There's nothing like the soul-to-soul telepathy of a perfect song - hard feelings put into words that can't be communicated any other way, all the secret messages encoded just for you, and the way time stops still when you listen.
Characterised by empathy, a perfect song helps you understand yourself better, or relate to someone else. And from Mk.gee's triumph of masterful songwriting (and ode to self-alienation) that is 'Alesis', to Taylor Swift's 'Guilty As Sin?' fever dream, and the sharp-edged multitudes of Charli XCX's 'Sympathy Is A Knife', in 2024 we felt it all.
A perfect song can change everything[!], so here's 50 songs that really made us feel...
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