I’m back! And thirstier than ever:

Now THIS is how you open a musical. It gets the audience dancing while also introducing the world, its style, the main character, his perspective on the world — you know, hopes and dreams shit — and his style.

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My favorite way to describe the score: like if Jason Robert Brown and Pasek & Paul had a fashionable baby.

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AKA, show-pop at its finest.

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If I still added full albums to this list, Oxnard — one of the year’s unequivocal best — would easily make the cut. But if I have to single out one of its tracks (all of which are just as consistently musically-inconsistent, in the best way), then I’m obvs going to highlight this monstrous beat from the greatest hip-hop producer of all time (YEAH I SAID IT). While we’re on the subject of hot takes: Kanye is probably #2, Beyoncé’s the best pop producer, and Calvin Harris is the best EDM producer; any questions, students?.

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The greatest singer of her generation? YEAH I SAID IT.

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THE GREATEST SINGER OF HER GENERATION YEAH I MOTHERFUCKING SAID IT

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The most under-appreciated member of the Coen Brothers’ crackpot gang of genius loyalists: composer Carter Burwell.

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WHO’S BETTER AT MERGING GOSPEL AND HIP-HOP?! NO ONE, THAT’S WHO!!!

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Pure joy.

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My fav “Jingle Bells”…ever? I’m a sucker for remixes of seminal songs.

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No, seriously, I’m REALLY a sucker for remixes of seminal songs.

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Say hello to hip-hop’s next star.

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What else is H20 supposed to do except GIVE YOU LIFE!!!

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2018’s SHOOT IT STRAIGHT INTO MY FUCKING VEINS List 

• Introduction
• January-February
• January-February, Part 2
• March-April
• May
• More May
• Five More for May
• June
• Kanye’s Hearts Beat Loud
• June is Busting Out All Over
• July
• Feminism
• August
• August Rush
• ()()
• (Do You Remember the 21st Night of) September…
• …Love Was Changing the Minds of Pretenders!
• September Ended? I’m Awake!
• The Month of Giving Thanks
• More Thanks