Purely in the interest of making lists and ranking things, here is the Pitchfork staff’s not-very-serious look back at 101 moments in music culture that stuck with us, for better or worse.
Check out all of Pitchfork’s 2024 wrap-up coverage here.
Elon Musk offers to father Taylor Swift’s child
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Kanye’s dentist denies allegedly supplying Kanye with nitrous
YSL Woody, infamous for his viral clips on the stand in the YSL Rico case, becomes a recurring star of the YouTube dating series 20 V 1
The Costco family song
“They’re now playing Sinéad while Trump bobs around and dances”
Matty Healy deletes X again after blowout fight with Azealia Banks
Drake’s since-deleted AI Tupac song
Azealia Banks posts her ballot
Drake goes on xQc’s stream, basically a glorified Stake ad, and burns $1 million in a couple of hours
Spotify demonetizes songs with less than 1,000 streams
The Galaxy Gas rapper
Dave Portnoy’s Zach Bryan diss track
Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow guest star at a Trump rally in the Bronx
Bossman Dlow gets a Cybertruck
Live Nation lobbyists suggest average concert ticket costs just $38
“kamala IS brat”
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Paste implements witness protection program with un-bylined Taylor Swift review
Perry Farrell attacks Dave Navarro onstage
Columbia University professor fundamentally misunderstands John Cage’s “4:33”
Another year of bad Morrissey takes
“Who Are Dylan Thomas and Patti Smith? Meet the Poets Taylor Swift Mentioned on ‘TTPD’”
Doomer-core version of Eagle-Eye Cherry’s “Save Tonight” on True Detective: Night Country
Drake takes the bait on “The Heart Part 6”
M.I.A. launches “tin foil hat” anti-5G apparel line
Katy Perry explains the music video for “Woman’s World”
Every song in Emilia Pérez but mostly this one
Bratz unveils a Sinéad O’Connor concept doll for Women’s History Month
Instagram Reels-core
Wook rapper: “Kidney infection: I healed that, too.”
Haircut memories
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Z-Pain
Formerly Jay-Z-associated weed brand burns $575 million in funding
JoJo Siwa invents “gay pop”
Sky Ferreira “Promises ‘Masochism’ Is Coming”
Grimes blames underling for disaster Coachella set
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Raygun
Barack Obama raps Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”
Jeremy Allen White too yoked to play already-yoked Bruce Springsteen
“A Full Gallery of Benson Boone’s Impressive Onstage Backflips”
All of Brazil briefly kicked off X
The Pharrell Lego movie (none of us have seen it)
Lizzo announces “I QUIT” and immediately walks it back
Dave Grohl recently becomes a father
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Jennifer Lopez’s fever dream Amazon Prime movie
Pusha T’s “Grindin” coffee brand
The media’s unhealthy obsession with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
Rebecca Black’s Boiler Room
Dua Lipa mixes Diet Coke and pickle juice
Playboi Carti’s raw ad-libs leak
Holding space for “Defying Gravity”
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Liam Gallagher tells Oasis reunion critics their “attitude stinks”
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“Clairo Shade”
The insane custom songs written for The Traitors
A. G. Cook’s Witchfork.com
Irish accents
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Rich Amiri’s great escape from the XXL Freshmen cypher
“Big Main” Chet Hanks explains Kendrick/Drake beef to his dad
MJ Lenderman meets Shaq while wearing a Shaq shirt
Addison Rae’s VMAs outfit
This viral snippet of Jitzeh rapping to the melody of a classical violin run
Snoop Dogg does the 200m dash at the Olympics
Kid Cudi is: “The Thinker”
SZA “tired of being... not a bug” on Hot Ones
“Whitney Houston would’ve loved Glorilla”
Fimiguerrerro and YT’s “MVP” video, directed by Lauzza
The Simulacra Stages of Pop
The Breeders open for Olivia Rodrigo
“a sitting senator remembered my pitchfork score”
Lana Del Rey leaves her Coachella set by motorcycle to the sounds of the Caretaker
“Martha Stewart Reportedly Attends Godspeed You! Black Emperor Show, Disses Colin Stetson”
Amber Coffman, Joanna Newsom, and Robin Pecknold model Steve Albini jumpsuits
The Drag City Cinematic Universe
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G Herbo doing footwork to “DJ Nate”
“Will b2b Kieran” at Glastonbury
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Rihanna rapping “TGIF”
Ice Spice causes New York earthquake
Ayo Edebiri meets Reba McEntire at the 2024 Emmys
NASA beams a Missy Elliott song to Venus
Caroline Polachek sings about “free bleeding in the autumn rain”
Cardi B tweets “AND DID !!!!!!” in response to Offset accusing her of cheating
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LAZER DIM 700
Bob Dylan taps mic with tiny wrench
“Machine Gun Kelly & Trippie Redd Remove Beat From Producer Who Said Their Usage Was ‘The Worst Song I’ve Ever Heard’”
Jane Remover’s NTS mixes
“Should we talk about how I got the mayor indicted?” –Sabrina Carpenter
Hunter Biden reportedly listens to Fleet Foxes while getting a lap dance
Chappell Roan’s enormous crowd at Lollapalooza
So many people remember Jimmy Buffett
Harp emoji approved
Charli XCX’s Boiler Room
New York Liberty mascot Ellie’s dance routines
All of Bob Dylan’s 2024 posts on X
Earl Sweatshirt raps “Free Gaza, we on the corner like Israelites”
New Zealand parliament performs a haka
Jon Bon Jovi talks a woman off the ledge
“This is going to ruin the tour”
Lana Del Rey marries her alligator tour guide
The “Not Like Us” video
Joni Mitchell performs at the Grammys
Young Thug FREE
