BETTER PLACE

RACHEL PLATTEN

SONGWRITERS: RACHEL PLATTEN & SALLY SELTMANN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: WILDFIRE

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2016

 

          "Better Place" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Rachel Platten for her third studio album, Wildfire(2016). The record's third and final single, initially released as a promotional single on December 18, 2015, was distributed to Hot adult contemporary radio for airplay in the United States. Platten co-wrote the song with Sally Seltmann while Jon Levine served as the sole producer. The singer wrote the song after discovering her sister had become engaged, which she felt was inspirational.

          "Better Place" divided music critics, with some praising the piano ballad's simplicity and production, and others finding it underwhelming. In the United States, it peaked at number 21 on the Adult Top 40 and peaked at number 227 on Russia's radio chart. An accompanying music video was directed by Matthew Stawski and released on May 9 of the same year. It features several couples and individuals gathering together and embracing each other. Platten dedicated it to her former school teacher and labeled it as a "social experiment". She has performed it on various occasions, including during an episode of Today Show and as part of a setlist on her summer concerts. The song appeared in the 2017 Microsoft Windows holiday commercial to promote Paint 3D.

I'll tell the world, I'll sing a song

It's a better place since you came along

Since you came along

Your touch is sunlight through the trees

Your kisses are the ocean breeze

Everything's alright when you're with me

 

And I hold my favorite thing

I hold the love that you bring

But it feels like I've opened my eyes again

And the colors are golden and bright again

There's a song in my heart, I feel like I belong

It's a better place since you came along

It's a better place since you came along

 

I see the whole world in your eyes

It's like I've known you all my life

We just feel so right

So I pour my heart into your hands

It's like you really understand

You love the way I am

 

And I hold my favorite thing

I hold the happiness you bring

But it feels like I've opened my eyes again

And the colors are golden and bright again

And the sun paints the skies and the wind sings our song

It's a better place since you came along

It's a better place since you came along

 

Now I'm alright

Now I'm alright

Everything's alright

 

'Cause it feels like I've opened my eyes again

And the colors are golden and bright again

There's a song in my heart, I feel like I belong

It's a better place since you came along

It's a better place since you came along.

VISION OF LOVE

MARIAH CAREY

SONGWRITERS: Mariah Carey & BEN MARGULIES 

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

Album: MARIAH CAREY

LABEL: COLUMBIA. RECORDS

GENRE: r&b

YEAR: 1990

 

        "Vision of Love" is the debut single by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. Written by Carey and Ben Margulies, "Vision of Love" was released as the lead single from Carey's self-titled debut album on May 15, 1990. After being featured on Carey's demo tape for Columbia, the song was re-recorded and produced by Rhett Lawrence and Narada Michael Walden. "Vision of Love" features a slow-dance theme tempo and backing vocals sung by Carey herself, and introduces her usage of the whistle register. Lyrically, the song describes both a past and present relationship with a lover: Carey describes the "vision of love" she dreamed of, as well as the present love she feels for him.

         The accompanying music video for "Vision of Love" was filmed in April 1990. It features Carey in a large cathedral, where she meditates and sings by a large picture window. "Vision of Love" was performed on several television and award show ceremonies, such as The Arsenio Hall Show, Good Morning America, and the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards. It has been performed at almost every one of Carey's concerts and tours, and is featured on Carey's live álbum MTV Unplugged(1992) and on many of her compilation albums including #1's(1998), Greatest Hits(2001) and The Ballads(2008).

         "Vision of Love" received universal acclaim from music critics. While the song's production was typical of late 1980s pop, the vocals were not, being much more showy and expressing a wider range than artists popular at the time such as Paula Abdul and Debbie Gibson. It has been credited with popularizing the use of melisma in contemporary popular music and for inspiring several artists to pursue a music career. The New Yorker named "Vision of Love" the "Magna Carta of melisma" for its and Carey's influence on pop and R&B singers and American Idol contestants. Additionally, Rolling Stone said that "the fluttering strings of notes that decorate songs like "Vision of Love," inspired the entire American Idol vocal school, for better or worse, and virtually every other female R&B singer since the nineties." The song topped the singles charts in Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, where it spent four weeks atop the chart.

Treated me kind

Sweet destiny

Carried me through desperation

To the one that was waiting for me

It took so long

Still I believed

Somehow the one that I needed

Would find me eventually

 

I had a vision of love

And it was all that you've given to me

 

Prayed through the nights

Felt so alone

Suffered through alienation

Carried the weight on my own

Had to be strong

So I believed

And now I know I've succeeded

In finding the place I conceived

 

I had a vision of love

And it was all that you've given to me

I had a vision of love

And it was all that you've given me

 

I've realized a dream

And I visualized

The love that came to be

Feel so alive

I'm so thankful that I've received

The answer that heaven has sent down to me

 

You treated me kind (yeah)

Sweet destiny (yes, you did)

And I'll be eternally grateful (oh)

Holding you so close to me (prayed through the night)

Prayed through the nights (so faithfully)

So faithfully (faithfully)

Knowing the one that I needed

Would find me eventually (he would find me)

 

I had a vision of love

And it was all that you've given to me

I had a vision of love

And it was all that you turned out to be, yeah, mmm.

CADEIRA VAZIA

JAMELÃO

COMPOSITOR: LUPICÍNIO RODRIGUES

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: MESTRES DA MPB – VOL. 2

GRAVADORA: WEA INTERNACIONAL

GÊNERO: SAMBA

ANO: 1994

 

        José Bispo Clementino dos Santos, mais conhecido como Jamelão (Rio de Janeiro, 12 de maio de 1913–Rio de Janeiro, 14 de junho de 2008), foi um cantor brasileiro, tradicional intérprete dos sambas-enredo da escola de samba Mangueira.

