing as metalcore in gent and all these other kind of really repetitive backward looking genres."
"I think rap is way deeper than people think."
"Where Those Chosen by the Planet is restrained, One-Winged Angel is feral."
"It achieves a real emotional punch with a very limited amount of sound."
"Rick Biato is the definitive voice for modern music on YouTube."
"2015 probably isn't one of the ones that immediately jumps into your mind but when you really take a look at it, it was maybe the best year for rap music in the 2010s decade."
"Jungkook himself said it's not meaningless and more and more related things about it keep coming up."
"The harmonies in this song are so good, the chorus is hard-hitting, very catchy, great hook."
"There is layers to the song and that is so important."
"What is BTS's best album? In this essay, I will interrogate the value, potential, and shortcomings of stan criticism."
"The sincerity of it and how honest it was fits in just perfectly in the album."
"This song is genius and details what I assume would have happened if Eminem got to the hospital later than he did."
"Folklore brought out her deepest wit, compassion, and empathy."
"Evermore travels deeper into the singer's fictitious narratives."
"There is an element to Beethoven's music that is extraordinary nearly perfect and daring and conception even taken completely out of context with his mastery of form that is his sense of rhythm."
"The beat is gorgeous, the bars are really well written, it's introspective and easy to follow along with."
"Billy Woods' music feels like a museum of pain."
"Jazz by nature is denser than dense, that's the beauty of it."
"On the surface, you'll see a childish title like Mrs. Potato Head accompanied by some rather bright sounding melodies, until you dig into the lyrics and realize it's a song about the risks of plastic surgery."
"May's early approach to Queen mainly plays with an epic heavy rock palette."
"Prevailing theme of this album, if I could be kind of broad at least, is time."
"Super Unknown lyrically would be seen as some of Cornell's darkest lyrics."
"He's one of the best offers to ever touch the game."
"It really does tie together a lot of the loose ends and themes of the record."
"The album does feel like Denzel is always in constant motion and movement."
"When you're looking at this album you're going to be gaining so much value out of just your first listen."
"Thunderstruck epitomizes AC DC's riff-driven prowess."
"Even in its quieter moments, 'Under Pressure' is brimming with emotion."
"I love it when somebody says they don't sound any different."
"I don't think that Rocket 88 is rock and roll, but I think Rocket 88 is R&B."
"No girl wants the guy that's super available."
"So the only difference that you're hearing is the difference between the guitars."
"Occult references in Death Grips' music could honestly just be its own standalone video."
"It's a little bit different, even including the fact we're at some point towards the end there it actually had a tempo change and it felt very dramatic."
"The lyrics were deep and he portrayed the emotion that he was trying to put out I think perfectly fine."
"The soundtrack invokes the sound of the original Star Wars trilogy... but a bit darker toned and more sinister." - Musical composition insights
"That little run is kind of the best example of a Flawless passaggio so kind of passing from one um one register to another without any Interruption."
"No song has to be bound to a single interpretation."
"It definitely touches on that and I think it is the perfect blend of G Funk and Neo Soul."
"Smile like you mean it is the perfect emo-leaning song for early 2000s rock."
"Feel Good Inc. does so much better of a job of embodying everything that makes Gorillaz great."
"Beyoncé is a musicologist...she becomes the Catalyst for revisionist historical conversations."
"What is different in Beethoven is the emotional seriousness...his music is somehow deeply moral."
"It's really the fact that Sister Ray is the centerpiece of that particular album."
"It's very straightforward, it's very simple, but there's some heartfelt lyrics."
"Let's listen to this from the back end of the verse through the chorus and then back into the intro again."
"A song that as much as any other is the essence of perfectly entwined rock and soul."
"It felt like a track that you put a lot of heart into, primarily addressing topics such as his issues with social media and being in the spotlight..."
"The instrumental is very dark, some weird work base on this thing."
"I think the live pod we did was already enough evidence every [__] lyric and then we hop on I Get Money."
"Isn't every single song ultimately about some form of love or hate?"
"The car's sound combined, you know, classic rock power pop and New Wave elements, and it was absolutely irresistible."
"Track 6: Weston Road Flows - 'Introspective with bars, separates Drake fans from just rap fans.'"
"That's magical, magical, nothing pop about that song but you're kind of fooled into the idea that it could be."
"Justin Chancellor's bass lines have a lot of sixteenth note funk about them."
"Bullet With Butterfly Wings is about feeling trapped and angry."
"The beats are cloudy the drums are minimal the synths are fun and the way the album goes from light to dark and back again makes it feel infinitely replayable."
