WTF. This is officially not it. This isn't even in Paramore's top five singles. What is it doing here?
This is more like it. If I'm not mistaken, the first Record of the Year nominee to pop up. Have to admit that Clint Eastwood is better, though.
The second RoTY nominee - and first winner - to make our list. I think backlash to what this song is about - in the aftershock of Amy's passing - has resulted in it placing far too low. I'm just going to go with what a Singles Jukebox winner eloquently wrote:
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“It’s just till these tears have dried.” Hearing autobiography in music is inevitable, especially once the artist is gone and can’t contradict our readings. But apparently she did go to rehab, yes yes yes. And regardless of whether the accusations of having been clean for months are factual or an attempt to get out in front of the nauseating narrative already building up, lichen-like, around her still-warm memory, the suggestion is a reminder that even in the age of twenty-four hour tabloid coverage, routine phone hacking, and unending breathless exposé, none of us can know everything about even the most public ****up. Music is not autobiography; otherwise we might just as well give every songwriter a Livejournal and be done with it.
“Rehab” works not because it documents Amy Winehouse’s public struggle with addiction, self-sabotage, and an ever-baiting media, but because it inhabits a world recognizable enough to have connected with millions of people. “Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?” snarls Wild Bill Hickock in the early episodes of Deadwood, and the demand for self-determination at the cost of everything else is familiar to many of us whose minds and hearts have been taken captive by depression, addiction, or self-loathing to the point where even the most basic plea to be allowed to help is too painful a contact with the outside world. But Amy’s not content to let it lie there, in an attitude of furious rejection. Anyone can project a wounded fury onto the world; her brilliance is to fully expose the extent of her vulnerability. She doesn’t want to drink again; she just needs a friend. She’s not gonna spend ten weeks just so all the gossips and moralists will self-congratulate that she’s on the mend. But it’s not pride, an unwillingness to give them the satisfaction, that’s keeping her away – it’s just till these tears have dried. This insistence on experiencing everything, on being fully present for her pain, for every moment of her emotional roller coaster, is the true hallmark of soul music. Not, as Martin insisted, that the singers themselves are feeling anything, but that through the shrewd application of craft – through art – they make the listener experience it. The tough strut of the music, in its shrewd rock and build, gives attitude to her lyrics, and gives us the courage to sing along. Even the deepest pain can be turned into a communal experience, into a party, if you give it the right beat, and while we analyze, quantify, and explicate worlds of suffering, isolation, addiction, and fear, let us never forget either the joyfulness with which it was all expressed. A raised middle finger is the beginning of hope.
Really courageous on Alicia's part, as pop singers don't usually release singles that push them to the outer limits of their range. It makes for a trying listen, but one in which the listener feels the total conviction of Alicia's passion.
Y'all do too much. Luckily, this is not the only time we'll see Janet.
Only girl, S&M, Disturbia, Irreplaceable, Since u been gone, Your love is my drug, I kissed a girl, Halo, Breakaway, Forget you,sk8ter boi, Happy ending,
Only girl, S&M, Disturbia, Irreplaceable, Since u been gone, Your love is my drug, I kissed a girl, Halo, Breakaway, Forget you,sk8ter boi, Happy ending,
I've been thinking about moving them to line 1 of the signature for a while now. Feel Good Inc is the song that introduced me to alternative pop music. I listened to Demon Days daily when I was 13.
**** "Feel Good Inc.". I said it. It has overshadowed many better songs of theirs.
But hooray for "Ignorance" (even though I'm not sure if it really deserves to be on this list) and "Rehab" (which I never would have said even six months ago!).
**** "Feel Good Inc.". I said it. It has overshadowed many better songs of theirs.
But hooray for "Ignorance" (even though I'm not sure if it really deserves to be on this list) and "Rehab" (which I never would have said even six months ago!).
This is true. On Melancholy Hill, Empire Ants, DARE, and so much more are probably more deserving of a spot on this list.
What? Like, not even "The Only Exception"? Just...bizarre.
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The first song I voted for to actually make the countdown! The bridge is hypnotic perfection and the De La Soul rap is one of the funnest moments in aughties pop music. I love when such weirdly wonderful music can become an unexpected hit.
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I was surprised to see "Tears Dry On Their Own" make the list, but I'm even more surprised to see "Rehab" place so low. I guess votes for other Amy songs filtered away support for this one? It really shouldn't be anywhere below the top 40; that chorus is too spectacular.
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Another unexpected inclusion, but I guess it was too big of a hit to ignore. Alicia works better with subtlety (I think "Lesson Learned" barely missed my top 25), and this is not even her greatest soaring anthem (that would be "Fallin'" or "If I Ain't Got You"), but "No One" is still a great piece of straightforward pop music, so I don't mind its presence.
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Wait, I am actually laughing right now. "Feedback"? Come on, people! It's a fun club-banger for ****ting it up on the dance floor, but it's no "All For You."
that song is my all time favorite from Gaga
Don't ask me. Must be their anthem?
