Like, looking at the Wikipedia page for this song - one thing I look at is chart performance. I have NEVER seen a longer list for one song.
And I understand it. It's a fun, energetic earworm that you will now be humming for the rest of the day. Co-written by the artists and a large team of collaborators (including credits for the composers of the Toni Basil classic "Mickey"), the song is broadly commercially AND critically successful.
But back to the composition. Rosé was the original writer... and its title and premise - and chorus - are directly based on, and this isn't a joke, a Korean drinking game. She was concerned about how broadly appealing a song about a drinking game might be. She didn't need to be, though.
By the way, I think the end of this video is a Breakfast Club homage. What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
What I love about this song...
OK, for this, I need you to go back to what I said about live performances of "On The Ground" when I wrote about that song.
I add this "live" performance to illustrate a piece of the K-pop machine that I don't really enjoy. There's several videos like this. Rosé CLEARLY wants to sing her song. She's fully capable of singing her song. The helper track is turned up so high she can't.
Contrast that to THIS live performance, which she's REALLY singing. It's not about the dancing. It's about the music.
Even better is this live performance with Lee Young-Ji standing in for Bruno Mars... who we have not even talked about here. It's because, as fun as he is, Rosé is the one bringing the energy here.
I hope your Christmas is in the tropics, or wherever you are happiest this time of year.
I give you my gift of music. My gift, of course, is that I have œ on back my clipboard. This is a French language classic, performed by Béatrice Martin.
So, I was sitting here, on another Christmas Eve, and I didn't know what to give you.
Then I remembered - I have a œ on my clipboard.
This time, ❤️ de Pirate teams up with francophone musical comedy troupe Les Appendices to cover a Mariah Carey classic that I KNOW you heard 150 times in the last month.
So, if you look at my Spotify Wrapped, you'll see an artist that looks like something of an outlier.
Tate McRae.
And yet this Calgary native is out there, making music that's giving us all Britney Spears flashbacks. Of course, the video is just as campy as the music as well.
By the way, she writes her own stuff, which is impressive. The song is about a woman who is very happy to see her ex is not with her anymore - and she's warning the new girlfriend. It's a clever song.
The song was a top 20 hit in the US and a worldwide hit overall. Which is great. The song is damn catchy.
The way she debuted this song was kind of crazy. It was just an encore she pulled out during a show at Madison Square Garden - completely out of left field. No one saw it coming. Except, I assume, her dancers and other tour crew. Her record label. Her management.
Yesterday, I said the consensus best album of 2024 was Brat.
That's kind of true.
The reason that's only kind of true is because Diamond Jubilee, the two hour magnum opus of Cindy Lee, a stage name/persona of Pat Flegel, is kind of challenging that wisdom. It was not released via traditional streaming channels (which is slightly annoying) - it's on Bandcamp and of course YouTube (without ads!!!). It's really great and worth checking out.
Oh, you don't want to seek it out yourself? Fine. Here's the ENTIRE Diamond Jubilee album.
Although Flegel is Calgary-based, that album cover photo was taken in Lethbridge. Fun fact.
At the end of each year, I look at a lot of year-end Top 100 Albums lists.
The consensus #1 this year is Brat.
Where you all were when I was all about True Romance, I don't know. But Brat is an excellent album, and I'm glad Charli is finally breaking through with a good album.
(And yes, normally I am listening to the song I'm writing about while I am writing about it, but right now, I'm listening to "Nuclear Seasons").
I'm not gonna lie. A lot of her music in the middle, I did not like, including at least one song I posted on ths blog. This writer's opinion is that Brat is her best album since at least Pop 2 and probably Sucker.
This was the 2nd single from Brat, and a pretty solid hit worldwide. The video features Ms. Aitchison not taking herself too seriously, which is endearing and not the first time she's taken that approach.
When she hosted SNL, she didn't take herself too seriously, either. And clearly singing it live. And, by the way, having literal Julia introduce her here is so Julia.
