Relatedly(?), I don't have much in the way of a single of the year so far, whereas at this point last year I had "Chale," "Meherbaan," and "Darbuka," not to mention "Bota na Pipoka," "OMG," and "Pound Town" to name a few.
I have a few funk tracks that will probably make my list, a few amapiano tracks, the Camilla/Carti's "I Luv It," Baby Kia's "OD CRASHIN," and the song I surprised myself by naming "best of the year so far," a moody Sade-esque number by Arooj Aftab. (Just pulled the stuff in my big list to a shortlist of about 40 tracks: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4I1Jrvtk2Wq440VsT4uqNc?si=a70ddfd381a44e74)
Weirdly, looking now at my own 2023 list, I think all ten of my top ten were at least on my longlist by this time last year - bearing in mind that my Eilish (which I got from you) was a re-edit of a Drake cover she'd done four years earlier, and I took a full year to convince myself that the Altégo mashup of Katy Perry x Alice Deejay was indeed top ten.
The top of my 2024 longlist is solid as music, but yeah, there's nothing for which I'm going, "This one is sure to hold on." My leading Pipokinha track - "Os Novinhos Que Trabalha de GP" - is a reliable slammer, however.
Figured out what "Raat Ki Rani" reminded me of: "Sara" by Bob Dylan, a song whose lyrics and singing had massively put me off but that I'd admitted had something. Isn't like "Raat Ki Rani" in presentation or setting, or singing, and the melodic match goes only for a couple of chords in the verse; but once I feel the similarity it hangs on emotionally for the rest of the song.
21: Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnLIMuTXoIE
Disappointed by new Hyuna, actually.
But lest we forget, here's Hyuna screaming at a chicken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPybXboPOOk
It is nowhere near top tier for her -- ditto Isabella Lovestory, I think -- but she's rolling with the punches of current pop trends pretty well
Relatedly(?), I don't have much in the way of a single of the year so far, whereas at this point last year I had "Chale," "Meherbaan," and "Darbuka," not to mention "Bota na Pipoka," "OMG," and "Pound Town" to name a few.
I have a few funk tracks that will probably make my list, a few amapiano tracks, the Camilla/Carti's "I Luv It," Baby Kia's "OD CRASHIN," and the song I surprised myself by naming "best of the year so far," a moody Sade-esque number by Arooj Aftab. (Just pulled the stuff in my big list to a shortlist of about 40 tracks: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4I1Jrvtk2Wq440VsT4uqNc?si=a70ddfd381a44e74)
Weirdly, looking now at my own 2023 list, I think all ten of my top ten were at least on my longlist by this time last year - bearing in mind that my Eilish (which I got from you) was a re-edit of a Drake cover she'd done four years earlier, and I took a full year to convince myself that the Altégo mashup of Katy Perry x Alice Deejay was indeed top ten.
The top of my 2024 longlist is solid as music, but yeah, there's nothing for which I'm going, "This one is sure to hold on." My leading Pipokinha track - "Os Novinhos Que Trabalha de GP" - is a reliable slammer, however.
Here's the longlist, which I'm updating all the time. (Still updating 2023 as well!) My longlist is only a few songs longer than your shortlist!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLshHxICULapnouJ_502EWH3rjvdYKq9xf
Figured out what "Raat Ki Rani" reminded me of: "Sara" by Bob Dylan, a song whose lyrics and singing had massively put me off but that I'd admitted had something. Isn't like "Raat Ki Rani" in presentation or setting, or singing, and the melodic match goes only for a couple of chords in the verse; but once I feel the similarity it hangs on emotionally for the rest of the song.