AJR is an indie pop group active since 2005 and made up of three brothers: Adam Met, Jack Met, and Ryan Met. As you can probably guess after reading those name, AJR are their first initials. They started out busking in Central Park. In 2013 they sent a link to one of their songs out to a bunch of artists (the power of social media) and one worked out. Sia saw their video and told her manager about it, who told the label. So later that year, their debut EP was released, and they had earned themselves a lot of radioplay. In 2014 they released another EP, pushing back their album release by another year to give it some new songs. They released another EP in 2016, and their second album in 2017 which is where this song is from. They've been touring since. So Rivers Cuomo is featured on this, and I didn't know the name at first, but he's the frontman in Weezer who I've featured before. He's done a lot of things besides being in that band including collaborating with a lot of people, creating another band, and getting a Bachelor of Arts degree. There's a quote I found from him that I really like and kind of sums up my feelings about why this song is for the category that it is. He said that pop music "moves people and is important, and relevant to our culture in a way that serious classical music isn't right now." Succinct and very true of the times.
This criteria is a song the gave you goosebumps the first time you heard it. My grandma went with Only The Lonely by Roy Orbinson, my mom picked Sleep Without You by Brett Young, and Anna chose Hello by Adelle. Will went with Trivium again, this time with the song Shogun. Sammy was the last to give me a song, going with Dancing On My Own by Calum Scott.
Peace.
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