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When Melanie’s “Brand New Key” debuted in 1971, some people were confused. What did the singer, who died on Tuesday at 76, mean when she sang about having a brand-new pair of roller skates and someone else having a brand-new key? Melanie told one interviewer that she wrote the song in 15 minutes, after ending…

Dear listeners, When Billy Joel was working on what would become his breakout 1977 album, “The Stranger,” he played the opening chords of the title track for his producer Phil Ramone, whistling a melody that he imagined another instrument would play in the final recording. “I whistle the whole thing and I finish,” he wrote…

4. “Modern Girl” (2005) Here’s another, subtler way the band protested the expectations of femininity in its music: Brownstein sings this faux-cheery fable of modern girlhood (from which she got the title of her 2015 memoir) in an increasingly agitated lilt, while around her the song sounds like it’s gradually corroding. “I took my money,…

Now that she’s released the deluxe edition — in honor of her 78th birthday, on Friday! — Dolly Parton’s already sprawling double album “Rockstar” runs nearly three hours long and clocks in at an indefatigably rockin’ 39 tracks. This makes finding the album’s buried treasures that much more exhausting, but luckily one sparkles out from…

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Best Director Jonathan Glazer, “The Zone of Interest” Yorgos Lanthimos, “Poor Things” Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer” Martin Scorsese, “Killers of the Flower Moon” Justine Triet, “Anatomy of a Fall” Best Actor Bradley Cooper, “Maestro” Colman Domingo, “Rustin” Paul Giamatti, “The Holdovers” Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer” Jeffrey Wright, “American Fiction” Best Actress Annette Bening, “Nyad” Lily Gladstone, “Killers…