The Useless Critic 2.0

IT'S DECEMBER! TIME FOR LISTS CHRONICLING THE BEST (AND WORST) OF 2018! ARE YOU READY FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY UNORIGINAL TO READ?! I KNOW I AM! Okay, now that we got the obvious out of the way - this is the Spotify playlist I'm using to curate the tunes I really enjoy this year. Hope you get a kick out of it, too.  I'll leave you with some Grimes. I saw a Tweet about how this is what happens when you date Elon Musk. It's 2018 and nothing makes sense anymore, welcome to the future.

Ellie Goulding, "Love Me Like You Do" / "Something in the Way You Move" I must admit it took me a few listens to realize how grand and majestic "Love Me Like You Do" is. The song is so tender and ethereal, but it's also brooding and has an underlying darkness to it. Plus I think it was a perfect fit for the scene in Fifty Shades of Grey where Christian takes Anastasia on a helicopter ride overlooking Seattle's night skyline (I actually enjoyed the movie, judge me). "Something in the Way You Move"—from Goulding's latest LP Delirium —marries a shimmering synthpop backdrop with foreboding, somewhat dark lyrics, which document the singer's dooming attraction to a nameless guy who is bad for her, but she can't help it even if it's bound to end in heartbreak: "When our eyes meet, I can only see the end / But tonight I'm here, yours again." Thematically, it wouldn't sound really out of place in the Fifty Sh...