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Some notable songs from the Top 100:

 

1. Lana Del Rey: "A&W" (2023)
3. Kendrick Lamar: "Not Like Us" (2024)
4. Caroline Polachek: "Bunny Is a Rider" (2021)

5. Low: "Days Like These" (2021)
9. Fiona Apple: "I Want You to Love Me" (2020)
13. NewJeans: "Super Shy" (2023)

15. Alvvays: "Belinda Says" (2022)
16. Jazmine Sullivan: "Pick Up Your Feelings" (2020)
17. Bad Bunny / Jowell & Randy / Ñengo Flow: "Safaera" (2020)
18. Hikaru Utada: "Somewhere Near Marseilles" (2022)
22. Cardi B: "WAP" [ft. Megan Thee Stallion] (2020)
24. Beyoncé: "ALIEN SUPERSTAR" (2022)
25. Charli XCX / Lorde: "The girl, so confusing version with lorde" (2024)
28. Olivia Rodrigo: "good 4 u" (2021)
29. Ethel Cain: "American Teenager" (2022)

30. Sabrina Carpenter: "Espresso" (2024)

32. Sufjan Stevens: "Will Anybody Ever Love Me?" (2023)

39. Mitski: "Working for the Knife" (2022)

41. Ice Spice: "Munch (Feelin' U)" (2022)
42. Chappell Roan: "Good Luck, Babe!" (2024)

44. Big Thief: "Vampire Empire" (2023)
49. Troye Sivan: "Rush" (2023)
51. Tyla: "Water" (2023)
53. Dua Lipa: "Don't Start Now" (2019)
67. SZA: "Good Days" (2020)
72. boygenius: "Not Strong Enough" (2023)
83. Azealia Banks: "F*ck Him All Night" (2021)
90. PinkPantheress: "Pain" (2021)
92. Billie Eilish: "Happier Than Ever" (2021)
98. Tinashe: "Nasty" (2024)

 

Full: https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-100-best-songs-of-the-2020s-so-far/

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Ocean Blvd her 2nd magnum opus.

 

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Lol. Sure, Jan.

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#2 :jonny6: When critics get it right >>>>

 

 

If you asked a young, online person 15 years ago what "based" meant, they'd probably mention the rapper Lil B's obscure positivity gospel. Ask the same question to a young, online person today and you'll get another cryptic answer, only this time with vaguely edgelord-y implications. At the center of this weird Venn diagram is RXK Nephew's "American tterroristt," a nine-minute jeremiad for the post-truth era from a guy who's probed life's mysteries deeper than you have. The Rochester rapper, who between 2019 and 2022 released at least one song each day, became a conspiracy scholar during one particular prison stint, pondering UFOs, weather control, and Biblical lies with his bunkie all day. Years later, half blacked out off Hennessy on his couch, he recorded his magnum opus, looping the beat three times to riff with enviable abandon on Adam and Eve, Santa Claus, Christopher Columbus, SpongeBob SquarePants.

 

If it's true that insanity is the only sane response to an insane society, surely Neph is the most cogent rapper of the present epoch, or at least the most emblematic—so much so that the schizzed-out, red-pilled aura of "American tterroristt" tends to eclipse how effortless it all sounds, how much it makes you think. Beyond the thrill of provocation wages a battle of man versus fate. ("What I did to deserve to go through this? Let me get this right—this because of Eve?" he wonders of his own misfortunes.) Since Neph posted the song to YouTube in December 2020, the world has grown bizarre to the point where garden variety conspiracy theorists often seem to lack imagination. "American tterroristt" still sparks wonder at our strange world full of strange people. –Meaghan Garvey

 

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28. Olivia Rodrigo: "good 4 u" (2021)
29. Ethel Cain: "American Teenager" (2022)
 

Bffr now... 

 

The list has some great picks though, although I would have ranked many of them higher. SZA's Good Days IS top 5 best songs of the decade.

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White Dress and Kintsugi better

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That is…certainly a list of songs.

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I keep lookin', but I don't see Gayle 

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OH LANALLAH AND CAROGOD TOP 5 :clap3:modern classics

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They forgot Wong Kar Wai by Say Lou Lou 💋

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Pitchfork still hiring tumblr teens to make these lists I see. :toofunny3:

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Cringe *** list as expected.

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Super Shy that high? :bibliahh:

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Some amazing choices :clap3:

Duallah and her timeless classic :clap3:

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You know when Ice Spice is there the list is trash

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yes Lana, yes acclaim

not everybody has that

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cringe. happy to see NewJeans but those other picks…

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newjeans and utada :clap3: 

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Espresso should be higher than #30.

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Love the picks. F**k him all night and somewhere near marseille superiority:gaymuscat:

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the #1 :rip: awful song

at least NewJeans are really high 

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Jessie Ware not being in the top 5 with Spotlight, I have to laugh

 

Anyway they got number one right :clap3:

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