Hello and welcome to the Pitchfork Review.

I'm Pooja Patel, the editor-in-chief, and we're here to talk about predictions for the year that is 2023.

With me is Reviews Editor Jeremy Larson and features editor Ryan Dobble.

Hey, Puja.

What's up?

Hello.

What's up?

It's a new year and the world is our oyster.

So this show is going to be about predictions.

The albums that have been teased, the songs that have come out, the rumors that we want to be true.

And then, you know, just some wild guesses about what might come

and what we really, really, really want to come.

I mean, I feel like every single year we're like, hey, maybe that Rihanna album will come out.

Or, hey, this is the year Frank Ocean doesn't drop a jewelry line and does drop an

album can we talk about my favorite Caroline Polichick a person that I am deeply obsessed with

or just like completely fascinated by.

What broadly are you fascinated by?

Okay.

For one, I think that she is part of this class of like, I know that this will sound lightly condescending, but it's not meant to sound condescending to preface this.

But she's kind of like an aspirational girlie pop

utter. And that is just something I'm immediately drawn to. Like, we know that she's in the ether

of Charlie XEX. We know that she's in the ether of Christine and the Queens. She's friendly

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