populärkulten: december 2020

To all of you, from all of me,

at last the sinister corona year 2020 is drawing to a close, we are into the final hours before a more hopeful 2021 begins.

Let’s start this coming year with a feeling of hope, solidarity, love and belief that the worst of the pandemic will soon be over and we will have the opportunity to meet IRL, to connect live again, with all our friends, colleagues and relatives, in other places and countries.

2020 was in many ways a lost year due to corona. True, some got richer, but most people everywhere got poorer, as almost everybody suffered at least socially. The massive losses of human lives to this pandemic are sadly mourned and missed on this last day of pandemic year 2020.

But tonight we also look forward, to a much brighter, better, 2021, knowing that vaccinations have started or will soon start in many countries. We are hopefully not at the end of the beginning, but rather at the beginning of the end, of this pandemic.

Let’s be hopeful, the tide is slowly turning.

The result in the presidential election in US was another reason to be hopeful in 2021. The Trump administration leaves office in 20 days. At last.

Better days are coming.

New Year 2020-21 we celebrate mainly all that we hope for in 2021 and the end of a miserable corona year 2020. A year we, the world, never will forget.

Dear friends out there, whereever you are tonight, enjoy a Happy New Year!

This New Year-playlist is for you, stay safe and enjoy this night, the ending of a dark year and the hope of a new beginning!

Till er alla, nånstans därute, ett riktigt Gott Nytt År!

PLAYLIST NEW YEAR 2020/2021

Intro: Nature Always Wins/DJ Shadow

The Final Countdown 2000 (Edit) (cd-s)/Europe

Kylan ligger över hela stan (cd-s)/Lustans Lakejer

I natt e hela stan vår/Noice

Durch die Schweren Zeiten (Live 2016)/Udo Lindenberg

You’ll Never Walk Alone/Die Toten Hosen

Crazy World/Scorpions

Tellin’ Me Lies/April Wine