Rolling Stone Names Taylor Swift's "Folklore" Best Album of 2020
From Taylor’s folk surprise to Bob Dylan’s best album in 20 years to cathartic country, indie-rock and pop releases, these great albums helped us power through a lonely year. Here are our 50 best albums of 2020 https://t.co/s6aiehBymI pic.twitter.com/Vf0EzFW6uQ
- Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) December 4, 2020
Rolling Stone has released its year-end list of 2020's best albums, crowning Taylor Swift's "Folklore" at #1. You can find their top 5 behind the cut, and visit the source directly for the full 50-item list:
5. Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
Rolling Stone says: "...Future Nostalgia was crucial for a year when these beats were as close to the club as fans could get. It’s a rush of uptempo dance glitz...'Baby, keep on dancing like you ain’t got a choice,' she commands in 'Physical,' and as long as Future Nostalgia keeps playing, you can’t even imagine slowing down.
4. Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Rolling Stone says: "Rough and Rowdy Ways is a lyrical tour-de-force, teeming with outrageous jokes ('My Own Version of You'), playful boasts ('I Contain Multitudes'), and irreverent tributes to the greats who came before him ('Goodbye Jimmy Reed')...Underneath it all, there’s a sense of melancholy that peaks on the sublime end-of-the-road ballad 'Key West.' Stunners in themselves, these songs add up to Dylan’s funniest, most surprising, and most multidimensional album since Love and Theft."
3. Bad Bunny - Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana
Rolling Stone says: "Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana is both more varied and more focused than Bad Bunny’s excellent 2018 debut album, X 100pre, with reckless stylistic shifts - the many-songs-in-one 'Safaera,' the hard-rock swerve on 'Hablamos Mañana' - next to some of his sharpest, most insistent hits...Bad Bunny released two more albums in 2020, but neither outdid YHLQMDLG‘s relentless firepower."
2. Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Rolling Stone says: "Fiona Apple has always thrived on defying expectations, from telling pop stans that the world was bullshit to taking years (and years) to perfect her alt-rock operettas. But no one could have expected the audacity of Fetch the Bolt Cutters, or the way Apple expresses her independent spirit over an orchestra of drums, percussion, barks, and meows....When she sings, 'Kick me under the table all you want, I won’t shut up,' on 'Under the Table,' she means it, because this is potential fulfilled."
1. Taylor Swift - Folklore
Rolling Stone says: "It’s not a stretch to say that Taylor Swift’s Folklore may go down in history as the definitive quarantine album, and not just because of the record’s homespun, folksy presentation...Regardless of what you think of the album’s 'indie' cred, with contributions from the National’s Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, Folklore’s 16 tales of lost love, coming-of-age, and redemption provided us with solace and catharsis just when we needed it most. Songs like 'August' and 'Mirrorball' will persevere long after this pandemic is over - and so, evidently, will Taylor Swift."
Edited to add Taylor responds in Swiftian fashion:
*cries in cottagecore*
*screams in soft lullabies*
*throws self to the base of a willow tree by a reflection pool at midnight*
Thanks @rollingstone
🥺🥰🙏 https://t.co/gLDp7yUUtp
- Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) December 4, 2020
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