It's an instrumental flourish that elegantly echoes the first-love blushes Glynne gushes over, and has a leap-out-of-speakers immediacy that not only stuck in listeners' heads but stuck out, making "Rather Be" one of the most buoyant radio hits of the '10s. — Maura Johnston
The real star of British electro outfit Clean Bandit's 2014 collaboration with soul belter Jess Glynne isn't the redhead singer — although she does contribute a powerhouse vocal — but the insistent violin line that recurs throughout the giddy banger. It's an instrumental flourish that elegantly echoes the first-love blushes Glynne gushes over, and has a leap-out-of-speakers immediacy that not only stuck in listeners' heads but stuck out, making "Rather Be" one of the most buoyant radio hits of the '10s. — Maura Johnston