I have to be blunt here, this chart sucks ass. Pop music I thought would've bounce back from the slump of last year. But not only is we see even more slump, we see more and more of discourses—sometimes bullshit but sometimes justified—plaguing the popular music landscape. Added with the fact that old music still reigned supreme—I had to use songs at below top 50 that's how stagnant the chart is right now. And also these crop of songs are just awful like the good stuff came from last season. The signs were really there when "Rein Me In" and "Choosin Texas" broke their countries' respective record of longest stay at #1 this week. Which is a damn shame because pop music outside of the mainstream is having their best year yet this decade. Lots of cool releases from artists like Underscores, Slayyyter, Rebecca Black, Carly Rae Jepsen, and newcomers like Hemlocke Springs. You know the music industry if y'all don't want people to think there's no g...
It was certainly very difficult to talked about the worst of a year that's 20 plus years older than you, it's certainly very challenging for me to talk about the best of the best of any retro year. Typically whenever you are talking about any songs that's released in the calendar year, you have your leeway to talk about hidden gem, unpopular opinion, and something that followed the general consensus. But it's certainly became even more of an uphill battle when you wanna canonized a song — or even condemned them — to the dustbin of history. As a part time music critic myself, that job could get daunting especially with the context of history. You risked on alienating the general audience and the critics if you put a certain song on your best list because you buck against the history and the norm shall we say. Well I put an AC/DC song on my worst list so let's get on with this best list. 1980 for music as a whole are the year of transition. After the whole 70s thing h...