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#02
BRITNEY SPEARS - "Oops!... I Did It Again"
609 points
Number of Voters: 21
Highest Voter: inagalaxyfar ; JO3Y [#1]
Ozzy8923 [#2]
Quicksand ; sumthintoxic82 [#3]
Pedro; Haus-OF_Mck ; atrlster ; umichgrad07 [#4]
alfonso12 ; Carlton ; SyntaxError [#6]
ianBK4 ; supaspaz [#7]
Janelle Monae ; Beatfreak [#8]
Changes [#9]
KT&T ; Ace Reject [#16]
Strangergab [#17]
Album : Oops!... I Did It Again (2000)
Track No: 1
Genre: Teen pop, dance-pop
Writer: Max Martin, Rami Yacoub
Producer: Max Martin, Rami Yacoub
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"Oops!... I Did It Again" received positive reviews from music critics. A review of Billboard commented the track as "a solid pop song that should add further heat to this superstar's red-hot career." Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone compared the track musically to Barbra Streisand's "Woman In Love" and lyrically to The Smiths' "I Started Something I Couldn't Finish", and stated that "that brutal growl is all Britney, articulating a violently ambivalent sexual confusion her audience can relate to, kicking and screaming for the right to figure out her desires before the world decides for her". NME compared the structure of the recording to Michael Jackson's 80s riffs, and called the track "essentially a harder, carbon copy of "...Baby One More Time", but easily as good as her breakthrough single". Andy Battaglia from online magazine Salon said that "as a don't-go-there anthem from teenie pop's most forbidden fruit, the song makes for a sweetly sadistic companion piece to the masochism lite lurking beneath her debut, "... Baby One More Time"." Bill Lamb from About.com listed the song at number six on Spears' Top 10 Songs, saying: "Oops!..I Did It Again" is catchy, a triumphant return to formula, and deliriously witty. The spoken word allusions to the Titanic near the end of the song cap a triumphant second act for Britney"
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#01
MADONNA - "Music"
765 points
Number of Voters: 29
Highest Voter: SupremeGoddess ; Lifeline ; madonnas ; Subomie [#1]
HonourableVomit ; collin ; Haus-Of_Mck [#2]
Hunter_13 [#3]
Ozzy8923 [#4]
I'mRihannafan [#5]
ianBK4 ; Honey ; SebaMonster ; Penk [#6]
August [#7]
Quicksand [#8]
Carlton ; KT&T [#9]
Stevie ; THERihfan [#10]
A Little Unruly ; sumthintoxic82 ; gotintoririfever1 ; supaspaz [#11]
Inner Insanity ; lovesong [#16]
SyntaxError [#17]
Janelle Monae [#19]
JO3Y [#20]
Album : Music (2000)
Track No: 1
Genre: Electropop, dance-pop
Writer: Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï
Producer: Madonna, Mirwais Ahmadzaï
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"The song received positive reaction from critics, who praised the production, catchiness and club-friendly nature of the song. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic called it "a thumping track which sounds funkier, denser, sexier with each spin". In a review of the album, Vibe called the track "a bouncing parade of synthesizers that pose the question 'Do fortysomething baby-mamas still have the divine right to get down?' (The answer is yes). And so, as the vocoders gurgle and the analog synths invoke Zapp, a slowly building crescendo of rhythm announces Madonna's return." Entertainment Weekly said "the song recaptures the simple perfection of "Holiday" (1982) and brings her career full circle." Slant magazine praised the song in a review of the album: "["Music"] is a retro hands-in-the-air club song reminiscent of Debbie Deb's "When I Hear Music" and Madonna's own "Into The Groove (1985)," [and] is the singer's best dancefloor-beckoning track since "Vogue. (1990)" She sings "Music makes the people come together" like a track off of her debut album, and as an added bonus she uses words like "bourgeoisie" and "acid-rock" with equal abandon."
The song was named the 66th best song of the 2000s decade by Rolling Stone, which said that "despite all the new pop starlets out there trying to jump her train, Madonna definitely [is] not slackening pace. When she dropped "Music," she was older than Britney and Christina combined, yet she took them to school with vintage electro-boom, Eurodisco flourishes from French producer Mirwais, and her own inimitable sass."
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