Top 5 Albums of 2024

<All Top 5 Artists are Queer>

(according to the song lyrics)

Scoring System:

https://kit10phish.blogspot.com/2024/12/2024-album-ranking-scoring-system.html

5

Billie Eilish

4 Awesomes /10 tot = 40.0%

2 greats/10 tot = 20.0%

3 good-ish

90.0% output is good & up

Super-lez, whisper-pop, Gen zzz, serious, passionate,desperately in love, 

emotive, notes! 

This is foreshadowing for our top album’s concept:

In 2019 Eilish, 22, said she’s been grieving the girl that she was. She said in a cover interview with Rolling Stone published Wednesday. "I've been looking for her in everything, and it's almost like she got drowned by the world and the media. I don't remember when she went away."

4

Gracie

6 Awesomes /13 tot = 46.15%

3 greats

0 good-ish

69.23% output is good & up

Whisper-pop, very Gen zzz, growers, hopeful, angsty, softly intense. The 

quietness belies the passion. 

3

ManikFox- Story of the Fox

This is my mate’s music! Check it out:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4F3jYh4DRFpZ7WPi1IiECS?si=CyRpU9b6RnSm3raa0HdMcQ

9 awesomes/19 tot = 47.37%

2 greats

8 good-ish

100% output is good & up

Album concept:  Takes the listener on a journey of places ManiKFox has lived. 

Immerses the listener into special locations.

2

Xana

8 Awesomes /15 tot = 53.33%

3 greats

3 good-ish

93.33% output is good & up

It’s a difficult subject, and the lyrics can be heavy, but damn! That singing!!!

Dark, serious, simmering anger, synthetic, drama, open, unapologetic, intense, 

and Emotional, accusatory, introspective. I hate that she wants her name to be 

pronounced Ex-Ana, but there’s no dash or anything. What Xana spells is Zana 

or Cksana, but I digress. I’ll forgive the name because she’s one of FOUR 

lesbians at the top of the 2024 albums list! Represent!!!

#1 album for 2024

Benson Boone 

9 Awesomes /15 tot = 60.0%

3 greats with 1 being a version, had there been a tie (there wasn’t!) I would’ve 

used formula:

[9 + 15 (+6 versions of a song) = 21 songs w/versions = 42.86%]

5 good-ish with 1 being a version

80.95% output is good & up

Pipes! Feeling, interesting, crescendo, emote, catchy

My gay-dar pinged when after I ranked this album I saw a picture of Benson Boone. But I don’t look into biographical or other info prior to rating in an effort to try to keep in solely about the music. Probably along with everyone else, I pictured him singing about a girlfriend or wife the first hundred times I took in this album. After the whole ranking was finished, I did a 101st listen to add color to the ranks for the blog. And heard the songs with new ears. I realized the album is all one story.