Least necessary Christina Aguilera single

lol u forgot the all of them option lol

the answer is ain't no other man which is the worst single of all time possibly

like when we all go to hell it's just gonna be fire and that HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! sound on a loop for the rest of eternity >_<

Candyman = even worse than Ain't no other man.

But it's a close-run thing.

Went for "Can't Hold Us Down". Still not sure whether the video for that is really really racist or just a little racist.

there really is no worse moment in the world than a shitty song ending on the radio followed by you getting all optimistic about the next song and then HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

"Candyman" is horrendous though, like a 1970s variety show sketch if they didn't credit the audience with enough intelligence to work the double entendres out themselves.

Beautiful
Fighter

^^^goth broads really dick these two songs

im aight w/ "beautiful", there are 4239849 ballads like it and it's not even in the same universe of active annoyance as 'aint no other man' or 'candyman'

lol u forgot the all of them option lol

-- J0rdan S., Sunday, June 8, 2008 11:46 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lol poptimists died in vain

ain't no other man >>>> candyman

can't claim to recognize all the old ones GRANDAD.

the answer is ain't no other man which is the worst single of all time possibly

-- J0rdan S., Sunday, June 8, 2008 3:47 PM (Sunday, June 8, 2008 3:47 PM) Bookmark Link

Insanity. That song is tremendous.

Anyway, "Candyman" is the worst, but "Car Wash" is prob. the least necessary, if you want to phrase it that way.

the voice within is awful

beautiful is great

fighter is AMAAAAAZING, u've got to be kidding

yeah aint no other man is certainly not necessary being the lead single from a huge album but ill take any chance i can get to talk shit about that song

is certainly not not necessary*

i love that album

I don't remember the middle stretch. Does she sing on them?

cute =)

Nelly, Nelly, you make me so sweaty baby

voted "I Turn To You" btw

(Xtina's "Sometimes," right?)

Also the Mulan song is missing...not that it would get my vote

I'm just thinking in terms of what's least essential in terms of the Pop Tart ---> Xtina ---> I AM A SOUL GODDESS NO REALLY narrative

wasnt there a christmas single in there somewhere?

i'm going with "Tell Me" since i'm not even aware that it was a single.

She never topped her opening streak, methinks.

Tell Me = Diddy song w/ xtina

"The Voice Within" because it's so, so boring. At least "Candyman" is an entertaining kind of awful.

Wasn't that "Reflection" song from Mulan a single?

i love candyman

I like "Candyman" the least, but "Lady Marmalade" sort of defines "unnecessary".

xposts ah right i do know "Tell Me". meh diddy's pretty unnecessary too.

"Fighter" and "Ain't No Other Man" are tremendous performances. "Beautiful" is retarded on an unbelievable level, but she sings it well.

Nothing is worse than "Fighter" as evidenced by the fact that it is pretty much the biggest hit among trannies over the past 10 years or so.

Um.

It's quite necessary then!

myndbloom is like billboard for trannys

If only it were a paying gig.

the answer is ain't no other man which is the worst single of all time possibly

-- J0rdan S., Sunday, June 8, 2008 3:47 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

CHALLOPS: THE THREAD

breaking news, internet message board poster fails to detect intentional exaggeration, story at 6

not that im not firing a challops machine gun in this thread or anything, just saying

The lady doth protest too much, methinks

you were exaggerating, so its not a challop.

makes sense.

Candyman is kind of annoying, but it's not that bad. If it's her worst single she's doing pretty well.

"lol u forgot the all of them option lol"

dude just admit you like some christina aguilera songs. It's ok.

pretty much all of her singels are awful, but she does have some pretty great album tracks ;like 'get mine get yours,' "loving me4 me", "makes me wanna pray" etc... "fighter" is prob the worst, hate that song

"lovin me 4 me" is amazing, if she had more songs liek that it'd be amazing, she should sing like that more often and not sound constipated like shoe mormally does

"lol u forgot the all of them option lol"

dude just admit you like some christina aguilera songs. It's ok.

-- Matt Armstrong, Monday, June 9, 2008 2:39 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

breaking news, internet message board poster fails to detect intentional exaggeration, story at 6

-- J0rdan S., Monday, June 9, 2008 1:38 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

The "S." stands for "challopS."

man if i take the ever take the challops crown from matt armstrong ill quit ilx

After reading the conversation above, I am on the verge of assuming that I'm the only person who's heard her cover of "Car Wash"...?

hahaha i like where this thread went

"challop= a CHALLENGING OPINION, an either contrarian or obvious opinion delivered with the intent of shock and awe"

God, how could this person honestly like this music I hate. I KNOW! He's just pretending to have this opinion to get a rise out of me! ROFL, let me go find a funny .gif and trollbomb his thread.

matt the meaning of a challop is a very complicated one that still tears ilx apart at its seams to this day, but believe me no one is accusing you of pretending to like shitty music

It seems more like an accusation of grandstanding than anything else.

really though, i think you need to stop being so hostile-- i mean i think you are reading ilx wrongly if you think "lol you forgot the all of them option lol" is a serious post. and even if it was a serious post, i don't ever see you trying to engage anyone, it's always as if ppl are out to get you and pop music. like you post here 3 times a month and they're always about how everyone on ilx hates pop music and poptimists, so why even come back here?

It's a post that screams LOOK AT MY "DIFFERENT" OPINION

Whether this opinion is "different" in the sense of being boringly contrarian or "different" in that the poster is unknowingly repeating conventional wisdom as though it's a world-shattering new perspective, that whole discussion is sorta a sidebar. It's really about the bombast with which the opinion is delivered.

well I've been accused of challops in the past, and I never state an opinion to create "shock or awe."

