Pitchfork released songs 100-51 of their best songs of 2011, and there are some interesting choices.
First off, Kelly Rowland charts at 79 with "Motivation." A little further down, Britney Spears' "Till The World Ends" remix charts at 72 and "We Found Love" by Rihanna sits at 67.
Here's what Pitchfork has to say about each song:
79. Kelly Rowland/Lil Wayne - "Motivation"
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What made Kelly Rowland's "Motivation" so much sexier than everything else on R&B radio in 2011? The pacing. In a year when a high-tempo, bastardized form of house dominated charts, this Jim Jonsin-produced number stood out by being the slowest of slow jams. His Houston-speed backing track is stripped virtually naked, down to a few steely synth groans and a syrupy drum clap, and it moves forward only by lurching. Sometimes the beat drops out for 10 seconds at a time. It oozes. That leaves Rowland, who lacks the star power of her former bandmate Beyoncé, to let her guard down and go for it vocally. She coos. She moans. Her lyrics don't bother with innuendo, in fact they're almost hilariously literal. ("Go longer", "Push harder, you're almost there now.") It's over-the-top, but it works because the production calls for it. Oh, and then there's Weezy, who swings by for an economical but spot-on guest verse. He drops a few vaguely raunchy metaphors and then gets out of the way, understanding that, on this one, the beat is the star. --Joe Colly
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72. Britney Spears/Nicki Minaj/Ke$ha - "Till The World Ends (Remix)"
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"Till the World Ends" was already the best Britney single since "Toxic", an ecstatic Euroclub floor-filler about wanting to dance until the world ends and other important matters. Then they added the Nicki Minaj verse. In her 45-second evisceration, Nicki manages to squeeze in chicken noises and the words "poultry," "Epsom salt," and "Ricki Lake"-- not to mention the immortal diss "Sniff, sniff, criiiies/ I done slayed your entire ****ing liiiiife." (Fact: In 2011, pretty much any song in the world could be made infinitely better by the addition of a Nicki Minaj verse.) Sprinkle a little bit of Ke$ha, the song's co-writer, on the chorus, and you've got a three-headed diva Hydra that sums up the recent changing of the femme pop guard from airbrushed and perfect to (relatively) weird and chaotic. It's the year's greatest quickie cash-in remix created to boost the chart position of a floundering single. Considering the ubiquity of the practice, that's saying something. --Amy Phillips
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67. Rihanna/Calvin Harris - "We Found Love"
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As much as Rihanna's highly publicized private struggles and darkly domineering performative persona have shaped her into a compelling pop figure, she still makes one hell of a cipher. Musically, the Calvin Harris-produced smash "We Found Love" is pure house hedonism, and it calls for a singer who can surrender herself in equal measure. But here's the thing: If it were just some no-name vocalist blissfully exhorting, "We found love in a hopeless place," ad nauseum, then it wouldn't be half as effective, because the surrender wouldn't mean anything to us; it wouldn't feel earned. She may not be as outsized a personality as Lady Gaga or Beyoncé, but right now Rihanna's making the entire pop world bend to her whims, and if this song is powerful enough to make her lose herself, then the rest of us don't stand a chance. --Josh Love
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list so far.
, but I dont care at least she's in the list 
