that wrecking ball goes back to number one. so miley cyrus picked the right year to be a provocateur and to use video as the means to be that provocateur. [shutters clicking] [reporters shouting lorde! ] [este] in the 2010s, if you bought a mac, you had garageband. you could start making music that sounded good. and then you put the song on soundcloud or on youtube, and then it gets all this traction. i ve never seen a diamond in the flesh [puja] when lorde dropped royals on soundcloud, it felt like this subversive jab that paralleled the mission of the song, which is that not everything belongs in this glossy package. but every song is like gold teeth, grey goose trippin in the bathroom blood stains, ballgowns, trashin the hotel room we don t care we re driving cadillacs in our dreams [finneas] such a well-written song, really interesting vocal delivery, super minimalistic production. i don t know what the label thought the first time they heard that song,
all i wanted was to break your world there were so many views for his video that wrecking ball goes back to number one. so, miley cyrus picked the right year to be a provocateur, and she used video as a means to be that provocateur. in the 2010s, if you bought a mac, you had garage band, you could start making music that sounded good. and you put it on youtube and it gets all this traction. i ve never seen a diamond in the flesh when lorde drop if i had been
so this is kind of the first time we have a really good tool, where we can track just how much video play is fueling the success of a hit. i came in like a wrecking ball i never hit so hard in love [chris] miley cyrus s timing is excellent because 2013, the year she drops wrecking ball, is the same year that youtube now counts for the charts. wr-wr-wreck me [chris] that s an excellent pop record. but the reason it goes to number one is because of that music video, where she s riding a wrecking ball in the altogether. i came in like a wrecking ball [chris] one quirk of the number one run by wrecking ball was that a fan shoots a viral video three months later. all i wanted was to break your walls [chris] and there are so many views for his video that wrecking ball goes back to number one. so miley cyrus picked the right year to be a provocateur and to use video as the means to be that provocateur.
we are now famous for it. texas may be the most famous but there s a lot of states that will be coming up right up behind them because this is going to keep going on until we do something. frank, claire did the difficult work of bringing our focus back to the shooter, the murderer, who let me read what nbc news is reporting about him today. extremist beliefs were shared on a social media page appearing to belong to the gunman would killed eight in a dallas area outlet mall with rants against jews, women and racial minorities, posted on the account since september. the gunman maintained a profile on the russian social networking platform ok.ru which references online forums such as forchan and white nationalists including nick tune test, an anti-semitic white nationalist provocateur who also dined with donald trump
minority leader mitch mcconnell, for example, or ron desantis, the florida governor. how has the calculus shifted between when trump last ran and now? there s an acknowledgment among advicers and allies that donald trump lost in 2020, and in order to be able to pitch to voters and including those within the republican party, he s got to broaden out his appeal beyond the republican party as we know it here. and that is where you have seen this really, the paradigm shift to more of an us versus them. creating an opposition party as opposed to a republican party operation here. and that is what we saw in 2016 was donald trump sort of the republican party go to hell i m doing this here, and i m something greater. i m going to appeal for working class voters who voted for democrats in past presidential elections and that s exactly what they are trying to cobble up this time. there s a right wing provocateur