Tr*mpsters attacked the US Capitol, Joe Biden became US Prez 46 and Kamala Harris became VP, Poland banned abortions, a chonky ship blocked the Suez Canal, NASA flew a helicopter on Mars, the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the first malaria vaccine was developed, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched, and a whole load of other unsavoury stuff went down.
A lot of things that had been postponed from 2020 happened in 2021, such as the Olympics and Paralympics, the Euro footy, and the good old UN Climate Change Conference, whereas the two events I was most interested in that had been postponed from 2020 were postponed again until 2022 (namely arena gigs to which I had tickets, by My Chemical Romance and Lady Gaga). If 2020 was the year of COVID, then 2021 was the year of the variants and the vaccines. Remember the good stuff, don’t pet the yellow snow, ride the purple train to groovy city, and soon we’ll be recounting the best albums of 2021, just you and I, shooting the Bries and the Camemberts, two star-crossed music-lovers gazing backwards at the just before, so that we can tie off the year that was and turn to glare fuzzily together at that which is yet to come. So many things happened, failed to happen, happened too much or happened too little in 2021 that I’m afraid I will inevitably have to leave some of it out. I personally have aged seven years since last we spoke about Album of the Year, I don’t mind telling you.
You remember all those years you used to get, which were about a year long? Roughly a yearsworth of stuff happened? Then everyone got drunk, watched some fireworks, and started the next one? Well now we’re in for the long haul. Just as verbing weirds language, pandemics weird time, and times have gotten plenty weird of late. Are you still out there? Hello? What’s going on?
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