This morning I read a NYT article about Wrappeds, and almost all the comments were so hostile. God forbid a man like numbers and stats and data.
This will probably be my last Spotify Wrapped (that has a useful amount of data, at least), which makes me kind of sad to think about since 2026 would've been 10 years' worth of Wrappeds for me. Not counting the fact that I totally missed 2018's for some reason. But it's okay... I stay strong... And I have Last.FM, which does their Wrapped in January like a normal year round-up thing should, so it's fine.

This is my 2nd year in a row with the same top 4 artists, although the order is a little shuffled. This is probably my 9th year with MCR in my top 5? (Meaning, they've been there ever since I started using Spotify.) And if memory serves me correctly, this is probably year 4 of having BT, MCR, and Michael Jackson in there. Possibly a little more.



I like how "rock" is lowkey in my top genres twice. Probably three times, since most of the "J-pop" is probably J-rock, which Spotify may tag as both J-pop and rock? I wish they consolidated genres a little better for this, or that I had the option to do so.
For the top song quiz I chose It Never Rains, but it was Ice Cream 💀💀💀 I dunno what I was going through to listen to it almost 200 times. Banger though.
Darlin' made a comeback after 5 years... in 2020 I was obsessed with it, although it was the rerecording I was looping. I like both the mature, improved vocals and younger, grittier vocals. They're each for their own kind of mood.



Ever since really listening to BT in 2019 they've been my #1 top artist, and I've been within their top 1% of fans. I think in 2019 I was within the top 0.1% though... something like that. I'm always worried I'm going to fall from the top percentages, but it hasn't happened yet! I worry about overplaying them and falling out of love too, though! How do I balance this!? Help me!!?!?



"Your club favorites"
>Wu-Tang Clan
>Band I have one liked song from
>Pierce the Veil (valid ig)>Member of the Wu-Tang Clan
>Another member of the Wu-Tang Clan
>MCR (sadly valid)Don't piss me off..
As for my role in the Grit Collective, I got "Recruiter - You share music far and wide, bringing in frequent new club members," which made me go "huh" until I remembered I like to send links to one specific guy all the time. Not sure that makes me a good recruiter! Said guy ignores my links half the time anyways TT_TT

Did you know? YouTube, not YouTube Music but regular 'ol Youtube, had a Recap too. This is all that really matters though:

