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Love Me Harder
"Love Me Harder" is a song by the American singer Ariana Grande and the Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd. It was released by Republic Records on September 30, 2014, as the fourth single from Grande's second studio album, ''My Everything'' (2014). It was written by the Weeknd, Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Peter Svensson, Ali Payami and Belly. The song was produced by Payami and Peter Carlsson, with Svensson serving as a vocal producer. Sonically, "Love Me Harder" is a pop, synthwave, synth-pop, R&B ballad with a "throbbing, electro-heavy chorus", a guitar riff and "big vacuum-esque synths". Lyrically, the song features double entendres about rough sex. In the United States, the song peaked at number seven on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming Grande's fourth consecutive top-ten single off the album and making her the artist with the most top-ten singles in 2014. The song also became the Weeknd's first top ten entry in the US. The Hannah Lux Davis-directed video find ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande-Butera ( ; born June 26, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Regarded as a pop icon and an influential figure in popular music, Grande is known for her four-octave vocal range, which extends into the whistle register. List of awards and nominations received by Ariana Grande, Her accolades include two Grammy Awards, a Brit Award, two Billboard Music Awards, ''Billboard'' Music Awards, three American Music Awards, 39 ''Guinness World Records'', and ten MTV Video Music Awards. The Forbes list of the world's highest-paid musicians#Female, world's highest-paid female musician in 2020, Grande has sold over 90 million records worldwide, making her one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music artists of all time. Grande began her career as a teenage actress by appearing in the Broadway theatre, Broadway musical ''13 (musical), 13'' (2008), and rose to fame as Cat Valentine (Victorious), Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon television se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Payami
Ali Payami is a Swedish record producer, songwriter, and DJ. Payami's first number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 was The Weeknd's single "Can't Feel My Face". In 2016, he won a Grammy for Album of the Year for his contributions on Taylor Swift's album ''1989''. He has also worked with other musicians such as Demi Lovato, Ariana Grande, Ellie Goulding and Katy Perry. Early life Ali was born in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Then, once his family moved to Sweden during his early childhood. he was first exposed to music in Malmö. At a young age he listened to many genres of music, ranging from Dr. Dre's ''The Chronic'' to Nirvana. He watched people in bands rehearse and make music, which prompted him to develop interest in the same. This interest was reflected by his statement "When you play something and see people's reactions when they hear it... It really affected me." Growing up, however, he became more interested in house music, siding away from the pop genre he was exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RIAA
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors that the RIAA says "create, manufacture, and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legally sold recorded music in the United States". RIAA is headquartered in Washington, D.C. RIAA was formed in 1952. Its original mission was to administer recording copyright fees and problems, work with trade unions, and do research relating to the record industry and government regulations. Early RIAA standards included the RIAA equalization curve, the format of the stereophonic record groove and the dimensions of 33 1/3, 45, and 78 rpm records. RIAA says its current mission includes: #to protect intellectual property rights and the First Amendment rights of artists #to perform research about the music industry #to monitor and review relevant laws, regulations, and policies Between 2001 and 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Lux Davis
Hannah Lux Davis (born May 17, 1986) is an American music video, commercial and film director. She's known for her work especially with female artists, such as Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, Demi Lovato, Nicki Minaj, Miley Cyrus, Avril Lavigne, Christina Aguilera, Hilary Duff and Fifth Harmony. Biography Davis was born and raised in Bellevue, Washington. In high school, she was diagnosed with exophoria, which hindered her ability to read and write. She left Seattle for Los Angeles at age 18, where she enrolled in the New York Film Academy, and the Los Angeles Film School a year later. For her final projects, she made music videos, and decided to pursue a career in the music video industry. Davis graduated from the Los Angeles Film School in 2006, and went into music video production. She worked for a time as a makeup artist after attending Cinema Makeup School in order to get on the sets of music videos, commercials, and feature films, and began making music videos in her spare time, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Hot 100
The ''Billboard'' Hot 100, also known as simply the Hot 100, is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital), online streaming, and radio airplay in the U.S. A new chart is compiled and released online to the public by ''Billboard''s website on Tuesdays but post-dated to the following Saturday, when the printed magazine first reaches newsstands. The weekly tracking period for sales is currently Friday–Thursday, after being changed in July 2015. It was initially Monday–Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991. This tracking period also applies to compiling online streaming data. Radio airplay is readily available on a real-time basis, unlike sales figures and streaming, but is also tracked on the same Friday–Thursday cycle, effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021. Previously, radio was tracked Monday–Sunday and, before Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Entendre
