Sanguine Posted December 9, 2022 Author Posted December 9, 2022 FAVORITE SONGS OF 2022 One per artist Scattered Honorable Mentions + Vibe Descriptions: 1800 Pain - I Might Die Vibes: Death Grips if they were um, a parody act? Anitta - Versions of Me Vibes: Ava Max... her album wasn't good but this ate idc Bad Girls Club Song Vibes: Nadia Oh (I compare a lot of things to Nadia Oh so take this loosely) Diamanda Galas - II. Vibes: Lingua Ignota but old DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Call You Vibes: Uplifting but melancholic, House Duster - New Directions Vibes: Entering an abandoned house? Self-titled is their best album btw just wanted to shout that from the rooftops Earl Sweatshirt - Fire in the Hole Vibes: Song you stanned during the first week of the year Eliza and the Delusionals - Save Me Vibes: Hilary Duff goes Dream Pop Eyrie - Cows Came Home Vibes: Emo idk fromis_9 - DM Vibes: Just a fun K-Bop! Horsegirl - World of Pots and Pans Vibes: Exile in the World of Pots and Pans Kali Malone - Living Torch Vibes: WinnieAscending.gif Laci Kaye Booth - Damn Good in a Dive Bar Vibes: Dream Country Let's Eat Grandma - Levitation Vibes: You were kinda disappointed by their album but kinda weren't, and this song is the closest to the previous album Nature - Rica Rica Vibes: You created a new genre through failed cultural appropation Otoboke Beaver - Pardon? Vibes: Super girly punk Pan Daijing - Part One Vibes: Good for studying! Pixey - So, Just Smile Vibes: Cutesy 90s/00s indie pop mix Remi Wolf - Michael Vibes: You're the queen of pop Rosie Carney - Dad Vibes: Music that Spotify recommends you when you're too high to dislike it Rupaul - Blame It On The Edit Vibes: :nail_emoji: Sasami - Say It Vibes: Industrial slay S4BRINA - Rich Rich Vibes: Slayyyter ripoff Sappho - Accelerate Vibes: Sort of Dance-Poppy? Sasha Alex Sloan - I Blame The World Vibes: Slightly Alt-Pop'd but with a rockier, dancier edge Saya Gray - Wish You Picked Me... Vibes: Emotional folk that doesn't really sound like folk? Summer Cake - Not in Public Vibes: Tinashe - Superlove Tate McRae - She's All I Wanna Be Vibes: A good Tate McRae song Tay Money - Could Never Vibes: You ******* could UGH... YOU ***** COULD NEVERRRR. Period. The Beths - I Told You That I Was Afraid Vibes: Pop Rock bop!! Wallice - John Wayne Vibes: Spotify girl meets indie rock influence Whitearmor - Wedding Bells Vibes: Are you actually reading these? Then play Family Feud! Yaya Bey - Keisha Vibes: Catchy R&B Zella Day - Dance for Love Vibes: 2021 sneak but this is just so good and summery and clearly the best song on the album that came out this year soooo... Zola Jesus - Do That Anymore Vibes: You unintentionally made your music poppier, but it bops ACTUAL LIST HERE 75-51 75. Sky Ferreira - Don't Forget Well I forgot to write the description for this one too so we're even. Now you can retire 74. StayC - Young Luv Their best song I've been dying for more Dream Pop and Indie Rock type stuff in K-Pop and I was given exactly what I needed. Would probably end up placing this even higher, but I didn't really go back to it until recently when I realized how great it is 73. Empath - 80s Fun Noise Pop bop! This album didn't particularly reinvent the wheel but certainly did its job 72. Ava Max - Million Dollar Baby Ava's debut left me kind of befuddled, because there were some amazing tracks like Born to the Night and Naked that showed she had a clear ear for early 2010's pop, but also some songs that... um... weren't great. Diamonds and Dancefloors on the other hand, is packed with bangers! Since the rest of the album isn't in HQ out yet, I'll shout out a single. The sample's incorporated perfectly and this is bursting with energy 71. Le Sserafim - ANTIFRAGILE ANTITITITI-FRAGILE FRAGILE Isabella Lovestory wrote this, meaning it slaps! 70. Alice Glass - Fair Game I liked her album, although I wish I liked it more after such a good run of singles. Sucks to say her stuff with Crystal Castles >>>> :/ BUT, this goes hard. The Electro-Industrial instrumental combined with the emotional lyrics is a hard-hitting combo. Also feels much less generic than some of her other stuff 69. HYRA - Seventh Heaven Last year we had Kyrah with her icy, Goldfrappian beats and peak Katy Perry'd melodies (her words, definitely not mine) this year we have HYRA, who's taking it so far back to 2011 that she decided to straight up rip off the Femme Fatale bonus tracks. Good thing that's Britney's best album! 