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My Life Would Suck Without You/Where Have You Been All My Life: Tension-and-Release Structures In Tonal Rock and Non-Tonal EDM-Pop

July 6, 2012 · by Robin James · in biopolitics, Clarkson, EDM, Foucault, frequency, harmony, intensity, liberalism, music and politics, neoliberalism, philosophy of music, Rihanna, tonality

In this post, I contrast the formal elements in the song and video for Kelly Clarkson’s “My Life Would Suck Without You” with the formal elements in the song and video for Rihanna’s “Where Have You Been All My Life.”…

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