After a couple of weeks dominated by ugly rap songs, it’s refreshing to hear a cut from Outkast’s excelent 2003 double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.
This track is from Andre 3000’s half of the record (The Love Below) and, like most of that song cycle, concerns the many splendors of the fairer sex.
It took 324 Random Weekend posts before the iTunes Fairy finally served up a Wiggles song. I expected this to happen long ago.
And of course we’re subjected to a song by Captain Feathersword, the most annoying member of the Wiggles entourage, and the one whose name sounds the most like a sexual insult.
Wrapping up a rather depressing two weeks of Billboard tracks — how many boring, offensive or boring and offensive songs can be popular at once? — we land at #14 and a new track from Nicki Minaj.
In the 13th spot was Meghan Trainor with ‘Lips Are Movin’,’ which sounds like the freaking Beatles compared to most of this dreck.
I have high hopes for Minaj, though, even if I’m unimpressed with Drake and Lil Wayne, her collaborators on this track. Minaj is always interesting, if nothing else.
In Billboard’s 12th spot is ‘Trap Queen’ by Fetty Wap. I love when I come across these mysterious entries, because until I fire up YouTube and hear them they have the potential to be anything in the world.
When I see Pitbull, Usher or Elle Goulding in the top ten, I know what I’m going to get. But Fetty Wap? That could be an L.A. rapper, a Scandinavian emo band, a New York punk revival outfit… anything.
So now I’ll go kill the suspense.
Rounding out Billboard’s top ten is Taylor Swift (again) with ‘Blank Space,’ the hit that keeps on giving.
In the 11th spot is Usher (and Juicy J) with ‘I Don’t Mind.’
This is a slow jam ballad performed with great conviction from the perspective of a man dating a stripper. If it’s a joke, it’s played completely straight.
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