There’s always something magical that music brings in our lives, no matter the genre, it has always been a profound way with which artists connect with their audiences, turning their thoughts and ideas, into wonderful pieces of art.
Musicians invite thousands of people to take part in their art, as people relate to their music, and out of those thousand people in concerts, the beauty of music lies in the fact that those thousand people relate to the music, for thousand different reasons. While the world of music is filled with infinite genres, whether it’s classical music, rock and heavy metal, rhythm and blues, pop, punk, grunge, and so on, there are some pieces of music, that bend these boundaries, and leave an everlasting impact for generations, changing the music industry forever!
5. Eminem — Godzilla
Anyone who’s ever listened to music, knows who Eminem is, and there’s no doubt that the rap god has had an impact on the industry in so many ways, but there are some songs, which are way beyond what we know as rap music, that it’s not easy for us mortals to comprehend. “Rap God” and “Godzilla” are two such songs by Eminem, where he’s managed to create an amazing feat of singing at ultrasonic speeds. In Rap God he’s rapping at a speed of 6.46 words per second, a record which Eminem broke himself with Godzilla, where he is singing at a speed of 7.46 words per second.
4. Ludwig Van Beethoven — Moonlight Sonata
Going back a few centuries, to the 1800s, when electronic music did not sway over an entire generation, existed musical geniuses like Bach, Mozart, and obviously the deaf genius “Beethoven”, yes, you heard it right! Beethoven is considered as one of the best classical musicians, who wrote astonishing pieces of music such as “Fur Elise” and “Symphony №5” that are still used in movies to this day, all while losing his ability to hear. Moonlight Sonata is one such musical endeavor composed by Beethoven. The piano sonata is 15 minutes long, depicting death and tragedy in it’s first movement, which comes out as anger and rage in the final movement.
3. Dragon Force — Through the fire and flames
While Eminem has an expertise in signing as fast as the gods, these guys in Dragon Force hold explicable talent in their hands, as they play music that counts as one of the fastest pieces of metal music ever written. This song was featured on Guitar Hero 3, consisting of more than 3700 notes, and was considered so fast, that people started accusing the band that the song was being sped up.
2. Billie Holiday — Gloomy Sunday
There are songs that are physical triumphs, and re-define music in physical ways, such as “Godzilla” or “Through the fire and flames”, but there are songs which, although sound fairly regular, leave an everlasting impact that can mentally twist the listener. The “Hungarian Suicide Song”, as it is popularly known, is a composition written by Billie Holiday in Budapest of 1930.. Being a melancholic melody, that song is considered so sad, that it was allegedly responsible for a large number of suicides back in 1930, and was thus titled the Hungarian Suicide Song.
- Queen — Bohemian Rhapsody
Freddie Mercury, with an octave range of four octaves, and the lead singer for the band Queen, although managed to release a number of artistic hits, one song particularly stands out, due to it’s ability to bend genres. Bohemian Rhapsody, a song that spans out 5 genres — “Code, Opera, Hard Rock, Ballad and Acapella” — was released by Queen in 1975, which Mercury started writing in 1968 as a pop song. This song had so many layers, that it used 24 track tapes to combine all the musical elements in the song. This was a musical genius, and to this day, remains a generation defining benchmark.