Beyoncé dropped “Break My Soul” on June 20, winning 2022’s Song of the Summer sweepstakes before spring was even over. Built around samples from Robin S.’s 1990s house classic “Show Me Love” and Big Freedia’s 2014 bounce jam “Explode,” the song topped charts all across the gl...
Over heavenly, lo-fi production, the four-time GRAMMY nominee vows to keep putting her heart on the line as she sings, "I've always been a hopeless romantic/ No matter how many times it went and did me damage/ Least I'm not scared to live, I'll never understand them." It's advi...
“If you don't love me anymore,” she sings, “I’ll be an over-you-achiever,” and the transparent effortfulness—the doomed and increasingly elaborate nature of her attempts to quit an unrequited love—is the point of the song. Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” topped the Hot 100, ...
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In the ‘Dr. Feelgood’ track “Kickstart My Heart,” Motley Crue vocalist Vince Neil sings, “Yeah, are you ready girls?/ Yeah, are you ready now?/ Oh, yeah/ Kickstart my heart, give it a start/ Oh, yeah, baby Ooh, yeah.” It may seem like a song about getting it on and...
Arcade Fire have been covering songs relevant to where they happen to be performing. In this case, we get some of their take on the great Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love?” –A Days Of The Crazy-Wild blog post —
“The Next Storm,” one of my favorite songs, is a little awkward in this time of physical distancing. When Turner sings “I don’t want to spend the whole of my life indoors/Laying low, waiting for the next storm,” I guarantee he wasn’t think of this reality. I’m also fairly...