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Shape's Cheap Best Of 2011!
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I'm expecting to see myself #1 on your top 10 Best Members.
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You better stan for Adventure Time.
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Let's get into it.
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Promise Me - The Saturdays
Oh here they are again! This song appeals to me in the same way White Lies does. It's got a catchy fun beat, and some decent vocals on top of that. However, the intrumental is significantly different than the rest of the album, so it has that going for it. However, the vocals are quite Auto-tuned compared to the rest of the album, and these girls really don't need that to be honest.
This is their second appearance on my Best Of.
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Now time for a worst.
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Start Over - Beyonce
This song isn't the 5th worst song of the year by any means. I'm sure there are hundreds of worse songs, all sung by artists that wouldn't even be fit enough to kiss Perfectonce's shoes.
However, this was the 5th worst song I've had to listen to this year. Her vocals are excellent, the music itself isn't bad by any means, but the song is useless. It goes nowhere, it's a little pocket of meandering on an album that's nearly flawless. The song isn't wretched, but it's a victim to a crime that Beyonce should know not to commit by now: Be boring
This is Beyonce's only appearance on my Worst Of.
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Back to the best... for now
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Wonderland - Natalia Kills
This Gaga-lite knockoff that tries to act like she isn't put out a few good tracks this year. Wonderland is one of them. I was actually surprised that this song didn't become a huge hit, simply because it follows the exact formula to become one. However, despite the formulaic approach to the song, and Natalia's ****ing annoying personality, I ended up really enjoying the track this year. Good job Natalia.
This is Natalia's first appearance on my Best Of.
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Time for my #9 album
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Year of the Metal Rabbit - NoizeBunny
So, this album has worldwide sales of like, 26 copies. The budget was probably less than $2000. The chances of this album having a Wikipedia article are extremely slim and the chance of this album getting a hit that even reaches the Bubbling Under is even more slim.
However, this EP has managed to become my drunk commute home, my studying album, and just about everything else in between. Sure it's cheap, and the lyrics may not be the best sometimes, but this album reminds me of the feelings I had listening to The Fame, or to Ke$ha demos before she even cracked the top 70. It's a good debut, so who gives a **** how relevant she becomes.
This is NoizeBunny's second appearance on my Best Of. Once again, follow her at http://www.twitter.com/noizebunny
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"Bounce" Huge song for me this year, though I didn't play it a lot. It was just that song I could go to whenever and jam out.
Really loved Crazy, Stupid, Love too.
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****, time for my 5th worst album.
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Femme Fatale - Britney Spears
Oh Britney. Britney, Britney, Britney. What the **** happened here? Hold It Against Me was pretty good! Till The World Ends was your best single since Toxic! I Wanna Go is catchy as ****! I'm even here for Drop Dead, Criminal, and Inside Out.
However, the other tracks just manage to be nothing for me. They're so... meh. I just couldn't get into most of the filler you had on this album, and I can listen through all of Circus with no problems. So how could you go from that to this? Probably Dr. Luke, but I'm still ashamed of you Britney. I hope that once you're out of your conservatorship with your father, and your contract with Jive, you can manage to build your own musical identity all over again. I want more ITZ and Blackout, and less Femme Fatale.
This is Britney's first appearance on my Worst Of.
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Natalia Kills is amazing and Wonderland is a good song.
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Originally posted by Léo.
Natalia Kills is amazing and Wonderland is a good song.
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You're wrong. We'll talk more about this as my countdown continues, don't you worry.
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Back to good music...
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You Make Me Feel (feat. Sabi) - Cobra Starship
Yeah, it samples I'm Not Alone and that's annoying. Really annoying actually, and that happens to be keeping this song from reaching even higher on my Best Of. However, it's still rather danceable and fun! Cobra Starship brings their classic sense of fun with it, and Sabi makes us all forget that "steam me like a pot full of vegetables" incident with her catchy hook. It's fun, it's sexy, and I can dance to it drunk. That's all I need really.
This is Cobra Starship and Sabi's only appearances on my Best Of. Steam me like a pot full of vegetables
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Originally posted by Shape
Time for my #9 album
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I'm not surprised. Noize Bunny *****.
