Happy NYE! And a happy start to the year's 10 best!!
#10 "Day and Night" by Chromeo
#9 "Fireflies" by Owl City
And so the top 10 of 2009 gets off to a start with two acts who have never seen the top 10 before, nor seen any of the top 100 -
Chromeo and Owl City. Although "Night by Night" just came out a few days before Thanksgiving, the song never left my iPod for the last month. I'm not usually a big fan of the T-pain abused "autotune," but the duo knew how to work it for me. And Owl City - now there's another weird story. I'd have a few friends on Facebook who kept suggesting I listen to the band (whom I now discovered is just a single man, Adam Young), and really, didn't like their stuff at all. In fact, I'd only fallen in love with "Fireflies" for about a month - and the relationship has sadly come to a halt now. Even though I'm sick of "Fireflies," there's no denying (and help me out y'all!) that you were in the shower singing "I'd like to make myself believe..."