68. Hüg - Logic in a Paradox A dancey, kind of glitchy Drum and Bass bop. Pinkpantheress... you've been finished. Excited for him to finally drop more singles on streaming... 67. HYD - So Clear A lot of people seemed to hate this album which... fair, I suppose? The vocals are an acquired taste to say the least. But once you make an adjustment, the music slaps. SOPHIE had such a knack for her production in poppier songs (Vroom Vroom, When I Rule the World, Mutual Friends etc etc.) and I would've loved that pop album from her she was supposed to make. At least we're getting a tribute one next year 66. Metric - False Dichotomy Quite a massive shock to me! I had forgotten how good they used to be and didn't realize they still had it. Equally ravey and rockish, their best song in years 65. Weyes Blood - Twin Flame Too low maybe? But she'll get her vengeance on my albums list. Easily the most unique track she's done since pivoting to Baroque Pop, Twin Flame kinda sounds like if Caroline Polachek took Beach House's instruments, then covered a song from the seventies (might not be the best comparison because I just realized she did a similar thing for the Minions soundtrack). Every song on And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is great, but I wanna shout out Grapevine, the title track, and the opener (which grew on me immensely!) as some other highlights 64. Blushing - Sour Punch Charly Bliss but Shoegaze (ALSO WHERE IS CHARLY BLISS THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO COME BACK) 63. Momma - Speeding 72 Liz Phair tributes are always something I can get behind, and going for the more cheery pop bangers of her career like Supernova are naturally gonna be my faves! 62. Kim Petras - Throat Goat I'm gonna get dragged lmao but **** Pop wasn't that bad? I hated the first two songs but everything else bangs, especially this and XXX (I say it a lot, but I love a Slayyyter/Ayesha tribute). Goat sound effects elevate this to A-tier 61. Doja Cat - Celebrity Skin Almost leans on parody at times but it's so catchy and replayable omg?! Amazing cover of a classic 60. tripleS / Acid Angels from Asia - Generation K-Pop groups get sons quick huh... Shout Out to Attention (Also the fact they disbanded right after debuting :cri:) 59. Florence + The Machine - Heaven is Here Dance Fever wasn't a full return to form or anything, but certainly an upgrade from the snoozefest she dropped in 2018. I also LOVE Free but I had to highlight this one because it's more underrated and really captures the sound her audience actually thinks she's making (Witch Folk or whatever tf) 58. Uffie - Anna Jetson First of all, major grower album, it just hit me recently. Her debut still outsold but I encourage anyone underwhelmed by her comeback to revisit. Anna Jetson however was an instant hit for me! Waiting until after the genre you pioneered dies to fully partake in it is a power move I think? 57. Wet Leg - Wet Dream From 2021 but whatevs I didn't listen to these industry plants until 2022 anyway. What a FUN track, there's so much miserable and boring Indie "Rock" nowadays (Boygenius is trying to convince you it's the worst genre ever) and Wet Leg were a nice change of pace for me 56. Sobs - Air Guitar While we're on the topic of fun Indie Rock! Great, consistent album. If you need an introduction check out their cover of Gwen Stefani's "Cool" that's on there! 