2020 Was The Year Of *Trying* To Chill
2020 Was The Year Of *Trying* To Chill Photo Illustration by Renee Klahr / NPR / Getty Images In 2020, there were many ways to understand the year in music; this week, we're considering four. Even more than "mindfulness" or "self-care," "chill" has morphed into a context-flattening buzzword, not quite a genre of music but certainly a tool used to categorize it, especially as a beacon of calm in your streaming app of choice. Still, it might be just the right term for the palliative care so many of us have spent the months indoors desperately self-administering, by way of whatever meditative me...