Once in awhile I come across a song in my iTunes library the origins of which are complete mystery.
Such is the case with today’s Random Weekend selection, ‘I Hear Them All’ by Old Crow Medicine Show.
When I first heard the track, I figured it must have come from a soundtrack — perhaps the Coen Brothers’ O Brother Where Art Thou? or Inside Llewyn Davis. But no… the associated album is the band’s own. And even weirder, this is the only song from that album I own.
The internet is funny.
On the YouTube clip of today’s Random Weekend SOTD, posted by some kind soul in September of 2009, a flame war broke out between somebody comparing Ron Sexsmith to Paul McCartney and a McCartney detractor.
It was a short battle, only a few posts long though it spanned a month. The Sexsmith fan accused his opponent of lacking “couth,” a nice touch.
I haven’t heard a note of this song yet and I already hate it.
At #10, with his second song in the Billboard top ten, is Jason Derulo, a man who clearly made a pact with the devil. How else can you explain his tuneless, sexist garbage dominating the charts? It can’t be that people actually like this stuff, can it?
At the ninth spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 is Justin Timberlake’s love song ‘Not a Bad Thing.’
I tend to think of Timberlake as an actor more than a musician. I’ve enjoyed his work in Saturday Night Live and Inside Llewyn Davis more than anything I’ve heard from his albums.
Still, there’s no doubt he’s a multi-talented performer.
In the sixth and seventh spots of the Billboard Hot 100 are two more songs that appeared in the chart two months ago — Katy Perry’s ‘Dark Horse’ and Jason Derulo’s ‘Talk Dirty.’
Coming in at #8 is ‘Am I wrong?,’ a mid-tempo self-help anthem by Norwegian duo Nico & Vinz. It’s funny how a mindless party song like ‘Turn Down For What’ shares chart space with sappy fare like this.
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