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Collocations for «blues»Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word «blues» in context. WordReference English Collocations © 2023 blueⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK. adj
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a case of the blues
A state of sadness or melancholy, especially one that is brief or temporary. I don’t know what’s got me so down. I guess I just woke up with a case of the blues. Look, depression isn’t just a case of the blues or being stuck in a funk. It’s a serious condition that requires treatment. I always get the blues on Sundays. I guess it must be because the weekend is almost over.
baby blues
1. A usually brief period of sadness, anxiety, and mood swings experienced by a large percentage of women after giving birth. When I had the baby blues after having my first child, I would find myself crying without knowing why.
2. Blue eyes, especially those that are light blue. I just had to ask for Sean’s number after I got a glimpse of his baby blues—I’d never seen such striking eyes before!
blue
1. adjective Sad or depressed. I’m sorry, I’m just feeling a bit blue after getting back my exam results. Most people love the holidays, but they always make me blue.
2. adjective Obscene, vulgar, or risqué; dirty. My grandmother is the sweetest old lady you’ll ever meet, but she sure loves telling blue jokes! I remember the video store down the street had a section of blue movies for adults that they would keep behind a black curtain.
3. adjective Of meat, especially steak, completely uncooked in the center; extra rare. A: «And how would you like your filet mignon, sir?» B: «Blue, please.»
4. adjective Of or referring to a political party whose representative color is blue. Analysts are predicting a blue wave in the congressional elections this year. It looks as though the seats of Westminster will be mostly blue after the Tories’ dominance in the recent general election.
5. noun, slang A police officer. Primarily heard in US. I never thought Jack would be a blue when he grew up, after all the trouble he used to get into as a kid.
6. noun, slang A 10 mg tablet of diazepam (more commonly known as Valium), which is blue in color. Usually used plurally. Primarily heard in US. I had to take a blue to calm me down before the big presentation. Apparently, he died of an overdose of blues.
blues and twos
An emergency vehicle, such as an ambulance or police car, that has blue flashing lights and a siren that sounds two notes. Primarily heard in UK. Pull the car over and let the blues and twos pass.
cry the blues
1. Literally, to sing blues music or in that style. There was this old man crying the blues at the bar last night; it was a really moving bit of music.
2. By extension, to complain, whine, or express grief, especially as a means of gaining sympathy from others. Many people will cry the blues over trivial inconveniences, while millions of others silently suffer real hardships every day.
get the blues
To develop a feeling of general sadness or melancholy. I think a lot of people get the blues when the excitement of the holidays is over. I always get the blues on Sundays. I guess it must be because the weekend is almost over.
have a case of the blues
To experience a mild or temporary state of sadness or melancholy. I don’t know what’s got me so down. I’ve just had a case of the blues since I woke up. Look, depression doesn’t just mean you have a case of the blues from time to time. It’s a serious, long-term condition that requires professional treatment.
have the blues
To feel generally sad or melancholy. I don’t know what it is, but I find I always have the blues on Sundays.
sing the blues
1. Literally, to sing blues music or in that style. There was this old man singing the blues at the bar last night—it was a really moving bit of music.
2. By extension, to complain, whine, or express grief, especially as a means of gaining sympathy from others. Many people will sing the blues over trivial inconveniences, while millions of others silently suffer real hardships every day.
Sunday blues
An acute feeling of depression or anxiety experienced on Sunday evening, typically owing to one’s having to return to work or school the next day. I always get the Sunday blues around this time. I like school just fine, but knowing that the freedom of the weekend is almost over always bums me out. I’m not surprised you get such intense Sunday blues at the end of the weekend—your job has been so stressful lately.
winter blues
A period of depression, melancholy, or unhappiness experienced during the dark, cold months of winter. A: «Are you OK? You’ve seemed really down lately.» B: «Yeah, I just can’t seem to shake these winter blues.» I always get the winter blues really bad, so I usually spend the season in my parents’ house in Florida.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
*blues
1. sadness; a mood of depression. (*Typically: get ~; have ~.) You’ll have to excuse Bill. He’s getting the blues thinking about Jane. I get the blues every time I hear that song.
