Results for “posthumous collaboration”

Songs

The Beatles

A simple, unguarded love plea built from a demo John Lennon left behind, completed decades later by his surviving bandmates. The…

longing mortality and memory reunion

The Notorious B.I.G.

A posthumous posse cut built around a chanted, list-like hook that reduces street life to a sequence of imperatives: talk tough,…

bravado and reputation violence as ritual material excess

Minutemen

A punk band's origin story told without irony or distance, this song insists that ordinary friendship and local geography are as…

friendship and collaboration punk rock lineage and influence self-mythologizing vs. humility

Paul Simon

Written with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, this track from Graceland fuses Zulu isicathamiya vocal tradition with a spare…

homelessness and displacement cross-cultural collaboration communal grief and endurance

Neil Young

A middle-aged musician resolves to reconnect with the scattered friends and collaborators of his past, though the song's…

nostalgia friendship and distance mortality and time

Big Star

A gratitude anthem that plays like a mock-showbiz thank-you speech, thanking unnamed collaborators in language so formal it…

gratitude and its limits dependency vs. self-sufficiency showbiz artifice

Kanye West Tribute Band

A public confession dressed as a drinking song: the narrator toasts his own worst qualities and then tells the woman he's…

self-sabotage toxic masculinity fame and entitlement

B.B. King

A straightforward blues-soul declaration built almost entirely on the repeated phrase of devotion, this track trades narrative…

devotion fear of abandonment reassurance

Queen

A collaboration between Queen and David Bowie built around a rolling bass riff, the song treats societal pressure as a physical…

collective anxiety urban alienation the erosion of love as a value

Nas

This is a mafioso-rap posse cut in which Nas, alongside his Firm collaborators, trades the political/street-prophet voice he's…

organized crime as fantasy/roleplay materialism and status display loyalty and betrayal within a crew

Gorillaz

A collaboration between Gorillaz and Jamaican dancehall artist Popcaan, the track fuses a patois-inflected verse about hard-won…

survival and upward mobility fame's emptiness isolation within relationships