Once in a great while, the Random iTunes Fairy serves up a Random Weekend selection that’s a complete mystery to me.
Such is the case with today’s SOTD, ‘Raise Your Hands’ by Rose Hill Drive. It’s not only news to me that this song is in my music collection; it’s news to me that this band exists.
Back in 2008, Taylor Swift was a country artist with major crossover appeal, and her sophomore album Fearless broke every sales record for a country album on its way to being the biggest selling album of any sort that year.
And that was the lowest point of her career to date.
With apologies to Adele and Beyoncé, Swift is no doubt the most successful, landscape-dominating artist recording today. It’s hard to imagine her next album (whatever and whenever it may be) won’t improve on the gaudy numbers of her most recent smash hit, 1989. Talk about a winning streak.
Rounding out the latest installment of ‘What the Kids are Listening To’ is ‘We Don’t Talk Anymore’ by Charlie Puth and Selena Gomez. I haven’t heard much from Puth since the omnipresent ‘See You Again’ last year (though I didn’t realize he’s featured on that horrible ‘Marvin Gaye’ song with Meghan Trainor).
This song I kind of like, and I’ll give the credit to Selena Gomez. Her last album was a delight from start to finish and this track feels like it could have fit right in.
We have another repeat in Billboard’s #11 spot — Rihanna’s ‘Needed Me.’ Good song, and one my 10-year-old daughter plays every morning on the way to school, which probably doesn’t win me any parenting awards.
But as inappropriate as ‘Needed Me’ is, it’s got nothing on D.R.A.M.’s ‘Broccoli,’ which sits at #12. This is a moronic collection of horrible stereotypes, rapped by a couple of talentless potheads.
Rounding out Billboard’s top ten this week is ‘Send My Love (To Your New Lover),’ the latest single from Adele’s smash hit 25.
Though Adele destroyed every album sales record with the release of 25, it doesn’t seem like that record has permeated the culture. Compare it to Beyoncé’s Lemonade, which sold far fewer copies but dominated the conversation for months.
Meet Me In Montauk 