Top 95 Singles, 2012 (repost)
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koganbot[For some reason, when I was adding tags, livejournal deleted this entire entry, along with its comments [EDIT: Likely I hit a wrong button]. So I'm reposting this list. It originally went up January 1st, 2012, 23:54.]
1. T-ara "Lovey-Dovey"
2. Orange Caramel "Lipstick"
3. Trouble Maker "Trouble Maker"
Shinsadong Tiger w/ bodyguard. Co-producer and co-writer of #1, #3, #13, #37
4. ChoColat "I Like It"
5. Dev "Take Her From You"
6. Dev "In My Trunk"
7. Cassie "King Of Hearts"
8. Wonder Girls "Like This"
9. Sistar "Alone"
10. T-ara "Day By Day"
11. Davichi & T-ara "We Were In Love"
12. 2NE1 "Scream." Over at the Singles Jukebox, commenter My cheap on accurately pegs this as "let’s sing about screaming but not scream." But then, 2NE1 aren't the ones to take terror and act afraid of it, are they (as opposed to using it to add frisson to their party)?
13. 4minute "Volume Up"
14. Flashe "Drop It"
15. After School "Rambling Girls"
16. Taylor Swift "Red"
17. ChoColat ft. Sung Hyo Ram "One More Day" (also called "Same Thing To Her")
18. Orange Caramel "My Sweet Devil"
19. Miss A "Touch"
20. Yoon Jong Shin ft. Kim Wan Sun "I Love You All Days"
21. Ana Victoria "Yo No Lloro Por Llorar." Speaking of frisson, this one's a scream and a wail that's held in the throat, maintains a cutting edge in being restrained.
22. Nicki Minaj ft. 2 Chainz "Beez In The Trap"
23. Girl's Day "Oh! My God"
24. Rihanna ft. Chris Brown "Birthday Cake (Remix)"
25. Jewelry "Look At Me" (Inst.)
26. Mylène Farmer "À l'ombre"
27. Kanye West, Jay-Z, Big Sean "Clique"
28. Lil Chuckee "Da Wop"
29. Chi Chi "Sexy Doll"
30. Nicki Minaj "Stupid Hoe"
31. Paulina Rubio "Boys Will Be Boys"
32. E.via ft. Lee Su Jung "I Know How To Play A Little"
33. Diamond Rings "I'm Just Me"
34. Miranda Lambert "Fastest Girl In Town"
35. Javiera Mena "Luz de Piedra de Luna"
36. Namcha Chiranat Yusanon "Fine Fine Fine." Thai. Sounds like squeaky Southern California (say, Bella Thorne) climbing a ladder into a higher South Asian pitch. (Of course I don't know if SoCal is an actual source.)
37. T-ara "Sexy Love"
38. T-ara "Round & Round"
39. Serebro "Gun"
40. Charles Esten & Hayden Panettiere "Undermine"
41. Los Mesoneros "Indeleble"
42. Sunny Hill "The Grasshopper Song"
43. Lionel Richie ft. Jennifer Nettles "Hello"
44. Psy "Gangnam Style"
45. Taylor Swift "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
46. Wonder Girls "The DJ Is Mine"
47. Big Bang "Fantastic Baby"
48. Gaeko & Choiza & Simon D & Primary "난리good!!! (AIR)"
49. Jimmy Cliff "One More." "Ding-a-ling, freedom ring" is a bit too tinkly a lyric to rouse, say, the ragtag rebels of Philadelphia. In any event, there's a touching reggae ache here that doesn't make note of the lyrics' proclaimed defiance.
50. After School "Flashback"
51. Clazzi ft. Koti & Jubi & MYK "Sexy Doll"
52. Bobby Brackins ft. Iamsu & Roach Gigz "Golden State"
53. Crystal Castles "Plague"
54. Regina Spektor "All The Rowboats"
55. Eden's Edge "Too Good To Be True"
56. Kara "Pandora"
57. Eric Church "Creepin'"
58. YDG ft. Dok2 & The Quiett "Give It To Me"
59. RaNia "Style"
60. A-Jax "Hot Game." Other than the ones with G-Dragon, Korean boybands rarely let loose. So the story is often the way the harmonies intertwine in the air, not sure where to alight. The hot game belongs to the woman they're singing about. Their own game is more watchful.
