Honestly, I spent the last two days referencing this song and this video, I feel we need to talk about it.
I think we all know that the two members of Videoclub were a couple, both musically and romantically. This was their first single, one of their best known songs, and while it spoke of what seems like love, it's really talking about a superficial love, with little depth.
I'd like to think Adèle and Matthieu had more than just this, but that's the song.
Fast forward to 2021, a couple of months before Matthieu would leave Videoclub, and this very sad acoustic version of the song.
Neither of them is happy.
Four years later, when Adèle performed the song at a festival in France, she's back to being happy.
For those who don't, this is absolutely a song about her relationship with Mattyeux, and one he felt the need to respond to. But it's a sad song - and it revisits a lot of the scenes from "Amour Plastique" in a slightly different frame, much like Mattyeux did in his video.
But I'll be damned if he doesn't write a hell of a song,
I'd feel a lot better about it if the video wasn't a direct ripoff of Videoclub's "Amour Plastique" and a lyrical response to "C'est drôle" by Adèle Castillon, his ex-lover and ex-bandmate.
Let's throw it back to brat summer as we celebrate the warming days of this spring!
It blows my mind (and probably Charli's nostrils) that she does this song live, but she does - and it was a highlight of her Coachella set last year.
As part of the reimagined album brat and it's completely different but also still brat, Charli does a version of this song with Shygirl. Shygirl appeared on stage with Charli to do their version together in Detroit. Stick around to hear her go seamlessly from "365" to "360" (and then to "Von Dutch").
Lime Garden are an all-girl indie pop-rock band from Brighton, in the United Kingdom. Their second album, Maybe Not Tonight, was released last week, with this single, which the band calls their favorite single they've ever recorded, being released earlier this year.
By the way, Maybe Not Tonight is an early contender to top my #Wicked25 this year. Easily one of my favorite albums of the year so far.
But back to this song. It SHOULD be a huge hit by now. It's different - and has an interesting and unique bassline. On top of the album being great, this is one of my favorite singles of the year.
Now listen!
Just because they released the song in 2026 doesn't mean they didn't perform it in 2025.... and it sounds a lot like what you heard on record. Also, this band is TIGHT!
A number one POP hit - the second for each artist - and a MONSTER country hit, it dominated the charts in 1983. It is considered to be the greatest country duet of all time - and I think that's a pretty solid pick.
The song is written in C major for Rogers but switches to A-flat major in the parts where Parton takes lead.
Of course, they performed the song together whenever they could, but the last time they did was on October 25, 2017. Rogers was retiring (Dolly still isn't) and would pass away in 2020. It's rare to have a firm last concert in advance, and he was lucky to do it.
Some called the performance painful. I say it's a classic.
You know, when Midnight Sun, Zara Larsson's fine album from 2025, was released, I listened to it soon after its initial release - early October. I liked the album quite a bit. I stopped short of calling it "great" but I enjoyed it, and said I'd come back to it.
And then I moved on. And I got a bit sick of hearing "Midnight Sun".
But "Stateside" gave me a good reason to give Zara Larsson a second chance. And it's a good thing. Her second biggest hit was a single from 2015 that peaked very high in Europe, including spending time at #1 in her native Sweden, and in the 70s... uh, stateside. And, she released this video in her native Sweden and Europe.
She made a total of three videos for this song in 2015, including this one for the United States.
And because it was a big hit song, she kept performing it live, like she did here for Swedish television.
And she kept performing it..... like this performance at Lollapalooza in Chicago in 2017.
Important to note that she really won the crowd over with her performance
And she kept performing it.... like this performance at Lollapalooza in Brazil in 2018.
It had been a huge selling single in Brazil already, so no surprise that the crowd loved it.
And she kept performing it.... like this performance in the UK in 2023.
It had already been a #3 single back in the 2015-2016 timeframe, and among her biggest hits there, by the way.
And she kept performing it on the Midnight Sun tour in 2025.... and then she played a show in Amsterdam.
On this tour, it had become tradition to bring a fan onstage to dance the somewhat TikTok popular dance at her shows. On this night, she chose a 16-year-old girl named Julia Coster.
Let's just say that Julia knew the dance.
Julia understood the assignment.
That viral moment got a LOT of attention, including US television coverage, and it gave the song a second win worldwide, including a rise to #36 #35 on the US charts - and still rising!!!!
And now, these fan interactions have become Zara's signature.
