best of mokis best of 2020 | FINAL update - AOTY/SOTY revealed !

[Alex]

boyfriend, baby and fever 

[madonnas]

hey screw you!  i was going to be the first one to shock the masses by putting a madison beer on my list next to a bunch of indie pretentious ****!  

 

the best song from soul lady is probably the title track, so im glad you got that right, but to be fair, it was not an easy decision to make.  yukika should be higheer, she's way better than anything else on the album update! tho i guess i haven't heard taemin lol.

 

empress of is very good though.  i agree w your description of folklore but it ain't gonna be on my list tbh.  its just... good, but not great to me. 

[madonnas]

also this stayc song is good wtf who are they 

[Mr. Loco]

Fever is a great bop, Dua & Angelique's voices work great together! 

 

folklore is a really cute album, I loved her pop sound more, but this one is great too 

[Psycho]

Cute songs but only StayC Gurrs made my list
Folklore flopping

[BlackoutZone]

Surprised this Ariana rip off is so high, but that's definitely my favorite Madison track so far

Even more surprised with Fever since it didn't make my list, but the chemistry between them is truly great, Dua wisely chooses her collabs

 

So happy to see the double Soul Lady acclaim, I remember lurking on RYM after the album dropped and you gave the album 1.5/5  or smth, what's the tea 

 

Eversnooze wishes to be AOTYlore wbk

[mokitsu]

1 hour ago, Madame X said:

hey screw you!  i was going to be the first one to shock the masses by putting a madison beer on my list next to a bunch of indie pretentious ****!  

mine is more pop-oriented anyway, you'll still have that title hiihih and i got into yukika very recently (last month i think) after being an obsessed hater for a while, which is why its not higher over albums ive loved for longer. but maybe it'll creep into the t10 eventually who knows

 

13 minutes ago, BlackoutZone said:

So happy to see the double Soul Lady acclaim, I remember lurking on RYM after the album dropped and you gave the album 1.5/5  or smth, what's the tea 

oop i quite hated her ass. i fell asleep to Soul Lady the first 10 times i listened to and i found it to be very overrated (by a certain user i might be quoting rn ) especially when you compared it to What's Your Pastor?  but i got around to it recently, and of course it's extremely good

[Blue Rose]

Folklore. Loved Cardigan, the 1, August and Exile. 
taylor actually going to make an appearance on my list, for the first time ever

Halsey cute, but the album was a mumbo jumbo. But I liked a couple of tracks. 

[Staryu]

Folklore, Empress Of, Fever, and Baby  I was obsessed with Baby for like a month

[Lee!!]

Boyfriend

[nasa]

wait, love the graphics 

[TheWayWeWere]

Boyfriend was great, should've been promoted to full single

Fever is such a surprise  I love minimalistic bops

Baby being 5th lead  I liked Selfish more I think, but this is nice too

 

Folklore and Manic Halsey still being so underrated  

[Enigmanotta]

Ahhh the YUKIGOD sweep!

 

[Remmy]

Fever is cute but doesn't do a lot for me. Boyfriend || Dedicated Side B I will always prefer the original though. There's some strong highlights on Manic + I'm Your Empress Of, including finally // beautiful stranger & Love Is a Drug. folklore august is the best track from it YUP!

[1998tweety]

Soul Lady, Taemin, folklore, Manic whew the taste on this update Yukika absolutely released one of the best albums of the whole year

Baby is cute too, deserved to smash a bit. If the blackfisher can do it then why can't Madison too?

[hjelp]

i need sum credit for putting you on taemin x but yes talented king   folklore too low 

[Ewan Chaos]

Fifth LEAD single?  Who is this woman.

 

Soul Lady a GAWGEOUS title track. Yukika also probably my favorite in your album list, or Empress Of. Yukika retired? nnn bummer right when I was finally into a KPOP act  

[madonnas]

8 hours ago, mokitsu said:

mine is more pop-oriented anyway, you'll still have that title hiihih and i got into yukika very recently (last month i think) after being an obsessed hater for a while, which is why its not higher over albums ive loved for longer. but maybe it'll creep into the t10 eventually who knows

 

oop i quite hated her ass. i fell asleep to Soul Lady the first 10 times i listened to and i found it to be very overrated (by a certain user i might be quoting rn ) especially when you compared it to What's Your Pastor?  but i got around to it recently, and of course it's extremely good

you mirroring my 2015 list  that was the year i really delved deep into kpop and got into a pop frenzy

 

(not that its a bad thing, im still a poptimist) 

 

glad you switched like a ****** on yukika. 

