This is going to be quick, because I hardly listen to music, or at least not in the snobby, obsessive way such an article would necessitate but here it goes!
Album of the Year: Free by Kid Cudi
According to Spotify I was in the Top 48,000 of Kid Cudi listeners, which was the top 0.04 percentile, so I may be biased. But after some duds Cudi dropped a remarkably uplifting and energetic album full of listenable bangers. This dropped two weeks after he got married, and you can tell after settling in to sobriety and healthy relationships he's in a better place, and amazingly, that has actually translated into evolution of his music as an artist. Finding positivity and hope didn't make his music shitty! It's surprising. I feel a lot of kinship in finding ways to finally be happy and I really dug this, especially when listening to his earlier depression and drug-fueled earlier works
Song of the Year: "Archbishop Harold Holmes" by Jack White
I just like it. It's got such a pulsing rhythm and feels like the only good rock song we've gotten in the past ten years. I sincerely dog the video and John C. Reilly's commitment as well.
Video of the Year: "Manchild" by Sabrina Carpenter
We already named her the Summer Jam Queen but this video takes the cake as well! I am going to acknowledge however, that this is basically just A$AP Rocky's "Taylor Swif" which we named the top video of last year. I do like Sabrina's insane charisma and the purely unironic Americana on display here. There is a sense of throwing caution and pretension to the wind which is really refreshing.
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