         Nasceu no bairro da Corcundinha e passou a maior parte da juventude no Engenho Novo, para onde se mudou com seus pais. Lá, começou a trabalhar, para ajudar no sustento da família - seu pai havia se separado de sua mãe. Levado por um amigo músico, conheceu a Estação Primeira de Mangueira e se apaixonou pela escola de samba.

           Ganhou o apelido de Jamelão na época em que se apresentava em gafieiras da capital fluminense. Começou ainda jovem, tocando tamborim na bateria da Mangueira e depois se tornou um dos principais intérpretes da escola.

       Passou para o cavaquinho e depois conseguiu trabalhos no rádio e em boates. Foi "corista" do cantor Francisco Alves e, numa noite, assumiu o lugar dele para cantar uma música de Herivelto Martins.

            A consagração veio como cantor de samba. Sua primeira gravadora foi a Odeon. Depois, trabalhou para a Companhia Brasileira de Discos, Philips e mais tarde para a Continental, onde gravou a maioria de seus álbuns, para a RGE e depois para a Som Livre. Entre seus sucessos, estão "Fechei a Porta" (Sebastião Motta/ Ferreira dos Santos), "Leviana" (Zé Kéti), "Folha Morta" (Ary Barroso), "Não Põe a Mão" (P.S. Mutt/ A. Canegal/ B. Moreira), "Matriz ou Filial" (Lúcio Cardim), "Exaltação à Mangueira" (Enéas Brites/ Aluisio da Costa), "Eu Agora Sou Feliz" (com Mestre Gato), "O Samba É Bom Assim" (Norival Reis/ Helio Nascimento) e "Quem Samba Fica" (com Tião Motorista).

         De 1949 até 2006, Jamelão foi intérprete de samba-enredo na Mangueira, sendo voz principal a partir de 1952, quando sucedeu Xangô da Mangueira. Em janeiro de 2001, recebeu a medalha da Ordem do Mérito Cultural, entregue pelo então presidente Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

Entra meu amor fique à vontade

E diz com sinceridade o que desejas de mim

Entra podes entrar a casa é tua

Já que cansaste de viver na rua

E os teus sonhos chegaram ao fim

 

Eu sofri demais quando partiste

Passei tantas horas tristes

Que não gosto de lembrar esse dia

Mas de uma coisa pode ter certeza

Teu lugar aqui na minha mesa

Tua cadeira ainda está vazia

 

Tu es a filha pródiga que volta

Procurando em minha porta

O que o mundo não te deu

E faz de conta que eu sou o teu paizinho

Que há tanto tempo aqui ficou sozinho

A esperar por um carinho teu

 

Voltaste estás bem, estou contente

Só me encontraste um pouco diferente

 

Vou te falar de todo coração

Não te darei carinho nem afeto

Mas pra te abrigar podes ocupar meu teto

Pra te alimentar podes comer meu pão

 

Voltaste estás bem, estou contente

Só me encontraste um pouco diferente

 

Vou te falar de todo coração

Não te darei carinho nem afeto

Mas pra te abrigar podes ocupar meu teto

Pra te alimentar

Podes comer meu pão.

WANNA BE FREE

KING SIS, JOBII

SONGWRITERS: GABRIEL MILLMAN & BRITTNEY MILLS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MAMA’S FREE

LABEL: EPIDEMIC SOUND

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 2020

 

          Sis is a Los Angeles, CA based artist (originally from the DMV) who began singing at the age of 7 in her grandfather's church in Alexandria, VA. Growing up in a musical family, and having been taught to play the classical piano at the age of 8 by her cousin, Dt Lamont, songwriting and performing came naturally to her. She became interested in the recording arts after completing her first job at the age of 9 doing voiceover work for a BET commercial. She first sang on studio recordings in a high school acapella group, Flint Hill Major Minors, and continued her early career as a recording artist with commissioned projects such as theme music for local radio shows and comedians, and songs for local special events. While studying art in college, she started two gospel groups with childhood friends, REIGN & His City, and began performing across the DMV area. After moving to Los Angeles, Sis continued her performing career as a world-touring background vocalist, working with prominent artists such as Kelela. Being somewhat shy, Sis always found confidence and refuge in the comfort of poetry and songwriting, and developed an inseparable relationship with music. Her songwriting centers around love and a return to the natural world in a modern life filled with virtual realities. Raised in the 90s during the ""golden age"" of hip-hop, remnants of social consciousness and a sense of royal self-awareness (hence the moniker ""King Sis"") can also be found in her songwriting.

Living for weekends

Wishing I could take

A break from this world

Running on a hampster wheel

But searching for something I can feel

I just wanna be a lost girl

And fly

 

Take a breath

Feel my wings spread

Levitate above the ground

And make eye contact with clouds

Now I'm rising

I'm soaring

Above it

It all, I just wanna be

 

Free

(Finally finally, finally)

Wanna be free

(Finally finally, finally)

Wanna be free

(Finally finally, finally)

Wanna be free

(Finally finally, finally)

 

Always daydreaming

Never imagined

I'd lose my spark

Living in this crazy time

Putting back the pieces of my mind

I know how to run from the dark

And fly

 

Take a breath

Feel my wings spread

Levitate into the clouds

I'm so high above the ground

I'm rising

I'm soaring

Above it

It all, I just wanna be

 

Free

(Finally finally, finally)

Wanna be free

(Finally finally, finally)

Wanna be free

(Finally finally, finally)

Wanna be free

(Finally finally, finally)

 

Higher, I gotta go higher

(A bird's eye view)

 

I'm rising

I'm soaring

Above it

It all, I just wanna be

 

Free

(Finally finally, finally)

Wanna be free

(Finally finally, finally)

Wanna be free

(Finally finally, finally)

Wanna be free

(Finally finally, finally)