#ive been narrating everything im doing by singing THAT FUCKING SONG

[smolangeryboii]

Me, playing The Last of us Part 2

🎶Making my way down the basement. About to see my father beaten DODODO DO DODO DODO DODODO🎶

#i blame Critical Role for this #ive been narrating everything im doing by singing THAT FUCKING SONG #Tlou2 #tlou part ii #i found myself very funny tho #so i was laughing and crying at the same time #while Joel was getting his face bashed in #im a horrible person

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a year wrapped: 2019 MUSIC

the wide ground of music is inescapable. i have been a chameleon for this field when it comes to preference. every year, unexpected new artists surface with the vigor and might to conquer, they come and dismantle or improve my taste, but at the same time, some old artists have the strength lasting long enough to enamor my ears as they resurface. classics and new arrivals in the game. they mix and match, a mishmash that forms music for me... i know it's really late for this, but these are my top 2019-released songs (in order);

20. In My Room - Frank Ocean

Frank Ocean was a weirdo for the music industry last year, surfacing on the edge of 2019 to release surprise songs that none found favorable. In My Room seems to be a departure from the emotional Blonde but also appears to be an entrance for a new world. Its heavy beats are drowning for my ears, but the lyrics, as usual, hits a pang of sentimental world. A journey again through Ocean's experiences. "Quit being violent with me. You make me violent. My room. My roomie."

19. Dance Monkey - Tones and I

Dance Monkey saw a world-wide smash lasting its waves until the start of 2020. It's another product of TikTok-enables-hits. It's nothing but an eargasm, no more than those. Is this song beautiful? I don't know either. But one thing's sure: It surely is catchy. I remember playing this all the time as I take a bath. The vibes are strong with Tones and I's out-of-this-world voice.

18. Banaag - Munimuni

Banaag is one of the few entries of Munimuni in this list. The OPM was simply not the same as it was when Munimuni released their debut album: the bars are now set higher. Banaag exhibits a beautiful prose partnered with overwhelming flutes and lovable strums. It offers a view of how an undying love persists. The instrumental interludes are breath-taking and alluring. It brings you to another world. No one will match Munimuni's lyricism. A fluent, elegant and colorful boasting of Filipino. They live up to tell that our music is more as they use the power of our own language. This is a song about true love, and you are ought to feel how true it is by simply listening. "Magmaliw man ang araw, magtago man ang mga ilaw, ako ay mananatili kailan pa man." - no one ends a song as dearing as this one does.

17. Too Much - Carly Rae Jepsen

The pop market is alive again thanks to Carly Rae Jepsen. Too Much is just one of Carly Rae Jepsen's songs in this list. When she released Dedicated during the first quarter of the year, it became an inescapble experience for me, just like what her Emotion album did. It's always a cycle with her. With this song, Jepsen successfully defines the perils of loving too much. It defines a fear but only in a way that a popstar always do, through dancing it all out with the powerful beats and synths. The solitude percolates out of lyrics, both being personal and relatable. "I'll do anything to get to the rush. Now im dancing, and im dancing too much. So be careful if you want this touch. Cause when I love you, then I love you too much... Is this too much?" - It is a reflection under the disco lights. It is what you feel when you are both happy and worried about falling in love.

16. Blame It On Your Love - Charli XCX ft. Lizzo

Another true popstar releasing a full album last year, is Charli XCX. Blame It On Your Love is a carefree promotional single, not in a bad way but in the good way. A careless exhibition of just singing away all your thoughts. The beat invites you to jive along with it as it reveals careless sentiments like blaming lovers and saying that you are done with all the pain. Lizzo plays out an empowering rap. It appears to be a girl-power anthem, but the gays and guys won't mind if they dance along too.

15. Dulo Ng Hangganan - IV Of Spades

IVOS' debut album was another mythic scenario for the OPM last year. They cemented their way to become a stable archetype of edgy pop band. Dulo Ng Hangganan is like the successor of Mundo, only it staggers with too much emotions. It is painful but it manages to coat itself with beauty. Zild's voice is something to live up to.

