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Post by tekkenguy on Jun 23, 2023 5:21:39 GMT -5
What artists have multiple contenders for signature song without a clear frontrunner?
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Post by Skibidi Bop Bop on Jun 23, 2023 19:10:22 GMT -5
Mariah - All I want for Christmas is You and We Belong Together. Some consider Hero as her signature hit while some survey place Fantasy. Mostly in Europe she is known for Without you.
Lady Gaga - Just Dance is her highest charting in GOAT while Poker Face is her biggest hit workdwide while her most viewed is Shallow.
Michael Jackson - Billie Jeans Worldwide while Say Say Say is his biggest hit in US.
Taylor Swift - Love Story/Shake it Off/Anti Hero
Olivia Rodrigo - Drivers licence /Good 4 u
Christina Aguilera - Genie in the Bottle/Beautiful/Lady Marmalade
Justin Bieber - Baby/Sorry/Love Yourself
Drake - Hotline Bling/In my Feeling/God's Plan
Madonna - Like A Virgin/Like a Prayer/Hang up
Rihanna - Umbrella/Don't Stop the Music/We Found Love
Eminem - Lose Yourself/Stan/Love the way you Lie
Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back/Cry Me A river/Can't stop the feeling
Britney Spears - Baby one more time/Toxic
JLo - I'm Real/On the floor
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Post by divasummer on Jun 23, 2023 20:46:52 GMT -5
Whitney Houston: “I Will Always Love You”
“The Greatest Love Of All”
Some fans think “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”
Cher:
“Believe”
“If I Could Turn Back Time”
Tina Turner:
“What’s Love Got To Do With It”
“The Best”
Maybe “Proud Mary”
Donna Summer:
“Last Dance”
“Bad Girls”
“She Works Hard For The Money”
Cindi Lauper:
“Girls Just Want To Have Fun”
“True Colors”
“Time After Time”
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Post by Glass Joe on Jun 24, 2023 19:38:23 GMT -5
Avril Lavigne - "Complicated" or "Girlfriend"
Nickelback - "How You Remind Me" or "Photograph"
Nelly Furtado - "I'm Like a Bird" or "Promiscuous"
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Post by Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ on Jun 24, 2023 20:24:16 GMT -5
Donna Summer: “Last Dance” “Bad Girls” “She Works Hard For The Money” Hot Stuff? |
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Post by divasummer on Jun 24, 2023 21:03:18 GMT -5
Donna Summer: “Last Dance” “Bad Girls” “She Works Hard For The Money” Hot Stuff? I was going to say that as well, but I thought listing 4 was a lot. Lol |
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Post by wjr15 on Jun 27, 2023 6:44:21 GMT -5
Katy Perry - Firework/Roar/Dark Horse/California Gurls
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jun 27, 2023 6:55:44 GMT -5
What is a “signature song” though?
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Post by wjr15 on Jun 27, 2023 7:16:37 GMT -5
What is a “signature song” though? You’re opening Pandora’s box here lmao |
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jun 27, 2023 7:46:38 GMT -5
What is a “signature song” though? You’re opening Pandora’s box here lmao hahaha oh I know. I'm just curious because this question gets asked every three months and nobody ever really explains what it is and instead just cites off an artist's biggest hits, usually multiple, even though a signature by definition is a singular thing. Michael Jackson didn't have multiple signature moves. He had the moonwalk. Ariana Grande doesn't have multiple signature looks. She has her ponytail. Why do so many artists have multiple signature songs? If you have four signatures, at some point they no longer count as signatures. You just can't be trusted to sign a legal document. Mainly, I think it's just a phrase journalists and writers use to fancify their writing when writing about artists. |
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Post by Daenerys on Jun 27, 2023 8:51:44 GMT -5
To Rose Bros, point I think there is something to be said about perhaps generational distances, and how different generational groups may view a signature song. For instance, someone who grew up with the artist, and within the time that they experienced the artists peak may associate a signature song to them for that moment in time, while other generations who are 'just catching up' to that particular artists music may associate another song to them.
For example, Mariah Carey's 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' has become one of her biggest songs ever, but that is a relatively recent phenomenon, it wasn't her signature song for the first 20 years of her career. It became her signature song over time.
You could say the same for Rihanna, Umbrella was her song - until We Found Love usurped it. I think that's why people say an artist has more than one signature song.
Britney's debut of ...Baby One More Time was iconic and set the standard for what she would be known for, but it's hard to deny at this point that Toxic is probably going to be known far and away as the song that she is most known for and is likely to define her legacy as an artist.
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Post by Glass Joe on Jun 27, 2023 18:51:00 GMT -5
I agree for Britney. I think "Toxic" would be the likely one, but "Oops I Did it Again" is the second contender, maybe "Baby One More Time" in third place.
