US #1s of 2014

What a shitshow.

Happy > Dark Horse > Fancy > Blank Space > Shake It Off > Timber > All of Me > All About That Bass > Rude imo.

Somewhere around Pitbull and J. Legend it tips into the completely unconscionable and even "Happy" was only like a 7/10 before I got sick of ever hearing it.

Rather short list in retrospect. Maybe two songs I even like here.

dark horse

some stuff i like just fine on here but woof

1. fancy
2. blank space
3. shake it off
4. timber
5. rude
6. dark horse
7. happy
8. all of me
9. all about that bass

the zedd remix of "rude" would be my #1 on this though

"fancy" sounds great when you play it loud, that beat is actually kinda underrated

lol i was wondering why rev hadn't started this. it's ok to think iggy azalea is a minstrelsy pox on pop and that "fancy" is a great pop song. couple of weekends ago i was at a house party with a bunch of social justice leaning types and we spent an hour ranting about iggy's appropriation and then someone was like "er guys should i put on 'fancy' then" and we all danced.

1. blank space
2. fancy
3. timber

ok this is where we fall off a cliff

4. all of me
5. dark horse
6. shake it off

insert fucking abyss of hell into which i hope these artists fall

=666. rude
=666. all about that bass

haha I appreciate that you refuse to even countenance "Happy"

Happy > Dark Horse > Fancy > Blank Space > Shake It Off > Timber > All of Me > All About That Bass > Rude imo.

Switch the last two and this is my exact ranking.

ha that was a legit oversight but it is actually even worse as a cultural force than the devil songs i did list, which i found surprisingly easy to ignore, which i could not say for "happy"

xp

i was wondering why rev hadn't started this

I just totally forgot until seeing your UK polls tbh

uggghhhh, this list

embarrassing on some level but still very enjoyable to me:

1. Dark Horse
2. Shake It Off
3. Timber
4. Fancy
5. Rude

not embarrassing but also not nearly as enjoyable:

6. Happy
7. All Of Me
8. Blank Space

both embarrassing and unenjoyable:

9. All About That Bass

i meant that with number ones like this i can see why you forgot!

I legit hadn't heard "Blank Space" until researching for this poll

1. blank space

~an enormous quality gap~

2. dark horse
3. timber
4. fancy
5. shake it off
6. all of me
7. happy
8. rude
9. all about that bass

Dark Horse all day every day

well that was easy ("blank space" obviously)

Blank Space is ok until the chorus. You can tell she'd been hangin out w Lorde.

(Tho tbh you cd prob say the same thing about Dark Horse)

I might end up voting for Timber

the chorus is the least lorde-esque part!

yeah wtf

"Blank Space" easily. "Rude" and "All About That Bass" and "Happy" are three of the worst #1's in my lifetime. "All of Me" is an inoffensive nothing. I'm waiting for Pitfull to cover "Conga."

i'm waiting for Pitfull to cover "Conga."

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, December 31, 2014 3:07 PM (20 seconds ago) Bookmark

this is brilliant

pitfull!

Lol more like 'cultivating a cool atmosphere at the beginning of a song and then wrecking it with a blocky anthemic chorus". I feel like Lorde did that a few times.

xxxp

The chorus of "Royals" doesn't sound anthemic to me -- more like a nyah-nyah affirmation.

Well she had other songs, dude...

Shake it off

Dark Horse

Blank Space is ok until the chorus. You can tell she'd been hangin out w Lorde.

I get the Lorde thing, but Blank Space to me totally sounds like Avril Lavigne (which is probably why I dislike it so much).

Happy > Timber > Fancy > Dark Horse
Everything else I either didn't hear or don't like enough to rank

1. Blank Space
2. (and close) Dark Horse

everything else is eh to agggh to noooooooooooooo

ok thats unfair, i should be specific and say i legit hate rude and timber.

1. "Fancy," 2. "Happy" (at least the chorus). Indifferent to the rest, don't recognize "Rude" by title (though I'm sure I'd discover I know it if I had enough initiative to check).

I have heard, to my knowledge, three of these songs, about half of which I can call to mind

greer's ranking is exactly mine

terrible #1s this yr :(

the chorus of "Blank Space" is the melody of Sixpence None The Richer "Kiss Me" and the cadence of "Turn Down For What" imo

actually a very good song

blank space

i will willingly listen to this

dark horse
all of me

annoying-to-bad

timber
Shake it off
fancy
rude

actively hate

all about that bass
happy

did everyone hate happy before it became so ubiquitous?

Not really. In the Victorian Age it was considered a virtue to be sober of mien.

Always hated Happy but performances, endless radio spins and omnipresence did def put it in 'worst ever' contender territory.

I like Happy

Shake it off

― 龜, Wednesday, December 31, 2014 3:12 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

TIMBER

I love Lee Oskar and DDR songs, how could I not like Timber?

huh -- I hear the melody of "this kiss"

1. timber
2. blank space
3. shake it off

i don't like any of the other ones

"Fancy" or "Dark Horse"? With T-Swift's two right behind?

Listen, I know it's not cool, but I kind of prefer "Shake It Off" to "Blank Space"? I mean, not the spoken word/rap section -- ugh -- but I'm way more of a lightly insistent disco guy than a big powerful/emotional persona play guy. So, you know ...

i can get to that

yeah "Shake It Off" just feels more successful at what it's going for, to me. it's not like "Blank Space" isn't torpedoed a little by its bridge too -- "don't say I didn't say I didn't warn you" is fake clever nonsense.

dark horse > shake it off > blank space > all of me > timber > fancy > happy > the deepest abysses of hell > rude > all about that bass

ok:
dark horse
fancy
shake it off

garbage:
timber
happy
blank space
all about that bass

both "blank space" and "shake it off" have dubious bridges but oh man i like them so much more than everything else here

honestly, while "rude" and "all about the bass" are patently atrocious songs, they're so cartoonish I enjoy them more than legend's simpering

as for the other five "hooray for me" songs, i probably enjoy timber the most and happy the least. i don't know why Happy hasn't clicked, when I dug like 2/3rds of In My Mind

other four, rather

if magic actually had legs culturally i might resent them more, but a one-hit that sounds like big mountain re-wrote "run joey run" and added the goofiest guitar solo i've heard in ages? not mad at that.

Shake it off, minus the rap breakdown.

No but seriously, 9? Less than one a month. Your charts make ours look exciting.

i voted 'rude' idk

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the two taylor tracks have more votes than everything else combined

mostly amazed that "shake it off" ran "blank space" so close

not that the Swift tracks are the worst things here or that the competition was that great but lol this board

J0rdan voting "Fancy" in this should be automatic banning from all goon functions

shake it off > timber > fancy > blank space > happy > rude > all of me >>>>>>> all about that bass > dark horse

^ absurd

Timber rocks! Go Timber!

lol