Wednesday, March 8, 2023

This Is What I Call Music, 2022 Edition

    It is an annual tradition for me to create a puzzle based on some of the top songs of the previous year.  I've been doing these puzzles for a few years now. The first batch of puzzles, which included versions for other media, have links with NSFW links.  Fun times. I stick to music, mostly, now, with less risqué links. Basically, I take a song title and change the words, and then I have my viewers guess the correct title.  For example, if you saw "Preserve and Store That One's Lacrimal Fluids," the answer would be "Save Your Tears" by The Weeknd with Ariana Grande, the number two song for 2021 and the number forty song for 2022.   This year continues a trend with various problems.  For instance, many songs, such as "Tears," are repeated from the previous year.  Also, there is a preponderance of one-, two-, and three-word titles.  Shorter titles such as these are harder to rework.  A few songs from last year had letters in their titles, and they are not easily changeable.  Not to mention I sometimes can't figure out exactly what they mean.  (What is "P" and how does one 'push' it?) Finally, slang terms and foreign words are quite popular as well.  For the former, I might not know what they stand for.  The latter, there really isn't any fun in directly translating a word, if I'm able to do it at all.  Still, I have managed to come up with more than enough for this puzzle.  As a hint, the titles are are roughly arranged in their end-of-year order.  The answers are found at the bottom of the page.

  1. Periods of Intense Above Average Temperatures
  2. High-end Flight Seating
  3. Extremely Large Power Stores
  4. Low Temperature Cardiac Muscle
  5. Multiple Occurrences of Inappropriate Behavior
  6. Entirely Used Up for the Convenience of That Person
  7. Quickly Perambulating Vertically on One Particular Prominence (Supreme Deity-Approved Contract)
  8. The Entirety of the Madrigal Family Refuses to Mention Their Eldest Extant Male Relation, the One with Ocular Ability
  9. Conversation Occurring During Nocturnal Hours, Particularly Well after Twelve
  10. Singular Occurrence of Inappropriate Behavior
  11. Desensitized Minuscule Insect Arthropod
  12. Destroy This One's Spiritual Component
  13. Vodka, Lime Juice, and Ginger Beer Cocktail
  14. That Person There Is Entirely Correct in Their Assumption
  15. Granular Particulates Entered This One's Western Footwear
  16. Arrive Concurrently Where We Have a Mutual Admiration
  17. Brachial Phalanges Were Counter-Manipulated
  18. That Person's Best Interest Is to Vacate These Premises
  19. Of a Not Exactly Saintly Nature
  20. Round Meanderings outside the Limits of Our Municipality



ANSWERS

  1. Heat Waves
  2. First Class
  3. Big Energy
  4. Cold Heart
  5. Bad Habits
  6. Wasted on You
  7. Running up That Hill (A Deal with God)
  8. We Don't Talk about Bruno
  9. Late Night Talking
  10. Bad Habit
  11. Numb Little Bug
  12. Break My Soul
  13. Moscow Mule
  14. You Right
  15. Sand in My Boots
  16. Meet Me at Our Spot
  17. Fingers Crossed
  18. You Should Probably Leave
  19. Unholy
  20. Circles around This Town

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