Lolene, her album is sick. Agree on your write-up with "Rich", not good, but good enough. Matisse Cody write-up Toooo much. But same here, this was my **** in July. Mainly because of his huge, weird teeth in the video. "SuperLuva", prefer the alleged GaGa demo >>> XXXO, no sir! Re-do this list and put it in. "Ridin' Solo" >> Sky…hmm she's my favorite newbie this upcoming year, and I have a similar impression on it.
MileyBiiiirddd!! I admit, I love this track. *plays*
Cody's teef.
I don't know if I've heard the supposed Gaga demo of SupaLuva. *goes off to search*
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7/15 Rose Colored Glasses
Can't Be Tamed
The rest I don't know them
You're probably better off for not knowing most of them.
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Patrick how dare you chart Obsession below Can't Be Tamed.
I'm doubting that decision myself, now. :-/ I tried to be as honest as I could to my preferences and the amount of time I spent listening to these tracks, though. I like "One", but I guess I liked "Can't Be Tamed Better" cause it has more plays on my iTunes and stands out more in my memory.
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I'm not sure if I'm supposed to rate this one.
Is it bad that, like, three tracks on this list appear on my 'Best' list? Lolene.
"Obsession". If your "Bubbling Under" chart looks like this, though, I'm highly anticipating the tracks that appeased you so much to make your best.
Haha, don't get your hopes up! You'll be completely disgusted by some of the goofy tunes that managed to make my top 50.
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Bittersweet is TOO LOW.
Yeah, possibly. It is a really good track and I really like the production, but Sophie didn't deliver for me the way she used to and I can't really explain why. But she is rewarded later on in the chart for a different song!
You've seen the girls who didn't quite make the cut, so let's go ahead with the bottom-feeding basic bitches who just managed to get their singles on the chart.
50. Rihanna What’s My Name (feat. Drake)
What is one of my favorite artists doing appearing so early in this countdown? Releasing a decidedly average single, that’s what. “What’s My Name” is enjoyable, but it doesn’t wander into the territory of greatness at any point and ultimately I find it just a bit forgettable, despite the fact that it really struck a chord with me when I first listened to it. It slowly plods along in a very repetitious fashion, and when it finally climaxes with Rihanna singing the “You’re so amazing, you took the time to figure me out…” bit, I find it somewhat lackluster because there was no real tension that should have been there to lead up to this emotional exclamation. I find Drake’s verse on the track completely superfluous, and I think that if it were missing it would never come to my mind that this track was in need of a feature artist. That’s an awful lot of pointing out what I dislike about the track. So what do I like about the track? I like the production. It essentially sounds like a recreation of “Te Amo” in terms of the structure of the melody, but this time it’s been paired with a heavier hitting beat that’s been slowed down to a turtle’s pace. I like Rihanna’s vocals. Those things make this track just good enough to kick off my top 50 festivities.
The Best Bit: Despite the fact that there’s not enough building up to it, “You’re so amazing, you took the time to figure me out. That’s why you take me, way past the point of turning me on. You bout to break me, I swear you got me losin’ my miiiiiiiiiiiiiind.”
49. Mike Posner Cooler Than Me
Let me tell you something about Mike Posner, he’s cool, but apparently not cool enough to be chill when another cool individual impedes on his turf. You’d think he’d spot the cool chick protagonist of this song and they’d ride off into the sunset and make lots of hipstery mini-Mike Posners who love to wear skinny jeans, leather jackets, and mix urban clothes with traditional white boy styles, but Mike couldn’t be more put off by the skank. He goes into full on attack mode reading that bitch like a book, from the sunglasses on her face all the way down to the shoes on her feet that happen to make too much noise when moving…. Shh! Why does he hate her so much? It’s probably cause she thinks she’s cooler than him, but it’s just really apparent that self-satisfied Mike, being so cool himself, has a real problem with anyone that could steal even the tiniest sliver of his cool kid glory. So I dunno, this single sort of gives me the impression that Mike Posner is an uber-douche who loves to be the only hip guy in the crowd and that he can’t handle a little competition in the coolness department. It triggers an insane inferiority complex where he has to cut people down to size to feel better and assure himself that he is indeed still the baddest bitch. But the track is great, and everything about it, from his laidback just-above-a-whisper delivery to the icy, synth laden, production, is cool, just like the man himself. And herein lies my dilemma; Mike’s most likely a douche and a half, but he’s cool and the coolness makes him sort of hot despite the fact that he has a mug that’s not really attractive. But cool people can sometimes pull off an ugly face cause they’re cool enough. I guess what I’m saying is, I sorta wanna have his babies.
The Best Bit: “But you don’t know the way that you look when your steps. make. that. much. noise… shh!” and everything from 2:59 until the end of the track.
48. Example Won’t Go Quietly
This is a track that became an instant favorite and then faded from my favor just as quickly as it arrived, but because it made such an impact on me during the short period that I *****d it “Won’t Go Quietly” manages to grab the #48 spot on this countdown. Actually, as I’m listening to it as I type this I’m falling in love all over again. Dare a bump it up a few places? Try as I might to suppress it, my love for this track won’t go quietly.
