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10 Songs Filled with Considerable Joy 🎧 features joyful songs from Chris Stapleton, for KING & COUNTRY, Mariah Carey, Pentatonix & Tori Kelly.
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Per 🎙 Faith Evans, “You’ve got me so emotional / But when I cry now, they’re all tears of joy.” Can you guess the keyword? Hopefully, you said JOY, because that’s exactly what we’re going to explore here on the 172nd playlist of 2020, plain and simple. No need to needlessly ‘hem and haw’ on this intro – let’s get right into it!
10 SONGS FILLED WITH CONSIDERABLE JOY 🎧 features JOYFUL songs from 🎙 Chris Stapleton, 🎙 for KING & COUNTRY, 🎙 Mariah Carey, 🎙 Pentatonix and 🎙 Tori Kelly among others. Three songs reappear from the mini list, Joy: 3BOPS Nr. 1. So, without further ado, let’s dive right into these 10 joyful bops!
1. Pentatonix, “Joyful, Joyful”
Ft. Jazmine Sullivan
💿 The Best of Pentatonix Christmas • 🏷 RCA • 📅 2019
Calling “Ode to Joy” a bop might seem sketchy but not this particular interpretation! Basically, this version with layered vocal harmonies is more 📽 Sister Act 2 than 🎙 Beethoven (as in Ludwig van). Jazmine Sullivan takes the lead on the slow, soulful, and spiritually tinged intro – channeling 🎙 Lauryn Hill, of course! She milks the vocal for all its worth, with PTX providing her a rich palette to sing over. Then, the tempo kicks up, and “Joyful Joyful” transforms into a gospel joint. We don’t hear from Sullivan for a while, but she returns, filled with joy on the bluesy, gospel ad-libs. Let the church say “YES,” or better yet “JOY!”
Also appears on 🔽:
🔗 🎧 Joy: 3BOPS Nr. 1
2. Carrie Underwood, “Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee”
💿 My Gift • 🏷 Capitol Nashville • 📅 2020
Here, Underwood wows us with her beautiful voice, period. She simply sings the song, preserving the melody, incredibly expressively. No, this take isn’t characterized by its groove or its spiritually rousing vibes, but it does give you chills hearing that superb, country tone. Furthermore, the production by 🎙 Greg Wells is simple but definitely fitting.
3. Chris Stapleton, “Joy of My Life”
💿 Starting Over • 🏷 Mercury • 📅 2020
Stapleton delivers quite an expressive vocal performance, but there’s also balance. He still manages to cut through the production, but he’s also passionate and quite tender, as he asserts:
“She takes me by the hand I am the luckiest man alive Did I tell you baby You’re the joy of my life.”
Also appears on 🔽:
🔗 🎧 Joy: 3BOPS Nr. 1
4. Bastille, “Joy”
💿 Doom Days • 🏷 Virgin • 📅 2019
Confirming the joy is the bridge where Smith sings, “As night dissolves into this final frame / You’re a sweet relief, you save me from my brain.” Of course, nothing better exemplifies it than the chorus, the centerpiece of this gem:
“Oh joy, when you call me I was giving up, oh, I was giving in Joy, set my mind free I was giving up, oh, I was giving in.”
Also appears on 🔽:
🔗 🎧 Joy: 3BOPS Nr. 1
5. Tori Kelly, “Joy to the World / Joyful, Joyful”
💿 A Tori Kelly Christmas • 🏷 Capitol / Schoolboy • 📅
Naturally, the two core songs Kelly fuses here – 🎵 “Joy to the World and 🎵 Joyful, Joyful” – lend themselves to numerous interpretations. Where “Joy to the World” is concerned, Kelly gives us a slower, soulful rendition with soaring, cutting vocals and impressive runs, before the pace picks up. She gets additional support from a backing choir, as well as adds a cool modulation which ups the ante in the spirit department. From here, Kelly makes a fine transition into “Joyful, Joyful,” patterned once again in the style of 📽 Sister Act 2 with some modifications. Basically, if you need any further evidence that TK provides a TKO in the vocal department, your ears must be totally stopped up!
6. for KING & COUNTRY, “joy.”
💿 Burn the Ships • 🏷 Curb • 📅 2018
So, what makes “joy.” so good? Well, the vocals by the bros are pretty awesome, particularly once they reach the totally exuberant, high-flying chorus.
“Oh, hear my prayer tonight, I’m singing to the sky Give me strength to raise my voice, let me testify Oh, hear my prayer tonight, ‘cause this is do or die The time has come to make a choice And I choose joy Let it move you, let it move, let it move you.”
The lyrics are pretty sweet overall, and again, inspiring and definitely uplifting. However, perhaps what makes “joy.” so accomplished is the sound and overall production. The record literally sounds like a pop song, with plenty of electronic cues, perhaps the farthest thing from what we usually associated with Contemporary Christian music. It’s spiritual mind you, but also fits right into any everyday playlist. The upside? It’s incredibly wholesome!
7. Whitney Houston, “Joy”
💿 The Preacher’s Wife (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) • 🏷 Arista • 📅 1996
It’s rare that a soundtrack packs the punch that The Preacher’s Wife did in 1996, particularly with so many gospel records. That said, with one of the greatest voices of all time at the helm, it’s not shocking the album was so big. On “Joy,” Whitney Houston does ‘Whitney Houston’ things. Essentially, she makes singing sound so effortless, while infusing every ounce of herself into every note. She’s incredibly compelling as the lead, with The Georgia Mass Choir further fueling her with their high-flying supporting vocals. At a respectable three-minutes and 15 seconds, you almost wish that Houston and The Georgia Mass Choir could’ve extended the song longer – given us more of that greatness!
8. Rick Ross, “Tears of Joy
Ft. CeeLo Green
💿 Teflon Don • 🏷 The Island Def Jam Group • 📅 2010
Even if coming up is the central theme on this joyful joint, there are other things to note. For example, featured guest 🎙 CeeLo Green touches upon people viewing “successful” folks differently and assuming that money solves everything:
“Thought having everything would easy my mind if you could read my mind My God, I’m scarred, I have tattoo tears of joy.”
Tears, hence, have a dually good and bad connotation.
9. Mariah Carey, “Joy to the World”
💿 Merry Christmas • 🏷 Sony Music Entertainment • 📅 1994
With “Joy to the World,” Carey gives listeners a little bit of everything. The record begins as a ballad, with Mariah showing off her prodigious pipes. Soon enough, “Joy the World” picks up the tempo and adds an electrifying, danceable groove – hallelujah! Carey further steps up her game vocally and is bolstered by a truly lit gospel choir. One of the unique wrinkles appearing in this rendition are quotes from the joyful, jubilant 🎙 Three Dog Night classic – wait for it – 🎵 “Joy to the World!” Mariah definitely gives one of the best, most joyful versions of this beloved carol you’ll ever hear.
10. Stevie Wonder, “Joy Inside My Tears”
💿 Songs in The Key of Life • 🏷 Motown • 📅 1976
There is nothing the least bit sad about this six-and-a-half-minute ballad. As he often does, Wonder brings a heaping dose of positivity. If Wonder was depressed at some point, crying, he isn’t anymore – this person has totally brought him joy. “And baby that’s you, you, you / Made life’s history / Because you’ve brought some joy inside my tears,” he sings on the epic chorus, continuing, “And you have done what no one thought could be / you’ve brought some joy inside my tears.” Now that’s some J-O-Y right there!
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