Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” likewise spends a fourth straight week atop the Hot 100. The rest of the top 10 includes Lil Durk, Pop Smoke, the Weeknd, Juice WRLD, Luke Combs, Taylor Swift, Lil Baby, Ariana Grande, and Megan Thee Stallion. Make of that what you will! The 30-song Dangerous put up 149,000 equivalent album units and 25,000 in sales the latter figure represents a more than 100% increase over last week. Per Billboard, Wallen’s streaming figures remain more or less unmoved, and his sales have actually surged since the incident. Yet despite disappearing from radio and losing his choice placement on streaming platforms, his Dangerous: The Double Album remains the #1 album in America for a fourth straight week - the first country album to spend its first four weeks atop the chart since Shania Twain’s Up! in 2003. Morgan Wallen suffered intense career repercussions last week when a neighbor leaked footage of the country star using a racial slur.
Yet the song has a winsome propulsion to it, and when that chorus hits, it hits. It’s all fairly boilerplate - the spindly guitars, the ominous synth swells, the rapid-fire Halsey-esque verse melody - and the lyrics are merely passable: “Oh my god, I’m a fool/ Keep on coming back to you/ I’m so stupid for you.” Sampling a Bebe Rexha song that itself sampled Meredith Brooks’ “Bitch,” it’s sort of a Russian nesting doll situation. The finger-plucked guitar mirage “Happy Face” presents the strange spectacle of longtime Weeknd collaborator Doc McKinney producing a track with such exquisitely PG-rated teenage lyrics as, “I know I know you better than your parents/ I heard about ’em, you don’t gotta be embarrassed.”īut she was smart to lead off with “Stupid,” the project’s most surefire single.
YOU BROKE ME FIRST PRO
McRae, who spent her entire childhood training to be a pro dancer, made herself known to a subset of them with her So You Think You Can Dance run and an assortment of related TV appearances on shows like Ellen.Īll The Things I Never Said slid into that post-Lorde, post-Billie Eilish lane that’s been flourishing lately, especially with the release of Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License.” All five tracks on the EP are minor-key slow jams of a sort, be it trap-informed “All My Friends Are Fake” or the minimal keyboard ballad “That Way.” One song, “Tear Myself Apart,” was actually written by Eilish and her brother/producer Finneas, and it features their signature blend of swooning melodrama and edgy electronic production, with a slightly sweeter and poppier chorus than they’d probably put on an Eilish record. And not just Boomers! Borderline Gen X-ers and old Millennials as well! There are people out there who just simply aren’t paying attention to pop music. I can anecdotally confirm this because I spoke to some of them at an informal virtual gathering of friends Saturday. It may be hard to believe, but despite five #1 hits over the past half-decade or so, there are grownups who had never heard of the Weeknd before his Super Bowl gig yesterday. In another sense, by storming to third place on So You Think You Can Dance five years ago, McRae permeated an out-of-touch old folks bubble even the biggest modern pop stars often cannot manage. In one sense, the 17-year-old Calgary native is in the process of breaking through, as “You Broke Me First,” her biggest hit to date, infiltrates American radio and rapidly ascends the Hot 100. Tate McRae is already famous among teens and their parents now she’s aiming for everyone in between.
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