2. a traditional style of popular music characterized by lyrics expressing hardship, lost love, etc. Buddy had been singing the blues ever since the Depression.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
have the blues
Also, feel blue. Feel depressed or sad, as in After seeing the old house in such bad shape, I had the blues for weeks, or Patricia tends to feel blue around the holidays. The noun blues, meaning «low spirits,» was first recorded in 1741 and may come from blue devil, a 17th-century term for a baleful demon, or from the adjective blue meaning «sad,» a usage first recorded in Chaucer’s Complaint of Mars (c. 1385). The idiom may have been reinforced by the notion that anxiety produces a livid skin color. Also see blue funk.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
blues and twos
the siren and blue flashing lights of an emergency-service vehicle. British informal
The twos refers to the vehicles’ two-tone siren.
2003 Bolton Evening News They will go out with local officers and really learn the craft of being a beat bobby rather than just going out in blues and twos.
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
blue
1. mod. depressed; melancholy. That music always makes me blue.
2. mod. obscene; vulgar; dirty. Those blue jokes don’t go over very well around here.
3. n. the sky; the heavens. The idea came to me right out of the blue.
4. mod. alcohol intoxicated. You might say I’m blue. Others might note that I am stoned.
5. n. an amphetamine tablet or capsule, especially a blue one. (Drugs.) How are blues different from reds and yellows?
6. n. a police officer; the police. The blues will be here in a minute.
7. n. a 10-mg tablet of Valium. (Drugs.) In treatment they kept giving me blues to calm me down. Now I can’t live without them.
McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- a case of the blues
- have a case of the blues
- bring-down
- Downs
- get the blues
- crash down
- a sore head
- have the blues
- yearn
- yearn for (someone or something)
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: low spirits : melancholy
suffering a case of the blues
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: a song often of lamentation characterized by usually 12-bar phrases, 3-line stanzas in which the words of the second line usually repeat those of the first, and continual occurrence of blue notes in melody and harmony
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: jazz or popular music using harmonic and phrase structures of blues
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In Switzerland, the only winter blues are the hues of the sky and markers for denoting intermediate ski runs.
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Rachel King, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2023
Color-wise, stripes traditionally track more to neutrals, with a heavy dose of different blues.
—Leah Melby Clinton, Harper’s BAZAAR, 8 Feb. 2023
Ringed by the snowcapped Sierra Nevada mountains and bathed in an Impressionist’s palette of blues, Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America and the second deepest (1,645 feet) in the U.S.
—Deb Hopewell, Travel + Leisure, 3 Feb. 2023
Aoife O’Donovan is up for three in the folk and Americana categories, while local blues kingpin Tom Hambridge is up for two (for producing records by Buddy Guy and Keb’ Mo).
—Marc Hirsh, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2023
Developed in the plantation fields of the Delta region during slavery, blues is the African American music that forms the foundation for popular music genres including rock, pop, jazz and R&B.
—Rosalind Cummings-yeates, House Beautiful, 30 Jan. 2023
The blues are just another sign your immune system is working hard to get you on the mend.
—Julia Ries, SELF, 10 Jan. 2023
Bright blues are winds moving toward radar at 60-80 mph and yellow/orange are winds moving away from the radar around 70-90 mph!
—CBS News, 28 Dec. 2022
Even the blues and greens of the human iris are structural.
—Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1741, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of blues was
in 1741
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“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
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“Have you got any soul?» a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I’ve got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can’t seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn’t be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.”
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Nick Hornby,
High Fidelity
“For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.”
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Eric Clapton
“Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.”
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Lady Gaga
“We’ve come from the same history — 2000 years of persecution — we’ve just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained, we just never thought of putting it to music.”
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Jon Stewart
“She’s no lady. Her songs are all unbelievably unhappy or lewd. It’s called Blues. She sings about sore feet, sexual relations, baked goods, killing your lover, being broke, men called Daddy, women who dress like men, working, praying for rain. Jail and trains. Whiskey and morphine. She tells stories between verses and everyone in the place shouts out how true it all is.”
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Ann-Marie MacDonald,
Fall on Your Knees
“I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of philosophy on the subject could do.
