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Apparently today is Colombia's Valentine's day...Well it's September 18 now, not September 17 but I still decided to make something for it in urgency!
#encanto#valentine's day#Colombian Valentine's day#Colombia's Valentine's day#julieta madrigal#pepa madrigal#agustín madrigal#félix madrigal#my edit#my edits#encanto edit#julieta x agustin#agustín x julieta#julieta x agustín#pepa x felix#felix x pepa
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Love Letter💌 PDF is now on my Ko-fi page!
The one "democratically played visual novel"/"collective chose your own adventure" comic created with the help of many voters, who accompanied me on this interactive storytelling ride.
This PDF has more panels for a better flow of the story + some insight into the possible routes we could have gone, and some extra illustrations! (including the inside of the valentine's card I never got the chance to show on the comic itself ;3c )
>>> GET IT HERE<<<
#love letter poll game#voltron legendary defender#klance#voltron#fanart#comic#organising my art in pdf's should count as therapy#so relaxing#happy colombian valentines day#i get two valentines day a year!
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AAAAA HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAYYY!!!! ALL THE BEST THINGS FOR YOUUUU <33
Ty anon, im aroace so I dont need bitches B)
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💜 Febuary Collection: Telepatía 💜
Love is in the air!
February is a special month, it's a lovely month, and Valentine's Day is approaching! So for this month I decided to do something sensual with a bit of a fairy feel. Telepatía is a very romantic and explicit song by Kali Uchis (which is half Colombian, so for me it was perfect lol)
For every romantic occasion Telepatía brings you:
9 Total pieces 3 Exclusive ones (Tier TL) *attach to a different font*
1 M. Top / 1 M. Pants/ 1 F. Top / 1 F. Pant / 1 Dress / 1 F. 2 piece
Exclusive: 1 Dress / 1 Top / 1 Skirt
You can download everything in this post (Patreon)
TY & LY
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¡El amor está en el aire!
Febrero es un mes especial, es un mes lleno de amor, ¡y se acerca San Valentín! Así que para este mes decidí hacer algo sensual con un toque de “fantasía”. Telepatía es una canción apasionada y explícita de Kali Uchis (que es mitad colombiana, así que para mí fue perfecta jajaja)
Para cada ocasión romántica Telepatía trae:
9 piezas en total 3 exclusivas (Nivel TL) *adjuntar a una fuente diferente*
1 M. Top / 1 M. Pantalón / 1 F. Top / 1 F. Pantalón / 1 Vestido / 1 F. Conjunto
Exclusivo: 1 Vestido / 1 Top / 1 Falda
Puedes descargar todo en esta publicación (Patreon)
Patreon Full Collection
#sims4cc#sims4#ts4cc#sims4mods#sims4ccfinds#alphacc#sims4clothing#sims4ccblog#sims4cccreator#sims#s4cc#the sims#create a sim#the sims cc#sims 4#male sims#the sims resource#my cc#ts4 simblr#sims 4 download
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Masterlist + Intro
Welcome to my Masterlist and Intro!
I'll make this quick but I'd like to introduce myself. You can call me Bee and I'm 22 years old! I'm a college student and I'm NOT majoring in any type of writing so any mistakes in my work, please spare me as this is mostly for fun. I'm Colombian-American so my main goal is to make most, if not all, my Y/N's be able to speak/understand Spanish haha.
-- MASTERLIST --
Fluff💕- Angst❤️🩹 - Smut/Suggestive💋 - Requested💌 - *Most Popular!*
SFW and NSFW asks are welcome! Please specify if you would like a GN or Fem Reader :)
Series
Dr. Miguel O'Hara 💕
Little Miguel, Big Miguel 💕 Pt. 2, Pt.3
A Knight's Oath 💕❤️🩹 2
Shorts
Snowfall 💕
-Origins 💕
-Godly Outing 💕
Him and I 💋
-Pt 2💋
What a Man! 💕
-Pt2 💕❤️🩹
Best Friend's Brother💋
Oneshots
Worth the Wait 💋💌
Back Muscles 💕
That Day 💕❤️🩹
Melting 💋💌
Pretty in Pink 💋💌
First Meeting 💕❤️🩹💌
Special Surprise💋💌
Forced Proximity💋💌
Love Between💕💌
On the Low💋
Impurities💋💕💌
Here, Kitty Kitty
Power of the Sun
Hands
Quiet Loving💕
Eye for an Eye
Extras
Valentine Special: 1, 2, 3
Play with Me!: An Interactive Series: one, two, three
Nerdy!Miguel Blurb Series: one, two, three, four, five
Punk!Miguel and Pastel!Reader Blurb series from Impurities: one, two, three
Last Updated: March 27th, 2024.
#miguel o'hara x reader#miguel o'hara x y/n#miguel x reader#atsv miguel#miguel o'hara#miguel o'hara x you#miguel spiderman#miguel spiderverse#miguel ohara#spiderman 2099#miguel x you#spiderman 2099 x you#spiderman 2099 x reader
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Haikyuu
Haikyuu boys x reader scenarios
Videogames: fight games
Taking care of his s/o
Slow dancing with his s/o
Rainy days
Taking care of you during your period
Watching an episode without him
Caught in the rain
Soft kisses
Little accident
Stealing kisses
Stealing time (slight NSFW)
He gets sick
Romance movie cliché
His s/o having weird manners
Comforting his s/o after a nightamare
Reactions to getting piercings
You sleep at his place for 1st time
Jealous hq boys (highschool steamy edition)
Watching a sad movie with you
What kind of thirst trap does he sends you
He and his team see you play
Asking you to move in with them
How he acts after he realises he’s falling for you
Playing among us with the haikyuu boys
Colombian or hispanic s/o short drabbles
His s/o gives him a love bite
You walk on them while they change (as friends)
He walks on you while you change (as friends)
You kiss him in front of his team
First thing in the morning
What domestic chore he hates most
First time spending the night with you
He realises he’s falling for you
They watch a scary movie with you
Jealous hq boys (time skip steamy edition)
You ask if he can help you with your sunblock
You smack his ass (suggestive)
They wake up on your chest
They catch you staring
Cuddling sessions
First kiss
They help you to study
Falling asleep on their lap
Special events
500 followers: MSBY Proposal
400 followers: first time (slight nfsw)
300 followers: Inarizaki´s new addition
Shiratorizawa´s sweet/badass manager
Captains as husbands; Daichi, Oikawa, Ushijima, Kuroo, Bokuto, Kita
His s/o calling them petnames for the first time (only nekoma)
200 followers: Day off
Kabedon scenarios: Ushijima, Sakusa and Suna
100 followers: How he reacts to you calling him “husband”
Friendship headcanons; being childhood friends with the twins
Chat: Miya twins
Chat: Kageyama & Daichi
Characters hc and one shots
Tsukishima Kei:
Steps back
Tsukishima Kei x reader
Suna Rintarō:
Suna Rintaro x reader
Where he left you
Iwaizumi Hajime:
Manhandled
Visiting your family (fem spanish/latin s/o)
Iwaizumi Hajime x reader fluff
His s/o is a heat thief
Kita Shinsuke:
His to love (smut)
Kita Shinsuke x reader fluff
Ushijima Wakatoshi:
Interview
How he reacts when someone kiss your forehead
Ushijima Wakatoshi x reader fluff
Sakusa Kiyoomi:
Love is blindness
MSBY Black Jackals: How you meet
MSBY Black Jackals: Friends to lovers
Bokuto Kōtaro:
MSBY Black Jackals: How you meet
MSBY Black Jackals: Friends to lovers
Bokuto Kōtaro x reader fluff
Miya Atsumu:
MSBY Black Jackals: How you meet
You didn’t knew he was a volleyball player (time skip Atsumu)
Friends to lovers headcanons
Late valentine’s day
Miya Osamu:
Osamu Miya x reader
Osamu x reader fluff request
Hinata Shoyo:
MSBY Black Jackals: How you meet
Hinata Shoyo x reader fluff
Kenma Kozume:
Special request : he visits you in the hospital
Kenma Kozume x reader fluff
Oikawa Tōru:
Jealous
Oikawa Toru x Gn!reader
Various
Asahi Azumane x reader
Daichi Sawamura x reader
Nishinoya Yū x reader
Yamaguchi Tadashi x reader
Kuroo Tetsuro x reader
Satori Tendou x reader
Sugawara Kōshi x reader
Akaashi Keiji x reader
Tobio Kageyama x reader
I think that’s all, if you notice the fanfic or hc doesnt matches the redirected URL please let me know! 😉✨
Thanks for reading! 🐨✨💖
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Here’s some revisions I did after seeing some of the ideas (there are obviously some flaws but I tried). Also, these ideas you guys had are amazing and my brain is BRAINING!!!
