It was a strange and wonderful year for pop music. The year was, arguably, ruled by a year-old visionary and her older brother, who used unconventional techniques and abrasive, aggressive sounds to create a No. And experimentalists like Dylan Brady and Laura Les — who teamed up to rip a hole through the internet with their gecs album — and Caroline Polachek used pop techniques and sounds to create warped and poignant records. This list tries to make sense of all the chaotic left-turns pop took this year in the form of 25 wildly different but entirely vital tracks. The No. The political charge of her writing is still as acidic as ever, but now her capitalist critiques feel just as likely to be played in malls as they are in underground raves. This year's Soulwax remix of album highlight "Work It" pushes Davidson's aesthetic ascension even further, turning the irony-laced Girlboss anthem into a festival-ready thumper. There's a lush, technicolour feeling to his best beats that can rarely be found elsewhere.


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At age 21, after a long string of negative tabloid publicity, former teen pop star Justin Bieber has emerged more successful than ever. His single "What Do You Mean? He followed it with a 2 opening for "Sorry. It has been four years since Adele dominated the pop music world with her worldwide 1 hit album Now she is back and she broke a number of records once again.
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