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viernes, 20 de marzo de 2020

Taylor Swift, Rosalía, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, Billie Eilish, Bon Iver and FKA: Their Hits Revealed

7 Grammy artists (Taylor Swift, Lil Nas X, Lizzo, Billie Eilish, Rosalía, Bon Iver and FKA) talk about how they made their latest hit song. 
These seven videos from the New York Times are really hard to understand for different reasons: the clips are fragmentary, so they are a bit like a voice puzzle; there is a lot of technical language about writing and producing songs (jingle, shuffle beat, verse, chorus, bridge), various accents (listen to Lil Nas X!), slang words (so dope, beef up)..., so it is, basically, a document for experts (Ex level).  
The less difficult video is Rosalía's about her reggaeton track "Con Altura" (C1 level).  There is a full transcript of the words, which you can listen to while you are reading the text, which is really valuable help for learners of English.



Ignacio en Zaragoza 21:11
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I worked as a teacher at Escuela Oficial de Idiomas nº 1, Zaragoza for 36 years. My current interests include media literacy, vocabulary, fluency, cultural studies, cinema, music, art, history, libraries, second language acquisition & attrition, psycholinguistics and the world at large.
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