Ticking Her Tush Like A Clock (Top Singles Through The Third Quarter Of 2011)

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Fat Cat and CL wiggle their way into the Top 10, producers/writers SweeTune give us Nine Muses' "Figaro" and Infinite's "Be Mine," and somewhere on here there's something new I added that isn't Korean, maybe down around 60:

Singles through September 30:

1. Britney Spears "Hold It Against Me"
2. Jeremih ft. 40 Cent "Down On Me"
3. GD&TOP "High High"
4. 2NE1 "I Am The Best"

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5. Galaxy Dream ft. Turbotronic "Ready 4or Romance"
6. IU "The Story Only I Didn't Know"
7. Bobby Brackins ft. Dev "A1"
8. Big Bang "Tonight"
9. SNSD "Bad Girl"
10. Fat Cat "My Love Bitch" [EDIT: the most common translation of "내사랑 싸가지" turns out to be "My Love Bad Boy," so that's what I'm now reluctantly going with]

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(But the camera person was too reticent, so you'll need to go here [EDIT: where it's called "Indifferent Love]," for a better view of Fat Cat ticking her tush like a clock.)

11. Dia Frampton "Heartless" (live)
12. 4minute "Mirror Mirror"
13. Britney Spears "Criminal"
14. Far East Movement ft. Lil Jon & Colette Carr "Go Ape"
15. Rihanna "S&M"
16. Nine Muses "Figaro"
17. GD&TOP "Knock Out"
18. Rihanna "Man Down"
19. Nicola Roberts "Beat Of My Drum (Loverushuk Radio Remix)"
20. MBLAQ "I Don't Know"
21. Girl2School "Let's Play Dance"
22. Reba McEntire "If I Were A Boy"
23. Rainbow "To Me"
24. Lemonade Mouth Cast "Determinate"
25. T-ara "Roly-Poly"
26. Xoxo "Mocha Java"
27. Big Freedia "Almost Famous"
28. Florence + The Machine "What The Water Gave Me"
29. Secret "No. 1 (Inst.)"
30. Infinite "Be Mine"

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31. Kelly Rowland ft. Lil Wayne "Motivation"
32. Metronomy "The Look"
33. Dev "In The Dark (Proper Villains Remix)"
34. Miss A "Love Alone"
35. Celia "D-D-Down"
36. HyunA "Bubble Pop"
37. 2NE1 "Hate You"
38. Roach Gigz ft. Lil 4Tay "Wild Child"
39. Leader'S "Hope"

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(Vocals from the bleeding-mascara subset of freestyle.)

40. Dev ft. the Cataracs "Bass Down Low"
41. The-Dream "Fuck My Brains Out"
42. Alexandra Stan "Mr. Saxobeat"
43. Leader'S "Please"
44. Avril Lavigne "What The Hell"
45. Jamey Johnson "Heartache"
46. Dionne Bromfield ft. Diggy Sim "Yeah Right"
47. The Decemberists "Down By The Water"
48. X-Cross "Crazy"
49. Kim Kardashian "Jam (Turn It Up)"
50. T-ara "Ya Ya Ya"
51. Blady "Spark Spark"
52. Selena Gomez & The Scene "Love You Like A Love Song"
53. Crookers ft. Róisín Murphy "Royal T."
54. AB ft. Jacob Eye "Slip"
55. CREEP ft. Nina Sky "You"
56. Robyn "Call Your Girlfriend"
57. Nicholas Jaar "Keep Me There"
58. Cee-Lo Green ft. Wiz Khalifa "Bright Lights Bigger City"
59. Orange Caramel "Bangkok City"
60. Fixers "Swimmhaus Johannesburg"

https://fixers.bandcamp.com/track/swimmhaus-johannesburg
(OK, the video [EDIT: which I can no longer find] is as boring as you'd expect from a clumsy indie band, and the lead singer's got a compacted nasal whine that most of the Jukebox considered the worst thing ever but that I now find unexpectedly astonishing, somehow being both shimmery and piercingly emotional in the manner of the Dells and the Four Seasons. The other song I heard by Fixers was terrible, and I've been afraid to check further.)

61. Phaeleh ft. Soundmouse "Afterglow"
62. Blady "Crazy Day"
63. Chi Chi "Longer"
64. Nero ft. Alano "Guilt"
65. Yasmin "Finish Line"
66. Rittz "High Five"
67. DJ Koo & Postino "Come Back"
68. Jang Geun Suk "Gotta Getcha"
69. Rania "Masquerade"
70. Norazo "포장마차"
71. GG ft. Park Bom "Having An Affair"
72. Seo In Guk "Shake It Up"
73. YJB & Girl2school "Poison"

Technical note: I knocked Kara's "Jumping" (another SweeTune track) and T-ara's "Why Are You Being Like This?" off my list for coming out prior to December 1, 2010; it's not as if we're facing a dearth of good songs without them. The only prior track that's still remaining is Jeremih's "Down On Me," out way back in September '10 but not peaking until this year.

Am still uncertain as to how high "I Am The Best" will end up on my list. For the way it plays in my head and in the zeitgeist it's easily my song of the year: the emotional reverberations, events, videos, costumes, Dara's hair, the amazingly incandescent CL-ness of CL. Yet when I feed the actual studio track into my player, it sounds a bit meager in comparison: plenty powerful, shoulder gripping and all, but missing an aura, without the fans screaming "Naega Jeil Jal Naga" in response and CL looking blissful.

So, sticking it at number four is a compromise. We'll see what happens, as the reverberations pile on and continue to infiltrate the track's sonics. Song could fall a little, or take its rightful place at number one.

Comments

[askbask.livejournal.com]

I was about to mention Chi Chi's "Longer" creeping upwards on my list but then I see it's on yours as well. A bit higher on mine, though.

Fat Cat is growing on me a lot! The tik tok thing is absolute bliss and further helped by her funny emoting on stage. Wish she could just keep ticking on for minutes. Appearance-wise she reminds me a bit of the woman behind one of my current SOTY candidates. If she found something more interesting to replace the "superstar" bit with it'd be perfect.

[arbitrary-greay.livejournal.com]

I have the bad habit of listening to remixes of some Kpop before I listen to the originals for groups I don't particularly follow, so that when I do listen to the original often it comes off underwhelming.
Case in point being Areia's remix of "I Am The Best."



Where my other favorite remixers' take on "I Am The Best" put a twist on the song, usually to suit the remixer's style, I find that Areia's remix distilled the essence of what makes "I Am The Best" so epic and amplified it. At any rate, now whenever I hear "Naega Jeil Jal Naga" it sounds wrong to me if I don't hear a whole ton of reverb with it. Although, it's not quite as much sassy fun as the original, with the relentless tribal beats lending an almost menacing tinge to 2NE1's aggressiveness.

In "My Love Bitch", do you know the name of the synth opposing the vocoded bits? All I know is that it's also the synth that takes "lead" at 0:45 here.

Heh, I see askbask's already linked Pon Pon Pon there. Nakata can do no wrong.

[askbask.livejournal.com]

Infinite - a feel-good story. A lot of "us", meaning people who talk about k-pop on the sideline, immediately took to them from the first singles. I didn't know the name of SweeTune back then, but the songs were so much fun, and _they_ seemed to have a lot of fun, which has been a pretty uncommon look for k-pop boy bands (outside of YG). The sales weren't there at all, and the label isn't one of the big ones, but they just kept on releasing good singles, great routines.

Paid off in the end, and now they're getting those #1s. A bit worried about their recent style, though - all black - hope they add some color again. (Album's no good, by the way)