Anthemic

And he explicitly name-checks the budding genre in the anthemic chorus: “Adrenaline starts to flow / You’re thrashing all around / Acting like a maniac / Whiplash!

A visit from Manchester United is always guaranteed to stir the blood and the home faithful belted out their anthemic ‘Greasy Chip Butty’ song with gusto beforehand.

Lee’s vicarious touch as a producer gifted in the anthemic grand gesture is most apparent in the arms-aloft electro-house of (translation “move, dance”, although you needn’t speak Bambara to get the message).

Lil Jon appeared for a slightly random but entirely welcome detour into his own anthemic hit Turn Down For What.

Mixing in elements of pop and soft rock, Swift gives us songs like Sparks Fly (a propulsive, anthemic song in the vein of You Belong With Me) and Mine.

Something of a song cycle inspired by both Dante’s “Inferno” and the isolation of COVID, it was both absorbingly intimate and inspiringly anthemic.

This is particularly evident on songs such as “A Place Where Love Goes” and “Lithonia”, a truly anthemic pop-rock ballad.

Along the way, they began writing and performing new material, and the folkiness of their last release began to morph into the hard-edged, anthemic, and frequently poppy sound of 99 In October.

By infusing upbeat, anthemic pop-punk with the burbling fuzz of the Moog synthesizer, Motion City Soundtrack fuse two musically and generationally distinct strains of retro.

Funky live drums permeate the anthemic “I Dream of Sodomy,” whose inside-out new wave could be a hit in an alternate universe.

The lyrics are filled with regret, the vocal parched and pained behind a liberal sprinkling of electronic distortion – and, when it hits its chorus, anthemic in a way that hints at All the Young Dudes.

But the group still knows how to whip up anthemic, banjo-flecked rousers like "Guiding Light," which opens Mumford & Sons' third-ever appearance.

Florida-born and Los Angeles-based quartet Set It Off builds brash, anthemic pop rock out of crunchy guitar riffs and quirky electronic elements.

It’s an anthemic rekindling of one’s roots and further evidence that Thyla excel at melodic rock ascendence.

Quietly anthemic, Don’t Be Scared, I Love You takes its naggingly persistent refrain to an almighty crescendo, while the meandering Wild Swans wrings its elegiac pathos dry before yet another storming conclusion.

The band, headed by front woman Mandy Lee, brought an endless supply of energy and positivity to liven up the atmosphere with their signature brand of anthemic indie pop songs.

There are still moments of pure bliss, in the restlessness of opener “Copernicus Crater”; the anthemic layering of “Summer War” and the gentle lapping of guitars on “Hoya Paranoia”.

The song I think best captured all of that this year was the Brooklyn sugar-rock band Charly Bliss’ anthemic single “,” which found frontwoman Eva Hendricks searching for healthier alternatives in both work and love.

Within minutes, the Manson show has been transformed into an throwback, with a run of anthemic Eighties pop in the form of singles “Give Yourself a Try” and “It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)”.

I want my songs to be massively anthemic, lighters up at Madison Square Garden.