I'm Feelin' 22: train ride home and trainwreck pop tracks

This list consists of my standard polarity: wistful, romantic train ride music (rain drop cascade on the window optional) and unabashedly vapid “rock-Forever-21-but-just-turned-thirtay” pop. As mentioned previously, the tracks aren’t ranked and the order was primarily motivated by how seamlessly I could get from Foxygen to Selena Gomez. I have to be honest about Ms. Gomez, she’s more of a placeholder for all the other American middle school pop I listened to this year. If you would like examples of these songs please take a car ride with me and allow me to scream-sing every Fun. song playing on the radio. And, Roar. Damn, I can scream the shit out of that one. Sadly, there are pretty significant artists that I completely forgot about like Vampire Weekend, which I played non-stop for the month of July, and Tegan and Sara who I fell in love with all over again this year now that they are making move towards the unabashed pop end of the spectrum. Good thing I got Selena Gomez on there, though. Can’t forget about her.

I toyed with adding some zero effort hip-hop that was so prevalent this year (VERSACE/VERSACE/VERSACE/VERSACE) but I couldn’t make it work with this collection of songs. They probably don’t flow with any collection of songs, really. Maybe that’s why Funkmaster Flex plays about 14 seconds of them before fading out and imploring you, begging you, to see him spin tonight at Club Perfection at 62-05 30th Avenue in Woodside. Won’t somebody see him tonight at Club Perfection? Please heed this desperate appeal or his (strobe) light will go out and he’ll die!

Heartbreaker- The Walkmen

It All Feels the Same- Tennis

Hard to Tell- Young Galaxy

Virvelvind- Ane Brun

Still Love Me- Jessie Ware

Dream the Dare- Pure Bathing Culture

400 Lux- Lorde

Shuggie- Foxygen

Alvar- Goldfrapp

My Heart Beats- Veronica Falls

Sacrilege- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Looking for a Fight- Bleached

N Dakota- Parquet Courts

Work- Iggy Azalea

White Walls - feat. ScHoolboy Q.- Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

Die Young- Ke$ha

22- Taylor Swift

Forget Forever- Selena Gomez

Pumpin Blood- NONONO

It's Never Over- AVAN LAVA

I'm Out- Ciara, Nicki Minaj

Drunk in Love- Beyoncé , Jay-Z

Thank You- Busta Rhymes, Q-Tip, Kayne West, Lil Wayne

F*ckwithmeyouknowigotit- Jay-Z, Rick Ross
Bound 2- Kayne West

https://play.spotify.com/user/riamixed/playlist/2Bmp42eAIkHkTPkzmT7eXC