It seems like a way of mocking opinions you disagree with, not mocking people for being arrogant or disingenuous.

the only opinions you seem to post are whiny and complain-y

in a bombastic way?

whine-ops

you're one of those weird creepy meta people aren't you? please don't talk to me

Challops will make us powerful; thinking will only make us fat.

matt, you are incredibly wrong, but i actually don't think your shitty opinion about challops is a challop in itself. another example: gabbnebb and i disagree on every topic that exists on earth, but i would never accuse him of inahibting Challopagos, because he doesn't come off as doing it just to get a rise.

obviously challops exist-- some people spout bullshit in an attempt to look like they have bold ideas.

But a lot of things on ILX are called challops when they're just unpopular opinions. I highly doubt that all of the Ashlee Simpson fans on ILX are posting positive things about her to produce "shock and awe" (we're a pretty insular group anyways), but the Ashlee thread was called challopy anyway.

not all of them, no, but i think a sliver of the teenpop cadre is stuck in the nineties and thinks it's battling indie guilt (which no one is harboring anymore BUT THEM), and their defenses come off as challop-y because they write as if the last decade didn't happen and they're blowing gourds right and left by deigning to listen to pop music

and there we have a t-bomb

not all of them, no, but i think a sliver of the teenpop cadre is stuck in the nineties and thinks it's battling indie guilt (which no one is harboring anymore BUT THEM), and their defenses come off as challop-y because they write as if the last decade didn't happen and they're blowing gourds right and left by deigning to listen to pop music

Stupidest fucking post in the history of the board. Get over yourself.

lol more like retardo amirite?

This "challops" meme is even worse than the infernal "butthurt" one.

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.

Those that don't get challops are doomed to repeat them.

the level of roxymuzak and noodle vague's not-getting-it would make me all ~facedesk~ if i gave a shit about them getting it, wow.

look stop fronting dudes, the 'challops' 'meme' (can it really be a meme if only 3 people on the internet use it?) and the 'butthurt' thing and all the rest of yr strange obsessive meta cataloguing bullshit, none of them are about the people being bombastic or whatever, they're about you tryna look superior to everyone else without actually calling people out to their face (lol 'to their face'). like, everyone pretty much notices when someone gets a bit pompous. it's ok you know! but yelling CHALLOPS CHALLOPS CHALLOPS like someone's bossy little sister...it's all "look miss i noticed someone posting something not very clever! do i get a gold star?" it's aallll about your own insecurity and is a tad undignified don't you think?

The unexamined post is not worth posting.

As opposed to googling someone's ex-girlfriend's livejournal posts in order to post to ILX? That wouldn't be strange, obsessive, catalouing, all about your own insecurity, and a tad undignified, right?

xp

For serious, lex, it's not like you're unfamiliar with the giddy thrill of calling other people out on what you perceive to be bullshit. Challops is just a comedy shorthand way of saying STOP FRONTIN'

this thread became retarded not that it wasn't retarded already

sorry i'm drunk nm

trust the voice within

Jesus, guys.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Lady Marmalade", obviously.

Thing is: everybody breaks out the challops sometimes. They're lurking in every sentence you write when you start arguing, it's a rhetorical device we all like to wave about every now and then. Difference is, some people can recognise that having their bullshit flagged is just a game, and some people throw full-on diva hissies if anybody dares to cheek them.

I kinda like "Candyman"'s gleeful stupidity, to be honest, although I hate faux swing so I'm torn. "Lady Marmalade" was necessary because of the video.

it's 'carwash' from those i can remember, or that one with ricky martin. wouldn't say that any of them are 'essential' exactly.

challops crew, never knowingly funny or not tedious.

there are at least 8 essential xtina singles and that's being quite harsh.

unknowingly funny ^^

unknowingly unfunny ^

a tad undignified ^^

ok you win you've actually BORED ME TO DEATH

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/afewgoodmenjacktruth.jpg

you can always tell when someone's nonchalant and bored by the way they frequently return to make a thing of it.

It was endearingly like watching our Joel keep answering back.

This thread has turned into that thing you see when you face two mirrors at each other and look at the multiple refections receding into infinity except you can't see them all because your stupid head's in the way whoooo whoooo.

"Dirrty" I still like loads when I hear it on the radio, anyway. Excellent single.

haws to lex

i voted car wash because i hadn't heard it until now (also it sucks). And "Nobody Wants to Be Loneley" also sucks (I hadn't heard it until now), but it seems essential in that it probably played a big role in introducing her to the Latino market.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wtf is ilx's definition of "necessary"?

I want to say 'Hurt' because its so fucking useless. Like everyone already knows about her history with her father, she exploited that enough in the first album but the video for Hurt was really decadent and stylised so I'm gonna go for...Nobody Wants To Be Lonely because nobody wants to by Ricky Martin and thats a fact.

"but i would never accuse him of inahibting Challopagos"

Real time LOLs.

Don't know what my answer would have been for this poll. Xtina's performance on "Lady Marmalade" was compelling scary like staring into the jaws of a gigantic beast, but Lil Kim redeemed the track as a whole somewhat.

My friend likened Xtina to a 'diseased lion' in the vid for CREEEOOOOOLE LADY MAAAAAAARMAAALAAADE'

Genie In A Bottle 3

That's cool.. 3 people voted for the only incorrect answer.

it's for the Addams Family movie and sounds like the kind of thing that Winehouse would've done for pin money if she was still around but i honestly like this a lot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N7uqxG1U-g