Love it Love the way you put it: "Call me a conformist, call me a pop *****, call me whatever. There is no two ways around it, though: this Rihanna visual is one of the best of her career and easily the best of this year. The introduction prologue accomplished in 30 seconds what GaGa tried to do in 2 minutes on Born This Way"
Going back to the analogy that I mentioned earlier, it is time to look at the cookies that got thrown away at first glance. Alas, for all the good that was released in 2011, there seemed to be an equally long list of bad songs. So, without further adieu, I will move on to this list.
Honorable Mention: Run the World (Girls) - Beyonce
Oh Bey. Oooooh bey. I was all up in the "Beyonce's new single" thread earlier this year like flies on horse schiesse: I was excited. The minute I heard this song, though, my hopes and aspirations for the proceeding album were crushed immensely. Luckily there were some better tracks on 4 to compensate for this, but it is undeniable across the board that this album would have fared better if a different singleLOVEONTOPwas chosen as the lead single.
10. Tonight Tonight - Hot Chelle Rae
My history with this song is similar to a bad relationship. Well, it was good, then it got bad. So I guess that wasn't the best metaphor to use. Nevertheless, from the beginning failure for Ke$ha "singtalking" at the beginning to the mediocre lyrics overall, I am glad that this terrible choice of a lead single led to the album being a pathetic failure. There are just some bands that lose their touch with time. "I Like to Dance" is a brilliant song off of their old album, MILES better than this pile of horse dung.
9. Jam (Turn It Up) - Kim Kardashian
There isn't much that can be said for this song. Like, we all know that it's an ugly mess. It's like that one butt ugly girl who comes to Prom by herself and spent a lot of time on her hair and makeup, but no one will ever want her. Ever. Kimmy here is trying to do what Paris did. Problem? Paris's songs were actually decent. Let's just say that some people are born to sing...others are born to be boned by Ryan Seacrest and random black men.
8. Cockiness (Love It) - Rihanna
Rihanna, we don't need you to be a **** all the time. Honestly, this song has the least innuendo of any of her songs about sex so far. And this song tries and fails miserably at being everything Birthday Cake is effortlessly. Definitely one of her worst songs to date.
7. Black and Yellow - Wiz Khalifa
The only thing is song is good for is making Spanish projects called "Por y Para". The fact that he is seen as a legitimate rapper