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1. Daft Punk - Get Lucky
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The retro-future clufu has defeated all comers— now it's simply called the eternal Present, i.e., the dizziness of the nonstop kulcha-bizness sic transit Gloria. Meanwhile, the French woebots (who have been instrumental in dancing this decade-skipping mess around, of course) blithely boogie and play conventional instruments (well, sorta) fronted by the Commander of Happy, who obviously cut a Faustian bargain to become pop's 2013 toastmaster general (and to flaunt smooth-as-a-bébé bas 40-year-old skin). "What keeps the planet spinning?" Cdr. Happy implores. From the evidence presented here, it's Nile Rodgers' guitar.
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2. Robin Thicke, feat. T.I. and Pharrell - Blurred Lines
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In the immortal words of Nigel Tufnel, "What's wrong with being sexy?" Whether you found this irresistible or just inescapable, our host a lovable doofus or a craven predator, the beat a loving tribute to Marvin Gaye or ******** grounds for a preemptive countersuit, this will survive its summertime oversaturation to fill karaoke parlors and wedding-reception dance floors with delight for decades hence. Be careful who you point to when you sing, "You the hottest bitch in this place." The video really is the best thing ever, BTW, but not for the reason you think.
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3. Ace Hood, feat. Future, Rick Ross - Bugatti
4. Haim - Falling
5. Migos, feat. Drake - Versace (Remix)
6. Tegan & Sara - Closer
7. Neko Case - Man
8. Disclosure, feat. Aluna George - White Noise
9. Kanye West - Black Skinhead
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ith a death-grip on the mic amid a cataclysmic, industrial-punk thud (courtesy of Daft Punk and French techno ruffian Gessafelstein), Our Lord and Savior Yeezus Christ blacks out about mass incarceration and never-not-mutating racism atop a vaporous mountain of Louis Vuitton pipedreams, then instructs his minions to burn their gold, grind it to powder, scatter it on a glass of water, and swallow the bitter result. Wait, that was Black Moses, right?! Regardless, here is Yehovah's Cray-Baldheads communiqué for Americans who find him (and other African-American agitpoppers) a nuisance or hypocritical or worse: Slavery and its ongoing damage ain't your fault, huh? You're bummed you can't say "*****" like all those entitled nasty rappers? That's not the ****ing issue, cowboy.
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10. The Knife - Full of Fire
11. Rocko, feat. Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Ab-Soul, & Jay Rock - U.O.E.N.O.
12. Caitlin Rose - Only a Clown
13. Chance the Rapper - Chain Smoker
14. Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball
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Right, yes, OK: No way history remembers this as anything other than the One With the Video Where She Licks the Sledgehammer. Which is a shame, because this is just astounding, the enormity of its delicacy, the Jumbotron-shattering grandeur of its intimacy, the way that weeping gut-punch of a bridge shatters your psyche and renders you unable to even remember which Hemsworth this is probably about. I could not be more serious about this; I will fight with you on the Internet about this song. (Fine, though, if you'd rather sub in "We Can't Stop," which history will, of course, remember as the One Where Robin Thicke Lost His Virginity Onstage on National Television While Dressed as Beetlejuice.)
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15. Lorde - Royals
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here are methods of pop provocation that don’t involve foam fingers and/or exploited backup dancers and/or disquieting racial fetishization, y'know, so please enjoy this 10,000-word, sociocultural-rant party-starter distilled down to a chilly, bracing, immaculate 3:10, as delivered by a then-16-year-old New Zealander who stole her far more famous (and garish) peers' thunder in 2013 with just a hint of lightning, a booming swing-low-sweet-chariot voice issuing into a mesmerizing void of undead space and unearthly echo. Rage against its squirmy anti-bling themes and debilitating ubiquity if you wish, but those are just other ways of watching the throne. True artpop rarely announces itself as such.
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16. Vampire Weekend - Ya Hey
17. Todd Terje - Strandbar
18. Superchunk - Me & You & Jackie Mittoo
19. Rich Homie Quan - Type of Way
20. Rhye - Open
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