The following is just such a list.īefore we proceed: What constitutes a pop song? It’s a question I often consider when writing this column, assessing the constantly shifting imaginary borders of what passes for music’s mainstream.
#Best 2016 hindi songs playlist plus
Pop’s predominant currency is the hit single, so although an assessment of the year could take many forms, the most pleasurable is a playlist of jams - a rundown of quality tracks that will endure in the cultural memory plus a few that would go down in history too in some superior timeline. A lot of the resulting tracks became ubiquitous some of them merely should have been ubiquitous - and given the way songs like OMI’s “Cheerleader” and Kiiara’s “Gold” have emerged from obscurity years later to become smash hits, maybe some of them still will be.
Much of it came from A-list stars working with massive teams of industry professionals some of it was generated at home, by one person with some big ideas. This year, like every year, the best pop music soared to such heights. And when it works, and music is transmuted into magic, we all get to share it. Such an ambitious approach can yield monumental distractions and crass lowest-common-denominator debacles, but the drive to create something universal also feels vital at a time when unity is hard to come by and subtlety ain’t doing nothing for nobody. It paints in broad strokes, and it aspires to be something bigger than one person’s private moment or even the province of a tiny community (both noble aspirations in their own right - please refer to Ecclesiastes and the Byrds for further comment). This can be true of any music, but pop is special in that it aims for that effect outright. As with any genre, there is a lot of unlistenable dreck on the radio and the charts, but they also contain songs that make you think, “Holy shit,” and songs that bypass thinking altogether to elicit sheer physical elation. Sometimes it’s pretty good, too! Sometimes it can comfort you in your sorrow and anger and confusion sometimes it can lift those spirits right back up.Ī magnificent pop song can jolt you back to life like nothing else, tapping into emotional and psychological realms only music can reach. Pop pop pop pop pop: It does not stop, even when your spirits drop.
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