'F.N.F. (Let's Go)' by 0hitkidd0 and GloTheofficial snags the No. 1 spot on NPRMusic's 100 Best Songs of 2022 list.
The mechanism of the pop machine remains, by and large, boring. Assign blame wherever you like: to the algorithmic TikTokery that makes every song feel like a ringtone, to that crack team of Swedish producers that've, at times, been behind as much as half of any given week's top 10 tracks, toward an industry that clings to the already-established celebrity of those already in's or Hollywood's topmost crust.
No genre in contemporary America is better at preserving the miracle of surprise and keeping sacred the distinctions between space and time than hip-hop. Its unspoken policy isn't to move out of its cradle into the centrist mainstream; rap's inbuilt regionality ensures that the heritage of home accompanies any breakout artist. In a given year, any city could feasibly become the temporary center of the universe.
Success is a slippery, selcouth thing — familiar in its outline, but distinct and incalculable in its details. When producer Hitkidd sent a woman named Gloria Hallelujah Woods an evilish backing track heavy with the aroma of old-school Memphis – flat but bass-heavy, two notes carrying the beat — she was, per her admission,"on the toilet," preparing for a lash appointment.
Pop's biggest magic trick has always been to turn the very specific into the nonspecific, but GloRilla's monster success in 2022 reminds us that the country has always been peopled with potential folk heroes ready to help you make the usual pains of living more bearable. Their ascent is not so much a fluke in the system but a testament to the strength of a star's gravitational pull.
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