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  • Specifically, it's in the key-change verse with several other blogs with names ending in "Review," but I'll take it!

    Egoboo! Karen Burnham 2009

  • I didn't reach the end, to be honest, but it sounds like the kind of song which might feature an ecstatic key-change.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Two minutes in, when we reach that spine-chilling, key-change finale, there's a dramatic pause practically long enough for a bathroom break, as Houston psyches herself up for the epic burst: Will she be able to hit those notes?

    Politics Paul Hiebert 2010

  • Jerusalem now from the trumpeter, complete with showy key-change finale.

    BBC - Ouch 2009

  • In fact, only one song, toward the end, actually features a key-change - breaking the mood of dogged determination not to be the first one to give in, to cry, or collapse under the pressure of whatever any given song might be about (as she says early on, only half-joking, "another song about heartbreak coming your way ...").

    Drowned In Sound // Feed 2009

  • 'I'm Hooked' and is really lovely and even has a key-change!

    unknown title 2009

  • Yes, there's raw power here, but many of the songs 'climaxes take you to another level not because of some trite key-change, or stamping on the crunch or overdrive pedal, but because the notes are coming thicker and faster, which is impossible to fake without seriously tight playing.

    Drowned In Sound // Feed 2009

  • In fact, only one song, toward the end, actually features a key-change - breaking the mood of dogged determination not to be the first one to give in, to cry, or collapse under the pressure of whatever any given song might be about (as she says early on, only half-joking, "another song about heartbreak coming your way ...").

    Drowned In Sound // Feed 2009

  • Give them a song that'll compete in the charts and stop with the schmaltzy key-change nonsense.

    Celebrity Gossip | Hot Celeb Rumors | Celebrities Blog 2009

  • The backing track that Stacey had to sing Rule The World to didn’t exactly help – it was one of those extra loud ones that Lloyd usually gets to disguise his lack of singing ability, so vocally all we got from her was an extended key-change “HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” and little else – but it came off as underdone in any case.

    Go And See Daniel Powter For Free Please 2009

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