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Mar 2, 2021 5:00 AM
Brother band
AJR
released their hit "Bang!" back in February of 2020, but it's still going strong, having just topped
Billboard's
Adult Pop Songs airplay chart last week. So why
does
the song have such staying power? AJR member
Jack Met
says it's because of two things: the pandemic, and being "just quirky enough" to catch people's ears.
"
We wrote it, obviously, before the pandemic started," Jack tells ABC Audio about the success of "Bang!"
"But it really sounded -- and
sounds
-- like the time that we were in when it was first starting to get played on the radio," he explains. "It has this really apocalyptic feel, with the trumpets and the chorus coming in. It sounds a little bit evil and a little darker than what you're used to from us, or other stuff on the radio."