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I actually had my first Lana dream so I feel inclined to share. 
 
The new album was one 40-something minute long track. The only vocals were in the first 3 and the snippet we heard was part of it. The rest was instrumental jazz. 

I actually had my first Lana dream so I feel inclined to share. 
 
The new album was one 40-something minute long track. The only vocals were in the first 3 and the snippet we heard was part of it. The rest was instrumental jazz. 

I actually had my first Lana dream so I feel inclined to share. 
 
The new album was one 40-something minute long track. The only vocals were in the first 3 and the snippet we heard was part of it. The rest was instrumental jazz. 

I actually had my first Lana dream so I feel inclined to share. 
 
The new album was one 40-something minute long track. The only vocals were in the first 3 and the snippet we heard was part of it. The rest was instrumental jazz. 

Also, I guess, my favorites, but I extended a lot of my considerations/choices here on the idea you pretty much don't waste your time listening to any of them! To keep it varied, I had a one album per artist/band rule. Most of these artists have made many other albums I've loved, but I've settled on these as my favorites, I guess. When it came to defending 'pop', it was too much of a pseudo intellectual headache, so I just went to RateYourMusic.com and used whatever they labeled as pop. lol Their genres are here, so please don't @ me with those, and sorry for being all presumptive beforehand. 
 
(I'll eventually edit Spotify links in here, I just spent so much doing this already that I'm gonna rest a bit lol)
 
Billie Holiday - “Billie Holiday” (1947) [Traditional Pop]
 
Judy Garland - “Alone” (1957) [Traditional Pop]
 
Lesley Gore - “I’ll Cry If I Want To” (1960) [Teen Pop]
The Supremes - “Where Did Our Love Go” (1964) [Girl Group, Pop Soul]
The Shangri-Las - “Shangri-Las-65!” (1965) [Girl Group]
Laura Nyro - “Eli and the Thirteenth Confession” (1968) [Pop Soul, Progressive Pop]
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - “Nancy & Lee” (1968) [Country Pop]
Peggy Lee - “Is That All There Is?” (1969) [Traditional Pop]
Dusty Springfield - “Dusty in Memphis” (1969) [Pop Soul]
 
Dionne Warwick - “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” (1970) [Pop Soul]
Carpenters - “Carpenters” (1971) [Baroque Pop]
Bette Midler - “The Divine Miss M” (1972) [Pop]
Cher - “Dark Lady” (1974) [Pop]
Dolly Parton - “Jolene” (1974) [Country Pop]
Minnie Riperton - “Perfect Angel” (1974) [Pop Soul]
Janis Ian - “Between the Lines” (1975) [Folk Pop]
Joni Mitchell - “The Hissing of Summer Lawns” (1975) [Vocal Pop]
Fleetwood Mac - “Rumours” (1977) [Pop Rock]
Blondie - “Parallel Lines” (1978) [Pop Rock]
Rickie Lee Jones - “Rickie Lee Jones” (1979) [Jazz Pop]
 
Go-Go’s - “Beauty and the Beat” (1981) [Power Pop]
Yoko Ono - “Season of Glass” (1981) [Pop Rock]
Laurie Anderson - “Big Science” (1982) [Art Pop, Experimental, Electronic]
Cyndi Lauper - “She’s So Unusual” (1983) [Pop Rock]
Cocteau Twins - “Treasure” (1984) [Dream Pop]
Kate Bush - “Hounds of Love” (1985) [Art Pop, Progressive Pop]
Grace Jones - “Slave to the Rhythm” (1985) [Art Pop, Dance-Pop]
Janet Jackson - “Control” (1986) [Dance-Pop]
Sinéad O’Connor - “The Lion and the Cobra” (1987) [Art Pop, Pop Rock]
Suzanne Vega - “Solitude Standing” (1987) [Pop Rock]
Julee Cruise - “Floating Into the Night” (1989) [Ambient Pop, Dream Pop]
 
Mariah Carey - “Mariah Carey” (1990) [Pop]
Cranes - “Wings of Joy” (1991) [Dream Pop]
Annie Lennox - “Diva” (1992) [Sophisti-Pop]
Sade - “Love Deluxe” (1992) [Sophisti-Pop]
Slowdive - “Souvlaki” (1993) [Dream Pop, Shoegaze]
Everything but the Girl - “Amplified Heart” (1994) [Sophisti-Pop]
Milla - “The Divine Comedy” (1994) [Folk Pop, Art Pop]
Selena - “Amor Prohibido” (1994) [Latin Pop]
TLC - “CrazySexyCool” (1994) [Contemporary R&B]
That Dog. - “Totally Crushed Out!” (1995) [Power Pop]
Ani DiFranco - “Dilate” (1996) [Jazz Pop]
Donna Lewis - “Now in a Minute” (1996) [Pop]
Mazzy Star - “Among My Swan” (1996) [Dream Pop]
Spice Girls - “Spice” (1996) [Dance-Pop]
Missy Elliott - “Supa Dupa Fly” (1997) [Pop Rap]
Shania Twain - “Come On Over” (1997) [Country Pop]
Tori Amos - “From the Choirgirl Hotel” (1998) [Art Pop]
Lauryn Hill - “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” (1998) [Contemporary R&B]
Madonna - “Ray of Light” (1998) [Art Pop]
Dido - “No Angel” (1999) [Pop]
Kelis - “Kaleidoscope” (1999) [Contemporary R&B]
 
