1 |
Alycium |
"Out Of Control" |
single |
I don't want things to be how they were, |
2 |
Jade Bird |
"Headstart" |
single |
but I wish to be lead into the future |
3 |
iskwē |
"Blue Moon Drive" |
single |
by people who understand that history |
4 |
2WEI |
"I Don't Want To Set the World On Fire" |
single |
is how we got here, |
5 |
Faouzia |
"Minefields" |
single |
and thus the source of our burdens |
6 |
Keiko Necesario |
"Paos" |
single |
and our inertiae |
7 |
Little Mix |
"Break Up Song" |
Confetti |
and what we think we know. |
8 |
Baby Queen |
"Want Me" |
single |
I don't want the country we have today, |
9 |
Caitlyn Shadbolt |
"Oxygen" |
Stages |
but I don't want to replace it with petulant nihilism |
10 |
TeZATalks |
"MY Seat" |
single |
and gilded rubble. |
11 |
Zheani |
"Skin Walker" |
single |
I don't trust our new administration, |
12 |
Talltale |
"Tell Me When to Shut Up" |
Sugar 4 |
exactly, either, |
13 |
Geographer |
"The Other Side" |
single |
but I think that if they lie to us, |
14 |
Lontalius |
"Dialtone (ft. Quiet Luke)" |
single |
they will lie knowing that all consequential power derives from truth, |
15 |
Donovan Woods |
"Last Time I Saw You" |
Without People |
and hoping that the lie holds something important together long enough |
16 |
Aceros del Pacífico |
"Ceremonia" |
single |
for its faults and theirs to be forgiven. |
17 |
Dreamtrak |
"Do You Remember?" |
DREAMTRAK |
The truth is reconstructive and merciful. |
18 |
LAU |
"True" |
single |
A narcissist does not lie to buy time, |
19 |
Yung Heat |
"fog." |
single |
but to sell his own hollowness. |
20 |
Bils |
"Blood On The Flag" |
single |
We have had enough of the dull sound |
21 |
Thurz |
"November 3rd" |
single |
of tongues hitting gutlessness. |
22 |
Mr. Lif |
"Shelter In Place" |
single |
The vision for a new era will require more than the ability to see past your own hate-swollen eyelids, |
23 |
Harry Shotta |
"Fire Works 2" |
single |
but not less. |
24 |
Bob Vylan |
"Northern Line" |
Northern Line +2 |
No election margin brings about any other truth than |
25 |
Ahiyan |
"Güne Düştüm" |
SAKLAYANLARDANIM |
to change the world |
26 |
Sarkodie |
"Happy Day" |
single |
we must change ourselves, |
27 |
Simmy |
"Emakhaya (feat. Da Capo & Sun-El Musician)" |
Tugela Fairy (Made of Stars) |
but it will be an improvement to do our work |
28 |
Nuri |
"Asfer" |
Irun |
without disinformation memos from the nominal Department of Conscience telling us that it doesn't matter, |
29 |
Sewerslvt |
"NTR Ending (Cardiac Arrest Due To Overdose)" |
Sewer//slvt |
without the constant warring squelches of nationalized indignity and internalized indignation. |
30 |
Rave The Reqviem |
"Holy Homicide" |
single |
It will be a relief to live again in a time when you can reasonably expect to |
31 |
Seas on the Moon |
"Hell March (2020)" |
Mioritual Healing |
avoid running into Rudy Giuliani by walking past the porn store, |
32 |
Walk in Darkness |
"On the Moon or on Mars" |
On the Road to Babylon |
but we're only getting a different president of the same country. |
33 |
Iconic Eye |
"Back from Behind the Sun" |
single |
We're still the place that let a serial adulterer and bankruptcist |
34 |
Jaded Star |
"Female Fronted" |
Realign |
tell us we are freest when we are loyal and stranded, |
35 |
Surma |
"Like the River Flows" |
The Light Within |
but also the people who will fill his Presidential Library |
36 |
Averlanche |
"The Diamond Hills" |
Life's Phenomenon |
with the positive negative space around his deleted tweets. |
37 |
As Everything Unfolds |
"Take Me There" |
Take Me There +1 |
We're still the island where the persecuted came to learn to be bullies, |
38 |
Snow White Blood |
"Drop a Stitch" |
single |
but also the continent where we chose to stay as dreamers |
39 |
Dark Horse White Horse |
"Black Hole" |
single |
after we discovered the Bully University was a scam. |
40 |
Vermilia |
"Suru On Kunniavieras" |
single |
We're the patriots who screamed "Live Free or Die" in open-mouthed righteousness |
41 |
Ayasa |
"GUNSHOT〜memory of loved" |
single |
during an aerosol pandemic, |
42 |
8bitBRAIN |
"Out of order" |
Out of order 5 |
like we never learned what any of those words actually mean, |
43 |
BLACKNAZARENE |
"BAD END" |
single |
starting with "or", |
44 |
Pimm's |
"BOY MEETS GIRL" |
single |
but we're also the ones who marched in masks and intervals |
45 |
SHINGEKI |
"I want to be myself even if I am reborn." |
single |
while the cowering grifters were getting each other sick behind their pointless walls. |
46 |
PARADISES |
"PLEASE LISTEN TO MY" |
single |
We are the elves who danced on painted streets |
47 |
GO TO THE BEDS |
"赤ちゃん" |
single |
while the trolls slumped in motorcades. |
48 |
CHiCO with HoneyWorks |
"幸せ。 - From THE FIRST TAKE" |
single |
We are the rationalists who will get vaccinated |
49 |
