David Mead 
Cover Girl: Taylor Swift And The Unbearable Likeness Of Singing(3)
“Honey, wake up.” I began to emerge from an allergy-induced Saturday slumber. Sunlight streamed through the bedroom blinds. Screams and music were chirping out of my wife’s laptop speakers. “Honey.” She grabbed my elbow and gently shook it. “Baby, respect,” I grunted. “I am ill.” “Wake up! Taylor Swift is playing your song.” Well, then. [...]
How To Make The Whole World Sing: “Last Goodbye”
There is no shortage of superlatives to apply to Jeff Buckley. Amazing. Genius. Jaw-dropping. Ecstatic. Tragic. Angelic. Oddly enough, too few of them have been specifically directed toward his songwriting. This is unfortunate, if understandable: Buckley’s brief life and musical output were full of the sort of detail and experience that make for great biography [...]
How To Make The Whole World Sing: Citizen Cope -”Sideways”
Sometimes a great song is defined as much by what the lyric doesn’t say as what it does. One of the advantages of writing a song as opposed to writing literature, painting a portrait or building a house is the extraordinary context that the music provides for the lyric. Sometimes good melody and chord structure [...]
How To Make The Whole World Sing: “Irreplaceable”
In the winter of 2007, I was riding the F train home to my apartment in Brooklyn. There were only four or five other passengers in my car, one of whom was a chubby teenage girl sitting a few feet away from me, nodding along to the music on her iPod. My head was buried [...]
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- How To Make The Whole World Sing: “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
- How To Make The Whole World Sing: “American Saturday Night”
- How To Make The Whole World Sing: “Anytime”
- How To Make The Whole World Sing: “Back In Black”
- How To Make The Whole World Sing: “Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard”
- How To Make The Whole World Sing: “4:33”
- How To Make The Whole World Sing: “Ashes Of American Flags”
- How To Make The Whole World Sing: “Small Stakes”
- How to Make the World Sing: “Dear God”
- How To Make The Whole World Sing: “Somebody’s Baby”
- How To Make The Whole World Sing: “Human Nature”