55. Beyoncé - All Up In Your Mind What a song. I never would've expected Bey to dabble in this kind of sound, but WHEW, I'm so grateful she did. Just like with Weyes, she'll be much higher on my albums list. My other faves are America Has a Problem, Virgo's Groove and Break My Soul btw 54. Lexie Liu - Magician Very late entry, I literally added it today lol but it blew me away so hard on first listen I had to put it here. This is how you make early 2010's Electropop sound FRESH 53. CryALot - Hell is Here Icarus was really cool, albeit her voice is a little too British for some of the sounds she attempted, with this song easily being the highlight. Cutesy vocals + heavy instrumental = instant A+ (this is me asking for recs) 52. Katy J Pearson - Alligator I don't know how else to describe this song or anything else by her other than... Indie. Like, all of the styles 51. Charli XCX - Constant Repeat Final song in the update for a reason, I have **** to SAY. Plenty of y'all know how hard I used to stan Charli, I love all of her projects up to before Crash (with Pop 2/XCX World/True Romance being my trinity with HIFN a close fourth, and self-titled previously being her worst) but this album... it's just not great. CUTE, sure. But there's a couple songs that are indescribably annoying and quite a few others that are totally mid. Really put me off from her earlier in the year, even though I was generally disappointed by the singles and knew it was coming :( Constant Repeat, along with Baby and the title track, are easy highlights here and do a great job exploring the sound she was toying around with, so props to my fave on that
Sanguine Posted December 9, 2022 Author Posted December 9, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, Alena said: hey <3 Hey hey hey Not gonna rush the rest as much but wanted to get this show on the road already, was feeling too pessimistic from the Worst Of! Will try and comment back on everybody's tonight or tomorrow 5 hours ago, Staryu said: 5 hours ago, Lee!! said: 5 hours ago, Hug said: Oh this Best Of is gonna be SO good... No it won't 5 hours ago, madonnas said: Not Rosin catching a stray the Tove Styrke album was sooooo terrible. Her status as the superior tove was revoked and I’m a Tove Lo hater! one of these albums made my top10 and it’s not PG Skjdhgs her music annoys me so much but I kinda like the Overpowered album 4 hours ago, luckystrike said: you need to die No u 4 hours ago, wish said: 7. Indigo de Souza - Kill Me WAIT i love this song so much not mad at your Worst Of either nn YESS Indigo stans unite 4 hours ago, minho said: Any Shape You Take is incredible and was my AOTY! The combination of the grit and rough around the edges style of delivery, lyricism, and production makes one of the most interesting and long-lasting indie rock albums in recent memory. There's something about that album that is equal parts haunting, raw, and reassuring. It feels a bit like someone is just spilling out their inner-most feelings - the good and the bad, and you're just there to listen. A RARE songwriter tbh. Troubled Paradise has grown to be my favourite Slayyyter release. I feel like the mixtape was such an exciting introduction and debut, but TP kind of polishes the sound and you end up with a Pop2 moment where it's just a really strong and creative pop album. Daddy's Home, Kick II, and Sensational are also all great albums for very different reasons. The grower of the year, the complex electronic AOTY, and the chilled out but interesting R&B album of the year. (Jessie Ware you are NOTHING!). Erika really teaches a masterclass in how to make an album that is pleasantly enjoyable and relaxing without being dreary and reductive (like how are you making a disco inspired album and it sounds like literal nothing?). Magdalena Bay tumbling down is also a bit satisfying Songs list is excellent ofc. I like basically everything, and yes, sadly, I have gone from major hater to casual enjoyer of SOME Caroline songs. Bunny is definitely one of her best. But enough about that screaming fraud, we need to focus on YEULE HAVING THE BEST SONG OF ALL TIME (and aespa, queens...) Worst of comment coming soon... 4 hours ago, minho said: ROISIN WORST ARTIST EVER Anyway, I feel like we have a lot of the same worst so I'll keep this one brief but... Psy really had his expectations in the gutter and somehow did worse so.. yeah. Panic!/that racist loser Brendon Urie need to retire or something else, it's been enough, Joji also a flop. Camila really followed her best album with that... I'm also pretty open-minded with pop stars but Familia feels so inconsistent and unnecessary. I feel like she probably could've done something interesting with the concept but you end up with the most generic and lifeless vaguely Latin inspired music. It's hilarious how the standouts are the ones that feel like just generic pop songs. We need Romance back. I agree re: the awful Tik Tok core/Spotify playlist residents like Madeline or Tove. And the K-Pop picks are good too. I think 2022 was a good lesson that while K-Pop is usually enjoyable, the groups that have no identity or make their identity just screaming at you really are some of the worst modern musical acts out there. 