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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...