Poe - “Haunted” (2000) [Pop Rock]
Aaliyah - “Aaliyah” (2001) [Contemporary R&B]
Björk - “Vespertine” (2001) [Art Pop, Electronic]
Lily Chou-Chou - “Kokyuu” (2001) [Dream Pop]
Kylie - “Fever” (2001) [Dance-Pop]
Norah Jones - “Come Away with Me” (2002) [Jazz Pop]
Avril Lavigne - “Let Go” (2002) [Pop Rock]
Jennifer Lopez - “This Is Me... Then” (2002) [Pop]
Goldfrapp - “Black Cherry” (2003) [Electropop]
Gwen Stefani - “Love.Angel.Music.Baby.” (2004) [Dance-Pop]
Antony and the Johnsons - “I Am a Bird Now” (2005) [Chamber Pop]
Nelly Furtado - “Loose” (2006) [Dance-Pop]
Charlotte Gainsbourg - “5:55” (2006) [Dream Pop, Art Pop]
Amy Winehouse - “Back to Black” (2006) [Pop Soul]
M.I.A. - “Kala” (2007) [Electropop]
Róisín Murphy - “Overpowered” (2007) [Electropop, Dance-Pop]
Britney Spears - “Blackout” (2007) [Dance-Pop]
Lykke Li - “Youth Novels” (2008) [Indie Pop, Art Pop]
Santogold - “Santogold” (2008) [Electropop]
St. Vincent - “Actor” (2009) [Art Pop]
 
Robyn - “Body Talk” (2010) [Electropop, Dance-Pop]
Sleigh Bells - “Treats” (2010) [Noise Pop]
Lady Gaga - “Born This Way” (2011) [Dance-Pop, Electropop]
Fiona Apple - “The Idler Wheel is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More That Ropes Will Ever Do” (2012) [Art Pop]
Grimes - “Visions” (2012) [Synthpop]
Sky Ferreira - “Night Time, My Time” (2013) [Synthpop, Noise Pop]
Haim - “Days Are Gone” (2013) [Pop Rock]
Lana Del Rey - “Ultraviolence” (2014) [Dream Pop, Art Pop]
Miley Cyrus - “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz” (2015) [Psychedelic Pop]
Julia Holter - “Have You in My Wilderness” (2015) [Art Pop, Chamber Pop]
Carly Rae Jepsen - “E-MO-TION” (2015) [Dance-Pop, Synthpop]
Lemon Meringue Die - “Nobody Wouldn’t See Good Things” (2015) [Noise Pop, Bedroom Pop]
Beyoncé - “Lemonade” (2016) [Contemporary R&B]
Katie Dey - “Flood Network” (2016) [Hypnagogic Pop]
Rihanna - “ANTI” (2016) [Contemporary R&B]
Solange - “A Seat at the Table” (2016) [Art Pop]
Kesha - “Rainbow” (2017) [Pop Rock]
Lorde - “Melodrama” (2017) [Synthpop, Art Pop]
Patricia Taxxon - “Paul” (2017) [Ambient Pop, Bedroom Pop]
Mitski - “Be the Cowboy” (2018) [Art Pop]
Janelle Monáe - “Dirty Computer” (2018) [Art Pop]
SOPHIE - “Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides” (2018) [Hyperpop]
FKA twigs - “Magdalene” (2019) [Art Pop, Glitch Pop]
Weyes Blood - “Titanic Rising” (2019) [Baroque Pop, Art Pop]
 
Charli XCX - “How I’m Feeling Now” (2020) [Electropop, Hyperpop]
Taylor Swift - “Folklore” (2020) [Folk Pop]
kendall :3 - “dirt” (2021) [Art Pop, Glitch Pop]
Magdalena Bay - “Mercurial World” (2021) [Synthpop]

Hope it's okay to self-promote, since me and my husband are both in a bind due to work issues, and I also need to continue making music, period. 
 
It's name your price, so please don't feel obligated to buy anything if you don't want to. I'm all for sharing the art, and I already hate the idea of it being monetized, but I also can't stand the thought of writing another song about eating another TV dinner in the motel I'm living at. 
 
Anyway, here's my compilation of 2021 songs, which I kinda feel best summarizes my music escapade for the year. Some reviews have called it "dreamy", it that helps gauge it, but I really don't know how to describe it.
 
https://littleboyvelvet.bandcamp.com/album/same-as-it-ever-was

I got a new album. It's a bit... dark and weird.
 
https://littleboyvelvet.bandcamp.com/album/brush-creek-fables

GET LIT ALL SUMMER!!! written and produced by me 
 

do you feel the same?

i don't, but would love to   

Hope it's okay to self-promote, since me and my husband are both in a bind due to work issues, and I also need to continue making music, period. 
 
It's name your price, so please don't feel obligated to buy anything if you don't want to. I'm all for sharing the art, and I already hate the idea of it being monetized, but I also can't stand the thought of writing another song about eating another TV dinner in the motel I'm living at. 
 
Anyway, here's my compilation of 2021 songs, which I kinda feel best summarizes my music escapade for the year. Some reviews have called it "dreamy", it that helps gauge it, but I really don't know how to describe it.
 
https://littleboyvelvet.bandcamp.com/album/same-as-it-ever-was

Hope it's okay to self-promote, since me and my husband are both in a bind due to work issues, and I also need to continue making music, period. 
 
It's name your price, so please don't feel obligated to buy anything if you don't want to. I'm all for sharing the art, and I already hate the idea of it being monetized, but I also can't stand the thought of writing another song about eating another TV dinner in the motel I'm living at. 
 
Anyway, here's my compilation of 2021 songs, which I kinda feel best summarizes my music escapade for the year. Some reviews have called it "dreamy", it that helps gauge it, but I really don't know how to describe it.
 
https://littleboyvelvet.bandcamp.com/album/same-as-it-ever-was

It's bandcamp friday, which means bandcamp waives it's fees for bands and artists. 
 
What singles/albums/eps should we be buying today?
 
