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Panda's Top 100 2013 (And the #1 IS....)
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Girlfriend is good but it's a bit disappointing
Now, DWUW and Radioactive
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Bloques perfectos, te felicito
Bien por PATD & Paramore
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El señor
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Safe and Sound and Let her go are epic!
I tought Breezelblocks was old and didn't include it in mine
Tennis Court =)
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Fred Astaire + Safe And Sound.
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Thanks for your comments/Gracias por sus comentarios!
I close today with 30-21. Tomorrow I'll reveal the top 20!
030. Selena Gomez-“Come & Get It”
I think that some of Selena Gomez's singles are very interesting, and she has done amazing things on my charts as well. Come & Get It had an Indian rhythm that I loved and was the beginning of a more mature image for Selena. This kind of pop music is the one that will make her more successful.
029. Family of the Year-“Hero”
Alternative radio and central European charts loved this song, but the public ignored it, which is a shame because it is amazing. This ballad talks about how naive we are when we're young and how men are forced into the military. If one of Tim O' Brien's books were to be made into films, this song would be perfect for its soundtrack.
028. Calvin Harris featuring Ellie Goulding-“I Need Your Love”
Ellie has the voice of an alternative music goddess, while Calvin's beats are out of this world. Together, they created this pop delight from Britain!
027. Paramore-“Anklebiters”
I paid attention to this song thanks to its Gotye-like music video and it is really catchy. I don't know if it qualifies as pop punk but it definitely has a rock rhythm that is easy to enjoy.
026. Ylvis-“The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)”
Last year's hottest meme, Gangnam Style, got into the top 10 of the year-end countdown. The Fox was perhaps a more moderate hit, but for a song intended to be a skit in a Norwegian talk show, it did fantastic. If I had a child I would've bought the children's book, and I remember seeing people dressed as foxes for Halloween. The meme of the year!
025. Zoe-“10 AM”
I just bought Programaton in its physical version and I'm waiting for it to arrive! 10 AM was for some a disappointment, too pop for Zoe and far away from the masterpieces of Reptilectric. While it isn't Zoe's best by any measure, 10 AM does have interesting instrumentals, a quality music video filmed in La Condesa (though at first it fooled me into thinking it was filmed in the US or Europe, I didn't know Mexico City had places that nice) and Leon Larregui's perfect voice. It smashed in Mexican pop radio, so they can add it for a future Greatest Hits collection, if they ever do one.
024. Pitbull featuring Ke$ha-“Timber”
I'm usually indifferent to Pitbull's singles, and Ke$ha's recent singles haven't been very exciting either (C'Mon and Crazy Kids) but this song took me by surprise. It is catchy and Ke$ha shows everyone that she is one of the most popular American female pop singers out there. Perhaps it missed the number one in Billboard to a couple of artists which I don't like that much, but it got the folktronica genre another hit to brag about.
023. Motel-“Esferas”
Motel found popularity in Mexico during a time when being a single-word band assured popularity (e.g. Panda, Zoe, Belanova, Jumbo, Porter, Allison) but they seemed to have faded from people's radar with their previous album. They came back and I loved Esferas simply because of its catchiness and the pop rock with an electronic touch instrumentals.
022. Lana Del Rey-“Young and Beautiful”
I think that as a book/movie The Great Gatsby is overrated but Young and Beautiful isn't and I hope it gets an Oscar nomination. Lana uses a similar formula than the one she used in Video Games but this somehow sounds fresher and people liked it even more.
021. Ariana Grande featuring Mac Miller-“The Way”
Ariana goes Mariah in this single and delivers amazing pop R&B vocals with the help of rapper Mac Miller. I listened to it a lot this year.
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020. CHVRCHES-“The Mother We Share”
Possibly the best "new" artist in its purest sense, CHVRCHES surprised me with this incredible song that mixes synthopop and cool vocals! The subject matter of the song is great as well.
019. Icona Pop-“All Night”
This year was the year of the Icona fever! All Night got me dancing, singing and running, and proved to me that Icona was in no way only a one hit wonder in my charts!
018. Paramore-“Still Into You”
I'm still into Paramore. Even if the Farro brothers left, even if Hayley dyes half of her hair pink, even if their music sounds more like mainstream alternative pop than pop punk, I'm still into Paramore. This song is really catchy and delivers Hayley's powerful vocals. It's a shame that the US doesn't recognize Paramore as much as other countries, where Paramore coming is like the best news ever.
017. AWOLNATION-“Sail”
When I listened to this in 2012, I didn't like it. I gave it a chance again in 2013 and I loved it. It is hypnotizing, mystic and its longevity in the Billboard charts was impressing. Ironically, it ended up in my year end charts at number 17, its peak in the Billboard Hot 100 as well. I'm currently listening to "Thiskidsnotalright" by AWOLNATION and it's equally good.
016. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton-“Can’t Hold Us”
This song was pretty much everywhere this year and I understand why. Its rhythm is infectious, Ray Dalton has an amazing voice, and Macklemore is a good rapper. I'm glad that it smashed because it definitely deserved its success!
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015. The Neighbourhood-“Sweater Weather”
This sweet alternative ballad won my heart and go two nonconsecutive weeks at number 2 in my weekly charts. I've felt sweater weather days here in the fall, when it was too cold, but for the mos part the winter has been alright, which is ironic. But this song is not only about the weather, it's a song about youth.
014. Katy Perry featuring Juicy J-“Dark Horse”
Promo single, they said. Well, I didn't care, I listened to it as if it were a regular single and it smashed, grabbing a week at number one in my weekly countdowns. If it were released earlier as a single in the US it'd be in the top 5 now! 2014 will be the year of the Dark Horse. I am ready for the perfect storm.
013. Natalia Lafourcade featuring Adrian Dargelos-“Mujer Divina”
I was skeptic about Natalia doing an album full with bolero-indie songs but the concept turned out to be great and she earned the Latin Grammy for Best Alternative Album. Mujer Divina was wonderful, the lyrics are like the finest poetry and the addition of Babasonicos frontman Adrian Dargelos' vocals adds an ethereal feeling to this song. This is the second Natalia Lafourcade single to go top 20 in the year-end chart, she is a Mexican muse!
012. Martin Garrix-“Animals”
I thought I didn't like instrumental music that much but Martin Garrix, a Dutch teenager a year younger than me, proved me wrong. This song is so catchy and doesn't even need words to stick in your mind. The bass comes and by then you feel trapped by it. It's just wonderful in a way I can't explain.
011. Vampire Weekend-“Diane Young”
Rolling Stones called Modern Vampires of the City the number one album of the year. Well, perhaps I ought to listen the album, but this song was so good that I listened to it nonstop for a long period of time. It peaked only at number four yet it defeated a lot of number one-peaking songs! Ezra Koenig has an amazing voice and I love their new style. It is quirky and artistic, and the music video! I'm glad it got a VMA nomination even though it lost to a now irrelevant band! Vampire Weekend has the brightest future of all alternative non-folk bands imo.
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Dark Horse, Timber and C&GI are my faves
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010. Zedd featuring Hayley Williams-“Stay The Night”
This is my Sweet Nothing of 2013. A popular European DJ does a song with an alternative rock goddess and I fall in love with it instantly. Hayley looking perfect as always in the music video, singing about gasoline and relationships while Zedd plays the piano and does those sounds DJs make. The guy dancer in the music video is too pretentious and overrated but the song is fantastic and it deserved better in the US!
009. Icona Pop-“I Love It”
I love it, I don't care. This song was just everything a teenager wants to do when he's feeling mad and full of energy. It's a celebration of freedom and a party anthem. The vocals are astounding and the rhythm is typical of our EDM pop scene. This masterpiece, of course, comes from Sweden!
008. Lady Gaga-“Applause”
This is the second Gaga single to go top 10 in my weekly countdowns after Telephone (feat. Beyonce). I enjoyed it a lot (perhaps the Zedd production help) and some of its lines are iconic, such as one second I'm....Yeah, it underperformed compared to Born This Way but in my opinion it was way better than any Born This Way single. Applause perhaps follow Gaga's trend for pretentiousness and pop music as Picasso-like art but I feel that as an era is doing quite well. Viva la Gaga!
007. Jenny & The Mexicats-“Verde Mas Alla”
An allusion to marihuana? A celebration of the tranquil Latin culture? It doesn't really matter, this song took Mexican pop radio by surprise and smashed so hard! It is fit for pop radio but it incorporates a trumpet that I love. Perhaps they are the Latin Of Monsters and Men. Jenny is so hot!
006. Anna Kendrick-“Cups (Pitch Perfect’s When I’m Gone)”
I was about to leave my house to live in college and I wanted to feel like I'd be missed when I left. Indeed, Anna Kendrick reassured to me that I was going to be missed but I was also going to see so much during my trip. The fact that this song unexpectedly smashed from a movie soundtrack is also a story of success in itself. Anna may be a full time actress but I'm pretty sure people wouldn't mind at all her becoming a singer and smashing.
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"Come & Get It", "Dark Horse", "Can't Hold Us" & "The Way"
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So many great songs.
