She elaborated: "So you think that must be kind of a sad ballad, but it's a party song.

Their girlfriends ask to hear more, so Pauline launches into a sad ballad, followed by a dancelike song.

He debuted in 1998 with a sad, romantic ballad titled "To Heaven."

But sing no sad ballads for him.

Shimrod sat for an hour drinking wine and listening to the sad ballads of Aquitaine.

Far in the distance, drunken men sang a sad Irish ballad.

After a few unhappy months, Molly was willing* to sing her sad ballads to Quamodian.

But I heard the voice of a woman singing some sad, old, endless ballad not far off.

The song appears to be a soft, somehow sad ballad about how he realizes what he truly needed and wanted.

The song was described as a "sad ballad," in line with many of Carey's previous hit singles.