I recommend this;
https://karlmccann.bandcamp.com/album/carbon-copy-ep
 
 

I love bandcamp friday!

https://adultmusic.bandcamp.com/album/becoming-undone
 
https://bitchfalcon.bandcamp.com

ive just been looking for free/name your price albums to download

my new song has gotten 2.4k streams in 4 days and is apparently *this close* to making it on the algorithmic release radar playlist on spotify this Friday! you need a popularity score of 20 and I was at 16 last update 😳 this would bring in thousands more listeners and literally CHANGE MY LIFE because I could get more streams, make some more money, and finally make more than 1.5 songs per year.
 
so if you like dream pop in the vein of mazzy star meets 90s pop-rock with an indie edge like soccer mommy or mitski, I’ll take any streams I can get: “cherry picker” by heddy edwards 🍒🍒🍒

how the score will go up:
1) more streams
2) tapping the heart to save the song
3) adding it to playlists 
4) tapping the three dots to share it via messenger or copy link 
 
THEN I’LL SHUTUP ABOUT MY SONG FOR MONTHS OK SORRY LOVE U GUYS

I hope people come around to the tracklist. "Nectar of the Gods" is being underrated af, when it's one of the best things she's done - but following it up with "Living Legend" had me in tears. I haven't cried like that with one of her songs since "California" the first time I listened to NFR, and I think having it follow "How to disappear" is partly why that had me such a mess.  

Also, I guess, my favorites, but I extended a lot of my considerations/choices here on the idea you pretty much don't waste your time listening to any of them! To keep it varied, I had a one album per artist/band rule. Most of these artists have made many other albums I've loved, but I've settled on these as my favorites, I guess. When it came to defending 'pop', it was too much of a pseudo intellectual headache, so I just went to RateYourMusic.com and used whatever they labeled as pop. lol Their genres are here, so please don't @ me with those, and sorry for being all presumptive beforehand. 
 
(I'll eventually edit Spotify links in here, I just spent so much doing this already that I'm gonna rest a bit lol)
 
Billie Holiday - “Billie Holiday” (1947) [Traditional Pop]
 
Judy Garland - “Alone” (1957) [Traditional Pop]
 
Lesley Gore - “I’ll Cry If I Want To” (1960) [Teen Pop]
The Supremes - “Where Did Our Love Go” (1964) [Girl Group, Pop Soul]
The Shangri-Las - “Shangri-Las-65!” (1965) [Girl Group]
Laura Nyro - “Eli and the Thirteenth Confession” (1968) [Pop Soul, Progressive Pop]
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - “Nancy & Lee” (1968) [Country Pop]
Peggy Lee - “Is That All There Is?” (1969) [Traditional Pop]
Dusty Springfield - “Dusty in Memphis” (1969) [Pop Soul]
 
Dionne Warwick - “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” (1970) [Pop Soul]
Carpenters - “Carpenters” (1971) [Baroque Pop]
Bette Midler - “The Divine Miss M” (1972) [Pop]
Cher - “Dark Lady” (1974) [Pop]
Dolly Parton - “Jolene” (1974) [Country Pop]
Minnie Riperton - “Perfect Angel” (1974) [Pop Soul]
Janis Ian - “Between the Lines” (1975) [Folk Pop]
Joni Mitchell - “The Hissing of Summer Lawns” (1975) [Vocal Pop]
Fleetwood Mac - “Rumours” (1977) [Pop Rock]
Blondie - “Parallel Lines” (1978) [Pop Rock]
Rickie Lee Jones - “Rickie Lee Jones” (1979) [Jazz Pop]
 
Go-Go’s - “Beauty and the Beat” (1981) [Power Pop]
Yoko Ono - “Season of Glass” (1981) [Pop Rock]
Laurie Anderson - “Big Science” (1982) [Art Pop, Experimental, Electronic]
Cyndi Lauper - “She’s So Unusual” (1983) [Pop Rock]
Cocteau Twins - “Treasure” (1984) [Dream Pop]
Kate Bush - “Hounds of Love” (1985) [Art Pop, Progressive Pop]
Grace Jones - “Slave to the Rhythm” (1985) [Art Pop, Dance-Pop]
Janet Jackson - “Control” (1986) [Dance-Pop]
Sinéad O’Connor - “The Lion and the Cobra” (1987) [Art Pop, Pop Rock]
Suzanne Vega - “Solitude Standing” (1987) [Pop Rock]
Julee Cruise - “Floating Into the Night” (1989) [Ambient Pop, Dream Pop]
 
Mariah Carey - “Mariah Carey” (1990) [Pop]
Cranes - “Wings of Joy” (1991) [Dream Pop]
Annie Lennox - “Diva” (1992) [Sophisti-Pop]
Sade - “Love Deluxe” (1992) [Sophisti-Pop]
Slowdive - “Souvlaki” (1993) [Dream Pop, Shoegaze]
Everything but the Girl - “Amplified Heart” (1994) [Sophisti-Pop]
Milla - “The Divine Comedy” (1994) [Folk Pop, Art Pop]
Selena - “Amor Prohibido” (1994) [Latin Pop]
TLC - “CrazySexyCool” (1994) [Contemporary R&B]
That Dog. - “Totally Crushed Out!” (1995) [Power Pop]
Ani DiFranco - “Dilate” (1996) [Jazz Pop]
Donna Lewis - “Now in a Minute” (1996) [Pop]
Mazzy Star - “Among My Swan” (1996) [Dream Pop]
Spice Girls - “Spice” (1996) [Dance-Pop]
Missy Elliott - “Supa Dupa Fly” (1997) [Pop Rap]
Shania Twain - “Come On Over” (1997) [Country Pop]
Tori Amos - “From the Choirgirl Hotel” (1998) [Art Pop]
Lauryn Hill - “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” (1998) [Contemporary R&B]
Madonna - “Ray of Light” (1998) [Art Pop]
Dido - “No Angel” (1999) [Pop]
Kelis - “Kaleidoscope” (1999) [Contemporary R&B]
 
