aceGrief inspired so much of the year’s best music – and that’s something AI won’t ever feel
The most acclaimed albums of 2025 make for impressively eclectic listening. Surveying them does not reveal much in the way of obvious musical trends. There’s very little similarity between Rosalía’s heady classical approach to pop on Lux and Lily Allen’s conversational disclosures on West End Girl. You could broadly group CMAT’s Euro-Country, Bon Iver’s Sable, Fable and the Tubs’ Cotton Crown together as alternative rock but they don’t sound anything like each other. And the year’s best-of lists are sprinkled with
Grief inspired so much of the year’s best music, and that’s something AI won’t ever feel: There are straightforward explorations of failed relationships: for all its religious imagery, there’s a prosaic breakup at the heart of Rosalía’s Lux, while West End Girl’s lurid detailing of the collapse of Lily Allen’s marriage kept the tabloids in headlines for weeks.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2025-12-19
Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0079, v2: “Grief inspired so much of the year’s best music – and that’s something AI won’t ever feel.” Truvace, 2026-07-12. /record/TRV-2026-0079 (accessed at citation time). sha256 064a719ead24bece…
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