At the beginning of the decade, life was different. Barack Obama was in office, planking was a thing, and we were all still using iTunes. Music formatting alone has restructured the DNA of what we hear: Artists are making shorter tunes, subgenres are more readily available, and individual songs are stealing the spotlight from extended albums. As music has evolved, so has its sound, as artists work to fit the new mold or actively defy it. Listen to all of the picks on our Spotify playlist here. Buy Song. It was the summer of and almost exactly three years—to the month—before gay marriage would be legalized in the United States. A nine-minute odyssey, it nestled gently into nighttime introspection sessions, but seemed just as commonplace blaring out of a club speaker at 3 a. Ocean rang in the new era with a song celebrating the unseen fluidity of its moment.
113. "Baby" by Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris
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In the s, streaming gave us a granular sense of the songs people loved and the artists they wanted to hear, and even as streaming services tried to segment taste into fabricated sub-sub-genre playlists, people pursued their own interests and artists were free to follow their arrows. The song began as a ballad the band performed on tour in and was radically transformed by Tedder four years later for Songs of Innocence. And the acoustic version is just as good. It gets the people going. The result is one of most song of the summery Songs of the Summer of all time. Not a bad debut hit for the third runner-up in the edition of Canadian Idol. This falsetto tale about a creepy man pressuring a woman into ingesting copious drugs before sex was the perfect sonic and aesthetic introduction into the narcotized, depraved, and morally bankrupt world of Abel Tesfaye.
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Hence the suspicious quotes around "adequately. I know the majority of them are great, but there are so many who are like vultures and will latch on to any male doctor like he is theirs. Should I marry him.
