Nicky Youre

One Liner: Treacly sweet pop hits punctuated by the BILLION streamed "Sunroof"
Wikipedia Genre: pop
Home: L.A.

Poster Position: Third Quarter - Line 20
Day: Friday
Weekend One Only.

Thoughts:  WHAT IS HAPPENING?  I was thinking this was going to be some little pop girl throwaway from that name, and instead this young man (who I have never heard of) has a song with over a billion streams.  A BILLION!  For some little poppy nugget released in 2023.  What the crap is this?

Also amazing, this is terrible.  It doesn't help that the big hit is represented as five of his most popular tunes (there are at least five remixes with other "stars" on it), but it's also just brutal, banal pop garbage.  His newest single has him singing "you and I makes WEEEEEEEIIIIIIIEEEEEE" over and over again and it makes me want to die.  Let's get this sucker done.

Nicholas Scott Ure grew up in Aliso Viejo, California and played water polo at his high school.  People who can play water polo are terrifying.  I am winded after about 5 minutes of treading water, and those fools not only tread water for seven hours but also have to murder a bunch of other dudes while they are trying to not drown themselves.  Terrifying.  He went on to continue playing for Golden West College and then a full degree from UC San Diego.

His first single was 2020, but it was his second single (actually released in 2021, not 2023 like I said earlier) that blew the doors off of it all.  "Sunroof" reached the Top 30 in Australia and #5 on Billboard's Hot 100.  1.171 billion streams.

Sure.  Total earworm with sweet, saccharine, weightless lovestruck cuteness.  I hear it.  But it also just sounds like the sort of thing that is already out of the consciousness of every teen who thought it was fun several years ago.  Like, can you name one of the two 2021 Bieber songs with over a billion streams?  I cannot.  This too feels like it will melt away like cotton candy.

A jillion streams behind that track, you get "Eyes On You" in the rearview mirror.  71.6 million streams.

Gotta use "Sunroof" at the start of the video to remind everyone why we are here.  Also, I truly hate the line "sweet tea like Arizona"  Yuck.  Another sickly sweet pop nugget that is earwormy and catchy but nothing to it other than lines that make me cringe.

I hope all of the TikTok kids have fun at this one!