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Music News: MTV News: Top 25 Songs of 2010
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MTV News: Top 25 Songs of 2010
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/165...ck__rap_.jhtml
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25. Rick Ross (featuring Ne-Yo), "Super High"
Total Points: 48
The debut single from Ross' Teflon Don album, "Super High" dropped in May and dazzled everyone with its mix of style (check Ne-Yo's glossy, flossy chorus) and swagger (Ross boasts about besting foes "by margins larger than Fran Tarkenton" and insists that "only fly bitches ride with the Boss"). Produced by DJ Clark Kent, it glides by swatches of both N.W.A and silky '70s R&B act Enchantment, which sort of makes it a pretty apt metaphor for Ross himself, when you think about it.
24. Swedish House Mafia, "One (Your Name)"
Total Points: 50 (named on two ballots)
It recalls, alternately, a blender, a rubber band, a Simon, a motorcycle and something from the "Mortal Kombat" soundtrack (and that's just in the crowd-uniting intro). But, really, "One" is the year's best club anthem, a seamless mixture of stray sounds, house stomp and monster rave hooks that packed dance floors from Iowa to Ibiza (and the Jersey Shore too). Throw in hints of acoustic guitar, piano and, uh, Pharrell Williams, and you've got a track that's practically bursting its britches, but it's a credit to the trio of Swedish stars that produced it that "One" remains slipstream-tight. Chances are, when Rihanna, Usher and Chris Brown made their respective forays into dance music, this was the track that inspired them to do so.
23. LCD Soundsystem, "I Can Change"
Total Points: 50 (named on three ballots)
A woozy mixture of bloopy electronics and, well, naked insecurity, "I Can Change" is, on the surface, just a come-down track from a night of excess and elation. But what makes it great is what makes all of James Murphy's songs so great: the fact that, beneath it all, there beats a very human heart, a desperate, pleading one that needs love no matter what. Lie to him, build him up and then tear him down, Murphy doesn't care, so long as he's coming home with you tonight. "It's good in the dark," he sings, but he's also smart enough to cover what happens in the light too. The end result may not be pretty, but, hey, at least he's honest.
22. Yeasayer, "O.N.E."
Total Points: 52
What happens when one of Brooklyn's brightest bands decides: "Screw this, let's make a pop record?" "O.N.E.," of course. A sumptuous, supple and sublimely silly tune — on an album, Odd Blood, that's full of them — "O.N.E." worms along on undulating synth lines, funky fretwork and a downright sexxxy falsetto yelp, and somewhere along the way, it also manages to transform itself into the picture-perfect pop song, for the 22nd century and beyond. All of which is a rather bookish way of saying Britney, Katy and Gaga wish they could pull something like this off.
21. Robyn, "Hang With Me"
Total Points: 54
Robyn's best songs are always her most bittersweet, and "Hang With Me" is no exception. A rather fragile, heartbreaking exploration of those first tentative steps into (or out of) love, it's also a starry, synthy super-ballad, an electro-pop wonder that just keeps chiming along until the chorus hits, the joy overloads and everything is right with the world. Robyn cautions us not to fall "recklessly, headlessly" in love with her, but when she makes songs as good as "Hang With Me," it's sort of difficult not to.
20. The National, "Bloodbuzz Ohio"
Total Points: 59
White-collar angst from blue-collar barflies, "Bloodbuzz" is the sound of all that is terrifying and unyielding in adulthood, a weary warbler practically bowed under with the unspoken regrets of anyone who's ever been up against the wall or in too deep. Matt Berninger is at his boozy, woozy best, mumbling the year's most perfectly crushing line — "I still owe money to the money I owe" — while the guitars fret beneath him and the water continues to rise. There's no stopping the inevitable, after all.
19. Alicia Keys, "Un-Thinkable (I'm Ready)"
Total Points: 60
A simmering, downright serpentine track that pulses on little more than a barebones back track, noirish piano chords and — above all else — Keys' breathless, deft vocals, "Un-Thinkable" is the rare example of a megastar stripping it all away and just being brave. And it packs the kind of wallop no amount of studio trickery could muster as a result. Keys is laying it all on the line here, and she's doing it because she deserves it. Or at least she thinks she does. And that caveat is the key: She's the rare talent who's also willing to admit that she has doubts, which makes her — and this song — all the more impactful.
18. Chris Brown, "Deuces"
Total Points: 64
Unapologetic, brash and, sure, even cocky, "Deuces" is Chris Brown's "FU" to the world, and truth be told, he's at his absolute best when he's angry. In theory, the song is little more than a supremely swaggering kiss-off to a nagging ex, but when he sings, "I'm movin' on to something better," you can't help but think that's also addressing everyone who's vilified him over the past 18 months — and that's probably the point. He knows you're mad, but so what?
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I like it so far  Swedish House Mafia worship:
The 18-11 is out on friday and the finally is monday.
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Swedish House Mafia 
Deuces
Unthinkable
This year music was not that bad 
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Wait...were is the full time list ?
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Originally posted by G&G
Wait...were is the full time list ?
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the 18-11 is being posted on mtv on friday and top 10 on monday, i will update as they do.