070 Shake is just exhausting. I need people as a collective to understand that poorly atmospheric nothingness over art gallery beats is not really worth anything. Especially when it's just one song over and over. Get a new shtick! Caroline shut up! Everything you said is SO TRUE but I can't expect anything else from you bestie... thanks for the in-depth comments and reading everything :zany2: 4 hours ago, Album Leak said: Tove Styrke's Hard was super disappointing. The entire first half of the album is complete garbage, but I think it picked up with Hardcore and from there forward. Honestly could've released an EP with just the last 5 tracks. Bruises is definitely a standout track though, glad we agree. Yeah LOL I liked a lot of her previous stuff so idk what happened 4 hours ago, Born to Run said: Perfume Genius legit sucked but I hope this is a troll post Their first album > 4 hours ago, K$Ellie said: heard most of these and they all deserved it top 10s from last year are great other than indigo and remi which are still decent Stop hating on Indigo... 4 hours ago, theblackestday said: Wow spilled... Like mega perriana 4 hours ago, diogozsz said: You’re not allowed to comment on this since you don’t speak Portuguese… Amazing 2021 list sans InDIEgo and solid worst of too. The k-pop albums on that list are truly terrible. Okay that's fair but it also sucked musically lmaoo 4 hours ago, Allday said: Only album I've heard is Camillas and I agree only songs that I loved were quiet and psychofreak the rest was forgettable Yeah Quiet was cute I think? The rest zzzz Edited December 9, 2022 by Sanguine
Kelp Posted December 9, 2022 Posted December 9, 2022 Not Lexie Liu making it in a single day asdlkfads but yes I think I will be throwing that bop on my list too Glad to see Hug Where is 2 Baddies? Top 50 I'm assuming
luckystrike Posted December 9, 2022 Posted December 9, 2022 Sky Ferreira needs a job. AVALLAH will dominate 2023 I know that's right ANTIFRAGILE slays, edgy Bey pick but it's still great, Constant Repeat is a SOTY and you should say it, not gagging on the Crash lashing though but whatever :rollingeyes:
ATRL Moderator madonnas Posted December 9, 2022 ATRL Moderator Posted December 9, 2022 I’m checking out this Blushing song and someone on rym just called them Greta Von Lush i think a lot of charli fans disillusioned with the crash era will come around to it! That’s all I’ll say on that! I had no idea Acid Angel disbanded noooo they were like a Yassified Newjeans. Hell is here (sadly agree w ur description of the EP), Friday Night, antifragile, all future classics. Also not my fave uffie / bey picks but I’ll take it
smholiv Posted December 9, 2022 Posted December 9, 2022 StayC really, truly, had the most ups and downs year I've experienced for a K-Pop group in years. Honestly, it's a similar case to aespa where these new groups have one semi disappointing moment and everyone forgets they ever conquered the genre. Young Luv (honestly the whole EP) is a good example of that because it really was one of the best K-Pop releases for the first third of the year. Glad they're on this list! Anti-Fragile basically HAS to be in the conversation if we're talking excellence in K-Pop this year. Isabella queen... But out of the K-Pop this update my biggest accolade HAS to go to Generation. The NewJeans-ification is the best thing we could ask for and I can't wait to hear more from this project. That song is the purest reason of why I love K-Pop in the first place. Very few pop songs manage to capture the sheer feeling of joy as that does. Lastly, All Up In Your Mind is a brilliant pick. I also was not expecting a song like that from her but I truly think every mpg needs to meet up with AG Cook at least once... Twin Flame, Celebrity Skin (!! I forgot all about this but I do love it, and want MORE pop rock from her), Magician, and Hell Is Here are the final highlights from me!
