The Music Writers' Poll 2014: Stephanie Liew

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

1. St Vincent – St Vincent
2. Lykke Li - I Never Learn
3. Ariana Grande - My Everything
4. Banks - Goddess
5. FKA Twigs - LP1
6. Taylor Swift - 1989
7. Jessie Ware - Tough Love
8. Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
9. Kimbra - The Golden Echo
10. Tinashe - Aquarius

SONG OF THE YEAR

1. FKA Twigs - Two Weeks
2. Ariana Grande - Problem
3. Kimbra - '90s Music
4. Young Thug - Old English
5. Tkay Maidza - U-Huh

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

1. Nicki Minaj
2. FKA Twigs
3. Taylor Swift
4. Courtney Barnett
5. Sia

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST PERFORMANCE

1. Kanye West
2. St Vincent
3. Haim
4. Phoenix
5. The National

AUSTRALIAN ARTIST PERFORMANCE

1. Movement
2. Banoffee
3. DD Dumbo
4. Ajak Kwai
5. World's End Press

TOP TV SHOW

1. Orphan Black
2. Orange Is The New Black
3. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
4. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
5. If You Are The One

TOP MOVIE

1. The Tale Of Princess Kaguya
2. Snowpiercer
3. Obvious Child
4. Gone Girl
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel

TOP WEBSITE

1. Tumblr
2. Twitter
3. Letterboxd
4. theMusic.com.au
5. Last.fm

HIGHLIGHT OF 2014

Well I went on a holiday to Japan so... that. Also 2014 was an amazing year for women in music - in live performances, in releases, in just being boss ass bitches in life and in the media - and it was a happy accident that my top ten albums were 9/10 women.

PREDICTION FOR 2015

The Music's gonna keep killin' it and growing; and so are women in music. News is depressing at the best of times, but this year's political and social issues that made big news will inform how we critique music, arts and media in the new year and hopefully we all learn from that. Finally, I'll visit the States at the end of 2015... because once this is published I'll have to stick to the plan, right?