14. Hawak - KOLARERAL, Tao

KOLATERAL was last year's biggest grenade of OPM. It is overflowing with anger, emotions, purpose and quality. It's the only music entity to demand justice and that speaks a lot already. The RnB and Rap industry prospers in full-scale, but when Kolateral came, the game changed and now the industry demands purpose and sense. Hawak is the only non-rap song on the album, it is lightly RnB but doesn't boast much of the heavy beats. It is perhaps the most important song of the album. It is more of a vivid narration, with emotions that can awake all the blind people. A powerful movement and realization rooted from the tragedy of our country. The first time I listened to it, I sobbed. The second time, I still sobbed. It is very powerful, emotional and striking. "Ang buhay ba namin barya para sa katulad nila? Walang laman tiyan, pero katawan namin punong-puno ng tingga. Karahasan ba ang sagot? Karapatan ba ay limot? Anong dahil, anong dahilan ba nito?" - Its lyrics can almost grasp a Palanca trophy. No one can picture injustice as clear as this song.

13. She - Harry Styles

Harry Styles proves to be a wonderful artist, escaping more and more from the dreadful generality of 1D's music. This song shows a new Harry Styles, a reborned daredevil willing to explore new grounds. The mellow of his debut album are now all gone, now there are sensual daydreams and strums of nightmares hidden behind electric guitars. You can drown in his powerful instrumental interludes and escape your reality in exchange for a short time in a bar or under the neon sky of Harry's world.

12. Softly - Clairo

Clairo's debut album solidifies her status as a star. The mellowness of Softly attracts ears ang angels. Her voice is angelic as ever, and more poweful now that it tells stories in her narratives of falling in love. It touches and tickles your heart to beat. It is light. It is glinting. It makes you want to fall in love. She is a touch of youthful joy and an aroma of tender and loving innocence.

11. Cornelia Street - Taylor Swift

Lover didn't live up to meet Reputation or 1989, but it has its deep cuts and special tracks that still make the album tolerable at least. Cornelia Street is one of those deep cuts. Taylor will always be good at narrative tragic lovestories, along with defining the painful waves of that. She makes the most out of street names and apartment doors. With this song, she vividly puts the listeners into the streets of New York, in the windows of apartments, beside our previous lovers, making you feel how it is to fall and how it is to bleed. It sounds personal. It feels special.

10. Maniac - Conan Gray

Maniac is nothing compared to Conan Gray's emotional, sentimental and mellow songs, but that's what makes it beautiful. It is so striking and violent that it makes another image for Conan Gray. It proves that Conan Gray is made up of different ideas and powers. Maniac gives you the power to belittle and bewitch your past lovers. It puts confidence in you as you dance all the pain away. It has something in its beats and lyrics that empowers you as you scream YOU MANIAC! like a true liberated person. It's like being so full with everything and finally breaking out of the cycle. Liberating and amusing at the same time. A move-on anthem.

9. Party For One - Carly Rae Jepsen

2019 was a year of solitude and singularity for me. And I should thank Carly Rae Jepsen for making a song that makes me feel happy and thankful that I am single. Party For One is an anthen for the single people. It lives up to its title: it really feels like partying when you listen to it. It is liberating to feel all the emotions that this song can give you. The beats are perfectly modest to its lyrics, they mix together well to give you a stream of joy and power. "If you don't care about me, I'll just dance for myself, back on my feet!" - exhilarating and exciting. It mocks your pains on love away. It spits at your exes. An unapologetic and naive kind of happiness under the party lights.

8. Venice Bitch - Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey was the center of my 2019. Norman Fucking Rockwell! is the album of 2019. It's my album of the year. The emotions and lyricism rooting from womanhood deploys so much fire, spreading the tones everywhere. Lana Del Rey's soft voice hypnotizes you to follow her story of love and longingness. As the lead single of her album, it makes up a bizarre emotion in you and runs a solid entrance to the album itself. The night will simply dance with this song. It's 9 minutes long but you will dive in the song to realize that it is a masterpiece. The breaking beats and high-pitched strums are dazzling. The long interlude puts you in a trance. It is different emotions all in one.

7. Bawat Piyesa - Munimuni

Munimuni crafts the most perfect and honest Filipino love songs, and Bawat Piyesa proves that. Nothing is more moving than a song that overflows with emotions and feelings. Bawat Piyesa rains its listeners with sweetness and pain, it fills one's heart up. It is so honest to the point that it aches your heart to think that someone can craft a lovesong as honest as that. Teej's placid but poignant voice graces smoothly. The instruments perfected a masterpiece, and perhaps this song solidifies and stands out in the whole album. The emotions of Kulayan Natin, as an album, peaks at Bawat Piyesa. A proof that Munimuni's strength propsers in proses of love.

