music --- news --- culture --- debate

Thursday, March 15, 2012

What's Popular in Music Today

We spend a lot of time in the car.  From dance to soccer, to school to the grocery store, we are logging miles.  The hardest part about any drive is agreeing on a song.  My kids are generally pop/top 40 kids.  After trudging through some awful songs, here are the two (at the moment) we mostly agree upon when we are in the car together.

Grouplove - Tongue Tied. 
This song is probably best known as the iphone 4GS song, but it is poppy and fresh.  Even my two year old will sing along to it. 




Gotye - Someone That I Use to Know
This seems to be the "song Du Jour" at the moment for all pop loving hipsters. I don't know too much about Gotye,except that his real name is Walter, and that he speaks Flemish.  According to Wikipedia, he wrote the song in his parents barn, and played most instruments including the xylophone.  I also like that he sampled the traditional folk song "Baa Baa Black Sheep."

2 comments:

  1. They're both pretty decent tunes. What station are you listening to in your car?

    ReplyDelete
  2. The kids favor Sirius Hits 1. YUCK! This is where these came from.

    ReplyDelete