My Top 1000 Songs #917: Maybe

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

Here's one of those songs that came to my attention through its well-placed inclusion on a tv show, and is impossible for me to hear without unfailingly conjuring its original visual incarnation. In this case, it was The Good Place, one of my favorite shows ever, with "Maybe," from indie pop act The Submarines, backing a moving montage of Kristin Bell struggling, unsuccessfully, to become a better person in the season two finale.

The song itself (from 2008's Honeysuckle Weeks) is pretty great, married couple John Dragonetti and Blake Hazard trading licks over some gently propulsive bedroom electronica-pop. It's a bit twee and cute and sprawling, but it's also relentlessly heartwarming, a song that makes me feel like a big ol' sap, and that's ok. I think it stands up just fine on its own--something I gladly throw onto playlists these days--but, yeah, for me it's hard to keep Kristin Bell out of the picture.

The Good Place: