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Good articleSwan Song (song) has been listed as one of the Music good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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DateProcessResult
July 20, 2021Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 6, 2019.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Dua Lipa's character transforms into Alita at the end of her "Swan Song" music video?


GA Review

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Reviewer: K. Peake (talk · contribs) 10:17, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]


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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()
3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()
Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

Coming tomorrow --K. Peake 10:17, 17 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox and lead

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  • Pipe Warner Bros to Warner Records in the infobox
  • "for the 2019 film" → "for the soundtrack of 2019 film"
  • "wrote the song with" → "co-wrote the song with"
  • "also composed the films soundtrack" → "also composed the soundtrack"
  • "the lead single from the film's soundtrack." → "the soundtrack's lead single."
  • Shouldn't you write electropop track in the lead for consistency?
  • "praised "Swan Song" for" → "praised the song for"
  • Mention the award after the above statement instead
  • "and reached the top 100 of" → "and also reached the top 50 of" cutting down the countries listed to these ones since top 100 is too many
  • "specifically with its" → "specifically with the"
  • "and eventually Alita. Lipa transforms into Alita" → "and eventually Alita, before Lipa transforms into her"
  • "complimented its sci-fi" → "complimented the video's sci-fi"
  • "as well as a remixes" → "and a remixes"

 Done

Background and development

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  • "a new film, Alita: Battle Angel, that" → "the new film Alita: Battle Angel, which"
  • Introduce Alita as being a character and pipe to Alita (Battle Angel Alita)
  • "would be perfect for the film" → "would be a perfect fit for Alita: Battle Angel"
  • "She was given" → "Lipa was given"
  • "synopsis to begin. The singer later got to see the film just prior" → "synopsis to begin, while she later got to see it prior"
  • "Lipa wrote the song with" → "Lipa wrote the song alongside"
  • "She found it" → "The singer found it"

 Done

Music and lyrics

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  • "ACT UP and" → "ACT UP, and" on the audio sample text
  • ""Swan Song" is" → "Musically, "Swan Song" is"
  • Shouldn't you write that it is composed in the time signature of 4
    4
    time?
  • Pipe synths to Synthesizer
  • Pipe strings to String instrument
  • "as well as a mechanized," → "and a mechanized,"
  • "while the song builds up to the" → "while the sections progress to the" to be less repetitive
  • "Lipa's uses triumphant" → "Lipa uses triumphant"
  • Pipe ranging to Vocal range
  • "as well as how society always needs use their voices;" → "as well as how their voices always need to be used;"
  • "the groups motto" → "the group's motto" plus merge this with the following sentence since they are too short to be separate
  • "contradicts it's meaning." → "contradicts its meaning."

 Done

Release and promotion

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  • "would perform "Swan Song" for" → "would record "Swan Song" for" or something similar because otherwise it sounds like she performs it during the film
  • "The same month, the movie's trailer was released which featured a" → "Also in December 2018, the film's trailer was released, featuring"
  • "tv spot for the film." → "TV spot for Alita: Battle Angel."
  • "as the film soundtrack's lead single," → "as the lead single from the film's soundtrack,"
  • "On 28 January," → "On 28 January 2019,"
  • "and inspires one" → "and inspire one"
  • "The song was included as" → ""Swan Song" was included as" plus I don't think the comma is needed after release

 Done

Critical reception

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  • Retitle to Reception since you can merge with the one para commercial section below
  • "For The New York Times, Jon Pareles compared" → "Writing for The New York Times, Jon Pareles compared"
  • "as a "proper solo singles" instead" → "as a "proper" solo single instead"
  • "he said it" → "he said the song"
  • Uproxx should not be italicised
  • "named it "powerful"," → "named "Swang Song" a "powerful","
  • "easily be her next" → "easily be [Lipa's] next"
  • "praised "creative and" → "praised the "creative and"
  • "that "sparse where" → "that is "sparse where"

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Commercial performance

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  • Make this the third para of the above section
  • "a peak of 24." → "a peak of number 24."
  • The charts after this are not in any numerical or geographical order; I would suggest doing the latter with European countries first, then American, then Oceanic
  • "on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles" →"on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles" with the pipes
  • "of 24 and 27." → "of numbers 24 and 27."
  • Mention that the certification was for those units in Poland

 Done

Music video

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  • Img looks good!
  • "the video as different to" → "the video as different from"
  • Pipe CGI to Computer-generated imagery
  • "people from the movie" → "people from Alita: Battle Angel"
  • "The only time Lipa had" in what way? Please specify...
  • "was a powerful story" → "is a powerful story"
  • "her power. The director wanted to play with that notion" → "her power, a notion the director wanted to play with"
  • Shouldn't the synopsis and blockbuster part be the last sentence of the first para instead?
  • "and her crew rummages" → "and her crew rummaging"
  • "mountains of trash looking" → "mountains of trash, looking" for the correct link
  • "performs a martial arts" → "performs a martial arts inspired"
  • "into the air posing in" → "into the air, posing in"
  • "thought it is" → "thought it marked"
  • "Nied called it" → "Nied called the music video"

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Track listings

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  • Good

Credits and personnel

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  • Good

Charts

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Weekly charts

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Year-end charts

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  • Good

Certification

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  • Good

Release history

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 Done

References

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  • Copyvio score looks great at 27.5%!!!
  • Pipe The Singles Jukebox to Stylus Magazine on ref 13
  • Pipe Universal Music to Universal Music Group on ref 16
  • Remove the publisher from ref 17
  • Cite Genius as publisher instead for ref 20
  • Cite Popjustice as publisher instead for ref 21
  • Cite Uproxx as publisher instead for refs 24 and 37
  • Are you sure The Music Jukebox should be wikilinked twice on ref 29 when the two citations are next to each other?
  • Pipe Warner Bros. Records to Warner Records on ref 56
  • Fix MOS:CAPS issues with ref 72

 Done

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  • Good

Final comments and verdict

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