Poe - “Haunted” (2000) [Pop Rock]
Aaliyah - “Aaliyah” (2001) [Contemporary R&B]
Björk - “Vespertine” (2001) [Art Pop, Electronic]
Lily Chou-Chou - “Kokyuu” (2001) [Dream Pop]
Kylie - “Fever” (2001) [Dance-Pop]
Norah Jones - “Come Away with Me” (2002) [Jazz Pop]
Avril Lavigne - “Let Go” (2002) [Pop Rock]
Jennifer Lopez - “This Is Me... Then” (2002) [Pop]
Goldfrapp - “Black Cherry” (2003) [Electropop]
Gwen Stefani - “Love.Angel.Music.Baby.” (2004) [Dance-Pop]
Antony and the Johnsons - “I Am a Bird Now” (2005) [Chamber Pop]
Nelly Furtado - “Loose” (2006) [Dance-Pop]
Charlotte Gainsbourg - “5:55” (2006) [Dream Pop, Art Pop]
Amy Winehouse - “Back to Black” (2006) [Pop Soul]
M.I.A. - “Kala” (2007) [Electropop]
Róisín Murphy - “Overpowered” (2007) [Electropop, Dance-Pop]
Britney Spears - “Blackout” (2007) [Dance-Pop]
Lykke Li - “Youth Novels” (2008) [Indie Pop, Art Pop]
Santogold - “Santogold” (2008) [Electropop]
St. Vincent - “Actor” (2009) [Art Pop]
 
Robyn - “Body Talk” (2010) [Electropop, Dance-Pop]
Sleigh Bells - “Treats” (2010) [Noise Pop]
Lady Gaga - “Born This Way” (2011) [Dance-Pop, Electropop]
Fiona Apple - “The Idler Wheel is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More That Ropes Will Ever Do” (2012) [Art Pop]
Grimes - “Visions” (2012) [Synthpop]
Sky Ferreira - “Night Time, My Time” (2013) [Synthpop, Noise Pop]
Haim - “Days Are Gone” (2013) [Pop Rock]
Lana Del Rey - “Ultraviolence” (2014) [Dream Pop, Art Pop]
Miley Cyrus - “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz” (2015) [Psychedelic Pop]
Julia Holter - “Have You in My Wilderness” (2015) [Art Pop, Chamber Pop]
Carly Rae Jepsen - “E-MO-TION” (2015) [Dance-Pop, Synthpop]
Lemon Meringue Die - “Nobody Wouldn’t See Good Things” (2015) [Noise Pop, Bedroom Pop]
Beyoncé - “Lemonade” (2016) [Contemporary R&B]
Katie Dey - “Flood Network” (2016) [Hypnagogic Pop]
Rihanna - “ANTI” (2016) [Contemporary R&B]
Solange - “A Seat at the Table” (2016) [Art Pop]
Kesha - “Rainbow” (2017) [Pop Rock]
Lorde - “Melodrama” (2017) [Synthpop, Art Pop]
Patricia Taxxon - “Paul” (2017) [Ambient Pop, Bedroom Pop]
Mitski - “Be the Cowboy” (2018) [Art Pop]
Janelle Monáe - “Dirty Computer” (2018) [Art Pop]
SOPHIE - “Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides” (2018) [Hyperpop]
FKA twigs - “Magdalene” (2019) [Art Pop, Glitch Pop]
Weyes Blood - “Titanic Rising” (2019) [Baroque Pop, Art Pop]
 
Charli XCX - “How I’m Feeling Now” (2020) [Electropop, Hyperpop]
Taylor Swift - “Folklore” (2020) [Folk Pop]
kendall :3 - “dirt” (2021) [Art Pop, Glitch Pop]
Magdalena Bay - “Mercurial World” (2021) [Synthpop]

Also, I guess, my favorites, but I extended a lot of my considerations/choices here on the idea you pretty much don't waste your time listening to any of them! To keep it varied, I had a one album per artist/band rule. Most of these artists have made many other albums I've loved, but I've settled on these as my favorites, I guess. When it came to defending 'pop', it was too much of a pseudo intellectual headache, so I just went to RateYourMusic.com and used whatever they labeled as pop. lol Their genres are here, so please don't @ me with those, and sorry for being all presumptive beforehand. 
 
(I'll eventually edit Spotify links in here, I just spent so much doing this already that I'm gonna rest a bit lol)
 
Billie Holiday - “Billie Holiday” (1947) [Traditional Pop]
 
Judy Garland - “Alone” (1957) [Traditional Pop]
 
Lesley Gore - “I’ll Cry If I Want To” (1960) [Teen Pop]
The Supremes - “Where Did Our Love Go” (1964) [Girl Group, Pop Soul]
The Shangri-Las - “Shangri-Las-65!” (1965) [Girl Group]
Laura Nyro - “Eli and the Thirteenth Confession” (1968) [Pop Soul, Progressive Pop]
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - “Nancy & Lee” (1968) [Country Pop]
Peggy Lee - “Is That All There Is?” (1969) [Traditional Pop]
Dusty Springfield - “Dusty in Memphis” (1969) [Pop Soul]
 
Dionne Warwick - “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” (1970) [Pop Soul]
Carpenters - “Carpenters” (1971) [Baroque Pop]
Bette Midler - “The Divine Miss M” (1972) [Pop]
Cher - “Dark Lady” (1974) [Pop]
Dolly Parton - “Jolene” (1974) [Country Pop]
Minnie Riperton - “Perfect Angel” (1974) [Pop Soul]
Janis Ian - “Between the Lines” (1975) [Folk Pop]
Joni Mitchell - “The Hissing of Summer Lawns” (1975) [Vocal Pop]
Fleetwood Mac - “Rumours” (1977) [Pop Rock]
Blondie - “Parallel Lines” (1978) [Pop Rock]
Rickie Lee Jones - “Rickie Lee Jones” (1979) [Jazz Pop]
 
Go-Go’s - “Beauty and the Beat” (1981) [Power Pop]
Yoko Ono - “Season of Glass” (1981) [Pop Rock]
Laurie Anderson - “Big Science” (1982) [Art Pop, Experimental, Electronic]
Cyndi Lauper - “She’s So Unusual” (1983) [Pop Rock]
Cocteau Twins - “Treasure” (1984) [Dream Pop]
Kate Bush - “Hounds of Love” (1985) [Art Pop, Progressive Pop]
Grace Jones - “Slave to the Rhythm” (1985) [Art Pop, Dance-Pop]
Janet Jackson - “Control” (1986) [Dance-Pop]
Sinéad O’Connor - “The Lion and the Cobra” (1987) [Art Pop, Pop Rock]
Suzanne Vega - “Solitude Standing” (1987) [Pop Rock]
Julee Cruise - “Floating Into the Night” (1989) [Ambient Pop, Dream Pop]
 
