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Song of the Day #6,396: ‘Wildflower’ – Billie Eilish

Concluding my look at the top songs of 2025…

Drake shows up at #24 on the year-end list with ‘Nokia,’ and while I’m sure he’s glad to be in the top 25, this is a far cry from the upper echelons of the chart he’s used to occupying. It’s been more thane two years since Drake last had a #1 hit on the Hot 100.

On the other hand, the #25 song, ‘Golden,’ by fictional band Huntrix, spent five weeks at #1, becoming the best-performing single by an animated band (move over, Chipmunks, the KPop Demon Hunters are here).

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Song of the Day #5,833: ‘Birds of a Feather’ – Billie Eilish

Continuing my countdown of 2024 notable album releases by women…

The Ladies of 2024
#5 – Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft

At just 22 years old, Billie Eilish already has a slew of Grammys, two Oscars, and two best-selling albums. So what does one do as a follow-up to all that success?

Based on Eilish’s third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, the answer is whatever the hell she wants.

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Song of the Day #5,717: ‘What Was I Made For?’ – Billie Eilish

Continuing my countdown of last year’s best films…

Best Films of 2023
#7. Barbie

All hail Greta Gerwig, queen of the coming-of-age film!

The writer-director’s first two movies explored young women finding their place in the world, in early 2000s Sacramento (Lady Bird) and Civil War-era Massachusetts (Little Women). Both are masterpieces, and both are on my list of the ten best films of the previous decade.

Now, with Barbie, Gerwig has tackled her favorite subject matter in a far different context: a big-budget blockbuster produced by a toy company. And somehow she still manages to deliver a touching look at a character discovering what it means to be a woman and a human being.

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Song of the Day #5,359: ‘Oxytocin’ – Billie Eilish

Continuing the countdown of my favorite 2022 movies…

Best Films of 2022
#4 – Kimi

Steven Soderbergh is a fascinating filmmaker. Since pioneering the 90s Independent Cinema movement with his 1989 debut Sex, Lies and Videotape, he has directed 34 movies in 34 years.

Among them are micro-budget experimental films featuring only non-professional actors and high-budget blockbusters starring the biggest movie stars in the world. He’s dabbled in coming-of-age films, true crime, sports dramas, martial arts action, historical drama, biopics, and thoughtful dramas about female escorts and male strippers.

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Song of the Day #4,777: ‘NDA’ – Billie Eilish

I’ve been underwhelmed by the new songs Billie Eilish has released from her sophomore album Happier Than Ever (which was released a few days ago as you’re reading this post, but a week after I’m writing it).

Following my lukewarm reaction to her Grammy-sweeping smash When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, I figured maybe her 2017 debut EP Don’t Smile At Me was an exception and she just isn’t my cup of tea.

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