{"id":12083,"date":"2019-01-09T14:40:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T20:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=12083"},"modified":"2019-01-17T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T17:06:19","slug":"pop-gazing-favorite-songs-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/pop-gazing-favorite-songs-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Gazing&#8217;s 20 favorite songs of 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at 2018, I\u2019m grateful for this column and for <em>The Bozho<\/em> and for you as a reader for letting me do this. I\u2019ve spent more time than I ever have digging through all the new songs I can for gold, and it turned up just about everywhere I looked for it. There were easily 100 songs I loved this year, so it was a feat both fun and agonizing to whittle it down to these, my 20 favorite songs of the year.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K5kD_vYnbe4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>20. Tommy Cash: \u201cX-RAY\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>This song benefits from being massively overproduced in a way comparable only to 2017\u2019s massively slept on dubstep fantasia, Fall Out Boy\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VtVFTuIZFYU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Young and Menace<\/a>.\u201d<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7mbh43HgT4U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>19. Kurt Vile: \u201cLoading Zones\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>He\u2019s such an established favorite of mine that this song gives me that \u2018perfect song\u2019 feeling about eight seconds in and lasts till it\u2019s over, but \u201cLoading Zones\u201d still feels so fresh and worth celebrating even after all the plays I\u2019ve given it since this summer.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JE63vMzb3UE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>18. DJ Koze: \u201cPick Up\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cPick Up\u201d is \u201990s house perfection; the sonic follow up to Daft Punk\u2019s earliest material we never really got from the robots.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bh54itbDY2M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>17. Kraus: \u201cBum\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>An amazing weighted blanket of a dream pop song. This felt so good in 2018.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1RPTp-X257g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>16. serpentwithfeet: \u201cwhisper\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Absolutely no one sings like serpentwithfeet, but it\u2019s so good to walk outside with this playing in headphones and try to follow along under my breath. It\u2019s so hard to believe (but true!) that this is only one of 11 terrific songs on his debut album.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xTlNMmZKwpA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>15. Cardi B (feat. Bad Bunny &amp; J Balvin): \u201cI Like It\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Ah yes, \u201cI Like It,\u201d home of \u201cI like those Balenciagas, the ones that look like socks.\u201d The best song to hear everywhere this year, and we did!<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U0ih3FriG1k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>14. Carly Rae Jepsen: \u201cParty for One\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>This is Carly\u2019s second year in a row releasing just one song: a perfect standalone banger; ostensibly kicking off her new album, which is coming out&#8230;sometime. How many more years could we forgive her for only releasing a new track every 12 months? Hey, if they\u2019re this good, I\u2019m here for it!<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F396464790&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=689&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1&#038;in=aal-sc%2Fsets%2F2012-2017-1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>13. Against All Logic: \u201cRave on U\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>There were a handful I heard (and indeed a handful on this album), but this was my favorite purely instrumental track this year. The 10-minute runtime was not only essential to the experience, it\u2019s also a total blessing.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qooWnw5rEcI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>12. Mitski: \u201cNobody\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Nobody asked Mitski to make a disco song about pining for human contact, and maybe that\u2019s why we got one. This was such a fantastic thematic\/sonic checkpoint on 2018\u2019s incredible <em>Be the Cowboy<\/em>.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OSUxrSe5GbI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>11. Bad Bunny (feat. Drake): \u201cMIA\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>No disrespect to Carly, but how many terrific singles was Bad Bunny on this year? \u201cMIA\u201d was my fave this year, notable because I typically begin to enjoy songs with Drake on them a few years after the fact.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8pr6pTDutJs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>10. Farao: \u201cMarry Me\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Who is this woman? I still haven\u2019t learned or even heard much about Farao, but \u201cMarry Me\u201d is such an arresting sleepy-eyed psych pop song and deserves way more attention than it\u2019s getting.