Our annual music issue from @NYTmag is here.
Featuring artists from Megan Thee Stallion to Billie Eilish to “Cats,” here are 25 songs that matter now. Listen for yourself. nyti.ms/2Q6Xjxl
Featuring artists from Megan Thee Stallion to Billie Eilish to “Cats,” here are 25 songs that matter now. Listen for yourself. nyti.ms/2Q6Xjxl
“The songs that follow range from the mindbogglingly popular to the fairly obscure, but something almost all of them have in common is the willingness to simply be what they are, and to let things fall where they may,” writes @ntabebe for @NYTmag nyti.ms/2Q6Xjxl
For Billie Eilish, pop isn’t something to sabotage, writes Jonah Weiner. It’s something to hold sacred. nyti.ms/2W8M3EO
‘‘I think where a song doesn’t go is as interesting as where a song goes,” says Billie Eilish nyti.ms/2W8M3EO 
The genius of "Hot Girl Summer" is that it was much more than a song — it was a feeling, propagated by social media, particularly Instagram and TikTok, of freedom and abandon, writes Jenna Wortham nyti.ms/3cWZmya
“The whole Hot Girl aesthetic — I think people felt comfortable seeing someone doing whatever they wanted to do,” said Megan Thee Stallion nyti.ms/3cWZmya
What distinguishes Jack Antonoff — a producer, musician and member of Red Hearse — as a record maker is not a sound; it’s a sensibility and a skill set, writes Jody Rosen nyti.ms/3aQtVUi
‘‘In recent years, I’ve put all my energy into making albums,” said Jack Antonoff. “That’s what I believe in.” nyti.ms/3aQtVUi
“Old Town Road” has come to symbolize rebellion against parochialism and consensus in fraying times, writes Wesley Morris nyti.ms/2W6PsDW
"All along, Lil Nas X had been insisting upon the song’s elasticity, that it can be anything and go anywhere," writes Wesley Morris. "Here we are, still stretching this thing to infinity." nyti.ms/2W6PsDW
King Princess is gleefully claiming a cultural patch of ground once mostly reserved for male artists, writes Lizzy Goodman nyti.ms/33eXoV2
“My music is queer because I’m queer,” says King Princess. “But queer artist is not a category. You can’t make a playlist for queer artists because they’re not all the same.” nyti.ms/33eXoV2
Listen to all 25 songs here nyti.ms/2Q6Xjxl