"Ms Hill is an incredible artist and on the miseducation of Lauryn Hill she re-educates herself and everyone with an earshot."
"It sounds bigger, bolder than the openers from the past two albums."
"He mixes up his rhythms a lot, a lot so one thing he's really good at is he'll have a certain rhythm he's employing and then he'll switch it up."
"Some of the most telling moments on the record actually come across like inadvertent self-owns."
"It's a kiss-off riding off of these huge snare drums but knows how to manage its tension."
"The The V are just fantastic, fantastic in the song Moon above some below, very proggy, very well written, an epic song, it's fantastic."
"He was more interested in the melody and the way it's counterpoint with the rest of the song, how it worked in the grand scheme, the total package."
"It's easy to overlook the real message of that song, which really is an open invitation for any of his enemies in the city to come and find him and kill him."
"He speaks truth in his music and his interviews and he layers meanings, messages, and theories within his rhymes that even the most careful listeners may miss."
"this song is creepy it's catchy it's funny charming and threatening all at the same time it is a villain song that perfectly matches the character it's attached to"
"mother knows best manages to be a great villain song and also a good commentary on the tactics abusers use to keep their victims in line"
"I Love The Mob Song from Beauty and the Beast in this song Gaston a charismatic person with evil self-serving intentions manages to prey on fear and outrage in order to get his fellow villagers to engage in violence"
"Each song on this album can have an entire dedicated College course to understanding its full meaning."
"I argue that even the romantic songs on the back half of the standard edition contain a bittersweetness to them that backs this reading."
"Every single piece of music he wrote had a purpose, a direction, it was not just a bunch of songs thrown together."
"Bad guy is a great example of a song with really weak formal boundaries."
"Bad guy builds interest through the use of layers."
"He's so good with that and I think what also makes this part of the song work with the previous parts of the song is that a lot of the lyrics that you're hearing are also lyrics from previously in the song."
"Upon listening to the album 'The Slim Shady,' you would think what a repulsive maniac. But after the 'Marshall Mathers' album, you understand that the origins of Slim Shady are in Marshall Mathers' abandoned, rejected, and love-deprived heart."
"The manuscript ends the album and it's one of the most experimental tracks there is no chorus to the track no hook it feels like spoken word done over an instrumental it feels like somewhat of a synopsis of her life so far as the manuscript."
"Tom's lyrics and vocals are really what makes it an engaging, beautiful, and heartbreaking lesson that is one of the most emotionally poignant songs the band has ever written."
"There's hidden nuggets all over the songs if we'll take time to dig them out."
"The music is immersive enough. The narrative is clear enough all leading up to Pink's spiral and descent into madness."
"Brilliant how they changed the tone of the music to become more dark and hopeless as we witness what can only be described as a sheer spectacle of insane strength wiping him out with a click of his fingers and bringing him right back."
"...even up to more recent times Adele's 'Someone Like You,' one of the saddest pop songs ever, also uses a descending bass."
"...if Les Misérables is the king of making people cry, it also happens to be the king of the descending bass."
"...this theme is first introduced at a moment of hopefulness...the hope in this music has turned into despair."
"He's super, you know, and you could tell in his music like the later music that sarcasm comes to the forefront, that tongue-in-cheek kind of thing he does."
"Genesis' 'Guide Vocal,' a beautiful song and very clever because it's like a fight between Duke and the Duchess."
"This is actually a fully produced song but it is slow, it isn't a minor key and all of the sound design is dark, so it definitely feels like a ballad."
"'River'... now the thing about River was it has the melody of Jingle Bells in the beginning, which is so brilliant."
"There was always a rhythmic template to Joni's music, and she set it. She said it with what she played or with the cadence of what she sang."
"Man in the Mirror underlined a long-standing trend in Jackson's music."
"Just before we get going with analysing the chords, let me just play you a little bit of 'The Poet Speaks' and then you can hear what this piece is about."
"The song should always go back to the chorus before the song finishes because it feels like you're coming back home and you feel much more satisfied when it's over."
"This song feels a lot more straightforward...the main riff of the song is simpler...so simple but like oh my gosh what enough impact."
"Duke's End is a really successful track for the reason that it's a classic prog rock song."
"Now I think the point that needs to be made here is of course this is pure speculation it's an air castle it has absolutely no legitimacy whatsoever but what it does is it allows the portion of the piece that Mozart composed to be heard in a complete liturgical context."
"This early version of 'Boyfriend' is intriguing."
