Was it just me or was 2021 full of A LOT of feelings? The Pisces in me jumped out, and I found myself heavily confiding in music for a lot of my strength and reassurance, more so than I had in the past. But it also seemed like artists were opening up even more in-depthly with honest reflections of love, loss, mental health, gender, sexuality, and coming of age struggles.
2021 may have been a year of personal struggles, but we never felt alone thanks to the candid transparency of artists, and the playful bangers along the way that made us dance and smile. And to celebrate the year that was, here is the ThomasBleach.com’s top 40 songs of the year. Check them out BELOW;
40. Halsey – I am not a woman, I’m a god
Fave Lyric: “Every day I’ve got a smile where my frown goes”
39. Flowerkid – vodka orange juice
Fave Lyric: “I didn’t sign up for this life but i’m doing the best that I can“
38. Cate – Stupid
Fave Lyric: “And 99 percent of the time, I don’t miss you and I swear I’m doing alright”
37. Jessica Mauboy – Glow
Fave Lyric: “Can you just let me glow? I wanna do this alone. Let me be the one that I need to be to grow”
36. Lorde – Mood Ring
Fave Lyric: “Don’t you think the early 2000s seem so far away?”
35. MUNA feat. Phoebe Bridgers – Silk Chiffon
Fave Lyric: “Watch her silk dress dancing in the wind. Watch it brush against her skin. Makes me wanna try her on”
34. Cat & Calmell – Dramatic
Fave Lyric: “Cover my mouth with your hands, try and silence me. I’ll scream out as loud as I can“
33. Genesis Owusu feat. Kirin J Callinan – Drown
Fave Lyric: “Everybody’s laughing and the jokes on you”
32. Katelyn Tarver – Hurt Like That
Fave Lyric: “You said you were in love, I hate that I believed you. Now I see what it was. You just wanted someone to make you feel like someone new”
31. Tkay Maidza feat. Yung Baby Tate – Kim
Fave Lyric: “Anything’s possible, go ask your mans. I saw him naked and ghosted him since”
30. Muki – I Make Boys Cry
Fave Lyric: “I make boys cry, I’m so good at goodbyes”
29. The Weeknd – Save Your Tears
Fave Lyric: “You look so happy when I’m not with you. But then you saw me, caught you by surprise. A single teardrop falling from your eye”
28. ELIO – Charger
Fave Lyric: “Don’t wanna be put back, back in a moment where I’d wanna change my own mind”
27. Montaigne – Technicolour
Fave Lyric: “If we stand together we can do whatever”.
26. Iggy Azalea – Iam The Stripclub
Fave Lyric: “Don’t want your love, don’t want your problems. Just need all of, all of your dollars”
25. Orla Gartland – You’re Not Special, Babe
Fave Lyric: “Everyone fucks up and then breaks up and then makes up. Everyone has days where they don’t wanna wake up. Everyone loves, everyone loses and they’re on their own”
24. HANNI – Talking To Myself In The Mirror
Fave Lyric: ““I need silent from myself. I’m just afraid to ask for help“
23. girl in red – Serotonin
Fave Lyric: “I’m running low on serotonin. Chemical imbalance got me twisting things”
22. Odette – Amends
Fave Lyric: “I don’t want to rush. I need to take my time. I want to learn to love myself again, right now, tonight“
21. The Jungle Giants – Love Signs
Fave Lyric: “Are you sendin’ out your love signs? Cause I’m pickin’ up your love signs”
20. Sarah Saint James – Mad At God
Fave Lyric: “I’m mad at god cause if he exists why do I still feel like this?”
19. Holy Holy – How You Been
Fave Lyric: “How you been since you broke your heart? Were you waiting for your blood to run again?”
18. Mothica – Buzzkill
Fave Lyric: “I don’t talk about it unless I make a joke about it”
17. Peach PRC – Josh
Fave Lyric: “I thought you wеre blocked. Fuck off, stop calling me, Josh”
16. Urban Cone – Never Enough
Fave Lyric: “This feeling, never enough with you”
15. Olivia Rodrigo – Drivers License
Fave Lyric: “And I know we weren’t perfect but I’ve never felt this way for no one”
14. SZA – Good Days
Fave Lyric: “Still wanna try, still believe in good days”
13. Lil Nas X – MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME)
Fave Lyric: “Shoot a child in your mouth while I’m riding”
12. Peach PRC – Heavy
Fave Lyric: “‘Fix You’ is only pretty when it’s sung by Coldplay”
11. UPSAHL – Time Of My Life
Fave Lyric: “So how come all the worst days are in the time of my life”
10. Chelsea Cutler – Walking Away
Fave Lyric: “You look at me and I look at you, like one of us might know what else to do”
9. Neiked feat. Mae Muller & Polo G – Better Days
Fave Lyric: “All I do is sit around and wait for better days”
8. Maisie Peters – Psycho
Fave Lyric: “Playing a perfect Patrick Bateman. Put blame on anyone but you”
7. Sigrid – Mirror
Fave Lyric: “I needed loneliness to know there’s nothing that I can’t turn into confidence”
6. Doja Cat feat. SZA – Kiss Me More
Fave Lyric: “I feel like fuckin’ somethin”
5. Justin Bieber – Anyone
Fave Lyric: “If it’s not you, it’s not anyone”
4. The Kid Laroi feat. Justin Bieber – STAY
Fave Lyric: “I do the same thing I told you that I never would”
3. Olivia Rodrigo – Good 4 U
Fave Lyric: “Well, good for you, you look happy and healthy. Not me, if you ever cared to ask“
2. Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever
Fave Lyric: “I don’t relate to you, no. Cause I’d never treat me this shitty. You make me hate this city”
1. Julia Michaels – All Your Exes
Fave lyric: “There’s a spot on your chest just for me, it’s personally addressed. And anyone there before me should be a criminal offence”