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Looking back at this dismal year through pop music has been interesting to me. I feel like after the blockbuster year of 2024, there were a sense of dread that lingered from that year even if it was a great year for pop music. The fact that a feud between TikTok and UMG was enough to manipulated the chart to such an extent that we can see till this day, but also with each and passing week of this year more flaws of 2024 reared its ugly head. From the puritanical culture, to the grifters still grifting, and how we don't seek out new music anymore because the state of the world. No wonder 2025 have such baggage and dread when historian looking back at this time. Though that isn't a fair assessment of the year as a whole. Like I said in the worst list, with the absence of American public, other countries are ready to pick up the pace and got us into semi decent year. Latin pop is having a Bad Bunny dominance like in 2022, K-Pop impressed me a bit even though in the background it...

Music is a medium that reflects culture the most instant. While both movies and TV shows are usually have a time frames for them to be created and it doesn't immediately impacted the culture as much. Music especially pop music are easier and faster to make. With the invention of the internet and artists have shorter time in between releasing the music they have made during that year and marketing it. I mean you can see that happening in real time with the Kendrick Lamar vs Drake rap beef where the culture was shaped by these two rappers going at it and ultimately Kendrick won that battle. If there's a tangible time capsule that you can consume everyday then I believe music is the gateway to what's going on within a period of time. I give up describing 2025 pop music. Whenever music historian will talked about 2025 pop music they might say how stale the chart is. But that characterization will missed the whole picture of 2025 as a whole. Strictly speaking, the listening habi...

My fascination towards 2000s music is basically an understatement of the decade. I'd say that 2000s is one of the best decade for music even when some of the albums and songs are asinine garbage. The thing that interest me with this decade overall is how varied the music really is. One of my criticism of the 80s is that it can be a bit samey sounding by the end of the decade, but also the productions of the songs can be slapdashed and very busy. Meanwhile in the 2000s you can hear the creativity and innovation as technology in music production improved overtime. From the success of MP3 to the creation of online music stores and even music streaming and the advent of MySpace and FL Studios, you have it all really to make a perfect chaos. 2001 on the other hand...yeah it's not that memorable. When people think about 2001 they always point to the tragedy that was 9/11 while ignoring what happened to the rest of the year. While I'm not going to describe everything that happened...