Justin Bieber – Love Yourself – YouTube I listened to the Spotify U.S. Top Fifty and this was the best song on it. Second best was Robin Schulz’s “Sugar,” which stalled on the U.S. chart, but has an amazing hook, sampled from the 2004 Baby Bash smash “Suga Suga.” Huh? That was over a decade […]

Once she praised me Now she hates me I can’t see how I have changed It seems that what they loved about you is the same thing that ultimately gets them to leave, which is quite a conundrum if you’re the one left standing there. You’re just being yourself, everything’s hunky-dory, and then she does […]

This is the video that sold me: Mike Posner, “I Took a Pill In Ibiza” Live at The Roxy – Los Angeles, March 8th 2016 Just when you think we’ve hit the end of the line, that music has got no future, you encounter something like this. Everybody didn’t sing along like this back in […]

I think I finally found my hallelujah That’s about the fifth hook in a song that’s only three minutes and nine seconds long. There’s the “Uh-hah,” the handclap/percussion, the keyboard, the staccato singing and and then…we’ve got this distorted vocal with a ton of other stuff under it, which ends with the track dropping down […]