Two songs.

I've heard bits and pieces of MIA's "Paper Planes" on the radio forever now, but somehow I never listened closely until the other day -- it was a nationwide Top 40 program, and Ryan Seacrest was like, "I just cannot get that song out of my head, folks!", too! -- and then I realized that it was the first gangster song I've ever liked. Usually I've made fun of white people like that, but what do you know, now I've turned out to be one.

I've also heard Beyonce's very self-serious "If I Were a Boy" lately, though it makes me always think of a Steve Martin line, "If I was a woman I'd sit around and play with my breasts all day."