The 33 Best Songs of 2014

This year has been a disappointment in music overall. In America, the overhyped machine known as "Frozen" somehow dominated album charts, the radio beat the same songs into our brains with more gusto than in previous years and critics collectively sucked up to Taylor Swift's latest collection of fifth grade level songwriting and heralded it as the best thing ever. Puke. The K-Pop landscape was also barren with most of the girl groups wanting to be sexed up to the nines by their agencies, the boy groups wanting to seem either over emotional or over hardened by the streets, and groups who took major creative risks last year opting to go back to the box set (pun intended). However, it wasn't all bad, with irresistible pop gems, Bossa Nova inspired bops, soul-wrenching midtempos and songs that were all in all fun to jam to.
 Songs in this list were released between 12/20/2013-12/20/2014 or had a parent album released in 2014.

DJ Mustard "Tinashe Checks In" (Extended)

Tinashe's "2 On" has been my official urban summer smash while everyone has been bopping to Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" and "Black Widow" with Calvin Harris's personal vendetta Rita Ora. DJ Mustard (who produced the track) dropped his debut album "10 Summers" today, but to be honest, I was not interested until the queen of overindulgence in marijuana and alcohol posted a snippet of a song she was featured on.