Polgg48 Posted December 9, 2022 Posted December 9, 2022 agree on most worst list even on BC, NR and perfume genius, snapped. only King Hannah i love it instead maybe yeah. ava max
MusicLoverDude Posted December 9, 2022 Posted December 9, 2022 Million Dollar Baby is fine, just wish Ava would stop acting like Costco with all the sampling I actually prefer Doja's version of Celebrity Skin to the original.
taemin Posted December 9, 2022 Posted December 9, 2022 I don’t know why the hell Kim Petras is here but yes Hug yes Best Of lists
Born to Run Posted December 9, 2022 Posted December 9, 2022 Young Luv is fab. Luv Wet Dream. Kii at Beyonce missing top 50.
Album Leak Posted December 9, 2022 Posted December 9, 2022 The way I completely missed Uffie releasing a new album. Lexie Liu's MAGICIAN is SO 2010s electropop, and if you were to replicate that sound and make it modern, MAGICIAN does a good job. But I feel like despite me liking the song, 2010s electropop is so dated and grating to me that I can't fully embrace the song either if that makes sense haha. 2010s electropop did NOT age well and a modern take is just slightly better.
dreamofyou Posted December 9, 2022 Posted December 9, 2022 constant repeat & wet dream throat goat higher than twin flame though oop
Kinich Posted December 9, 2022 Posted December 9, 2022 15 hours ago, Sanguine said: WORST OF 2022 This **** stinks! Panic at the Disco - Viva Las Vengeance If you listened to this, surely you know why it's here, right? RIGHT? Joji - Smithereens I take it back, Joji is my musical archnemesis Brendon Urie and Joji retire challenge! We've already had enough as a society! 15 hours ago, Sanguine said: Oh Black Country New Road sucked too sorry Can'r spell turrible without the TEA!
Kinich Posted December 9, 2022 Posted December 9, 2022 10 hours ago, Sanguine said: FAVORITE SONGS OF 2022 One per artist Scattered Honorable Mentions + Vibe Descriptions: Reveal hidden contents 1800 Pain - I Might Die Vibes: Death Grips if they were um, a parody act? Anitta - Versions of Me Vibes: Ava Max... her album wasn't good but this ate idc Bad Girls Club Song Vibes: Nadia Oh (I compare a lot of things to Nadia Oh so take this loosely) Diamanda Galas - II. Vibes: Lingua Ignota but old DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ - Call You Vibes: Uplifting but melancholic, House Duster - New Directions Vibes: Entering an abandoned house? Self-titled is their best album btw just wanted to shout that from the rooftops Earl Sweatshirt - Fire in the Hole Vibes: Song you stanned during the first week of the year Eliza and the Delusionals - Save Me Vibes: Hilary Duff goes Dream Pop Eyrie - Cows Came Home Vibes: Emo idk fromis_9 - DM Vibes: Just a fun K-Bop! Horsegirl - World of Pots and Pans Vibes: Exile in the World of Pots and Pans Kali Malone - Living Torch Vibes: WinnieAscending.gif Laci Kaye Booth - Damn Good in a Dive Bar Vibes: Dream Country Let's Eat Grandma - Levitation Vibes: You were kinda disappointed by their album but kinda weren't, and this song is the closest to the previous album Nature - Rica Rica Vibes: You created a new genre through failed cultural appropation Otoboke Beaver - Pardon? Vibes: Super girly punk Pan Daijing - Part One Vibes: Good for studying! Pixey - So, Just Smile Vibes: Cutesy 90s/00s indie pop mix Remi Wolf - Michael Vibes: You're the queen of pop Rosie Carney - Dad Vibes: Music that Spotify recommends you when you're too high to dislike it Rupaul - Blame It On The Edit Vibes: :nail_emoji: Sasami - Say It Vibes: Industrial slay S4BRINA - Rich Rich Vibes: Slayyyter ripoff Sappho - Accelerate Vibes: Sort of Dance-Poppy? Sasha Alex Sloan - I Blame The World Vibes: Slightly Alt-Pop'd but with a rockier, dancier edge Saya Gray - Wish You Picked Me... Vibes: Emotional folk that doesn't really sound like folk? Summer Cake - Not in Public Vibes: Tinashe - Superlove Tate McRae - She's All I Wanna Be Vibes: A good Tate McRae song Tay Money - Could Never Vibes: You ******* could UGH... YOU ***** COULD NEVERRRR. Period. The Beths - I Told You That I Was Afraid Vibes: Pop Rock bop!! Wallice - John Wayne Vibes: Spotify girl meets indie rock influence Whitearmor - Wedding Bells Vibes: Are you actually