Billboard Hot 100 New Entries, March 2003

"Rock Your Body" in a walk.

"Big Yellow Taxi" was No. 1 on F2K; "Have You Forgotten?" could have been.

"Get By" is close, but yeah. Kinda sorry lot overall.

there's some decent stuff here

i love 21 questions & rock your body pretty equally, but i'm gonna vote for the former -- talib joint is obv a banger & i've always liked "i can" -- "put that woman first" is also amazing -- fabolous joint was also a nice little radio thing as usual

it's not all bad, but there's a distinct lack of greatness other than JT and Kweli

Once again I've heard hardly any of these (4, I think) - is there anything on the list that's better than JT?

Ah ok, people like the Talib Kweli. I'll check it out before casting my crucial vote.

i love u like a fat kid loves cake

just needed to post that

obv the "get by" remix is better than the OG tho -- the sample in the jaheim song has been used to death but that song is really great

I still can't tell if I like or hate the way Justin pronounces the word "physi-clay."

xp: i think it's probably my least favorite use of that sample i've heard tbh

it's such a sweet song

only jahiem joint i've ever liked is "Could It Be"

something about him rubs me wrong, point blank

it's hard for me to pinpoint why i love the jaheim song -- very abstract nostalgic thing for me

lol, I voted Kelly Rowland because I didn't notice the Taleb Kweli track oops

The worst track on this list is "Like A Stone," which was way overplayed around the time I was making donuts (on my fellow donut-makers' radio station of choice).

my brother used to give our teenaged cousins tons of shit over their B2K fandom, it was kind of hilarious

that totally soporific busta/mariah joint is the worst thing on here i had to hear all the time

see i feel like there's rarely saccharine for the ladies tracks that are as acceptable as the busta & fab joints anymore? i always dug the flipmode/mariah one for some reason on some ja rule/ashanti type ish or something. it has a cool lil beat.

listening back, busta's out of tune singing is cute & endearing in a post-autotune context

even tho the fab/busta joints are obv inherently insipid i miss when rappers made these light, airy r&b tracks that weren't, like, great by any means but were sort of pleasant to listen to -- "bust it baby pt 2" was kind of like that in a way i guess

allowing for the fact that it would be impossible to ever classify plies as "pleasant to listen to"

uh

http://synamatiq.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/drake-black-white.jpg

yeah "best i ever had" is sort of like that but drake is an overbearing rapper even on his r&b songs

true

still think that busta joint is terrible tho. fab joint is fine but not nearly as good as "into you"

altho i would say that "best i ever had" is a classic rap/r&b radio jam

i have trouble remembering the difference xp

"Can't Let You" and "Into You" are like the most lyrical girl songs ever, though.

-- some dude, Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:13 AM (Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:13 AM) Bookmark Link

Never liked "Can't Let You Go", but "Into You" always jumped out at me as "wait....he's doing 4-syllable rhymes through the whole verse.....on a chick song?" Total summer jam to this day and gets my vote.

― The Reverend, Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:57 PM Bookmark

also "can't let u go" has kinda annoying choppy guitars and "into you" is a breezy 80s "juicy fruit"-type summer jam

so tempted to vote "say yes" b/c ill blu & shanique's uk funky cover has been so huge over the past year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gi_Y8VAMCM

but honestly it's "i know what you want", sunglasses and beads of sweat and summer vybez

i def think of it as more of a mariah joint than a busta one, weirdly. it has her imprint on it.

bump

lemme find a youtube of the ill blu cover of toby keith

it's not all bad, but there's a distinct lack of greatness other than JT and Kweli

Rev saying it so I don't have to. Voted Kweli as I'm sure JT will get his due here; does he really need a wider margin?

The Fleetwood Mac song is very good. I thought I should mention it.

Yeah, I was wondering about that; curious about Boomkat too, partially since I'm not sure I ever really understand who or what a Boomkat was.

Voting Justin. Like the Montgomery Gentry more than the Trace Adkins, though they're almost both the same song. Could take or leave most of the other ones I know (mostly leave), including the country ones.

...really understood...

Boomkat was Taryn Manning and her brother and their album is actually pretty good trip-hop/big beat pastiche.

obv the "get by" remix is better than the OG tho

disagree with this -- remix is too much "hey check out my guests" and not enough "check out my guests being awesome"

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

yeah there is absolutely nothing special about the "Get By" remix, no great verses -- totally got on the Pitchfork decade list etc. on lineup alone.

love both the Fab/Lil Mo songs here, tempted to vote for one of those. played "4Ever" at my wedding!

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

every song with ahead of "21 questions" aside from JT is markedly worse

except maybe lil mo

Never minded "Unwell" -- the chorus was stuck in my head for weeks in the fall of '03.

Talib Kweli - Get By - Rawkus - 3/29/03 - 99 4
Evanescence ft. Paul McCoy - Bring Me to Life - Wind-up - 3/15/03 - 64 2
Kelly Rowland - Can't Nobody - Music World - 3/8/03 - 98 1
Lil' Mo ft. Fabolous - 4Ever - The Gold Mind/Elektra - 3/22/03 - 92

>>>>>>> "21 Questions"

nope

bring me to life is some massive shit tho

I'm impressed, guys: I only know two of the songs you mentioned. Only Evanescence got massive radio play.

check out the lil mo