The Painted Eye: 2025 Pop Favorites (below the surface)
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Description
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.” ― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Accessible but unaccessed: The sound of 2025 popular music from an imaginary alternate timeline. Crafted colorful surfaces; polish as a language of emotion. Twenty-five favorites from 2025 across indie pop, art pop, synth-pop, neo-soul, lyrical hip hop, Brazilian pop, and city-pop. In English, Portuguese, Japanese, and more. Broadly appealing songs that linger below the surface, waiting to be uncovered.
This is fifth in a series of 10 mixes of 2025 favorites. The selections reflect a personal, exploratory approach to discovery and curation, with artists and tracks that fall outside typical “best of” lists.
The mix is timestamped and the tracklist is in the first comment.
