2009 brought many highs, lows, blows and whoas. The biggest highlight was of course America’s first Black Mr President, Barack Obama and the biggest blow was the lost of Michael Jackson. Tiger Woods went creeping and what came out of the wood works were shocking revelations of extra extra extra marital affairs and plenty of funny late night skits, and Public Option became a buzzword.
Facebook took over the internet, with over 300 million users, that possibly include your computer illiterate grandmother who has become an over zealous user.
‘Unfriend’ became an official verb in the Oxford American Dictionary
Its been a fun year in music too, personally I have been everywhere with music this year, listening and playing lots of retro 80s soul and disco, which has influenced a lot of artists from Escort, Chromeo, Dam Funk, and Roisin Murphy as well as with fashion too.
Dubstep became a big underground favourite in the UK, while Domu quit music, Oasis split and ‘fishstick’ eating Kanye West, became the biggest douche bag for humiliating that poor little girl, Taylor Swift… ‘C’mon Son, You know that shit was stupid!
Hip hop has been kind too, with Mos Def, GhostFace and Raekwon all coming back with the raw hardcore.
Here are my top music picks of 2009 that I enjoyed, in no particular order.
Ghostface – Ghostdini wizard of poetry in Emerald city (album)
DamFunk – Toeachizown (album)
Shafiq Husayn – L’il Girl
Funkineven – You!
Theophilus London – TNT
Mos Def – The Ecstatic (album)
Phoenix – 1901
Mayer Hawthorne – Maybe So, Maybe No
GTG – Hello Miss
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead
Looking forward to the next decade of bigger and better things. I predict that independent artists will continue be on the rise, which will be great for music, and oust those cookie cutter put together studio groups and so called artists.
Looking forward to new albums from Sade,Erykah Badu, Fatima, Sia, Roisin Murphy and Amy Winehouse (cos I still like her)
Happy New Year…Bright light from a distant star…Miracles Don’t Stop!
New York Londoner 