Adult Contemporary Week: Tina Turner "I Don't Want To Fight" (1993)

I have this weird, inexplicable affection for adult contemporary music. This is the music that most people never listen to on purpose, yet it is ubiquitous. It seeps through the air like mist and lands in some deep center of your brain. You've never actively listened to it, yet you are as familiar with every song on the Delilah show as you are with some of your favorite albums. Adult contemporary music is an unstoppable phenomenon, born of a long series of compromises. It shined in the 90s. It excelled. And I'm going to remind you of it all week.

I'm starting off with a big jam, one you could sing along to but be unable to explain how you're doing it. Sung earnestly by one of music's most persevering artists, it achieves a rare feat of being simultaneously smooth and anthemic.