Party Like It's 2009: The Playlist
I spent the weekend reviewing Lady Gaga's 'Mayhem' and thinking a lot about 2009, a recent moment the album explicitly references. When I was trying to put my finger on exactly what 2009 sounded like, there was only one thing to do: make a playlist.
I graduated from college in the fabled year of 'Bad Romance' and 'Paparazzi' — and of the Black Eyed Peas' 'I Got a Feeling' and Taylor Swift's 'You Belong With Me' — so I attach a lot of emotions and memories to that musical moment. My favorite 2009 albums at the time were a trifecta of stellar and ambitious indie releases that would come to define their era, too: Animal Collective's 'Merriweather Post Pavilion,' Grizzly Bear's 'Veckatimest' and Dirty Projectors' 'Bitte Orca.' The line between underground and mainstream music was becoming provocatively blurred, in a way that seems a little quaint today. The writer Andrew Unterberger recently devoted an entire episode of his Billboard podcast to an event that somehow made headlines in 2009: Beyoncé and Jay-Z attending a Grizzly Bear concert in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Naturally, her cool younger sister, Solange, took them.)
You'll hear Grizzly Bear on this brief tour through 2009, along with higher-profile artists like Miley Cyrus, Jason Derulo and Mariah Carey. This is hardly meant to be a definitive look at the year's releases, but a quick refresher on what it sounded like to, as I put it in my 'Mayhem' review, party like it's 2009.
All up in the blogs,
Lindsay
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