Ke$ha - as basic as they get, yet she is releasing catchy singles that will continue to capture the inner drunken aids-ridden ****bags of everyone all around the world. 'Die Young' is #16 on my golden singles of 2012.
Settle Down was No Doubt's come-back single. It demonstrated that No Doubt were not a conforming act and they stuck by their pop/reggae genre that got them through 25 years. The song underperformed on charts across the world but Lord knows that being #1 in the modern day doesn't mean your song is good. 'Settle Down' is a good example of this theory.