Michael S. Pascua The Life of a Freelancer

My Top 30 Songs of 2009 – Number 22

22) Pink - Please Don't Leave Me

Like I mentioned with Owl City at 23, "Please Don't Leave Me" has one strong music video based off of the Stephen King classic, Misery. I found this song to be really good top 40 fodder, because it then ended up on the Lite FM stations. Why you may ask? Well because the Lite stations were all intimidated by the "Fresh" station. So they countered by playing Pink. (And groups like The Fray, but I thought that Pink's inclusion was more interesting because she has "edge") Apparently because the Lite stations think that she's what the young'uns listen to.

Either way, the song was one of those that always seemed to be in rotation, which I'm not sure is good or bad. The song got annoying by November, but then the Christmas music started playing. I hope the radio stations reevaluate their music line-up by 2010.

I was convinced that I should pick "Please Don't Leave Me" over "Sober" because of the longevity. If I had to pick the better song, I would have easily picked "Sober." But since I'm picking the song that made the most impact on me, it's "Please Don't Leave Me."