2024 In Music Pt. 2

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Across
  1. 1. This song sees one of the up-and-coming featured artists launch their Japanese singing career.
  2. 3. Interpolates a track from the 2001 video game "Ico".
  3. 7. The title of this track could also be used to describe another artist who actually made good music.
  4. 8. Played at the "TikTok Rizz Party".
  5. 9. In recent weeks, denizens of the virtual world have reserved large swaths of their consciousnesses for the purpose of cherishing this soaring symphonic moment.
  6. 10. The first single off this artist's 2024 record, who mostly tends to sing in Korean.
  7. 13. This song sees the artist talk about their woes with touring, using a heavier sound to emphasize the topic.
  8. 16. Dial tone.
  9. 19. The car mentioned in this track is notable for being the last generation of this series of cars to be produced in 5 seperate body styles.
  10. 22. This track references the artist's comics, uploaded to her Twitter and Tumblr. Also samples Season 3, Episode 4 of "Video Game High School" on YouTube before the drop.
  11. 24. The indie rock side project of artist Jane Remover.
  12. 25. The lead single to their new album, this song sees the singer longing to be wanted, and to have a reason to "get out of the house" because of it.
  13. 30. This nautical-inspired song, which went viral on TikTok, was recorded using a Shure SM7.
  14. 31. This diss track references a US federal law which requires offenders to be "registered and placed on neighborhood watch."
  15. 32. Two versions of this song about a destructive relationship exist: one with the full accompaniment of the artist's band, and the other as a stripped-back solo endeavor.
  16. 33. The artist who covered this soulful song once cited the original artists' "warmth, strangeness and pure cool" as a major inspiration.
  17. 35. In his verse on this track, a New Orleans rapper references a chronic skin condition which primarily affects middle-aged women with fair skin.
  18. 38. This track's chorus interpolates a track off Daft Punk's 2005 album, "Human After All".
  19. 39. Of the two artists in this collab, one is from a ceremonial county in the East of England, while the other is from fifth largest city in Oceania.
Down
  1. 1. A pop punk band put their own unique spin on this classic new wave hit – and introduced it to audiences across Europe while touring with a major pop star.
  2. 2. The remix to this club banger introduces an artist famed for her sexually-charged lyrics.
  3. 4. If your husband is gay, and I am gay, then we are nouns!
  4. 5. Taylor Swift praised and shared this song on her story.
  5. 6. This song's title references the legendary author of the Iliad and the Aeneid.
  6. 11. The remix of this artist's 2023 song, also known for her multiple collaborations with Charli xcx and a placement on the soundtrack of I Saw The TV Glow introduces an absolutely dreamy, out of this world collaborator.
  7. 12. Lyrics from this baroque pop track references the hysteria and moral panic which arises from the fear of communism and other far-left movements.
  8. 14. The opening line of this song references three key features of the Ableton Live DAW.
  9. 15. I just can't stop drinking crude oil!
  10. 17. This song was written with the artist's band on a train to Boston and performed live just an hour after it was completed.
  11. 18. This track about escaping the pressures of life and going somewhere natural introduces an…interesting vocal chop at the beginning of the chorus.
  12. 20. The last song on this Australian artist's EP; it originated as a simple drum beat.
  13. 21. This song shares a name with one of Taylor Swift's country ballads - but with a drastically different sound.
  14. 23. The only single released to streaming platforms from the rapper who continually refuses to drop their latest album at a promised time.
  15. 26. "i'm a dog, woof, woof!"
  16. 27. This album from the popular rage rapper tells a story set 69 years into the future.
  17. 28. The music video for this song features two actors who starred in the film that won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in the same year the Berlin Wall fell.
  18. 29. The namesake of this track died of peritonitis.
  19. 30. This song's intro samples a song from the featured artist's 2023 album; that song's intro incorporates the Spanish equivalent of "that was fucking crazy."
  20. 34. This American indie pop band is noted for writing and performing songs in both English and Spanish.
  21. 36. The comeback single from this "recession pop" icon was released under their own brand-new record label.
  22. 37. This understated country ballad features one of the most renowned - and controversial - guitarists of the day.