Pop songs with major key verses and minor key choruses

I mean, the chords are Em - Gm - Dsus - DM - (I think?) but I think the overall key has changed in the pre-chorus largely due to whatever the note is on “tute” in “But I’m a substitute for another guy.”

where's the Gm in that part? (and if it is in there, which key is it coming from?)

i hear that pre-chorus as a fairly standard "let's go to the ii for the b-part" songwriting trick, which rock guitarists writing in D are all but required to do. (i really wanted to be able to say the ii is *substituting* for the I here, but sadly that wouldn't be quite right.)

I feel like De-Luxe by Lush could be an example of this, but I could be completely wrong.

where's the Gm in that part? (and if it is in there, which key is it coming from?)

I'm gonna say it's...on the 3 in the first bar of the pre-chorus...? No idea which key it's coming from. My knowledge of Western music theory is very very slightly above zero.

Like "Accidents Will Happen" mentioned upthread, "Home Truth" by Elvis Costello has verses in D major and choruses in F major; but the chorus starts on an A minor and so has a "minor feel".

For a songwriter I don't respect much, I really do respect the trick Elton pulled off with this song, a lot.

― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.)

"I'm the one you need" by the Miracles has the same major to minor key modulation as "I'm still standing"

I'm still Smokey
Yea yea yea

So does "Telegram sam"

Although in that song the chorus starts on F maj so the effect is a little different

I feel like De-Luxe by Lush could be an example of this, but I could be completely wrong

I think it's all in E major, but it does use a G major chord borrowed from the key of E minor throughout the song. And the chorus starts on that G chord, which perhaps is what strikes your ear as a change of tonality.

"Skin Trade", Duran Duran

Kelly Rowland - Stole ?

Madness’s House of Fun, where the minor chorus was recorded on its own and spliced into a major, chorusless track titled Chemist Facade thanks to the miracle of Langer/Winstanley.

Nice one, just heard it the other day and thought of this thread

ctrl+f "the jam" zero results

hmm

"Dangerous Type" by the Cars

Just realized Barry Manilow's "Daybreak" kinda does this?