If you filtered through all of the negative noise of 2020, you may have found some great music being made.
Whether it was a California rock band wondering out loud if it will be “bleak forever” or a fierce female rapper expounding on the merits of working hard, the music of 2020 proved that not everything was bad about this year.
Song: “I Know The End”
Artist: Phoebe Bridgers
Album: “Punisher”
Lyric That We All Needed To Here in 2020: “No I’m not afraid to disappear / The billboard said ‘The End Is Near’ / I turned around, there was nothing there / Yeah, I guess the end is here.”
Song: “Scram!”
Artist: Jeff Rosenstock
Album: “No Dream”
Lyric That We All Needed To Here in 2020: “Not hearing all your shit / Don’t waste my fucking time / And don’t you want to get away tonight? / Go kick rocks and die.”
Song: “Girls In The Hood”
Artist: Megan Thee Stallion
Album: “Good News”
Lyric That We All Needed To Hear in 2020: “‘Cause the girls in the hood are always hard / Ever since sixteen, I been havin’ a job / Knowin’ nothin’ in life, but I gotta get rich / You could check the throwback pics, I been that bitch.”
Song: “Mr. Motivator”
Artist: IDLES
Album: “Ultra Mono”
Lyric That We All Needed To Hear in 2020: “Let’s seize the day / All hold hands, chase the pricks away / You can do it / You can do it / Yes, you can”
Song: “American Crisis”
Artist: Bob Mould
Album: “Blue Hearts”
Lyric That We All Needed To Hear in 2020: “Wake up every day to see a nation in flames / We click and we tweet and we spread these tales of blame / Here’s the newest American crisis / Thanks to the ‘evangelical ISIS'”
Song: “Be Afraid”
Artist: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Album: “Blue Hearts”
Lyric That We All Needed To Hear in 2020: “And we don’t take requests / We won’t shut up and sing / Tell the truth enough / You’ll find it rhymes with everything.”
Song: “Slew Foot”
Artist: Armand Hammer
Album: “Shrines”
Lyric That We All Needed To Hear in 2020: “Slow burning, all consuming, ever present movement / You choose not to see, the labor’s free with hidden fees.”
Song: “Delete Forever”
Artist: Grimes
Album: “Miss Anthropocene”
Lyric That We All Needed To Hear in 2020: “Funny how they think us naive when we’re on the brink / Innocence was fleeting like a season / Cannot comprehend, lost so many men / Lately, all their ghosts turn into reasons and excuses.”
Song: “Thoughts And Prayers”
Artist: Drive-By Truckers
Album: “The Unraveling”
Lyric That We All Needed To Hear in 2020: “Tramp the dirt down, Jesus. you can pray the rod they’ll spare / Stick it up your ass with your useless thoughts and prayers.”
Song: “Self-Destruction (As A Sensible Career Choice)”
Artist: Spanish Love Songs
Album: “Brave Faces Everyone”
Lyric That We All Needed To Hear in 2020: “It won’t be this bleak forever (yeah right) / It won’t be this bleak forever (and I hope you’re right)”
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