“Meet Me At Our Spot” by The Anxiety

"Meet Me at Our Spot" first surfaced on March 13, 2020, tucked onto the self-titled debut album by the Anxiety, the duo of Willow Smith and Tyler Cole, through MSFTSMusic and Roc Nation. Willow carries the credits for the lyric and the production, and on arrival the song went precisely nowhere.

Then TikTok found it. In 2021 it turned into a slow-burn smash, soundtracking countless summer clips and humming under cartoon videos, and radio caught up that October with an official push to pop stations. It climbed to 21 on the Billboard Hot 100, Willow's highest placing since "Whip My Hair" in 2010, and went top ten in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Popsugar's Kelsey Garcia heard sludgy alternative with an emo streak, and that's the charm: a hazy, lived-in groove that never sounds like it was angling to be a hit.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.