9 April 2020 - Daddy Yankee & Snow - Con Calma | Daddy Yankee & Snow feat. Katy Perry - Con Calma

I bet you all thought my first Daddy Yankee post would be "Despacito", didn't you?

No.

This re-imagination of Snow's "Informer" is somewhat spectacular, and Daddy Yankee had the presence of mind, as well as the respect for those who came before him in reggaeton  to INCLUDE Snow in this.  It would become a minor hit in its own right.... and the biggest selling Spanish-language single for the first half of 2019.



....but a Katy Perry remix shot this into the top 40, making Snow a THREE hit wonder..... and this a Hall of Fame post.  See if you can catch all the callbacks to Teenage Dream.



The Katy Perry version received some bad reviews - one writer implied that the person who suggested it might be trying to sabotage her career (Pitbull, for the record, and he isn't) , but a largely Spanish-language song reached the top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 - so I think there's some credibility to the collaboration.

I mean, it can't be worse for her career than her decision to a an American Idol judge....

8 April 2020 - Collective Soul - Shine

Of course we're all looking for a sign.  We're all in this crazy quarantine, and we all want out.  Collective Soul spoke to this long before all our worlds changed.  And they wrote a song about Heaven letting light shine down.

That doesn't mean they're a Christian hand.  This is a label they fought for years - but the chorus is "basically a prayer".  That's not me saying that.  That's Dean Roland, who is in the band - and the brother of the guy (Ed Roland) who sang and wrote the song.  At any rate, it's an uplifting song from a period when the dark angst of grunge ruled the day.