61. Jhene Aiko "3:16"
62. Tyga ft. Lil Wayne "Faded"
63. DJ Raff "Digital Rain (En El Desierto)"
64. Y.N.RichKids "Hot Cheetos And Takis"
65. Kelly Clarkson ft. Vince Gill "Don't Rush"
66. Kendrick Lamar ft. Dr. Dre "The Recipe"
67. Super Junior "Sexy, Free & Single"
68. Usher "Climax"
69. Justin Bieber "Boyfriend." He talks soft, and that's no big achievement; but he sings soft too, which is difficult, projecting force and personality while being as gentle as a pillow.
70. Ciara "Sophomore"
71. Knife Party "Bonfire"
72. Jess Mills "Pixelated People"
73. Bella Thorne "TTYLXOX"
74. Blush "Up Up & Away"
75. Teedra Moses ft. Wale "Another LuvR"
76. Kara "Speed Up"
77. Yangpa ft. Lee Boram & Soyeon "I Know"
78. Big Bang "Blue"
79. Chi Chi "Leon"
80. Cloud Nothings "No Future/No Past"
81. Gangkiz "Honey Honey"
82. Shinhwa "Venus"
83. Kim Wan Sun/Clazzi "Can Only Feel." '80s dance siren, her voice weathered, in what seems a commercial flop of a comeback, but w/ two tracks in my Top 95. On this one she's a half-scratched whine of eeriness that you imagine as a soundtrack to gropings and nervousness in those long dark dance-club hallways you see in all those videos.
84. Kang Mi Jin "Lost Child (MIA)" live (webrip)
85. Tyga "Rack City"
86. M.I.A. "Bad Girls"
87. ASAP Rocky ft. Drake, Kendrick Lamar & 2 Chainz "Fucking Problem"
88. Ryu Hwayoung "Hwayoung Rap"
89. Obedear "Purity Ring"
90. Dawn Richard "Automatic"
91. Tony & Smash "Get Your Swag On"
92. Dawn Richard "Bombs"
93. B.o.B ft. André 3000 "Play The Guitar"
94. Groove Armada ft. Slarta John "Pull Up"
95. Bae Geon-seok "Cinderella" live (webrip). The look on Kangta's and Baek Jiyoung's faces when they turn their chairs and see the gender of the singer is priceless.
To reemphasize the demographic points I've been hammering at you during all of my quarter-year writeups: There's only one male singer in my Top 10, the male half of Trouble Maker — the half that moves half-paralyzed in terror as a warm, endearingly emotionally sweet and massively sexy fun girl wraps her arms around him. This is fitting for a time in which male vocalists don't seem to know WTF they should do. The next XY chromosome doesn't show up till a negligible guest shot on ChoColat's "One More Day" down at 17. First vocalist over forty is Kim Wan Sun, the guest singer on "I Love You All Days," number 20. First male voice over forty is Jay-Z's in "Clique," track 27.
Yeah, I know this is my taste, lots of others'll have Lamars and Oceans and G-Dragons and EXO's tromping all over the tops of their lists. Nonetheless, I think my choices say something beyond just my taste: voices with character and penetration belong to young women, and the best songs and arrangements are given to them. (Yeah, and my impressions are limited to the corners of the world I notice, and of course I have no idea if Argentina or India have different stories to tell, as might all the American and Korean markets and submarkets I didn't get to in 2012.)
I also thought the cute women (T-ara, Orange Caramel) sang w/ more authority (or were autotuned with more authority) than the strong women (Dawn Richards, Ciara), though when the world went screwy and nasty aroung T-ara midyear, they were as paralyzed and negligent as anyone else. [EDIT: That is, T-ara as humans were paralyzed (as opposed to T-ara as just singers and dancers; I'm not saying the music was paralyzed). The women in T-ara needed to make written and spoken public responses to the bullying charges and what was being done to them and to Hwayoung, and to analyze and understand what the Internet mob was doing; but they were missing in action instead.]
