Publication End Of The Year Lists 2016 • Page 23

props to gvb for sticking to who they are.

 

2016: Favorite 50 Songs

TMT starting their year end coverage and I'm very excited about it!

 

NPR is usually really interesting

 

feeling like I should finally give that Christine & the Queens album a spin

 

Related 2017 Grammy Awards

 

Awful as expected. But they're the Grammys and they do not matter.

 

The 20 Best Pop and R&B Albums of 2016 | Pitchfork

 

Pop and R&B feels like a weird pairing

 

kaytranada being on this list is bizarre

 

most of the division between the two genres often boils down to "black artist" vs. "white artist"

 

smh Fork how you gonna keep doing shit like that

 

I actually like the list but wish it wasn't limited to 20.

Also, which genre list will Anohni fall under?

 

those are all very good records on that 4k list as well

 

Electronic

 

http://www.stereogum.com/1913770/st...ebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=timeline
stereogum songs

 

Jill Stein Demands Recount Of "Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2016"

 

Pop & R&B list has so so many amazing albums on it. Chairlift finally shows up! Olga Bell and dvsn! Lots of other more obvious but still amazing stuff!

 

I guess, but Chairlift and Maxwell on the same genre list still is kinda amusing to me.

A good bit of the rock and electronic lists are probably going to be indie pop/art pop stuff too, assuming Radiohead, Bon Iver, ANOHNI, etc show up.

 

Putting Pop and R&B on the same list is a symptom of the same problem that leads people to labeling certain R&B artists as Pop artists. It's not a very simple thing to explain but in the end, if you ask me, it comes down to racism (even if often unintended). I talked about this in a Tinashe thread before.

HOWEVER, I'm not sure you could come up with 20 great R&B albums this year. If they exist, they did not reach me.

 

These lists are amazing. I'm kind of glad they went this route instead of a compiled 100. Gabriela's list is perfect.

 

Still don't see the point of pitchfork doing genre lists for rap and pop, two of their most covered genres.

 

I see the point if the intention is to highlight albums that might not make the best of list at all, but that might not be the case I guess. Strange they aren't doing one for metal. Interested in what their punk list might consist of

 

It widens the reach of their lists on Twitter because now Ebro might tweet it

 

Pop & R&B seems to be kind of strange to lump together.

 

yeah, lots of great stuff on there.
wish they would do an apple music playlist though :(