These were my least favorite albums of 2021, in no particular order:
1. Squid Game—I didn’t actually see it but it looks really stupid. F-
2. A Quiet Place 2—It should have been shown after the credits for the first movie. F-
3. The Interminable Marvel Brand—If it’s on Disney + it’s for children. F-
4. Dune—A very long Zara ad. F-
5. J Balvin—Black face. F-
6. Matrix 4—Ugh. Computers. Hackers. Cyberpunks. Simulated Reality. The 90s. The color green. F-
7. Any band that is still together after 10 years—Please. Break up. Do your solo albums. Move on. F-
8. Instagram—Get over yourself. F-
9. Musicals—Please stop singing and dancing. F-
10. Baby Boomer WASPs—Get out of the way. F-
11. Sex & the City—And Just Like That? No. Not at all. Go away. F-
12. Conversations about supply chain issues—Stop making excuses. Make your own furniture. Forage for mushrooms or whatever. F-
13. Covid—Ugh. So over it. Please stop killing us! F-
14. Crypto, NFTs, The Metaverse, etc. — see #6. F-
15. The 90s revival—Please. It was bad enough the first time around. F-
16. Adele, 30—Girl, please. We know you’re 33. It’s on your Wikipedia page. B+
“Some days – most, in fact – that simple love of driving the wheels off the car and trying for the ‘impossible’ moves, will be the difference that allows Max to get a result the car doesn’t deserve. But occasionally the circumstances will be too restrictive for even his thrusting talent and he will be confined to an incident-filled performance through refusing to accept defeat, refusing to make a covenant with defeat. For him, accepting the circumstances on the day in an exercise of damage limitation would be defeat. Getting what in hindsight turns out to be a lesser result than you might’ve done had you not raged against that circumstance is not defeat – it’s simply the occasional cost of an attitude that will win you more races than lose them.”