Let Her Go – Mac DeMarco. I would say Passing Out Pieces, but it’s been out for awhile.

Spoon- Rent I Pay

Definitely Do It Again – Robyn & Röyksopp

Yes! Yes! Yes!

salad says, “where is salad days?”

Talking Backwards – Real Estate

Len- Steal My Sunshine

Can’t Do Without You – Caribou

The War on Drugs – Red Eyes

Seasons (Waiting on You) – Future Islands

Her whole existance as “Lana Del Ray” is just a character she’s playing until people get bored of that too and she takes up another. Even if “Brooklyn Baby” is part satire, it’s not every good satire.

What a really crappy first half year of music.

So many candidates but I think “Chandeliers”. Check out our other candidate songs at www.songofnow.com …

NOTHING.

Seriously. Not a single contender has made any sort of waves yet, and it’s already mid-June. In fact the only song that’s been popular all YEAR(in an all-consuming zeitgeist sort of way) up to this point is Pharrell’s “Happy”- a song from LAST summer. It’s been trending this way for a while, with fewer and fewer big hits each year.

I’m actually in the middle of writing a ~like totally scholarly~ article about why I think music itself, as a commodity, is dying. There aren’t superstars anymore, much less indie/alt/rock stars. There aren’t any hotly anticipated records in the public eye for the rest of 2014. It’s barren and it’s scary. 🙁

tl;dr- Subjectively speaking, Sia’s Chandelier is the best of the pop offerings, and I am really really loving New Pornographers’ Brill Bruisers.

Happy – Pharrell Williams

You mean this won’t be a thing forever? Bummer.