YouTube Music Trends 2019 16 December 2019 | Simone Geravini Are you interested in music trends and charts? YouTube has just published global music videos views. Here’s the list for 2019. Do you agree? Is there also the favorite song you played with Yalp? Source: Google Data, Global, Jan 1 – Nov 30 2019 Daddy Yankee & Snow – Con Calma (Official Video)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiItGE3eAyQ ROSALÍA, J… Read More
Wrong, Depeche Mode: getting rid of masks 31 May 2018 | Marta Migliardi Sounds of Universe was a eagerly awaited album by Depeche Mode‘s. It was the year 2009 and the expectations, for the fans of the English band that certainly doesn’t need presentations, were very strong. The single preceding the album was Wrong. Written by Martin Lee Gore and sung entirely by Dave Gahan, but featuring Gore’s… Read More
Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb: the best “surgery” song 26 April 2018 | Marta Migliardi Comfortably Numb is as many of you will know, a Pink Floyd song, written in 1979 and included in The Wall album. It’s one of the few songs for which royalties are split between Roger Waters (lyrics) and David Gilmour (melody and much of the music). Lyrics come from a Waters experience that, during a… Read More
Sweet Child O’ Mine by Guns N’ Roses: when guitar is the queen 17 April 2018 | Marta Migliardi Not everyone knows that the song we remember together today is a beautiful dedication of love, but is also spiced up with one of the most beautiful rock solos ever: Sweet Child o’ Mine by Guns N’ Roses. The lyrics of the song were written by Axl Rose in 1988 and dedicated, in fact, to… Read More
Let Yalp work for you 13 April 2018 | Simone Geravini We are very proud to announce that Yalp is now available on IFTTT. What is IFTTT? It is the free way to get all your apps and devices talking to each other. For instance you can like a music video on YouTube and IFTTT automatically sends it to Yalp to analyse chords. You’ll find liked… Read More
Nothing Else Matters, Metallica: a too personal song 5 April 2018 | Marta Migliardi Nothing Else Matters opens with an arpeggio in E minor with all strings open plucked. Legend has it that Hetfield, vocals and guitar, started writing this song while he was on the phone with his girlfriend, then with one hand free, hence the characteristic of the one hand incipit. A too personal track Published on… Read More
Baby One More Time: the eye of the tiger of Britney Spears 28 March 2018 | Marta Migliardi Baby One More time, the single taken from Britney Spears’ first and homonymous album in 1998, exploded like a lightning bolt in the sky and gave Britney almost immediate global success. Britney Spears was trained for success: she had started out very young in the entertainment world. At the age of eight, Britney Spears… Read More
Cry me a river, Britney! 27 February 2018 | Marta Migliardi Do you remember the Super Bowl scandal? It was 2004 and America was under shock after the “nipplegate”, a Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” in which Justin Timberlake was involved. But on the night of February 5, 2018, the Super Bowl won by the Philadelphia Eagles. Timberlake made himself forgiven in thirteen minutes in which the… Read More
Jealous Guy: The time when The Beatles went to the foot of the Himalayas 20 February 2018 | Marta Migliardi Perhaps not everyone knows that Jealous Guy, such a wonderful song, was written by John Lennon. It was included in his first solo album Imagine in 1971. Lennon, in some interviews, said he took inspiration for this song during a trip to India. A very special trip: In February 1968, the Beatles – with their… Read More
Music that makes you (mathematically) feel good: Don’t stop me now 12 February 2018 | Marta Migliardi The fact that music, by its nature and the laws that characterize it, is in a certain sense similar to mathematics is not new. Besides there is also an emotional side that transcends numbers and falls within the sphere of personal tastes and blends that we unconsciously create following the different periods of our lives.… Read More