2010s

The Song That Made You Dance Before You Listened

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Foster the People | Pumped Up Kicks The Slap in the Face “Pumped Up Kicks” is a first-person monologue from a kid plotting murder. It went Diamond, hit a billion streams, and most people were dancing to it before they caught a single word. “It took people a while to let the lyrics get into […]

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The Demo That Beat Rick Rubin

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Adele | Rolling in the Deep The Take You Can’t Redo The biggest song of 2011 uses a vocal from a three-hour demo session, one that Rick Rubin and a stacked band at Shangri-La Studios couldn’t beat, no matter how hard they tried. The biggest song of 2011, Grammy Record of the Year, Song of

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