Thank You Shazam

In alphabetical order, these are the tunes I found through my "Shazam" app:

1. Baba O'riley by The Who
2. Bang Bang by Jessie J & Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj
3. Can't Stop The Feeling! (Original Song From Dreamworks Animation's "Trolls") by Justin Timberlake
4. Hammer To Fall by Queen
5. Harlem Shuffle by The Rolling Stones
6. Hood Go Crazy by Tech N9ne Feat. 2 Chainz & B.O.B
7. I Won't Back Down by Tom Petty
8. If I Told You by Darius Rucker
9. It's Tricky by Run-DMC
10. Low by Flo Rida Feat. T-Pain
11. Morning Sun by Reptile Youth
12. Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 Feat. Christina Aguilera
13. Pocketful Of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield
14. Power by Kanye West

Edited Version

Unedited Version - Warning re: Language!

15. Promises In The Dark by Pat Benatar
16. Shut Up And Dance by Walk The Moon
17. Somethin' Bad by Miranda Lambert With Carrie Underwood
18. The Dock Of The Bay (Sittin' On) by Otis Redding
19. The Fire Inside by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
20. The Only Way Out by Bush
21. T-Shirt by Migos
22. Yeah! by Usher Feat. Lil' Jon & Ludacris

Hoot Hoot!

Initially, I stopped reading this article before the first sentence was complete. I read "Last Thursday, mere hours before his eighth solo album was released, Darius Rucker" and stopped.

What?

Darius Rucker has released seven solo albums? Really?!?

I cannot name a single tune from any of those albums.

In disbelief of my ignorance about this talented musician, I continued to read Darius Rucker and the Perplexing Whiteness of Country Music and am happy I did. The final two paragraphs are an example of writing that is riveting:

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Maybe even posing that question is foolish. Rucker, for his part, seems largely disinterested in reflecting on his legacy as a black pioneer. Music is music, he repeats; he doesn’t seem to believe in (or, at least, wish to dwell on) his own striking exceptionalism. He has expressed his feelings about racism before, in song: in 1994, Hootie and the Blowfish released “Drowning,” an indictment of American bigotry that specifically references the Confederate flag hanging above the South Carolina statehouse (“Why is there a rebel flag hanging from the statehouse walls?”).

Country, as a genre, is obsessed with notions of patriotism, of purity, of some nondescript American-ness. Rucker has faced vitriol for his views, and for his work. “Hate mail has been a part of my life. That’s just the way it is,” Rucker said, in a 2014 interview with the Wall Street Journal. “People don’t want me singing country music. But I’ve never wanted to let anybody tell me what I can do.” It is in this way that Rucker is most essentially American: he has insisted on a path of his own, on breaching a frontier.

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Well done.