Diane Young, Dark Horse, Young & Beautiful
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I haven't heard #7 but I I Love It, Applause and Cups
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Cups, Applause, and I Love It are all very high on my list too
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Verde Más Alla, I Love It, Diane Young, Animal, Dark Horse, The Mother We Share, I Need Your Love
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005. Katy Perry-“Roar”
She's got the eye of the tiger and dances in the fire, she has claimed a spot into the best popstars of history list. Her eighth number one, Roar brought Katy Perry to a new level of stardom. This is only her third album and she already has more number ones than some artists with four albums that claim to do art and almost as much as some who release an album every Thanksgiving. Katy is a beast in the charts and every demographic group has loved her at some point. She's not too mainstream for hipster (well, for the ones I know anyway lol), and you'll hear her in EDM mix shows. Roar could've been a fun. song but it was Katy's and I'm so glad because it brought so much success to her. This is the fifth top 10 year-end single for Katy Perry! She's the artist with the most year-end top 10 singles, and behind is Zoe with four. This is my second highest ranking Katy song after California Gurls. In fact, let's review how popular Katy is in my year-end charts:
California Gurls (#1 in 2010)
Roar (#5 in 2013)
Last Friday Night [T.G.I.F.] (#7 in 2011)
Teenage Dream (#9 in 2010)
I Kissed a Girl (#9 in 2008)
Waking Up in Vegas (#12 in 2009)
E.T. (#12 in 2011)
Dark Horse [feat. Juicy J] (#14 in 2013, possibly appearing in 2014 as well)
Firework (#33 in 2011, #44 in 2010)
Thinking of You (#88 in 2009)
Part of Me (#5 in my weekly countdowns)
The One that Got Away (#5 in my weekly countdowns)
Wide Awake (#9 in my weekly countdowns)
QUEEN.
004. Avicii featuring Aloe Blacc-“Wake Me Up!”
Avicii was without a doubt one of the most influential EDM artists to ever be featured in my charts. Levels and I Could Be The One were number one-peaking songs in my weekly charts and You Make Me peaked at three. It was Wake Me Up!, however, what got his name into the perennial hall of fame of top 10 year-end singles. The folktronica in Wake Me Up! was so fresh, was a combination of the pop sounds that I love and the Mumford-like alternative which got me excited in earlier years. Aloe Blacc deserved to be credited and Avicii's ego may be too high at times but this pop gem will remain forever. The music video was nice as well. Sweden gets its second act in the top 10 too, so you go Sweden!
003. Lorde-“Royals”
New Zealand gave us Kimbra last year, but she is far behind alternative queen Lorde. Yes, she was the teenager everyone was talking about this year. She's so young, they said. She is a genius, she makes quality music when older girls are still singing about sleepovers and break ups. She sings her reality (and mine as well) because life is rather simple and the glamour of London and New York is far far away from me, the average teenager living in a microscopic city. I don't care either about displaying my wealth, and I definitely don't have royalty in my veins, so that's why I got caught in Lorde's love affair. Lorde, marry me?
002. Bastille-“Pompeii”
Once a city in ruins covered by the toxic leftovers of a volcano, Pompeii has now become the title of a song that smashed alternative music in 2013. I loved the mystic feeling left by those eh eh oh eh oh and the vocals were fantastic. How am I supposed to be an optimist about this? I think this song was like the Little Talks of 2013 because it was about the conversation of two dead souls (or something similar) just like in Little Talks when a dead lover talks to his lover (okay, forgive me for not being too eloquent). Fact is, Pompeii was one of the best songs to ever be released and they are going to be strong rivals of Imagine Dragons in the coming years since both have this darkish pop imagery to represent themselves (unlike The 1975 and The Neighbourhood, which is black and white).
001. Lana Del Rey featuring Cedric Gervais-“Summertime Sadness”
This song and I have a story together now. I first listened to it in its remixless form and I loved it to death, but the remix made me pay even more attention to it. At the end, it got three nonconsecutive weeks at the top of my weekly countdowns and much more in my top 10. A friend of mine loved it and that made me love it even more, and listening to it was just a pleasure. Lana, who got into the bubbling under last year with Video Games, took revenge by getting the number one this year, and rightfully so, because I am confident she will be considered one of the most iconic artists of the decade.
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Thank you for commenting everyone, I enjoyed doing this a lot! I hope you have the best 2014 and that we keep getting amazing music every year. I'll comment in the different best of threads as well!
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46/100
Royals muy epica, Summertime Sadness remix
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So many good stuff
INYL, Anklebiters, Timber, Young & Beautiful, The Way, The Mother We Share, Still Into You, Can't Hold Us, Sweater Weather, Dark Horse, Diane Young, Stay the Night, Applause, Cups, Roar, Wake Me Up, Royals
Summertime Sadness remix I don't use the remix
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WOAH! Epic Top 5 Lana
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