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Time for my #9 movie
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Rango
Gore Verbinski's career has been rather interesting. He's made classics such as The Ring, and the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, two very differing genres. Instead of going down either of those paths for his big project, he went down the animated film route. Despite it seeming to be a weird fit on paper, Verbinski manages to bring his unique visions to the best animated film of the year.
Filled with complex characters, beautiful animations, and a Chinatown-esque story for kids, Rango manages to dazzle and entertain adults, while leaving kids dumbfounded and bored. And I love it when a kids movie pisses off kids.
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Time for my 5th worst movie
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Something Borrowed
It's sad that this is on my list at all to be honest. I'm a huge fan of Ginnifer Goodwin and John Krasinki, and the dude in this movie is pretty hot as well. It even had Victoria from HIMYM, and she's always been my favorite character on that show.
Yet this movie has Kate Hudson, a Kiss of Death it seems. Her over the top performance manages to drag this movie's already questionable premise down, and keep this movie boring, dull, and annoying. The film's message of "**** the world, find your true love" would probably be a little better had Goodwin's character not snatched away the man from Kate Hudson's fat arms, thus being someone even more terrible than Fat Hodgkins
Simple put, this movie is a ****** rom-com with some terrible performances from terrible actors and some meh performances from some pretty good actors.
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I'll do a stretch of songs for a while
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Give Me Everything (feat. Ne-Yo, Nayer, and Afrojack) - Pitbull
So we heard this song basically everywhere this year, and for good reason. The Afrojack beat simply ***** on lives. It's catchy, and it makes any club go apeshit when they hear it. On top of that, Ne-Yo sexy hook, and Nayer's little part in the song both keep the quality going, and keep us all singing along.
However, Pitbull brings everything to a screeching halt. He's cheesy, stupid, and way too full of himself. It sucks, because he nearly ruins what could've been a top 10 on my list.
This is Pitbull, Ne-Yo, Nayer, and Afrojack's only appearances on my Best Of list.
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Continuing my songs...
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She (feat. Frank Ocean) - Tyler, The Creator
I'll just say this now: She is in my opinion, one of Tyler's weakest performances. It's a tad boring, the verses don't have his cleverness, and there's just a basic feeling to it all.
However, Frank Ocean saves this song with one of my favorite choruses this year. It's sexy, a little raunchy, but most of all it's somehow romantic. Ocean's croons make my ears get boners, and help this song stand out on an album full of killer tracks.
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Moving along
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Changed The Way You Kiss Me - Example
Now we're really starting to get into the good ****. Example came out with one of my fave singles of last year, Kickstarts. His first big single since then is CTWYKM, and it's fire. The beat is stellar, the vocals are awesome, and the lyrics are kinda meh. Oh well, it's still a good first single, and it's worthy of my Top 75.
This is Example's only appearance on my Best Of
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Sexy and I Know It - LMFAO
Ok it's ******, but it's a campy ******. They know what they're doing, and it's entertaining. The beat is pretty awesome, and "I I I I, I work out" has become a staple in my list of phrases I repeat while I'm drunk. It's fun, stop being so pretentious.
This is LMFAO's first appearance on my Best Of.
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Time for TV!
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The Office
Alright, so it's really been ****** since September of this year. However, Michael's final stretch in the first half of the year featured some of the best writing I've ever seen on television, and it was an emotional way to send off the show's best character.
The show will probably never be as good as it used to be, but at least they managed to pull together their best writing for a final goodbye.
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But... there was some ****** TV this year as well. Let's look at #5
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True Blood
I loved the first two seasons of True Blood. I thought it was one of the best new shows in 2008, and I quickly got addicted. ****, it was the show that introduced me to Alan Ball, and helped me discover one of my favorite movies of all time.
However, the 3rd season was horrendous. The storylines went from clever to melodramatic, and I was getting tired of it.
This season was better than season 3, but not by much. It became kind of entertaining again, and the spell that Eric was under made for some interesting scenes, but the show was just kind of meh. I'm sure it'll get a bit better next season, but I doubt it'll ever reach the peaks of seasons 1 & 2 ever again.
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