20. Nicki Minaj - Boss Ass Bitch (Remix)
You loose bitches need a ***** renovation. Honourable mention to "Truffle Butter" - Wish she could have transformed her sad feelings into hard tracks like this instead of the boring but easy route she took on the standard edition. Go IN on that Maya Jane Coles beat.
19. Indiana - Solo Dancing (Chris Lake Remix)
The way that beat whips around and cuts right into my soul! I go dancing, it’s so intenseeeeeeee. Robyn, take a NOTE you wimpy basic.
18. DJ Quik feat. David Blake - That Getter
Sooooo hard. Those ominous saxophone bursts in the beat. DJ Quik stays the world’s best rapper.
17. Sam Hunt - Break Up In A Small Town
THE ****ING DRAMA OF IT ALL. Over-serious talk-rap verses with a detailed, specific narrative, a chorus lifted straight from “I Knew You Were Trouble” and a massive climax of a bridge that leaves me screaming every lyric. This song was made for me. I live for songs that make an emotion sound as big as it is.
16. Fireworks - Run, Brother, Run
Masterful songwriting. The kind of vulnerable, emo vocal I die for. That pre-chorus melody, ughhhhhhhh <3 “I was 25 when my dad died / My arms felt weak, my heart grew tired / And every girl I tried to kiss / Gives that look you did so I choose to miss” BYE.
15. Skepta feat. JME - That's Not Me
TRUE I USED TO LOOK LIKE YOU BUT DRESSIN’ LIKE A MESS NAH THAT’S NOT ME. Every line is quotable. Goes IN. Grime made such a good 2K14 comeback.
14. Future - I Be U
The album is actually kind of good every time I listen to it, but I never feel like listening to it? This song was the clear standout. Declaring his love through a cloud of oscillating synths. Minor masterpiece.
13. Lee Ann Womack - Send It On Down
Some of that good, dark and depressing country.
‘Guys around here want a girl who’s rich / Even if I was, I wouldn’t be no catch’. Every line is a goldmine that pierces my heart.
12. Dierks Bentley - Drunk On A Plane
Complete 180 from ‘Send It On Down’. Funniest lyrics of 2K14, quirky yet classically country with the detailed narrative and the unexpected twists, like the addition of the last lyric I might be passed out in the baggage claim. ‘It’s mardi gras! Up in the clouds! I’m up so high! May never come down! I’ll try anything! To drown out the pain! They all know why! I’m getting drunk on a plane’ is so ****ing anthemic, I can’t.
11. Miranda Lambert - Little Red Wagon
Rounding out the country triptych with the feminist anthem of the year. I’ve got long blonde hair and I play guitar and I go on the road and I do all the **** you want to do. These 3 wildly different, important country songs.
**** a "every country song sounds the same" buzzfeed article.
Let me get into it, Be Safe and Sweetest Thing are life.
10. Taking Back Sunday - Happiness Is.png)
9. Cher Lloyd - Sorry I'm Late
8. Miranda Lambert - Platinum
7. Shakey Graves - And The War Came
6. YG - My Krazy Life
