![]() ![]() So that brings me the remaining two acts: Vampire Weekend and Kanye West. Among the others on the list, I have heard of The Weeknd, Miley Cyrus, and Drake, but I have not heard any music by them. According to them, the top 10 best albums included those by Earl Sweatshirt, Pusha T, Local Natives, Paramore, and Kacey Musgrave. Let's go to a fairly mainstream middle brow list, for example, something like Entertainment Weekly. This is most starkly reflected when I look at year-end lists from some websites, and I find (once again) that not only have I not heard or seen or read what is considered the best of the year, I have not even heard of the people on these lists. ![]() ![]() and still not know what the hell is going on with other people's preferences. In other words, it is possible to be fairly engaged with music, movies, TV, etc. Others have made this point before, but the way in which popular culture is fragmented is really striking these days. So how did 2013 stack up in terms of culture in my life? I confess that my interests don't reflect any kind of coherent sensibility but I did enjoy a bunch of stuff: music, TV, films, books, and whatever. ![]()
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