This is not so bad.
Wild Thoughts - DJ Khaled ft Rihanna & Bryson Tiller
At some point, I woke up and DJ Khaled, a portly middle-aged Palestinian-American, was suddenly an extremely famous cult figure, and, as well as that, all Number 1 singles had minimum three credited artists and it was hard to tell who did what.
DJ Khaled is fun, it seems, does silly stuff, grafted in the shadows for many years, and then, somewhat bafflingly, started to have megahits.
Bryson Tiller I don't much about. Sounds a bit like a fisherman from Mull. Rihanna's a Barbadian cricket fan.
This isn't her finest work, but she does the job. There are lots of things going on with this song, it doesn't want to lose your interest, which is better than songs that do want to lose your interest, but only a little bit. There's a guitar sample from Santana's Maria Maria, and general good vibes.
It had a lot to compete against to get to Number 1 in 2017. In fact, it was only Number 1 for one week as an intermission between two of Despacito's three (3!) stints at the top, lasting 11 weeks in total.
Also that year - Shape of You wrapped it up for a few months, Sign of the Times by Styles, Symphony, Artists for Grenfell, New Rules, Look What you Made Me Do, Rockstar, Havana, and I'm the One, oxymoronically by DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne (could have been called I'm the one of five, arf) and Feels by, more modestly, Calvin Harris featuring Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry and Big Sean.
There was the "Corbyn's good actually" election that summer, swiftly followed by the sheer awfulness of Grenfell.
I don't really know what else happened that summer. We had had really not very much good sleep for a year, and were just, then, starting to get a bit more, and that was the main thing, really.
DJ Khaled famously streamed his son's birth on snapchat in 2016. Each to their own.
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