reading these? Then play Family Feud! Yaya Bey - Keisha Vibes: Catchy R&B Zella Day - Dance for Love Vibes: 2021 sneak but this is just so good and summery and clearly the best song on the album that came out this year soooo... Zola Jesus - Do That Anymore Vibes: You unintentionally made your music poppier, but it bops ACTUAL LIST HERE 75-51 75. Sky Ferreira - Don't Forget Well I forgot to write the description for this one too so we're even. Now you can retire 74. StayC - Young Luv Their best song I've been dying for more Dream Pop and Indie Rock type stuff in K-Pop and I was given exactly what I needed. Would probably end up placing this even higher, but I didn't really go back to it until recently when I realized how great it is 73. Empath - 80s Fun Noise Pop bop! This album didn't particularly reinvent the wheel but certainly did its job 72. Ava Max - Million Dollar Baby Ava's debut left me kind of befuddled, because there were some amazing tracks like Born to the Night and Naked that showed she had a clear ear for early 2010's pop, but also some songs that... um... weren't great. Diamonds and Dancefloors on the other hand, is packed with bangers! Since the rest of the album isn't in HQ out yet, I'll shout out a single. The sample's incorporated perfectly and this is bursting with energy 71. Le Sserafim - ANTIFRAGILE ANTITITITI-FRAGILE FRAGILE Isabella Lovestory wrote this, meaning it slaps! 70. Alice Glass - Fair Game I liked her album, although I wish I liked it more after such a good run of singles. Sucks to say her stuff with Crystal Castles >>>> :/ BUT, this goes hard. The Electro-Industrial instrumental combined with the emotional lyrics is a hard-hitting combo. Also feels much less generic than some of her other stuff 69. HYRA - Seventh Heaven Last year we had Kyrah with her icy, Goldfrappian beats and peak Katy Perry'd melodies (her words, definitely not mine) this year we have HYRA, who's taking it so far back to 2011 that she decided to straight up rip off the Femme Fatale bonus tracks. Good thing that's Britney's best album! 68. Hüg - Logic in a Paradox A dancey, kind of glitchy Drum and Bass bop. Pinkpantheress... you've been finished. Excited for him to finally drop more singles on streaming... 67. HYD - So Clear A lot of people seemed to hate this album which... fair, I suppose? The vocals are an acquired taste to say the least. But once you make an adjustment, the music slaps. SOPHIE had such a knack for her production in poppier songs (Vroom Vroom, When I Rule the World, Mutual Friends etc etc.) and I would've loved that pop album from her she was supposed to make. At least we're getting a tribute one next year 66. Metric - False Dichotomy Quite a massive shock to me! I had forgotten how good they used to be and didn't realize they still had it. Equally ravey and rockish, their best song in years 65. Weyes Blood - Twin Flame Too low maybe? But she'll get her vengeance on my albums list. Easily the most unique track she's done since pivoting to Baroque Pop, Twin Flame kinda sounds like if Caroline Polachek took Beach House's instruments, then covered a song from the seventies (might not be the best comparison because I just realized she did a similar thing for the Minions soundtrack). Every song on And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is great, but I wanna shout out Grapevine, the title track, and the opener (which grew on me immensely!) as some other highlights 64. Blushing - Sour Punch Charly Bliss but Shoegaze (ALSO WHERE IS CHARLY BLISS THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO COME BACK) 63. Momma - Speeding 72 Liz Phair tributes are always something I can get behind, and going for the more cheery pop bangers of her career like Supernova are naturally gonna be my faves! 