Today’s random SOTD is the second track from Green Day’s 2004 “punk rock opera” American Idiot. I’m not a Green Day fan in general, but I do like this album quite a bit.
American Idiot definitely hit a nerve outside of the band’s usual fan base, getting adapted into a Tony-winning Broadway musical and (reportedly) an upcoming HBO movie.
Listening to Neneh Cherry’s 1992 album Homebrew 26 years after its release, I’m even more impressed than I was back then.
In 1992, Homebrew felt ahead of its time, a fusion of rap, jazz, pop, electronic and rock unlike pretty much anything I’d heard before. But somehow, it still feels ahead of its time today. What artists, male or female, are working in this space today?
Wrapping up our latest installment of ‘What the Kids are Listening to,’ we have Post Malone at #13 with ‘Rockstar’ (featured here way back in December when it was enjoying its eighth straight week at #1) and Migos at #14 with ‘Walk It Talk It.’
Appropriately, given his dominance these past two weeks, this song features Drake.
Imagine Dragons holds the #12 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 with ‘Whatever It Takes,’ the third single from their third studio album, Evolve.
The first two singles, ‘Believer’ and ‘Thunder,’ each made it as high as #4. Will this track join them in the top ten? Stay tuned to find out! (Actually, I will likely never write about this song again, so if you’re truly curious, I’d encourage you to visit Billboard.com).
Rounding out Billboard’s Top Ten are two songs I have already featured. Ed Sheeran’s ‘Perfect’, which has spent 38 weeks on the chart and 6 weeks at the #1 spot, sits at #9. And Ariana Grande’s ‘No Tears Left to Cry,’ which I wrote about just two weeks ago, is hanging on at #10.
At #11 we have ‘Freaky Friday,’ by comic rapper Lil Dicky. Drawing inspiration from the Lindsay Lohan movie, this song has Lil Dicky and Chris Brown swap bodies and rap as each other.
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