Sentence examples for proper song from inspiring English sources

It's a proper song, the kind you didn't think people wrote any more.

All very impressive, but neither track feels like a proper song.

On hearing Hazey Jane II, the album's first proper song, I felt an instant connection that I knew I would almost certainly never experience again.

With both men utilising a production style that favours head-slamming heavy handedness, it feels almost accidental when they happen upon a proper song and not different elements careening into each other.

SOMEONE must sing a proper song of farewell for Shea Stadium, the nice try of a coliseum in Queens, as its dismantling draws near and a new ballpark rises just yards away.

Also unexpected is the rhythmically exciting "Let the Groove Get In," which samples from an album of music from Burkina Faso, and is reminiscent of nothing so much as Beyoncé's martial "Run the World (Girls)." It's almost a breaks record more than a proper song, with Mr. Timberlake working a few phrases over and over, never building any real tension or release.

He says that the form really shines when placed against so-called "proper" songs.

MALTA: Stagedive Malta Tollens – Beautiful Day Tollens (real name Ryan Formosa) bought his first guitar at age 13, but it was only recently that he started recording proper songs.

Steeped in the stabbing, swirling strings of classic disco; and possessed of a flouncy, Florence-like drama, the likes of Power Surge and Reunited prove they have, not just dancefloor chops, but proper songs of a knotty complexity.

LH Coldcut Sound Mirrors (Ninja Tune) £12.99 Coldcut have entered their 20th year as a duo - an eternity in dance-music circles - by making an album that acknowledges the return of proper songs to the charts.

When a band as genuinely visceral as Klaxons come around, ponderous muso types often piss on the parade by purring things like, "Yes, well, beneath all that noise, they're proper songs – you could play them on a piano".