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Post by hortensia on Jul 8, 2023 13:03:21 GMT -5
Ariana Grande - 7 rings/Thank u, next/Side to Side. One Last Time to a lesser extent.
Bad Bunny - Dákiti/Me Porto Bonito/Tití Me Preguntó/Callaita
Beyoncé - Crazy In Love/Halo
Bruno Mars - Just the Way You Are/Locked Out Of Heaven. Maybe Uptown Funk too but he’s not the lead artist on this song.
BTS - Dynamite/Butter
Camila Cabello - Havana/Señorita
Cardi B - Bodak Yellow/I Like It
Doja Cat - Say So/Kiss Me More
Drake - Hotline Bling/One Dance/God’s Plan
Dua Lipa - Don’t Start Now/Levitating
Ed Sheeran - For many Shape Of You seems like the obvious answer but I think Perfect and Thinking Out Loud could be serious contenders too.
Eminem - Lose Yourself/Without Me/The Real Slim Shady
Imagine Dragons - Thunder/Believer/Radioactive/Demons
Justin Bieber - Baby/Sorry/Love Yourself
Katy Perry - So many contenders for her signature song: I Kissed a Girl/California Gurls/Firework/Roar/Dark Horse
Lady Gaga - Poker Face/Bad Romance
Lil Nas X - Old Town Road/Montero/Industry Baby
Lizzo - Truth Hurts/About Damn Time
Miley Cyrus - Party in the USA/Wrecking Ball/Flowers
Post Malone - Rockstar/Sunflower/Circles
Rihanna - Umbrella/We Found Love/Diamonds
Selena Gomez - Pretty hard to say because she didn’t really have super massive hits or iconic songs. Maybe between Love You Like a Love Song, Good For You and Lose You to Love Me.
Shakira - Whenever, Wherever/Hips Don’t Lie/Waka Waka
Taylor Swift - Love Story/Shake It Off/Blank Space
The Weeknd - Blinding Lights/Starboy
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Post by irice22 on Jul 9, 2023 11:11:22 GMT -5
Beyoncé - Crazy In Love/Halo I would've said "Single Ladies" |
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Post by Kelly's 10th Fan on Jul 12, 2023 8:47:06 GMT -5
You’re opening Pandora’s box here lmao hahaha oh I know. I'm just curious because this question gets asked every three months and nobody ever really explains what it is and instead just cites off an artist's biggest hits, usually multiple, even though a signature by definition is a singular thing. Michael Jackson didn't have multiple signature moves. He had the moonwalk. Ariana Grande doesn't have multiple signature looks. She has her ponytail. Why do so many artists have multiple signature songs? If you have four signatures, at some point they no longer count as signatures. You just can't be trusted to sign a legal document. Mainly, I think it's just a phrase journalists and writers use to fancify their writing when writing about artists. To me, a 'signature' song is the one song that, if you asked 100 random people on the street to name the first song that came to mind by that artist, at least 80 of those people would think of the same song. Fine in theory, but in reality far fewer artists have one signature song than some will ever be willing to admit. My issue with the concept has always been that it's more or less taking someone with multiple hits and trying to force them into a pseudo-one-hit-wonder status for some perplexing reason. "Sure, they had a lot of success, but what's the ONE hit we should care to remember?" If we must insist on pinning artists down to just one piece of work, I would argue that 'signature album' makes more sense as a topic. But either way, the idea only works in my mind for acts who were long before most of our times, because the bulk of music (and entertainment in general) has a habit of being forgotten as new generations create their own art and typically draw their influences from more recent sources. At that point 'signature song' is more of a litmus test to see how well a piece of work has stood the test of time. Put another way, if I wanted to settle once and for all what Mariah's 'signature' song or album was, I'd sooner ask 100 gen Alpha third graders (or better yet, 100 Beta kids twenty years from now) than 100 fellow Millennials who experienced Mariah's hits in real time or 100 Zoomers who are randomly stumbling onto whatever track of hers happens to be trending on TikTok this month. A lot of these artists with supposed multiple contenders are not going to have a signature song at all given a few more decades, and that's not me throwing shade; that's just the nature of time. How many of us can name even one popular artist/composer in the US before 1920? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2023 9:26:20 GMT -5
P!nk - Get The Party Started, So What, Just Give Me a Reason
Even though “Just Like a Pill” will always be my signature song from her.
