This year's music scene delivered some truly exceptional albums, making it difficult to choose a top 10. The article highlights albums that stood out, including Kendrick Lamar's latest release and Beyoncé's genre-bending masterpiece.
Imagine this: You’ve been documenting your favorite albums throughout the year and you are ready to write your Top 10 list, but then that artist who never makes bad, and it only took a few listens of that marvelous album to rise to No. 2 on my list, necessitating a rewrite.
This year it’s Kendrick Lamar and— a last-minute drop that easily made it to this year’s list, along with several other stunning projects that have been in heavy rotation in my AirPods and appeared all over my Spotify Wrapped.is more than an album. It’s supreme art that also serves as a history lesson. Reclaiming a genre created by Black people, Beyoncé tackles country music in her own way, with stunning results. She tag-teams with Miley Cyrus and Post Malone; she invites emerging Black artists on songs that have changed their lives; she takes classics from the Beatles and Dolly Parton and adds her own flavor while maintaining what made them great in the first place. She even gives us a whole-ass operatic moment on “Daughter.” There is nothing Queen Bey can’t do.and follow it up with epic songs like “Therefore I Am,” “Happier Than Ever” and “What Was I Made For.” But then she does the unthinkable and creates the best album of her career so far. The 10 songs ofhit deep. Some are fun and breezy, like “Birds of a Feather”; “The Greatest” and “Wildflower” are next-level; “L’Amour de Ma Vie” starts off jazzy and soft but goes into Super Saiyan mode in the best way. The nearly six-minute final track, “Blue,” ends with this line: “But when can I hear the next one?” Hopefully, that means more music is on the way., and I’m bummed that more people haven’t listened to it. It’s A-level R&B that proves — like that Super Bowl halftime performance — why he’s one of the greatest of all time. It’s hard not to hit the repeat button on jams like “Please U,” “Kissing Strangers,” “I Am the Party” and “Bop.” Do yourself a favor and take a liste
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