This strange little song was released in 2010. Written by Seyfried, it doesn't REALLY have a title. It just kind of adopted this one. The video, made for postthelove, is just her, singing and playing the guitar.
The song itself is absolutely beautiful and you have got to hear it, so I figured today, Valentine's Day, would be a great day to release it. Enjoy.
I have to admit, when I was watching the Super Bowl halftime show, featuring Usher, it took me a minute to identify the female guitarist who was clearly a featured guest - as did a lot of people, I am sure. When I figured it out, which I did pretty quickly, I was ashamed of myself.
You see, Gabriella Wilson, still early in H.E.R. career, is already an accomplished and well-respected artist. A prolific songwriter and multiinstrumentally talented, she has already accomplish a lot - and won a few Grammys for her efforts. She's been redefining R&B, infusing country and rock into her sound as well.
So yeah. I should have known right away. To be fair, it took me a second on Ludacris, too.
This song was Grammy nominated for Song of the Year, and was co-written by H.E.R. It was an R&B and a minor pop hit in the US.
H.E.R.'s guitar skills are on full display in this live version of the song, from Austin City Limits. It is, in my opinion, the best version of the song that exists.
This was sitting in drafts for a VERY long time, and I am so glad to finally uncork it.
The band is Lady A, but they were Lady Antebellum.
This song was written by the band and Josh Kear - and it is the biggest thing they have ever done. Not only was it a huge country hit, it reached #2 on the Billboard POP charts and was the 2nd biggest hit of 2010 ("Tik Tok", by the way). The song won four Grammys, including Song of the Year and Record of the Year (with the album of the same name winning a 5th that evening).
The song is about someone making a late night drunk dial that they are going to likely regret in the morning. A lot of us have been there. I've been there.
Anyway, the song was and still is a force of nature, and now here it is.
I used to love The Dead Milkmen. I was introduced to them when a kid I met at summer camp wore his Big Lizard In My Backyard shirt. I was intrigued. So I checked them out. The jokey pop/punk fusion was fun and different and kept me interested.
Fast forward a couple of years, and they release this as the lead single from their 4th album, Beelzebubba. MTV starts playing the song in heavy rotation during the day, and people love it. Turns out, it was a song the band had written many years earlier and were heasitant to record as The Dead Milkmen (they had a side project called Ornamental Wigwam that they used for it).
By far, this song was their biggest hit - their only song to hit any Billboard chart (#11 on the Modern Rock chart) - and remained a staple of their live sets, especially after they reunited (they broke up for ten years and reunited soon after the tragic death of bassist Dave Blood).
Listen closely to the song, and you will hear references to Philadelphia locations, like the iconic punk rock store Zipperhead.
Famously, the song mentions Mojo Nixon, who was their Enigma Records labelmate and fellow jokester. In 2015, he made a suprise appearance on stage during this song right after them mention him.
The debut solo single by your favorite member of BLACKPINK was released in 2021.
Don't deny it. Everyone loves Lisa. One of two members of the group who spoke fluent English from the beginning (Australian citizen Rosé being the other), she became something of a spokesperson for the band and for non-Korean brands. She was the first non-Korean (she's Thai) to be taken on by famed label YG Entertainment.
Born Pranpriya Manobal, she did legally change her name to Lalisa Manobal on the advice of a fortune teller. So, in this, her debut single - a worldwide hit - she's literally singing her own name over and over.
A K-Pop live performance is about the performance, and not the singing. That's not a criticism. It's a fact and an entertaining one at that. I literally picked one of those at random, because Lisa's performance and dancing are absolutely flawless every single time.
I'm really not OK with this one. I grew up listening to Mojo. It all started with an EP I bought in the mid-1980s... before the rest of the world got to hear him on MTV and he was singing about how MTV should be covered in ejaculate.
"Stuffin' Martha's Muffin". It was real.
The name known at birth as Neill Kirby McMillan Jr. has passed away. He died doing what he loved - performing - on the Outlaw Country Cruise, an annual music cruise he played and hosted. He played a show LAST NIGHT (after playing one the afternoon before) and was partying until the wee hours.
He is literally playing guitar in the lower right photo in this tweet, last night.
Mojo was obsessed with gonads and making dirty songs about tying his pecker to his leg.... and his sideburns.... and pop culture in general. This song skewered the widely-held belief that Elvis Presley was still alive, and using that as an explanation for everything that happened.
Bermuda Triangle? Elvis needs boats.
With his longtime collaborator, Skid Roper, here is Mojo performing his best known song.
This song actually brought the fringe duo some fame, with them even able to play this song on late night network television.
It was tough for me to decide where to put this blog-wise. The lyrics of the song were written by Woody Guthrie - but the music is completely Dropkick Murphys. They wrote it. Ken Casey of the band found a fragment of these lyrics while looking through some Woody Guthrie archives.... and built a whole song around it.
It's likely Woody didn't release this as a single. He wrote a lot of stuff he didn't release. What is clear that the Dropkick Murphys turned this not only into a huge hit song - but a de facto anthem for all Boston sports teams.
The band, formed in 1996 in Quincy, Massachusetts, still exists, and they are presently touring. They're coming to a town near us, and I think we're going to try to go. At any rate, here they are in 2022 (missing Al Barr, so Ken Casey had to do all the vocals himself), performing the song for an eager crowd.
