I Knew You Were Trouble
That song was everywhere in 2012. Not because it was brilliant, but because it was sticky in a way that made you feel smart for noticing the red flags in other people’s relationships while completely missing them in your own. The production is clean enough, the chorus is built to get stuck in your head for three days, and there’s something about the way she sings shame on me
that sounds like she’s already moved on even as she’s writing about it. It’s the kind of song that’s impossible not to like if you let yourself, and after a certain point, I stopped pretending I didn’t.