Rounding out Billboard’s top ten is ‘iSpy,’ the breakout single by California rapper KYLE, with an assist by Lil Yachty.
This is a fun song with clever lyrics and an almost childlike beat (suitable for the kids’ game reference in the title). This is a video you’d watch on R-rated Sesame Street.
Yesterday I bemoaned the sameness of every Chainsmokers song I’ve heard and called on the EDM duo to try something different. Well, one day later, here’s their chance.
The Chainsmokers’ tune ‘Paris’ sits at #9 on this week’s charts, giving them their fifth top ten hit in the past year. These guys are really on a roll.
Rihanna sits at the #7 spot on this week’s charts with ‘Love On the Brain,’ a song I’ve already covered on the blog. Rihanna recently passed Elvis to become the top-selling solo artist of all-time, trailing only The Beatles for the overall title.
At #8 is The Chainsmokers, who have been all over these charts in recent months. ‘Something Just Like This’ is a collaboration with Coldplay, and fittingly, sounds like a Coldplay song crossed with everything The Chainsmokers have ever done.
Pompano Beach’s own Kodak Black shows up ay Billboard’s #6 this week with ‘Tunnel Vision.’
Every time I do these weeks on chart-toppers I feel older and whiter. I really want to like modern rap music, but the songs getting all the radio play just aren’t very good. I’m sure I could find plenty of sophisticated, compelling rap songs if I dug a little deeper, but the Billboard Hot 100 is clearly not the place.
I forget if I created an exception early on in Random iTunes Weekends that disallowed instrumental tracks. I vaguely remember instituting, or at least considering, such a rule.
But if I did, I’m rescinding it now, not because this track from Brad Paisley’s largely instrumental album, Play, is particularly special, but because I don’t see any reason why songs with vocals should be deemed more legitimate than those without.
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