After a week featuring tracks by the likes of Nick Jonas, One Direction and Shawn Mendes, today’s song, from Barenaked Ladies’ 1992 debut Gordon, feels appropriate.
Boy bands are certainly an easy target, but BNL has some fun with the topic.
While boy bands have been around since The Monkees, their resurgence really came in the 90s with Backstreet Boys and NSYNC.
This Random Weekend selection is a very special dedication to my sainted mother, who turns 70 today.
My extended family will be celebrating this milestone over the next two weeks on cruise around the northeastern U.S. and into Canada, so I’ll be lining up some appropriate tunes to mark the time through the end of July.
Random Weekends will proceed as usual, of course. Now let’s spin the wheel and see what iTunes serves up to mark my dear mother’s birthday.
My final selection of this week of songs introduced to me by my daughter is from an artist I would never have known otherwise. The other acts I featured this week were all on my radar, but Marina and the Diamonds (the stage name of Welsh singer-songwriter Marina Lambrini Diamandis) was completely new.
The 29-year-old has released three albums since 2010, the latest (titled Froot) in March of this year.
Setting the boys aside for a moment, here’s Demi Lovato with a summer anthem that hints at a secret romance between two women.
Lovato has taken some heat not for the song’s subject matter but because some find it a little too close to Katy Perry territory. Indeed, it does sound like something Ms. Perry would record, though the fact that this song (like many of Perry’s) was written by hit-maker Max Martin is likely to blame.
Based on the first three selections this week, you might guess that my 13-year-old’s hormones are playing as big a role in her musical taste as her ears.
But Sophia really seems to enjoy these songs on their merits and not because of the cute boys singing them. In fact, it’s surprising how little she has gotten into the heartthrob thing. Meanwhile, my 9-year-old says wholly inappropriate things about the Chrises, Pratt and Hemsworth.
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