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Fire's Chill Pick - October 2026

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  Happy Halloween season everyone!! It’s Fire here with the monthly Chill Pick article!! I don’t quite have a spooky song here, but I do have a pretty beautiful one!! Lorin O’Leary - This Time Around Release: October 1, 2026 Genres: Singer-Songwriter, Folk Pop I covered Lorin O’Leary here before in my Chill Pick article for February, when I reviewed her debut single “When It Rains”. I treated that review with care because I know her personally and didn’t wanna come off as a jerk friend. She did later end up reading that review, and she seemed to be really appreciative of it! I thought that song was incredible for how much potential it showcased for O’Leary, but I did also say that the song could’ve afforded to have more reverb to cultivate a more immersive atmosphere. But anyways, earlier this month, she dropped a new song. Now, since my February Chill Pick article, she’s graduated and seems to be intending to pursue music full-time. I was watching her Instagram posts teasing this ...
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The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 1995

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  The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 1995 Hi guys, it’s Fire here, back at it again with the top 10 BEST hit songs of 1995!! As I said in my worst list, 1995 was a really good year for the Hot 100—even if I wouldn’t call it the best year of the 90s (1996 still takes that honor). Rap cemented its rise into the mainstream with the very first hip hop YE #1, seeing huge years for Biggie and 2Pac. Hip hop soul and gangsta rap were coloring R&B to create some real standout tracks. And you all already know that I love eurodance and house, which both had great years on the Hot 100! You’re also gonna see a lot of rock on this list as singer-songwriters like Alanis Morissette were taking inspiration from jangle pop and grunge to chart the path for adult alternative acts going forward. As usual, the songs eligible for this list must have met at least one of these rules: They debuted on the 1995 Hot 100 YE Repeating songs are eligible if they beat or matched their previous standings on this YE A...
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The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1995

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  The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1995 Hey everyone, it’s Fire here, back with the top 10 WORST hit songs of 1995!! So with my 90s worst lists, much of the stuff that made those lists consisted mainly of boring AC ballads, making those lists feel a bit samey. 1995...tends to follow a similar trend, but the absolute worst shit this year just left me dumbfounded. Like, this is an era pre-streaming and pre-Napster—meaning that my main reaction was “wow, people ACTUALLY went out of their way to buy these singles with the intention of listening to them of their own volition?” Of course, the AC ballads were safe enough for the radio to eat up, but what I’m referring to here are the novelty songs. That said, 1995 was a really good year for music as a whole, even if I’d personally give the edge to 1998 and 96. New Jack Swing and gangsta rap were starting to shade R&B, taking the genre into exciting sounds. But the genre I think really ran the table in 1995 was rock, where singer-songwrit...
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Fire's Chill Pick - September 2026

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  Hi everyone, it’s Fire here and it’s time for the monthly Chill Pick article!! So what track am I serving y’all up with this month? Olivia Rodrigo - serena joy Release: August 21, 2026 Genres: Post-Punk Revival, New Rave, New Wave, Dance-Punk Revival, Indietronica I gotta be honest, 2026 has been a really good year for me so far. I hope everyone else is feeling the same way... Oh... OH. Oh god... Yeah, 2026 has clearly been a very turbulent year for current events, and it kinda makes me feel guilty that I’m having a really good year when so many aren’t. I kinda had to teach myself that just because you’re having a good year while so many aren’t doesn’t mean you have to deny your own self-happiness. But I can acknowledge that my experience is very far from the rule, and in such a difficult time for so many, I can imagine that people are desperately looking for a cathartic release. And thus, we got “serena joy”, a song that Olivia Rodrigo actually recorded in the midst of creating ...
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