62. Kim Petras - Throat Goat I'm gonna get dragged lmao but **** Pop wasn't that bad? I hated the first two songs but everything else bangs, especially this and XXX (I say it a lot, but I love a Slayyyter/Ayesha tribute). Goat sound effects elevate this to A-tier 61. Doja Cat - Celebrity Skin Almost leans on parody at times but it's so catchy and replayable omg?! Amazing cover of a classic 60. tripleS / Acid Angels from Asia - Generation K-Pop groups get sons quick huh... Shout Out to Attention (Also the fact they disbanded right after debuting :cri:) 59. Florence + The Machine - Heaven is Here Dance Fever wasn't a full return to form or anything, but certainly an upgrade from the snoozefest she dropped in 2018. I also LOVE Free but I had to highlight this one because it's more underrated and really captures the sound her audience actually thinks she's making (Witch Folk or whatever tf) 58. Uffie - Anna Jetson First of all, major grower album, it just hit me recently. Her debut still outsold but I encourage anyone underwhelmed by her comeback to revisit. Anna Jetson however was an instant hit for me! Waiting until after the genre you pioneered dies to fully partake in it is a power move I think? 57. Wet Leg - Wet Dream From 2021 but whatevs I didn't listen to these industry plants until 2022 anyway. What a FUN track, there's so much miserable and boring Indie "Rock" nowadays (Boygenius is trying to convince you it's the worst genre ever) and Wet Leg were a nice change of pace for me 56. Sobs - Air Guitar While we're on the topic of fun Indie Rock! Great, consistent album. If you need an introduction check out their cover of Gwen Stefani's "Cool" that's on there! 55. Beyoncé - All Up In Your Mind What a song. I never would've expected Bey to dabble in this kind of sound, but WHEW, I'm so grateful she did. Just like with Weyes, she'll be much higher on my albums list. My other faves are America Has a Problem, Virgo's Groove and Break My Soul btw 54. Lexie Liu - Magician Very late entry, I literally added it today lol but it blew me away so hard on first listen I had to put it here. This is how you make early 2010's Electropop sound FRESH 53. CryALot - Hell is Here Icarus was really cool, albeit her voice is a little too British for some of the sounds she attempted, with this song easily being the highlight. Cutesy vocals + heavy instrumental = instant A+ (this is me asking for recs) 52. Katy J Pearson - Alligator I don't know how else to describe this song or anything else by her other than... Indie. Like, all of the styles 51. Charli XCX - Constant Repeat Final song in the update for a reason, I have **** to SAY. Plenty of y'all know how hard I used to stan Charli, I love all of her projects up to before Crash (with Pop 2/XCX World/True Romance being my trinity with HIFN a close fourth, and self-titled previously being her worst) but this album... it's just not great. CUTE, sure. But there's a couple songs that are indescribably annoying and quite a few others that are totally mid. Really put me off from her earlier in the year, even though I was generally disappointed by the singles and knew it was coming :( Constant Repeat, along with Baby and the title track, are easy highlights here and do a great job exploring the sound she was toying around with, so props to my fave on that I pretty much have listened to all of these except for Blushing, Metric and Katy J Pearson! I tried to listen to the HYD album but it just wasn't for me unfortunately x Love the Kpop picks here especially STAYC and TripleS (i dont think theyre disbanded yet? maybe the unit is just dissolved?)
Alex Posted December 9, 2022 Posted December 9, 2022 Celebrity Skin was actually such a solid cover I wasn't expecting it. Seventh Heaven is the absolute worst of 2010s trashy pop but she somehow makes it WORK I need to listen to Metric, haven't heard them in years Constant Repeat the best song on Crash mega spill. I got turned off Charli this era too tbh, but that's also because she cancelled my tour date lol
theblackestday Posted December 9, 2022 Posted December 9, 2022 You are literally serving me with these picks
305 Posted December 9, 2022 Posted December 9, 2022 Familia slander is only seen by non-Spanish speakers. If you understand its influences and her background + are latino it is a solid album
TheWayWeWere Posted December 10, 2022 Posted December 10, 2022 CRASH was good, but became old really fast I really love deluxe songs tho Celebrity Skin is one of my ultimate favorite song, but this cover was cute too Don't Forget I'm not ready to wait another 2 years for another droplet
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