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l-Bka7yNyKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>9. Parquet Courts: \u201cAlmost Had to Start a Fight \/ In and Out of Patience\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>I am a huge sucker for songs that start out in one way and end in another (spoiler alert for the end of this list) and this barnburner from one of my very favorite records of the year was great and cathartic whether played live, in a car, in headphones, etc.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wu9zw0CDtnA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>8. Lala Lala: \u201cDestroyer\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>I describe this album <em>The Lamb<\/em> affectionately as cloudy day music, and while that still feels like a fair characterization, I have a hard time justifying that designation when the kaleidoscopic chorus of this song parts the morose, overcast reflection of its verses. Nothing feels clearer.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Edthfw5Pbxk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>7. Yves Tumor: \u201cNoid\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cNoid\u201d was my favorite of the year\u2019s dark post-Lil Peep tracks. Let\u2019s break down the components: I like sunny samples and I like unsettling, scary music. Does it have to be more complicated than that?<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MbFOEplKA60?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>6. Sampha: \u201cTreasure\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>One of the my favorite songs of the year was this piano ballad, lush with strings and subtle processing effects, which was released to flood your face with any tears not yet unleashed by <em>Beautiful Boy<\/em>. I\u2019m looking forward to see this go head-to-head with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bo_efYhYU2A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shallow<\/a>\u201d at the Oscars!<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uITI4DkVRL8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>5. Hatchie: \u201cSure\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>When I came across this gem when digging for bands to see at SXSW this year, it made me nostalgic for the \u201990s. Now it makes me nostalgic for March! Har har har.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mru9GG3ur9U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>4. Robyn: \u201cHoney\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s quite difficult to say anything about this song without being dramatic about it. Many of my very favorite albums of the year didn\u2019t have my very favorite songs of the year on them, but <em>Honey<\/em> did.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tlGUom_AV4o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>3. Clairo: \u201c4EVER\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Clairo will never have another 2018, just as she never will have another 2017, and just as you\u2019ll never have another of either. That\u2019s all the more reason to celebrate how perfect this (and \u201cPretty Girl\u201d) was in the context of its Gen Z culture takeover guard change.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0WDZdT04ls4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>2. Lucy Dacus: \u201cNight Shift\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>There was never gonna be another \u201cNight Shift\u201d in 2018, which made it the song I compared all others to in 2018. Her audacity to make this epic the opening track of her [breakthrough] album, or to release my favorite rock song of the year before it began, or to have the gall to subject increasingly large rooms of people to the emotional experience of hearing this played <em>live in concert<\/em>, made Lucy Dacus one of the absolute titans of my 2018.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 40px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ffxKSjUwKdU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h2>1. Ariana Grande: \u201cno tears left to cry\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Each of Ariana Grande\u2019s four albums have been great, and each is littered with both world-conquering chart-toppers and fantastic album-only cuts. Still, \u201cno tears left to cry\u201d feels singular both in the context of <em>Sweetener<\/em> and the rest of her catalog. It\u2019s impeccably lush, stylish and substantial.<\/p>\n<p>Ariana ended up having a truly massive 2018, both personally in her A-list status and widely publicized relationships and commercially with her string of hits on and off of <em>Sweetener<\/em>. But back in April when \u201cno tears left to cry\u201d was released, none of this seemed a given; she had been largely out of the spotlight following the terrorist attack at her Manchester performance in May 2017. Even during the first moments of hearing this single, I had no expectation that its sweeping, half-time introduction would soon give way to the brisk pace and forward drive that carries it through to the finish.<\/p>\n<p>That seems fitting. The song of course went on to throw her back into the spotlight, where she has remained through to the present, having let loose a massive post-<em>Sweetener<\/em> hit and cultural phenomena in November with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/new-music-ariana-grande-foxwarren-carly-rae-jepsen\/\">thank u, next<\/a>.\u201d As she prepares for a world tour and another new album in 2019, it\u2019s worth saluting \u201cno tears left to cry.\u201d My personal song of the summer ended up being my favorite song of the year in 2018, preserving the year for me in the promise of late spring, back when the world heard it for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at 2018, I\u2019m grateful for this column and for The Bozho and for you as a reader for letting me do this. 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