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Originally posted by Jennifer
SLY is infinitely better than AOM. lol. That song is a straight up classic, always get you feeling some type of way.
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SLY is one of the most important songs of the past couple years. It's literally the reason songs like AOM, When I Was Your Man, Stay, Stay With Me, Say Something, etc. were allowed to smash post-2011. Piano ballads were pretty much guaranteed flops up until then. She revived that entire sub-genre of pop on the Hot 100.
RITD & SLY were collectively the most important singles of the 2010s... RITD for starting Adele fever and accelerating the "real music" trend, and SLY for taking that even further with the piano ballad trend.
Somebody that I Used to Know & We Are Young were accepted by pop so well in 2012 thanks to the help of RITD warming up Top 40 to that kind of sound (alt-pop "real music1" kind of pop), and from there the rest is history.
Chimamanda her impact >>>>
