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.
Seem to have erased a long reply to this but let's try it again: listened to the whole list and pulled out some songs I hadn't heard/selected yet -- Pipokinha/Babydoll ("Os Novhinos"), MC Madan (which earns its gas masks), the Gonzaga track that contributes to my "pretty melody in abrasive funk" subcategory, the Mario Bros. funk that I heard on Twitter but maybe wasn't available on Spotify at the time?, and the totally gob-smacking LE SSERAFIM, which gets the Miley Cyrus Handstand Award for song whose sound I couldn't have predicted beforehand with a hundred guesses
Don't know if you've noticed while you were scanning that "U R Such A Lame (RMX)" was sneaking onto the list and slowly climbing. For social reasons (too much a novelty) and historical reasons (Rixxia new and Yeri Mua's catalogue seems kind of so-what) I don't see it clicking with us PBS types as much as "Chalé" - also may not be as good - but I can see it sweeping the Moore-Eddy-Kogan triumvirate.
Yes, Le Sserafim's "Good Bones" is as close as idol pop has ever come to the Butthole Surfers (though if the Surfers were to cover it, it'd be with different lyrics and a different emotional tenor to the vocals: snide and sideways rather than earnest).
Am still keeping underviewed album/EP tracks off my singles list, but by far the best thing on the DJ Wesley Gonzaga EP (Dec. 2023 and definitely eligible for Uproxx at the very least) is *his* sampled and repurposed version of the Eilish "Hotline Bling"!
MC Madan made my 2022 top ten with "Fortnite Das Favelas," prod. by Apollo Mix, same as "Rota de Fuga." "Rota" is neck-and-neck with another two off Madan's 2023 album *Controle Mental* as far as tickling and jabbing my ear canal - "Cyber Gaia" was the one I embedded on my EOY, EOY Oh! wrap-up – but is definitely the one that careens and caroms most recklessly in traffic. Counting it as a 2024 single 'cause the video went up this January.
Got the Mario Bros. funk off your Twitter or your Bsky, but it keeps getting deleted from or taken private on YouTube. I've already had to replace it on my playlist twice.
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
"Gasolina" is currently in my Top 20.
I'm ever on top of things.
Seem to have erased a long reply to this but let's try it again: listened to the whole list and pulled out some songs I hadn't heard/selected yet -- Pipokinha/Babydoll ("Os Novhinos"), MC Madan (which earns its gas masks), the Gonzaga track that contributes to my "pretty melody in abrasive funk" subcategory, the Mario Bros. funk that I heard on Twitter but maybe wasn't available on Spotify at the time?, and the totally gob-smacking LE SSERAFIM, which gets the Miley Cyrus Handstand Award for song whose sound I couldn't have predicted beforehand with a hundred guesses
Don't know if you've noticed while you were scanning that "U R Such A Lame (RMX)" was sneaking onto the list and slowly climbing. For social reasons (too much a novelty) and historical reasons (Rixxia new and Yeri Mua's catalogue seems kind of so-what) I don't see it clicking with us PBS types as much as "Chalé" - also may not be as good - but I can see it sweeping the Moore-Eddy-Kogan triumvirate.
Yes, Le Sserafim's "Good Bones" is as close as idol pop has ever come to the Butthole Surfers (though if the Surfers were to cover it, it'd be with different lyrics and a different emotional tenor to the vocals: snide and sideways rather than earnest).
Am still keeping underviewed album/EP tracks off my singles list, but by far the best thing on the DJ Wesley Gonzaga EP (Dec. 2023 and definitely eligible for Uproxx at the very least) is *his* sampled and repurposed version of the Eilish "Hotline Bling"!
MC Madan made my 2022 top ten with "Fortnite Das Favelas," prod. by Apollo Mix, same as "Rota de Fuga." "Rota" is neck-and-neck with another two off Madan's 2023 album *Controle Mental* as far as tickling and jabbing my ear canal - "Cyber Gaia" was the one I embedded on my EOY, EOY Oh! wrap-up – but is definitely the one that careens and caroms most recklessly in traffic. Counting it as a 2024 single 'cause the video went up this January.
Got the Mario Bros. funk off your Twitter or your Bsky, but it keeps getting deleted from or taken private on YouTube. I've already had to replace it on my playlist twice.
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.