![]() ![]() Smith and Normani bring soulful energy to the club-friendly track, elevating it beyond normal nightclub fare. “Dancing With a Stranger” is a union of two pop juggernauts. SAM SMITH FEATURING NORMANI, “ DANCING WITH A STRANGER” In the early days of quarantine, the noise-pop hero Charli XCX recorded this feral, meta tribute to camaraderie-creating anthems such as the very ones on this playlist. And “Requiem”-with its brain-canceling synth-pulse, its angelic staircase of a riff, its processional stomp into the end times-is once more the anthem of the hour. But 2020 was an especially Killing Joke type of year. “When the meaningful words/ When they cease to function …” Catastrophe-ready since 1979, millenarian post-punkers Killing Joke have never really gone out of style. One of the racier songs on the album, “La Difícil,” finds him waxing poetic about a woman who calls only when she needs him after a night out. Really, you could play the entirety of Bad Bunny’s YHLQMDLG and catapult yourself into the new year with the Puerto Rican star’s high-energy Latin trap. The pandemic won’t fully be over until go-go boys at crowded beach bars get to shout the final chorus. In a career full of cheesy-ass liberation cries, this is Gaga’s purest one. ![]() But search as you may, delve as you might, you won’t find a deeper, more wildly creative two and a half minutes of dub than this. Shay Lia’s voice is so light, it’s practically atmospheric, the song a reminder that there’s beauty-comfort, even-in thoughtful repetition.ĪUGUSTUS PABLO, “ KING TUBBY MEETS THE ROCKERS UPTOWN”ĭub reggae is literally bottomless: an echo-world without a floor, and an inexhaustible amount of material. If ever there were a song that insisted on shimmying, it’s this gauzy offering from the pair of Canadian musicians. The rapper Bree Runway makes a solid case for the title of Next Big Thing on “ATM” while commiserating with that forever-future-of-music, Missy Eilliott, about the hassles of travel. Something to look forward to every new year: the future of music. Musical bioengineering at its most soulful and loving.īREE RUNWAY FEATURING MISSY ELLIOTT, “ ATM” This live version is the best: The crowd’s delayed roar of gladness as the beat drops at 8:39 is like a chemical exploding softly across the brain centers. Somehow, DaBaby’s brisk, frenetic rapping doesn’t feel out of place on the bubbly pop track instead, it adds a live wire.Įuphoria? Communion? Here it is, the pure, silvery, “everyone’s together” rush. “If you wanna run away with me, I know a galaxy / And I can take you for a ride,” Dua Lipa sings, and for a moment, interstellar travel seems possible. Using a magic-dusted groove and a velvet voice, the Ariana Grande songwriter and rising R&B star Victoria Monét offers counsel relevant to all of humankind after 2020: “I’m hoping that experience will get you to change.” Her work has already been widely recognised in the commercial and music world with Kinsale Shark, 1.4 and UKMVA Awards, as well as recognition at the Cannes YDAs, and Ciclope.VICTORIA MONÉT, KHALID, AND SG LEWIS, “ EXPERIENCE” Her bold and entertaining narratives with a hyper - real aesthetic, iconic styling and strong characters have been the centre pieces of her filmmaking. UKMVA Winner - only solo female director of the year - Lucrecia, from Buenos Aires, studied photography in London where she developed her love for moving image. Top-notch across the board, this is one of the most exciting visuals to come out of the last year in lockdown, and a taste of something more exuberant, risky and bold.Īnd if there's one frame that stays with you, it has to be Bree's gigantic mouth firing out tonnes of dollar notes. ![]() The concept is completely absurd, paying homage to the oddball concepts of the late 90's and early 2000's, making the iconic Missy Elliott's inclusion that much more appropriate. Opening on-stage in an opulent club cum casino, Bree dives right into some firey choreography, before we are introduced to a man with an ATM for a head. Lucrecia Taormina brings her trademark off-the-wall style to one of the most exciting collabs of the year, with Bree Runway ft Missy Elliott's ATM. ![]()
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