![]() Is it really possible “Pretty Please” or “Hallucinating” weren’t No. The first nine of the 11 tracks are an unbroken string of songs that were either phenomenal singles or should have been. ![]() At the time it was released, and it felt like a stone-cold pop classic, and two years of repeat listens have only confirmed that it wasn’t just a lockdown variant of Stockholm syndrome that made us feel that strongly in the moment. “Future Nostalgia” would have been a great album no matter when it came out, of course… and with its purposeful mixture of late ’70s, ’80s and ’90s sounds, it could have come out almost any time in the last 25 or 30 years. Some of us might’ve even played these albums on alternate days, just to achieve balance in the Force. And the separate-but-equal “Nostalgia” aesthetic? Screw solitude - let’s embrace love and levity, and have a party in our heads till we can get in touch with our own bodies and each other’s again. was to lockdown was something not to endure but to embrace - go inward, brooding a little, balladeering a little and, most importantly, using the extra alone time to get shit done. These two touchstone releases of 2020 barely seemed to exist in the same world, let alone genre, but they effectively captured a populace’s polarized reactions to the cessation of normal life as anyone knew it. When it comes down to history being written, there will really be two albums remembered as the quintessential quarantine albums: “Future Nostalgia” and Taylor Swift’s “Folklore” (with or without its worthy adjunct, “Evermore”).
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