Pop Music for the Nihilist

Imagine the stages of grief as a circle and not a line, when “denial” and “acceptance” are paradoxical homologues.

Without further ado: here, arranged for your aural pleasure, an assemblage of paeans to aspartame, sweet-n-sour Slurpees for your ear-holes, the most essential bric-a-brac for giving up and loving the bomb.

This dance — between “denial” and “acceptance,” between self-aware despair and self-blinding bliss, between late nights and early mornings — is the main event.

Don’t hate it. Don’t be mad, baby. Forget “guilty pleasures.” Keep drinking until you don’t think anymore. There is beauty in the breakdown.

(And zero calories never tasted so sweet!)

01. Alice Deejay - “Better Off Alone” (Who Needs Guitars Anyway?)
02. Miss Kittin & The Hacker - “Frank Sinatra” (First Album)
03. Autre Ne Veut - “Gonna Die” (Anxiety)
04. Robyn & Röyksopp - “Do It Again” (Do It Again — EP)
05. The Chromatics - “Into the Black” (Kill for Love)
06. Majical Cloudz - “Bugs Don’t Buzz” (Impersonator)
07. Trust - “Gloryhole” (TRST)
08. Aphex Twin - “Windowlicker” (Windowlicker — EP)
09. Taylor Swift - “Wildest Dreams” (1989)
10. Lana Del Rey - “Without You” (Born to Die)
11. FKA twigs - “Numbers” (LP1)
12. oOoOO - “I Live for the Day” (Let Me Shine for You)
13. Britney Spears - “Till the World Ends” (Femme Fatale)
14. SOPHIE - “Lemonade” (Lemonade / Hard)
15. AraabMuzik - “Golden Touch” (Electronic Dream)
16. Tove Lo - “Habits (Stay High)” (Queen of the Clouds)
17. Death Grips - “I’ve Seen Footage” (The Money Store)
18. Madonna - “Nothing Really Matters” (Ray of Light)
19. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - “Round and Round” (Before Today)
20. Baths - “Ossuary” (Obsidian)
21. How to Dress Well - “Cold Nites” (Total Loss)
22. Goldfrapp - “Some People” (Seventh Tree)
23. Frou Frou - “Let Go” (Details)
24. SALEM - “Better Off Alone” (I’m Still in the Night — EP)

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