Black Eyed Peas have a catchy new single, ''Boom Boom Pow.''
(Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
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Black Eyed Peas have a catchy new single, ''Boom Boom Pow.''
(Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)
April showers might bring May flowers, but something else is also popping up: spring singles, or springles as I like to call them. They're the annual announcement that we'll soon be spending more time with our music outside, driving with the windows down, hanging at barbecues, and going to shows.
A good batch of springles is like a beautiful bouquet with the added bonus that they can sometimes last, to quote Kid Rock, all summer long. Here's a handful making themselves known on the airwaves in the last month.
The Black Eyed Peas have brought fresh hell to the top of the charts with the stuttery, AutoTuned, insidious mess "Boom Boom Pow." Like "My Humps" before it, you will try, with good reason, to resist and you will fail.
Back in the solo saddle, Rob Thomas offers "Her Diamonds," another mid-tempo shuffle about a sad-eyed lady that should have folks singing along with it's soulful "ooo-ooo-ooh" chorus until the dog days.
After a very tough 2008, in which they lost their sax man Leroi Moore, the Dave Matthews Band rebounds with the groovy yet socially keen "Funny the Way it Is." This will be a hit at frat parties and beach bonfires if not a chart monster.
Remember "Hey There Delilah" and how it wouldn't go away? Well, settle in for "1, 2, 3, 4," the latest sensitive and sunny acoustic missive from Plain White T's. Forget Labor Day - this tune will likely be rattling around the radio and your brain, like it or not, until Christmas.
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