original Q - who's the Best Artist Since 2000....
No overall single figures springs to mind, I'd have to divide it up into categories and with multiple contenders jostling for the top spot
* Pop Star as Public Figure - Kanye West versus Ke$ha versus Lady Gaga (with the proviso I've little appetite for the audio bar "Bad Romance") versus Drake
* Performer / Vocal Presence - Future versus Ke$ha versus Dizzee
* Beat-maker - Terror Danjah versus Metro Boomin versus Mustard (aka Dijon McFarlane - no really that is his actual name).
* Pop Group in the Bygone and Obsolete Sense - Vampire Weekend versus Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti.
* Endless personal pleasure tinged with awareness of marginality in the scheme of things - Ghost Box versus Moon Wiring Club versus Ariel Pink versus Ekoplekz/eMMplekz
* A Compelling Case to Be Made although somehow I don't quite feel it fully myself - Burial versus Radiohead versus Daft Punk
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2025 thoughts / amendments
Some new categories
Truth speaker - Florence Shaw of Dry Cleaning
Sound sorcereress - SOPHIE
"Masterpiece Theater" - Kendrick Lamar, Lana Del Rey
A widening world - Rosalía
Additions to Existing Categories
Performer / Vocal Presence - Young Thug, Playboi Carti
Endless Personal Pleasure - Migos
Pop Star as Public Figure - Taylor Swift (objective measurement, not subjective partiality)
Demotions
Vampire Weekend
