Well, sure, they didn’t release any content this year. Where are the Radioheads? The Timberlakes? The Vampire Weekends? Father John Misty and Jamie xx are the only two straight white dudes consistently cracking the top ten. There have been sneaking suspicions for the last decade or so. Not because my choices were reflected by Pitchfork or Stereogrum (they aren’t, you won’t see PWR BTTM, Jess Glynne, or Hiatus Kaiyote anywhere close to their Best Of Lists), but because it confirms a suspicion I first had in mid-July: rock and pop officially don’t belong to straight white men anymore.Īdmittedly, this is probably a dated notion. ![]() ![]() In constructing this completely arbitrary and rather late listicle, I felt a strong surge of validation.
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