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Here's my early Christmas gift to all of you, and I'm going to get the ball rolling with this simple announcement. Yes, after three years worth of delaying this project, chipping away until I got most of everything on my watchlist for this year crossed out, I am now in the process of finalizing my list and eventually getting a written review out of the way. Sure, I could've brought this news to the Entertainment 2018 thread, but of course, it's three years long gone, and I couldn't bring this to the 2021 thread either because it just didn't make sense for me to do that, and considering the wait for this, I thought giving this project a thread of its own could compensate for that (My original plan was to make it exclusive to my Wordpress blog like most of my other reviews after its inception). Expect the review to be out any day between the 26th and the 31st of this month.

FINALLY! AN EPISODE THATS ACTUALLY GREAT IN THIS GODAWFUL SHOW! LOOK AT THIS SOMETHING FROM MICHIGAN! FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SERIES HISTORY! THIS IS ALL THE SHOW HAS BEEN MISSING! 765/10 GOLDEN episode! Make more episodes like this Nickelodeon!

Will pull the others from the blogspot vault at some point (the 2020 best list is being a real pain in the butt that I'm just considering linking it instead), but for now, time to ring out 2021 with the first of the lists. The worst hit music of 2021. This was not a particularly good year to write the worst list. Not because of the content as a whole this year because to be honest, this was a perfectly fine year. I mean it wasn’t 2020, but it was a perfectly decent transition year. But my reasons are quite simple…does music still even matter anymore? I mean with the way the world has been for the last two years, I ask this question with all serious intent. Because the news of the world just keeps dominating the cultural zeitgeist and topic points to the point that the entertainment that use to distract us from even the worst of yesteryear feels like it is not as existent as it used to be. Even to me, an entertainment buff like myself, I feel less and less wanting to talk about movies and music as much as I use to. They feel more like a chore to me more than a great distraction. And don’t take this as me wanting to stop doing this sort of thing. Not at all. I will always be glad to discuss. But I feel with the way the world is slowly spiraling, that I more or less want to talk about what we can do as a society to turn things around or at least watch in real time every bad mistake that is being made or how incompetent our political system is. Or how even a life-saving vaccine and wanting to be a decent human being and caring for others has turned into becoming a political statement...yeah its quite easy to get pissed off at the world that we are living in. But alas, the more I focus on how fucked up the world is at the moment, the more cynical I’ve become. And I don’t want to be a cynical old man (I’m not that old I swear). I want to talk about things that make me happy. And despite music being one of the last topics on a lot of people’s minds, I’ve got to admit. This whole niche ecosystem that streaming has made music listening has in fact given us some pretty quality hit music. As the world starts to open back up again as we are learning to live with the pandemic that has turned our world upside down, we are slowly starting to see more and more of the big names come out of quarantine with new album releases and new music to bring onto us. I’m excited for the future of the music industry, even if it is not as big as it once was. I mean for god’s sake we have TWO Christmas songs as some of the 100 biggest hits of 2021. That’s a sign that for most of this year, nobody cared to release anything truly worth discussing. I mean the biggest topics of this year were about Olivia Rodrigo’s relationship drama, Morgan Wallen canceling himself right when he was about to be the biggest country music crossover star since Taylor Swift, Lil Nas X trolling conservatives with his clickbait, the power of BTS stans manipulating the charts, and a douche (Kanye) vs a turd sandwich (Drake). Compare that to 2019 where nearly every number one of that year had some sort of thought provoking controversy attached to it. I find it fitting that a good portion of this year was a lot of music that charted in 2020 over 2021 because there were barely any album bombs for a decent while. Don’t look at me. Blame Billboard’s stupid year end tracking system. But of course, we have to start this list season off with the entry that gets me my most annual hits. The worst list. And despite what I’ve said about 2021 being overall a decent 6/10 year, this is the first time in three years where I had a lot of solid contenders for the worst list. So let's not waste any more time and start things off with the dishonorable mentions. DISHONORABLE MENTIONS: Now that we got that out of the way, there is one more thing I would like to make clear before I start this list season off. Both my best and worst lists this year are going to be Top Elevens. Why eleven? Because I like to go one step further. Let's just say I have some 2020 backwash that I've already talked about a plenty that I want to make these lists as authentic as possible. I do actually have some more to say about these songs that are two years old now each so trust me when I say that it won't be tired material. Got it? Good. Now let's go crazy. We're counting down. THE TOP ELEVEN WORST HIT SONGS OF 2021 Best List coming soon. Thanks for reading SBC fam. Love you guys!