Its deeper truth is about how completely you can find yourself surrendering to seemingly mundane layers of a shared life: knowing the words to the same songs, piggybacking on an appointment with your other half's barber. "Me and my boo wear the same size shoe," Wise coos over a stately drum pattern that flutters like a heart skipping a beat. This stunner from serpentwithfeet's second album, DEACON, is only literally about discovering how precisely you and your mate measure up. Oh, to hear Josiah Wise testify on the ecstasies of contentment. Classic soul samples and dialed-down looks may not be part of the arsenal that got Migos here, but as long as those signature flows remain intact everything else is as interchangeable as the Temptations' revolving tour roster. They even dressed the part for Jimmy Fallon and the Roots in October, swapping out their technicolor Versace shirts for matching black fedoras, suits and shades at their Tonight Show performance. "Papa was a rollin' stone but now I got rolling stones in the bezel," Quavo jumpstarts the trio's Culture III single "Avalanche," floating over Norman Whitfield's swelling string arrangement. No wonder their triplet flows sound so at-home over the song made famous by Motown's most storied ensemble ever. As Quality Control's first marquee artists, Quavo, Offset and Takeoff are practically the Temptations of trap now. It's been a trip to watch Migos rise from hip-hop disruptors to cultural standard bearers over the last decade. Or listen on the streaming platform of your choice. Spotify / Apple Music / Tidal / Amazon Music / YouTube Music Stream NPR Music's 100 Best Songs Of 2021:
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If you find yourself losing steam or feeling down or wondering when things will finally turn around, feel free to skip the rest of "All Too Well." (Jk, Taylor!) (Oh, and you can find our 50 Best Albums of 2021 here.) It's our sincere hope that as you make your way through our 7-hour playlist of the year's 100 best songs, you'll feel the same. In other words, we could be human again, and it felt good to be back. Perhaps we kept some truths concealed during dire straits, so as not to appear frivolous (or feral) in the face of unforgiving circumstance. Maybe, after 20 months behind masks, we felt like revealing ourselves again. Perhaps the crowning of Cardi and Megan's "WAP" last year signaled a transgressive sea change.
"Only here to sin." That admission from NPR Music's song of the year lies at the heart of many of the stories told across these 100 tracks.
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