The Songs That Get Us Through It

Our 2022 Music Issue is here. 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Given the past two years’ steady drip of illness and isolation, turmoil and worry, lost jobs and lost lives — plus whatever degree of ambient edginess that makes everything from airport terminals to school-board meetings feel like bar brawls waiting to happen — it seems fair enough to conclude that even the more comfortable among us may be digging fingernails into palms and taking deep breaths with somewhat more frequency than before. And maybe that’s why, when we decided to organize this annual [Music Issue](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRkD0jTP0TsaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMi8wMy8xMS9tYWdhemluZS9iZXN0LXNvbmdzLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTImZW1jPWVkaXRfbWFfMjAyMjAzMTImaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9NTU2NjQmbmw9dGhlLW5ldy15b3JrLXRpbWVzLW1hZ2F6aW5lJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD04NTQzNCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYirTwyxiTWWrKlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) around the topics pop artists were writing about, we found ourselves hearing so much about the ways people use music to get through things. The subjects considered here include plenty of the classic troubles that songs have always circled around: teenage heartbreak, 20-something heartbreak, divorce, loss, loneliness and needing cash. Alongside those are plenty of the things we use, wisely or not, to solve those problems: frivolity, tenderness, surprise, community, swagger, credit-card fraud. Echoing throughout is the same energy that fizzles elsewhere; musicians, like the rest of us, seem to be rethinking what’s important. What music means, though, always winds up being about the listener. These pages are a sampling of what some very astute listeners have been finding in music lately — connections between songs of many different sorts, all ready to point you someplace new. Featuring music from Mary J. Blige, Olivia Rodrigo, Beach House, Mitski and more — read our 2022 [Music Issue](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRkD0jTP0TsaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMi8wMy8xMS9tYWdhemluZS9iZXN0LXNvbmdzLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9NTImZW1jPWVkaXRfbWFfMjAyMjAzMTImaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9NTU2NjQmbmw9dGhlLW5ldy15b3JrLXRpbWVzLW1hZ2F6aW5lJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD04NTQzNCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYirTwyxiTWWrKlIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA)now. 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