Music: This Was Pop: This Was Pop discovers the softer side of the rock-songs chart

A.V. Club writers Genevieve Koski and Steven Hyden explore the Billboard charts every month in search of the good, the bad, and the ugly of contemporary pop music in all its forms. Today, they take a look at the rock songs chart for November 3, 2012.Fun, “Some Nights” (No. 1) Steven: Like the majority of Fun’s breakout sophomore album Some Nights, the title track was co-written by Jeff Bhasker, the much in-demand songwriter-musician-producer who also pitched in on Taylor Swift’s Redand Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, among many other recent pop smashes ...