Theme
Songs about youth
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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CORTIS
TNT
A teenage rookie group's loud self-introduction, framing their music-making as an explosion ready to ship from Seoul to the rest of the world
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ILLIT
Magnetic
A debut group's bubblegum manifesto for going after a crush without playing games, framed as physics you can't fight
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Nicki Minaj
Beauty and a Beat (feat. Nicki Minaj)
A nightclub fantasy of fame, attraction, and party-as-escape, anchored by Nicki Minaj's guest verse boasting about her place at the top of pop
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HANRORO
Let Me Love My Youth
A frozen heart asks spring to claim it, trading a brief, blooming youth for the certainty of being chosen at least once
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BOYNEXTDOOR
ddok ddok ddok
A bratty, multilingual arrival anthem in which BOYNEXTDOOR knocks on listeners' doors to announce themselves as the year's most confident uninvited guests
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Taylor Swift
22
A pop anthem about the specific contradiction of being young enough to feel everything at once, and choosing to dance through it anyway
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The Chainsmokers
Closer (feat. Halsey)
Two exes in their mid-twenties hook up in a hotel bar and pretend, for one night, that the rented car and the stolen mattress add up to a life