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I only know Alicia's song  love it though
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^ Me too 
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Alicia & Robyn 
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I've only heard of Chris Brown's (  ) and Alicia's
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Un-thinkable 
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Robyn, Alicia, and Chris
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#17 Rude Boy
#15 Only Girl (In the World)
#9 Love the Way You Lie
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I see CB team has been paying them companies, we can clearly see he's making a comeback, first the nominations at the grammys now all of a sudden he's on the"best of" lists while a few months back he was being trashed by the critics, he better werk that payola/promo
And Un-thinkable was one of the best songs this year 
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17. Rihanna, "Rude Boy"
Total Points: 65
A straight-up sex jam from the formerly demure Ms. Fenty, "Rude Boy" was the third single from the Rated R album, but unlike most everything else on the disc, it's not a morbid, morose affair. Rather, it's full of swirling synths and rushing handclaps, jerking along on a dancehall lilt and RiRi's newfound ragga swagger. Straying from the drama that had enveloped her life during the recording of the album, "Rude Boy" is Rihanna looking for love — or, more specifically, a man to give that love to her. And on this night, it may be you. Can you get it up? Is you big enough? No pressure or anything.
16. Lady Gaga, "Alejandro"
Total Points: 77
It's perhaps the most, uh, oddball track in Lady Gaga's increasingly odd arsenal — in that it sounds like Madonna's "La Isla Bonita" (or an Ace of Base B-side) — so it should come as no surprise to anyone that she decided to release it as a single, complete with a nine-minute video in which she swallows a rosary and pouts like Marlene Dietrich. Sure, Katy Perry might not have liked it all that much, but the rest of us marveled at Gaga's bravado, not only to transform a breezy ode to summertime love into a curio from the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, but to carry such a retro-leaning song all the way to the upper reaches of the Hot 100. There truly isn't anything she can't do.
15. Rihanna, "Only Girl (In the World)"
Total Points: 90
By the time she released Loud, Rihanna was telling anyone who would listen that she was done being dire and just wanted to have some fun. And, well, there were few songs released this year as flat-out fun as "Only Girl," a bubbly slice of club pop with — arguably — 2010's best chorus, a super-charged, positively life-affirming thing that somehow sounded best when it was shouted very loudly from the middle of a packed dance floor. Or in the shower. The greatest pop songs work no matter where you hear them, and "Only Girl (In the World)" is most definitely a great pop song.
14. B.o.B (featuring Bruno Mars), "Nothin' on You"
Total Points: 91
The first of B.o.B's two heart-on-his-sleeve hits, "Nothin' on You" is a sweet, almost hokey love letter to the girls that rock both his — and crooner/producer Bruno Mars' — world, and it's notable not only for its downright viral level of catchiness (seriously, listen to it and see how long it takes you to start singing "Na-na-na-nothin' on you, babe!"), but because it introduced the world to two of the year's biggest breakout stars. They'll travel far and wide, but B.o.B and Bruno will always come back home to you. Shout-out to girls who pay their taxes!
13. Kanye West (featuring Bon Iver, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj and Rick Ross), "Monster"
Total Points: 94
The year's most appropriately titled track, "Monster" is a menacing, maniacal posse cut, growling along on a beastly backbeat (courtesy of King Kanye) and downright angry verses from Ross (who proudly proclaims himself to be a "fat mother----er"), Jay (who raps about Sasquatch and whines that he doesn't get enough loooove), West (who would like to put your lady parts in a sarcophagus) and, most notably, Nicki (who more than stands up to her heavyweight competition; she K.O.'s them all). If most of 'Ye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is an exploration of his madcap life, "Monster" is a look deep inside his own psyche. More terrifyingly, it's his snarling superego.
12. B.o.B (featuring Hayley Williams), "Airplanes"
Total Points: 99
Like Kanye, B.o.B isn't afraid to point out the fact that everything in the fabulous life isn't necessarily all that fabulous, that no matter how many ringtones you sell or how many people you surround yourself with, you're still going to be unhappy and, ultimately, alone. So instead you spend your nights wishing on airplanes and holding your phone in your lap, hoping against hope, thinking about how that job as a sandwich artist wasn't really all that bad, in retrospect. And then in the morning, you get up and do it all over again. Because you have to. Swoony and somber, "Airplanes" is proof that even rappers can get emo. Do people even use that word anymore?
11. Katy Perry, "Teenage Dream"
Total Points: 102
The beauty of "Teenage Dream" is its simplicity: It is a song about being helplessly, head-over-heels in love and nothing more. It doesn't matter that, at the time of this writing, Katy Perry is 26 years old, or that she's happily married to a famous British comedian; you still believe her when she's singing it (it probably has something to do with the way she hits the chorus: "You! Make! Me!"). Shoot, as "Glee" proved, you don't even have to be a girl to record a convincing version of the song. "Teenage Dream" proves that, when it comes to matters of the heart, it's always best to keep it simple — truthfully, swooningly so.
10) Lady Gaga Telephome
9) Eminem - Love the way you lie
8) Jay Z - On to the next one
7) Dake - Fancy
6) Robyn - Dancing on my own
5) Cee Loo Green - **** you
4) Rick Ross - BMF
3) Kanye West - Power
2) Kanye West - Runway
1) Usher - OMG 
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Originally posted by Last Boy on Earth
I see CB team has been paying them companies, we can clearly see he's making a comeback, first the nominations at the grammys now all of a sudden he's on the"best of" lists while a few months back he was being trashed by the critics, he better werk that payola/promo
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 His album was being trashed a year ago, then that fazed out. Months ago, he got back on the right track at BET, "Deuces" became a mainstream song, with great critical praise and amazing chart success.
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Bad list
ewwwwwwwwww
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LOL, terrible #1. Like the nods to Robyn, though.
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Originally posted by Last Boy on Earth
I see CB team has been paying them companies, we can clearly see he's making a comeback, first the nominations at the grammys now all of a sudden he's on the"best of" lists while a few months back he was being trashed by the critics, he better werk that payola/promo |
Are you talking about Rihanna? 
Yeasayer, Kanye, Robyn and The National.
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Top 5. 
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1) Usher - OMG 
not a fan.
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