CFP EuroMAC11: 11th European Music Analysis Conference
Barcelona. Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) https://euromac11.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/8

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New Sara Landry set starts with Perfect Celebrity by Lady Gaga. The track seems to be popular among Techno DJs currently and I can see why. Interesting since I recently listened to a SongExploder episode with Lady Gaga, which was unexpectedly personal. Can 100% recommend, the podcast is great anyway. Every episode takes apart a song and gives insight to the story behind it - told by the musicians themselves. https://songexploder.net/episodes
#Techno #MusicAnalysis
Episodes

An index of all the Song Exploder podcast episodes.

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Iron Maiden’s “Aces High” never lands—it lives in the loop between story and song. A four-minute dogfight where tension replaces resolution, and history becomes adrenaline. ✈️⚡️
#IronMaiden #AcesHigh #Powerslave #HeavyMetalHistory #MusicAnalysis #Songwriting #RockHistory #BattleOfBritain #BruceDickinson #SteveHarris #ClassicMetal #MusicEssay #MetalCulture
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/the-loop-of-combat-form-and-function-in-iron-maidens-aerial-anthem/
The Loop of Combat: Form and Function in Iron Maiden’s Aerial Anthem

Iron Maiden’s “Aces High” (1984) is what happens when a songwriter is caught between the desire to tell a complete story with a beginning, a middle, and an ending and the compulsion to stay within …

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Bakers of the Blues: How “Custard Pie” Spoils Physical Graffiti

It’s sort of ironic for Led Zeppelin, a band that was accused of hiding subliminal messages in their songs, often made meaning elusive through arcane, fantastical lyrics, and at least once broke th…

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The Toni Braxton duology, comprising "Breathe Again" and "I’m Still Breathing," provides a compelling case study of evolving gendered scripts within R&B pop music between 1993 and 2000.
#ToniBraxton #MusicAnalysis #LoveSongs #BreatheAgain #MusicCriticism #MusicEssay #PopCulture #90sMusic #CulturalCritique #MusicWriting
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/oxygen-optional-toni-braxtons-guide-to-codependent-romance/
Oxygen Optional: Toni Braxton’s Guide to Codependent Romance

Toni Braxton’s “Breathe Again” (1993) has been called “delicate,” “yearning,” “melancholy,” “pretty,” and “haunting.” The song does sound like all those things, which I guess could make it hard to …

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Hilary Duff’s “Haters” isn’t just pop fluff—it’s a case study in how teen melodrama borrows the language of genocide and geopolitics to make borrowed clothes sound like a broken treaty.
#HilaryDuff #PopCultureCriticism #2000sPop #MusicAnalysis #PopMelodrama #Haters #TeenPop #CulturalCritique
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/from-haters-to-gypsies-hilary-duffs-pop-totalitarianism/
From Haters to Gypsies: Hilary Duff’s Pop Totalitarianism

Hilary Duff’s “Haters” (2004) reminds me of that line at the end of Casablanca about how the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. In this song, Duff …

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Sample Breakdown: Britney Spears - Toxic

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Understanding Toxic

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Sonic Layers

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When German power metal meets Disney-era pop, they share a surprising habit: turning themselves into stars. ✨ From Caesar’s Comet to teen dreams, catasterism has never sounded so strange.
#MusicNerd #PopVsMetal #Catasterism #Helloween #SabrinaCarpenter #MusicAnalysis #Stars #Immortality #MythInModernity #DeepDive
https://songreading.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/pop-constellations-and-power-metal-gods/
Pop Constellations and Power Metal Gods

What do late Master of the Rings-era Helloween and early Sabrina Carpenter have in common? They’ve both recorded songs where they catasterize themselves and others. “We’ll Be the Stars” (2015) almo…

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