After a break, we return to my notes for the People's Pop music polls for songs released in 2022. As I have no sense of time and fingers to a veritably quantum pulse, the qualifiers have been a delight for me because I missed so much good music. Below are the songs I liked that I hadn't heard before, or ones I want to investigate more. Lots of decent beats in this one. If you're on Twitter, it's definitely a fun account to follow and have discussions as the heats go on.
Music new to me that I enjoyed
Qualifiers, Days 1-3
- Orbital & Sleaford Mods - Dirty Rat
- Metric - Doomscroller (wow: a mood. I'm more interested in seeing some remixes of this as it lost me in the last third)
- Weyes Blood - It's Not Just Me, It's Everybody (some nonsense timeskipped at start)
- Lizzie No - Sweeter Than Strychnine
- Dj Yessonia ft Boohle - Ngifuna Wena
- Junglepussy - Foreign Exchange
- Clipping. - Nothing is Safe (Remix)
- Gorgon City - Sidewindah ft. Flirta D
- Santi & Tuğçe - Zaman Zaman
- Bones UK - Milk (hate to say it, but, this video had me looking *respectfully*)
- Jenny Hval - American Coffee
- Khidja - The Exchange
- Tigerbalm - Tokyo Business
- Charli XCX - Beg For You feat. Rina Sawayama (is this here because I like September's Cry for You? yes, but I'm also gay for the pylons they're dancing around like Paradise Killer background charas.)
- Not actually a fan of this Yeah Yeah Yeahs song, but it reminded me I wanted to check out Burning
- Karol G - Provenza
- Billy Nomates - Blue Bones
- Lava La Rue - Don't Come Back
- Makaya McCraven - In These Times (v. reminiscent of Portico Quartet)
- Tnfw Nique - BDF
Qualifiers, Days 4-6 (5 & 6 currently still live polls)
- Memo prompted by Beyoncé's Break my Soul to look up that album
- Mitski - Love Me More
- Lil Yachty - Poland
- Omar S & Desire - 54321
- Janie - La Macarena (not that one)
- Zxcursed - Killua
- Stepz feat Fizzler - Pacman
- Bartees Strange - Wretched
- Muna - What I Want (I like seeing so much new gay music coming up. I'm happy for the youth)
- Sun-EL Musician, FKA Mash & Ami Faku - Makwande
- YooJung - Begin
- Al-Qasar - Hobek Thawrat حبك ثورات ft. Alsarah
- Gaye Su Akyol - Yaram Derin Derin Kanar
- Miko Marks & the Resurrectors - Trouble
- Cheating again, because I've heard LF System's Afraid to Feel (although somehow not during its two months at #1), but it's *good*and I want to look up the singer
- Sharon Van Etten - Mistakes
- Tove Lo - No One Dies From Love (snogging a robot is always going to help)
- Ayra Starr - Rush
- Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul - Ceci n'est pas un cliché
- Meute - Peace
- Nia Archives - Luv Like
- Antares - The God Machine
- Oren Ambarchi - I (Shebang)
- Urias - Tanto Faz
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