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Cool Songs Trivia Quiz
The word "cool" has many different uses; verb, noun, and adjective, In this quiz it is used mainly as an adjective in song titles from the 1980s to the 2010s. Can you match the singer/band to their "cool" song?
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by ncterp.
Estimated time: 3 mins.
On their 1982 album "Hot Space" Freddie Mercury sings in falsetto about someone who is an attention-seeker. "Cool Cat" is addressed to someone who is the "main line".
2. Kyle Dion
Answer: Cool Side of the Pillow
Released in 2017. Kyle Dion sings about a relationship that's no longer flourishing. He wants to re-kindle it, but laments that, "It's like you're on the cool side of the pillow".
3. Lana Del Ray
Answer: Shades of Cool
"Shades of Cool" was released in 2014 on Lana Del Ray's album entitled "Ultraviolence". She sings about her failed attempts to try to fix a man who's unfixable because he lives in "Shades of Cool'.
4. Imagine Dragons
Answer: Cool Out
In this 2018 hit Imagine Dragons sings about unrequited feelings. "Cool Out" was a song on their fourth studio album. While Imagine Dragons have sold over 75 million albums worldwide, they have also been the subject of ridicule by several people in the music business.
5. Gwen Stefani
Answer: Cool
In 2004 Gwen Stefani released her first solo album; "Cool" is the fourth single on the album. Stefani recalls a past relationship and sings about the happiness they both have with new partners and even after all they've been through, they're still friends.
6. Chloe x Halle
Answer: Cool People
Their album entitled "The Kids are Alright" debuted in 2018 and earned the sisters two Grammy Awards. The song "Cool People" talks about all the different people there are in the world, good and bad, but most of them are cool.
7. New Edition
Answer: Cool It Now
"Cool It Now" reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 for the New Edition in 1984. The lyrics tell a guy who's crazy in love to cool it now.
8. Echosmith
Answer: Cool Kids
Echosmith's debut single in 2013 was "Cool Kids". The song is about someone who feels ostracized and wants to fit in and be one of the cool kids.
9. Kane Brown
Answer: Cool Again
Kane Brown released "Cool Again" in 2020. Reminiscing about a lost love, he wishes they could re-kindle their relationship.
10. Tove Lo
Answer: Cool Girl
Tove Lo is a Swedish singer who writes most of her own songs. In "Cool Girl" she describes herself as being open to keeping things casual before they become serious. She got her inspiration for some of the song's lyrics from the movie, "Gone Girl".
11. Babyface
Answer: For the Cool in You
Ken Edmonds, aka Babyface, has won 13 Grammy Awards and has had 26 songs reach #1 on the Billboard R&B Charts. In "For the Cool n You", released in 1993, he sings about how his partner has stuck by him through thick and thin.
12. Demi Lovato
Answer: Cool for the Summer
Demi Lovato has had a successful career as a television and feature film actor. Her 2015 hit "Cool for the Summer" encourages people to experience summer romances.
13. Amber Mark
Answer: Lose my Cool
"Lose my Cool" is part of a 2017 album by Amber Markl. A lot of Mark's music is a reflection on her rather unorthodox upbringing. She was raised by a non-conformist mother who withdrew her from school at an early age and took her on trips around the world. "Lose my Cool" describes her attempts to deal with her mental health and other issues.
14. Lupe Fiasco
Answer: The Cool
Lupe Fiasco's "The Cool" was released in 2005. It tells the story of a street hustler who is gunned down in his youth.
Fiasco has been involved in a venture with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD in which Hopkins has agreed to begin a degree-oriented program entitled "Bachelor of Music in Hip-Hop".
15. Missy Elliott
Answer: Cool Off
Hailed as rapper of the year in 1997 by "Rolling Stone" and winner of five Grammy Awards, Missy Elliott is also a formidable business woman. In 2019 she became the first female rapper to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In the song "Cool Off" she worries about being able to write songs that people want to dance to.
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