Hey, it's Michael. Today, our coverage of the year in arts and in culture continues with guest

host Melissa Kirsch speaking to Times critics, reporters, and editors. Take a lesson.

From the New York Times, this is the Daily. I'm Melissa Kirsch, deputy editor of Culture and Lifestyle.

As we close out 2024, I'm talking with my colleagues around the newsroom about what they watched and listened to and read this year.

About the things they loved and the things they didn't love.

Today, pop music critics John Perelis, John Caramanica, and Lindsay

Zolatz on the Year in Music. It's Friday, December 27th.

John, Lindsay, John, thanks for being here.

Hi.

Great to be here.

Thank you.

Okay, so we're going to take a little trip through the music of 2024, and I thought it would be good to start off with this song.

Donate moves and make him shock you like the fibroletters.

No style or calm relate.

I'll always be the one. Oh, draw down. Yeah. So this is 360 from Charlie XTX's album Brat.

Charlie XX was one of a bunch of young women who had huge moments in pop this year.

John Perelis, Brat was your number one album of

24. Tell us why. Because the music is wonderful, upbeat, electronic, crazy stuff going on in the

background, and also an artistic journey through an identity crisis. She was struggling as a artist in her 30s who wanted to be

bigger, but also wanted to have a life, but also should she have a baby, but also she really likes

to party. So it was very rich in text, subtext, meta text, and internet interaction. I like the music. I like the

attitude. I liked the whole idea of shaking up the culture. Lindsay, it wasn't just that people

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