[mokitsu]

15 minutes ago, Ewan Chaos said:

Yukika retired? nnn bummer right when I was finally into a KPOP act  

she left her label after dropping this legendary debut i think she still wants to continue doing city pop so hopefully she gets the liberty and resources to do so

[K$Ellie]

Baby kinda stomped on positions huh

 

 

Boyfriend is whatever, So Bad is cute enough, Fever is a nice bop and Soul Lady is a stun

love to see some Manic acclaim, it's a great album despite what a lot of people say, lowkey too experimental for them

folklore far too low but I'll take it and pray that you'll see the light with evermore by the end of the year

Soul Lady flawless album, glad it's so high  Never Gonna Dance Again on the other hand, quite hit of miss

[Legend E]

nice to see manic here, it's a very underrated album

 

i actually relistened to folklore after a while and ended up liking it. the songwriting still falls flat in some places though.

[Pink Matter]

Ugh I'm so behind on updates but I saw many good picks!

I actually quite liked Chilombo the few times I listened to it. There were some really nice standout tracks besides the singles (the Ab Soul and John Legend tracks for instance).

Tennis' singles really slayed me at the beginning of the year (!!) but I for some reason I never went back to the album. I initially felt the singles were soooo much stronger than the album as a whole.

I think people do a biT too much on Disclosure (FWIW I quite enjoyed Caracal ) The Energy EP was solid and the little bit I heard of the album was also quite good too.

[Lazuli]

boyfriend is a cute girl  

manic is the only decent halsey album

folklore a little low but i'll take it! great to see peace in your top 3 tho

empress of  

[mokitsu]

Spoiler

 

On 12/11/2020 at 10:49 AM, dreamofyou said:

boyfriend, baby and fever

 

folklore yup

 

On 12/11/2020 at 10:51 AM, Navyofbadgals said:

Fever very good yup, good to see you have some taste!

 

On 12/11/2020 at 10:59 AM, geodancefreak said:

Fever 

 

20 hours ago, Sunderland 4ever said:

Spot-on write-up! Great track.

 

I was pleasantly surprised by Taylor's album. Will surely check her latest realease out.

 

19 hours ago, ikiru said:

So Bad! Really in love with that song recently!

Fever is cute, a little underwhelming, but the two of them sound great together!

Yukika and Taemin Korean excellence

 

19 hours ago, Supervillain said:

Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow, the amount of excellence in this update! Baby, So Bad, Fever are all 10/10s and I do agree about STAYC being rookie of the year, they just did the damn thing that had to be done and the whole group looks and sounds really solid and each member is special, love them so much. Manic is a massively underrated record for no reason, I think Halsey did a really great job there and it's such a well-put record, Folklore and I'm Your Empress Of are both classics  

 

19 hours ago, dangerousalex said:

boyfriend, baby and fever 

 

18 hours ago, Mr. Loco said:

Fever is a great bop, Dua & Angelique's voices work great together! 

 

folklore is a really cute album, I loved her pop sound more, but this one is great too 

 

18 hours ago, Psycho said:

Cute songs but only StayC Gurrs made my list
Folklore flopping

 

18 hours ago, BlackoutZone said:

Surprised this Ariana rip off is so high, but that's definitely my favorite Madison track so far

Even more surprised with Fever since it didn't make my list, but the chemistry between them is truly great, Dua wisely chooses her collabs

 

So happy to see the double Soul Lady acclaim, I remember lurking on RYM after the album dropped and you gave the album 1.5/5  or smth, what's the tea 

 

Eversnooze wishes to be AOTYlore wbk

 

17 hours ago, Blue Rose said:

Folklore. Loved Cardigan, the 1, August and Exile. 
taylor actually going to make an appearance on my list, for the first time ever

Halsey cute, but the album was a mumbo jumbo. But I liked a couple of tracks. 

 

17 hours ago, Staryu said:

Folklore, Empress Of, Fever, and Baby  I was obsessed with Baby for like a month

 

16 hours ago, Lee!! said:

Boyfriend

 

16 hours ago, Valtersen said:

wait, love the graphics 

 

15 hours ago, TheWayWeWere said:

Boyfriend was great, should've been promoted to full single

Fever is such a surprise  I love minimalistic bops

Baby being 5th lead  I liked Selfish more I think, but this is nice too

 

Folklore and Manic Halsey still being so underrated  

 

14 hours ago, Enigmanotta said:

Ahhh the YUKIGOD sweep!

 

 

13 hours ago, Remmy said:

Fever is cute but doesn't do a lot for me. Boyfriend || Dedicated Side B I will always prefer the original though. There's some strong highlights on Manic + I'm Your Empress Of, including finally // beautiful stranger & Love Is a Drug. folklore august is the best track from it YUP!

