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The Best Songs of 2017—Bonus Material
More in-depth content related to our Best Of picks
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December 4, 2017
The Best Songs of the Year Were the Unlikeliest
From Cardi B to Lil Uzi Vert, the sounds of 2017 were defined by surprise—and were often the year’s only good surprises
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December 4, 2017
The Best Songs of 2017
From Kendrick to Kesha, this has been a year for exultant music. These are the songs we won’t soon forget.
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September 25, 2017
How Chart-topping Queen Cardi B and Taylor Swift Made Us Care About the Billboard Hot 100 Again
"Bodak Yellow" reigns, besting "Look What You Made Me Do." Why do we care so much?
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September 21, 2017
The Fairy-Tale Come-up of Cardi B
As "Bodak Yellow" soars on the charts, the former reality show star has emerged as one of the great rap success stories of the decade. Here’s how it happened.
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July 31, 2017
‘Game of Thrones’ and Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee on Making Music and Living in Philly
Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald talk ‘Game of Thrones’ and Waxahatchee
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July 28, 2017
Cardi B Is Making Money Moves
It’s no coincidence the Bronx-bred rapper has gone from Instagram star to bona fide musical sensation
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July 13, 2017
Waxahatchee Walks Into a Hurricane Without a Raincoat
On ‘Out in the Storm,’ the searingly honest new album from one of rock’s best and most vital songwriters
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July 6, 2017
The Liberation of Kesha
After years mired in an ugly legal dispute with Dr. Luke, Kesha’s raw new single work as a transition between a painful past and a triumphant present
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June 19, 2017
Lorde Works in Mysterious Ways
The young pop star’s ‘Melodrama’ is intimate, crushing, and bad at math. It’s also one of the best albums of the year.
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June 9, 2017
SZA Takes Back Her ‘Ctrl’
The TDE songstress’s long-awaited proper debut is conceptual and lucid but more pointed and confident than her previous work
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May 5, 2017
Perfume Genius’s Hard-Earned Happy Ending
Mike Hadreas’s fourth album, ‘No Shape,’ is his best yet
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April 17, 2017
An Impossibly Detailed Breakdown of All the Hidden Meanings on ‘Damn.’
If you look hard enough, you can figure out exactly who Kendrick Lamar is dissing. (Hint: It’s the Pope, and also Joel Embiid.)
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February 16, 2017
In Bed With St. Vincent
A candid conversation about creativity, depression, and her new horror movie