The Best Songs of 2023
variety.comall the feels… joy, abject sadness, anxiety, liberation and, not least of all, that old pop music standby, lust. We can guarantee you won’t be feeling plasticine if you dig into Variety‘s list of 60 of the best songs of 2023, as picked by chief music critic Chris Willman and senior music writer Steven J.
Horowitz. From Killer Mike to Kylie Minogue to Mitski to Boygenius to the Beatles, these are the tracks that made us dance, cry, find ourselves and then get deliriously lost all over again.
It’s like Rick Deckard of “Blade Runner” wrote a song about realizing he was a replicant: “Takin’ a drive, I was an ideal / Looked so alive, turns out I’m not real.” Only Barbie, in Greta Gerwig’s beautifully twisted creation myth, has the potential to become human.
And so the rest of us, in Billie Eilish’s and Finneas’ brilliantly crafted ballad. It’s the best movie theme since their own “No Time to Die,” and probably for too many years to count before that, even.
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