Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” is a full throttle power ballad
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The Power Ballad - The Power Ballet
The power ballet will give you these really emotionally drenched scenarios, but then it gives you this building intensity. Perhaps the formula of sentimental te plus emotional rush is also what has led to this song structure's relative decline in culture. Thes interesting thing about popular song is that uplift and sentimentality never kept company before, but they do. But everyone has fallen under the spell of one of them. That's othing. Agaitst me.
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