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I should probably do this, right? MY 20/20 Experience
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Wanted to give a shoutout to 80s sister duo Mel & Kim, who quite honestly made my favorite single/track combo of the year (in 1986 even!) with System and Get Fresh at the Weekend (Showin' Out). YouTube them! I think they share the same spirit as tracks twelve and eleven.
RIP Mel.
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Slay Disclosure, slay.
And how great are those little faces that they draw over everybody?
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12. Lady Gaga - Do What U Want (featuring R. Kelly/Christina Aguilera)
Perhaps the most fascinating item in a fascinating time for our lady of breakdowns, as DWUW is arguably the only fully formed track on ARTPOP. Bathed in 'disco touches,' and with more than a passing glance at 80s R&B (sorry Cap10Planet!), Gaga releases a swash of feminist-centred angst and aggression that conjures a particularly pissed off MJ, with a touch of Mariah in the opening. I don't know which version works more - unfortunately free child molester R. Kelly as the unwitting target of her anger/male enslaver, or Christina as a fellow sister in arms, singing about shows she hasn't done since 2007.
We lay in the cut/Like we don't give a F-F-F-U-U-U-U-C-C-C-K-K-KKKKKK!!!!
Help me now.
11. Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home (featuring Majid Jordan)
Ahh yes, the quiet storm. Drake as emo princess, unleashing some rather questionable straight male ethos about what makes a girl 'good,' and letting another voice do all the vocal heavy lifting.
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Will never ever get the uber-praise for Do What You Want. It's like generic R&BPOP with too many R Kelly vocals. It's only redeeming quality is how effectively the song functions simultaneously as a sex song + a song about the critics. Speaking of songs about the critics, "Mean" is so much better. Also, "You can't stop my voice cause you don't own my life" isn't delivered with nearly as much punch as Miley's "It's my voice, I can say what I want to."
Poor Gaga her era, the so-called "best song" isn't even better than Miley her Rihanna reject.
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What till we're announced ...
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Will never ever get the uber-praise for Do What You Want. It's like generic R&BPOP with too many R Kelly vocals. It's only redeeming quality is how effectively the song functions simultaneously as a sex song + a song about the critics. Speaking of songs about the critics, "Mean" is so much better. Also, "You can't stop my voice cause you don't own my life" isn't delivered with nearly as much punch as Miley's "It's my voice, I can say what I want to."
Poor Gaga her era, the so-called "best song" isn't even better than Miley her Rihanna reject.
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Obvi I agree, as you'll see. But first ...
10. Lorde - Team
Typical teenager gobbledygook, until that chorus. At once pragmatic and romantic, and has a real sense of earned yearning. Gorgeous, majestic stuff here.
9. Destiny's Child - Nuclear
Giving real Ten City/'That's The Way Love Is' vibes, and all the better for it. Real grownup love, for all of its blemishes - whether between lovers, friends, or, as here, sisters. The best thing Pharrell has done this decade, bar none.
8. Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow
Y'all saw the Grammys. Stop pretending a better single was released to country radio in 2013.
7. Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop
We can't stop. We won't stop. Finally young, entitled white women have a song to call their own. #culturalappropriation #mollyandcokeisaparty #miley'sthetopofgirltothrowdubonthetrack #missyoucherlloyd
6. Mariah Carey - #Beautiful (featuring Miguel)
How to make something that is wistful of both the past (namely 60s girl groups) and your past (Mariah's songs of the summer) and yet spin it into something fresh and new.
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The lower half of the top ten looks #Beautiful so far, hoping the top five is just as good.
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The lower half of the top ten looks #Beautiful so far, hoping the top five is just as good.
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It will be sis. The final girl group (of two!) to make it, a prock band that's never made it this far for me, and the first time I've let men top my list this decade!
Spoiler alert: Really like R&B by white people this year.
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I'm assuming a JT song is imminent given the thread title and all. I'll pretend not to notice when it appears. Loving the top 10 so far! Will this be the one year end list where "22" finally gets its dues? Rooting for that upset!
