Culture: Antoine Dodson’s rant good enough for a Billboard Hot 100 bow
- 89 its position on this week’s chart; tell your kids, tell your wife source
Music: Pop song rhythms + stock market volatility = An awesome graphic
- This is kind of awesome. Comparing stock trends with pop hits (complete with links to YouTube videos for each song) is pretty brilliant. In case you’re wondering, the songs are chosen not by their popularity, but by their beat variance. They represent the average. Which is why Erasure’s 1994 hit “Always” got picked over Bon Jovi’s 1994 hit “Always.” source