Darla Dean Lewis grew up behind Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles, where she would regularly hear the sound of the fireworks at the culmination of a game. On her new single, “Dodger,” the New York-based artist, who makes pop music with a hyper-awareness of both the tropes of internet culture and Americana, wanted to recreate that feeling. The song starts slow before building to a soaring synth-pop chorus, one strong enough to score a coming-of-age movie, or a baseball highlights montage, or a coming-of-age movie about a baseball player that also includes a baseball highlights montage. It’s a chorus strong enough to drive, Mack truck style, through an atemporal fog of aesthetics. Music is powerful!