1. T-ara "Lovey-Dovey"
2. Orange Caramel "Lipstick"
3. Trouble Maker "Trouble Maker"
Shinsadong Tiger w/ bodyguard. Co-producer and co-writer of #1, #3, #13, #37
4. ChoColat "I Like It"
5. Dev "Take Her From You"
6. Dev "In My Trunk"
7. Cassie "King Of Hearts"
8. Wonder Girls "Like This"
9. Sistar "Alone"
10. T-ara "Day By Day"
11. Davichi & T-ara "We Were In Love"
12. 2NE1 "Scream." Over at the Singles Jukebox, commenter My cheap on accurately pegs this as "let’s sing about screaming but not scream." But then, 2NE1 aren't the ones to take terror and act afraid of it, are they (as opposed to using it to add frisson to their party)?
13. 4minute "Volume Up"
14. Flashe "Drop It"
15. After School "Rambling Girls"
16. Taylor Swift "Red"
17. ChoColat ft. Sung Hyo Ram "One More Day" (also called "Same Thing To Her")
18. Orange Caramel "My Sweet Devil"
19. Miss A "Touch"
20. Yoon Jong Shin ft. Kim Wan Sun "I Love You All Days"
21. Ana Victoria "Yo No Lloro Por Llorar." Speaking of frisson, this one's a scream and a wail that's held in the throat, maintains a cutting edge in being restrained.
22. Nicki Minaj ft. 2 Chainz "Beez In The Trap"
23. Girl's Day "Oh! My God"
24. Rihanna ft. Chris Brown "Birthday Cake (Remix)"
25. Jewelry "Look At Me" (Inst.)
26. Mylène Farmer "À l'ombre"
27. Kanye West, Jay-Z, Big Sean "Clique"
28. Lil Chuckee "Da Wop"
29. Chi Chi "Sexy Doll"
30. Nicki Minaj "Stupid Hoe"
31. Paulina Rubio "Boys Will Be Boys"
32. E.via ft. Lee Su Jung "I Know How To Play A Little"
33. Diamond Rings "I'm Just Me"
34. Miranda Lambert "Fastest Girl In Town"
35. Javiera Mena "Luz de Piedra de Luna"
36. Namcha Chiranat Yusanon "Fine Fine Fine." Thai. Sounds like squeaky Southern California (say, Bella Thorne) climbing a ladder into a higher South Asian pitch. (Of course I don't know if SoCal is an actual source.)
37. T-ara "Sexy Love"
38. T-ara "Round & Round"
39. Serebro "Gun"
40. Charles Esten & Hayden Panettiere "Undermine"
41. Los Mesoneros "Indeleble"
42. Sunny Hill "The Grasshopper Song"
43. Lionel Richie ft. Jennifer Nettles "Hello"
44. Psy "Gangnam Style"
45. Taylor Swift "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
46. Wonder Girls "The DJ Is Mine"
47. Big Bang "Fantastic Baby"
48. Gaeko & Choiza & Simon D & Primary "난리good!!! (AIR)"
49. Jimmy Cliff "One More." "Ding-a-ling, freedom ring" is a bit too tinkly a lyric to rouse, say, the ragtag rebels of Philadelphia. In any event, there's a touching reggae ache here that doesn't make note of the lyrics' proclaimed defiance.
50. After School "Flashback"
51. Clazzi ft. Koti & Jubi & MYK "Sexy Doll"
52. Bobby Brackins ft. Iamsu & Roach Gigz "Golden State"
53. Crystal Castles "Plague"
54. Regina Spektor "All The Rowboats"
55. Eden's Edge "Too Good To Be True"
56. Kara "Pandora"
57. Eric Church "Creepin'"
58. YDG ft. Dok2 & The Quiett "Give It To Me"
59. RaNia "Style"
60. A-Jax "Hot Game." Other than the ones with G-Dragon, Korean boybands rarely let loose. So the story is often the way the harmonies intertwine in the air, not sure where to alight. The hot game belongs to the woman they're singing about. Their own game is more watchful.
