Pop music has been part of my life ever since I was adolescene and that makes it a difficult for me as a music critic. Part of the reasons why I'm doing a retrospective list like this is to learn more about the year I was covering. I wanna know more about the history, the reason why a song can become a hit, and also the cultural zeitgeist at the time. But sometimes you cover a year that was a pivotal part of your life and the emotional feeling that you have to that year might clouded your judgement. Now if you are music historian that can be a problem, but I'm merely a critic and as objective as I can be, in the end subjectivity won out. I bring all that up because 2013 was the first year that I got into music criticism. It was the first year of middle school and the first time I wondered out into the wilderness since my school was like half an hour away. I was watching YouTube after school and during day off (sometimes at the computer lab) and I found a channel called Nostalgi...
So if you can't tell this was written back in 2022. I'm posting this up for completion purposes. But, I will make the best list as well and that will be more up to date with my opinion now because wow 2022 was a weird year for the chart. Okay back to the list proper You know, I thought because of the vaccines and opening up again that 2022 would be a better year than the two years before it. Turns out I was wrong because 2022 has been a mess all across the board. And we don't have great music to escape to in this dark time. One word that I would describe 2022 for popular music is either mediocrity or longing. Mediocrity because how most of these songs are either meh or just below par, longing because of how most of the popular hits this year are throwback. I was actually struggle to put ten songs that I hated purely because the bad songs here are either too dull to talk about or just straight up missed the Hot 100 year end list. Which is why for this lis...