Don’t also forget his remix of “Stumblin’ In” which has been overplayed for the last six-or-seven months. By coincidence, smoothfm have been playing the original song by Suzi Quatro/Chris Norman quite frequently in recent months.
I don’t mind it, to be honest. But his cover of “Blue” (featuring Bebe Rexha) is an instant station changer for me and it sounds (excuse the language) sexualised to me.
I agree, this year has been dominated by a combination of the following:
Another song that’s getting flogged a lot on Mainstream Pop radio stations is Royel Otis’ cover of The Cranberries’ “Linger” which has also become TikTok famous.
And speaking of overly flogged songs, as much as I am a huge fan of The Cure, I am really getting sick of “Friday, I’m in Love” being flogged to death by Triple M stations countrywide, I mean most rock stations don’t usually play their earlier stuff from their goth era (Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Prngraphy” or even their best album “Disintegration”) only their debut hit “Boys Don’t Cry,” and their mainstream hits “Let’s Go to Bed,” “Close to me,” “Lovecats” and “Why Can’t I Be You.” I really wish that Triple M and mainstream rock stations could play more songs from their underrated albums and “Disintegration” but I get a headache every time I hear FIIL.
Yeah, I’d sometimes wish that Triple M and other mainstream rock stations in Australia could play the songs from “Songs from a Lost World” even “Alone gives me “plainsong” vibes from Disintegration.
Kid Rock- All Summer Long is another example, played on most commercial stations and probably even ABC Local Radio. It’s too commercial and cringe for JJJ though, unless they decide to do Requestival in the warmer months when it is sure to be played ironically and as ‘a song for my bestie bae’.
It has all the elements of a crap song- a poor gratuitous ripoff (Sweet Home Alabama), caterwauling from Kid Rock, and inexplicably still played to this day despite assurances that it would be gone in a flash from an erstwhile 2EC music director.
I might get banned for this, but this song is like a turd that you can’t flush after a big night on the Dirty Bird.
Oh there have been plenty of examples of that in recent years, “Stumblin In” and “Dreams” are just two that come to mind.
But there is one upside - it helps generate interest in the original versions and helps them find new listeners who may not have discovered it otherwise.
. But she does have so many other great songs to choose from.