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Rigalo's Best of 2012
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Bloe Me & Born To Die
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'Born to Die'
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Born to Die and Paradise both SLAY. Great taste, tbqh
Check out my latest set, too! Link below!
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Don't use Lana.
But WUB, Glad You Came and The Motto.
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Please, comment my Best Of 2012, thanks.
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Lana , Great album!
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3/5 Epic Glad You Came, Want U Back and Blow Me. EPIC!
I hope you could also check my countdown. it's currently featuring singles #21-27
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15.
Brokenhearted - Karmin
I got into "Brokenhearted" WAY late but when it stuck I couldn't shake it. It's the best pure bubblegum pop song of the year, that can't be denied. The song is literally the epitome of "catchy", even the INSTRUMENTAL is catchy and could play in your head all day. I was never big on Karmin before this but after "Brokenhearted" I've been impatiently waiting for their debut LP which is supposed to drop sometime soon. I thirst for another pop gem like this and I know they can deliver.
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Swimming Pools (Drank) - Kendrick Lamar
"Swimming Pools" is one of the best (if not the best) hip hop songs of the year. It has so many great, crazy elements to it that put it on a top echelon of the genre. The production first of all is ACE. Could be the best and most immaculately produced song of the year. Kendrick's raps are bananas. The little voices talking throughout the song. EVERYTHING about this song is amazing. Damn now I'm wishing I would have placed it higher on my countdown.
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Go Hard (LaLaLa) - Kreayshawn
If this song ain't a damn EARWORM... Kreay proves with this song that she can make great music that can be so far enjoyed AS LONG AS you don't take it too seriously. I looped this song for like three hours once it's that addictive. I wish "Go Hard" could have been a smash but Kreayshawn has that stigma about her so I wasn't expecting it. Like I stated in my blurb for her album, I just hope she will continue to make music in the future, no matter how mind-numbingly pointless it is.
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Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding
After I discovered Ellie in 2011 and she became one of my favorite artists, I was expecting something HUGE for 2012. I didn't really get that with "Anything Could Happen", sadly. It's a great song, don't get me wrong, but it is a BIT basic and bland sounding after a while. It's almost perfect, but somewhere it's missing some key elements that keep it from being amazing. Like the song, the video is almost flawless, but it's just missing a tiny bit of "oomf". Nevertheless, I been rocking this song since it came out in August and who knows when I'll stop. I wish it could have been a hit here in the US because it's looking less and less likely by the day, but judging by how long it took "Lights" to blow up, who knows, maybe anything truly could happen.
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Give Your Heart a Break - Demi Lovato
I wanted to include this in the Top 10 so bad omg . But anyways, this song is practically FLAWLESS. I been rooting for it since day one, and what do you know, it got big! the melody is amazing and the whole song is very enveloping and has a great atmosphere. Demi sounds great, and the beat hits at all the right times. I was always a casual fan but when I bought her album on a whim and first listened to this song I was HOOKED. Demi had a great year last year and I hope that this one will only be better.
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album #4 will be up tonight, and then we're launching into the Top 10 singles and Top 3 albums! For the Top 10 singles I will present them in intervals of two until the Top 3 which I will introduce by themselves.
If you're bored, predictions??
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Im glad GYAB was a hit for Demi as well one of her best ever!
Brokenhearted and Anything Could Happen was great for their artists but not my favorite songs by them
and Swimming Pools is great
comment mine too please
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Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (and the accompanying Re Up re-release) - Nicki Minaj
I have been stanning for Ms. Minaj since late 2009 and when her debut LP 'Pink Friday' came out, I was a bit disappointed. While a solid effort, especially for a debut, it was a little monotonous and relatively unexciting. The same can certainly not be said for that album's follow up, 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded'. I mean, when you are listening to an album that contains two highly different genres you know your in for a wild ride. 'Roman Reloaded' reaches from "Roman Holiday", which has been touted as the hip-hop "Bohemian Rhapsody", to "Starships" a Pop banger that have made many a hip hop fan brush her off for it's systemized, high energy simplicity and overproduced dance breakdowns. The album is pretty much split in two, the first half being the rap cuts of the album and the second the sugar-rush zingers. I love BOTH parts of Nicki, but not even I could condone the sloppy way that the two extremes are presented. Instead of there being some kind of balance or cohesiveness, the two genres are just thrown out in a very cut-and-dry manner. This makes the album hard to listen to all the way through, with all of the bouncing of styles being so distracting. The saving factor in this equation is the fact that all of the songs are great. Not a single song on the album is unlistenable. Not even "The Re-Up", a re-release that followed the original album months later, which brings the track count to 29 songs features a filler. "The Re-Up" doesn't fix any of the album's messiness, but the new tracks are a perfect marriage of rap and pop, like what the original album should have been. Nicki made a lot of mistakes this year, but she seems to have learned from them. She has been saying "no ma'am" to pop lately which is good. While I love that side of Onika, I fell in love with the rap goddess for her - erm - rap. With her releasing again this year in 2013, I can only hope that she serves me right, because while this album is AMAZING it's not perfect and it has a lot of issues. I need that perfect album from Minaj and I think we are going to get it soon.
The Essential tracks: "Roman Holiday", "Come On a Cone", "Beez in the Trap", "Starships" "Whip It", "Va Va Voom", "Up In Flames", "High School" "Hell Yeah", "I Endorse These Strippers"
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PF:RR I love the album and don't care what anybody says about it.
I also couldn't agree more with your write-up, she does present both extremes very differently.
I liked the idea of releasing 3 singles at once but she clearly didn't promote them all at once well, not at all
I loved the album and especially the pop tracks, it just didn't seem Nicki enough. Next era should be better.
I also use all of those songs
Brokenhearted is a great track, made my top 100! Ellie and Demi's tracks are also both great!
They literally just missed my top 200. Go Hard just made it in the 190s - I like other songs by her more,
but that's a great one too I had 3 Kreay songs in my most recent update, actually.
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Give Your Heart a Break
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Anything Could Happen, repetitive stuff usually annoys me but somehow this song is different. Great track
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10.
Take Care (feat. Rihanna) - Drake
Kicking off the Top 10 we have one of the most beautiful singles of the year. Drake and Rih sound so comfortable and amazing together and they feed off of eachother's energy effortlessly. "Take Care" has a gorgeous instrumental fit with island sounds, a subtle kickdrum in the back, and various samples thrown in throughout, but it never sounds overbearing. The song is always calm and relaxing. "Take Care" should have easily hit number one but eh you win some and lose some. Here's to another mindblowing Drihanna collabo in the near future.
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Die Young - Ke$ha
When I tell you that Ke$ha's first single was my most anticipated piece of music of 2012 it isn't a lie. Sadly, when I first heard "Die Young" I was severely disappointed. The song itself is rather basic. Nothing to exciting, no big frills, just your standard Dr. Luke track. I'm just so used to her delivering pop MAGIC that I was mad when this song arrived. That said, the song grew on me immensely and STILL to this day I'm loving it more and more. The track really grows into it's production as it goes and the last 30 seconds or so is perfection. While Ke$ha didn't QUITE serve me with this, I do love it and I'm over it since at least 70% of 'Warrior' is better.
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Ellie & Die Young
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Ke$ha
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