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Best Music Tweets of 2016
2016 has been a rough year. We lost Prince, Bowie, Leonard Cohen, CMJ, Vine, Hiddleswift and the presidential election. With Thanksgiving closing in and December not far behind, at least we can soon say it’s all in the past. But 2016 wasn’t all bad was it? There had to have been some good things that happened, right? Like, we got finally that Frank Ocean album, and then there was the Schwimmerssance. Both good things. What else? Uh. The world didn’t end when Apple pulled the earphone jack. Brand New didn’t break up…yet. Stranger Things met expectations. See. Good things happened too. Here’s more proof. Eighteen tweets from the music community that prove 2016 wasn’t just a fever dream wrapped in a nightmare that you woke from in a cold sweat.
1.
My gender identity is somewhere between punk rock princess and garage band king
— ˗ˏˋ AW ˊˎ˗ (@allisonweiss) October 21, 2016
2.
“There are four bands on the bill…and it doesn’t start until 9.”
— Mac McCaughan (@MacMerge) October 25, 2016
3.
honestly I don’t think Sufjan EVER planned to follow through on his 50 states promise
— Lisa Prank (@lisaprank) November 6, 2016
4.
— Glastonbury Festival (@GlastoFest) June 24, 2016
5.
Im in the corner
watching u kiss her
oh
Im right over here
googling her
finding newspaper articles from her childhood
reading all her tweets— sadie dupuis (@sad13) September 5, 2016
6.
hi
— Wolf Parade (@WolfParade) May 10, 2016
7.
when I was 14 i asked my latin teacher to translate “soco amaretto lime” and now I feel I should call him to apologize
— Sorority Noise (@sororitynoise) July 13, 2016
8.
these are so fun
— Corporate Punk (@ThomasNassiff) May 23, 2016
9.
meghan trainor’s musical genre is ‘jc penney commercial’
— Chelsea Fagan (@Chelsea_Fagan) July 14, 2016
10.
Mom: Why does this rapper keep saying 6-6-6? Is he satanic?
Me: No, he’s just trying to make Canada happen.
— Samantha Ruddy (@samlymatters) May 11, 2016
11.
New Blink-182 music has literally been under our noses for years
— chorus.fm (@chorusfm) April 28, 2016
12.
Motion to recognize the segue b/w @EL__VY‘s “Sad Case” and “Happiness, Missouri” as 2015’s greatest music moment.
— Shannon Shreibak (@ShannonShreibak) April 14, 2016
13.
Waiting for the who you gonna call/ call me maybe mashup.
— Ashly Perez (@itsashlyperez) March 3, 2016
14.
I don’t remember what I ate for breakfast this morning but I remember every word to Left Eye’s verse in Waterfalls.
— Ben Schwartz (@rejectedjokes) February 29, 2016
15.
? (via @Refinery29) #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/ZFz3VpB50U
— Tumblr (@tumblr) February 16, 2016
16.
Dating in New York seems like it might be hard since I don’t dress like mac demarco
— guided_by_HORSES (@LobsterCasey) February 8, 2016
17.
David Bowie: “Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”
— The OED (@OED) November 21, 2012 (retweeted January 10, 2016)
18.
Houston 1996:
Beyonce: Let’s call the group ‘Destiny’s Child’
Michelle: But B, there are three of us…
Beyonce: *laughs hysterically*
— ShervinFoto (@shervinfoto) July 10, 2016
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