Season one - Centering the triplets as they grow up and Alma nearly losing her mind. The full season would be 20+ episodes and 20 minutes long. Also includes young Agustin and Felix.
Season two - First ten episodes ending with the triplets (Pepa’s wedding) and the last ten with the grandchildren growing up. (And expanding on the changes that happened after Mirabel’s ceremony.)
This season and mid season three would expand on how some relationships dwindled and just different dynamics and such. Maybe some post-movie bonding.
Season three - First ten episodes ending with post-movie grandkids/ before Antonio’s birth month. The last ten centering on the actual healing through Casita’s collapse. Mirabel’s parents, sisters, and Primo's reaction to Mirabel’s disappearance. And the reaction to Bruno coming back and how they all felt.
And more bonding among family members and an introduction to extended ones on Agustin and Felix’s side of the family. Like honestly, what about their other cousins? grandparents? Tias & Tios? Nephews and nieces? We need more of them too.
Over the course of the series a trading & transport system is created for people to safely get in and out of the Encanto to the nearest town. They do explore outside The Encanto/see how far the gifts go. Culture shock.
Obligatory "the oldest granddaughters go out and shenanigans happen." also Camilo and Mirabel spy/tag along.
Season four - first twelve episodes are going to be character-centric and full of shenanigans. In every episode Luisa tries a new hobby in the B/C plot and it goes a different direction each time.
Obligatory halloween episode where the grandchildren tell each other scary stories of the outside world.
Episodes 18 could possibly surround the Triplets birthday. Episode 19 could be the Valentine's day episode with the yellow couple, blue couple, and Dolores’ relationship with Mariano. Could also involve the other grandkids talking to their crushes or asking them out. Just a full day of wholesome love.
Episode 20 could be a BIG family game night with extended family involved.
Season five - Finale season (A few years into the future maybe?)
Mariano goes with the other granddaughters out of the Encanto to get the best engagement ring for Dolores (because only the best of the best is good for her). Camilo and Antonio tag along and they get into trouble. Dolores hears everything and goes to bail her boyfriend and cousins/brothers out.
Day of little candles themed ep where alma and the family go to the river and alma tells them all about pedro. Also flashbacks of before dos oruguitas and Alma telling her family how proud she is of them all.
Mirabel (possibly seventeen or eighteen) looks back on how far the family has come while working on Dolores’ wedding dress.
Season ends with Dolores and Mariano getting married!
Notes: Yes, the theme song would be like the family madrigal, new outfits every other episode, in each episode a part of the diverse Colombian culture could/should be explored. (food, music, dancing, fashion, history, etc). Songs are a must and Lin Manuel Miranda will be the one who worked on them. I won’t let anyone else attempt to mimic his style of music when he can just be hired. I’m sure he would like to work on the story anyway.
I think 24 episodes instead of 20 would be a bit better plot and story wise. Maybe each could be 25 minutes each too? Also, if Disney is willing to not have a stick up their ass, I would like the series to be animated in Disney’s renaissance era style. Like the Hunchback of Notre dame, Brother bear, Lion king, Treasure planet, and Tarzan. I’m NOT accepting anything less.
It could also be a Tradigital (both computer and hand drawn) style like Tarzan/Hunchback of Notre dame! 3D backgrounds painted to look 2D with the characters actually being traditionally drawn. This would especially be cool to look at in Antonio’s room and just Encanto in general.
TONS OF DISNEY EASTER EGGS! “Wish” kind of didn’t do it right at all so I think Encanto can do it better. Honestly I should’ve just asked the Encanto community for help instead of just struggling by myself. YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING!!! If I’m ever able to pitch this to Disney and actually make this become true I will credit ALL OF YOU!!!
Also, I’ve noticed how poorly Disney marketed Treasure planet, Princess and the frog, and strange world (most are allegedly poorly marketed) and by god I WILL NOT let them poorly market this.
Lastly, I think the series could have a full six seasons because there are so many ideas that I want to add and don’t want anyone’s idea left out. Plus, there’s just so much one can do...
thanks to @midcanto @mirabels-miracle @droppingdonkeys @slayyyysworld @teawizard and you of course for the ideas!
mirabel😭making😭dolores😭wedding😭dress😭
I love these ideas so much!!! in a better universe this exists and in the Number 1 fan!!! I love when this fandom is creative and all come together!!
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Desiderium
San Valentín part 2
Series masterlist
Pairing: Javier Peña x afab Reader (no pronouns)
Warnings: 18+, Angst angst angst, possessive sex, jealousy, light choking, Javi is a menace and also can’t handle his feelings, dirty talk, love but it’s all kinda fucked up
Word Count: 3k
For months you had convinced yourself the only feelings you had for Javier were carnal; fuelled by those hot Colombian nights and the constant frustration of your job, that it was nothing more than a casual fling for the both of you. But since Valentine’s Day, and the jumble of emotion brought to the forefront in your mind, it has become clear to you that you’re already in way too deep and want far more from this than you ever thought you would.
Even knowing that, things go on the same way for weeks longer; you and Javier, Javier and seemingly every other woman in Bogotá. And each time you swear it’s the last, but then he gives you that look and tells you how much he needs you and before you know it you’re giving yourself over to him once more. Begging him for it again and again, even as you feel how much it blackens your heart to do so. After all, you had known from the beginning that Javier does anything he can for the job, and you promised him you’d wouldn’t let it get to you.
But when you’ve memorised every pattern of the damp-stained ceiling of his bedroom, and what feels like the schedule of half the women in the city you have to do something to get him off your mind. Find a way to stop your heart racing every time he says your name in that quiet, seductive drawl you’ve come to know all too well.
You’re not proud of how you deal with the situation, how you try to get him off your mind. Desperately attempting to shove those feelings back in to the deep, dark Pandora’s box that they were locked in by finding another man who might be able to make you feel as good – specifically Jason, a CIA lackey you’d had drinks with once or twice outside of work before.
Jason isn’t unattractive, and you knew he liked you, he’d made it pretty clear before. You’d always been curious so it’s not exactly a hardship for you to make a move that ends up with him back at your place on a stuffy Thursday night fuelled by too much drink. Sure he isn’t like Javier, but few men are and you’d already known that. When he fucks you it isn’t so desperately passionate, but it’s nice and you’d like that to be enough.
You hate yourself for wishing it was Javier, every single moment.
Nothing feels right when it isn’t Javier. And unfortunately that’s how you know you love him, and if anything is going to land you in a pit of distress it’s figuring out that you’re in love with your co-worker and the man who’s known in every local brothel.
You’re a fucking idiot. What do you do? What can you do? Javier has always been caring towards you, he gives you attention and affection and makes you feel more wanted than any man ever has. It wouldn’t be impossible that he feels the same way, that he wants more but is too uncertain to ask for it.
If your choices are to be unfulfilled for the rest of your life, or be the first one to confess your feelings you know what you need to do. You have to tell him.
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The next evening, you find yourself with shaking hands at his door. You have this whole admission memorised, knowing every word you want to tell him. When he opens the door to you and he’s in that black shirt you have to force yourself to concentrate so you don’t forget the entire speech.
Javier looks you up and down with a smirk before letting you in to the apartment, stubbing out his cigarette before he offers you a drink. Your throat feels so dry you gladly accept.
“Heard you had a good time last night” he states matter-of-factly, with what you might consider a hint of jealously in his voice. The walls are thin, but neither of you had exactly been loud so it takes you by surprise that he’d open with that.
“Uh, yeah. I went out for a drink with some of the CIA guys. It was fine” you shrug, not giving anything away. It’s odd, that you feel so guilty about it and you wonder if that’s how Javi feels after his various rendezvous.
“I think Jason might have enjoyed it more than that, saw him leaving this morning looking pretty pleased with himself” he notes in a low voice and bitter, making you shiver despite the heat.
“Oh. Well...yeah, we slept together. It-it was nice” you babble sheepishly, unconvincing.
“But you’re here tonight” Javier reminds you, giving you that look - the one that always gets you in to all kinds trouble. He’s drawing you to him until he’s leaning over you and his lips are almost on yours.
“I’m here” you agree dumbly, goosebumps raising on your skin where his fingers are tracing up your back.
When he kisses you it’s so easy and nice and you melt in to him, letting him deepen it as his hands hold you firm to him. You know straight away tonight isn’t going to go the way you had planned, but you follow his lead unable to stop yourself once he brings out your desire.
He has you immediately, it shouldn’t be a surprise by now. Every time he touches you, you turn to jelly and he can shape you and move you however he wants. He holds so much sway over you when you’re alone together and he knows it. Already removing your clothes, his hands roaming your body and he discards your t-shirt then helps you step out of your pants with your lips only parting for a matter of seconds. You let him guide you and give yourself over to him with no hesitation, desperate for the affection.
