Rob Sheffield’s Top 25 Songs of 2019

(Or goes up in flames. She’s not picky.) Goodbye to Long Beach, Malibu, Dennis Wilson, Kanye, Whitney, Bowie. Farewell California and every love song ever written there. Good night to the rock & roll era. Bye-bye love. Goodbye small hands, goodbye small heart. Melt on, MacArthur Park. It’s like the old joke from noir novelist Ross MacDonald ...