What a summer bummer — where are all the hot bops for 2023?
nypost.comBeyoncé’s “Break My Soul, Lizzo’s “About Damn Time” and Harry Styles’ pogo-pop powerhouse “As It Was.”There’s no denying the summer of 2022 was nothing short of a boppity bopfest, one that would send us all twirling into the dog days with an extra pep in our step.Fast-forward to the start of another August, and the top trio looks a whole lot different: Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town,” Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” and CMA Entertainer of the Year Luke Combs’ “Fast Car,” a Tracy Chapman cover.
So that’s two problematic — to put it mildly — country artists in Aldean and Wallen, and a wistful classic borrowed from a ’90s folk-rocker. (Which, incidentally, makes Chapman the first African-American woman to pen a country chart-topper on her own.)It is, in fact, the first time in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 — since it started way back in 1958 — that three country singles have claimed the uppermost spots on that pop chart.Where in the “Hot in Herre” hell did all the summer pop bops go? (Shout-out to Nelly and his Band-Aid.)Twenty years ago, we had Beyoncé making a sizzling solo splash with “Crazy in Love,” including a killer assist from baby-daddy-to-be Jay-Z.
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