The tight grip of his hands on your hips is devastating, he’s so demanding as he pulls you with him on to the ugly old couch that you’ve always hated. Everything is too hot, his touch scorching against your skin until you feel almost dizzy with it. The climate of the small, familiar room is heady, stifling – your breath catching even before he’s got you straddling him and is pushing the flimsy lace fabric of your underwear to one side.
“Did you get this wet for him too?” he murmurs darkly as his fingers begin to explore you, one digit slipping inside you with ease already. You can’t fathom how to answer, the question takes you by surprise and you can’t tell what kind of game he’s trying to play. Thankfully he doesn’t demand a response, instead enjoying the beautiful gasps he’s eliciting from you as he withdraws and finds your clit – circling it so slowly it’s almost frustrating.
It’s difficult to remember how you felt just half an hour ago, when you had been so sure how tonight would go. Your big speech—the whole stupid plan—expelled from your memory as he presses two fingers in this time and curls them inside of you until you’re squirming with delicious pleasure. Javier always manages this so easily it’s embarrassing; turning you in to a speechless wreck with his talented fingers and some well placed kisses against your neck and collarbone, his thumb circling your clit with so little pressure it barely counts at all.
Grinding down against his hand you will him to give you more, letting your eyes do the begging until he obliges you. You tighten your grasp on the back of his neck, arching your back as his thumb presses harsher against your clit and sends tightening shocks to your core. It’s so sinful how this feels, you naked save the forgotten lace and him fully clothed and holding you close as he fucks you with his fingers. His teeth then tongue dragging along your skin, free hand following to pull and pinch at your nipples.
He’s built up a punishing rhythm with his fingers and his thumb, working you until he feels you tense and tighten. He knows you’re close, has seen it enough times by now, and for a moment some cruelty crosses his features that makes you think he’s going to stop. Perhaps if his cock wasn’t so painfully straining in his pants he would, but instead he increases his tempo until you’re arching and moaning his name in to the heavy air.
“That’ right, that’s it” he moans against your skin, lips ghosting across your too-hot flesh “I want you to cum all over my fingers and then clean them up for me while I fuck you. Do you want that? Taste yourself while I fill you up? You’re so beautiful when you come for me - let me see, show me baby”
If you weren’t so close to breaking point you might be taken aback by the filth coming from his mouth, he’s not usually so much of a talker and certainly not like this. But you’d be lying if you said his words didn’t spur you on more and you kiss him hard in some attempt to etch the obscene words in to your memory. You pull back when the orgasm hits, knocking the breath out of you until you’re quivering.
Javi’s fingers work you through it but he doesn’t stop when you do, still rubbing over the now sensitive nub with unabashed determination as his fingers continue to hit against that perfect spot. It’s too much but, christ, it could never be enough.
“Fuck, Javi” you gasp, not even finished with the first when another wave of pleasure submerges you and leaves you crying out for him – eyes squeezed shut so tight you feel a tear slide down your cheek. The second orgasm lands quicker than the first but leaves you dazed and motionless against him save your heaving chest and thumping heart so loud to you it could wake the dead.
Wet fingers trail your thighs as he manhandles you on to your knees, pulling your underwear off of you and letting you collapse against the arm of the couch for a moment as he positions himself behind you. You don’t have to tell him how much you need it, pushing back against him with a whimper when he rubs himself against you, coating his cock in your slick.
“Ple-” your voice is hoarse, more a moan than an actual word coming out of you. “Please, Javi. I need you, I fucking need you inside me right now. Please” you whine, and oh it spurs him on.
You don’t get to finish whatever string of supplications you were about to start, instead whimpering quietly as he pushes easily in to you and slowly, achingly fills you with his thick length to the hilt. He’s taking his time and you can’t decide if it’s to torture you or just so he can take as much pleasure from you as possible. Damned if you care at this point.
When he stills to let you both get reacquainted with the feel of him filling you so well, he brings an arm around you and guides you up until your back hits his chest. His breath lands hot on your neck, placing a rough kiss against your salty skin and letting his lips trail up and over the back of your ear as he starts to move his hips tortuously languidly – making you feel every inch of him pressing in to you. You’re already seeing stars when he taps his fingers against your mouth until you take them in, letting you taste yourself on him. The whole act is so lascivious and indecent, but it feels better than anything you’ve ever imagined.
“Does anyone else make you feel like this, fuck you like this? Did he make you beg the way you do for me?” He questions, speaking right against your ear and pulling you harder against his chest, locking you there with a strong arm as his thrusts up in to you with increasing fervour.
God, you can barely think but that pulls you in to some more lucid state for a moment. Is he serious? Asking you that. You think he’s getting off on it, thinking of you with another man and then asking you to confess your sins to him. You don’t entirely want to give in to his game, but you’d never be able to deny it doesn’t turn you on a little too much. If the unfathomable roll of his hips wasn’t making you feel so delirious, maybe you’d have more sense than to answer him the way you do.
“Javi, no one else comes close to you-” you gasp out as he roughly gropes your breasts and his other hand presses against your stomach, making a slow trail downwards “You make me feel- feel so so good.” You moan out as he thrusts so hard in to you now that your legs are beginning to shake.
When Javier brings his fingers back to your overstimulated clit, you lose yourself entirely. He could make you recount every single moment of last nights tryst and you would willingly do so and then you’d beg him for forgiveness. Any self control you might’ve had to take back the power that is so obviously in his hands perishes the moment he moans your name against your ear and you beg him never to stop.
“You make me lose my mind” you whisper, not even sure if he can hear it. It’s the most simple truth, you’re not in control of yourself any more.
He doesn’t respond, lost in his own pleasure as he grunts and groans behind you when you tighten around him as he continues to do his best to divert you from reality completely. A hand around your throat, squeezing lightly, that’s the thing that finishes you off and whatever you were going to cry out in that moment merely comes out as a serious of incoherent whines and whimpers.
“fuck that’s it, come for me just like that. Just for me” he groans as you come down from the heavens.
For a minute your vision goes blurry at the edges as he changes his tempo again, and his fingers are still on your clit just pressing there. You wonder if he’s actually trying to destroy you for a minute, but then he’s tensing up and pushing completely in to you. He finishes inside of you, holding you so tight you can’t feel anything other than him until he’s emptied every last drop in you, and then finally you’re both collapsing together on to the pillows beneath you.
Even if you could find your voice, you wouldn’t know what to say. Javier mutters some obscenity in Spanish as he pulls out of you but nothing more, and you’re glad that he doesn’t let you go – instead draping his arm over you and kissing your shoulder softly. It’s so peaceful, lying there in his arms, that you almost forget the turmoil still ongoing in your mind for the 15 minutes that it takes for you both to get your breathing back to normal and regain some feeling in your body.
He’s gently pushing aside the hair stuck to your forehead when you finally bring yourself to speak.
“Javi that was.... I don’t think I can move”
“Don’t, stay here” he murmurs, voice so soft you’re taken aback by it. How can he go from being so demanding of you to so gentle in just a moment?
You turn to face him and he looks calm, relaxed, happy to have you with him.
This has to be your moment, right? The way he looks at you right now seems to mirror the way he makes you feel, like you’ve got something to live for. You run your fingers over his cheek and along his jaw, taking in his handsome face and for-once untroubled demeanour – this is how you always want to see him.
You have to say it, this is the right time.
“I think I love you, Javi” you whisper your admission shyly, eyes meeting his and a soft smile on your lips “I think we should try...to make a go of things”
Javier’s expression changes in an instant. He sighs, breaking your eye contact and then he’s sitting up away from you.
“I just- I hated myself last night, it didn’t feel right” you scramble, “Like it should have been you not him and I always want it to be you...” you follow suit, sitting and immediately feeling so horribly exposed as he does everything he can to not meet your eyes.
“Javi?”
He hangs his head, murmuring your name with such disappointment that anger bubbles up and you feel a rush of heat to your face - you stand to find and pull on your clothes, whole body vibrating with embarrassment. How could you have read the situation so absurdly wrong?
“Don’t do this, we’ve got a good thing going and you know it can’t be more than that” he tells you with so little emotion in his voice that you feel tears start to sting in your eyes,
Snatching your t shirt that had been flung to the other side of the couch, you try to keep some semblance of balance in your voice when you speak again.
“But we were so- I thought you cared about me. You were so...so- I thought you cared? And what? You don’t want me?”
Don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t fucking cry.
He shakes his head and whether you imagine the pained look in his eyes is unclear, but when he answers you know everything is screwed and as selfish as it makes you, you wish you’d kept your stupid mouth shut
“No. I’m sorry”
So that’s how Javier Peña breaks your heart.
