Literally gagged at the use of a xylophone during the chorus, way to hammer it in that this song is for 5-year-olds.
BJ the Chicago Kid ft Chance The Rapper, Buddy - Church
"She wanna drink, do drugs, and have sex tonight." ...And you don't? "But I've got church in the morning." Aaaaaahh, I see, this is a combination of the worst, most sanitized parts of Urban Adult Contemporary, Hip-Hop, and Christian music.
Max Martin probably should've stopped when the song was just a generic club-filler. Instead he drops the tempo even lower than its already deadened pulse and adds some unattractive counter-rhythms during the drops.
R. City ft Adam Levine - Locked Away
Honestly don't know what's worse, Adam's Stereo Hearts rehash in the chorus or the hallow reggaeton of the verses. Painfully average song.
Charlie Puth - One Call Away
Completely unrelated piano solo in the intro to this song is a lot more interesting than what actually happens in the song.
Jidenna ft Roman GianArthur - Classic Man
I remember some dispute over this song erupting because some people thought it sounded a bit too similar to Iggy Azalea's Fancy. Jidenna's view on it was that it was black people who made the sound of this song anyways so he should be allowed to take it back from white people. My view is that white or black, the sound and song is still shit and it should've been left where it was found like roadkill.
Flo Rida ft Robin Thicke, Verdine White - I Don't Like It, I Love It
You know what I don't "love love love"? Whistling in pop songs.
Question, though you may have answered it: I know you have two countdowns, western and is the second one just k-pop or other Eastern countries like Japan? I know more j-pop than k-pop tbh
It's only K-Pop, I was considering doing a J-Pop countdown but it's near impossible to get your hands on a good enough pool of it (It's either blocked, 1:30secs long, or the releases just not documented anywhere.) so I didn't bother.
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Finally done with the Honorable and Dishonorable mentions! Now we can get to the good stuff tomorrow, the mainlist I'll be doing 3 songs from each list a day until we get our winners! (Or biggest losers, in the case of the worst list.) Any guesses on what's gonna make which lists?
OMFG thank you for dragging whistling in pop songs. Absolutely obnoxious and it needs to STOP FOREVER.
Also, I am here for any Girls Generation post-Jessica drags so
However, I saw what you said about LMLYD and...
...Just kidding! You had your reasoning behind what you said, and all I can say is to each their own. The reasons you dislike it are why I do like it, though.
David Gilmour made music this year, and I didn't know about it. Holy ****, Red.
I wouldn't really say that "Molecules" is generic in terms of today's alt/indie scene, though. It's really more generic when you consider the disco era and new wave, because THAT is what that song is taking its sound from (and not even trying to hide that fact).
I don't know why, but I'm cracking up at you listening to Rob Thomas.
Gotta disagree on the sikly smoothness of No Sleeep. That song's atmosphere is incredible. It's groovy in the best possible way.
Not gonna lie. Classic Man knocks. I love it.
Haven't really listened to the others to comment, but I probably feel similarly to you on those (with the exception of Blooom's guilty pleasures above).
Gotta disagree on the sikly smoothness of No Sleeep. That song's atmosphere is incredible. It's groovy in the best possible way.
It establishes its mood really well, I just happened I didn't like that mood very much . It's all subjective anyways!
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Just got done with 2 finals and I'm working on the writeups for Songs #30-28 on all four lists, depending on how inspiration strikes they'll be up in 2-6 hours.