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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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Several of the film’s actors lend their voices to blues and traditional folk songs that are built into the story.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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The music from this period included acoustic folk songs and loud, psychedelic garage-rock.—
David Peisner,
New York Times,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The performance highlights a blend of musical theater, art song and opera, bringing together four opera singers for a program that celebrates motherhood, family, love and all that life offers.—
Melinda Moore,
Chicago Tribune,
7 May 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
Noun
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If overproduced, commercialized songs play tag with a fleeting moment of pop culture, music with a seanchaí-storytelling ethos often borders the avant-garde because of its willingness to see surprising continuities between the past and present.—
Matthew Carey Salyer,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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On Tuesday, the pop artist took to social media to blast Gere for selling her childhood home after allegedly agreeing to take care of the property when purchasing the estate from her father, singer Paul Simon.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
9 July 2025
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The product was fresh, the money real, and every A&R man from New York to Memphis knew the formula: Find a pretty face, slap a catchy chorus behind it, and watch the allowances roll in.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
26 June 2025
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In a video shared to Instagram earlier this week that has quickly gained viral attention, Louise walks out of the shelter to a chorus of applause from staff who gathered at the front to see her off.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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“Torch song.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torch%20song. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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