2013 Odds and Ends | Ranting About Music!
Welcome to Day 7 of Listmas '13. Thank you for reading Ranting About Music here in its third year, and I hope you had as much fun reading as I did writing. At the end of today's entry is a hub for the links to the rest of this year's Listmas. Have a wonderful holiday, and I will see you again in the new year!
"Sleeper" Album of the Year: The National – Trouble Will Find Me/Savages – Silence Yourself–neither wowed me at first, but grew on me in the last few months.
Pop Career Least Likely to Recover from 2013: Britney Spears. Her Smurfs 2 soundtrack single was a flop, but even it looks like a wild success compared to Britney Jeans' abysmal sales.
Pop Career I'm Most Curious to See in 2014: Lorde. Pure Heroine holds together well enough as an album; time to see if she has anymore big singles in her. Should be exciting.
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You didn't like Same Love? It's not like I liked that song but most music critics love that song.
Ok, I gotta ask, why was Same Love (my personal favorite song of 2013, but that's besides the point) a dishonorable mention for the worst list?
It never quite jived with me. Ryan Lewis' beat is like an uninspired After School Special, and I was annoyed at how a gay marriage anthem started both of its verses with "no homo". Mary Lambert (deservedly) got praise for her hook, though.