6. Finally // beautiful stranger - Halsey

Halsey's Manic was just released earlier this year, but its beauty already graced us by the end of last year. This song deserves to be more than just a promotional single. It is a step towards becoming a more diverse artist. Halsey has always been wild and rabid with songs that shows her evolution and power as a woman, but with this song, she melts down to be honest and endearing. She sits down with a guitar in an empty bar and sings her heart out. She yearns the affection but is afraid to fall. She is falling for a stranger, and it feels securing but also sad. She perfectly captures everything to formulate a something that everyone would relate to. A picture of raw feelings.

5. Fuck it I love you - Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey was indestructible last year with her album, the mainstream media wasn't fully aware of that but the critics know the power of her record. And it was a big robbery that she did not win Album of the Year for the Grammys this year. With FIILY, she casually narrates and spills her emotions out, but with respect to her Americana image (by casually using California as the setting) and the theme of her album. It's overwhelming how she portrays the vulnerability of women when it comes to loving. She is honest with that note. But at the same time, she appears to be a cool bitch who just don't give a fuck. "Turn the radio on, dancing to a pop song. Fuck it, I love you!" - the use of profanity to show how casual she is in terms of loving and in terms of her pains. Lana Del Rey is a true gem artist for this decade. And everyone knows that.

4. Bukod-Tangi - Unique Salonga

IV Of Spades may have reached different peaks of charts with their debut album last year, but the uncacalculatable Unique Salonga plays a match by releasing only two perfectly-crafted songs: Lamang Lupa and Bukod-Tangi. And the latter imposes so much emotions and power at its own style. Bukod-Tangi is a gem. It shouts a volume of representation for Unique as an artist: the emptiness of fame and the spontaneity. IV Of Spades may be enjoying their fame with their mainstream songs, but Unique Salonga is spilling his heart out with honest sentiments in his belittling of fame, and that sets him apart and makes him more of a genius and genuine artist. The song blooms with a happy tone and beat but the lyrics connotes a very deep sadness and emptiness, this makes this song unique and fun, it is a paradox. Happy beats + extremely sad lyrics = paradox. "Kahit may paghiyaw sa'king pangalan, at kahit naririnig ang palakpakan, ay ramdam ko ang pag-iisa." - that hits you right through your hearts' guts. I have never felt so alone and empty just by listening to a song. The echoing of "ramdam ko ang pag-iisa" at the end of the song will haunt your soul.

3. Graveyard - Halsey

Graveyard is a typical and regular pop song, but oddly, it spoke a lot to me as a person. I consider it as a love song despite its lack of mellowness and the heaviness of its beats. It is a dedication of yourself to someone, encorporated with one's grit to reach someone, despite digging your own grave - that's love for me. The way the song escalates from slow tune to a fast tumble-down of words feels amazing and sounds satisfying. It shifts from slow to fast to slow again to fast again. Halsey's voice can do that with perfection and ease. Her voice shows so much emotions and the lyricism and add-on sound effects are catchy. No one compares the warning signs to the butterflies except for Halsey. And no one gasps in a song record except for Halsey. A true powerful artist for our generation.

2. Norman fucking Rockwell - Lana Del Rey

Do I need to say something more? I already told a lot about Lana. And this song? With an intro saying "Goddamn manchild, you fucked me so good that I almost said 'I love you'", this song already proved its power. It's just what Lana do. She is a witch bitch. She will make you cry just by singing. She is THAT woman.

1. Real Love - Carly Rae Jepsen

Carly's Dedicated showcases too many emotions connected to love: the pain of it, the joy of it, jealousy, carelessness, youth, womanhood, everything. The album gives you the ups and downs of loving. And with Real Love, Jepsen was able to make you feel the lack and yearning for real love. It is brutally honest in a sense of fun. Something about yearning for love makes one sad but also hopeful at the same time, of what he/she will be facing when he/she finally reaches that love. "I go everyday without it, all I want is real real love." - Jepsen confesses neediness. Her demand for true love in this song will make you feel the sincerity of Jepsen as an artist. "Im not even scared about, all I want is real real love. But I don't know a thing about it, all I want is real real love." - you can feel the genuine desperation for affection, but the innocence and yearning wraps up in a drop beat after the line, and then everything else, just like how Jepsen does it, is under the disco, in a jive. It's fun how she puts alluring and amazing drop beats to her songs that will make you jive and dance and jump, but it's more amazing how the emotions of the song don't diminish despite the presence of these drop beats. Jepsen has made me feel how it is to yearn for love and dance at the same time, and with that notion itself, Jepsen has solidified me as a person through the 2019. A boy who wonders aimlessly trying to search for a thing that would satisfy him, while dancing through all the pains of its search. A brief touch of youth at its full strength.