After taking a two-post break from the Billboard Hot 100 chart, we’re back with this week’s #4 song, “Habits (Stay High)” by Tove Lo. Both…
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Top 40 Philosophy: DJ Khaled, “I’ll Hold You Down”
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This week on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, DJ Khaled’s “I’ll Hold You Down” is #1. The song features Chris Brown, August Alsina, Future, and…
Top 40 Philosophy: Bobby Shmurda, “Hot *****”
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During the inaugural week of Top 40 Philosophy, we philosophized about the top 3 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100. Next up was Tove Lo’s “Habits…
The last entry in this week’s Top 40 Philosophy is the current #3 song on Billboard’s Hot 100, Maroon 5’s “Animals.” That’s the lyric video…
Top 40 Philosophy: Meghan Trainor, “All About That Bass”
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In this, the second installment of “Top 40 Philosophy,” we turn to this week’s #2 song on Billboard’s Hot 100: Meghan Trainor’s “All About That…
Top 40 Philosophy: Taylor Swift, “Shake It Off”
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Welcome to “Top 40 Philosophy”* where I get to do one of my favorite things: analyze vapid pop music philosophically, just to prove: that you…
In “Fancy,” by Iggy Azalea, ft. Charli XCX, Ms. XCX sings: I’m in the fast lane from L.A. to Tokyo Just in case future anthropologists…
Nicki Minaj and Boethius
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In his Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius defines eternal beings as any one who “possesses the whole fulness of unending life at once.” That is, a…