2003 in Muisc: Song of the Year

It's All Right, Sooner or Later

This year it seems as though we've been at a loss for "anthems" that carry us through the summer, that we see everyone singing, and gets played again and again and again such that after about a week, you're already sick of it. Maybe I should be thankful that the record companies took the year off from pimping the "big" single, or else I'm willfully choosing to supress something since it was so goddamn awful. How often have that new Britney Spears song or Pink's "I'm Trouble" been played? Neither seem to have diffused through to public many repeated playings.

...and so, I'm left coming up with a favourite that probably hasn't been played on the radio.

•"21st Century Living" -- Matthew Good

From his debut solo album, Avalanche, "21st Century Living" is like a Rick Mercer rant set to music -- funny, relevant, biting, and catchy. Ringing in at just over three minutes, Good tackles "super-sizing" and "ambition".

"I'd like a super-size of death with a Coke."