#Javier Peña x Reader#Javier Peña#javier pena x reader#pedro pascal#reader insert#fanfic#san valentin#gideon writes again maybe#but it's another repost
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MKcember day 19. Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives and/or Notes
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A journal, filled with colored sticker bookmarks and shifting scrawls of Spanish. It’s squeezed into the limo’s messy glove box. He flips through a few pages.
January 13th, 2019 Chicago
—Food cart a few blocks from hotel. Good hotdogs. Cheap. Only takes cash. Order “the usual” if you don’t remember what that is. No vegetarian options. Will understand you without English.
—Falafel place with good drinks near old library. New. Comfy seats. Specify non-alcoholic
—Don’t let Marc find the waffles.
March, Tuesday something, New York
—Don’t remember the street. Somewhere with a big red sign and iron man stickers on the windows. Best fucking (the text is blurred, something smudging the ink)
SOUP ON 6th
Friday, New York still
—Go back to that cart by the mural for the elote and his number
London, new years recently I think. Rough time
—Sweets shop near place with Layla, breads and custard and good malt balls. In bulk.
—Diner downtown, Gena’s. She was nice. Good food ——> Colombian!
—Can’t find my snacks
September 6th 2020, Cairo
—DONT get drinks from place with green overhang. Layla says don’t trust.
—Get ful medames if rushing. Good place a few blocks down from usual hotel.
December, cold, monday(?)
—Gena’s got two kids. Gives leftovers. Ask her about other places to check out. Rice pudding not as good as ours ok though
Valentine’s Day, has to be 2021, London
—Steven’s soda is gross, don’t drink it
He flips a chunk of pages ahead.
The book is now marked with sticky notes and inserted papers. Shopping lists—some crossed off, others half finished—short exchanges, reminders, small drawings. They litter the back of the book, bulging out unevenly as he looks through them. There’s a mess of receipts taped in between an exchange about vegetable broth, and a drawing of a goldfish next to something heated about sushi.
He pauses on another shopping list, this one divided with names denoting the sections to who wants what.
Jake. Steven. Marc.
He glances up at the window, his reflection odd in the tinted glass. The material should be thicker. He thinks distantly of stars. The list flutters to the floor as he moves slightly, and he reaches down to grab it, mouth thinning.
Which one is he?
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Check out the prompt list here!
(Subtle commander fic fOr me!! In prep for the fact I’m absolutely doing another with a later prompt lol)
#moon knight#mkcember2023#jake lockley#steven grant#marc spector#moon knight 2022#mcu moon knight#moon knight mcu#the fruit is talking again#my fic#my-fic
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How old are Bruno and Elena when the twins are born?
I worry I fussed up my timeline a little bit. But I think Elena is 41 and Bruno is almost 53?
Congrats, you have set me down the rabbit hole of figuring out timelines.
Start of Hijinks is Early October. Bruno is almost 52 and Elena is 39 (dob 2/14/12 Valentine's for USA)
They become "engaged" early December and Marry relatively fast around March/April the year after they met. (So first meeting to wedding 6 months, very short engagement by Colombian standards). (Married ages 40 and 52)
Elena conceives that December/January.
The twins are born September 17th, the day Valentine's day is observed in Colombia.
So Final ages when the babies are born is Elena at 41 and Bruno is about to turn 53 the next month.
#asked#asked and answered#ask stuff#asks are always welcome#asks#reader asls#reader asks#timeline#chronological
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Being Harry’s best friend would include…pt. ii
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Please please comment I really appreciate feedback 🙏
female reader • grew up with Harry • latinabsf!
masterlist🪐
pt. i, pt. ii, pt. iii (tbd…)
Requests: open !
Please note this is all from MY imagination. Imagine the character as anyone you want. I picture someone that’s Hispanic but it’s up to you. The events are not correct at all.
Enjoy ! 🫶🏽
TW: bad eating habits if you squint, modest! Management, salmon cowbell, drinking, consumption of drugs (🍃)
During One Direction…
Photos of you and Harry being featured in the ‘Story of My Life’ MV
Sadly getting mobbed whenever you hung out with the boys
Helping zayn deal with the hate and biases against him
Simon reprimanding Harry for spending too much time with you
Midnight swims with H when he had a day off at his hotel on tour
Blackout drunk one night in the hotel with H
⬑ Assuming you and Harry did something but Niall showing a video of you guys sleeping separately after passing out
Brining empanadas and sweets from Colombian candy shops for the boys on tour
Harry begging for you to make him his favorite Hispanic dishes and desserts
After the band…
Helping H write his album in Jamaica
Forcing Harry to play volleyball with Mitch and Sarah at the beaches on Jamaica
Placing a bet with Harry on when Mitch and Sarah would get together (you obviously win)
Teaching Harry Spanish while high together (🍃)
H loving when you speak Spanish
Music/food festivals at least twice a week when in Jamaica
Late night swims >>>
Throwing him an album release part at Anne’s home for Harry Styles the album
Many…many appearances in the behind the album documentary if not in every minute
Live On Tour…
Reading with each other before he goes on stage
Having a crush on Kacey and H teasing you about it
Cooking with the Sarah’s !!
Guitar lessons with Adam
Forcing Harry to watch marvel when traveling in his tour bus
When one of the boys FaceTime him you end up stealing the phone to catch up
Wine and tea with Anne and Gemma 🫶🏽🫶🏽
Helping Harry feel comfortable in painting his nails for tour for the first time
Trying to get Harry to grow his hair out but him cutting it either way
Trying to be at most of his concerts when you weren’t working on cases
More cuddles !!!
Late night talking…during FaceTime
Drunk conversations >>
During his break on tour H takes care of you when you were overworked on a specific criminal case at work
⬑ H stocking your embarrassingly empty fridge - getting you to eat more than just a protein bar at work
Even after being stubborn about your eating habits he convinced you to have two meals and a snack every day
Friend dates at libraries
Showing H all the thirst traps of him and teasing him for it
Brushing up on your drum skills with Sarah when they were recording ‘Fine Line’
Helping Harry make decisions regarding his stalker
Having to run when he was held at knifepoint day of valentines
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pt. II ig?? Please comment anything 😭🫶🏽 I would appreciate it !! Part iii ?? Reblog and lmk !
#harry styles#liam payne#louis tomlinson#one direction#colby brock#sam and colby#sam and colby imagine#sam golbach#xplr#robby keene x reader#stevie talks 🍊#stevie writes 🍊#harry styles fluff#harrys house#harries#best friend!harry#hslot 2022#one direction x sixth member#zayn malik imagine#zayn mailk#niall james horan#main masterlist🍊#latinabsf!
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One Day at a Time Quotes
Marinette: A Proposition U.
Lacey: You wanna proposition me?
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Denise: The rain ruined everything, and everybody came back, and we’re Cuban, so now we’re having a party.
Marc: Well, I’m Colombian, so I actually get that. Except with my mom, it’s not, *Vocalizes Cuban music* it’s *Vocalizes Colombian music*
Pilar Cabello: Do I hear a Colombian?
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Kagami: I have figured out what to do about that tree!
Mylène: Form a Million Fencer March!
Kagami: No, no, no. I have something better than all of that, that will cut through the red tape! *Whips out a katana* HA!
Mylène: Kagami! Be careful!
Kagami: I know, I’m sorry. This is not my usual katana arm.
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Zoé: Uh, thanks so much for dinner, but I’m not really that hungry, so I’m gonna chill till the lockdown’s over. *Leaves the room*
Austin T: … She is walking away from my meal?… *Points to Jean* This is your fault.
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Roger: *Through a megaphone* Please go back inside! Kissing teenagers! Please go back inside!
Cosette: *Stops kissing Zoé* IN A MINUTE!
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Austin A: I pretended that these people were my friends, but, honestly, for some reason, I’m not that popular. *Marinette walks by* Nice wig, Mari! You get it from the dump like the rest of your clothes?… I don’t know what it is, exactly.
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Marc: *Gets a text* Oh! My boyfriend’s out front. He hates when I make him wait.
Jean: …
Marc: Aaw! And he just bought me a cookie! I love cookies! *Leaves*
Austin T: *Walks over to Jean* He has a boyfriend… He’s so lucky… Do you wanna split that cookie?
Jean: Huh? Wait… Ooh…
Austin T: Oh. Never mind. Uh, I thought- Sorry.
Jean: No, no! Queer! Me, queer!
Austin T: Oh! Uh… Me, queer, too!
Jean: Heh… Great… *Offers Austin T a cookie* Cookie?
*Meanwhile, Denise and Simon watch from afar*
Denise: Oof.
Simon: Yeah. He is terrible at this.
Denise: Thank goodness he has us.
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Reshma: Okay… Then what I’m trying to say… Is that… When I think about love… I see myself… Someday… Loving a woman…
Aabha Leghari: … Oh… Why do I keep giving everyone the wrong sex talk?