The Best Bit: The repetition of “It’s just another case, another case, another case, another case, another case, another case, another case, another case…” from 3:00 to 3:07 followed that drop effect that ushers the chorus back in. Brilliant.
47. Sean Kingston Letting Go (Dutty Love) [feat. Nicki Minaj]
If camp Rihanna were guilty of trying to pass off an update of the “Te Amo” production as a completely new track, meet Sean Kingston and the #47 entry on this chart, “Letting Go (Dutty Love)”. Sean, for being as completely uninteresting as he is has an interesting track record of releasing singles I can’t get enough of. This single is an example of that. I *****d this to death for about 2 weeks after its release and I loved every second of, despite the fact there’s nothing particularly outstanding about it. It doesn’t have a Fire Burning-esque sense of undeniable fun, it’s not as enjoyable to sing-along-with as say, “Take You There”. To be honest, this song has nothing that should inherently draw me to it aside from the fact that it sounds quite similar to “Te Amo”. Even as probably my least favorite track on Rihanna’s Rated R, “Te Amo” shat on 99% of all other things, and thus I suppose I approve of Sean’s adaptation purely for this reminiscent factor. To be fair to Sean, as he is a person who has lived in Jamaica, I suppose he has partial ownership of the whole “island sound” thing that I will normally try to attribute entirely to Rihanna and thus it might not be okay to label this a copy (but it is). Also, a round of applause for Nicki Minaj who makes a rare cameo that does not annoy the **** out of me.
The Best Bit: “Hey yo, Sean, you Mr. Kingston.”
46. Carrie Underwood Mama’s Song
I wasn’t here for much of Carrie’s third album, Play On. In fact, I was quite underwhelmed by it aside from the sappy singles “Mama’s Song” and “Temporary Home”. Why do I love these cornball tracks? I don’t really know why, but something about the unabashed campiness in Carrie’s lyrics really appeals to me. Of course that sort of cheesiness is a staple of the genre, but Carrie has a way of including things that are just too ridiculous not to love, like an old man on his death bed saying he can see God’s face or Jesus plopping his ass in the driver’s seat of her car as she carelessly throws her hands off of the wheel in the event of a potentially fatal accident. And speaking of God, I’m always impressed by Carrie’s ability to weave the man (or woman, I’m not here for Biblical sexism and guessing games as to the sky figure’s gender) into everything she does. Take for example the #46 entry on this countdown, “Mama’s Song”. Here I am happily enjoying this track as just a daughter’s ode to her worried mother before her impending wedding, and then I watch Carrie giving this interview talking about how the song has a double meaning. The “he” in the song could be a husband, but it could also be a He with a capital H, which I’m sure was the more obvious interpretation for the super-pious, moralistic, wholesome, good-natured folks supporting and working in the Christian-dominated country music industry. (I say this with no subtle amount of sarcasm. Country music’s musicians are trashy folk who love to sing about drunken nights, cheating, honky-tonk-badonkadonks [I just threw up in my mouth picture a completely unsanitary and cellulite riddled ass] and all these other materials that they would probably consider downright salacious if they were actually as into following the Christian code as they claim to be. They’re only here for the dignified moral high road when it comes to the serious **** like death, war, patriotism, weddings and people making jokes about Sarah Palin.) As a total heathen I oppose anything with preachy Christian values, except when it comes to country music (and especially Carrie’s breed of country music), in which case it becomes a great source of hilarity. “He makes promises he keeps, no he’s never gonna leave…” Well I should hope he would throw in the towel and call it a day, he is your ever-present, ever-caring, God, after all.
The Best Bit: All of it. Cliched lyrics aside (though they’re a highlight in their own right), it’s actually a very pretty song in which Carrie isn’t straining her voice to sound powerful, as she often does.
I'm doubting that decision myself, now. :-/ I tried to be as honest as I could to my preferences and the amount of time I spent listening to these tracks, though. I like "One", but I guess I liked "Can't Be Tamed Better" cause it has more plays on my iTunes and stands out more in my memory
"17" wasn't eligible to chart because it wasn't released as an official single (unless I'm mistaken and that could very well be), but in any case it's actually my least favorite of the three Sky songs ("Obsession", "One" and "17").
I love your write-ups. What's My Name is a little too low IMO, and I also like Cooler Than Me. Mama's Song is a cute song, and I'm glad she doesn't oversing as well.
If your "Bubbling Under" chart looks like this, though, I'm highly anticipating the tracks that appeased you so much to make your best. 
Cody write-up 
Toooo much. But same here, this was my **** in July. Mainly because of his huge, weird teeth in the video. "SuperLuva", prefer the alleged GaGa demo >>> XXXO, no sir! Re-do this list and put it in. 
"Ridin' Solo" >> Sky…hmm she's my favorite newbie this upcoming year, and I have a similar impression on it.
You'll be completely disgusted by some of the goofy tunes that managed to make my top 50. 
But she is rewarded later on in the chart for a different song! 
