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The Best Songs of 2025 (So Far)
Unrequited love never sounded so satisfying.
From Bad Bunny to Bon Iver, our inaugural round includes the expected hodgepodge of genres — pulsing guitar rock, Nelly Furtado–era pop, lean pop-punk, Puerto Rican folk — with most loosely centered around the idea of comfort. There’s usually a sharp edge hiding somewhere under midwestern charm — even for Iowa-raised Hailey Whitters, who once laughed at the Nashville game on her song “Ten-Year Town.” That irreverence comes to the forefront again on “Prodigal Daughter,” her riotous, rootsy anthem with bluegrass picker Molly Tuttle. A tightly wound pop anthem from rising act Chloe Qisha, who combines a commanding hook with humor (“Now this could be hyperbole / but I’m afraid I might die / If I’m not here by your side”), fantasy (“If you want to get freaky on hotel floors …” ), and pop-culture bonafides (“… straight out the set of Dawson’s Creek ”).
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