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Morgan Wallen
Morgan Wallen's 'Been By Now': The Math of a Relationship That Didn't Add Up
A country-pop breakup song about the quiet moment you admit a relationship that keeps needing fixing was never going to fix itself
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Robin Schulz & Oliver Tree
Robin Schulz & Oliver Tree's 'Miss You': Longing Turned into a Public Announcement
A dance-floor confession of missing someone so much you'd broadcast it to their mother, their friends, and anyone within earshot
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Harry Styles
Harry Styles, 'Are You Listening Yet?': A Euro-House Wake-Up Call
A dance-floor lecture aimed at a distracted friend who is drowning in comforts, symptoms and slogans while the actual voice in their head goes unheard
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New Order
World In Motion: How New Order Made the Only Great Football Song
The official England song for Italia '90, turning terrace chants into a Balearic dance record about self-expression and national pride without the hooliganism
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The Cast of High School Musical, Vanessa Hudgens & Zac Efron
Can I Have This Dance: The Waltz That Says Goodbye Without Saying It
A duet in which two teenagers use the metaphor of a shared dance to promise that graduation, distance, and adulthood won't undo what they have
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Bob Dominator
Bob Dominator's Dark Night: When Wanting Feels Like War
A pounding invocation of desire as combat, where a storm becomes the metaphor for wanting something so badly you know it will leave marks
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