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Save Your Tears is a Synth-pop act. Their sound grew out of The Cars, Wham!, Depeche Mode and Electric Light Orchestra. Those roots explain a lot about how Save Your Tears arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as See You Again, Dancing with a Stranger, Heat Waves, Midnight Sky and Pink Pony Club, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Ariana Grande and Drake, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 13 connections around Save Your Tears, reaching back through The Cars and forward to Ariana Grande. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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"Save Your Tears" is a song by the Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd from his fourth studio album, After Hours (2020). It was released to Dutch contemporary hit radio on August 9, 2020, as the album's fifth and final single. The song was written and produced by the Weeknd, Max Martin, and Oscar Holter, with Belly and DaHeala receiving additional writing credits.
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Save Your Tears connections
Save Your Tears grew out of The Cars, Wham!, Depeche Mode and Electric Light Orchestra, shares an orbit with See You Again, Dancing with a Stranger, Heat Waves and Midnight Sky, went on to shape Ariana Grande and Drake. 13 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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