Monthly Report: December 2024 Singles
1. Badflower - "Detroit"
Badflower has had a few hits before and I liked one or two, but "Detroit" gave me that increasingly rare experience of a new song on rock radio leaping out of my car radio as very obviously the best thing a relatively young band has ever done. I have no idea why the song is called "Detroit" -- it's not mentioned in the lyrics, and the band is from L.A. and based in Nashville -- but I love how it almost melodically feels like a ballad while being faster than almost anything else on rock radio right now. Here's the 2024 singles Spotify playlist I've been updating all year, but I'll start posting my proper year-end lists this week.
2. Toosii f/ Muni Long - "I Do"
I really disliked Toosii's previous hit "Favorite Song" but this has a really nice weightless early 2000s Murder Inc. boy/girl duet vibe to it. I don't think people really understand how good Muni Long's pen is, she's written hits for Miranda Lambert, Pitbull, Selena Gomez, Curren$y, you can throw any style at her and she can probably do something with it.
3. Jackson Dean - "Heavens To Betsy"
This didn't stand out to me the first couple times I listened to On the Back of My Dreams, but now that it's becoming the album's radio hit, I've really come to love it, especially that big shimmering lead guitar sound.
4. Future - "Too Fast"
I'm glad Future got a big radio song out of Mixtape Pluto, nothing from We Still Don't Trust You really jumped out as a hit. "Apprecinating" is the new addition to the canon of words Future has mangled on great songs like "complimentarary" on "Wicked"
5. Lainey Wilson - "4x4xU"
I love Jay Joyce, this song sounds so much like a Black and Blue-era Rolling Stones ballad, who else is even gonna think to make a song like that for country radio.
6. Chappell Roan - "Pink Pony Club"
"Pink Pony Club" is the oldest song on The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, written during her first week of collaborating with Daniel Nigro, and released in 2020 under her old deal with Atlantic. It was also the first Chappell Roan I heard, although I thought she was saying "big booty club" at first. In any event, it's cool that it's getting a pop radio run nearly 5 years after its release, the way the audience reacted when she did it at "SNL" recently was awesome.
7. Megan Thee Stallion - "Bigger In Texas"
There's a certain contingent on Twitter who acted like this is the first good song Meg has had out in years, which I found pretty annoying, but it is a banger.
8. Pearl Jam - "Waiting For Stevie"
This song evidently came about when Eddie Vedder was working on his solo album Earthling and he and producer Andrew Watt were jamming and waiting for Stevie Wonder to come by to record his harmonica part on the album. It's the best thing to come out of people waiting for Stevie Wonder since Tracy Chapman's set at the Nelson Mandela birthday concert!
9. GloRilla - "Hollon"
I love this track, kind of annoyed that radio has chosen the song with Sexyy Red as the next hit from Glorious instead.
10. Sabrina Carpenter - "Bed Chem"
I was a little surprised when this started getting radio spins, but it's kind of a good continuation of the mildly R&B vibe of "Espresso" with a lot of ridiculous wordplay and Carpenter trading riffs with a synthesizer and saying "another fade out?" over the fade out ending.
The Worst Single of the Month: Chris Brown - "Residuals"
Chris Brown has never been a particularly good ballad singer, and this one that builds up to him asking "Who's getting all my residuals?" is pretty ridiculous. Do you think he asked that the one time he assaulted his manager?
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