Dev Hynes, "Everything Is Embarrassing"

Lost in the slightly tense but mostly tepid feud between songwriter Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange) and Sky Ferreira over artistic ownership of “Everything Is Embarrassing” is the document itself. Ferreira’s version, the enormous hit, is slick and perfect and instantly imprints itself on your brain, where it is stored as just one or two repeating stanzas. Hynes’s version, a functional and unpolished demo, feels small and tentative — it sounds embarrassed.