There's a genre of song I can't fully place but definitely is a vibe, what is it?

Think Creep (Acoustic), The Dog Days are Over, A Sign of The Times. It's all something deep and special that I can't exactly place, but it hits you like a god damn train sometimes.

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pixxelkick@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 69d (1 reply)

Crooning is likely the technique you are hearing. Its a singing technique that emulates the singer being very emotionally close, right up on the mic.

bizarroland@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 69d

I think this is the term.

I mean, there's obviously subgenres, and it's not like it's Dean Martin and the Rat Pack crooning anymore.

But there's a lot of great crooning bands that are still going strong today.

jbrjake@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 69d

One adjacent term is “frisson”: when it’s so sublimely awesome it gives you chills.

SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 69d (2 replies)

Ceaseless ascension? Songs that keep building up to a major crescendo

orbitz@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 69d (1 reply)

Do they get to the crescendo? I don't know much about music but trying my hand and took some course and there was a comment 'listen to this one it sounds like it's building the entire song' but the song never gets there. Bit melancholy/sad type tones chord progression but seems like it's epic in its sound. Course the epic part may be due to the composer knowing his stuff but the idea was a chord progression that kept building to nowhere.

So curious of that sounds about right for your description. I forget the name but when the instructor put a link I was like oh yeah that song, like lots of movies or probably commercials used similar for the emotion. À

Just be cool to know another name if that sounds right is all. Enjoy finding more examples to compare and notice what makes the sound (even if I can't reproduce it)

SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 69d

I feel like that describes half of Elton john's music

Sly2@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 68d

I think it might be a kind of dramatized emotional power ballad style. I used to listen to such things a lot, they have an urge, a longing in them that breaks free, reaching a breaking point after which the way leads into an unknown. In a movie they might accompany a scene where the protagonist is at a decisive turning point in the story, almost like soundtracks to life if it were a movie. Some of the songs id categorize this way are:

Magda - Wieso

Pixies - Where is my mind?

Fontaines D.C. - Bug

Keane - somewhere only we know

Adele - Skyfall

Stones - Gimme shelter

30 Seconds to Mars - Kings and Queens

Bowie - Heroes

Europe - Final countdown

Might be sth entirely different tho an totally wrong im rly tired rn but ur post grabbed me. 👍

ace_garp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 69d

Symphonic Indie-Pop?

khannie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 69d

I call those tunes "certified fresh" in our house. I get frisson / goosebumps all the time from good music and I always call out "certified fresh" to the gang when I do and show off my arm (this is in the car a lot when I have the kids with me).

I can't see much in common between those tunes except that they're bangers and would almost certainly cause some goosebumps for me.

Okokimup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 69d

Idk but if you have a Playlist, please share it.

CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 68d

Singer Songwriter?

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 68d

I love Creep, i am repulsed by Dog days (particularly the "The Do-o-og" part), and i don't know the 3rd one, so to me they're not similar.

gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 69d

i think what you mean is just called "beautiful" by some people.

sunsofold@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 67d

I'd call those pop ballads.

If you want suggestions, check out Moddi, Farao, Lindy-Fay Hella, Madrugada, Finnegan Tui, Brandon Perry

Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 68d

How bout like, Xiu Xiu? Apistat Commander, Fabulous Muscles, The Fox and the Rabbit, Clowne Towne?

notsosure@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 69d (1 reply)

Country and/or western?

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 69d

Both kinds of music?