Mariah Carey - “Mariah Carey” (1990) [Pop]
Cranes - “Wings of Joy” (1991) [Dream Pop]
Annie Lennox - “Diva” (1992) [Sophisti-Pop]
Sade - “Love Deluxe” (1992) [Sophisti-Pop]
Slowdive - “Souvlaki” (1993) [Dream Pop, Shoegaze]
Everything but the Girl - “Amplified Heart” (1994) [Sophisti-Pop]
Milla - “The Divine Comedy” (1994) [Folk Pop, Art Pop]
Selena - “Amor Prohibido” (1994) [Latin Pop]
TLC - “CrazySexyCool” (1994) [Contemporary R&B]
That Dog. - “Totally Crushed Out!” (1995) [Power Pop]
Ani DiFranco - “Dilate” (1996) [Jazz Pop]
Donna Lewis - “Now in a Minute” (1996) [Pop]
Mazzy Star - “Among My Swan” (1996) [Dream Pop]
Spice Girls - “Spice” (1996) [Dance-Pop]
Missy Elliott - “Supa Dupa Fly” (1997) [Pop Rap]
Shania Twain - “Come On Over” (1997) [Country Pop]
Tori Amos - “From the Choirgirl Hotel” (1998) [Art Pop]
Lauryn Hill - “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” (1998) [Contemporary R&B]
Madonna - “Ray of Light” (1998) [Art Pop]
Dido - “No Angel” (1999) [Pop]
Kelis - “Kaleidoscope” (1999) [Contemporary R&B]
 
Poe - “Haunted” (2000) [Pop Rock]
Aaliyah - “Aaliyah” (2001) [Contemporary R&B]
Björk - “Vespertine” (2001) [Art Pop, Electronic]
Lily Chou-Chou - “Kokyuu” (2001) [Dream Pop]
Kylie - “Fever” (2001) [Dance-Pop]
Norah Jones - “Come Away with Me” (2002) [Jazz Pop]
Avril Lavigne - “Let Go” (2002) [Pop Rock]
Jennifer Lopez - “This Is Me... Then” (2002) [Pop]
Goldfrapp - “Black Cherry” (2003) [Electropop]
Gwen Stefani - “Love.Angel.Music.Baby.” (2004) [Dance-Pop]
Antony and the Johnsons - “I Am a Bird Now” (2005) [Chamber Pop]
Nelly Furtado - “Loose” (2006) [Dance-Pop]
Charlotte Gainsbourg - “5:55” (2006) [Dream Pop, Art Pop]
Amy Winehouse - “Back to Black” (2006) [Pop Soul]
M.I.A. - “Kala” (2007) [Electropop]
Róisín Murphy - “Overpowered” (2007) [Electropop, Dance-Pop]
Britney Spears - “Blackout” (2007) [Dance-Pop]
Lykke Li - “Youth Novels” (2008) [Indie Pop, Art Pop]
Santogold - “Santogold” (2008) [Electropop]
St. Vincent - “Actor” (2009) [Art Pop]
 
Robyn - “Body Talk” (2010) [Electropop, Dance-Pop]
Sleigh Bells - “Treats” (2010) [Noise Pop]
Lady Gaga - “Born This Way” (2011) [Dance-Pop, Electropop]
Fiona Apple - “The Idler Wheel is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More That Ropes Will Ever Do” (2012) [Art Pop]
Grimes - “Visions” (2012) [Synthpop]
Sky Ferreira - “Night Time, My Time” (2013) [Synthpop, Noise Pop]
Haim - “Days Are Gone” (2013) [Pop Rock]
Lana Del Rey - “Ultraviolence” (2014) [Dream Pop, Art Pop]
Miley Cyrus - “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz” (2015) [Psychedelic Pop]
Julia Holter - “Have You in My Wilderness” (2015) [Art Pop, Chamber Pop]
Carly Rae Jepsen - “E-MO-TION” (2015) [Dance-Pop, Synthpop]
Lemon Meringue Die - “Nobody Wouldn’t See Good Things” (2015) [Noise Pop, Bedroom Pop]
Beyoncé - “Lemonade” (2016) [Contemporary R&B]
Katie Dey - “Flood Network” (2016) [Hypnagogic Pop]
Rihanna - “ANTI” (2016) [Contemporary R&B]
Solange - “A Seat at the Table” (2016) [Art Pop]
Kesha - “Rainbow” (2017) [Pop Rock]
Lorde - “Melodrama” (2017) [Synthpop, Art Pop]
Patricia Taxxon - “Paul” (2017) [Ambient Pop, Bedroom Pop]
Mitski - “Be the Cowboy” (2018) [Art Pop]
Janelle Monáe - “Dirty Computer” (2018) [Art Pop]
SOPHIE - “Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides” (2018) [Hyperpop]
FKA twigs - “Magdalene” (2019) [Art Pop, Glitch Pop]
Weyes Blood - “Titanic Rising” (2019) [Baroque Pop, Art Pop]
 
Charli XCX - “How I’m Feeling Now” (2020) [Electropop, Hyperpop]
Taylor Swift - “Folklore” (2020) [Folk Pop]
kendall :3 - “dirt” (2021) [Art Pop, Glitch Pop]
Magdalena Bay - “Mercurial World” (2021) [Synthpop]

nancy & lee, cocteau twins, slowdive, lana, blackout, and love angel music baby ugh the best there ever was 

I love these albums

Also, I guess, my favorites, but I extended a lot of my considerations/choices here on the idea you pretty much don't waste your time listening to any of them! To keep it varied, I had a one album per artist/band rule. Most of these artists have made many other albums I've loved, but I've settled on these as my favorites, I guess. When it came to defending 'pop', it was too much of a pseudo intellectual headache, so I just went to RateYourMusic.com and used whatever they labeled as pop. lol Their genres are here, so please don't @ me with those, and sorry for being all presumptive beforehand. 
 
