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Music lovers who often watch videos, download music or simply listen to new songs online, may have noticed that in the titles of some songs, in the place where the name of the group or the name of the musical artist is usually located, you can find a strange mark ft or feat. What does it mean and what functions does it perform? In order to figure out what is the meaning of this note in the title of the song, you must first turn to the etymology of the word.
What is a feat?
If translated from English, the most popular meaning would be the noun "feat". However, the feat can be deciphered in another way. Some English-Russian translation dictionaries offer such meanings as "skill" or "manifestation of dexterity". But none of them explains the meaning of such an insert between the names of song performers. An appeal to the morphology of a word or its grammatical properties will help to understand this issue.
Feat - what does it mean? Morphological properties
The first line in the entries of dictionaries with translations is most often occupied by namesnouns. However, words can also refer to other parts of speech, depending on the context in which they are used. The word feat, which means "feat", in English can be used in texts as a noun, adjective, and even adverb. The translation of the word in the meaning of a noun has already been presented above, while a similar adjective means “dexterous, skillful”, that is, derivative definitions from secondary meanings. However, in this context - the name and presentation of musical artists - the most appropriate use of the word as an adverb.
Then everything falls into place. In this part of speech, the word has a meaning close to the meaning of the preposition "for" or the adverb "together". That is, one performer complements the work of another by writing musical accompaniment for him, accompanying him, or acting as a backing vocalist. Thus, the adverb feat, which means "for" or "together", between the names of the performers emphasizes their joint work, and also indicates that one of the musicians dominates, the other complements. The use of feat or ft in such a context is just typical of the show business industry. By the way, here ft is already a derivative of the main word, that is, an abbreviation.
Feat in song titles
Today, the insert ft in the title of a song can be found not only among foreign, but also among Russian performers. It's a trendy way to showcase teamwork - singing a song as a duet. Or is it goodan attempt to bring a new musician to the big stage. This is usually what famous producers do, offering the star to record a joint composition with a young protégé. A little-known artist instantly gets his share of fame, however, at the risk of remaining in the shadow of a popular favorite of the public.
Now that it has become clear what feat means in songs, we can give several examples of the use of the word by Russian and foreign performers: Rihanna ft Jay-Z, Bianka feat Djigan, LMFAO ft Justin Bieber, Igor Krutoy ft A-Studio, Jennyfer Lopez ft Iggy Azalea.
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