{"id":3043,"date":"2020-01-12T22:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T06:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2020-01-13T13:15:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T21:15:50","slug":"a-very-belated-rankstravaganza-my-30-favorite-songs-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/billchapin.net\/allthecitylights\/2020\/01\/a-very-belated-rankstravaganza-my-30-favorite-songs-of-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Belated Rankstravaganza: My 30 Favorite Songs of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A certain former child actor and Rilo Kiley frontwoman put out my favorite song of the year. [Photo by Autumn de Wilde, via Nasty Little Man<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hey, asking for a friend: How late is too late to do a year-end, best-of list? Is mid-January still acceptable? It’s not? Hmmmm, well that’s going to be a problem for me. See, I got so caught up in profiling albums from the last 10 years<\/a> that I didn’t leave myself any time to profile songs from the last 12 months. And I really like <\/em>doing a year-end song countdown. I need <\/em>to do a year-end song countdown. And so here we are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am excited to report that, after one or two or 20 occasions in the past when my year-end list was dominated by dudes, this year we are approaching gender parity! At least in terms of vocals. Fourteen of the 30 tracks below are either by a female solo artist, a band with a frontwoman, a male-female duo, someone who doesn’t subscribe to binary gender identifiers, or a Canadian indie-supergroup prominently featuring Neko Case. This includes the Top 2 spots, both of which also strike me as attempts at bouncy, melancholy-under-the-surface retro-pop inspired by the likes of Carole King. It’s what I was looking for in 2019, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n