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We compiled a playlist of songs that tell us where music is going. Hosted by Jake Silverstein, the editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine, and Nitsuh Abebe, a story editor, it features some of their favorite writers and the songs that spoke to them this year. Find the magazine’s music issue at nytimes.com/25songs.

Wesley Morris on Adele’s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover).”

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd on Missy Elliott’s “I’m Better.”