Melodrama

A melodrama is a dramatic or literary work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization. Characters are often simply drawn, and may appear stereotyped. Because of the long timeframe in which the style has existed, and the variety of formats used, it is difficult to give a precise definition.

In scholarly and historical musical contexts, melodramas are dramas of the 18th and 19th centuries in which orchestral music or song was used to accompany the action. The term is now also applied as well to stage performances without incidental music, novels, movies, and television and radio broadcasts. In modern contexts, the term "melodrama" is generally pejorative, as it suggests that the work in question lacks subtlety, character development, or both. By extension, language or behavior which resembles melodrama is often called melodramatic; this usage is nearly always pejorative.

The term originated from the early 19th-century French word mélodrame. It is derived from Greek melos, music, and French drame, drama (from Late Latin drāma, eventually deriving from Greek drān, to do, perform).

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Goodbye Jane, Goodbye
What did we do to lose our magic world
And what did you mean when you said nothing at all
If I wrote this lifetime you would be tragic girl
Cuz that's how this story ends
So, Goodbye Jane, Goodbye
And goodbye to the games that we play, it's the same
damn pain every single
day
You fly through the sky in a plane and I'm stuck in a
broken down subway
train
I never said a word to myself or to you, when you left
me alone and you left
me so blue
But now I have one more word for you
Goodbye Jane, Goodbye
For so many years I was under the shadow of our bliss
A crushing moon eclipsed our sun and it's this that I
still miss
The landscape of my heart is now under the stars, I
wish for everything you
are
But now my old dreams are turning dark
What did we do to lose our magic world
And what did you mean when you said nothing at all
I never said a word to myself or to you, when you left
me alone and you left
me blue
But now I have one more word for you
Goodbye Jane, Goodbye

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Joel Little has been a busy music producer lately. And his work's paying off as he claims a hat trick in the global music charts. The Kiwi writer and producer has his name in the Billboard Music Chart next to three different albums in the top 15. Little worked on tracks on Lorde's Melodrama album, Imagine Dragons' Evolve and American Teen by Khalid ... READ MORE. ... He co-wrote Lorde's Green Light and produced Supercut in her Melodrama album....

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