From what I can tell, I think it's about this girl being dragged to a party, and then proceeded to be belittled for not going? It's kinda like Here by Alessia Cara if it was missing 93% of the content. Look, I'm sure there's SOME sort of story here. I't's so.nah I'm just fucking with you lol. It's so deep and lush, detailing a relationship breaking at the seems, with so much agony and angst that pile drives this into an absolute classic for me. But enough about that, what really sells this song to me is the narrative. Add a thick layer of bass and it'd be like a 14 year old with a shitty Soundcloud account remixing that dull music you hear in fancy restaurants. It's 1 sleep inducing piano line looped for eternity, this random ass clicking noise that shows up randomly that I mistakenly took as my computer breaking the first dozen times I heard it, and trap hi-hats added to the chorus/drop. This production is some of the most boring shit I think I've ever heard. In fact, I can't give this review without the blatant comparison to the other weird OHW from 2016: Gold by Kiiara, but we'll get to that later (yes Kiiara is a OHW, if she touches the top 20 again I will give up on Billboard's chart algorithm). So, is Down the start of the rise of a new A-lister in the making, or just another OHW to throw away into the bicycle bin after it's given 20 weeks?ĭefinitely the latter, but that has nothing to do with the songs quality. With all the above information giving me basically nothing, I was completely unbiased to hearing this. And with the release of a worthless wreck of a debut album, they now have launched themselves a top 30 hit from being included in an Apple commercial that was aired during the Superbowl. Introduce Down by Marian Hill: A songwriting/producing duo with borderline no past work other than remixes to various shitty songs, and 2 mildly awkward jazz-esque EPs that generated no buzz at all (except for a top 40 hit on the Alternative chart, which is basically the chart equivalent of learning how to do a bounce pass in basketball when you're in the NBA). So while I do still like to keep track of iTunes & Spotify charts because I'm a nerd, 40% of new entries I have no fucking idea will be coming.

Not only are there so much different shit the mainstream is now willing to listen to (it used to just be the sample genres like Pop, RnB, Rap & Country, now we get Trap, EDM, Wonky, damn near experimental sometimes too, who knows), but there's just so many factors to track now (Like fuck I'm gonna try and figure out how the fuck Panodra and Soundcloud stream points work).

Nowadays, I have absolutely no fucking idea. Back in 2014 and early 2015 when I watched the charts, I had a solid idea of what was going to chart and what type of music we'd be getting. The charts have been.weird these past couple of years.

Down by marian hill