Featuring Silk Sonic, Megan Thee Stallion, Billie Eilish, and more.
good 4 u, you made it to the end of another very strange year.
Let’s celebrate by running through the songs we had on repeat in 2021.
Credit: Olivia Rodrigo/YouTube; Harper Smith; Megan Thee Stallion/YouTube; Brandi Carlile/YouTube; Doja Cat/YouTube; Rosalind O’Connor/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
(Find our list of the year’s best albums here.)
Marcus Jones(Full album review)
9.
(“Ask for forgiveness/Not for permission,” indeed.)
Leah Greenblatt
8.
(Full album review)
7.
Not that the Grammy-nominated song needed any help.
“I never held my breath for quite this long,” she confesses at one point.
Marcus Jones
5.
(Full album review)
4.
Megan Thee Stallion “Thot Shit”
When you claim GOAT status, you better bring receipts.
If she wrote the hot-girl soundtrack for a 2020 summer that never quite was (thanks, COVID variants!
Lil Nas X “Montero”
Blood-droplet Nikes!
Lap dances for Satan!
READ MORE:Lil Nas X is here to prove you wrong
2.
Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen “Like I Used To”
1.
And we (not remotely 17) shouted it right back.
