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Recent Examples of torch song
Besides torch songs, sea shanties, Latino roots and rockabilly tunes have been heard.
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Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
She’s got a lot of torch songs in her arsenal, and there is nothing like the LA Phil at its most understated to throw just enough tinder onto her unrequitedness to create a beautiful blaze.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
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.
—Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
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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Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
She’s got a lot of torch songs in her arsenal, and there is nothing like the LA Phil at its most understated to throw just enough tinder onto her unrequitedness to create a beautiful blaze.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024
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.
—Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
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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The folk song once asked, Where have all the flowers gone?—
Jahan Marcu,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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Boyle is a great example of what Carthy was talking about, the originator of an oral history and a certain type of folk song, passed by word of mouth around a fanbase and through generations.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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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
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Marking his feature debut is Jaafar Jackson in the lead role as the pop music icon.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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Far from contemporary pop, each note and lyric demands your full attention; the reward is transcendence, even as the material nudges you to annotate like a philosophy student with a highlighter in hand.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
6 Nov. 2025
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The song kicks off with a string orchestra introduction followed by a Carmina Burana-like chorus and then Rosalía singing in an operatic soprano voice — in three languages.—
Dan Rys,
Billboard,
5 Nov. 2025
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Starting as a chorus pig on The Muppet Show in the mid-1970s, Miss Piggy gradually became a bigger part of the series, before becoming an icon in the late ’70s and early ’80s.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Torch song.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torch%20song. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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