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The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 2019 REDUX

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  The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 2019 REDUX Hey everyone, it’s Fire from Fire’s Flaming Hot Takes and today, we’re reexamining the top 10 best hit songs of 2019!! So let me not mince words, as I stated in my worst list redux, despite being slightly better than I remembered it being, 2019 was still one of my least favorite years for pop music ever. I already hashed out why I felt this way in my worst list redux so I won’t bore you guys with the details again. So instead, let me talk about why this was a great year for the Hot 100 in many aspects. The pop music scene in 2019 was kinda shaped by the sudden dominance of “Old Town Road” on the charts, meaning for possibly the only time of my life, the Hot 100 itself felt relevant, and I don’t mean the songs charting, like the chart itself. People I follow on Instagram (mainly acquaintances in school that as far as I know don’t follow the Hot 100 at all) were posting stuff about “Old Town Road” breaking the record for the most weeks at #1....
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The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2019 REDUX

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  The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2019 REDUX Hey everyone, it’s Fire, back on Fire’s Flaming Hot Takes and today we’re reexamining the top 10 worst hit songs of 2019!! I really didn’t think I’d be back doing another list redux after my 2021 ones, mainly because I came to the realization that like it or not, some aspect of all my articles is gonna age badly and I can’t change the past, so it’s not worth “(Taylor’s Version)”-ing my way through the entire history of my blog to try and correct every little wrong I may have made. But look, with my 2019 lists, when I reread them earlier this year, I knew I had to redo them, because they have NOT aged well at all. 2019 was, at least back in 2021 when I wrote those articles, the worst year of my life. I had really allowed myself to get really furious at the music that soundtracked an awful year for me to try driving home catharsis, but I think in the end, it made my worst list in particular pretty hard to read. And even if I can’t change the...
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