1.   Another month, another big pop ballad album.

2.   A distant melody wafts through the theater, a pop ballad with associative significance booms from above, a character breaks into song.

3.   But instead the film must make do with a handful of power pop ballads performed by Bryan Adams.

4.   Made up entirely of contemporary pop ballads, it dispenses completely with the sort of camp nostalgia favored by the Divine Miss M.

5.   No pop ballad escapes their lips.

6.   Yet those old pop ballads still call to him.

7.   Her vocal flexibility and cool, breathy voice brought sultry distinction to big band showstoppers, pop ballads and soulful laments.

8.   Miss You Like Crazy, a melodic pop ballad, is already scoring good airplay.

9.   The platinum blonde brought a cool, breathy voice to big-band showstoppers, pop ballads and soulful laments.

10.   The Tuscany-born vocalist is known as much for his traditional operatic singing as for his pop ballads.