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A year in review.
As everyone loves to quote, this year indeed was the year of realizing stuff for me.
Many changes in my personal life, political landscape and my viewpoints has occurred & I feel like it reflected on my music taste quite a bit.
I went to my first concert EVER this year and also a first music festival ever this year
I think everyone would agree that western pop was a bit dull this year, and for me it was even worse.
I'm one of those people that listen to "basic pop music" & put minimal effort into discovering and trying out new experimental/indie artists.
So for me, asides from the couple of pop staples (Rih, Bey, Ari, etc) that dropped their albums this year I wasn't feeling western pop too much this year.
Kpop's been more or less the same, but as it was year 7 since the breakout era of gen. 2 Kpop acts, MANY disbanded.
Many new acts also came out on top and this year felt like a transition year into a new era more than ever
My ultimate faves f(x) also took a year off so I took a step back and enjoyed the field unlike the usual stan-war self.
Kpop was all about tropical bops this year and I loved it!
Many of the less known groups served quality bops here and there and I enjoyed every bit of it.
With the help of Namie's 3 singles she released this year
and the highly anticipated return of Utada, I found myself getting into Jpop more too.
I've always kept Jpop aside due to the ~language~ differences but I realized that the language doesn't really matter if the song is great.
Half way through the year, I noticed that my preference in music was slowly starting to shift.
I was never really here for Rap/Urban music but One Dance & Controlla (don't @ me ) became one of my most played rap songs of all time.
Formation also WOW'ed me: all the energy and message in that song was just immaculate
I also got into DEAN, who was the first K-R&B artist I got into after all these years
I've always preferred female vocalists to male but I found myself listening to more males than ever this year (Troye, DEAN, Drake, etc)
With all this, and many I've missed
I think it's safe to say that 2016 has also been a fruitful year in music.
Could it have been better with more exciting albums? sure.
But does that make 2016 any less enjoyable? no.
While I'm super stoked for all the potential 2017 releases,
the year of realizing stuff has been a blessing with all the discoveries for me.
and these are the 40 songs I enjoyed the most from this year
FIRST UPDATE: TOMORROW
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