Music Review Survey

By: Maiya Santiago

I surveyed some students on what their favorite music genre was and this chart was the results. Country coming on top as the number one favorite yee yee 🤠🤠 Pop and Alternative/Indie tieing, coming up as in second place. There was few votes for R&B and a few for Emo stuff and one vote for other.

Favorite artists 

In my survey, it was also asked if anyone had a favorite artist of 2018. These are the answers I received. 

Billie Eilish
Kenny Chesney 
Ariana Grande
Luke Combs
Jon Bellion 
Palaye Royale 
The 1975
The Frights 
Mac Miller
Twenty One Pilots Madison Pruitt
Chief Keef 
Beyonce 

Favorite Songs 

Wow - Post Malone: Basically just an ode to Post’s success. Not to say it’s a bad thing, he deserves to speak on the amount of adoration he has been receiving as of late. I’m not the biggest Post Malone fan, but even I can admit it’s catchy. 3/5

Shallow - Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper: From the movie, A Star Is Born, this ballad is about diving into “deep ends” and leaving the “shallow” areas behind. Honestly, a very pretty sounding song. Gaga delivers beautiful vocals, per usual. 4/5

Down to the honkytonk - Jake Owen: In this lil country tune, Owen’s shares with us that he doesn’t mind if he doesn’t end up in the Hall of Fame, he’ll just go down to the Honkytonk. Stating how fame hardly matters to him, as long as he sticks to his roots. I’m not a country gal, with that being said ⅕, he tried.

Imagine - Ariana Grande: Grande touches on the subject of denial in this romantic number, dreaming of a lowkey relationship with a wonderful person (straight out of a movie) filled with everything loving and beautiful. Can Ariana do no wrong? 4/5.

Beautiful Crazy - Luke Combs: Just another country boy. In this slow jam, Combs speaks on a love interest who is “drives him wild” who is on the crazy side, but no matter. It is beautiful to him. Again, I am not a fan of country, but this one was quite bearable and has a pretty sound. 2.5/5

Be my mistake - The 1975: A soft, slow ballad from pretty much the best band as of now (biased) Taking the time to think about guilt and being young and not knowing what to do with yourself. Leading to making many mistakes, which is perfectly okay, life is a learning process. Such a gorgeous delivery from a gorgeous group. 4.5/5.

Sicko Mode - Travis Scott and Drake: Definitely a popular song of 2019, this song has the rappers bragging about their strong work ethic. Showing the competition has nothing on them when they go “sicko mode” And please, let’s not forget to appreciate Swae Lee being the king of melodies in the background. ⅘.

Mrs.Infamous - Palaye Royale: Now time for a change of pace with this rock anthem. Palaye Royale discuss being almost infatuated with their “sweetness” vowing to always be around and to love them madly at all times. At first I didn’t know how I felt about this one, but i grew to really enjoy this. ⅘.

Drip too hard - Lil Baby ft Gunna: Another song bragging about success and wealth. Lil Baby tells us he’s been doing so many gigs and doesn’t care, as long as he’s getting paid. Okay i’ll admit, at first listen I wasn’t a fan, it sounded like any other song. Something changed and now it’s added to my playlist and has become something i listen to a lot. 4/5.

Chlorine - TOP: This one has a darker meaning, speaking on the struggle with anxiety/depression which the group compares with feeling like “sippin on straight chlorine.” Many also believe it could be about frontman Tyler Joseph's love/hate relationship with songwriting. Both could apply. A good song. ⅘.

Finer Thing - Polo G: Here Polo G reflects on his past of growing up in a rough environment and vowing to get a better life for him and his loved ones. Saying he has “God on his side, but it’s hard to do right.” I kind of like it. Sort of inspirational in a way, but not the best thing to ever come out of Chicago hip-hop. 3.5/5.

In god I trust - Kevin Gates: Gates tells us how he has rose above his past reputation and “in god his trust.” He has god on his side. It’s not the worst, it has a good message, even despite that. I’m not really a fan. Sorry. ⅖.

It’s not living (if it’s not with you) - The 1975: Yes. Just yes. A bop. The 1975 will never have a flop in my book. This song disguises itself as a love song, but is truly about lead singer Matty Healy’s struggle with addiction. It never fails to amaze me how open and genuine Matty can be with us about this difficult time in his life. I’ll probably never get sick of this song, bold statement i know. I doubt it’s a lie. 5/5.