

Plus, this just seems more fun, we get to look at everything this way.Ģ021 in pop felt like a transitional but not insubstantial year. I found some great stuff on here I wouldn’t have listened to otherwise, and I found some truly obnoxious shit, too, that I’m going to talk about because I had to listen to it, dammit, and that’s going to count for something. There’ll still be a final verdict best/worst hits list at the end, but for 2021, I’m going to run down the entire year-end Billboard Hot 100 and give my thoughts on every single song, because I don’t want to halfass this or try to muddle through it again. So, that’s what you’re getting this year. To be transparent, these factors also made winnowing down a best and worst hits list last year kind of a grind because I knew what I thought I wanted to go with, but at the same time I didn’t want to miss anything, so there was a lot of cramming and taking in the list as a whole. a lack of mass gatherings and public events altered how I engaged with capital P Pop music which is, at its heart, a communal experience. Made following the Billboard weekly race feel sillier than it had ever been, and 2. I did abbreviated lists last year in one post by explanation that the pandemic and last year’s general 2020ness had 1. Historically, I’ve run the pop chart aspect of Listmas as a Best and Worst list broken down in two parts each to keep them from being unwieldy to both read and write. Hello! Welcome back to our final day of Listmas.