61. Jhene Aiko "3:16"
62. Tyga ft. Lil Wayne "Faded"
63. DJ Raff "Digital Rain (En El Desierto)"
64. Y.N.RichKids "Hot Cheetos And Takis"
65. Kelly Clarkson ft. Vince Gill "Don't Rush"
66. Kendrick Lamar ft. Dr. Dre "The Recipe"
67. Super Junior "Sexy, Free & Single"
68. Usher "Climax"
69. Justin Bieber "Boyfriend." He talks soft, and that's no big achievement; but he sings soft too, which is difficult, projecting force and personality while being as gentle as a pillow.
70. Ciara "Sophomore"
71. Knife Party "Bonfire"
72. Jess Mills "Pixelated People"
73. Bella Thorne "TTYLXOX"
74. Blush "Up Up & Away"
75. Teedra Moses ft. Wale "Another LuvR"
76. Kara "Speed Up"
77. Yangpa ft. Lee Boram & Soyeon "I Know"
78. Big Bang "Blue"
79. Chi Chi "Leon"
80. Cloud Nothings "No Future/No Past"
81. Gangkiz "Honey Honey"
82. Shinhwa "Venus"
83. Kim Wan Sun/Clazzi "Can Only Feel." '80s dance siren, her voice weathered, in what seems a commercial flop of a comeback, but w/ two tracks in my Top 95. On this one she's a half-scratched whine of eeriness that you imagine as a soundtrack to gropings and nervousness in those long dark dance-club hallways you see in all those videos.
84. Kang Mi Jin "Lost Child (MIA)" live (webrip)
85. Tyga "Rack City"
86. M.I.A. "Bad Girls"
87. ASAP Rocky ft. Drake, Kendrick Lamar & 2 Chainz "Fucking Problem"
88. Ryu Hwayoung "Hwayoung Rap"
89. Obedear "Purity Ring"
90. Dawn Richard "Automatic"
91. Tony & Smash "Get Your Swag On"
92. Dawn Richard "Bombs"
93. B.o.B ft. André 3000 "Play The Guitar"
94. Groove Armada ft. Slarta John "Pull Up"
95. Bae Geon-seok "Cinderella" live (webrip). The look on Kangta's and Baek Jiyoung's faces when they turn their chairs and see the gender of the singer is priceless.
To reemphasize the demographic points I've been hammering at you during all of my quarter-year writeups: There's only one male singer in my Top 10, the male half of Trouble Maker — the half that moves half-paralyzed in terror as a warm, endearingly emotionally sweet and massively sexy fun girl wraps her arms around him. This is fitting for a time in which male vocalists don't seem to know WTF they should do. The next XY chromosome doesn't show up till a negligible guest shot on ChoColat's "One More Day" down at 17. First vocalist over forty is Kim Wan Sun, the guest singer on "I Love You All Days," number 20. First male voice over forty is Jay-Z's in "Clique," track 27.
Yeah, I know this is my taste, lots of others'll have Lamars and Oceans and G-Dragons and EXO's tromping all over the tops of their lists. Nonetheless, I think my choices say something beyond just my taste: voices with character and penetration belong to young women, and the best songs and arrangements are given to them. (Yeah, and my impressions are limited to the corners of the world I notice, and of course I have no idea if Argentina or India have different stories to tell, as might all the American and Korean markets and submarkets I didn't get to in 2012.)
I also thought the cute women (T-ara, Orange Caramel) sang w/ more authority (or were autotuned with more authority) than the strong women (Dawn Richards, Ciara), though when the world went screwy and nasty aroung T-ara midyear, they were as paralyzed and negligent as anyone else. [EDIT: That is, T-ara as humans were paralyzed (as opposed to T-ara as just singers and dancers; I'm not saying the music was paralyzed). The women in T-ara needed to make written and spoken public responses to the bullying charges and what was being done to them and to Hwayoung, and to analyze and understand what the Internet mob was doing; but they were missing in action instead.]
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Date: 2013-01-05 08:54 pm (UTC)thank you for posting these -- I missed a lot, same as every year. It's especially nice to see a Thai pop song; Zaza were one of my favourite groups a couple years ago, but I forgot to keep track of them; this was a good reminder
--mza.