Thesaurus results for TORCH SONG

torch song

noun

as in folk song

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Recent Examples on the Web 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 Making her Newport debut on the main-stage Saturday, Ponder showed all the ways that her bet on herself has paid off, running through the textured torch songs that comprise her 2022 debut, Some Of Us Are Brave. —

Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023 Bonnie Raitt's original recording of this melancholy torch song is an understated treasure. —

Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2022 With Barker’s thunderous drums on its anthemic chorus, the pleading torch song transforms into a punch-in-the-gut power ballad that’s now been viewed nearly 800,000 times on YouTube and over 3 million times on his Instagram. —

Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2022 See all Example Sentences for torch song

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