The "sides of you" thing is so funny to me... Too true YouTube. Too true.Yea, I pretty much only use YT for music and anime OPs and EDs, and sometimes for studying or tutorials. I can't stand video essays. I always think "this could've been a blog post." I can read faster than people can talk, too many people have voices that annoy me or distract me from what they're saying, and I can look for the specific info I need faster with text too. End the reign video essays. Return to WordPress.
Linking my 5 most looped videos in the drop-down.
Boy Do I Love Anime
Put the links into xoutu.be yourself if you hate cookies. <- lazy
#5! I still haven't played this LOL. 2026 for sure!! I watched my friend play a little bit of it, and I think it's cute, but I will always feel :/ towards how Tokimeki Memorial makes it so you Have to get along with Everyone or you DIE. Why tf do I have to date 20 people to date the one I want man. Also the friend characters should be romanceable. But yea, the guy who is obviously the main guy, the blond bad boy, is so cute awwwwww <:3 And this translation is awesome btw, kudos to OP.
#4 is from that time I tried watching the first episode of a bunch of anime I saw girls talking about on older blogs and websites, decided they were all bad and those ladies were just desperate for yaoi, and then never watched episode 2 of any of them. Saiyuuki also has an art style I don't especially like, but the opening is a banger to fun to look at.
#3 is orientalism if it was epic🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Don't ask me anything about this show btw I don't remember shit but this ending
#2 is holy mother of yaoi
Got called autistic in Washington for watching this constantly for like a week (true and deserved)
#1 is this opening that makes me want to throw rocks at my own head <33333333
It's so misleading LMAO It makes it look like Naruto and Sasuke are besties and like Sakura actually does stuff. But it still makes me feel crazy.
Relevant quote from a locked entry written by myself:
i looked up the first naruto opening on USA cartoon network, and there were quite a few comments saying they really liked it (valid, fair) and that if they had seen the jp opening first they probably wouldnt have watched naruto. this means that the localizers did a good job picking a new opening song and sequence for this new audience, but this also means the average usamerican would rather watch keys jangle then enjoy beauty. SAD! (yes yes, there is beauty to be found even in a set of keys...)
And I'm inlcuding my entire Top Songs list... according to Spotify. If Last.FM does this too, and I think they do? Then it will probably look quite different, because there's lots of songs I listened to that aren't on Spotify, as well as songs I became obsessed with at the end of November and throughout this month.
Don't judge me.
Ice Cream (feat. Ghostface Killah, Method Man & Cappadonna) - Raekwon
Jesus - Laputa
DARLIN' (Album Version) - D'ERLANGER
It Never Rains (In Southern California) - Tony! Toni! Toné!
Broken Youth - NICO Touches the Walls (aka this Shippuden ED) (I tried listening to all this band's discog btw and couldn't find much else, so if you know any other songs that sound like this... like do I just listen to more J-rock from the late 00s or is this a specific subgenre I can look into or)
Scent Of Love - Helena Nogeurra
Te Aviso, Te Anuncio (Tango) - Shakira (English title is "I'm Warning You, I'm
Telling You (Tango)" ... ?)
Fallin' Out - Keyshia Cole
Glass no Sougen - Kikuchi Momoko (English is "Glass Plain")
Call Me - Aretha Franklin
Black - Pearl Jam
He Won't Go - Adele
Through Glass - Stone Sour
Don't Ask My Neighbors - The Emotions
Player's Prayer - Lloyd (💀)
Seishun Kyousoukyoku - Sambomaster (aka this Naruto OP. English title is "Rhapsody of Youth".)
RISKY VENUS - Crazy:B (💀💀💀💀💀)
IN MY DREAM (WITH SHIVER) - LUNA SEA
Love Of My Life (An Ode To Hip Hop) - Erykah Badu ft. Common
I Want You Back - The Jackson 5
I'm Still in Love with You - Al Green
Candy - Cameo
Baby cruising Love - Perfume (you will always be famous!!!!!!!!!!!!)
All I Do Is Think of You - Troop (did you know this is a cover of a Jackson 5 song?)
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act 2: No. 14a, Pas de deux. Andante maestoso - Tchaikovsky
Over the Rainbow - Aretha Franklin
Sylvia: Pizzicato - Léo Delibes
Superwoman - Karyn White
What the Hell - Avril Lavigne
Until The End Of Time (with Beyoncé) - Justin Timberlake
You're Not My Kind Of Girl - New Edition
A Long Walk - Jill Scott
Haruka Kanata - ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION (aka... wait for it... this Naruto OP. English title is "Far, Far Away" I guess.)
Halloween - Aqua
Meteor - Croix Allcine
Electric Angel - Yasuo ft. Hatsune Miku
The Best In Me - Marvin Sapp
ROSIER - Single Version - LUNA SEA
The Real Slim Shady - Eminem
You Make Me Feel Brand New - The Stylistics
Fantasy - Earth, Wind & Fire
Do You Think About Me - 50 Cent
La-La Means I Love You - The Delfonics
Virgin cry - Laputa
Creep - Radiohead (first ever time it's not the TLC song)
Enough Of No Love - Keyshia Cole ft. Lil Wayne
Rusty Nail - X JAPAN
1, 2 Fanclub - Mikito P ft. GUMI & Kagamine Rin
Mansae - SEVENTEEN (English title? "YIPPEEE!!!!!!")
Nocturne - Castlevania Sound Team (that song the fairy sings to Alucard to help him go beddybye)
Method Man - Home Grown Version - Wu-Tang Clan (really it's just Method Man)
Heaven Sent - Keyshia Cole
Mr. - KARA
Ooo Baby Baby - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got) - Four Tops
GOOD MORNING SATELLITE - DEAD END (awesome guitar)
Ore no Kanojo wa Risutokatta - KYOKUTOU GIRL FRIEND (in English it's "My Girlfriend is a Wrist-Cutter" ... or maybe "My Girlfriend Cuts/Slits Her Wrists" since the longer I look at it the more I wonder if "wrist-cutter" is an English phrase.)
Astrosexy - m-flo ft. CHEMISTRY
When a Man Loves a Woman - Percy Sledge (this was my #1 song last year iirc)
I Want To Hold Your Hand - Remastered 2009 - The Beatles
Please, Please, Please - James Brown & The Famous Flames
follow the night light - deadman
Seikan Hikou - Ranka Lee (v. Nakajima Megumi) (English title is "Interstellar Flight")
One Night Only - From ‘Dreamgirls’ / Original Broadway Cast Version - Jennifer Holliday, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, Deborah Burrell
Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart) - The Stylistics
Free Yourself (feat. Missy Elliott) - Fantasia
Barairo no Jinsei - Ando (English title is "[A] Rose-Colored Life")
The Sweetest Thing (feat. Lauryn Hill) - From the New Line Cinema film "Love Jones" - Refugee Camp All-Stars
Algo Está Cambiando - Julieta Venegas (Eng - "Something Is Changing")
die - BUCK-TICK (Helloooooooo beautiful; was almost scared this song wouldn't be here for the first time in years. This was my #1 song in 2019)
I'm Leaving You Again - New Edition
Lost Decadence - LIPHLICH
Hustler Musik - Lil Wayne
Chicago - Michael Jackson
No More Drama - Mary J. Blige
Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton
Sounds Like a Love Song - Bobby Glenn
La La La - Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith
Deity - Louise Patricia Crane
You Are Everything - The Stylistics
Back Stabbers - The O'Jays
I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James
Niwaka Ame ni mo Makezu - NICO Touches the Walls (Don't get mad at me... It's a Shippuden OP. The one I'm currently on! Eng is "I Won't Even Lose to Sudden Rain" or something ik the youtube link has the official translation and it's right there but i'm lazy asffffff)
Refrain Limit / Drug Habit - Laputa
Dress - BUCK-TICK (helloooooooooo gorgeous 😻)
911 (feat. Mary J. Blige) - Wyclef Jean
Yume no Hajimarinrin - Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (I guess the English title is like "My Dreams are Beginringringing" ... or more straightforwardly "The Start of My Dreams Ring Ring" but I wanted it to sound fun like the original :') )
Leave - Lil Shxwn ft. Yungeen Ace
GLORIA - ZIGGY
Y Siempre - Tierra Canela (Eng - "And Forever")
Untitled (How Does It Feel) - D'Angelo
Karma - 2BYG
You Don't Know My Name - Alicia Keys (this song is basically childhood oomf)
Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
Love Will Tear Us Apart - 2020 Remaster - Joy Division
Love T.K.O. - Teddy Pendergrass
What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas? - The Emotions
Lonely Rolling Star - Kabata Saki (from Katamari Damacy)
Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: The Swan - Camille Saint-Saëns
Okay byeeeeeeee