Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
Glass animals are an English group that blends electronic dance music with complex lyrics. This song is about caring for someone so much that it becomes an obsession, as overpowering and inescapable as a summer heatwave in the city.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
The song "Iris" by New York rock band the Goo Goo Dolls spent spending eighteen weeks at the top of the charts. The track took inspiration from the movie “City of Angels," in which an angel falls in love with a mortal woman, and is willing to give up everything to be with her.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Gordon Lightfoot was a Canadian singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the 1960s and 70s and was a prominent figure in folk-rock music for many years to come. In this video, he performs one of his greatest songs.
Difficulty: Beginner
Canada
Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist, achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. His music has been performed and recorded by some of the world's most renowned musical artists. He recently passed away at the age of 84.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Australia
Film clip for the Gotye song "Somebody That I Used To Know"
Featuring Kimbra, from the album Making Mirrors.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
American rock band Green Day released their hit song “Good Riddance” on their fifth album Nimrod in 1997. The story goes that lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong had written it years prior, but took three years to share it with band mates, and then it was a few more years before it was included on an album.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
"Wake Me Up When September Ends" by American punk band Green Day was written by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong. Although the central theme of loss is illustrated in the video by a relationship broken apart by war, Armstrong wrote it about the death of his father.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
From 2009, this punk rock song from the album "21st Century Breakdown" was a hit single, and nominated for a Grammy. This music video also won several MTV awards in 2009.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Greta Van Fleet is a hard-rocking band with blues influences. Despite many references to cars, “Highway Tune” also alludes to an old American folk song called “The Midnight Special," which was about riding trains late at night in the US.
Difficulty: Advanced
USA
With every mistake there comes regret, and a mournful feeling permeates this song from the fifth album by the American indie rock band Grizzly Bear. It is accompanied by a colorful and surreal video said to be "a playful, pastel-drenched commentary on women’s liberation."
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon presents Gwen Stefani performing "Under the Christmas Lights," a Christmas-season love song from her album You Make It Feel Like Christmas.
Difficulty: Newbie
United Kingdom
American singer Gwen Stefani recorded You Make It Feel Like Christmas for her holiday album of the same name. It features guest vocals from Blake Shelton and has been used in Starbucks' "Togetherness" commercial to promote its Christmas campaign.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Gwen Stefani found fame as singer-songwriter of the American rock group No Doubt, which she followed up with a dazzling solo pop career. This single was on her debut album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby. At the time Gwen also had her own clothing line, “L.A.M.B.”, which was inspired by Japanese culture and fashion.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
R&B singer H.E.R. performs a passionate and soulful rendition of "America the Beautiful" at the SuperBowl, complete with a guitar solo.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
This is American actress and singer Hailee Steinfeld with “Most Girls," an empowering pop song. It celebrates life and being happy in our own skin, rather than conforming to anybody else’s idea of how we should be.
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