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♡ Eevee's Best of 2016 ♡ DONE!
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Choose Me is an amazing pick for James. I definitely think it was one of the best standouts from the album!
Crack Baby is really good too, it was one of my earliest favourites from the album, the lyrics are thoughtful and sharp.
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Cry Carly's strength has always been writing such simple lyrics that are surprisingly effective
Need to go listen to Niki & the Dove
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no wait that’s Norway lmao
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n, also ~mentally quoting that Your Type shade
Ahh, these are all so nice except for Blush which I haven't heard but I bet it's nice too <3 Also glad you mentioned Dollar, Dollar and Dan the Dancer as other highlights, and hm, various Santigold sings being on all these lists make me think her album is actually half decent, listening to it in full tho
Oh, idk what's more cringey, ppl bothered by Mitski's metaphor or her actually apologising for it fff
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Cry is great and so is Blush.
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Crack Baby, Blush, Cry, Fever, Drone Bomb, Choose Me Now this is a set.
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Aw Crack Bby is quite the penultimate setup song idnit. I spent my year getting acquainted w/ PJ's classics vs listening to the new **** but The Wheel is so good, I would disappointed too if nothing else on the album measured up tbh.
Eye owe Preoccupations some more listens but yayy 4 the #SantigoldHateBlockade, that was a standout for me too though guess I never paid attention much to the lyrics n
Peeped the Niki joint + I'm leanin but am not quite getting tropical summery bop I do love my Swedes doe
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Cry
Choose me
Drone Bomb Me (Crisis better be in the top10)
And YAS at Santigold
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I just added the Thao album to my library but have yet to listen.
I don't really like it when scandinavian pop stars try to sound or emulate, uhm, "island" sounds. COUGHELLIPHANTCOUGH but Cocnut Kiss is decent at elast.
Cry is obviously super amazing. She drags fragile masculinity.
Ignores the next two.
Crack Baby is my 4th fave on the album. It's super dramatic and the "white horses..." is my fave part.
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Cry My 3rd favorite from Side B, so so good.
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Niki and the Dove they're so talanted and underrated
Puberty 2 is a MASTERPIECE
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Preocuppations here
James Blake
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Endless Love, Crack Baby, and The Wheel
& Cry is truly the best song off Godmotion Side B whew
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Cry and Fever are my faves
Good taste girl!
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The idea of an affluent white British woman singing from the perspective of a 10-year-old Afghani girl is still… problematic for me
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this is why i really, really shudder at this song all the time, and not in the right "this is haunting" kind of way but more in the beyonce-reacting-to-farrah-thinking-she's-the-lead kind of way
but yaaass blush is one of the bops of the year, love seeing leon get some recognition on these listz. i also love cry for the same reason i love boy problems - that's how u do 80s-inspired music with feminist themes. others take note!
mitski too <3
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ahhh CRY is what talent sounds like in pure STEREO. Crack baby
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I'm obsessed with Niki & the Dove's newest album, STILL! Coconut Kiss is a large fave of mine too, and did used to be my #1 from the album, but other songs swept past it.
Cry is a great pick from Side B as well, and I'm finding it to be a bit underrated (at least in Best Ofs) so it's nice to see it here.
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Cry is good! Didn't know Santigold released music in 2016
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10-6 coming soon xo
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Moth to the Flame YAAAS Hope to see Crying In Public pretty high tho
I had no idea your taste was so eclectic tho
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Originally posted by Superpower
Cry
Choose me
Drone Bomb Me (Crisis better be in the top10)
And YAS at Santigold
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This is a one-song-per-artist list. Even if it wasn't Crisis and Crying will never be best of material, they just aren't those kinda songs.
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Cry Carly's strength has always been writing such simple lyrics that are surprisingly effective
Need to go listen to Niki & the Dove
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Eye think you'd like them, they serve 80s pop like 1989!
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Originally posted by Vilppu
n, also ~mentally quoting that Your Type shade
Ahh, these are all so nice except for Blush which I haven't heard but I bet it's nice too <3 Also glad you mentioned Dollar, Dollar and Dan the Dancer as other highlights, and hm, various Santigold sings being on all these lists make me think her album is actually half decent, listening to it in full tho
Oh, idk what's more cringey, ppl bothered by Mitski's metaphor or her actually apologising for it fff
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Yeah, those two were extremely close to making it.
n, Mitski apolagised because she's like the Pitchfork'd Ashley Frangipane. I'd understand being angry if it were some Eminem'd lyric about murder or rape but it's just a harmless little conceit.
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Aw Crack Bby is quite the penultimate setup song idnit. I spent my year getting acquainted w/ PJ's classics vs listening to the new **** but The Wheel is so good, I would disappointed too if nothing else on the album measured up tbh.
Eye owe Preoccupations some more listens but yayy 4 the #SantigoldHateBlockade, that was a standout for me too though guess I never paid attention much to the lyrics n
Peeped the Niki joint + I'm leanin but am not quite getting tropical summery bop I do love my Swedes doe
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Yes, get into her. Rid of Me - TBLML - ITD? - Stories is such a RUN.
