power ballad

noun

An emotional rock song, generally focused on love, delivered with powerful vocals.

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Meanings

nounpower ballad (plural power ballads)

plural power ballads

  1. entertainmentAn emotional rock song, generally focused on love, delivered with powerful vocals.

    Incidentally, Mandy Moore choreographed this dance routine to Bonnie Tyler's iconic power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”

    2019, Sherril Dodds, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Competition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 396
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