I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle; so that I neither saw nor heard as those without might see and hear. They told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with bitterest anguish. Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit, and filled me with ineffable sadness. I have frequently found myself in tears while hearing them. The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek. To those songs I trace my first glimmering conception of the dehumanizing character of slavery. I can never get rid of that conception. Those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery, and quicken my sympathies for my brethren in bonds. If any one wishes to be impressed with the soul-killing effects of slavery, let him go to Colonel Lloyd’s plantation, and, on allowance-day, place himself in the deep pine woods, and there let him, in silence, analyze the sounds that shall pass through the chambers of his soul, — and if he is not thus impressed, it will only be because «there is no flesh in his obdurate heart.»
I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. It is impossible to conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears. At least, such is my experience. I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.”
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Frederick Douglass,
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.”
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Eric Clapton
“What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories
that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn’t have any way to control.”
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Richelle Mead,
Succubus Blues
“I’m a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock and roll.”
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Cornel West,
Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
“At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man’s example would be my life’s work.”
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Eric Clapton
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever i find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet… I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.”
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Herman Melville,
Moby-Dick or, the Whale
“Her voice had a thin thread of sadness running through it that made the song important, that made it tell a story that wasn’t in the words – a story of despair, of loneliness, of frustration. It was a story that all of them knew by heart and had always known because they had learned it soon after they were born and would go on adding to it until the day they died.”
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Ann Petry,
The Street
“The great man say that life is pain,» Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. «That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit’ it. Now, if that ain’t the blues, I don’t know what is.”
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Walter Mosley,
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
“When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor.”
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Bob Dylan,
Chronicles: Volume One
“La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu’après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait bien de descendre dans les Caraïbes pour continuer sur le thème du reggae. Ils organisèrent un voyage en Jamaïque, où ils jugeaient qu’on pourrait fouiner un peu et puiser dans l’influence roots avant d’enregistrer. Tom croyait fermement au bienfait d’exploiter cette source, et je n’avais rien contre puisque ça voulait dire que Pattie et moi aurions une sorte de lune de miel. Kingston était une ville où il était fantastique de travailler. On entendant de la musique partout où on allait. Tout le monde chantait tout le temps, même les femmes de ménage à l’hotel. Ce rythme me rentrait vraiment dans le sang, mais enregistrer avec les Jamaïcains était une autre paire de manches.
Je ne pouvais vraiment pas tenir le rythme de leur consommation de ganja, qui était énorme. Si j’avais essayé de fumer autant ou aussi souvent, je serais tombé dans les pommes ou j’aurais eu des hallucinations. On travaillait aux Dynamic Sound Studios à Kingston. Des gens y entraient et sortaient sans arrêt, tirant sur d’énormes joints en forme de trompette, au point qu’il y avait tant de fumée dans la salle que je ne voyais pas qui était là ou pas. On composait deux chansons avec Peter Tosh qui, affalé sur une chaise, avait l’air inconscient la plupart du temps. Puis, soudain, il se levait et interprétait brillamment son rythme reggae à la pédale wah-wah, le temps d’une piste, puis retombait dans sa transe à la seconde où on s’arrêtait.”
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Eric Clapton,
Eric Clapton: The Autobiography
“To be sure, rock n’ roll is usually a flagrant commercialization of rhythm & blues, but the music in many cases depends on materials that are so alien to the general middle-class, middle-brow American culture as to remain interesting. Many of the same kinds of cheap American dilutions that had disfigured popular swing have tended to disfigure the new music, but the source, the exciting and «vulgar» urban blues of the forties, is still sufficiently removed from the mainstream to be vital. For this reason, rock n’ roll has not become as emotionally meaningless as commercial swing. It is sill raw enough to stand the dilution and in some cases, to even be made attractive by the very fact of its commercialization. Even its «alienation» remains conspicuous; it is often used to characterize white adolescents as «youthful offenders.» (Rock n’ roll also is popular with another «underprivileged» minority, e.g., Puerto Rican youths. There are now even quite popular rock n’ roll songs, at least around New York, that have some of the lyrics in Spanish.) Rock n’ roll is the blues form of the classes of Americans who lack the «sophistication» to be middle brows, or are too naïve to get in on the mainstream American taste; those who think that somehow Melachrino, Kostelanetz, etc., are too lifeless”
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Imamu Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones,
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
“We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It’s our first language. It’s the rhythm of the womb. It’s your mama’s heartbeat inside your head.”
