Sign of the End Times?

At Rolling Stone, Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers interviews Elvis Costello.

NJ: In the last, like, 10 years, is there a pop record that you were surprised to have really liked?

EC: I always said the hardest thing in the world is to have a hit with a good song. I can think of lots of so-called contrived pop songs that are great. Motown was very calculated in the way they did things, but they had brilliant writers. And there are really beautiful melodies in Radiohead songs. Some people are frustrated because Radiohead won't make their records sound conventional. Most good music is like that. One record doesn't sound like the next one. The best things were made out of surprises.