It’s been a big year for moody guitar bangers, boundary-pushing Latin pop, dazzling pop spectacle, and uplifting Afropop.
Superstars like Usher, Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar, and Kacey Musgraves released unforgettable tunes.
Rising artists such as Sabrina Carpenter to Carin Leon announced their presence with authority.
Fontaines D.C.’s song ‘Starburster’ features a unique blend of instruments and showcases the band’s best work yet.
Beyoncé’s song ‘Ya Ya’ combines the anything-goes spirit of late-Eighties hip-hop with an American music influence, evoking Tina Turner’s rock-soul sass, James Brown’s Black-and-proud testifying, and the Beach Boys’ ‘Good Vibrations.’
Beyoncé’s lyrics in ‘Ya Ya’ address her family’s struggles against a backdrop of American economic, racial, and social hypocrisy.
Kehlani’s song ‘After Hours’ is a club-levitating R&B track with lyrics about hitting the gas if one is ready to go.
Kehlani’s forthcoming album is titled Crash, which might change the romantic acceleration mentioned in ‘After Hours.’
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Superstars like Usher, Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar, and Kacey Musgraves released unforgettable tunes.
Fontaines D.C.’s song ‘Starburster’ features a unique blend of instruments and showcases the band’s best work yet.
Beyoncé’s song ‘Ya Ya’ combines the anything-goes spirit of late-Eighties hip-hop with an American music influence, evoking Tina Turner’s rock-soul sass, James Brown’s Black-and-proud testifying, and the Beach Boys’ ‘Good Vibrations.’
Kehlani’s song ‘After Hours’ is a club-levitating R&B track with lyrics about hitting the gas if one is ready to go.
Kehlani’s forthcoming album is titled Crash, which might change the romantic acceleration mentioned in ‘After Hours.’
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The article contains editorializing and selective reporting. The author makes statements about the quality of the songs and artists without providing any evidence or objective criteria to support their claims. They also only report on songs that fit their narrative of 'moody guitar bangers, boundary-pushing Latin pop, dazzling pop spectacle, and uplifting Afropop.' This selective reporting creates a biased view of the music scene in 2024.
Fontaines D.C., ‘Starburster’...
It's been a big year for moody guitar bangers...
Superstars like Usher, Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar, and Kacey Musgraves rolled through with unforgettable tunes...
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The article contains a few informal fallacies and appeals to authority. It also uses inflammatory rhetoric.
. . . boundary-pushing Latin pop, dazzling pop spectacle, and uplifting Afropop.
To capture it all, we’ve sequenced all of our favorites into a Spotify playlist.
Over a stompin’, clappin’, snappin’ beat and a Nancy Sinatra sample
Her lyrics place her own family’s struggles against a backdrop of American economic, racial, and social hypocrisy
Ariana Grande's album 'Eternal Sunshine' was released in 2024 and contains some of the year's best pop songs.
Troye Sivan features on an additional version of Grande's track 'Supernatural'.
Beyoncé's song 'II Hands II Heaven' is a harmonically rich track with romantic devotion themes.
Billie Eilish released an album called 'Hit Me Hard And Soft' in 2024, containing ten phenomenal songs.
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Ariana Grande's album ‘Eternal Sunshine’ was released in 2024.
Beyoncé's album ‘Renaissance’ was released in 2022.
Beyoncé's song ‘II Hands II Heaven’ is a harmonically rich track with romantic devotion themes.
Kehlani's song ‘After Hours’ is a club-levitating R&B track with lyrics about hitting the gas if one is ready to go.
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The article contains some instances of appeals to authority and inflammatory rhetoric, but no formal or dichotomous fallacies were found. The authors provide their personal opinions on the best songs of 2024 and support their claims with reasons based on their expertise and preferences.
][Mary Kate Carr] A lot of Beyoncé albums feature a funky, erotic fantasia in the middle. Her 2013 self-titled album has ‘Rocket’; 2022’s Renaissance has the one-two punch of ‘Plastic Off The Sofa’ and especially ‘Virgo’s Groove.’[[/](Drew Gillis] Cowboy Carter still manages to give all three tracks a run for their money with the galaxy-sized ‘II Hands II Heaven,’ a highlight of the album and one of the most harmonically rich songs in Beyoncé’s entire discography. She conveys romantic devotion like few others as the track ditches traditional pop structure. A whole choir of Beyoncé sings ‘Baby, I’ve been waiting my whole life for you and I,’ but what comes after feels almost too personal for us normals to hear. ['Virgo's Groove'] is an example of an appeal to authority as the authors express their expertise in recognizing Beyoncé's unique qualities in her music.
['II Hands II Heaven'] is described as a 'galaxy-sized' and 'one of the most harmonically rich songs in Beyoncé’s entire discography.' This is an example of inflammatory rhetoric as it uses exaggerated language to emphasize the song's significance.
Beyoncé’s song ‘II Hands II Heaven’ is from her eighth studio album Cowboy Carter.
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Beyoncé's song 'II Hands II Heaven' is from her eighth studio album Cowboy Carter.
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The article contains editorializing and selective reporting. The author expresses their opinions on the best songs of 2024 so far and only reports details that support their position. They also use emotional manipulation by describing how listeners may feel when listening to certain songs.
Ahead of the release of her eighth studio album, Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé declared 'This ain't a Country album. This is a Beyoncé album.' The foundation of Bey’s music has always been love,
It's a double-edged sword we've been tasked to master, especially in today's streaming era – so much music at our disposal, and so much listening to do.
Thankfully for you all, it's not your job to sift through that pile of releases. However, it is our job!
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