In 2017, Pop Music Made Triumph Out of Tough Times

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The New York Times

Music Commentary, Music Interviews, Music

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

From Lorde to Kendrick Lamar, many of the albums and songs on our critics’ best-of lists showcased the work of musicians meeting difficult circumstances with artistic fortitude.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your Ginger Fireball, raw juice blend of 2017 of music news and criticism.
0:10.0	I'm your host, a mildly ailing John Caramonica.
0:14.0	Black Saints and a lady playing
0:20.0	knock off soul
0:21.0	a punk rock romantic slum slumped on the kitchen floor,
0:25.0	nuns in stress positions, smoking marble rolls,
0:29.0	Loly, t'asweeping, and the bride is beautiful
0:34.0	Lice deduction
0:38.0	I can't turn off what turns me on
0:42.0	I can't turn off what turns me on
0:45.0	I can't turn off what turns me on
0:47.0	I hold you like a weapon
0:50.0	I don't turn off what turns we on.
0:54.0	Yeah, you can't tell off that turns we on.
0:58.0	Oh, you can't tell off that turns we on. I've got taken a bunch of oil of oregano to clean the system out because today's
1:09.7	popcast was far too important to miss. It is the albums of the year
1:13.4	podcast. We got the whole squad here. I've got chief pop music
1:18.2	critic John Prelis. Hey there. And JP, before we continue, we
1:21.9	opened on a song from your number one album that was
1:26.1	St. Vincent's mass seduction the title track not mass education as a lot of people think it's called because it really looks like it's called that or miseducation for that matter
1:38.1	To round out the conversation I've got pop music Kaskarelli not a critic no no
1:43.9	opinions let opinion free zone only provocations no
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