For the first time since before Easter, there's a new #1 record in the US: BILLIE EILISH's minimalist, turn-the-tables pop song "BAD GUY." Eilish's song had spent nearly half of LIL NAS X's record-breaking 19-week "OLD TOWN ROAD" reign at #2, and she has just broken a longevity record of her own. "Bad Guy" is the longest-running #2 song to move up to #1, the bridesmaidiest bridesmaid ever to become the bride. It's decidedly not a song about a bridesmaid. I love both singles. They're both about resolve, self-determination and, perhaps, growing up, but get there in markedly different ways. "Old Town Road," which was already a hit on its own but got an extra boost, creatively and commercially, from BILLY RAY CYRUS, has a laid-back pace, a goofy sense of humor and a childlike sense of awe as Lil Nas X sets out to ride till he can't no more in search of what, exactly, he never says. In "Bad Guy," Eilish, who ditto with JUSTIN BIEBER, takes off on a propulsive, insistent four-on-the-floor beat as she sets out to explain to her bad-boy lover who's the real bad boy in their relationship. Her humor is tough, earthy and dark, her attack sassy and snarky, her vocal alternately robotic and seductive. She punctuates her declaration of her own badness with a glorious "duh." She doesn't have to say exactly where she's going; it's clear she knows. A feminist anthem for summer 2019, and another very worthy #1... Lil Nas X used one tweet to congratulate Eilish, and followed up an hour later with the self-aware pop joke of the summer, winning TWITTER at least for the day... Do you remember the last chart-topper that wasn't "Old Town Road"? It seems like years, doesn't it? It was this much-debated single, which spent a healthy eight weeks of its own at #1... Lost and found: HOLE, one of the artists that sued UNIVERSAL MUSIC over master tapes destroyed in an infamous 2008 warehouse fire, has dropped out, "based upon UMG’s representations that none of Hole’s masters was destroyed (subject to confirmation)." UMG has been saying all along that not as much was lost as the NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE and artists claim. Or, rather, UMG has been saying that for two months, which is how long it's been since the Times reported on the extent of a blaze that the record company had neglected to fully acknowledge for 11 years. If it had fully inventoried the losses a decade ago, we presumably wouldn't still be talking about this. But this is the first sign that at least some artists and their lawyers may buy the record company's argument—subject to confirmation, that is. SOUNDGARDEN, STEVE EARLE and the estates of TOM PETTY and TUPAC SHAKUR are still suing... The lead story below is about a new music documentary that's available only on rented VHS tapes, which can only be ordered via a phone number on flyers in random record stores and coffee shops. Which is, perhaps, the most ELEPHANT 6 thing ever.