Loaded Questions 5/23/22 - Pop Music
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This Monday edition is available to all Loaded Question readers. Be sure to subscribe to unlock 55 more questions every week! Before LL93 started, I sat down and wrote 100 questions about the last year or so of popular music, in an effort to brush up and get some of those good Pop Music points. If you're subscribed to this newsletter, this shouldn’t surprise you at all. Today’s post is 11 of those 100 questions. Please enjoy!
1. "First Class" is a 2022 #1 hit for what Kentucky-born rapper who Lil Nas X collaborated with on the song "Industry Baby"?
2. The most streamed Nigerian artist of all time on Spotify, what singer born Ayodeji Balogun is known in the US for the 2021 song "Essence" and being featured on the 2016 Drake song "One Dance"?
3. After Darius Rucker in 2009, who in 2021 became the second Black artist to win the CMA Award for New Artist of the Year, coming from songs like "Best Shot" and "Make Me Want To" from his album "Mercury Lane"?
4. Billie Eilish won the 2020 Grammy for Best new Artist, but what brother was nominated for the 2022 award, based on the 2021 album "Optimist"?
5. "Feeling betrayed when you see your ex stepping into a new relationship while you're still reeling from your separation" is a line from what 2021 Olivia Rodrigo song that might be about actor Joshua Bassett?
6. What is the middle name of Jane Oranika, the rapper whose 2020 EP "Industry Games" won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Music Artist?
7. "Leave the Door Open" is the debut single of what duo consisting of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak?
8. The album cover for Drake's 2021 album "Certified Lover Boy" (now setting the record for most US top-ten singles from one album) depicts twelve emojis of what?
9. Winning a 2020 Billboard Music Award for Top R&B Female Artist, and releasing the song "Playing Games" on the album "Over It", what singer taught herself guitar through YouTube tutorials while working as a stripper in Atlanta?
10. Ryan, Adam, and Jack Met are the three brothers who make up what indie trio who released the 2020 song "Bang!" on their album "OK Orchestra"?
11. To be released in June, what upcoming song by BTS with the parenthetical subtitle (The Most Beautiful Moment) has a title that is currently incredibly on the nose?
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1. "First Class" is a 2022 #1 hit for what Kentucky-born rapper who Lil Nas X collaborated with on the song "Industry Baby"? Jack Harlow
2. The most streamed Nigerian artist of all time on Spotify, what singer born Ayodeji Balogun is known in the US for the 2021 song "Essence" and being featured on the 2016 Drake song "One Dance"? Wizkid
3. After Darius Rucker in 2009, who in 2021 became the second Black artist to win the CMA Award for New Artist of the Year, coming from songs like "Best Shot" and "Make Me Want To" from his album "Mercury Lane"? Jimmie Allen
4. Billie Eilish won the 2020 Grammy for Best new Artist, but what brother was nominated for the 2022 award, based on the 2021 album "Optimist"? Finneas
5. "Feeling betrayed when you see your ex stepping into a new relationship while you're still reeling from your separation" is a line from what 2021 Olivia Rodrigo song that might be about actor Joshua Bassett? Traitor
6. What is the middle name of Jane Oranika, the rapper whose 2020 EP "Industry Games" won a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Music Artist? CHIKA
7. "Leave the Door Open" is the debut single of what duo consisting of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak? Silk Sonic
8. The album cover for Drake's 2021 album "Certified Lover Boy" (now setting the record for most US top-ten singles from one album) depicts twelve emojis of what? Pregnant women
9. Winning a 2020 Billboard Music Award for Top R&B Female Artist, and releasing the song "Playing Games" on the album "Over It", what singer taught herself guitar through YouTube tutorials while working as a stripper in Atlanta? Summer Walker
10. Ryan, Adam, and Jack Met are the three brothers who make up what indie trio who released the 2020 song "Bang!" on their album "OK Orchestra"? AJR
11. To be released in June, what upcoming song by BTS with the parenthetical subtitle (The Most Beautiful Moment) has a title that is currently incredibly on the nose? Yet To Come