On the "American Idol" finale last month, Beyoncé introduced her muscular, arresting ballad "1+1" in the sort of performance that is seared on the brains of 8-year-old girls who aspire to be singers.
Turf account Chris McGrath's Nap Bracing Breeze (5.35 Ascot) Next best Stirring Ballad (4.25 Ascot).
"Ballad 2" is a playful hymn to the imagination's power and limits.
Her version of Eminem's murder ballad "'97 Bonnie and Clyde" delicately dissects abuse as perverted devotion.
The Spice Girls ballad 2 Become 1 gets a layered, four-man rendition while Mumford & Sons kill time before a photoshoot.
The band are writing more songs now, alongside various McFlys and some safe pop hands; old pal Ed Sheeran is on board again (the strummy ballad 18 is his).
The man on the accordion, in a duet with a pale-throated young woman in a shawl, sings the Second World War ballad \u201cTyomnaya Nightu2019\u201d\u201d (\u201cDask Night\u201d) as evening settles in over the neighborhood.
And the simmering emotions of songs like the quiet, longing ballad "101" have their origins in lots of listens to Prince's smoldering "Beautiful Ones" and Stevie Wonder's moody "They Won't Go When I Go".
Headlights is a strange mix of Big Star's Third – particularly around the three-minute mark when the guitar solo starts – and the kind of yearning ballad U2 do at their best.
Stirring Ballad (3.15) can complete a good 20 minutes or so for Balding, while Glean (2.40) can lay down a marker for a trainer who starts out the unbeaten Toronado at Newmarket on Wednesday, and Olympic Glory at Newbury on Saturday.
A down-tempo contemporary R&B and soul music power ballad, "1+1" Knowles expressing her endless love to her soul mate; the lyrics make strong statements about the power of the relationship.
