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ballad

5 tracks.

James Newton Howard, Jennifer Lawrence

The Hanging Tree

Jennifer Lawrence's bare, unpolished voice sings an eerie murder ballad from Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay, set to a melody by the Lumineers, that swells into a rebel anthem as James Newton Howard's orchestra gathers behind her.

Alicia Keys

Fallin'

A twenty-year-old Alicia Keys at the piano, pouring gospel-sized yearning into a stark, minor-key confession about a love she cannot stop falling into.

Nancy Sinatra

Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

Nancy Sinatra's 1966 version of Sonny Bono's song, built on Billy Strange's haunting tremolo guitar, is a hushed ballad of childhood love and betrayal that Quentin Tarantino revived over the opening credits of Kill Bill.