🎵 Music findings #16

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #16 of Music findings. A song that started as a dream during dental surgery, a band pranking its own label, and a Japanese B-side that turned up again forty years late.

🎵 Songs

• Miki Matsubara — Mayonaka no Door ~stay with me — her 1979 debut, cut at 19. In 2020 TikTok made a trend of it, and it’s now past 500 million streams:

• t.A.T.u. — All The Things She Said — the songwriter dreamed it under the dentist’s drill, and Trevor Horn rewrote the English. The first Russian act to top the UK chart.

• Blur — Song 2 — written as a joke on the record company. The label loved it, and two minutes and two seconds of “woo-hoo” went straight to the stadiums:

• The Killers — Somebody Told Me — Brandon Flowers trying to meet someone in a club, with the best one-liner of 2004.

• Tash Sultana — Jungle — every part looped live by one person, first as a bedroom video. It came third in the Triple J Hottest 100:

• Yung Lean — Ginseng Strip 2002 — a bucket hat, a friend who normally filmed BMX clips, and the start of cloud rap. It came back on TikTok nine years later.

• Linkin Park — Bleed It Out — Shinoda raps the verses and Chester takes the chorus. They played it live at Webster Hall and on SNL months before its release.

• Bizarrap, Natanael Cano — Entre las de 20 — corridos tumbados over Bizarrap’s synths. It came out as a surprise B-side to their BZRP Session #59.

• Alex Warren — Carry You Home — a promise to be there for whatever comes. It came out three weeks before he married Kouvr Annon.

• David Kushner — Skin and Bones — that deep baritone, torn between wanting someone and asking forgiveness for it.

🎧 Play them all — the full playlist, where the next issues pull from too:

🗂️ Catch up on past issues.