If I had to be honest, this was definitely the weakest My Everything single released this year. It's a cute bop but that's it. The lyrics are a bit cheesy too. Like, I don't need to listen to this song if I break up with Scott, so yeah.
Third of six appearances by Ariana Grande
149. Disclosure f. Sam Smith - Latch
I find Sam Smith to be incredibly annoying in his regular genre, but his voice works very well with EDM. The chorus is a little polarizing, but this song is the only one he has where I actually enjoy Sam's voice.
Only appearances by Disclosure and Sam Smith (thankfully)
148. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis f. Schoolboy Q & Hollis - White Walls
White Walls managed to chart during the early months of 2014. It's simply just another cool-flowing single this duo put up with the help of Schoolboy & Hollis this time around. Macklemore honestly never disappoints me to be honest. I'm looking forward to new music from them.
Only appearances by Macklemore, Ryan Lewis & Hollis. One of two appearances by Schoolboy Q
147. One Direction - Midnight Memories
This song is rebellious and fun, but if I had to be honest, this song sounded it a bit dated and it would have been a wrong single choice. It had too much of a rock vibe to do well on radio. But it's still a fun song.
Fourth of eight appearances by One Direction
146. Hilary Duff - Chasing the Sun
Hilary was a part of my childhood, and it had been 7 years since With Love, Stranger and 6 years since Reach Out. Needless to say, releasing this song as a buzz single was a bad move. She should have said from the beginning that it was a buzz single, because maybe people would have paid more attention to All About You. Regardless, this song is only good during the summer. It has no replay value after that.
One of two appearances by Hilary Duff
145. Cher Lloyd - M.F.P.O.T.Y.
Sooner or later I was going to have to say goodbye to this. I think now is the time to do that. This was one of the promo songs for Sorry I'm Late. It's cute and fun, but as dimitrius pointed out in Choose the Album, Then the Song, this song represents the immaturity of Cher's previous era, which is why I'm asking it to leave now. But the song is still a bop.
Second of six appearances by Cher Lloyd
144. Clean Bandit f. Jess Glynne - Rather Be
I didn't get into this song until November, the 1st of the month actually on my way home from a birthday party. But then I made the dumb move of singing the lyrics to Scott (my current boyfriend) on the VERY first day we started dating (the 3rd), when my feelings were definitely NOT in the place to be singing "no place I'd rather be". So I feel stupid for completely ruining the song for myself, but I needed to axe this damn thing before I lost my mind
One of two appearances by Clean Bandit. Only appearance by Jess Glynne
143. Shakira - Dare (La La La)
It's time to let go of this song. Another song I got into late in the year. It's dancebreak is cool but not special enough to get a higher ranking. The la la la's are catchy though
Second of three appearances by Shakira
142. 5 Seconds of Summer - Kiss Me Kiss Me
5SOS's second appearance on the countdown. This song is definitely better than Don't Stop, but not as good as Amnesia, She Looks So Perfect and Everything I Didn't Say, so it's time for Kiss Me Kiss Me to say goodbye.
Second of five appearances by 5 Seconds of Summer
141. Ariana Grande - One Last Time
The EDM Ariana songs needed to go, and this was simply the better of the two. The EDM influences are a lot lighter than they were in her other EDM songs she has done and they suit her voice perfectly. Break Free and Better Not Said didn't. But it's time to say goodbye to this song.
Break Free was such a great song when it was first released, but, as most EDM songs, the magic soon wares off till it sounds like the rest of them Still good though! Love Ari.
I've always been hot and cold with Break Free. Latch is great though. White Walls is very underrated. Midnight Memories sounds like a rip-off of another song. Chasing The Sun is cute but that's about it. Also love Rather Be, Kiss Me Kiss Me, Dare and One Last Time from this set.
Yaaay! MLD, sorry for the delay but I'm finally here!
White Walls, Break Free & Latch are really low Rather Be Not my favorite song from them, but I like it.