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Liam Gallagher
Britpop icon
Liam Gallagher
The song that best sums up my 2022
Too Good for Giving Up by yours truly.
The song that gets me in the Christmas mood
Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade and Fairytale of New York by the Pogues.
The Christmas song I can’t stand
There’s none I can’t stand, I’m all for it.
The best bit of a Christmas dinner
The sprouts, stuffing and obviously the bird.
Favourite Quality Street
The purple ones.
The best Christmas present I’ve ever received
Me mam scrimped and saved for a sky blue Raleigh Chopper when I was about eight. That’s not been beaten yet.
The Christmas carol I know all the words to
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
My new year resolution(s)
There’s no such thing as resolutions, only solutions.
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Rina Sawayama
Genre-shmooshing pop phenom
Rina Sawayama
The song that best sums up my 2022
Man I Feel Like a Woman by Shania Twain. I got to speak to her for Rolling Stone and it was a dream. That song is played after my set finishes on tour and everyone stays to dance and sing along and it’s super cute.
The song that gets me in the Christmas mood
Loneliest Time of the Year by Mabel – its such a good Christmas song!
The Christmas song I can’t stand
I can’t remember the name of it but there’s one that’s quite shouty and a bit annoying.
My favourite Christmas film
I don’t think there’s a Ghibli Christmas film – I might be wrong! – but I love watching them at Christmas as it reminds me of childhood and properly relaxing. I just rewatched Kiki’s Delivery Service.
My favourite Christmas tradition
Turn my phone off and watch loads of films and series I need to catch up on.
The best bit of a Christmas dinner
Pigs in blankets, which is quite a weird thing when you think about it. But they are so good.
The best Christmas present I’ve ever received
Some Christmas-scented Zoflora. If they want to sponsor me that would be great.
My new year resolution(s)
Some time off. I need to remember to schedule in more breaks.
The 5 worst songs that New York Post hope to never hear again: from Kanye West, ABBA to Coldplay, here are five songs that we’re happy to leave behind in 2022.
1. Kanye West featuring Syleena Johnson, “Donda Chant”
Yeezy finally introduced his long-awaited 10th studio album, “Donda,” with 52 seconds of Johnson chanting his beloved late mother’s name 60 times. Even if Ye’s heart was in the right place, this song probably had Mom rolling over in her grave. And if “Donda” was supposed to win West back some of the goodwill that he had lost from longtime fans, this was a bad way to start.
2. Florida Georgia Line featuring Nelly, “Lil Bit”
This unlikeliest of combos scored a major hit with their “Cruise” remix in 2013. And it was already bad enough that that song is responsible for a lot of the bro country that came after that. But for FGL and the “Hot in Herre” rapper to go back to the well again — when both are clearly past the primes of their careers — smacks of more than a “Lil Bit” of desperation.
3. Sia & David Guetta, “Floating Through Space”
The “Chandelier” singer-songwriter and the EDM DJ/producer once collaborated on the titanic club banger that was 2011’s “Titanium.” But this tepid twirler — on which Sia’s voice is helium-pitched to an ear-gratingly annoying level — flops more than it floats. But hey, at least it’s surely better than Sia’s much-maligned “Music” movie that spawned the song.
4. ABBA, “I Still Have Faith in You”
ABBA fans who had waited decades for “Voyage,” the beloved Swedish band’s first new studio album in 40 years, surely lost some faith when the album’s lackluster lead track arrived as one of its first singles. And it will forever be a mystery how in the world this nabbed a Record of the Year Grammy nomination.
5. Coldplay & Selena Gomez, “Let Somebody Go”
Somehow Coldplay’s “My Universe” collaboration with BTS actually worked, giving Chris Martin and company their first No. 1 since 2008’s “Viva La Vida.” But this blah breakup ballad — call it the anti-“Yellow” — made Coldplay look like they were struggling to stay relevant by enlisting Gomez, of all people.
