Top 90 Singles, 2011
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1. Britney Spears "Hold It Against Me"
2. 2NE1 "I Am The Best"
3. Fat Cat "My Love Bad Boy"
4. GD&TOP "High High"
5. Jeremih "Down On Me"
6. IU "The Story Only I Didn't Know"
7. Bobby Brackins ft. Dev "A1"
8. Galaxy Dream ft. Turbotronic "Ready 4 Romance"
9. Big Bang "Tonight"
10. Dia Frampton "Heartless" (live on The Voice) [webrip]
11. SNSD "Bad Girl"
12. Britney Spears "Criminal"
13. Rihanna "S&M"
14. 4minute "Mirror Mirror"
15. Far East Movement ft. Lil Jon & Colette Carr "Go Ape." Dance phenoms add caterwauling and hollabacking to the palette. Jon's had his entrepreneurial eye on Korea for a while; U.S. West Coast is the closest he's gotten so far.
16. Nine Muses "Figaro"
17. GD&TOP "Knock Out"
18. MBLAQ "I Don’t Know"
19. New Boyz ft. Dev & The Cataracs "Backseat." Got a blank response on the Jukebox despite being to my ears far catchier and clearer than the mass of floundering fish that joined it in this year's dance-r&b-hip-hop-amalgam mess. Dev walks in and walks away with the song, of course, friendly, scrappy little clubrat casually exuding oceans of sexiness while just zipping through.
20. Rihanna "Man Down"
21. Nicola Roberts "Beat Of My Drum (Loverushuk Radio Remix)"
22. Barbara "꿈..그보다 아픈 사랑"
23. Kim Bo Kyung "Sick"
24. Girl2School "Let's Play Dance"
25. Sons And Daughters "Rose Red"
26. Jay-Z & Kanye West "Niggas In Paris"
27. Mylène Farmer "Lonely Lisa"
28. Azealia Banks "212"
29. Infinite "Be Mine"
30. Lemonade Mouth Cast "Determinate"
31. Rainbow "To Me"
32. Reba McEntire "If I Were A Boy"
33. Grimes "Vanessa." When a cheap horror or suspense film wants us to feel unsettled it gives us a little girl singing, apparently normal and natural, but something'll be off in the setting or the music, dissonant strings, or talk that's off-kilter; and we're expected to take the mood as SPOOKY. So Grimes sings in a cheap little-girl freak-folk voice, gives us a pretty melody and an unsettled mood, and I'm damned if it isn't spooky. And gorgeous. [Video is supposedly inspired by K-pop vids, but I'm not getting where.]
34. Xoxo "Mocha Java"
35. T-ara "Roly-Poly"
36. Kelly Rowland ft. Lil Wayne "Motivation"
37. Metronomy "The Look"
38. T-ara "Cry Cry (Ballad Ver.)"
39. Big Freedia "Almost Famous"
40. Miss A "Love Alone"
41. Florence + The Machine "What The Water Gave Me"
42. Dev "In The Dark (Proper Villains Remix)"
43. HyunA "Bubble Pop"
44. Roach Gigz ft. Lil 4Tay "Wild Child"
45. Leader'S "Hope"
46. Secret "No. 1 (Inst.)"
47. Dev ft. the Cataracs "Bass Down Low"
48. 2NE1 "Hate You"
49. The-Dream "Fuck My Brains Out"
50. Celia "D-D-Down." As we make our way to the Rumanian sector, we see form following function, though apparently it does so from something of a distance.
