“All Too Well (Taylor’s Version)” by Taylor Swift The general ambiance of the song promotes feeling all emotions. It lets listeners release all emotions at once through the gentle, well-thought out lyrics. This song landed on the list purely because it is the lyrical version of a warm hug. Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast sings about waiting for someone in an Indiana town while knowing they will not come back. The end of a relationship may leave you longing for what the romance once was. It’s the perfect song to get out all angry feelings and maybe lose your voice. Whether or not cheating was involved in the relationship, adopt Underwood’s perspective and sing your angry little heart out. It is a self-love anthem that makes it feel as if you are speaking directly to your old lover, proclaiming your newfound independence. Thanks to Beyonce, we have the perfect song to pick you up, empower you and get you back on your feet. We get it - sometimes you just have to rage. It encourages people to think about the first night and every night that follows from meeting that certain person, from beginning to end. “Doe-eyed as you buried me/One heart broke, four hands bloody.”Ī classic ugly crying song. “I watched as you fled the scene,” Rodrigo sings, as she compares her relationship to a murder. The wailing vocals and metaphorical lyrics of “favorite crime” breaks our hearts all over again. In one of the final tracks on her debut album, “Sour,” Rodrigo expresses the frustration of loving someone who ultimately hurt her. “But we just can’t stay together, don’t you feel it, too?/Still I’m glad for what we had and how I once loved you.” “There’ll be good times again for me and you,” King sings. King’s moody piano melodies make for a calming listen. In the iconic break-up album “Tapestry,” King nestles in a melancholy tune about a failed relationship. ‘Cause I remember the rush when forever was us,” Lorde sings “Before all of the winds of regret and mistrust/Now we sit in your car and our love is a ghost/Well, I guess I should go, yeah, I guess I should go.” But in “Hard Feelings/Loveless,” the New Zealand artist retells the beautiful parts of her relationship in contrast with the initial sharp pain of a break-up. Lorde’s 2017 record “Melodrama” features a variety of songs detailing the difficulties of losing someone. We curated songs for any stage of heartbreak you may be in come Feb. These are our 50 favorite dance tracks of 2022, presented alphabetically by artist.The season of candy hearts and red roses may feel less than lovely for those who lost romance in their lives this past year. It’s cliché at this point to say that dance/electronic is really just a blanket term for dozens and dozens of other genres - many of them wildly different and fairly laughable to compare - but that fact remains true, with this dizzying sonic taxonomy synthesizing a world that feels not just massive, but culturally significant and ultimately unstoppable. The genre made an imprint in most realms of recorded music in 2022 - via fusion with sounds from pop to hip-hop to Latin, with creativity and quality at a high and with the sorely-needed diversification of the scene finally starting to happen - though with much work still to be done here and in relation to how we better protect the people and places in the scene that are its founders and foundation.ĭriving it all, of course, was the music. Indeed, while the commercial viability of dance music isn’t making waves like it did during the EDM heyday, the scene has in ways never felt healthier. And when two of the biggest musical icons in pop history looked for reinvention this year, they came to clubland. Meanwhile, dance clubs and festivals are doing “ amazingly well,” after an existentially fraught two years from which other realms of live events are still struggling to return. In the United States, dance and electronic music made up just 3.3% of total recorded music volume in 2021, which means that all of our efforts - all of our emails, all of our late nights and all of our sweat expelled on the dancefloor - are contributing to a scene that’s perhaps easy for other sectors to write off as humble, hard to see, “not the commercial juggernaut it once was.”īut inside it doesn’t feel that way, does it? Inside, it seems that new genres are developing, new markets are opening and new stars are breaking through while veterans are finding success in reinvention. It’s perhaps hard for all of us entrenched in the dance universe to bear in mind what a small world it ultimately is, statistically speaking.
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