斉藤 朱夏 |
"ゼンシンゼンレイ" |
single |
even though we know that every vaccination protects |
50 |
Kiyoshi |
"Dance Darling Dance" |
Kiyoshi5 |
an anti-vaxer's freedom of ignorance. |
51 |
a crowd of rebellion |
"°OD。" |
single |
We are the atheists who will elect a Catholic to banish a demon, |
52 |
aint |
"Deep Blue" |
single |
who will fight the Electoral College inequities with a Senator from Delaware, |
53 |
BLUE ENCOUNT |
"棘" |
single |
who will Like the tweets congratulating the first female Vice President |
54 |
Silhouette from the Skylit |
"Before Summer Ends" |
single |
from the women who should have been President already. |
55 |
Husking Bee |
"Memories Of You" |
eye |
We know how to live with rueful irony, |
56 |
polly |
"狂おしい (corruption)" |
Four For Fourteen |
and how to turn a cynic's tactics back upon them, |
57 |
Catalysts |
"Precious" |
single |
and why not to. |
58 |
RAKUGAKI |
"bruise" |
[To you full of will to kill...] 2 |
We know people who hate things, but also people who know things, |
59 |
Bullet Train |
"凱歌" |
single |
and how to tell them apart. |
60 |
HYDE |
"LET IT OUT" |
single |
The authority of character flaws derives from having a character to hold them, |
61 |
Eternal Idol |
"Black Star" |
Renaissance |
and then self-awareness, |
62 |
Sólstafir |
"Dionysus" |
Endless Twilight of Codependent Love |
and then empathy. |
63 |
Fortíð |
"Pandemic" |
single |
We are the country that will wear hats advertising our entitlement, |
64 |
Massemord |
"Millenial Kingdom" |
Blut Des Nordens 6 |
but not masks acknowledging our responsibility, |
65 |
Saħħar |
"Belt Stuprata" |
single |
and every four years we get to flip 150 million coins to decide |
66 |
Stoort Neer |
"Sthöretn" |
MÖRRINJÖ 3 |
if we barely deserve a government levitated by our erratic potential, |
67 |
Déluge |
"Gloire Au Silence" |
Ægo Templo |
instead of one grounded by our relentless moral abdication. |
68 |
Genus Ordinis Dei |
"Examination" |
single |
We attribute the success of others to the tactics we ourselves have employed, |
69 |
Sebastien |
"Nechtěná" |
Nechtěná +2 |
which is why Trump blames his loss on cheating |
70 |
Fates Warning |
"Shuttered World" |
Long Day Good Night |
and we blame the narrowness of his defeat on our failure to connect with the disenfranchised. |
71 |
Von Kaiser |
"Valley of Dying Stars" |
single |
The inexplicable public indulgence of an incompetent toddler-tyrant |
72 |
Girls Named Jennifer |
"He Don't Dance" |
single |
is not a crisis failure to appreciate the economic precarity of displaced Rust Belt workers, |
73 |
Magic Dance |
"Restless Nights" |
single |
but a systemic failure to unmake the untenable exceptionalist promises of privilege |
74 |
Luke Oxendale |
"God Save Me, but Don't Drown Me Out" |
single |
that have been made to only-slowly-shifting subpopulaces here since the first boats |
75 |
Sombre View |
"The Picture" |
single |
launched by grievance |
76 |
Naranja |
"Emérito" |
single |
disgorged the first telling installments of Now We Are the Kings. |
77 |
VUKOVI |
"SLO" |
single |
We are the disingenous spirits who decried taxation without representation, |
78 |
Rivals |
"Lavenders" |
single |
and then built elaborate new machines of misrepresentation |
79 |
The Anchoress |
"Show Your Face" |
single |
and taught our wealthiest children that it's OK |
80 |
Donovan Woods |
"Whole Way Home" |
Without People |
to pretend to think that taxes are for the weak, |
81 |
Eleanora |
"Elders" |
Mere |
while actually not thinking about the purpose of them at all. |
82 |
Eoront |
"The Bonfires of Times" |
Gods Have No Home |
Taxes, like every other apparent restriction of your "freedom", |
83 |
Reliquiae |
"Sisyphos" |
single |
from speed limits to plague masks, |
84 |
Surma |
"The Selkie (Kópakonan)" |
The Light Within |
are awkward symptomatic remediations for untreated civil dysfunction. |
85 |
Garmarna |
"Sven i Rosengård" |
Förbundet |
Our future will be determined by what we have the strength to concede, |
86 |
Munknörr |
"Andleg Umbreyting" |
Eikthyrnir |
not by the performative desires with which we want to be associated. |
87 |
Hindarfjäll |
"Hjulet Vänder" |
single |
None of these candidates are the people we should want to become. |
88 |
Roxette |
"Tu No Me Comprendes - You Don´t Understand Me" |
Tu No Me Comprendes (You Don ́t Understand Me) 2 |
We have those people inside of us, next to all our departed heroes, |
89 |
AG |
"How Soon Is Now" |
single |
in portrait or caricature. |
90 |
The Dirty Youth |
"Welcome to the Black Parade" |
single |
Would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten, and the damned? |
91 |
Boy Hero |
"Wait For It" |
single |
The second best answer is "yes". |
92 |
ILLUMISHADE |
"Into The Unknown" |
single |
The best is "we are not broken, we will not be beaten, and nobody is ever damned or else we all are." |