one thing that's kinda great about Confidence Man is that they are basically doing the "Planet of the Bass" bit but unironically, and they're incredible

see also last year's "I Can't Lose You"

Ice Spice makes a Bill O'Reilly reference in this song from 2025, something I did not clock when it first came out

if you make a 2025 list of albums and the weather station's "humanhood" isn't on it I am prepared to do fisticuffs with you

no whatever you're wearing is great. yeah we'll just work with that. great job lads

no whatever you're wearing is great. yeah we'll just work with that. great job lads

kinda cool in hindsight that Vampire Weekend's "Capricorn", a song that celebrates things that come into being at the very end of the year and considers the challenges they face, happened the same year that Cameron Winter released "Heavy Metal" on December 6 a full 25 days before the end of the year AND YET was excluded from many "Best of the Year" ("BOTY") considerations AND is now awkwardly being shoehorned into some of this year's lists instead out of a sense of regret for not recognizing its impact, partially because of the work itself and partially because of the way it was leveraged into an increased sense of hype for Cameron's band's incredibly hyped record Getting Killed, which will also surely earn many accolades in this year's considerations

"Birdbrain" is a song of the year contender, for me, someone who is not at all invested in the vocaloid or larger(?) anime community, except possibly in the most general of senses (is a nerd). Thank you for your consideration