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Mme. Bustier: How bad was this movie?
Mme. Mendeleiv: Awful.
M. Grotke: Filthy.
Mme. Bustier: Okay! Show me!
Mme. Mendeleiv: Yeah, that’s not happening.
M. Monlataing: Caline, you turned away when I bent over to tie my shoe. Trust me, this is not for you.
Mme. Bustier: Hey. I have been married since I graduated university. If anything, it is a shame that Giselle and I went unrecorded. *Takes the laptop and opens it, playing the video* …
Mme. Mendeleiv: …
M. Monlataing: …
M. Grotke: …
Mme. Bustier: … *Tilts her head… Then shuts the laptop* Burn this.
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Juleka: Well, what are you asking me? How to spot a lesbian? I mean, do some of us have short hair? Sure. Do we sometimes prefer practical, gender neutral clothing? I guess? Does a perfect day involve going to candle making class in our Subaru with a roof rack full on antiques? That’s just solid Parisian fun.
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Valentin Bellamy: I want her to have the perfect coming out story. You know, where I’m cool and supportive, and… We high five unicorns down a rainbow together.
Anarka: Okay, so, gay people aren’t magic. But it’s a common misconception, so…
#miraculous ladybug#miraculous#mlb incorrect quotes#incorrect quotes#science kids#akuma class#one day at a time
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Its so funny being colombian while is valentines day because its like
Why is everyone corny today with love and shit like tha- o its 14 feb alright
(colombia celebrates valentines day on september)
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Seeing Colombians celebrating Valentine's Day on February is so cringe 🙃 Like... wtf are you doing? We don't celebrate that on February, our "Valentine's" is in September 🙃
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Why could possibly be that Isabel (Erling's girlriend) seems to make or change her instagram constantly?. First, she used to have a full name accound and public. Then, she used to make it private (for obvious reason we all know), then she had another account named izzi (something like that) which had a profile picture of her when she was little. And she had like 24 posts. Now she seems to have 6 post, different picture and user name. And also on her bio, it used to say Norway or Bayern/Manchester. Now she just has the Norwegian and Colombian flag. //
This likely her actual account that she re-activated. The other accounts (isabelhaugseng) (issiehaugseng) etc we’re fan accounts. The isabelhaugseng one might have been her first account that she lost the password of or that she don’t use anymore but the Issie one is deffo a fan account. Also the bella something account is her real account because Haaland’s sister and other wags follow this one.
I guess they’re gonna go public soon (Valentine’s Day probably) or they broke up.
ooooh? — B
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YEAR IN REVIEW
The 100 Best Songs of 2022
Bad Bunny, Beyoncé, Steve Lacy, Pharrell, and Quavo and Takeoff were just some of the artists whose songs this year we won't forget
BY ROLLING STONE
DECEMBER 5, 2022
WHAT MADE A great song in 2022? Was it an irresistible beat and a sense of humor? An introspective, bittersweet dream? An absolute dance floor banger? Was it lo-fi, high-res, loud, soft, twangy, poppy, sleek, distorted, hugely anthemic, or perfectly tiny? The answer was yes — all that and more. Or maybe it was a song that imperiously declared any and all doubters to be a bunch of munches. You’ll have to listen to all 100 songs here to be sure.
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Bad Bunny feat. Bomba Estereo, ‘Ojitos Lindos’
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Calling Bad Bunny unpredictable is starting to feel like a cliché, but his collaboration with the Colombian electro-fusion band Bomba Estéreo was a genuine surprise — and a standout on Un Verano Sin Ti that netted him a Record of the Year nomination at the 23rd annual Latin Grammys. Produced by Tainy, the track marries the best of Bad Bunny’s laidback baritone with Li Saumet’s spunky delivery for one of summer’s most wistful tracks. Saumet told Rolling Stone that her verses came to her instantly, a process she described as “very magical.” “That’s how things come together when they come from a real place,” she added. — J.L.
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Sky Ferreira, ‘Don’t Forget’
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Pop disruptor Sky Ferreira’s first single since 2019’s chaotic “Downhill Lullaby” is a colossal synth-pop anthem with a vengeful streak — “I won’t forget, I don’t forgive,” she wails on the chorus. Ferreira’s petulant alto is made for sentiments like the rancor and anger that animate “Don’t Forget”; when swirled into the echoing synth strings and overdriven guitars, it sounds even more menacing. Ferreira’s second full-length, Masochism, has been on the verge of coming out for about seven years, but if “Don’t Forget” is any indication, its eventual arrival will be a gift to the patient. — M.J.
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Rema, ‘Calm Down’
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Rema likes to call his spin on the Afrobeats sound “Afro-rave.” Is it much different than regular Afrobeats? Not a ton. Is it sublimely lovely all the same? Yes it is. Rema is the kind of singer who savors simple pop pleasures; the gently rolling “Calm Down” is literally about trying say hello to a girl who’s mellow and dressed in yellow, with a track that’s appropriately warm, bright, and captivating. The big-eyed wonder in Rema’s voice makes it sound like he’s the first guy ever to behold the majesty of girls or colors. — J.D.
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Gunna, ‘Banking on Me’
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So much of the polarizing discussion about the state of R&B hinges on the way that artists have fused the music with hip-hop — a style popularized by many others, and now embodied like no one else by Gunna. Over tender Metro Boomin production, he croons to his fantasy girl, telling her exactly why she’s his type. “Know you fuckin’ a man that’s made, hey/Keep it low-key, she ain’t after fame,” he sings on his straightforward love note. Instead of leaning on a Nineties R&B sample, he channels that energy in his own manner, stretching out over an unconventionally lengthy three-plus minutes. Released on Valentine’s Day, it’s a song that displays Gunna doing what he does best over the kind of production that allows him to do so. — A.G.
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King Von and 21 Savage, ‘Don’t Play That’
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King Von’s “Don’t Play That” starts by letting the beat run for eight bars. The Kid Hazel-produced track employs the kind of electro-pop loop an indie act might license for a car commercial. But then Von subverts the mood with his characteristic menace, matter-of-factly rhyming, “I did a drill with a face mask/I wash my hand with the Ajax.” The late Chicago rhymer delves into a gritty, braggadocious verse, and 21 Savage follows up with the same. Von was known for rhyming over sinister, high-octane production, but “Don’t Play That” shows what he could do over a more palatable soundscape. His effortless delivery radiates the vibe of a burgeoning master of his craft. It’s tragic that “Don’t Play That” instead became the lead single for a posthumous album from an artist slain before his time. — A.G.
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Marshmello and Tokischa, ‘Estilazo’
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Tokischa has a rare gift for provocation that’s yielded some of the most exhilaratingly unfiltered music on the planet, along with some of the worst tweets this side of the guy who made The College Dropout. On her single with the boldly behatted DJ/producer Marshmello, she pulls off one of her most stunning coups: taking a mainstream EDM beat as big and empty as they come and making it thoroughly, distinctly her own. Boasting about sex, drugs, and other pastimes over a high-gloss house vamp, she vividly renews the commitment to hedonism that underlies all great dance music. If she can make Marshmello cool, what can’t she do? — S.V.L.
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Kaitlin Butts, ‘What Else Can She Do’
We’re all familiar with the sad country song about a woman stuck in a one-horse town, slinging hash in some roadside dump as she dreams of a big, wide world she’ll probably never touch. Oklahoma singer-songwriter Kaitlin Butts gives us something different; in her devastatingly sung version, the woman makes it out of Nowhereville but washes out because, “Her small-town pretty didn’t play in the city too well.” Too proud to go back home, she throws on her apron and heads out for another 12-hour shift pouring coffee for strangers. The result is a perfect shot of Red Dirt naturalism — Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie by way of Kacey Musgraves’ Same Trailer, Different Park — and proof that Butts is herself deserving of much bigger things. — J.D.
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Pheelz and BNXN, ‘Finesse’
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This was the year of stacked vocals in Afropop, in which tracks like Wizkid’s “Bad to Me” and Burna Boy’s “It’s Plenty” featured what sounded like a mass of mighty but whimsical singers. Pheelz and Bnxn’s “Finesse” came earlier, though, and used the trick to delightful effect on its carefree hook, in which the Nigerian artists throw caution and money to the wind. In March, it was one of the most Shazamed songs in the world, and deservedly so. — M.C.
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Lizzo, ‘About Damn Time’
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“I write songs about feeling confident!” Lizzo proclaimed in a Saturday Night Live sketch last April, about the time this bumping disco strut debuted. The bit was a joke, but that line wasn’t, and “About Damn Time” is the best proof possible. Lizzo has never sounded so effortlessly celebratory, and the easy groove, which samples the World’s Famous Supreme Team’s early-Eighties bubblegum jam “Hey D.J.,” fits her like a pair of faux-snakeskin boots. No wonder — co-producer Ricky Reed’s endlessly uncoiling bass line delivers a good time all by itself. — M.M.
