Red and 1989 by Taylor Swift. Those albums are great. 1989 would be a 10/10 if it wasn't for Bad Blood. I don't like her country stuff at all, but I'll listen to that shit over her newest album any day. Fuck that's a terrible collection of songs.
Other pop I listen to I wouldn't say surprised me, just that Swift actually had a couple good albums.
Taylor Swift. I say that with no irony, no "hipster swag" or anything like that. I love her last two albums, and while its not like I'm going to go out and stock my cabinets with the latest Selena Gomez and Katy Perry albums, these pop nuggets just seem to satisfy.
Eminem is another one.
I'm a bit pleasantly surprised to see other Swifties on this forum. I've listened to all but her self-titled album so far (procrastinating on that whoops), and they're all good. 1989, Speak Now, and reputation are probably my three favorites and Red and Fearless are the weaker of them imo.
I don't have much music that I
surprisingly like, since I listen to and like pretty much every genre at this point. But there's one exception that comes to mind: Pendrecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima. I don't like ultra-modern/atonal/aleatoric classical at all (and this is with a lot of exposure to it), but this piece is something else. I feel like it's how aleatoric/atonal music SHOULD be done, and it's a great expression of the unimaginable suffering and horror that was unleashed in the two nukes dropped on Japan and the aftermath. Honestly, though, I probably wouldn't like it if it weren't for the title (it was originally going to be called 8'37" which would've ruined it imo) since the music itself falls completely flat without the connotation between the attack and the music.
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