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With a flip on Petey Pablo’s On its face, "10,000 Hours" seems like a typical "I love my wife" ballad. Facebook. Here are our staff's 100 favorite songs of 2019 -- songs that either were released or peaked on the The dance challenge has been an integral part of pop music’s last decade and a half, but music needed a new bona fide line dance, and in the waning moments of the 2010s, Blanco Brown delivered. Is she an outsider making mainstream inroads, or an underground talent tweaking their sound to fit in on Top 40?
The song’s propulsive beats, growling guitars and ‘80s synths gave a punchy backdrop to Van Etten’s letter written to her 17-year-old self.
It was the top 10 hit Sam Smith needed -- a change from the heavy, serious tone of such classic ballad hits as "Stay with Me" and "Too Good at Goodbyes." That’s because Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig can see the future, and his prophecy probably involved us all cranking down the windows and yelling the bittersweet lyrics to “Harmony Hall” on a hot June evening. Pinterest . "Hope" seems like the showstopping closing number to Lana's first act, featuring her not just harder and wiser, but funnier and more self-aware than ever ("Calling from beyond the grave, I just wanna say, 'Hi, Dad'"). "How Do You Sleep?" The video added even more fuel, with Halsey angrily spitting into the camera, throwing herself into mosh pits and baring her bloodied teeth.
The rootin’ tootin’ country-trap banger that dominated 2019With the original song and a series of remixes (featuring artists as varied as country legend at its centre represented the path to success, the verses seeing him progress from being broke to wearing a Many may have written off ‘Old Town Road’ as a throwaway novelty, but one of 2019’s most inescapable tracks was also one of its most important. It's all combined to make this final year of the 2010s one of the least-predictable pre-summer seasons we've had in a long time. While less-savvy divas are still painting cheating in broad strokes -- it’s either cartoonishly seductive or It’s a testament to the talent of VW’s Ezra Koenig that he can write a political song about anti-Semitism in the Trump era -- possibly the vandalizing of a Jewish professor’s office door with swastikas at Koenig’s alma mater, Columbia University --that’s sunny enough to be the soundtrack to a Hotels.com commercial. The fresh single, released after her breakthrough 2018 set The original version of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” certainly didn’t stumble out of the gates, even topping the Hot 100 in its solo incarnation. The track's hopelessness lies in Trumpism and our current political landscape, and while Thomas' own personal sentiment drove him to death, Oberst and Bridgers change up their narrative: In the fourth verse, the guitars stop, the tambourines freeze and Bridgers sings, "There's flowers in the rubble, the weeds are gonna tumble/ I'm lucid but I still can't think." On “Patience,” the Tame Impala mastermind gives himself -- and perhaps his growing, festival-packing legion of fans -- a reminder to embrace the wait and take things in groovy stride. But with a No. The skittering beat could be a SoundCloud rapper's plaything and the freaky vocal samples feel like a hat-tip to Billie Eilish, but it's still 100 percent Tove Lo thanks to the raunchy candor ("Did you go down on his birthday?") That’s what Selena Gomez did when she and her dream team of co-writers, including Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter, chronicled what even casual spectators deduced was a reflection on the demise of her years-long, on-off relationship with Justin Bieber, in the heart-rending ballad “Lose You To Love Me.” Simple and sparse, the song starts with Gomez delicately singing, “You promised the world and I fell for it/ I put you first and you adored it,” over bare piano chords.
-- A wonderful thing happens in the opening minute of Megan Thee Stallion’s “Cash S--t”: On two separate occasions in the Houston rapper’s opening verse, she interrupts herself and jumps back a few bars to repeat her punchlines -- and make sure the listener understands the potency of her words. "Hey, yeah, whoa-ho, I'm on a roll” took over Twitter -- and club dance floors -- after the subversive reimagination of Nine Inch Nails' Britney and Rihanna have been quiet, Beyoncé has been experimenting, and Gaga has shapeshifted beyond the confines of the outré-pop that defined her turn-of-the-decade coming out party. Bis zum nächsten Mal!Deutschrap: Die 141 besten deutschen Hip-Hop-Songs 2018