The Music Writers' Poll 2014: Hannah Story

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

1. Chet Faker - Built On Glass
2. Megan Washington - There There
3. Taylor Swift - 1989
4. The Ocean Party - Soft Focus
5. Straight Arrows - Rising
6. Warpaint - Warpaint
7. Ty Segall - Manipulator
8. The Frowning Clouds - Legalize Everything
9. Richard In Your Mind - Ponderosa
10. The Jezabels - The Brink

SONG OF THE YEAR

1. Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
2. Sia - Chandelier
3. Megan Washington - Limitless
4. Beyoncé ft Nicki Minaj - Flawless (Remix)
5. Taylor Swift - Blank Space

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

1. Violent Soho
2. Taylor Swift
3. Chet Faker
4. Sia
5. Megan Washington

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE

1. Miley Cyrus
2. Kanye West
3. The National
4. Warpaint
5. Temples

AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE

1. Violent Soho
2. Something For Kate
3. Courtney Barnett
4. Palms
5. Cam Avery

TOP TV SHOW

1. Girls
2. Please Like Me
3. Upper Middle Bogan
4. True Detective
5. The Chaser's Media Circus

TOP MOVIE

1. Boyhood
2. This Is Where I Leave You
3. Frank
4. Happy Christmas
5. The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: Her

TOP WEBSITE

1. The Lifted Brow: Online
2. Overland Online
3. Kill Your Darlings Journal Online
4. Junkee
5. Daily Life

HIGHLIGHT OF 2014

The Glass Menagerie at Belvoir St Theatre, War Is Over - If You Want It by Yoko Ono at MCA, reading Joan Didion for the first time. New York. Bar openings and udon. Radio spots, editorial slots, performance spots, fiction slots. Being a real adult journalist and receiving hate mail, but also receiving really positive vibes for the Something For Kate reissue series. Speaking to Conor Oberst and getting an “us-ie” with Paul Dempsey. Miley fucking Cyrus. What a year.

PREDICTION FOR 2015

Taylor Swift performs the concert of the year just in time for the 2015 Writers’ Poll. Everyone else is too hip to admit it.