And she’s cool with that: “I love the expression ‘one hit wonder’,” Carlton told Elle magazine in 2017. So when, around 2014, the concept of the “basic bitch” emerged via a viral CollegeHumor video, A Thousand Miles was a staple signifier. The “girliness” of A Thousand Miles also lent itself to parody, or was this actually earnest enjoyment cloaked in macho posturing? That happens when A Thousand Miles comes on the radio and they are unable to sing along to all the words. We wouldn’t still be humming it 17 years later if it wasn’t actually a pretty decent pop song, would we?

Source: The Guardian May 28, 2019 07:52 UTC