What is the stuff you like on this Spin list of best 2016 singles (so far)?

I really like this Broncho song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZbwTrrJkhc

(i kinda always felt like if you wanted to get at the dark heart of the 80's you should just chop & screw a Big Pig song or something and then just sing over it. if you didn't have much in the way of skills anyway...)

i even like the brooklyn-y lol 80's prince rama song on here. there must be a brooklyn lol 80's renaissance going on.

i like the empress of song too. reminded me of mary margaret o'hara a little. never heard empress of.

heck, i even like that teen suicide song. it must be my allergy medication.

and THIS. i like this a lot. this is Raggett-core.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hJB2_n3EqI

http://www.spin.com/2016/06/66-best-songs-of-2016-so-far/

oops, that's not Broncho. here he is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvLh3TZovnI

I like Prince Rama. ILM is so-so on them

19. Michete feat. Reverend Dollars, “Come Get It Daddy”

man, "vroom vroom"...

all this stuff is new to me. wonder if kanye will ever make a song as cool as "vroom vroom". #straightupkanyetrolling

true or false:

No other artist expresses the complexities of desire better than FKA Twigs.

MITSKI!

(Could also be an answer to the above)

ugh false babytalking "fuck me" is not exactly complex

true or false:

No other artist expresses the complexities of desire better than FKA Twigs

at the moment I feel like this is true

so now I know there are two people on earth who like "vroom vroom"

I like it too...

kinda think twigs sucks at this point

I think she's gotten consistently more interesting as her career has gone on; I revisited EP2 after falling hard for LP1 and it still scanned as undercooked and too static for my tastes, whereas pretty much everything she's done from "Two Weeks" on has been right up my alley.

Excited to listen to a lot of these songs. Of the ones I know, these are all on my own rolling best-of-2016 playlist:

Tegan & Sara, "Boyfriend"
Rihanna, "Work"
Chairlift, "Moth to the Flame"
Lindstrom," Closing Shot"
Brandy Clark, "Girl Next Door"

And "Formation" probably would be if it were on Spotify.

list peaks early with maxwell and lucy dacus

The two Beyonce songs are on point, also FKA twigs and Underworld (I'd also include "If Rah").

Fuck Drake forever IMO

hey brad, any thoughts on the white lung album?

i'm still listening to stuff. will report back.

i haven't heard the white lung record!

ah okay, might be up yr street. borderline emo-ish not-really-punk with lots of great guitar sounds

the guitars are great! the drumming really drags it down?

not that i haven't heard white lung before. i loved sorry and was weirdly indifferent to deep fantasy. this one's better

Colleen Green at number two eh

think the songs are really good on this one but what you said about the drums seems to be the consensus xp

Mitski is amazing, nothing else here compares idk

Change Of Heart gr8 too

SOMEONE'S been watching old episodes of Airwolf on Hulu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5kbHnkAnJU

"come get it daddy" is so good

i am surprised to find myself enjoying the 1975's song on this list. i haven't really checked for them in a while.

^^^ wooo

that Reverend Dollars is pretty talented!

This is the first I've heard anything from Life of Pablo, but that Kanye track is pretty cool on first impression. Liked hearing Chance in that.

Not really feelin the Tegan and Sara. And not to get too negative, since this is a thread for liking, but Colleen Green :/

pardon me while I put on my backpack...

I like the Homeboy Sandman and Mike Eagle tracks a lot. Need to check out their albums.

Drone Bomb Me is quiiite good. :)
Whoa this Mitski + the video. Awesome.

i like these ones, of those i've heard, in roughly this order

ariana grande - into you (not sure what they mean by the only song on the album as intriguing as her bunny ears? the entire album is fire and the ears are not intriguing)
beyoncé - formation
brandy clark - girl next door
fifth harmony ft. ty dolla $ign - work from home
maxwell - lake by the ocean
rihanna - work
anohni - drone bomb me (this isn't the standout on the album to me)
lindstrøm - closing shot
nick jonas ft. tove lo - close
kwesta ft. cassper nyovest - ngud
kevin gates - kno one
nicki minaj - down in the dm

So they picked up Ngud? Good!

TOO LOW though. lol

also by no means one of my afrobeats songs this year

*fav

what are your afro favs this year, lex?

hmm i guess

yemi alade - koffi anan
franko - coller la petite
mazi chukz ft. maleek berry - dem hail
simi - open and close
kiss daniel - mama
mella ft. p-square - ginger
killbeatz ft. fuse odg & mugeez - bokor bokor
serge beynaud - remanbélé
ay ft. diamond platnumz - zigo (remix)
reniss - la sauce

I really like a few of those but am also a bit surprised to not see any Tiwa Savage on your list. No love for If I start to talk, for instance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhNG0SXCAbk

just gonna post the "Come Get It Daddy" vid here cause this is where ppl talked about it before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSSlMefxGBQ

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