Then there was Halsey, turning away from pop stardom to work with their heroes Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and make the most unique rock statement of the year in the process, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. Many of the songs that resulted gave us reason to do the same, when we desperately needed it most.Īs rock music has returned to the top of the charts over the past few years, some trends have coalesced: a revival of 2000s pop-punk, rappers building songs from guitar samples. This year, musicians collaborated and cross-pollinated, they experimented within and outside their genres, and - especially compared to the songs that captured the unease of 2020 - many of them loosened up and had some fun. Maybe you noticed it in the best songs of 2021 too, which also felt like signs of new life. Restaurants, bars, and crucially, concerts, buzzed once again even if you still didn’t feel up to any of that, you could notice the shift in energy just walking down a city street. Thanks to the miracle of COVID-19 vaccines, this year became one when many people, at least in the U.S., could reconnect with old friends and feasibly make new ones. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos by Getty Images
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