(I'll eventually edit Spotify links in here, I just spent so much doing this already that I'm gonna rest a bit lol)
 
Billie Holiday - “Billie Holiday” (1947) [Traditional Pop]
 
Judy Garland - “Alone” (1957) [Traditional Pop]
 
Lesley Gore - “I’ll Cry If I Want To” (1960) [Teen Pop]
The Supremes - “Where Did Our Love Go” (1964) [Girl Group, Pop Soul]
The Shangri-Las - “Shangri-Las-65!” (1965) [Girl Group]
Laura Nyro - “Eli and the Thirteenth Confession” (1968) [Pop Soul, Progressive Pop]
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - “Nancy & Lee” (1968) [Country Pop]
Peggy Lee - “Is That All There Is?” (1969) [Traditional Pop]
Dusty Springfield - “Dusty in Memphis” (1969) [Pop Soul]
 
Dionne Warwick - “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” (1970) [Pop Soul]
Carpenters - “Carpenters” (1971) [Baroque Pop]
Bette Midler - “The Divine Miss M” (1972) [Pop]
Cher - “Dark Lady” (1974) [Pop]
Dolly Parton - “Jolene” (1974) [Country Pop]
Minnie Riperton - “Perfect Angel” (1974) [Pop Soul]
Janis Ian - “Between the Lines” (1975) [Folk Pop]
Joni Mitchell - “The Hissing of Summer Lawns” (1975) [Vocal Pop]
Fleetwood Mac - “Rumours” (1977) [Pop Rock]
Blondie - “Parallel Lines” (1978) [Pop Rock]
Rickie Lee Jones - “Rickie Lee Jones” (1979) [Jazz Pop]
 
Go-Go’s - “Beauty and the Beat” (1981) [Power Pop]
Yoko Ono - “Season of Glass” (1981) [Pop Rock]
Laurie Anderson - “Big Science” (1982) [Art Pop, Experimental, Electronic]
Cyndi Lauper - “She’s So Unusual” (1983) [Pop Rock]
Cocteau Twins - “Treasure” (1984) [Dream Pop]
Kate Bush - “Hounds of Love” (1985) [Art Pop, Progressive Pop]
Grace Jones - “Slave to the Rhythm” (1985) [Art Pop, Dance-Pop]
Janet Jackson - “Control” (1986) [Dance-Pop]
Sinéad O’Connor - “The Lion and the Cobra” (1987) [Art Pop, Pop Rock]
Suzanne Vega - “Solitude Standing” (1987) [Pop Rock]
Julee Cruise - “Floating Into the Night” (1989) [Ambient Pop, Dream Pop]
 
Mariah Carey - “Mariah Carey” (1990) [Pop]
Cranes - “Wings of Joy” (1991) [Dream Pop]
Annie Lennox - “Diva” (1992) [Sophisti-Pop]
Sade - “Love Deluxe” (1992) [Sophisti-Pop]
Slowdive - “Souvlaki” (1993) [Dream Pop, Shoegaze]
Everything but the Girl - “Amplified Heart” (1994) [Sophisti-Pop]
Milla - “The Divine Comedy” (1994) [Folk Pop, Art Pop]
Selena - “Amor Prohibido” (1994) [Latin Pop]
TLC - “CrazySexyCool” (1994) [Contemporary R&B]
That Dog. - “Totally Crushed Out!” (1995) [Power Pop]
Ani DiFranco - “Dilate” (1996) [Jazz Pop]
Donna Lewis - “Now in a Minute” (1996) [Pop]
Mazzy Star - “Among My Swan” (1996) [Dream Pop]
Spice Girls - “Spice” (1996) [Dance-Pop]
Missy Elliott - “Supa Dupa Fly” (1997) [Pop Rap]
Shania Twain - “Come On Over” (1997) [Country Pop]
Tori Amos - “From the Choirgirl Hotel” (1998) [Art Pop]
Lauryn Hill - “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” (1998) [Contemporary R&B]
Madonna - “Ray of Light” (1998) [Art Pop]
Dido - “No Angel” (1999) [Pop]
Kelis - “Kaleidoscope” (1999) [Contemporary R&B]
 
Poe - “Haunted” (2000) [Pop Rock]
Aaliyah - “Aaliyah” (2001) [Contemporary R&B]
Björk - “Vespertine” (2001) [Art Pop, Electronic]
Lily Chou-Chou - “Kokyuu” (2001) [Dream Pop]
Kylie - “Fever” (2001) [Dance-Pop]
Norah Jones - “Come Away with Me” (2002) [Jazz Pop]
Avril Lavigne - “Let Go” (2002) [Pop Rock]
Jennifer Lopez - “This Is Me... Then” (2002) [Pop]
Goldfrapp - “Black Cherry” (2003) [Electropop]
Gwen Stefani - “Love.Angel.Music.Baby.” (2004) [Dance-Pop]
Antony and the Johnsons - “I Am a Bird Now” (2005) [Chamber Pop]
Nelly Furtado - “Loose” (2006) [Dance-Pop]
Charlotte Gainsbourg - “5:55” (2006) [Dream Pop, Art Pop]
Amy Winehouse - “Back to Black” (2006) [Pop Soul]
M.I.A. - “Kala” (2007) [Electropop]
Róisín Murphy - “Overpowered” (2007) [Electropop, Dance-Pop]
Britney Spears - “Blackout” (2007) [Dance-Pop]
Lykke Li - “Youth Novels” (2008) [Indie Pop, Art Pop]
Santogold - “Santogold” (2008) [Electropop]
St. Vincent - “Actor” (2009) [Art Pop]
 
