Ten of the best songs of the year, as selected by Associated Press entertainment journalists.
Styles could take some advice from the lyrics to his chart-topper “As It Was,” a bittersweet and brightly packaged bop: “Nothing to say/when everything gets in the way.” The song is deceptively upbeat with a jingly synth-pop beat and a little kid’s voice as the intro and wedding bells at the end. But the lyrics are self-referentially melancholic as he accepts the reality of change that even he is not quite ready for.
Between lyrics like “Is everybody back up in the buildin’? It’s been a minute, tell me how you’re healin’” and “I’m way too fine to be this stressed, yeah/ Oh, I’m not the girl I was or used to be/ Uh,…, I might be better” and her up-tempo flute, Lizzo says it’s OK to claw back a little happiness after our collective trauma with the help of some pop music. — Cristina Jaleruis the off-kilter jewel in The 1975′s excellent album, “Being Funny In A Foreign Language.
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