Ne-Yo collaborated with the Stargate production team on "Stupid in Love," a sparse minor-key piano ballad about "Trying to make this work/but you act like a jerk," while "Photographs" laments a past romance.
That added up to slow, sparse, mostly minor-chorded music with throbbing subwoofer moments and to pieces where a repeating static glitch or blip defined the rhythm as much as the (virtual) bass drum.
The music on "Thug Motivation" is sparse and favors minor keys, surrounding Jeezy in an airy darkness that pleasantly undermines his punch lines.
"Not Ready to Make Nice" alternates sparse verses in a minor key with a bumptious chorus, in which Maines doubles the pace of her singing, neatly suggesting a rising temper: "It's too late to make it right, I probably wouldn't if I could, 'cause I'm mad as hell, can't bring myself to do what it is you think I should".
Thank Me Later has a languorous, ambient production that incorporates moody synthesizers, sparse beats, obscured keyboards, minor keys, and subtle arrangements.
And over minor chords and sparse, programmed tracks in "Appetite" and "What's a Man To Do," he grapples with his urges to stray.
However, such studies during minor SSWs are sparse and limited to few model simulations (Siskind et al. 2010; Chandran et al. 2013).
Thank Me Later has a languorous, ambient production and is characterized by subtle arrangements, obscured keyboards, skittering snare drums, reverbed percussion, sparse beats, moody synthesizers, and minor keys.
Sparse wild forest reindeer populations have only minor effects on plant cover.
It is a power pop, soul ballad, instrumentally complete with a sparse background honed with the use of synths, minor chords and a "booming" drum beat.
Hence, some minor but non-zero entries of the sparse vectors can be discarded before the measuring to further reduce the compression rate.
