{"id":10040253,"date":"2024-12-09T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T14:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/?p=10040253"},"modified":"2025-01-03T08:34:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T13:34:30","slug":"year-in-review-vanyalands-12-favorite-national-songs-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/2024\/12\/09\/year-in-review-vanyalands-12-favorite-national-songs-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 12 favorite national songs of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Not too long ago, nearly every media outlet’s Year In ReView<\/strong> list looked pretty much the same, especially those hyping the (alleged) best songs of the past 12 months. But something seemed to splinter recently, and now these lists are an absolute orgy of heterogeneity. Hey, we’re all listening to our own shit, and that’s easy to do when so many new tracks are uploaded to streamers every single day. The theme of variety also rules the day (and week, month, year) at Vanyaland<\/em>, and that’s reflected in our 12 favorite national songs of 2024, a collection of the tracks that caught our attention since January, inspired a gush of digital ink, and never left our playlists. The toughest part of this list, featured in alphabetical order, is limiting it to a simple dozen, as a necessary honorable mention goes to a handful of tunes — The Black Crowes’ boisterous \u201cWasted and Wanting\u201d; The Cure’s commending \u201cAlone\u201d; Charly Bliss’ anthemic \u201cNineteen\u201d; and Adore’s punchy \u201cSupermum!\u201d — that would have bloomed in this space under a more expansive format. But 12 in ’24 feels right, and few joints sounded as good as the ones hyped below. 2024 might not have been the greatest year for new music, but it certainly did have its moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artemas<\/strong>, ‘i like the way you kiss me’<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In his mega-viral alt-pop hit \u201ci like the way you kiss me,\u201d English-Cypriot singer, songwriter, and producer Artemas<\/a><\/strong> famously sings about hooking up but not getting attached. And yet here we are, still vibing hard to the low-key 2024 SOTY contender several months after its release. Nearly 1 billion Spotify streams and more than 100 million YouTube views later (and we\u2019re not even gonna look at TikTok, where the song truly blew the fuck up), \u201ci like the way you kiss me\u201d has failed to fade from rotation, thanks to its basement club intensity, relentless propulsion, and head-spinning hard-vs.-soft dynamic. Pop music has been all over the map in the endless decade we\u2019ve called 2024, but this unfuckwithable slice of hyper earworm-pop has endured through all the highs, lows, and straight-line yawns. While the commercial masses were hyping a calculated re-packaging of indie sleaze, Artemas was making it new — and this would have destroyed the cool kids’ table back in 2008.
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