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David Mutti Clark,
Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues
“Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’ Do you hear the melody playing in your mind? Does it move you, nudge you off your seat?”
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David Mutti Clark,
Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues
“You see, there’s some blues for folks ain’t never had a thing, and that’s a sad blues … but the saddest kind of blues is for them that’s had everything they ever wanted and has lost it, and knows it won’t come back no more. Ain’t no sufferin’ in this world worse than that; and that’s the blue we call ‘I Had It But It’s All Gone Now.”
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Ken Grimwood,
Replay
“Oh, love is nice if it’s understood,
It’s even nicer when you’re feeling good.
You got me flipping like a flag on a pole,
Come on, sugar, let the good times roll.”
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Jimi Hendrix
“The Delta region of Mississippi is an expansive alluvial plain, shaped like the leaf of a pecan tree hanging lazily over the rest of the state. Stretching some 220 miles from Vicksburg to Memphis, it is bounded on the west by the Mississippi River, and extends eastward for an average of 65 miles, terminating in hill country, with its poorer soil and different ways of life, and the Yazoo River, which eventually joins the Mississippi at Vicksburg. For blues fans, this is the Delta…”
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Ted Gioia,
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
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1. n муз. блюз
2. n разг. хандра, меланхолия
Синонимический ряд:
1. oceans (noun) brines; deeps; drinks; mains; oceans; seas
2. sadness (noun) dejection; depressed spirits; depression; despondency; dinge; dumps; dysphoria; gloom; grief; heaviness of heart; heavyheartedness; lament; melancholy; mopes; mournfulness; rhythm and blues; sadness; suds; the dismals; the dolefuls; unhappiness
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блюз
2) ; употр. с гл. во мн. хандра; тоска
to have / be in the blues — быть в плохом настроении, хандрить
to give smb. the blues — наводить тоску на кого-л.
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хандра, меланхолия
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blues, hairstreaks, gossamer-winged butterflies
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Bläulinge, Feuerfalter, Himmelsfalter
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мед.
а) угнетенное настроение
б) гипотимия
в) подавленное настроение
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блюз
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blues — blues … Dictionnaire des rimes
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Blues — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Blues Orígenes musicales: espiritual afroamericano y canciones de trabajo O … Wikipedia Español
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BLUES — Le blues prend forme vocale et instrumentale originale au sein de la population noire du sud des États Unis d’Amérique dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. Né de l’esclavage, où les Noirs étaient traités plus comme un capital d’exploitation… … Encyclopédie Universelle
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Blues — 〈[ blu:z] m.; , 〉 1. 〈Mus.〉 1.1 schwermütiges Tanzlied der nordamerikanischen Schwarzen 1.2 aus (1.1) hervorgegangener langsamer Gesellschaftstanz im 4/4 Takt 1.3 aus (1.1) hervorgegangene Stilrichtung des Jazz 2. 〈fig.; umg.〉 Anfall von… … Universal-Lexikon
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blues — subst. Dans lent, cu caracter visător, melancolic; melodia după care se dansează acest dans, care îşi are originea în cântecele negrilor din America. [pr.: bluz] – cuv. engl. Trimis de paula, 14.11.2006. Sursa: DEX 98 BLUES [pr.: bluz] n. 1)… … Dicționar Român
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blues — (izg. blȗz) m DEFINICIJA glazb. svjetovna pjesma američkih crnaca, smatra se najstarijim izvornim oblikom afro američkog glazbenog folklora i temeljnim oblikom jazz glazbe SINTAGMA čikaški blues glazb. električni blues nastao oko 1950; blues… … Hrvatski jezični portal
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blues — (plural blues; del inglés; pronunciamos blus ) sustantivo masculino 1. Canción o tema instrumental de ritmo lento y tono melancólico que tiene su origen en las canciones populares del pueblo negro estadounidense del siglo XIX: música de blues,… … Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española
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blues — s.m.inv. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} TS mus. genere musicale afroamericano, in origine quasi esclusivamente vocale e in seguito con accompagnamento di vari strumenti, di ritmo lento e malinconico e di ispirazione profana; anche agg.inv.: musica blues … Dizionario italiano
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blues — [ bluz ] noun * 1. ) uncount a type of slow and sad music that developed from the songs of black SLAVES in the southern U.S.: Bessie Smith is one of the most famous blues singers. 2. ) the blues plural INFORMAL a feeling of sadness and loss … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
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blues — 1. Voz inglesa (pron. [blús]) que designa la forma musical propia del folclore de los afronorteamericanos y, también, cada una de las canciones que pertenecen a este tipo de música. Por tratarse de un extranjerismo crudo, debe escribirse con… … Diccionario panhispánico de dudas
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Blues — »schwermütiges Volkslied der nordamerikanischen Schwarzen (zum Jazz entwickelt); langsamer Tanz im Jazzrhythmus«: Das Fremdwort, das im 20. Jh. aus amerik. blues entlehnt wurde, ist vermutlich eine Kurzform von blue devils, was eigentlich »blaue… … Das Herkunftswörterbuch
Блюз соткан из печали. Так тебе скажет любой негр в Новом Орлеане.