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GloRilla feat. Cardi B, ‘Tomorrow 2’
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GloRilla’s come up has been one of the joys of 2022, recently culminating in her breakout hit “F.N.F (Let’s Go)” earning a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Performance. It’s a particularly appropriate category for GloRilla, as part of the magic of her tracks is her raw delivery. The visceral umph that punctuates her bars on “Tomorrow 2” could make you twist your face into a grimace. Then, the gleeful venom of Cardi B’s uber-quotable verse could make you laugh in disbelief. “Long ass weave, it be ticklin’ my ass crack/Wonder what I’ll do tomorrow that these hoes will be mad at,” is one of many Cardi couplets that make her so loveable.–M.C.
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FKA Twigs feat. Shygirl, ‘Papi Bones’
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FKA Twigs is as celebrated for her dancing as she is for her avant-garde, experimental R&B, but it wasn’t until this year’s Caprisongs that she focused on making sweaty, beat-driven songs meant for everybody to dance to. “Papi Bones” taps into the star’s Jamaican heritage and features an excellent cameo from British DJ and artist Shygirl. The result is a sexy and fun anthem for all the “champagne bubble girls” and a perfect step forward for Twigs. “I grew up listening to Afrobeats on pirate radio stations, or when I was a teenager, at Notting Hill Carnival,” she said earlier this year. “So I really wanted to show that side of myself, and connect with who I was when I was around 16 or 17 and started seeking out music and clubs and people that represented my heritage.” — B.S.
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Smino feat. J. Cole, ‘90 Proof’
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Smino and J. Cole share a penchant for unearthing the intertwined roots of hip-hop and the blues with tender melodies and concerns — and that’s why they made such an excellent duo when they reconnected for “90 Proof.” Romantic love is Smino’s central meditation on the track, backed by warm guitar and crisp drums; the kind of love that stretches and molds you into something different, maybe better. Through most of his quick but hefty verse, Cole’s cautious gloating deviates from Smino’s thematic path, but the Dreamville head takes melodic cues from the St. Louis rapper’s template. It’s some of both of their best work this year. — M.C
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Seventeen, ‘Hot’
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Seventeen’s popularity grew exponentiallythis year following the release of their fourth studio album, Face the Sun. The 13-member South Korean group known for self-producing, both in songwriting and choreographing, filled the album with hits like “Cheers” and “Darling,” but “Hot,” the lead single, towers above them all. You can’t help but to “drop it like hot, hot, hot” when you hear the Wild West-inspired guitar strum that kicks off the track. — K.K.
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Wizkid, ‘Bad to Me’
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Wizkid’s tour-de-force couple of years celebrating the success of Made in Lagos and its hit single “Essence” could have made for a tough act to follow, but the Nigerian superstar took on his follow-up in stride. “Bad to Me” was the lead single off his latest album More Love, Less Ego, and it further solidifies him as the type of genre-unifying pop superstar music very much needs. The slick tune is an infectious, fun victory lap for the star — don’t be surprised if it’s heating up everyone all winter long. — B.S.
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Alex G, ‘Runner’
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One of the year’s most memorable indie songs, and an instant standout from Alex Giannascoli’s God Save the Animals, “Runner” contains lines both pure of heart (“I like people who I can open up to/Who don’t judge for what I say, but judge me for what I do”) and utterly dark (“What’s a couple grand rolled up in your pocket?/I won’t tell nobody, baby you don’t tell nobody”). Giannascoli plays every instrument on the song — including synthesizer and drums — to create a blissful, free-wheeling rocker with comforting echoes of Tom Petty. Need proof? Listen to the chorus of “Louisiana Rain” right after “Runner,” and you’ll see what we mean. — A.M.
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Blackpink, “Pink Venom”
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When Rosé yells, “I’m so rock & roll!,” believe the woman. Blackpink kick down the door in their summer hit “Pink Venom,” an unbelievably fun raising-hell anthem full of Eighties hair-metal glam. Even the song title sounds like the name of a tribute band playing Poison and Def Leppard covers at the sleaziest bar in town. The Blackpink queens warn you not to mess with them, because you can’t handle their “Pink Venom,” boasting in Korean and English. It peaks as Rosé sneers, “Look what you made us do,” proving that bad blood is a universal language. — R.S.
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Ozzy Osbourne, ‘No Escape From Now’
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More than half a century has passed since Black Sabbath invented heavy metal as we know it, but on “No Escape From Now,” a track off Ozzy Osbourne‘s Patient Number 9 album, he and his Sabbath bandmate, guitarist Tony Iommi, have rooted themselves in the present. “Gone are the yesterdays,” Osbourne keens over Iommi’s brooding riffs, “Tomorrow’s getting cold … There’s no escape from now.” As on the best Sabbath epics (and this song stretches nearly seven minutes), the pair find a syrupy groove that evokes several grim moods, from the dark to the really dark, with help from Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and producer-bassist Andrew Watt. It’s only a partial Sabbath reunion, but it lives up to the legacy of the Iron Men. — K.G.
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Karol G and Becky G, ‘Mamiii’
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A meeting of two goddesses: the Colombian pop/reggaeton queen Karol G and the L.A. pop singer Becky G. They’re not exactly in a forgiving mood. In “Mamiii,” they drag their no-good exes for one of the year’s fiercest and funniest break-up songs, choosing violence in every possible way over a lilting guitar. The stars destroy any two-legged rat of a man who ever did them wrong, and if he wants to get back in touch, he should call “1-800-jódete.” (In other words, “fuck off.”) It’s a tribute to sisterhood as well as rage, proving that both of these Gs know how to twist the knife. — R.S.
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Jelly Roll, “Son of a Sinner”
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A longtime fixture of Nashville’s rap underground, Jelly Roll made a turn toward country with his latest project and revealed himself to be a great singer with a raspy tenor. Born Jason DeFord, Jelly Roll sings believably and candidly about his struggles with addiction in “Son of a Sinner,” trying to feel OK about being “somewhere in the middle” and “just a little right and wrong” instead of always squeaky-clean. It was a story of personal struggle without a tidy ending, but it turned out to be one that a lot of people understood very well. — J.F.
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Oxlade, ‘Ku Lo Sa — A Colors Show’
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When Asake — the Nigerian street-pop star whose debut album seemed to have generated the biggest buzz of the year — told his friend and peer Oxlade that he had a hit on his hands in “Ku Lo Sa,” the singer was skeptical. Asake was one of the first people to hear the song that would soon go global, and knew its tender pleas, pointed hook, and delicate rhythm were irresistible. “He was like ‘Yo, the song is going to go crazy,’” Oxlade told Rolling Stone. “‘I was like, ‘Ehh, every song, everybody says it’s going to go crazy.’” Over 150 million streams later, it looks like Asake was right. — M.C.
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Earl Sweatshirt, ‘2010’
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“I’ma need a bigger bag for the cohort,” begins Earl Sweatshirt on “2010.” The former Odd Future rapper has evolved into one of the genre’s great abstract artists, depicting his all-too-public life in poetic yet incisive terms. Over a tickling keyboard beat from Black Noi$e that sounds like a light sprinkling rain, Earl remembers a youth spent with his mother “rockin’ Liz Claiborne” and recaps a journey of “triumph over plight and immense loss.” The wordplay may not be easy to decode. But the imagery he conjures, thanks to lines like “rainy day came, couldn’t rinse the stains off,” will resonate with anyone. — M.R.
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Omar Apollo, ‘Evergreen’
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Love triangles are brutal; being the side that’s cast out when the two others form a line is pure agony. That’s the cruelty that Omar Apollo excavates on “Evergreen,” as teardrop guitar licks spill against the soft edges of his falsetto. Apollo packs it all in there — anger, anguish, self-loathing, doubt — but still builds to a bridge bursting with defiant confidence: “You know you really made me hate myself/Had to stop before I break myself/Shoulda broke it off to date myself.” Apollo has always excelled at these kinds of songs, and it’s thrilling that such a superb display of his skills has finally scored him a well-deserved place on the charts and the broader pop ecosystem. — J. Blistein
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Muna, ‘Home By Now’
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Muna have a reputation for not giving a fuck. But “Home By Now,” the highlight of their self-titled album, is a surprising pop lament placed amid brash confessionals. The narrator of this song is unsteady on their feet, but they’re not so much desperate for a doomed relationship, as they are reaching for the feeling of shelter, a place to rest. The song acts as a much-needed momentary retrospective in an otherwise future-forward album, and it adds to the queer themes richly embedded in Muna’s work. “Home By Now” is reminiscent. It’s longing. It’s the feeling of driving in a tunnel with the windows down— recalled long after the car is parked. — C.T.J.
