Playlist Hits 2 | 13 of the greatest songs of all time and their stories behind

• ‘MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)’, a mega-hit on digital platforms, is part of rapper Lil Nas X’s first studio album.
• The track references the movie of the same name released in 2017.
• Lil presents himself as an LGTBQ+ icon, thus breaking molds and stereotypes of artists of his gender, color and religion 🏳️‍🌈

I want kids growing up feeling these feelings, knowing they’re a part of the LGBTQ community, to feel like they’re O.K. and they don’t have to hate themselves.

• In addition to the uproar generated by the song, it turns out Lil Nas X messed up a bit on another front! It all happened when he sold in just a few minutes, at $ 1,200 per pair, the 666 units of the dubbed as ‘Satan Shoes‘, an adaptation of Nike’s Air Max 97 artistic, transgressive and a bit tinged with blood 🩸

• This Norwegian pop rock band was born in Oslo in the 80s, although it was not until 2000 when they became known worldwide.
• The hit song ‘Mania’ was included in the album Babel Fish 🛒, the band’s first album, and was a huge hit in Europe.
• The song was not only played on the radio, but was also part of a tobacco commercial and the soundtrack of the legendary series Dawson Creek 📺

• Say So swept TikTok in 2020, being the most listened female song in 2020, along with Dua Lipa.
• The meaning is pretty straghtforward, Doja gives wings to her crush to be honest with her and confess his feelings. As Doja Cat explains:

It’s about when you go somewhere and you see someone and they don’t approach you, but you’re looking at each other and you both feel like there’s something there.

• The song has a pop sound influenced by disco and 70’s funk.
• Due to its success Doja released a remix of Say So with fellow rapper Nicki Minaj ✨

• With over 20 million copies sold 🤑, ‘It’s Now Or Never‘ is the most successful Elvis single of his entire career.
• If at the sound of this song you feel it resonates with you, you’re not wrong. Why? Because Elvis’ song is clearly inspired by the also famous ‘O Sole Mio‘ and Tony Martin’s ‘There’s No Tomorrow‘.
• Why ‘O Sole Mio‘? While in the army, Elvis was in Germany. It was there that he heard this song and was so hooked by it that he asked his record company for an English version – a great idea!
• Recording this song was also quite an answer to Frank Sinatra, who declared that Elvis didn’t have much vocal technique and that time would proof if he was really a good singer. Well!, you know the end of the story for the King of Rock 😅

• Trampas belongs to the 2nd studio album 🛒 of this Spanish artist. It definitely elevated Vanesa to the top of the latin music scene.
• Vanesa explained it like this:

Trampas is one of the first songs I composed when I was still working with Agua (the album), and when I sang it I was very excited… what I pretend is to “catch” people, that they stay with me

• You only have to see some of the comments on YouTube to understand the emotion that this song generates:
  • The best discovery of Spanish music
  • It brings out great emotions from the soul
  • THOSE WONDERFUL VIOLINS THE BEST!!!

• Rosalía revolutionized the world music scene when she rose to fame in 2018 with El Mal Querer.
• But before that she had already released songs like, Aunque es de Noche, an adaptation of “Qué bien sé yo la fonte“, a poem by San Juan de la Cruz that also served as inspiration for the song of the same name by Enrique Morente, released in 1983.
• The poem refers to the darkest days of a friar, who was imprisoned in Toledo (Spain) for a few months ⛓️
• How do you interpret the video? Like all Rosalia’s videos, it doesn’t leave you indifferent. For us, it is a celebration of death as part of life.

• ‘The Silence’ is included in the album ‘A Black Mile to The Surface 🛒’, a work that is entirely about family.
• In the song’s understated music video, the band plays in an empty amphitheater in the beginning, transitioning to a concert filled with people and lights in its final part.
• Andy Hull, a member of the band and the song’s composer, had this to say about the song:

‘The Silence’ is one of the songs I wrote – popped out of bed at one in the morning – it felt like I kinda had to get this thing down, and really, it’s a prayer to God. It’s God talking to me, God talking to my daughter, and then ultimately at the end, the finale is me praying over my daughter

• We can’t think of a more moving way to end this 2nd part of the best songs of all time, than with a tune that is already a classic.