51. Alexandra Stan "Mr. Saxobeat"
52. Leader’S "Please"
53. Avril Lavigne "What The Hell"
54. The Decemberists "Down By The Water"
55. Kim Kardashian "Jam (Turn It Up)"
56. Jamey Johnson "Heartache"
57. Kim Bo Kyung "Suddenly"
58. T-ara "Ya Ya Ya"
59. DJ Koo & Postino "Come Back"
60. Blady "Spark Spark"
61. Orange Caramel "Bangkok City"
62. Fixers "Swimmhaus Johannesburg"
63. Nicolas Jaar "Keep Me There"
64. Selena Gomez & The Scene "Love You Like A Love Song"
65. Chi Chi "Longer"
66. Blady "Crazy Day"
67. RaNia "Masquerade"
68. Dionne Bromfield ft. Diggy Sim "Yeah Right"
69. Robyn "Call Your Girlfriend"
70. Itano Tomomi "Dear J"
71. AB ft. Jacob Eye "Slip"
72. Mindless Behavior ft. Diggy "Mrs. Right"
73. X-Cross "Crazy"
74. Brown Eyed Girls "Cleansing Cream." Appropriately smooth, but achingly so, as well.
75. Kreayshawn "Gucci Gucci"
76. T.I. ft. Big K.R.I.T. "I’m Flexin’"
77. Adam Beyer "No Rain (Radio Slave Berlin Summer Remix)"
78. CREEP ft. Nina Sky "You"
79. Phaeleh ft. Soundmouse "Afterglow"
80. Nero ft. Alano "Guilt"
81. Feist "How Come You Never Go There"
82. Jang Geun Suk "Gotta Getcha"
83. Pistol Annies "Hell On Heels"
84. Ian Carey ft. Snoop Dogg & Bobby Anthony "Last Night"
85. Yasmin "Finish Line"
86. Cee-Lo Green ft. Wiz Khalifa "Bright Lights Bigger City"
87. Norazo "포장마차"
88. GG ft. Park Bom "Having An Affair"
89. Rittz "High Five"
90. Eric Church "Homeboy"
My rankings were by sound and feeling and how good I thought something was, so proximity and juxtapositions are accidental, e.g. 50 and 51, and 89 and 90. But I like Rittz rubbing up against Eric Church at the end. Rittz is from the outer suburbs of Atlanta, but it's fun to think of him as the kid brother Church is singing to, the wigga who left the farm for hip-hop's dirty streets. The whomp of pain and incomprehension in "Homeboy" is Church's as much as the narrator's, Eric and cowriter Casey Beathard never giving voice to why a little brother might feel no home for himself in the place he grew up. The words are mostly about what the little brother supposedly lost. But the loss in the song is much deeper, the last verse giving us a view that the writers don't necessarily have themselves, the sense of something vital having left when the kid brother did and the abandoned relatives wishing it back rather than developing it in themselves.
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Date: 2012-01-08 01:18 pm (UTC)1 Hyuna - Bubble Pop
2 f(x) - Pinocchio
3 2NE1 - I'M The Best
4 Rainbow - Sweet Dream
5 Fat Cat - My Love Bad Boy
6 After School - Shampoo
7 Kara - Step
8 Kim Yeo Hee - December
9 T-ara - Roly Poly
10 Dal Shabet - Supa Dupa Diva
11 Rainbow - To Me
12 Sistar 19 - Ma Boy
13 SNSD - The Great Escape
14 Big Bang - Tonight
15 Trouble Maker - Trouble Maker
16 Brown Eyed Girls - Sixth Sense
17 TVXQ - Keep Your Head Down
18 BEAST - Fiction
19 IU - Story Only I Didn't Know
20 Ali - Don't Act Countrified
21 Dal Shabet - Pink Rocket
22 SNSD - The Boys
23 Teen Top - Don't Spray Perfume
24 Rania - Dr. Feel Good
25 Chi Chi - Longer
26 Miss A - Love Alone
27 Hyuna ft Dok2 - Just Follow
28 2NE1 - Lonely
29 U-Kiss - 0330
30 Nine Muses - Figaro
31 4Minute - Mirror Mirror
32 T-ara - Cry Cry
33 Wonder Girls - Be My Baby
34 My Q - Stopped Time
35 Sistar - So Cool
36 2NE1 - Hate You
37 Jay Park - Tonight
38 A Pink - My My
39 MELLOW:D - BOWWOW
40 Miss A - Goodbye, Baby
41 Swan.B - Be All Right
42 GG, Park Bom - I Cheated
43 Infinite - Be Mine
44 Bang Yong Guk & Zelo - Never Give Up
45 Jang JaeIn - Winter Night
46 INY - Shake It! Shake It!
47 Kim BoKyung - Without U
48 JJ - Fly High
49 After School Red - Into The Night Sky
50 Chocolat - Syndrome