Они просто хотели жить в мире со всем миром. И придумали блюз. Вот в чем суть блюза!
Блюз – это песня о мужчине, у которого нет женщины. Или о мужчине, которого покинула женщина. Или о человеке, у которого нет ничего похожего на женщину.
Блюз — серенада для пустого балкона.
В этом мире есть минус, а в тебе есть плюс —
Ты понимаешь, что такое в голове блюз.
Блюз — это не когда люди знают тебя, а когда ты знаешь людей.
Большое сердце было проклятьем и благословением для Чеза. Такие сердца не бывают твердыми и быстро бьются. Добро пожаловать в блюз.
Блюз для меня — это музыка, у которой три перехода. Один, четыре и пять. Как это в музыке? С духовной точки зрения это музыка, когда тебя переполняет печаль, когда тебе грустно. Она рассказывает о чувствах, которые ты испытываешь, и она утешает тебя. Производит впечатление, что у тебя есть кто-то, с кем можно поделиться. Музыка в роли товарища, когда тебе грустно. С физической точки зрения это ритм, у которого четыре перехода, у блюза же всего три.
Он не знает умных слов,
Он считает вас за козлов.
Даже в морге он будет играть,
На восторги ему плевать,
Но зато мой друг
Лучше всех играет блюз.
Круче всех вокруг —
Он один играет блюз.
Ночь на выдох,
День на вдох.
Кто не выжил, тот издох,
Обречено летит душа,
От саксофона до ножа.
Но зато мой друг,
Лучше всех играет блюз.
Круче всех вокруг
Он один играет блюз.
Многие люди считают, что «Mistery Lady» это джаз. На самом деле это не джаз, а ориентированная на джаз поп-музыка. Но что бы я ни пела, я пою по-своему. Если джаз, он должен звучать как джаз, но все равно он будет нести в себе частицу блюза. Мне нравится заниматься разными вещами. Когда мы закончили этот альбом, я объявила записывающей компании, что намерена работать над его продолжением. Мне хочется, чтобы это был не поп, а что-то вроде биг-бенд стандартов. Что-нибудь такое, чего я никогда раньше не делала, что-то вроде Эллы Фицджеральд, Фрэнка Синатры… Я вовсе не собираюсь петь, как они, я хочу сделать что-то в этом духе. Просто для того, чтобы узнать, что я могу сделать это.
Пояснение к цитате:
«Mistery Lady» — альбом, выпущенный в 1994 году.
Everybody knows what the blues is all about.
It’s a pain you can’t live with.
It’s a woman you can’t live without.
Could have cried me a river
when they told me the news.
On that day was a story of the blues.
Каждый знает, что такое блюз.
Это боль, с которой ты не можешь жить.
Это женщина, без которой ты не можешь жить.
Я выплакал море слез,
Когда они рассказали мне новости.
В тот день была история блюза.
Блюз — это не что иное, как когда хорошему человеку плохо, потому что он думает о женщине, с которой однажды был.
My baby she left me, my baby she’s gone.
My sweet little angel
has spread her wings and flown.
Can’t think of a reason for going on.
From this day I will play the blues.
Моя девушка покинула меня, моя девушка ушла.
Мой нежный маленький ангел
Расправил крылья и улетел.
Не вижу смысла продолжать жить дальше.
С этого дня я буду играть блюз.