2009 songs (Music Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 91. Chapters: Empire State of Mind, This Is It, Moment of Surrender, Bale Out, Dance in the Dark, Broken Heels, Gee, Speechless, Monster, R U Professional, Tharros I Alitheia, Rockstar 101, Fresh Out the Oven, Unknown Caller, Radio, Butterfly Fly Away, Let's Get Crazy, No Line on the Horizon, Love Me, Stand Up Comedy, Breathe, You'll Always Find Your Way Back Home, A Place with No Name, Possibility, He Could Be the One, Ice Cream Freeze, White as Snow, United Breaks Guitars, Fez - Being Born, I See You, Sing Like Me, United States of Eurasia, Favorite Girl, Bigger, Down to Earth, Winter, Turn It Up, Gravity, Resistance, Wait Your Turn, First Dance, The Silence, I Never Told You, The Truth, This Life, Fast Car, Dingue, dingue, dingue, Ov Fire and the Void, Esclavo de sus besos, Looking for Paradise, A Song for a Son, Don't Tell Me That It's Over, Give Me a Sign, Jump, Address in the Stars, Set Fire to the Hive, My Love, Pursuit of Happiness, Masakali, Maybe, I Didn't Know My Own Strength, 10/10, 1000 Miles Apart, Devojko, You Used to Hold Me, Love Dealer, Aléjate de mi, Beautiful Dangerous, Abusadora, Sway, Sway Baby!, Your Love Is a Song, This Pretty Face, One Room Disco, Algo De Ti, Scarless, Usni Kako Temno Mastilo, The Good Life, The Weary Kind, Mi Plan, Symphonies, Take Your Shirt Off, Disengage, 10 Miles Wide, Flag in the Ground, Feels Like Woah, Ljubavi, Hole in My Heart, Lights Out, City on Our Knees, Love Like This, Moj Dragi, Blood on My Hands, The Queen, World So Cold, Thuli Thuli, Mujeres in the Club, Vlad the Impaler, Baba Yetu, Half Mast, Lollipop, Lucy, Lost in You, Morena, America's Song, Anata ni Tsutaetai, Down in New Orleans, All I Know, Beyond Here Lies Nothin', Bjurö klubb, Good Day, Sweet December, No Time to Bleed, Kick It Out, Rue des Étoiles, FOL, Ruff Me Up, Bullet Soul, Chica Fatal, Invincible, No More Days to Waste, I Can't Stop Feeling, Heights, Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions, Shakin' Hands, Geojitmal, Leave the World Behind, 2nd Best to None, The Last Amazing Grays, Can You Hear Me Boys, Darling, Kraj, Succubus, Ghost of Love, One of a Twin, Diamond Dave, Rehna Tu, Ladies & Gentlemen, Sticks 'n' Stones, Stellify, You Can't do Me, Tu Jaane Na, Deep Unknown, Creepin', Tera Hone Laga Hoon, Oru Kal Oru Kannadi, Falling, There Goes My Baby, Out the Airlock, Emma-Lee, Tere Bina Lagta Nahi Mera Jiya, Te Vas, Better Believe It, Cielito Lindo, Alive, If You Only Knew. Excerpt: "Empire State of Mind" is a song by American rapper and hip hop artist Jay-Z, featuring vocals from R&B and soul singer Alicia Keys. It was released as the third single from Jay-Z's 11th studio album The Blueprint 3 (2009), from his Roc Nation label in October 2009. The song is an anthemic ode to both artists' native New York, and features a music sample of "Love on a Two-Way Street" (1970) by The Moments. The track was originally written after Brooklyn natives Angela Hunte and Jane't "Jnay" Sewell-Ulepic were feeling homesick while on an overseas trip in February 2009. The following month they sent the song in for consideration at Roc Nation, but the song received negative reviews. Initially discouraged, the duo sent the song to Jay-Z after being suggested to by an associate of EMI, and after an incident which they described as an omen. After hearing the song, Jay-Z immediately recorded it, having changed all of the verses, but keeping the hook. The track was supposed to...