Urtar Reviews

I bet all of you are shocked this next song is as low as it is, and I mean, I get why, given how much I love the artist and this being the new version of one of her most beloved songs. But let me explain.. 10. All Too Well (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift (Peak: #1, Billboard Year End: #76, Jan-Dec Year End: N/A) For the record the one I am counting for this is the 5 minute long rerecording of the song as it was originally recorded for the original Red album, not the 10 minute version, as that's the version I prefer personally, and this is my list. While the 10 minute version is still really good, I feel like a lot of the lines she cut from it aren't really necessary, there's a reason they were cut out, and also I have a really small attention span for long songs. I think the song works better as a condensed 5 minute experience. However, the reason it isn't higher is that, I prefer the original version of the song from 2012. By a lot. If the original version of All...

  Hey everyone, Drake, known online as Urtar Reviews here, and it's time for the unfortunately inevitably less popular of my lists, the one where I get to gush about hit songs from this year that I love. And while this year was boring to follow the charts for reasons that I mentioned in the worst list, the quality of a lot of the music was very good, at least to me. The entire top half of this list I would consider a 10/10. As usual, songs are eligible for this list if they made either the Billboard Year End for 2022 or an alternate year end chart that uses a January-December chart window. See my worst list for links to Spotify playlists of the lists I use for eligibility. And songs that previously made the Jan-Dec list for 2021 are not eligible, as they were eligible for last year's list. Finally, this is all just my opinion, if you disagree with any of these picks, that is fine, music is subjective and I will respect your opinion if you do mine. Without any further ado, my pi...

 Happy New Year everyone! The Jan-Dec Year End came out, so let's get into my yearly worst list for 2022! How was 2022 for popular music? Well my answer is complicated. The year was very boring to follow the charts, particularly the first half where there were hardly any big new releases, and a lot of late 2021 hits refusing to leave. New releases did happen more in the second half, but we still had to deal with songs lasting way too long on the charts. However, despite this, I actually thought on a quality level this year was pretty good, not as good as 2021 but I might put it above 2020, partly because, this year there were not that many songs I hated, or any I hated on the level of the worst of the last two years. Nothing here is as bad as Without You by The Kid Laroi or I Hope by Gabby Barrett, or even like The Good Ones or If The World Was Ending. And also this year had a lot of songs I enjoyed, not as many as 2021, but still a good selection of great songs, and even a decent ...