Really? Maybe bop is a stretch but it definitely tropical and in a convincing non tropical house'd way.
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I just added the Thao album to my library but have yet to listen.
I don't really like it when scandinavian pop stars try to sound or emulate, uhm, "island" sounds. COUGHELLIPHANTCOUGH but Cocnut Kiss is decent at elast.
Cry is obviously super amazing. She drags fragile masculinity.
Ignores the next two.
Crack Baby is my 4th fave on the album. It's super dramatic and the "white horses..." is my fave part.
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You should listen! I feel like you would STAN for Meticulous Bird.
I never listened to Elliphant and I don't plan to lmao.
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Endless Love, Crack Baby, and The Wheel
& Cry is truly the best song off Godmotion Side B whew
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It really is.
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this is why i really, really shudder at this song all the time, and not in the right "this is haunting" kind of way but more in the beyonce-reacting-to-farrah-thinking-she's-the-lead kind of way
but yaaass blush is one of the bops of the year, love seeing leon get some recognition on these listz. i also love cry for the same reason i love boy problems - that's how u do 80s-inspired music with feminist themes. others take note!
mitski too <3
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I feel like had I actually experienced a drone attack firsthand i would find it unconfortable and tasteless but having only experienced first-world problems in my life it gives me chills in the right way.
I never really noticed any femist themes in Cry but now y'all mention it. Wow, love stanning for such WOKE artists. <3
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I'm obsessed with Niki & the Dove's newest album, STILL! Coconut Kiss is a large fave of mine too, and did used to be my #1 from the album, but other songs swept past it.
Cry is a great pick from Side B as well, and I'm finding it to be a bit underrated (at least in Best Ofs) so it's nice to see it here.
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Highkey yes, I don't think I've seen it on any best ofs. I always thought it was a fan fave?
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10. Rihanna -"Kiss it Better"
Ahh, Anti. Completely alike yet entirely different to any previous Rihanna album. Very much a singles affair; but that’s a result of the strength of the singles than presence of filler. Cohesive yet containing excursions to just about every genre up to metal. A song dedicated to smoking weed minutes before a karaoke’d Tame Impala cover. You get it, it’s something only the Badgal herself could make. And then there’s the big Rihanna single. In a parallel universe I’m sure Kiss it Better was a 10-week #1. Thousands of people writhe around on their floors imitating the now-iconic video as we wait for it to inevitably snatch SOTY at the Grammys. But instead it lies in the same fomo’d vault as Run Away With Me and Into You as the Smash That Got Away™. Perhaps it’s for the best. Does the same GP who voted for Trump and Brexit really deserve this? They can keep Closer.
See also: "Needed Me"; "Love on the Brain"
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9. NAO - "Get to Know Ya"
Often damned with faint praise by y’all, I found that For All We Know was one of, if not the strongest debut of the year. While some might say her record is samey, I think that’s because NAO knows exactly the production styles and tricks that accent her dulcet voice. She has certainly perfected her self-described “wonky-funk”, (more so than any other artist here, it was very difficult to select only one song for her). Ultimately, I went with Get to Know Ya. With its pliable guitar-driven production and irresistible hooks, it came at exactly the right time to accompany my summer and acts exactly as the title suggests: enticing listeners into NAO’s own corner of the ever-crowed Alternative R&B genre.
See also: "Trophy"; "DYWM"
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8. Glass Animals - "Youth"
Part of me feels like this is a little too high because their album wasn’t that good. But it’s tough to find many songs that had more replay value for me this year, it’s just the perfect pop song. Youth was inspired by a story the lead singer was told about mother giving up her son for adoption, and the lyrics capture that bittersweet feeling perfectly. The production is also immaculate, and apparently, a synth used in the song was drawn from an owl’s cry which is quite ~innovative.
See also: "Season 2, Episode 3";
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7. Radiohead - "True Love Waits"
I feel like a bit of an enabler, but like, this song. It’s not something I can listen to as often as many other songs even lower down on my list, but when I do, it HITS me. Much has been made of how long this track as has been unrecorded, and there is something interesting about it gestating for longer than my entire life, it certainly adds a new dimension to the song. I’m especially glad they swapped out the guitar because it was serving generic indie ballad before. Now I find it much more impressive musically; I love how the piano unravels and becomes more discordant as the song goes on.
See also: "Burn the Witch"; "Tinker Tailor"
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6. Warpaint - "So Good"
Warpaint was another act I got into this year after sleeping on them for a minute, while the whole album was solid, this was the clear standout. I mean, has a song title ever been so apt? So Good is a six minute daydream about that one person with a chorus of literally just “uh uh uh uh” which works far better than it should. The first half of the song builds tension excellently until a delirious climax of synths and drums back the lead singer as she tries to convince herself that she can “handle it”, sounding less and less sure of herself each time.
See also: "Don't Wanna";
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