Robyn - “Body Talk” (2010) [Electropop, Dance-Pop]
Sleigh Bells - “Treats” (2010) [Noise Pop]
Lady Gaga - “Born This Way” (2011) [Dance-Pop, Electropop]
Fiona Apple - “The Idler Wheel is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More That Ropes Will Ever Do” (2012) [Art Pop]
Grimes - “Visions” (2012) [Synthpop]
Sky Ferreira - “Night Time, My Time” (2013) [Synthpop, Noise Pop]
Haim - “Days Are Gone” (2013) [Pop Rock]
Lana Del Rey - “Ultraviolence” (2014) [Dream Pop, Art Pop]
Miley Cyrus - “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz” (2015) [Psychedelic Pop]
Julia Holter - “Have You in My Wilderness” (2015) [Art Pop, Chamber Pop]
Carly Rae Jepsen - “E-MO-TION” (2015) [Dance-Pop, Synthpop]
Lemon Meringue Die - “Nobody Wouldn’t See Good Things” (2015) [Noise Pop, Bedroom Pop]
Beyoncé - “Lemonade” (2016) [Contemporary R&B]
Katie Dey - “Flood Network” (2016) [Hypnagogic Pop]
Rihanna - “ANTI” (2016) [Contemporary R&B]
Solange - “A Seat at the Table” (2016) [Art Pop]
Kesha - “Rainbow” (2017) [Pop Rock]
Lorde - “Melodrama” (2017) [Synthpop, Art Pop]
Patricia Taxxon - “Paul” (2017) [Ambient Pop, Bedroom Pop]
Mitski - “Be the Cowboy” (2018) [Art Pop]
Janelle Monáe - “Dirty Computer” (2018) [Art Pop]
SOPHIE - “Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides” (2018) [Hyperpop]
FKA twigs - “Magdalene” (2019) [Art Pop, Glitch Pop]
Weyes Blood - “Titanic Rising” (2019) [Baroque Pop, Art Pop]
 
Charli XCX - “How I’m Feeling Now” (2020) [Electropop, Hyperpop]
Taylor Swift - “Folklore” (2020) [Folk Pop]
kendall :3 - “dirt” (2021) [Art Pop, Glitch Pop]
Magdalena Bay - “Mercurial World” (2021) [Synthpop]

Also, I guess, my favorites, but I extended a lot of my considerations/choices here on the idea you pretty much don't waste your time listening to any of them! To keep it varied, I had a one album per artist/band rule. Most of these artists have made many other albums I've loved, but I've settled on these as my favorites, I guess. When it came to defending 'pop', it was too much of a pseudo intellectual headache, so I just went to RateYourMusic.com and used whatever they labeled as pop. lol Their genres are here, so please don't @ me with those, and sorry for being all presumptive beforehand. 
 
(I'll eventually edit Spotify links in here, I just spent so much doing this already that I'm gonna rest a bit lol)
 
Billie Holiday - “Billie Holiday” (1947) [Traditional Pop]
 
Judy Garland - “Alone” (1957) [Traditional Pop]
 
Lesley Gore - “I’ll Cry If I Want To” (1960) [Teen Pop]
The Supremes - “Where Did Our Love Go” (1964) [Girl Group, Pop Soul]
The Shangri-Las - “Shangri-Las-65!” (1965) [Girl Group]
Laura Nyro - “Eli and the Thirteenth Confession” (1968) [Pop Soul, Progressive Pop]
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - “Nancy & Lee” (1968) [Country Pop]
Peggy Lee - “Is That All There Is?” (1969) [Traditional Pop]
Dusty Springfield - “Dusty in Memphis” (1969) [Pop Soul]
 
Dionne Warwick - “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” (1970) [Pop Soul]
Carpenters - “Carpenters” (1971) [Baroque Pop]
Bette Midler - “The Divine Miss M” (1972) [Pop]
Cher - “Dark Lady” (1974) [Pop]
Dolly Parton - “Jolene” (1974) [Country Pop]
Minnie Riperton - “Perfect Angel” (1974) [Pop Soul]
Janis Ian - “Between the Lines” (1975) [Folk Pop]
Joni Mitchell - “The Hissing of Summer Lawns” (1975) [Vocal Pop]
Fleetwood Mac - “Rumours” (1977) [Pop Rock]
Blondie - “Parallel Lines” (1978) [Pop Rock]
Rickie Lee Jones - “Rickie Lee Jones” (1979) [Jazz Pop]
 
Go-Go’s - “Beauty and the Beat” (1981) [Power Pop]
Yoko Ono - “Season of Glass” (1981) [Pop Rock]
Laurie Anderson - “Big Science” (1982) [Art Pop, Experimental, Electronic]
Cyndi Lauper - “She’s So Unusual” (1983) [Pop Rock]
Cocteau Twins - “Treasure” (1984) [Dream Pop]
Kate Bush - “Hounds of Love” (1985) [Art Pop, Progressive Pop]
Grace Jones - “Slave to the Rhythm” (1985) [Art Pop, Dance-Pop]
Janet Jackson - “Control” (1986) [Dance-Pop]
Sinéad O’Connor - “The Lion and the Cobra” (1987) [Art Pop, Pop Rock]
Suzanne Vega - “Solitude Standing” (1987) [Pop Rock]
Julee Cruise - “Floating Into the Night” (1989) [Ambient Pop, Dream Pop]
 
