Tired of letting Spotify cycle through the same trending songs over and over again? Kelly, but Usher should have enough momentum to prevail.Find yourself hitting skip on your regular workout songs? It'll have chart competition from U Saved Me by the unkillable R. It's also a perfectly acceptable bit of I'm-so-sorry-baby R. 1 singles from his multiplatinum album Confessions, and as Evan Harrison, the general manager of AOL Music, says, "You'll have to leave the country if you want to get away from Usher this summer." Usher's third single is about what happened when his "chick on the side said she got one on the way." The chick on the entree plate was Chilli from TLC, so gossip alone will help keep this on playlists through September. Vocally, McGraw drawls his way through with such perfectly controlled emotion that, while you question his depth, you never doubt his authenticity.
Lyrically, it's shameless and that's from a fan with life lessons ("love deeper," "read the good book") so trite they might raise a skeptical eyebrow at the Hallmark store. McGraw wrote this elegy following the death of his father, charismatic ex-Big League pitcher Tug McGraw, from cancer in January. For those who gulped their way through George Strait's Desperately and sat stoically by as Alan Jackson asked Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning), McGraw has composed the toughest test to date: call it Tuesdays with Morrie, the ballad.
It's unclear exactly when it happened, but sometime in the past decade it became acceptable for country music loving tough guys to shed the occasional manly tear. Wilson, who has obviously been studying her Shania Twain, sells the song hard, and with an endorsement from Kid Rock, who appears in the video, Redneck should rampage out of the South and dominate seventh-inning stretches as far north as Detroit. Like its Achy Breaky ancestor, Redneck is such an exaggerated piece of cornpone-"I'm a redneck woman/I ain't no high class broad/I'm just a product of my raisin'/I say 'hey y'all' and 'Yee Haw'"-that it succeeds as both a genuine ode to hillbillies and a genuine joke about hillbillies. 1 song on the country chart, and the rest of the nation cowers in fear at the crossover to come. Three months ago, Wilson was a complete unknown. If the lyrics don't provide sufficient notice that subtlety is not Mis-Teeq's MO, then the blaring siren in the chorus should do the trick. Remember driving with your parents and hearing a song that had a cringe-inducing bit of innuendo? Remember the awkward silence you shared as they tried to figure out if you knew what it meant and you tried to figure out if they knew you knew? Relive that precious moment with Scandalous, in which the spelling-impaired British hip-hop trio drops such lines as "Solid as a rock/How many ways can you hit the spot" over a lush, string-heavy track that is no less great for sounding as if it had been ripped off from Dr. You can bet it will have a heavily layered but distinctive beat, an instant catchphrase and lyrics about two of Nelly's great musical obsessions: pot smoking and orgies. As one radio programmer put it, "Even if it's just Nelly farting for four minutes, every station in the country is going to play that record probably twice an hour." Who said radio consolidation was bad? Word has it that this Neptunes-produced track from Sweat, one of two albums Nelly will be releasing simultaneously in August, is in the same vein as Country Grammar and Hot in Herre, the rapper's previous summer hits. Never mind that no one has heard this song yet.
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