 

12 hours ago, 1998tweety said:

Soul Lady, Taemin, folklore, Manic whew the taste on this update Yukika absolutely released one of the best albums of the whole year

Baby is cute too, deserved to smash a bit. If the blackfisher can do it then why can't Madison too?

 

9 hours ago, hjelp said:

i need sum credit for putting you on taemin x but yes talented king   folklore too low 

 

9 hours ago, Ewan Chaos said:

Fifth LEAD single?  Who is this woman.

 

Soul Lady a GAWGEOUS title track. Yukika also probably my favorite in your album list, or Empress Of. Yukika retired? nnn bummer right when I was finally into a KPOP act  

 

8 hours ago, K$Ellie said:

Baby kinda stomped on positions huh

 

 

Boyfriend is whatever, So Bad is cute enough, Fever is a nice bop and Soul Lady is a stun

love to see some Manic acclaim, it's a great album despite what a lot of people say, lowkey too experimental for them

folklore far too low but I'll take it and pray that you'll see the light with evermore by the end of the year

Soul Lady flawless album, glad it's so high  Never Gonna Dance Again on the other hand, quite hit of miss

 

7 hours ago, Legend E said:

nice to see manic here, it's a very underrated album

 

i actually relistened to folklore after a while and ended up liking it. the songwriting still falls flat in some places though.

 

6 hours ago, Pink Matter said:

Ugh I'm so behind on updates but I saw many good picks!

I actually quite liked Chilombo the few times I listened to it. There were some really nice standout tracks besides the singles (the Ab Soul and John Legend tracks for instance).

Tennis' singles really slayed me at the beginning of the year (!!) but I for some reason I never went back to the album. I initially felt the singles were soooo much stronger than the album as a whole.

I think people do a biT too much on Disclosure (FWIW I quite enjoyed Caracal ) The Energy EP was solid and the little bit I heard of the album was also quite good too.

 

1 hour ago, Lazuli said:

boyfriend is a cute girl  

manic is the only decent halsey album

folklore a little low but i'll take it! great to see peace in your top 3 tho

empress of  

thanks for the comments  

 

 

(thankfully) getting close to the end as im starting to get best of fatigue

 

tomorrow starts the top 10 (10 - 6)

 

 

[mokitsu]

SONGS

 

 

i've spoken about the pure fun of "disco" before, and while its lead single "say something" was a bit limp, the follow-up "magic" hits all the right spots and kylie-isms, blending the best 70s disco tropes into a mature and polished piece of pop perfection. it's groovy and euphoric, i just want to scream that chorus everytime it comes on.

 

 

 

 

 

after the first five bangers in "future nostalgia", dua slows down. she had shouted at her lover that she wanted to get physical and riot all night, but "pretty please", even if more sparse and chill than the other songs, is just as full of tension, sexuality and confusion. in it, she describes the early stages of a relationship after you're done playing games and just want the other person for yourself (on top of you). this starts quite simple with just a guitar playing and gradually builds up as she starts getting in the zone and asking more - "every single night, i need your hands on me". a great change of pace for the record, even if it still has the groovy and infectious elements of "future nostalgia".

 

 

 

 

 

i knew "in your eyes" would be one of my top tracks of the year as soon as i heard it the first time. from the opening notes we are reminded of sade's classic "no ordinary love" - and while the guitars in that song are traded for strings here, the hypnotic and aquatic feel remains in this track. as a song about intense and transcendental love, jessie does a great job of capturing the desperation and darkness of a fractured relationship.

 

 

 

 

 

after her biggest year yet, which climaxed with an historic grammy sweep and a bond theme song, billie returned with "my future" - a welcome departure from her old sound into something more mature, jazzy, self assured and definitely less chart friendly. as the poster child for modern teen angst, it's really beautiful how she took the reigns of her personal image (one that's been so dissected, torn apart and analyzed even before she turned 18) and came out with this bright eyed, optimistic song that is still clouded with mystery. the good thing is, for once, she's not scared to venture in it.

 

 

 

 

 

i admit i HATED dolerme when it first came out. i loathed the production, which sounded cheap to me, and the weird autotune-heavy chorus. after a few plays, though, it really hit me, and it's undoubtedly my favorite ballad of the year. the comparisons to madonna's opus "ray of light" are obvious, and she recreates the perfect blend of trip hop and folk in a creative and personal way. even if you don't understand a word of spanish, the emotion in her voice (that is heightened by the vocal effects in the chorus) is moving.

 

 

Edited December 12, 2020 by mokitsu