"So, there you have it. 50 years of listening to Heartbreaker and thinking about it both as a matter of history, as a matter of guitar playing, as a piece of art, as a piece of passion. To me, it kind of just represents all the spectrums of life."
"Thank you guys for requesting this song for me to take a look at as always. Let me know what you guys think and if you have any other songs that make you feel uneasy or maybe you're not sure what's going on with the tuning, we can explore it in a video."
"That's what Usher's 'Yeah' is, is, like, if Michael Jackson came to Atlanta."
"This song is so layered and it definitely doesn't play into your typical k-pop song structure."
"We keep in charge guys before we get into this if you like lyric breakdowns if you like deep dives on the art of Music make sure you stay with us after the reaction because that's where we actually get into that kind of stuff on this channel."
"Minimalism Funk riffs heavy metal Soul all these things have their root in this album."
"I can't quite work out on the first listen without the lyrics, it's either a nod to Dear John or all too well."
"Rap is being dissected. They're learning. They're listening. They're hearing what the brothers are saying. It's the only voice we got to send out this power."
"Every suspenseful note and telling detail is crystallized upon the second or third listen."
"...OK Computer was more grounded Kid A felt very otherworldly and Cosmic but both of them were 100 human and I really enjoyed that."
"Taylor Swift is allowing the word 'almost' to lift and carry the entire song. This song is all about the word 'almost.'"
"I love that escalation upward right keep pulling us up and up and up."
"...the most interesting chord progression across the entire Beatles catalog which is a big statement is 'I Am the Walrus.'"
"And I think we should be able to enumerate here, maybe as many as four different ways in which Wagner does turn our emotions one hundred eighty degrees at this point."
"This symphony is as much an essay in rhythm as the seventh would be an essay in rhythm."
"Lana's a queen and we need to be breaking down her albums ASAP."
"It'll grasp your attention because it sounds familiar but when you really start to listen to the lyrics, you're like they're deep."
"House of Balloons leaves us reeling with this conflicted perception of a misogynistic, drug-induced colossus who has the voice of an angel and words of a devil."
"Lego house is a pop hit, it's structured like a pop hit but like in a tasteful way which is very rare for Ed now."
"J. Cole's '95 South' - off season. That's one of his best intros, so 100."
"Elon Ryan. Wesley's Theory totally sets up the Pimp Butterfly. And Big K.R.I.T. from 'Forever is a Mighty Long Time' was the best way to start his indie career."
"The idea of simultaneous layers... You can analyze the piece using a couple of different devices and you can get totally different and totally valid forms."
"10/10 chord motion, would listen to again."
"Honestly, stuff like this is why I wanted to make this list in the first place: it's easy to focus on the normal chord relationships, but going through all of them one by one can uncover hidden gems that might otherwise have gone unnoticed."
"Regardless, aggression and determination are the keys in this song."
"I was actually quite overwhelmed the whole time while I was listening to this because there are so many layers, so many rhythmic things going on."
"The overall high level of chromaticism is softened not just by the voice leading but by a strong degree of tonality in sections of the melody as well as by common tones which bind disparate chords together."
"Survival might be one of the best intros he ever had because of the subject matter."
"I'm not going to go too hard if I see a couple of like oh this not a great bar in comparison to these bars because I'm focusing on the best bars on the song."
"We break down songs, albums, or events that kicked open the door to an artist or band's career."
"A chord progression is the distilled concept of an entire song."
"This is not some magic song; this is him showing us how his theme of the song works not just across the entire life but also in this central theme that the long night... one of the central things that he's talking about in this story."
"We're gonna take a deep cut dive into Blue Oyster Cult."
"See You in Black could be the heaviest song Blue Oyster Cult ever wrote."
"The construction of it with that bass starting it off and then you get that guitar sliding in, it was awesome, awesome stuff, great protest song."
"The accuracy of the song to Drake's style and sound speaks for itself."
"We're not just looking at jazz standards in terms of chord progressions versus chords, it's also important to look at tonal centers."
"Memorize that melody really well, analyze, break things down into chord progressions, and even further than that, make sure you're breaking things down into tonal centers."
"Acknowledging the harsh realities of life but persevering anyway is a staple of religious allegory and Kanye's own discography."
"Interesting for sure, really thought-provoking from a vocal technique standpoint."
"Once Logic's done analyzing the audio, it places what we call a transient marker at each individual musically significant moment that it could identify."
"It's one of Kanye's most honest and genuine songs."
"The vocal is more open than even on the absolute analog pressing, it's not just clearer, it's more expressive."
"Almost every song on this record has something to talk about, it's very well directed."