What's your favorite song from 2020?

[raccoon]

I just had to jump on the bandwagon...

[Eugene]

1. Kiss Him Goodbye?

[rurallib]

2. "We Dumped Trump With A Mighty Thump"

[longship]

3. It will probably still be from Mozart, or maybe Bach.

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For instance the sull'aria duetto from the third act of Le Nozze di Figaro. Here, best realized by Elizabeth Schwarzkopf (Countess) and Anna Moffo (Suzanna).

On edit: Le Nozze di Figaro is a nearly perfect women's rights opera, written in the eighteenth century! The duetto above is sung by the lead females who are plotting against their husbands, the countess against her cur of a husband who wants to invoke droit du seigneur with his valet's (Figaro) fiancé (Suzanna), and Suzanna who sees her fiancé's contrivances to oppose the count as being doomed to failure. So the two go into a conspiracy to make things come out okay in spite of the situation. Along the way there is mayhem and much hilarity.

And it does come out okay!

The 4th Act:

The incredible ensemble that begins half way through the act until the end echoes the equally astounding ensemble in the second act. (Remarkably, but perhaps not, both begin with the entrance of Cherubino, a pants role -- an adolescent boy sung by a mezzo soprano.) Nobody did this better than Mozart. Nobody! And Le Nozze is his highest expression of that art, never eclipsed since.

Ah. Tutti contenti saremo cosi.

[Kaleva]

4. In the year 2121.

[femmocrat]

5. "Happy Days are Here Again"

I hope!

[Donkees]

6. 2020 - I Can See Clearly Now

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

I think I can make it now, the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is the rainbow I've been prayin for
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.

Look all around, there's nothin but blue skies
Look straight ahead, nothin but blue skies

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright)
Sun-Shiny day.