Megan Thee Stallion
"Savage" is a braggadocio anthem built around a self-naming hook that stacks seemingly contradictory identities into a single,…
self-possession and self-mythologizing sexual agency wealth as armor
"Body" is a brash celebration of physical self-possession built around a stuttering hook that turns the word 'body' into both a…
body autonomy and confidence sexual power and control female rivalry and dismissal of haters
Townes Van Zandt
A short, quiet meditation on unspoken love and loss, built almost entirely from conditional wishes and unresolved arithmetic.…
unrequited love denial and repression escape and freedom
Nick Lowe
This is Nick Lowe's arrangement of a traditional African American spiritual cumulative counting song, built around a…
religious catechism cumulative counting communal call-and-response
