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- Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande, “Rain on Me” It’s common practice for music fans to dub different songs “the anthem” of a specific year. But in 2020 — a year defined (and constantly redefined) by how preternaturally awful things can actually get — one song in particular served as its saving grace.
- The Weeknd, “Blinding Lights” The numbers speak for themselves, don’t they? In addition to “Blinding Lights” ending up the No. 1 Hot 100 song of the year, the longstanding megahit has enjoyed record-setting stays in the chart’s top 5 and top 10 regions, as well as atop Billboard’s all-format Radio Songs airplay chart and Hot R&B Songs.
- Megan Thee Stallion feat. Beyoncé, “Savage” (Remix) “Savage” was a smash even before Megan Thee Stallion recruited hip-hop royalty for a remix. The song, which became a national obsession thanks to a raunchy dance challenge on TikTok, featured Meg at her most confident, clever and magnetic, layering sharp rhymes about her body, finances and game over a club-ready hook.
- Harry Styles, “Adore You” Harry Styles’ “Adore You” is one of those perfect pop gems that only arrives so often, and has to be played on repeat until someone in the household complains.
May 3, 2024 · Michael Bay delivered one of the best movies of his career two years ago with Ambulance, a thrill ride of muscle and mayhem (ahem, Bayhem) that keeps your heart pounding and your senses ablaze ...
- Daniel Avery – Lone Swordsman
- Chloe X Halle – Do It
- Terrace Martin and Denzel Curry – Pig Feet
- Romy – Lifetime
- Fiona Apple – Ladies
- Dua Lipa – Hallucinate
- PA Salieu – My Family
- Bob Dylan – Murder Most Foul
- Miley Cyrus – Midnight Sky
- Jayda G – Both of Us
The title is a reference to Two Lone Swordsman, a project by the late DJ and producer Andrew Weatherall, and the track itself was made on the day he died in February: “A hero, a friend and someone who regularly reminded us all how it should be done, not to mention the funniest fucker around,” in Avery’s words. The music Avery made is a poignant tri...
When Halle Bailey sings the heavenly pre-chorus to Do It, you half expect twittering birds and frolicking squirrels to appear, Snow White-style, as her vocals flutter up the scale. She isn’t summoning woodland spirits but the guardian angels of a charmed night out: “homies only”, “no drama”, “keepin’ it cute”. The fact that any kind of soiree is fa...
The frustration, terror and rage experienced by Black people following the killing of George Floyd is distilled into a track that vibrates with post-traumatic stress. Martin is a multi-hyphenate talent who has long brought jazz into rap (including as co-producer of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly); here he uses hand drums as an Easter-egg nod ...
Romy Madley Croft’s debut single is powerfully – and precisely – nostalgic: as she takes a temporary break from the xx’s intimate hush to explore airy, polychromatic synth-pop, she echoes New Order’s emergence from Joy Division and Vince Clarke abandoning lugubrious Depeche Mode for the pop visions of Yazoo and later Erasure. It suits her gorgeousl...
The resonant double bass on Ladies swings between buoyant ease and defeated slump. It’s between these poles that Fiona Apple vacillates as she proposes establishing a lineage of her ex’s exes, how they might bond by rejecting the conventional mistrust intended to divide them. She knows it’s hopeless: “Yet another woman to whom I won’t get through,”...
If 2020 had gone to plan, Hallucinate would have been the cathartic high point of Dua Lipa’s Glastonbury set: that fateful Worthy Farm moment where wholesome day catalyses into suggestive night, when the weight in your ankles dissipates and the festival truly becomes supernatural. That communal promise had to be repurposed as private reverie as Lip...
BackRoad Gee returns the favour after Pa Salieu appeared on his equally extraordinary track Party Popper earlier in the year, showing the once-in-a-generation affinity shared by these two MCs. They wear their African heritage with pride, their accents ringing with Congolese and Gambian musicality; BackRoad Gee uses bolts of plosive consonants to st...
Releasing albums of cover versions in recent years, Dylan seemed to be nestling into his slippers by the fire, so it was exhilarating to see him kick them off and walk on the coals once more. Murder Most Foul is a true masterpiece that equals his very best songs, and at 17 minutes it’s his longest ever. Centred on the John F Kennedy assassination, ...
Midnight Sky is ragingly lonely and thrillingly reckless in rejection. The rumbling echo of the first verse summons Cyrus alone in a dive-bar bathroom, the party raging through the wall as she gives herself a pep talk about getting the hell out; her huge, brackish voice finds its ultimate purpose in the chorus, churning with indignation about the i...
There is a moment about halfway through Jayda G’s loose, mellow disco-house marvel where the tempo crawls almost to a halt, allowing you to savour the richness of every piano chord. More than that, it conjures that moment on a dancefloor where you take a moon-eyed moment to watch and appreciate your beautiful friends as they’re lost in the music. “...
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- Fleetwood Mac, ‘Dreams’ Apparently lightning can strike twice. Out of all the craziness this year, no one saw in their crystal visions that “Dreams” would get a second life: a smash hit 43 years after Rumours was released.
- Caroline Rose, ‘Feel the Way I Want’ A highlight off formerly rootsy songwriter Rose’s synth-y fourth album, Superstar, riding a Prince groove wherever she wants it to take her, “Feel the Way I Want” sounds like a sweaty dance club well past midnight.
- Sam Hunt, ‘Hard to Forget’ The latest earworm from Nashville’s pop provocateur began with a sonic concept as daring as it was irreverent: Hunt transformed a Fifties honky-tonk chorus from Webb Pierce’s classic song “There Stands the Glass” into a convincing hip-hop sample that anchored this playful ode to being in the throes of romantic rejection.
- Jarv Is, ‘House Music All Night Long’ Heavy-breathing Brit-pop sex poet and fashion icon Jarvis Cocker returns, 25 years after he became a legend yelping the Pulp classic “Common People.”
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Jun 30, 2020 · There are movie references, pop culture references, and nods to more than 70 songs mentioned in this nearly 17-minute tale - a tale held together with some precision, violin, piano and barely a ...
3 days ago · Flip through the slideshow for 20 of the best country songs of the 2020s, featuring songs from artists like Tyler Childers, Morgan Wade, Luke Combs, and Ashley McBryde that every fan should know.
