US #2s of 2014

This has some chaff but is still a lot better than the #1 list.

Drunk in Love > Stay With Me (Duet Version f/ Mary J. Blige) > Anaconda > Problem > Take Me to Church > Counting Stars > Stay With Me (Solo Version)

A weird feature of my 2014 was memorizing which radio stations played the MJB version of "Stay With Me" and which didn't.

1. drunk in love
2. stay with me
3. problem
4. anaconda
5. take me to church

didn't know the onerepublic song existed & i'm not sure i heard it

"drunk in love" is a classic and "stay wit me" & "problem" were a few of my fav radio jams of the year

"anaconda" is whatever, "take me to church" sounds better during commercials

"drunk in love" is a classic, "anaconda" is shonky but ultimately super-fun and lovable, "problem" is fun but ultimately super-shonky and annoying, the rest is trash

"anaconda" is shonky but ultimately super-fun and lovable, "problem" is fun but ultimately super-shonky and annoying

ha this is so otm

usually #2s are better than #1s but i dunno about this set. Hozier or Beyonce i guess.

Yeah I hate this list a lot less. Also thank god we kept Sam Smith off the #1 spot.

Hozier or Beyonce i guess. o_O

jesus christ this fucking list

("drunk in love" I guess)

"Drunk in Love" is the only decent song on either the US #1s or US #2s list.

"take me to church" sounds better during commercials

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, December 31, 2014 2:32 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark

Fucking love this song when it is used in commercials

these are much better than the #1s tbh

drunk in love > anaconda > counting stars > stay with me > take me to church > problem

"Problem," no question

Like I feel like this is the kind of question that makes me feel alienated from ILX pop/rap/top 40/goon posters, because for me this is like obviously "Problem."

Like Iggy Azalea? Why the hate? I realize I said this about Macklemore, too, and I know it makes me sound like super-out-of-touch. Like, I know rationally why some people object to them, but I dunno, maybe I'm frivolous and maybe my white male cis privilege allows me to frivolous, but whatever recognition I have of their essential and perhaps impolitic ridiculousness and offensiveness isn't as strong when I'm listening to their music.

I just can't stand the grain of Iggy's voice.

"Counting Stars" is the only OneRepublic tune I like, thanks to constant radio play. It or "Drunk in Love," I guess.

Hozier or Beyonce i guess. o_O

― The Reverend, Wednesday, December 31, 2014 3:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well, i really really dislike "Problem" and "Anaconda" and "Stay With Me"

my issue with "problem" is that once i heard the whispered part as a death threat i haven't been able to shake that interpretation and so it's basically the creepiest song in the world

Counting Stars. It's catchy. And I like bands that have one hit every 5 or 6 years. Like Train.

"Counting Stars" over "Drunk in Love", which obviously already has enough support going for it (and I think there are far better tracks on Beyoncé anyway). From there on, it would probably go "Take Me to Church" > "Problem" > "Stay with Me" > "Anaconda"

Problem > Counting Stars > Anaconda > Drunk In Love > Stay With Me > Take Me To Church

Could still switch problem and counting stars before I vote, and it's jay-z's fault Beyonce isn't higher.

like dude can you please interrupt your wife's romantic reverie to make an ike turner joke please

woops, meant to say "can you please not interrupt..."

ty for the v fresh insight anyway

sorry i offended u by saying why i enjoyed the songs in question more or less than others

nice try, just the ike thing tho. ur entitled to ur greater-thans

why are you mad

i mentioned the bummer that made a song that might have been my no. 1 my no. 4 on this greater thans poll, are we not supposed to talk about it

oh no what if foqs

like dude can you please interrupt your wife's romantic reverie to make an ike turner joke please
--da croupier

it's her song tho, so...

by which i mean i have never understood people who take the stance that jay ruins "drunk in love" without acknowledging beyonce's culpability in jay ruining "drunk in love"

uh, i think liking the song less is all the acknowledgment of culpability i need to do

look, i just mentioned the aspect of the song that makes me like it less. if you find that gauche/tiresome/etc don't worry we'll get back to fresh insights like "i don't care for sam smith" soon enough

yeah i mean are we really picking on each other for making slightly unoriginal comments when it's a year-end thread about songs that have been out for ages

if you'd prefer i could go into my affection for "counting stars" (short version - the song jimmy iovine always wanted TV On The Radio to give him)

Counting Stars. It's catchy. And I like bands that have one hit every 5 or 6 years. Like Train.

― LimbsKing, Thursday, January 1, 2015 11:53 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the weird insidious thing about OneRepublic is they never went away even when it seemed like they did. "Counting Stars" is their 6th multi-platinum single in the space of 7-8 years.

This vote was so easy for me.

Like Iggy Azalea? Why the hate? I realize I said this about Macklemore, too, and I know it makes me sound like super-out-of-touch. Like, I know rationally why some people object to them, but I dunno, maybe I'm frivolous and maybe my white male cis privilege allows me to frivolous, but whatever recognition I have of their essential and perhaps impolitic ridiculousness and offensiveness isn't as strong when I'm listening to their music.

― jaymc, Thursday, January 1, 2015 3:07 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I gotta admit that I have managed to avoid Iggy's music altogether, and voted based on what I'm familiar with.

Iggy has a corny fake accent, mediocre lyrics and says dumb shit online. Like vanilla ice before her that doesn't mean she can't put her name on a catchy tune, but it shouldn't be HARD to fathom why she's disliked

Like Iggy Azalea? Why the hate? I realize I said this about Macklemore, too, and I know it makes me sound like super-out-of-touch. Like, I know rationally why some people object to them, but I dunno, maybe I'm frivolous and maybe my white male cis privilege allows me to frivolous, but whatever recognition I have of their essential and perhaps impolitic ridiculousness and offensiveness isn't as strong when I'm listening to their music.

― jaymc, Thursday, January 1, 2015 3:07 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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"Anaconda" is the laziest bullshit song, it makes "All About That Bass" seem like Mozart-level genius

Otm

Drunk in Love is the best of these.

"Problem" is pretty good too tbh

really Iggy Wallaroo just compounds "Problem"'s uh...difficulties

i honestly thought take me to church was an elton john song the first 500 or so times i heard it

also: it only made it to no.2? didn't it sell about 8 zillion copies in the US?

part of the charm of a tune like "Anaconda" for me is the way it really riles some people up

can't remember what i voted for in the end, cd've been Yonce, Nicki or Sam Smith

hate "stay with me" so much

would argue it's the laziest bullshit song here

agreed

I heard it yesterday on the adult R&B station followed by Rene + Angela's "Your Smile" and was like, ohhhh I'm counting stars

i don't remember ilx loving "drunk in love" this much, weird. don't really like any of these songs, tho i guess "problem" is the least depressing of ariana grande's sophomore output.

i think it's more a question of 'any Beyonce song' vs. these artists and a more divisive Nicki song

guess "problem" is the least depressing of ariana grande's sophomore output.

― k3vin k., T

I like "Love Me Harder" fine, don't even mind The Weeknd.

"Anaconda" is the laziest bullshit song, it makes "All About That Bass" seem like Mozart-level genius

Glad someone else finally said this.

"Anaconda" seems like a good idea on paper. if you told me Nicki's big single this year would be her rapping in L'Trimm flows about letting a coke dealer eat her ass over a shameless Mix-A-Lot jack, i'd think be like OK, this has potential. but it just ends up less than the sum of its parts in every possible way.

^^

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