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Asake feat. Burna Boy, ‘Sungba (Remix)’
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It’s a little wild to think that Asake’s current reign as Nigerian pop’s streaming record-breaker only began this year. Within one month of the release of “Sungba,” from his debut EP, a remix and video with Burna Boy made the already-formidable track a powerhouse — Burna even performed it solo at his history-making Madison Square Garden show, sending the audience into an uproar. An electric meeting of the South African house sound amapiano and Nigerian flows, the “Sungba” remix demonstrated the strength of Asake’s sound, and he hasn’t let up since. — M.C.
26
Midland, ‘The Last Resort’
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Move over the Eagles’ “The Last Resort,” there’s a new “The Last Resort” in town. This great Midland song is more proof that Nashville has become America’s leading soft-rock exporter (c’mon, L.A., this is supposed to be your thing). It’s top-shelf Buffett-core, a smooth, heartbroken ballad from the saddest bar on the beach, with steel guitars coming down like a tequila sunset. Midland sing about going down the coast, chasing a case of the blues as big as the ocean, and it goes down so well because, deep down, the dude in this song isn’t some self-pitying bum — dude knows, it’s his own damn fault. — J.D.
25
Sam Smith and Kim Petras, ‘Unholy’
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If Sam Smith planned to come back with a bang after their 2020 LP Love Goes, “Unholy” proved to be the perfect song with which to do so with. Accompanied by the sass of trans pop star Kim Petras, Smith “threw out the rule book” and stepped away from his signature ballad sound to create a catchy, dirty song about a “daddy getting hot at the body shop” behind mummy’s back. The sexy banger quickly skyrocketed on the charts, making Petras and Smith the first trans and nonbinary artists to reach Number One on the Billboard Hot 100.–T.M.
24
NewJeans, ‘Hype Boy’
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With its addictive choreography and catchy chorus — “‘Cause I know what you like, boy/You’re my chemical, hype boy” — this was a standout from NewJeans’ hit-filled first EP. “Hype Boy” lets each member’s voice really shine through, and Hanni notably contributed to the cute lyrics that encapsulate young love (“got me chasing a daydream”). NewJeans’ peers and seniors in the K-pop industry, like Stray Kids, StayC, Twice, and even JYP are still covering the “Hype Boy” dance at events and concerts. RM of BTS was also recently captured singing and dancing along to a recent performance. It’s the kind of phenomenon that makes it clear NewJeans have hit on something special. — K.K.
23
Carly Rae Jepsen & Rufus Wainwright, ‘The Loneliest Time’
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Carly Rae Jepsen always knows how to find the emotional core of any glossy pop confection, and her wonderful team-up with Rufus Wainwright ranks right up there with her finest moments. “The Loneliest Time” is a classic disco duet about two old lovers breaking free from a breakup of Shakespearean proportions to get right back where they started from, with Rufus and Carly sharing a chemistry on the level of Stevie Nicks and Kenny Loggins in “Whenever I Call You ‘Friend’,” which is to say, as sweet as it gets. — J.D.
22
Villano Antillano, ‘BZRP Music Sessions #51’
It seems like it would be massively intimidating to stack up to the talent that Bizarrap, the rising Argentine producer, regularly features on his ultra-popular BZRP Music Sessions — but the Puerto Rican rapper Villano Antillano barely batted an eye when she took the mic for a knockout video that blew away the Internet (155 million YouTube views and counting). Antillano, who has broken barriers as a trans woman in pop, storms onto the song with a barrage of flexes and double-entendres, wiping the floor with her haters. All hell really breaks loose once Bizarrap accelerates the beat: Antillano whips out a black handheld fan, waving it triumphantly with each explosive bar. — J.L.
21
Zach Bryan, ‘Something in the Orange’
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The breakthrough single from Oklahoma-raised singer-songwriter Zach Bryan is a bare-bones showcase for his weathered wail and painfully precise descriptions of how heartbreak can ravage the mind. Accompanied by a ghostly slide guitar and his own strumming, Bryan pours out his heart to a straying lover, with the encroaching dusk — the “orange” that bleeds into all of Bryan’s imagery — serving as a harbinger for a long, lonely night of solitude. Bryan’s lament smolders with regret and anger, threatening to burst into flame at any moment. — M.J.
20
Noah Cyrus, ‘I Burned L.A. Down’
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The Cyrus family legacy runs from “Achy Breaky Heart” to Plastic Hearts, but youngest sister Noah Cyrus goes her own way on “I Burned L.A. Down,” a highlight from her debut album, The Hardest Part. It’s a stark acoustic country-pop burner about feeling trapped in a one-sided relationship with a California guy — and maybe also with California. Cyrus mourns, “You can’t make a god of somebody/Who’s not even a half-decent man.” It’s a West Coast cousin to Taylor Swift’s “Maroon,” feeling lost in a city where you used to feel at home, after your heart gets broken there. — R.S.
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Megan Thee Stallion, ‘Plan B’
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When Megan premiered “Plan B” during her Coachella set this April, heads exploded. The scorn in her precise raps for an ain’t-shit ex was incinerating, each diss hotter than the next. “Popping Plan B’s ’cause I ain’t planned to be stuck with ya,” is mild compared to everything that comes after. And with the threat to reproductive rights becoming especially dire two months after the song’s premiere, “Plan B” is an incredible assertion of those rights’ importance. — M.C.
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Ashley McBryde, Caylee Hammack, Brandy Clark, and Pillbox Patti, ‘Bonfire at Tina’s’
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Country rebel Ashley McBryde turns this old-school drinking song into a future-school celebration of sisterhood. “Bonfire at Tina’s” is the highlight of��Lindeville, her concept albumabout a small town full of wild characters, inspired by the great Nashville songwriter Dennis Linde. She sings about a group of rowdy girlfriends who don’t always see eye-to-eye — but they watch each other’s backs, pour each other drinks, light each other’s joints. She shares the microphone with Brandy Clark, Caylee Hammack, and Pillbox Patti. As she warns, “Small-town women ain’t built to get along/But you burn one of us, boy, you burn us all.” — R.S.
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Doechii & SZA, ‘Persuasive’
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Doechii scores her most undeniable track yet with “Persuasive,” teaming up with SZA for the killer remix duet. The song evokes a druggy up-all-night vibe where falling head over heels in love can feel like being blunted out of your mind. She keeps singing the sleepy hook, “She’s so persuasive/That marijuana/She’s so flirtatious,” over a moody Seventies R&B groove. SZA adds her signature swagger, demanding, “Get off my balls, I said it nice.” They keep coming back to the key question, “How does it feel to be you?” The answer: damn good whenever “Persuasive” is playing. — R.S.
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Burna Boy, ‘Last Last’
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This heartache anthem was a huge hit for the Nigerian superstar, topping Billboard’s Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart and racking up more than 100 million streams on Spotify alone. You can hear why: The beat samples a different love-gone-bad anthem, Toni Braxton’s 2000 hit “He Wasn’t Man Enough,” creating a seductively moody bed for Burna Boy to vocalize with canny self-assurance. Burna’s delivery is both elegant and a little broken as he laments lost love and turns “I need igbo and shayo” — weed and booze, basically — into a sung hook that lit up stereos from Lagos to L.A. — C.H.
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Rina Sawayama, ‘This Hell’
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There are so many amazing lines in this bonkers country-pop bash, from “Got my invitation, to eternal damnation” to “Fuck what they did to Britney, to Lady Di, and Whitney.” But the award goes to the opener, where Sawayama utters “Let’s go girls,” effortlessly invoking Shania Twain. Artists from other genres dabbling in country music is nothing new, but Sawayama does it better than nearly anyone here, proving she’s just trying to have a good time — while also inspiring change. “I get messages from people who connect the idea of country music with their conservative parents,” she told Twain in their recent Musicians on Musicians interview for RS. “They’ve been like, ‘You’ve taken trauma out of the genre. Thank you.’” — A.M.
14
Ice Spice, ‘Munch (Feelin U)’
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Bronx rapper Ice Spice landed one of the year’s breakout hits with “Munch (Feelin’ U),” a track that found her blending the rhythmic aggression of drill with a cool vocal style. On musical terms, she sounds unflappable, dismissing suitors and gawkers alike. Ice Spice’s image was as omnipresent as her music this summer, as fans debated her come-up. Only time will tell if “Munch” is just a TikTok-fueled one-off or the start of something bigger, but for now we’ll keep it on repeat. — M.R.
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Pusha T, ‘Dreamin’ of the Past’
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The simple, Donny Hathaway-sample-driven backdrop of “Dreamin’ of the Past” was the perfect canvas for Pusha T’s winding raps, which touch on everything from bankrolling Christmas with drug money to his annoyance with women who can’t pronounce the name of a luxury fashion house. Kanye West, who produced the song, offers a quick, smart, but slightly troubling verse; his reflections on finance, faith, and family feel foreboding given all we know and have seen of him now. But this is clearly Pusha’s show.— M.C.