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Is it "Open" or "The Fall"?
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Wanted to give another shout out to two songs that I actually made threads about last year, and that heavily influenced my top five for 2013.
Tiffany - New Inside
Using the Mary J Blige example of singing sixteen months before MJB hit the scene - singing with emotion, rather than on pitch or in tune - Tiffany's bold, glorious declaration of the rush of young love knocked me out. It didn't knock out listeners back when it was released, because it didn't chart in any country and her comeback was stalled.
Martika - Love, Thy Will Be Done
This was actually a success, becoming Martika's second (and last) top ten hit. Co-written and produced by one Prince, L...TWBD has such a beatific mood that the listener doesn't no if it's secular or spiritual, suggesting the ultimate importance of love itself. The harmonies are so prominent, and their convergence in the last minutes is really felt in some in my top two for '13.
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Follow Your Arrow is the best country single of 2013 for sure, and Kacey had the best country album.
Also Team is wonderful.
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I'll have to give those two a listen.
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The London Grammar shade.
Anyways, @ Yoncè, Disclosure, Sky, Vampire Weekend, Jessie Ware, Lorde.
Honestly, TRF.
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The London Grammar shade.
Anyways, @ Yoncè, Disclosure, Sky, Vampire Weekend, Jessie Ware, Lorde.
Honestly, TRF.
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Hannah's voice is beautiful, but I'm not even going to lie, their album was pretty damn boring and samey.
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Destinys Child did a song in 2013?
Well the rest of your top ten so far is kind of amazing. And yay for your Disclosure set, those are my favourites too! But alas no "Latch"?
Cant wait to see the rest!
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5. Paramore - Still Into You
The impetuousness of young love I was talking about earlier, with the solidity of something stable. Finally, pop-rock has a counterpoint to Countdown.
4. MKS - Flatline
I hope this stays their name; I've gotten so comfortable with it! Dev Hynes strikes again, mining New Romanticism for a tale of stasis breaking through to something - anything - that exists. Kinda like a cross of Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel, and not that dissimilar to what Phoenix attempted to do with their last album. Not even the best thing they did in 2013, but damn close.
3. CHVRCHES - Recover
Kind of the moment you stumble out of a club unlucky yet again, or you find yourself without a job, or some serious health **** is going on - you've got no choice but to recover, although you don't quite know how. Kids, this is what your 20s will be. You're welcome!
2. Quadron - LFT
Was definitely my number one track of the year, and then I found out it was a single! Kinda spellbinding in its intimacy, in its lack of judgment for all sorts of messy romantic situations, for its calls of empathy and sorority. Not as great as ...
1. Rhye - The Fall
... the song I've loved all year. For me, for you, it never got any better than this - the first minute or so is soul, through and through.
FIN haters.
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12. Lady Gaga - Do What U Want (featuring R. Kelly/Christina Aguilera)
Perhaps the most fascinating item in a fascinating time for our lady of breakdowns, as DWUW is arguably the only fully formed track on ARTPOP. Bathed in 'disco touches,' and with more than a passing glance at 80s R&B (sorry Cap10Planet!), Gaga releases a swash of feminist-centred angst and aggression that conjures a particularly pissed off MJ, with a touch of Mariah in the opening. I don't know which version works more - unfortunately free child molester R. Kelly as the unwitting target of her anger/male enslaver, or Christina as a fellow sister in arms, singing about shows she hasn't done since 2007.
We lay in the cut/Like we don't give a F-F-F-U-U-U-U-C-C-C-K-K-KKKKKK!!!!
Help me now.
11. Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home (featuring Majid Jordan)
Ahh yes, the quiet storm. Drake as emo princess, unleashing some rather questionable straight male ethos about what makes a girl 'good,' and letting another voice do all the vocal heavy lifting.
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Two fantastic songs
@ the shows Xtina hasn't done.
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Overall, nice last minute list, Ace!
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Flatline & #Beautiful
I've been meaning to check Rhye out for a while now!
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