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Fire's Chill Pck - April 2026

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  Hi guys!! It’s Fire, back with the monthly Chill Pick article!! Last month we covered the lead single to one of my most anticipated albums of 2026, so let’s continue that pattern! Olivia Rodrigo - drop dead Release: April 17, 2026 Genres: Pop Rock, Synthpop, New Wave, Big Music, Indie Pop, Power Pop Olivia Rodrigo has been one of my favorite artists since she broke through in 2021 as a very honest songwriter who can sound vulnerable and hurt on songs like “drivers license” and then make an angry rock banger like “good 4 u” or “brutal”. Since her breakthrough, her two modes have essentially been ballads or rock. Rodrigo’s rock side tends to get more critical acclaim (and honestly fair, “bad idea, right?” is still my favorite song from her) but at the same time, it feels like it’s been a while since she dropped a ballad. GUTS was very heavily rock with the closest to a ballad being “vampire” or maybe “lacy”. But Rodrigo is set to drop her 3rd album, you seem pretty sad for a girl ...
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The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 1990

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  The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 1990 Hey guys, it’s Fire here and y’all know what time it is!! Today we’re counting down the top 10 BEST hit songs of 1990!! So as I expressed in my worst list, 1990 turned out to be one of the worst years for pop music I’ve ever looked at. Everything was in transition, meaning that the stuff that filled in the gap in the mainstream was sedate AC ballads and bizarre novelties. Rock was dominated by the backwash of 80s hair metal and glam rock while hip hop was only just starting to take hold in the mainstream, and the first hip hop song to hit #1 was...fucking Vanilla Ice. Both of those genres did have gems, but they were the exception, not the rule. That said, I’d also say 1990 had a signature sound—New Jack Swing. There was forceful New Jack Swing all over the 1990 Hot 100 YE, almost to an overwhelming degree. Thankfully, most of them were pretty good. And there were iconic artists and hits from this year that are still remembered today from the lik...
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The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1990

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  The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1990 Hey everyone, it’s Fire here and we’re continuing our 90s dive with the top 10 worst hit songs of 1990!! I really couldn’t find much about what people generally thought of 1990 for pop music when doing my research. The few worst lists I found didn’t mention a thing about the year in general in terms of quality and were from channels/blogs/sites that have been long abandoned. But my take is that 1990 wound up genuinely being among the worst years of pop music I’ve ever looked at. Literally only 2019 and 2014 have worse averages in my big spreadsheet. But why exactly was that? Well, the best I could put together was that 1990 was a very transitional year for the charts. Rock hadn’t been reshaped by grunge yet so the rock we got was the backwash of 80s hair metal and hip hop was only just starting to break through, to rather mixed results. This meant that there was a big gap that needed to be filled in the music scene. And of course, as we all know...
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Fire's Chill Pick - March 2026

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  Hey everyone, you all know it’s that time of the month to review a Chill Pick!! Let’s go for the lead single for one of my most anticipated albums of 2026!! Kacey Musgraves - Dry Spell Release: March 11, 2026 Genres: Country Pop, Contemporary Country, Tejano Music, Western If you know me at all, you already know I’m a big Kacey Musgraves stan. I’ve repeatedly said on this blog that Golden Hour is my favorite album of all time and Deeper Well was my personal album of the year for 2024. So you can imagine that I was excited to hear that Kacey announced an album set to drop in May. I will admit though that even though I adore both Golden Hour and Deeper Well , my fear was that she was gonna start retreading those textures without really reinventing herself. It’s a formula that I do adore, no question, but you can only retread a formula, even one I adore, so many times before you start losing me (see how Hoang really turned me from a fan to a really jaded listener save for “Are You...
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