Mariah Carey - “Mariah Carey” (1990) [Pop]
Cranes - “Wings of Joy” (1991) [Dream Pop]
Annie Lennox - “Diva” (1992) [Sophisti-Pop]
Sade - “Love Deluxe” (1992) [Sophisti-Pop]
Slowdive - “Souvlaki” (1993) [Dream Pop, Shoegaze]
Everything but the Girl - “Amplified Heart” (1994) [Sophisti-Pop]
Milla - “The Divine Comedy” (1994) [Folk Pop, Art Pop]
Selena - “Amor Prohibido” (1994) [Latin Pop]
TLC - “CrazySexyCool” (1994) [Contemporary R&B]
That Dog. - “Totally Crushed Out!” (1995) [Power Pop]
Ani DiFranco - “Dilate” (1996) [Jazz Pop]
Donna Lewis - “Now in a Minute” (1996) [Pop]
Mazzy Star - “Among My Swan” (1996) [Dream Pop]
Spice Girls - “Spice” (1996) [Dance-Pop]
Missy Elliott - “Supa Dupa Fly” (1997) [Pop Rap]
Shania Twain - “Come On Over” (1997) [Country Pop]
Tori Amos - “From the Choirgirl Hotel” (1998) [Art Pop]
Lauryn Hill - “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” (1998) [Contemporary R&B]
Madonna - “Ray of Light” (1998) [Art Pop]
Dido - “No Angel” (1999) [Pop]
Kelis - “Kaleidoscope” (1999) [Contemporary R&B]
 
Poe - “Haunted” (2000) [Pop Rock]
Aaliyah - “Aaliyah” (2001) [Contemporary R&B]
Björk - “Vespertine” (2001) [Art Pop, Electronic]
Lily Chou-Chou - “Kokyuu” (2001) [Dream Pop]
Kylie - “Fever” (2001) [Dance-Pop]
Norah Jones - “Come Away with Me” (2002) [Jazz Pop]
Avril Lavigne - “Let Go” (2002) [Pop Rock]
Jennifer Lopez - “This Is Me... Then” (2002) [Pop]
Goldfrapp - “Black Cherry” (2003) [Electropop]
Gwen Stefani - “Love.Angel.Music.Baby.” (2004) [Dance-Pop]
Antony and the Johnsons - “I Am a Bird Now” (2005) [Chamber Pop]
Nelly Furtado - “Loose” (2006) [Dance-Pop]
Charlotte Gainsbourg - “5:55” (2006) [Dream Pop, Art Pop]
Amy Winehouse - “Back to Black” (2006) [Pop Soul]
M.I.A. - “Kala” (2007) [Electropop]
Róisín Murphy - “Overpowered” (2007) [Electropop, Dance-Pop]
Britney Spears - “Blackout” (2007) [Dance-Pop]
Lykke Li - “Youth Novels” (2008) [Indie Pop, Art Pop]
Santogold - “Santogold” (2008) [Electropop]
St. Vincent - “Actor” (2009) [Art Pop]
 
Robyn - “Body Talk” (2010) [Electropop, Dance-Pop]
Sleigh Bells - “Treats” (2010) [Noise Pop]
Lady Gaga - “Born This Way” (2011) [Dance-Pop, Electropop]
Fiona Apple - “The Idler Wheel is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More That Ropes Will Ever Do” (2012) [Art Pop]
Grimes - “Visions” (2012) [Synthpop]
Sky Ferreira - “Night Time, My Time” (2013) [Synthpop, Noise Pop]
Haim - “Days Are Gone” (2013) [Pop Rock]
Lana Del Rey - “Ultraviolence” (2014) [Dream Pop, Art Pop]
Miley Cyrus - “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz” (2015) [Psychedelic Pop]
Julia Holter - “Have You in My Wilderness” (2015) [Art Pop, Chamber Pop]
Carly Rae Jepsen - “E-MO-TION” (2015) [Dance-Pop, Synthpop]
Lemon Meringue Die - “Nobody Wouldn’t See Good Things” (2015) [Noise Pop, Bedroom Pop]
Beyoncé - “Lemonade” (2016) [Contemporary R&B]
Katie Dey - “Flood Network” (2016) [Hypnagogic Pop]
Rihanna - “ANTI” (2016) [Contemporary R&B]
Solange - “A Seat at the Table” (2016) [Art Pop]
Kesha - “Rainbow” (2017) [Pop Rock]
Lorde - “Melodrama” (2017) [Synthpop, Art Pop]
Patricia Taxxon - “Paul” (2017) [Ambient Pop, Bedroom Pop]
Mitski - “Be the Cowboy” (2018) [Art Pop]
Janelle Monáe - “Dirty Computer” (2018) [Art Pop]
SOPHIE - “Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides” (2018) [Hyperpop]
FKA twigs - “Magdalene” (2019) [Art Pop, Glitch Pop]
Weyes Blood - “Titanic Rising” (2019) [Baroque Pop, Art Pop]
 
Charli XCX - “How I’m Feeling Now” (2020) [Electropop, Hyperpop]
Taylor Swift - “Folklore” (2020) [Folk Pop]
kendall :3 - “dirt” (2021) [Art Pop, Glitch Pop]
Magdalena Bay - “Mercurial World” (2021) [Synthpop]

So, after doing around 130 songs throughout 2021, the time of year came to make my official compilation, which I guess constitute better "official albums" than my overwhelming workaholic projects I do throughout any year. 
 

 
This is Same as It Ever Was, a total of 14 tracks recorded from December 2020 to December 2021. What a weird year. Personally, it's been rough. Rough enough for long conversations of saddest of sad things with so many people around me, including loved ones who normally exude such beauty. Don't get me wrong, all the people are amazing, but it's hard not to feel like... a little melodramatic in order to cope with it. I've long been interested in themes of collapse of all varieties, and especially am open with my mental health and experiences within my songwriting, but this is the year where everybody viscerally feels about the same way. So, with that in mind, I decided 2021's mood was somber, bittersweet, content, but really fucking miserable and practically grieving over the future. 
 
It's a mixture of electronic and sound collage, but through a pop structure. Not really aiming at bops, so I'm sorry about that - but I hope you can experience a painted picture of my past year; it's highs and lows, but mostly being high out of my fucking mind, and bummed out. 
 
Share it with the world! <3
 
https://littleboyvelvet.bandcamp.com/album/same-as-it-ever-was-compilation
 
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And here's last year's compilation if you are at all interested: https://littleboyvelvet.bandcamp.com/album/2020-compilation