A double entendre (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and the other often conveys a message that would be too socially unacceptable, or offensive to state directly. A double entendre may exploit puns or word play to convey the second meaning. Double entendres generally rely on multiple meanings of words, or different interpretations of the same primary meaning. They often exploit ambiguity and may be used to introduce it deliberately in a text. Sometimes a homophone can be used as a pun. When three or more meanings have been constructed, this is known as a "triple entendre", etc. Etymology According to the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary, the expression comes from the rare and obsolete French (language), French expression, which literally meant "double meaning" and was used in the senses of "double understanding" or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guitar Riff
A riff is a short, repeated motif or figure in the melody or accompaniment of a musical composition. Riffs are most often found in rock music, punk, heavy metal music, Latin, funk, and jazz, although classical music is also sometimes based on a riff, as in Ravel's Boléro. Riffs can be as simple as a tenor saxophone honking a simple, catchy rhythmic figure, or as complex as the riff-based variations in the head arrangements played by the Count Basie Orchestra. David Brackett (1999) defines riffs as "short melodic phrases", while Richard Middleton (1999) defines them as "short rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic figures repeated to form a structural framework". Author Rikky Rooksby states: "A riff is a short, repeated, memorable musical phrase, often pitched low on the guitar, which focuses much of the energy and excitement of a rock song." BBC Radio 2, in compiling its list of 100 Greatest Guitar Riffs, defined a riff as the "main hook of a song", often beginning the song, and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electro (music)
Electro (also known as electro-funk, and sometimes referred to as electro-pop) Globaldarkness.com. Retrieved on July 18, 2011. is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 1980s. It is defined by the prominent use of the Roland TR-808 drum machine, and draws direct influence from early hip hop and funk music. Electro music is typically characterized by synthetic beats, robotic textures, and minimal or electronically processed vocals—often delivered through vocoders or talkboxes. Unlike its boogie predecessor, which emphasized vocal elements, electro focused more on rhythm and machine-generated sound. The genre arose as the popularity of disco waned in the U.S., blending funk and early hip hop elements with influences from New York's boogie scene and electronic pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolina Liar
Carolina Liar is a Swedish-American pop rock band. Lead vocalist Chad Wolf is originally from Moncks Corner, South Carolina; other members originate from Stockholm, Sweden. History The band is best known for the platinum certified single " Show Me What I'm Looking For" and gold certified "I'm Not Over" from their 2008 major-label debut album, '' Coming to Terms'', produced by Max Martin and Tobias Karlsson. The song "I'm Not Over" featured in the 2008 film '' What Happens in Vegas'', starring Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz, in the 2008 ''King of the Hill'' episode "Cops and Robert", and in the video game ''UEFA Euro 2008''. On March 3, 2009, the single "Show Me What I'm Looking For" was featured on the iTunes Store as the Free Single of the Week. "Show Me What I'm Looking For" appeared in FOX Sports commercials for the 2009 MLB All-Star Game, as well as MTV's '' The Hills''. "Show Me What I'm Looking For" and "Open the Door" were featured in commercials for Investigation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earned It
"Earned It", alternatively titled "Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)", is a song by the Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd. The song was released as the lead single from the soundtrack to the 2015 film ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' and was included on the Weeknd's second studio album ''Beauty Behind the Madness'' (2015). Unlike the film, which was critically panned, "Earned It" was lauded by critics upon release, and peaked at number three on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming the Weeknd's first top five single. The song's popularity earned the soundtrack to ''Fifty Shades of Grey'' two concurrent top-ten singles, with Ellie Goulding's "Love Me like You Do" also peaking at number three. Its music video was directed by the film's director, Sam Taylor-Johnson, features the film's lead actress, Dakota Johnson, and has the same BDSM theme. The song was nominated for Best Original Song at the 88th Academy Awards and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance at the 58th Annual Gram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Often
"Often" is a song by the Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd. It was released on July 31, 2014, as the lead single from his second studio album, ''Beauty Behind the Madness'' (2015). The song contains a sample from "Ben Sana Vurgunum" by Turkish singer Nükhet Duru. "Often" peaked within the top 60 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and the top 70 of the Canadian Hot 100. The song won two awards at the 2015 Much Music Video Awards, Video of the Year and Best Director. Background The Weeknd initially released "Often" exclusively on the streaming service SoundCloud on June 25, 2014. The song was officially released on Apple Music a month later, on July 31. Composition & lyrics According to the sheet music published by Songs Music Publishing at Musicnotes.com, "Often" is written in the key of G minor, and follows a tempo of 68 beats per minute. The Weeknd's vocal range spans from F4 to G5. The lyrics of the song primarily explore the theme of sex, with ''Stereogum'' saying that th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Tell Me
"Santa Tell Me" is a Christmas song by American singer-songwriter Ariana Grande. It was released by Republic Records on November 24, 2014, and was included on the Japanese exclusive reissue of Grande's first EP '' Christmas Kisses'' (2013), as well as a "naughty version" on Grande's second EP '' Christmas & Chill'' (2015). The song was written by Grande, Savan Kotecha, and Ilya Salmanzadeh, who also served as its producer. "Santa Tell Me" has become a modern Christmas standard, with a significant rise in popularity every Christmas season. It became the first holiday song released in the 21st century to reach the top five in the United States when it peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2024, ten years after it was originally released. It has reached the top ten in numerous other countries worldwide, including Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
