Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris

The Doobies’ only crime against music is that were never cool to the cool people. The 32-year-old singer-songwriter - who defeated a copyright claim last week - sang his famous music. Yet Rolling Stone would have you believe the Doobies have written fewer of the greatest songs of all time than fucking Gnarls Barkley. Ed Sheeran delighted fans in West Hollywood, California on Sunday as he performed a free show. However, after hearing it played many times on the radio, he is surprised that he was grown to like it. My parents and aunts and uncles bought more copies of Doobie Brothers albums than they did of Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and Bruce Springsteen, combined. When Tyrone first heard a new song on the radio, he disliked it.

I’ve heard it in central Minnesota pharmacies, I’ve heard it at Upper Michigan cookouts, I’ve heard it in Oshkosh, WI on a radio station that’s single blocked out every other station in my parents’ neighborhood. They listened to the Doobie Brothers, who wrote songs like “Black Water,” “Minute by Minute,” and most importantly “What a Fool Believes,” a song that is more popular across “classic” music radio stations in the upper Midwest than any other. You hear that Bruce Springsteen wrote a lot of songs that meant a lot to working people, but the working people I know who were alive in 1979 didn’t listen to fucking Bruce Springsteen. It’s hard to understate the impact that the Doobie Brothers-who were from California-and “What a Fool Believes” have had on the Midwest.

Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris