{"id":803236,"date":"2020-01-20T08:15:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=938555"},"modified":"2020-01-20T08:15:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T15:15:49","slug":"what-were-the-best-songs-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/what-were-the-best-songs-of-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"What Were the Best Songs of 2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/podcast-year-in-music.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Welcome to 2020\u2019s hottest new trend: nostalgia for 2019. In the new episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rolling-stone-music-now\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rolling-stone-music-now\" data-tag=\"rolling-stone-music-now\">Rolling Stone Music Now<\/a>, Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos join host Brian Hiatt for an in-depth look at last year\u2019s music, mostly through the prism of its best songs, from Megan Thee Stallion\u2019s \u201cCash Shit\u201d (with DaBaby) to Mannequin Pussy\u2019s \u201cDrunk II\u201d to Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u201cWestern Stars\u201d to Solange\u2019s \u201cAlmeda.\u201d The panel also examines the year\u2019s trends, including the auspicious, out-of-nowhere arrivals of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billie-eilish\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billie-eilish\" data-tag=\"billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lil-nas-x\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lil-nas-x\" data-tag=\"lil-nas-x\">Lil Nas X<\/a>, and touch on the triumphs of Taylor Swift and Harry Styles, the enduring brilliance of Jenny Lewis, and, of course, the rise of Lizzo.<\/p>\n<p>To hear the entire discussion, press play below or download and subscribe on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/rolling-stone-music-now\/id1078431985?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">iTunes<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0jCfnXfdYhwIM2I4x7SxZx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spotify.<\/a><\/p>\n<h5> <\/h5>\n<p>Download and subscribe to our weekly podcast,&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone Music Now<\/em>, hosted by Brian Hiatt, on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/rolling-stone-music-now\/id1078431985?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">iTunes<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0jCfnXfdYhwIM2I4x7SxZx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>&nbsp;(or wherever you get your podcasts), and check out two years worth of episodes in the archive, including in-depth, career-spanning interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Halsey, Ice Cube, Neil Young, the National, Questlove, Julian Casablancas, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Marr, Scott Weiland, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis Costello, Donald Fagen, Phil Collins, Alicia Keys, Stephen Malkmus, Sebastian Bach, Tom Petty, Kelly Clarkson, Pete Townshend, Bob Seger, the Zombies, Gary Clark Jr. and many more \u2014 plus dozens of episodes featuring genre-spanning discussions, debates and explainers with Rolling Stone\u2019s critics and reporters. Tune in every Friday at 1 p.m. ET to hear Rolling Stone Music Now broadcast live from SiriusXM\u2019s studios on Volume, channel 106.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/best-songs-2019-music-podcast-938555\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to 2020\u2019s hottest new trend: nostalgia for 2019. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos join host Brian Hiatt for an in-depth look at last year\u2019s music, mostly through the prism of its best songs, from Megan Thee Stallion\u2019s \u201cCash Shit\u201d (with DaBaby) to Mannequin Pussy\u2019s \u201cDrunk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-25 07:10:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}