Taylor Swift, Phoebe Bridgers, Bad Bunny: The story of music in 2020 took place on the internet.
Dear Lindsay, Brittany, and 2020’s guest Music Clubbers, Last year, the likes of Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish suggested a potential new musical dawn, from a new generation, and maybe a fresh matching energy in society, if it could hold on long enough. Then came 2020, and that light at the tunnel’s end turned out to be a freight train. It’s hard to cast a vast surveying gaze across the cultural landscape when for months you’ve dived down and flattened yourself against the tracks, holding your breath in hopes that the steel wheels on either side will pass you by and the undercarriage won...