kitty’s absolute fucking TUNES: a v, v mismatched playlist of my absolute favourite songs
no church in the wild ( kanye west, jay z, frank ocean ): kanye west is the titan to my chloe, tbh. my party trick is giving an hour long rundown of his life, defending him like i’m his fucking lawyer ( don’t @ me tho some of his shit is indefensible ). i used to have ‘kanye historian’ as my twitter bio. so it can’t be understated when i say i love him. and this is probably my favourite song of his, and my most played song ever ( according to itunes, i’ll get to my most played according to last.fm soon ). i truly feel like this song speaks for itself. the iconic production, the haunting magnificence of frank ocean’s vocals, the question, the narrative.... goosebumps. and it fuckin’ BANGS.
magnets ( lorde and disclosure ): it’s difficult to say everything about what this song means to me, but i think i can distill it down to... ‘pretty girls don’t know the things that i know’. lorde has always popped back up in my life at the strangest times ( and hilariously enough i have had seizures in close proximity to seeing / hearing her ). when i saw her last year, she played this song. and i got to touch her hand. i still get misty eyed thinking about that night.
africa by toto: did you think anyone could make a playlist of CHUNES without africa by toto? madness, i tell you. absolute madness. fun fact: i’m going to an africa singalong event with 5000 people from facebook next week.
feeling good ( nina simone ): i’m gonna give you an assignment, okay? listen to it. listen to it and tell me it’s not one of the greatest songs ever made. you just can’t argue with me on this one.
love drought ( beyonce ): this is the sound of heartbreak. of agony. and it’s so painful and so raw. i really don’t have that much else to say, because like most of my favourite songs, love drought speaks for itself.
SWEET ( brockhampton ): lil bit of a humblebrag, but i went to highschool with a guy who’s tight w kevin abstract so by association i am tight with kevin abstract... where to begin with sweet? i’m from the vast land of tejas ( live in the uk now ) and this is a texas anthem. the honey butter references made my life ( i’m a vegetarian but i miss honey buttahs like a mothahfuckah ). my cousins live in / are from the woodlands, which is a place referenced a thousand times in the song. ‘poolside in houston, tryna see if beyonce will take me for adoption’, ‘don’t call me stupid, that ain’t the way my name pronounced!’, joba’s entire verse... so much iconnery in here.
seigfried ( frank ocean ): i listen to this song every single day, and it’s my most played song according to last.fm, which is about right. i would tattoo every line of this song on me if i could. it haunts me. my favourite part is the switch when he sings ‘i’m living over city / and taking in the homeless sometimes.’ seigfried is pure poetry, especially at the end, and especially when he sings ‘i’d do anything for you ( in the dark )’.
love lies ( khalid and normani ): okay i’m suffering from recency bias but i’ve played it 54 times since it came out like less than a month ago i think? ( thanks 2 last.fm as per ) i really, really love this song. i can’t say what it is, but i’m obsessed with the layering in the chorus.
in the air tonight ( phil collins or lorde idc ): this song? so fucking good. like, it’s the same deal as with africa. it’s well established that it’s a fucking tune, and it’s so SO good for screaming when you’re mad. see also: not ready to make nice by the dixie chicks.
dna ( kendrick lamar ): put this on at a party. i fuckin dare you. it goes off so, so fucking hard. same with loyalty, which has rihanna, so that’s a bonus. in all honesty choosing a kendrick song was hard, because i replay his albums constantly, but this one reminds me of some drunken nights with a friend that i love very dearly... so i hold it close. I GOT I GOT LOYALTY I GOT ROYALTY INSIDE MY DNA.
nocturnal ( the weeknd, disclosure ): chose a random song from my ‘night driving’ playlist, but this is a good one, because the weeknd is one of my most played artists and i haven’t chosen one of his songs yet. it’s atmospheric as fuck, and i love a good bit of darkness when i have the aux ( i can’t drive. it’s because i’m gay. ) and i’m speeding across the city ( jk mama ) with my friends. my aim for night driving is to make the soundtrack from drive, except longer.
style ( taylor swift ): she’s the most disingenuous, ridiculous, human being alive, but i grew up on her songs ( hello from the south, where our song was stuck in my head for like two years ) so i have a tiny, tiny, tiny little soft spot for her. style isn’t the country singer i grew up with, but it’s an absolute fucking tune so it belongs here. this video is an incredible breakdown of what makes it so good and says more than i ever could tbh.
home ( edward sharpe & the magnetic zeroes ): this is, full stop, the only song that can make me cry. it reminds me of home, of my friends, of my family, and every single time i fucking sob.
