Year: 2007
Her first song that she was able to produce and it was about how mad she was at her record label. Top 100 song for me.
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The Band Perry — If I Die Young
Year: 2010
Twelve years since this song was released? Geez. Also, I could have sworn Kim was like 18 here, tops. She was 26 in this video. Everyone looks like a kid to me now.
Kelsea Ballerini — I Hate Love Songs
Year: 2017
I hate a lot of the same things she does. Except cake with white frosting.
David Ball — Thinkin’ Problem
Year: 1994
One of two Top 40 hits David Ball had on the pop charts (Riding With Private Malone).
Bad Company — Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy
Year: 1979
I don’t particularly like the band, or even the lyrics to this song. But somehow this became one of my favorites.
The B-52s — Love Shack
Year: 1989
What a delightfully weird-ass song. Bang bang bang on the door baby.
Also, Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson are older than my parents. Pierson is 73! That doesn’t seem possible.
The Association — Along Come Mary
Year: 1966
Another song with a crescendoing “don’t-take-a-breath” chorus.
Arrested Development — Tennessee
Year: 1992
A powerful song about pain, Black culture, and racism that of course I completely misunderstood as a child. Complete accident that it came up on King’s holiday, but it works.
Music video cuts out the last speech by Aerlee Taree:
Headliner, I won the game of horseshoes
Now you owe me a watermelon
Let’s go climb trees and skip over rocks
Do like they do below the border
Speech’s hair
Don’t it look like the roots of the tree that the ancestors were hung from
But that’s okay, get it.
Cause he’s down to Earth
Jann Arden — Insensitive
Year: 1994
Not a huge fan of Arden; her melodies usually just feel off to me. But this song is just about perfect. The chorus’s slow crescendo without taking a breath is always a favorite of mine.
John Anderson — Seminole Wind
Year: 1992
As rural a country singer as you’ll find while also an environmentalist. This video was filmed with the Seminole on their land with their permission.
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