Yet it was all crowned in the autumn by the US referendum, when against all odds billionaire Donald Trump won, using bigotry and other repugnant strategies to manipulate the prejudices of a growing percentage of disenfranchised population.ĭespite all those shadows planning over us, music has not just reflected well the state of things but in 2016 has risen over the doom and gloom and offered us another surprisingly excellent crop, crammed with so many notable records that our usual Top 50 could not accommodate them all.
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Politically, the rise of populism came in many shapes, from the repetition of the Spanish general elections and subsequent negotiations concluding with the same, corrupt popular party and leader in power to the vaguely surprising “Yes” Brexit vote in the UK, leaving the country in a muddling situation the new formed crisis government doesn’t seem to know how to deal with.
Dawn’s Prince Be Vanity Earth, Wind & Fire’s Maurice White Colin Vearncombe aka Black and many others have formed a long black list that leaves the sour impression of having arrived to the end an era whose cultural achievements no one seems able to better, not even repeat. Prince Leonard Cohen A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg Sharon Jones Dead or Alive’s Pete Burns This Mortal Coil’s Carolyn Crawley Alan Vega P.M. Nothing has summarised better the ghastly vibe of 2016.Ī year that begins with the dead of one of the most iconic popular culture artists of all time does not forecast anything good, and David Bowie passing away was a devastating first taste of things to come, making us more aware of the ones who followed him over the course of the last twelve months. A tweet containing it sent by Cambodian film director Rithy Panh cached our attention. This image posted in a web page owned by Paul Darling has circulated in social media around the world.
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