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Wet Leg - Chaise Longue [post-punk]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9jeJk2UHQ

Hey you, in the front row / Are you coming backstage after the show?
Because I've got a chaise longue in my dressing room / And a pack of warm beer that we can consume

I do love me an anti-song. Post-punk is fantastic in that regard, but this one that still manages to be catchy and get stuck in your head regardless of its ability to make sense. Plus, bonus points for ripping a Mean Girls line as your main focus.

I'm not going to lie though, I haven't tried to listen to anything else from them because I'm afraid that will ruin this one for me. I consider this song almost perfect in what it sets out to do, but I also don't want an entire album of this vibe. And I'm also afraid that if it's too different from this that I also won't like it. So I'm stuck in this vortex of loving this track so much that I've basically left it as a standalone bop on my playlist.

Scene Queen - The Rapture (but its Pink) [nu metal]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbwYDg82KLQ

Fuck the fame / Queue the laughter
Listen up / It's the rapture

Scene Queen's whole gimmick is being provocative, but this is actually one of her more tame songs. The team up with MOTHICA is too good not highlight though. Seriously though, just lookup some of her other track titles. One is literally called 'Mutual Masturbation.'

In a lot of ways I consider Ennaria to be the next evolution of Scene Queen, but this one definitely holds up to being at the top of my lists. I love peppering the choral backgrounds with the little distortion into the verses and the build up to the screaming.

I love the drums in this one too, they carry the story of the song on their back. I'm starting to realize how much I really like drum forward songs. Between those and the lyrics telling a story of watching the world burn, I'm sure you can see how this landed here.

Caroline Polachek - Welcome to My Island [synthpop]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxgcz_6GKX0

Desire, I wanna turn into you

If you haven't heard of her yet, buckle up because Kojima has recently become obsessed with her so I'm expecting her to feature in pretty much every one of his upcoming games. For me though, this is like a literal siren song. The first like 30 seconds is just crazy enough on its own to make the list, but the rest of it holds up just as well. Great lyrics and power chords carry this one all the way through.

Another thing I've noticed as I'm going through and making this list is that I have quite a few songs that have a lot of stilted lyrics. I think that's becoming one of my calling cards recently for some reason. I don't know if it's a I really enjoy them thing or a there's been an upticks of great songs just happen to use them. This one has a great mix of the stilted ones as well as the melodic ones and they feed off of each other into being greater than the sum of their individual parts.

For real though I could just loop those first 30 seconds some days and be fine with it.

also also: hey hey hey HEY!

Daughter - Flaws [post rock]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1doM4kr9NI

*insert tortured scream here*

You don't always need lyrics to be a banger. Just a great instrumentals and some melodic... I don't even know what the term for it is... wordless singing? The voice is definitely making like choral sounds, but they're not words just voice sounds.

I was introduced to this one in a very emotional scene from Life is Strange: Before the Storm and that entire scene is burned into my soul. I'd describe this song as 'hauntingly beautiful' just from the song alone, but with my attachment to the scene its in kicks it up quite a few notches.

20. Hey Monday - Homecoming [pop punk]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU0fQIezoK0

Descending, I'm spinning / Lost all defense
How could you swallow me again?

When I say pop-punk is my favorite genre, this is what I'm talking about. I can listen to a song of this ilk and instantly be transported back to my teenage years. A garage party with this thumping the speakers just feels right, you know? I've always felt like Hey Monday kinda got lost in the shuffle and never really get the laurels they deserved. Not from a lack of talent though, because let's pour one out for Cassadee. She went from this perfection to going on The Voice (and winning I'm pretty sure) and transitioning into country full time. FOR LIKE 12 YEARS. Good news though, she realized country was trash and came back home (get it?) to pop-punk as of last year in a solo capacity. I don't think it hits the highs of Hey Monday (yet), but there's definitely potential there.

As for Hey Monday in general, they are the purest form of pop-punk. I mean, just look at that video. It drips scene from every single pore and I'm here for it. Uptempo from the jump and high energy emo lyrics are pure dopamine for me. You don't know how much it warms my heart to be in the middle of a third(?) pop-punk revival right now. I have pre-purchased 2-day tickets to the DC Warped Tour with no announced bands just in the hopes of getting to see some of these guys again (they played the WWWY show back in October so the dream is well enough alive).

If I had to pick my second favorite song from them it would be How You Love Me Now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzBruRwBltE - which is another venomous song that's so uptempo it sounds bubbly. As you've probably gathered by now, I love when there is clashes inside the song itself on how it should be taken, which is of course another reason why I love HM. Never die out again pop-punk, I beg you.

And since I mentioned it, this is from her pop-punk return: Almost There -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNS29kMG3uo