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Originally posted by TheOnlyOne
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You ready to end this round yet?  |
Not until I have my say.
Crazy in Love - Maybe the best sample of the past decade? As a single, it's a safe bet to say that Bey's never bettered it.
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Losing Grip - Give or take a
Complicated, the best single Avril's ever released. It does its job beautifully, and she actually sounds real - not in any cliched sense, but in a very natural teenage girl way.
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**** You - Lily Allen is very good, maybe even great, when writing about the fallacies of modern romance. Surprisingly effective when speaking on the pitfalls of fame and celebrity. Not at all usable doing anything else.
**** You is Exhibit A - Case Closed.
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The Loving Kind - Very good, with more sophisticated production than
Call the Shots - but a collaboration between Xenomania and the Pet Shop Boys
should be better. Xenomania's usual broken structure just doesn't work here, and I can't help but wonder ... is this the best song Sophie Ellis-Bextor never recorded?
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P.S. - The outro nearly saves it.
S.O.S. -
S.O.S. finds Rihanna in the midst of a transition from the R&B approximations of her youth to the cold, removed yet sensuous pop vixen she was meant to be. This genre hybrid proved to be successful for many years (hello Kristinia??!?!?), but Rihanna really is the owner of it.
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Womanizer - Still exciting, two and a half years later. More rhythmic than melodic, but that's not such a bad thing all the time. Could anyone else have pulled off the spoken-word chorus better? For songs that obliquely reference her wilderness years, it's only bettered by
Blackout, and
How I Roll. 4
This Love - This fills me with displeasure.
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Try Again - It's been really weird seeing the results of the week so far for many reasons, but primarily because most of you all are under the impression that anything's better than
Try Again. You're sadly mistaken. Eleven years later, complexities in the production are just now revealing themselves.
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