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Celeb News: Lady GaGa, Britney & Beyoncé make Slant's Top Songs of 2011
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Lady GaGa, Britney & Beyoncé make Slant's Top Songs of 2011
25. Battles featuring Matias Aguayo, "Ice Cream."
24. Beyoncé, "Love on Top."
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With merely respectable sales and a paltry two Grammy nominations (when, just last year, she was bestowed a second nomination for the same track she'd been nominated for a year earlier), Beyoncé's 4 has languished long enough that it's no doubt going to emerge someday as her great, underappreciated masterpiece, her Fulfillingness' First Finale. Even if it doesn't, somewhere between the disc's copious ballads and its few, hyperventilating dance tracks, Beyoncé strikes a perfect balance with this breezy midtempo tribute to the 1980s (even though she can't resist throwing in about 17 key changes). The video's NKOTB choreography puts the icing on top. Eric Henderson
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23. St. Vincent, "Cruel."
22. Patrick Wolf, "The City."
21. 2NE1, "I Am the Best."
20. Frank Ocean, "Novacane."
19. Girls, "Vomit"
18. Lykke Li, "I Follow Rivers."
17. SBTRKT featuring Yukimi Nagano, "Wildfire."
16. Britney Spears, "Till the World Ends."
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A Britney Spears triumph is as rare as a total solar eclipse, which may as well be the backdrop for "Till the World Ends." Co-written by Fredric Jameson friend and connoisseur Ke$ha, this highlight from Femme Fatale is, yes, just another celebration of kickin' it on the dance floor, but something happens on the gorgeous bridge just after Britney unleashes her second ******* of ecstatic whoah-oh-oh's: Are these really party-happening people dancing until dawn or survivors of an apocalypse? When those whoah-oh-oh's land, they do so with the force of a nuclear bomb, and Britney and her posse, like zombies, rise from an amazingly muffled void to assert their will to dance again. This song eats my brains. EG
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15. EMA, "California."
14. Lana Del Rey, "Blue Jeans."
13. Florence and the Machine, "Shake It Out."
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If lyrics about freedom, overcoming regrets that have been collected "like old friends here to relive your darkest moments," and the simple truth that it's hard to dance with a devil on your back doesn't move you, then perhaps the final 60 seconds of "Shake It Out" will, which forsakes language altogether and builds to a cacophony of bone-rattling organ, tribal percussion, and intersecting vocal parts that find Florence Welch finally succumbing to her demons and having drinks in the dark at the end of the road with the rest of us. SC
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12. Gotye featuring Kimbra, "Somebody That I Used to Know."
11. Das Racist, "Michael Jackson."
10. Azealia Banks featuring Lazy Jay, "212."
9. Beth Ditto, "I Wrote the Book."
8. Lady Gaga, "The Edge of Glory."
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It's a long and synth overdrive-overloaded road to get there, but Lady Gaga's expansive, go-for-broke Born This Way ends on a note of '80s power pop that unifies a huge album's every last conquistador concern, and wraps it up in a bow of saxophone blastula. A complete inversion of its LP-capping partner "Yoü and I," which turns a simple tune into country-fried fireworks, "The Edge of Glory" is a study in radical contrast that, once you sift aside its deliberately dated effects and the legacy of the late Clarence Clemons, is deep down an incredibly delicate ballad. Yes, everyone expects Gaga to make her confessions on the dance floor, but who knew she could make her shouts whisper? EH
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7. Fleet Foxes, "Helplessness Blues."
6. Robyn, "Call Your Girlfriend."
5. Lady Gaga, "Born This Way."
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Few singles have ever been as hotly anticipated as "Born This Way," and in that sense, the song may have become a victim of its own excess. Though it was unleashed last February to stunningly fast digital sales, it was also welcomed with an unmistakable undercurrent of critical disappointment. Yes, it borrows liberally from Madge's Shep Pettibone-era blueprint. Yes, it's lyrically beyond presumptuous for Gaga to be speaking on our behalf. Yes, it's as subtle as a hot-pink ***** affixed to a chainsaw. It's still an unmistakable landmark pop-cultural moment, a post-irony, post-metaphor, pansexual celebration, aimed squarely at the audience that probably needs it the most. Simple, elegant, better. "Born This Way" doesn't just make a lot of noise. It is a lot of noise. And hell no, it won't go. EH
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4. Lana Del Rey, "Video Games."
3. Adele, "Rolling in the Deep."
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We're all thinking it: Thank goodness Adele got dumped. Without her dysfunctional breakup, the world wouldn't have 21, which, in turn, would have robbed us of "Rolling in the Deep," a fiery, almost sermonic soul-pop missive promising doom, pain, and woe on its unfortunate target. "Unfortunate," of course, because listeners can't help but feel sorry for the guy after hearing the kind of damning rage Adele levels at him, using the full force of her cosmic voice and the song's fierce gospel to pound at his guilty conscience. Even the track's unrelenting foot stomps sound as though they're being aimed squarely at her victim's noncommittal ass. Which is why "Rolling in the Deep" is such a good pop song: Far from a passive lament on the barbs of love, it's a weapon Adele uses with deadly precision to display virtuoso control over both her ex-lover and her craft. KL
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2. Tyler, the Creator, "Yonkers."
1. Kanye West, "All of the Lights."
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A holdover from last year's epochal My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, "All of the Lights" beats the pulp out of nearly everything released this year. It's also perhaps the most acute example of Kanye West's pitched mania for theatrical expressions of manic-depressive instability, his mixture of self-destruction and self-love, sentiments which carried over to this year's Watch the Throne, albeit muted by Jay-Z's magisterial arrogance, which is more static and less interesting. Beyond the canned horn fanfare and the unhinged breakbeats, the song's chorus ranks as one of the most brilliantly purposeful wastes of big-name talent ever: transport 20 pop stars to Hawaii, record them, hit blend. JC
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SOURCE: http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/f...es-of-2011/293
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8. Lady Gaga, "The Edge of Glory."
5. Lady Gaga, "Born This Way."
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4. Lana Del Rey, "Video Games."
3. Adele, "Rolling in the Deep."
Do you agree with this, Sammi? 
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Till The Worlds Ends pop perfection.
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Great list! Most of my fave songs from 2011 made it on here 
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Yonkers though...
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1. Kanye West, "All of the Lights (feat. Rihanna) ."
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21. 2NE1, "I Am the Best."
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HEW ELSE BUT THE KPOP QUEENS?
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Gaga Bey and Brit
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Trinity
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Rolling in the deeeep
Novacane
TTWE
AATL
Blue Jeans
Video Games
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Trinity
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Beyoncé's 4 has languished long enough that it's no doubt going to emerge someday as her great, underappreciated masterpiece, her Fulfillingness' First Finale.
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So true.
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yet another list I dont care much for /
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Lana making all the lists
Slant really loves Gaga 
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The Trinity 
Ande Adele & Lana 
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Born This Way 
This is the first list I've seen that bothers mentioning it 
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Yas!
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HEW ELSE BUT THE KPOP QUEENS?
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Queens.
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24. Beyoncé, "Love on Top."
8. Lady Gaga, "The Edge of Glory."
6. Robyn, "Call Your Girlfriend."
5. Lady Gaga, "Born This Way."
3. Adele, "Rolling in the Deep."
1. Kanye West, "All of the Lights."
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Yassss!!
I love this magazine so much. They always have the best tea out there 
The Edge Of Glory should be top3, though 
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