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Party Like It's 2009: The Playlist

Image Grizzly Bear performing at SXSW in 2009. Credit... Josh Haner/The New York Times 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 Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.