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Yahritza Y Su Esencia, ‘Soy El Unico’
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When Yahritza Martinez first played “Soy El Unico” for her brother Armando, he was surehis 13-year-old sister was playing a cover. It’s for good reason: The stunning acoustic ballad, steeped in the traditional ballads and corridos of her parents’ native Michoacán region of Mexico and guided by Martinez’s stunning old-soul vocals, sounds like it’s existed forever. The reality is that the devastating torch song, which Martinez wrote by observing teenagers around her going through heartbreak, is a bonafide hit: After going viral on TikTok earlier this year, it topped the Latin music charts and racked up nearly 100 million streams on Spotify alone. But even if it hadn’t become nearly as popular, it’d still be the most astonishing debut single of the year. — J. Bernstein
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Kendrick Lamar, ‘N95’
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Kendrick Lamar’s “N95” opens with a flurry of commands: “Take off them fabricated streams and them microwave memes.” His intro hearkens back to De La Soul’s 1989 track “Take It Off,” yet Lamar is not only distinguishing himself from his peers, but also confronting a world tentatively lowering its N95 masks amidst the ongoing Covid pandemic. “Bitch, you ugly as fuck!” he exclaims before adding “you outta pocket” in a different tone of voice. With moody, bass-y production, this is Lamar confronting societal clichés with restless intellectual fervor, and claims that he doesn’t care about the consequences. — M.R.
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Drake feat. 21 Savage, ‘Jimmy Cooks’
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Nestled at the end of Drake’s club-music adventure Honestly, Nevermind, “Jimmy Cooks” finds the 6 God on familiar ground, snapping and talking trash with 21 Savage. “Love the way they hang babe, fuck the silicon,” he opines lasciviously. “I be with my gun like Rozay be with lemon pepper,” adds 21. The track is split into three parts, including a Memphis rap-sampling intro as well as a beat apiece for the two rappers, and they bounce around the track with effortless bars, completely in the pocket. — M.R.
9
Harry Styles, ‘As It Was’
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The lead single from Harry Styles’ third album balances its agitated inner monologue, where the shape-shifting pop star picks at the details of a relationship in crisis, with spun-sugar synths that give cover to his torment. From its playful opening — Styles’ goddaughter Ruby giggling “Go on, Harry, we want to say goodnight to you!” — to its singsong bridge, during which Styles’ thoughts are ping-ponging around his head at “high-speed internet” velocities, “As It Was” paints an unusually vivid picture. Everything might seem fine on first glance, but it all becomes more troubling (“What kind of pills are you on?”) with each repeated glimpse. — M.J.
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Beyonce, ‘Break My Soul’
MASON POOLE*
What timing! Beyoncé’s spiritual successor to Johnny Paycheck’s immortal “Take This Job and Shove It” came into a post-Nomadland world of increasingly transient work. By year’s end, it could have been written for the engineers flocking from Twitter. The record hit like a shock wave — was Beyoncé really doing house music? She was, indeed — and her interpolation of Robin S.’s classic “Show Me Love” and sample of Big Freedia’s New Orleans bounce classic “Explode” (“Release ya job!”) has already helped pivot the wider pop world to house as a lodestone. — M.M.
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Pharrell feat. 21 Savage and Tyler, The Creator, ‘Cash In Cash Out’
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Pharrell came back strong with “Cash In Cash Out,” with a little help from the all-star duo of 21 Savage and Tyler, the Creator. Pharrell neither sings nor raps on the track — he just keeps that hypnotic, minimalist 808 loop pumping, and with a beat this cold, that’s all he needs to do. 21 Savage flexes his rudest humor, boasting, “She swallow all my kids, she a bad babysitter/Kim Jong-Un, in my pants is a missile.” Tyler, on a roll after Call Me If You Get Lost, reports that he refused a multi-million-dollar show — “I declined because the stage didn’t match my ethos” — and slips in the boast, “Going both sides, you could say I’m B-I.” — R.S.
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Quavo and Takeoff, ‘Hotel Lobby’
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When Quavo and his nephew Takeoff seemingly broke with Migos member and cousin Offset and dropped “Hotel Lobby,” it seemed like an escapade before the band eventually got back together. Now, after Takeoff’s senseless murder in November, the duo’s side project has taken on tragic significance. As always, the Atlanta rappers float together like Golden State’s splash brothers. Takeoff brags how his “diamonds be dancing like Bobby [Brown],” while Quavo warns he’s “claiming that stick/Nigga made one wrong move, just popped him.” It hurts to think that the fun wasn’t meant to last. — M.R.
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Rosalia, ‘Despecha’
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In conversation, Rosalía dazzles with an encyclopedic knowledge of genres, exploring sounds that aren’t her own with a sheer, genuine love of music. That same sincerity comes through in songs like this one, which she premiered during this year’s epic Motomami tour. “Despechá” uses a mambo piano line as starting point, then delves into merengue territory chiseled by touches of avant-pop. Her respect for the bounce of the Dominican Republic’s most trusted dance format is poignant, but it is the soaring energy in her vocals that moves this summertime single closer to the sacred ground she’s aiming for. “Despechá” suggests that Rosalía’s future experiments in global hitmaking may be just as inspired as the milestone that was Motomami. — E.L.
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Taylor Swift, ‘Karma’
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“I’m still here.” With three words, Taylor Swift not only cemented Midnights as a middle finger to the people who prayed for her downfall — she sealed this song’s fate as its album-defining hit. Yes, “Anti-Hero” is the single, and “Maroon” is the one your moody friend keeps quoting. But “Karma” marries Swift’s mastermind lyrics (check out how “Karma is my boyfriend” shifts from smirking metaphor to lovebird literality as the song goes on) with the sleekest, most flexible production tendencies from longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff. When the track list was first released, some fans fixated on the hope that “Karma” would relate to a long-rumored lost album. But any disappointments about getting an easter egg wrong were swept away by a tenacious revenge song so quintessentially Swift that the tour choreography is practically decided after one listen. — C.T.J.
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Steve Lacy, ‘Bad Habit’
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Steve Lacy says “Bad Habit” clarified his vision for his stellar album Gemini Rights, which, sure, is about a breakup, but also about the parts of you that pulse and pull and contradict and coexist all at once. It’s fitting, then, that its thesis track cruises like a daylit ride through a psyche in healing, at once peaceful and turbulent. Lacy’s lyrics make peace with the parting and long for reunion; he knows he has power, but gives some away. There’s musical genius in making melancholy groovy enough to soundtrack the summer and soar to the top of the charts. This thing happened for a reason. — M.C.
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Beyonce, ‘Cuff It’
MASON POOLE*
Ranking one Renaissance cut above them all is no small task, but the impact of “Cuff It” is undeniable. It has thrived as a single, replete with jovial dance moves that spread like a contagion — and It’s strikingly placed on an album where sequencing is integral to the experience. At track four, the immediacy and ease of its funk is in sharp and exhilarating contrast to the shadowy electronic music that comes before it. As soon as “Cuff It” starts, we’re jetted to an ethereal disco in outer space, welcomed at the doors by the genre’s greatest practitioner, Nile Rodgers, who co-wrote the track and plays guitar on it. Aided by the Chic icon’s magic touch, Beyoncé reached the pinnacle of the modern throwback. — M.C.
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Bad Bunny, ‘Titi Me Preguntó’
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The good news: Bad Bunny brought frantic dembow beats, a classy sample by bachata master Anthony Santos, and a coda with a dash of Latin psychedelia to the global mainstream. Even better? He did it all with panache and a healthy sense of humor. Using the archetype of the concerned Latin American aunt asking about her nephew’s potential girlfriends as a starting point, the Puerto Rican icon launches into a hilarious tirade of salacious puns to a bouncy party vibe that — in typical Bad Bunny fashion — unexpectedly morphs into moody self-reflection. More than any other track off Un Verano Sin Ti, “Tití Me Preguntó” showcases Benito’s unbridled creativity, his eccentric pop genius. — E.L.
CONTRIBUTORS: Jonathan Bernstein, Jon Blistein, Mankaprr Conteh, Jon Dolan, Brenna Ehrlich, Jon Freeman, Dewayne Gage, Andre Gee, Kory Grow, Christian Hoard, Maura Johnston, CT Jones, Michelle Hyun Kim, Kristine Kwak, Ernesto Lechner, Julyssa Lopez, Leah Lu, Angie Martoccio, Michaelangelo Matos, Patricia Meschino, Tomás Mier, Mosi Reeves, Rob Sheffield, Brittany Spanos, Lisa Tozzi, Simon Vozick-Levinson
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