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Ke$ha tries something entirely different here and succeeds. It's not really a highlight of
Animal, but I enjoy it.
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How this wasn't last is beyond me. It's truly one of the ugliest songs I've ever heard in my entire life.
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CALIFORNIA GURLS (feat. Snoop Dogg)
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Cutesy fun, but not nearly as exhilarating nor transformative a party anthem as "Tik Tok," its clear sister track.
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Personally, I think the Avril Lavigne sample is genius. And any chorus that so clearly invites the listener to sing along is smart pop songwriting. I'm really not sure why voters rejected it.
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NOT LIKE THE MOVIES
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Positively gorgeous. It's no surprise that ATRL, with its lowbrow tastes, isn't here for it, but "Not Like the Movies" is one of the only tracks on
Teenage Dream that transcends the highly deliberate Dr. Luke hit-making and breaches into legitimately artistic musical territory.
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Way underrated. The electric guitars are a great touch, and it's one of Rihanna's best vocal performances ever. A total throwback, and a nice respite among the relentless dance beats of
Loud.
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It may not go to dynamic enough places to compete with the huge songs that surround it, but "Fading" is far from filler. Watching all these
Loud tracks fall one by one is depressing, because they are miles better than so much basicness found on some of these other albums.
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PARTY AT A RICH DUDE'S HOUSE
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Alright, now this is some
********. This song is indisputably top five material, people! TOP FIVE. It may follow the same party-rocking, club-banging formula as "Tik Tok" (appealingly boisterous energy + irresistibly massive hook = song of the year!), but it's better in every way. A perfect 10.
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I was once a defender of "Firework," but that massive hook must have blinded me. Listening to it again for this rate, I realized how trite and average it really is. I won't miss it.