#feelings!!!!!

aw shit man this is like.  my favorite ask of the entirety of 2018.  i am seven drinks in so buckle in son you’re up for a ride now:

im gonna go out on a limb and guess you meant favorite song so to start with that, here, have five:

carly rae jepsen, party for one

batfangs, boy of summer

boygenius, me and my dog

mitski, pink in the night

torres, two of anything

FAVORITE HOOKS:

look, in a year where our lord and savior carly rae jepsen releases a song, you know it’s going to win this, but to be clear: that xylophone intro to party for one is magnificent, just try and fight me on it

also: haunted house by sir babygirl is like one bigass hook translated into a hundred-yard spring through an active car wash of high school gayness. so.  solid second place.

ALSO:

FAVORITE LYRICS:

crashing cars on icy feelings / keep my friends safe now and always* (lala lala, when you die)

maybe we’re a fault line ready to break (twin shadow, saturdays)

controversy set on a field of bright colors (kitten, pink champagne)

but the loneliness never left me / i always took it with me / but i can put it down in the pleasure of your company (florence and the machine, no choir)

ineed something bigger than the sky / hold it in my arms and know it’s mine (mitski, remember my name)

i dreamed of a life so big and tall (years & years, up in flames)

weren’t you trying forgiveness and weren’t you trying to stay? / weren’t you trying to look up and weren’t you trying to pray?** (chvrches, never say die)

you look out the window while i look at you / sayin i don’t know would be like saying that the sky ain’t blue / and boots weren’t made for sitting by the door / since you don’t wanna stay anymore (kacey musgraves, space cowboy)

my heart could break for a one-legged seagull / and still afford nothing to you (neko case, bad luck)

i wanna be emaciated / i wanna hear one song without thinking of you i wish i was on a spaceship / just me and my dog and an impossible view  (boygenius, me and my dog)

you are your mother’s child / you’re a mother of a mother of a mother now / raised in the age of the milkman i can’t claim to understand  (lucy dacus, pillar of truth)

and while the trees drop all their leaves / i’ll see you in every animal (half waif, every animal specifically because of the way she says e-ver-ee aaaaanimal and then that guitar picks back up okay in case you were wondering ANYWAYS ONWARDS)

cos it’s you that i’m thinking of / as i fall into the sun (hatchie, adored)

i used to love you like the world would end / i used to love you like a child*** (mipso, people change)

i like the way your brain works / i like the way you try / to run with the wolfpack when your hand are tied**** (the wombats, turn)

hold on, don’t fight your war alone / hang around, you don’t have to face it on your own (janelle monae, americans)

we’ll talk until morning hits the windshield (soccer mommy, scorpio rising)

gun shaped bottle in a loaded tongue / jesus ain’t the problem but he started one (st. paul and the broken bones, gotitbad)

AND THE FINAL CROWNING JEWEL:

i don’t hang with these bitches cos these bitches be corny / i got enough bras ya ain’t gotta support me (cardi b, get up 10)

*the internet tells me it’s freeways not feelings but you can’t take this away from me

**i wrote sixteen thousand words of fic about these two lines and i regret every emotion it gave me

***i wrote a truly outlandish number of words in a day because of this line