#14 - 2hollis - "crush"
Maybe my favorite musical moment of the year erupts at the end of “crush,” when the yearning ballad breaks into a shotgun spree of kick drums. It pumpfakes the popstar pomp, the Top 40 hooky chorus, before degenerating into rawstyle, a form of hardstyle that’s an even more serrated and downright disgusting form of an already electric subgenre. “crush” is ostensibly a romantic song, an ode to an unnamed cutie. Instead, the tune makes me feel like my face has completely melted off, cheeks and eyebrows incinerated.
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