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Post by thirddegree50123 on Jul 15, 2023 10:25:10 GMT -5
Matchbox 20 - "Push" and "3am"
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Post by HEADOFTHEPACK on Jul 15, 2023 10:47:45 GMT -5
I agree for Britney. I think "Toxic" would be the likely one, but "Oops I Did it Again" is the second contender, maybe "Baby One More Time" in third place. I think if you asked anyone with a casual interest at best, it would be Baby One More Time. |
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Post by mkarns on Jul 15, 2023 11:14:44 GMT -5
hahaha oh I know. I'm just curious because this question gets asked every three months and nobody ever really explains what it is and instead just cites off an artist's biggest hits, usually multiple, even though a signature by definition is a singular thing. Michael Jackson didn't have multiple signature moves. He had the moonwalk. Ariana Grande doesn't have multiple signature looks. She has her ponytail. Why do so many artists have multiple signature songs? If you have four signatures, at some point they no longer count as signatures. You just can't be trusted to sign a legal document. Mainly, I think it's just a phrase journalists and writers use to fancify their writing when writing about artists. To me, a 'signature' song is the one song that, if you asked 100 random people on the street to name the first song that came to mind by that artist, at least 80 of those people would think of the same song. Fine in theory, but in reality far fewer artists have one signature song than some will ever be willing to admit. My issue with the concept has always been that it's more or less taking someone with multiple hits and trying to force them into a pseudo-one-hit-wonder status for some perplexing reason. "Sure, they had a lot of success, but what's the ONE hit we should care to remember?" If we must insist on pinning artists down to just one piece of work, I would argue that 'signature album' makes more sense as a topic. But either way, the idea only works in my mind for acts who were long before most of our times, because the bulk of music (and entertainment in general) has a habit of being forgotten as new generations create their own art and typically draw their influences from more recent sources. At that point 'signature song' is more of a litmus test to see how well a piece of work has stood the test of time. Put another way, if I wanted to settle once and for all what Mariah's 'signature' song or album was, I'd sooner ask 100 gen Alpha third graders (or better yet, 100 Beta kids twenty years from now) than 100 fellow Millennials who experienced Mariah's hits in real time or 100 Zoomers who are randomly stumbling onto whatever track of hers happens to be trending on TikTok this month. A lot of these artists with supposed multiple contenders are not going to have a signature song at all given a few more decades, and that's not me throwing shade; that's just the nature of time. How many of us can name even one popular artist/composer in the US before 1920? Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, Billy Murray, George M. Cohan, Ada Jones, Henry Burr, Scott Joplin, et al... |
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Post by Janhova's Witness on Jul 15, 2023 12:05:45 GMT -5
Donna Summer: “Last Dance” “Bad Girls” “She Works Hard For The Money” Hot Stuff? Love To Love You Baby? 🥰 I Feel Love! 💕 divasummer Donna Summer the queen of Disco |
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Post by carriefan15 on Jul 16, 2023 14:04:33 GMT -5
I would think Before He Cheats (obviously) and Jesus Take The Wheel for Carrie Underwood. I guess JTTW more so in the country world but it was a huge debut single for Carrie and still very recognizable to this day.
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Post by plankton5165 on Jul 18, 2023 22:37:45 GMT -5
Billy Joel’s signature hit is Piano Man. But that didn’t make the decade-end!
I’d say his biggest contender for such is Uptown Girl or We Didn’t Start The Fire.
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Post by Ling-Ling on Jul 19, 2023 7:53:25 GMT -5
Love To Love You Baby? 🥰 I Feel Love! 💕 divasummer Donna Summer the queen of Disco It's funny y'all mention that, because I knew I answered Donna Summer for this question before. But nope, it was this thread, lol. Same concept! I always have a hard time with Donna Summer, you could make a strong case for "Love To Love You Baby," "I Feel Love," "Bad Girls," "Last Dance," "Hot Stuff," and "She Works Hard For The Money." |
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Post by marcyiam on Jul 22, 2023 10:33:10 GMT -5
I'd say Harry has Watermelon Sugar and As It Was so far.
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Post by irice22 on Jul 22, 2023 13:15:09 GMT -5
What is a “signature song” though? I would say its the song the general public most associates with that artist. And there's no measurement for it. Which is why this topic is great for the "Your Opinion Please" forum. It sparks debate, it gets different answers, it gets people thinking outside of their own bubble. |
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Post by PREDS PRIDE on Jul 22, 2023 16:00:30 GMT -5
main ones that come to mind for me are taylor swift, katy perry, rihanna, and lady gaga, as they all have so many songs that are well loved and you can remember them by. most everyone else mentioned in this thread works as well. a notable one is olivia rodrigo despite her short career, because of how hugely popular driver's license and good 4 u were and how popular vampire might end up being.
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Post by avamaxstan on Jul 24, 2023 3:02:27 GMT -5
The OP examples feel very… off
Taylor’s is SIO or Love Story. Anti Hero is not her signature song whatsoever, in fact it gets a fairly tepid response on tour.
Gaga’s is (and will likely always be) Bad Romance, even though PF is her biggest hit.
Britney is one of the few with multiple songs as arguable signatures - BOMT, Oops and Toxic.
Beyoncé’s used to be CIL/ Single Ladies but are now CIL/Halo.
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