usher singles poll (2009 & beyond)

Lil' Freak, even with one point deducted for "EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND!"

Haven't heard "Hot Tottie."

I'll walk around the office at least once a week shouting "PAY-PAHS. PAY-PAHS."

i don't even really think "papers" sounds like "burn" (this is a bad thing)

haha

"hot tottie" is awesome! i think i'm voting for it

haven't heard "more"

"papers" certainly never struck me as a rewrite of "burn" nearly as much as "burn" does of "u got it bad"

"Papers" and "Burn" are both "U Got It Bad" ripoffs and "Papers" is the better one

ha xpost

i haven't heard "more". i'm voting for "dj got us falling in love" but i'm not proud of it.

Rev otm.

"papers" just doesn't work for me as a song at all.

imo:
papers > hot tottie > lil freak > there goes my baby > omg > dj > hey daddy

dj > tottie > there goes my baby > hey daddy > lil freak > omg > papers

"hot tottie" has prob the best jay verse of the year & maybe even of the past two year? he actually managed to recapture that balance of sneering dickishness & irresistible charm that made him so awesome on songs like "i just wanna luv u" & "frontin"

the fact that he sounds kind of like a shit trey songz on "hot tottie" pains me more than any of the songs i dislike more

he = usher obv

lil freak >> hot tottie >> papers >>>>>>>>>>> omg > dj got us falling in love again

don't even remember the other two

really don't get the bfd about "lil freak" -- it's not even a great beat by polow's standards & has one of the worst minaj verses

altho come to think of it, that song's existence is completely justified by the story that shiplo told about big tigger thinking nicki said "everybody loves reindeer" which is the funniest thing i've ever heard

lol totally, that may be part of my enjoyment of it.

although as post-peak polow goes it's not bad, and i'm always a sucker for that "living for the city" riff in any form. but it is kind of funny that it's this year's annual R&B song tom breihan reps for.

"lil freak" is one of those odd times i get pissed off at someone for sampling something great and shitting on it

haha xp

anyway my rankings would be

hot tottie > omg > dj got us falling in love again > papers (stop liking songs) there goes my baby > lil freak > hey daddy (daddy's home) (creepiest song of the year?)

although as post-peak polow goes it's not bad, and i'm always a sucker for that "living for the city" riff in any form. but it is kind of funny that it's this year's annual R&B song tom breihan reps for.

― some dude, Thursday, December 16, 2010 5:23 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah this was bizarre

as much as people put pitchfork's rap coverage under the microscope, the R&B coverage is way spottier and more questionable. "hey guys! lil freak! only girl in the world! right, right?"

really don't get the bfd about "lil freak"

best of this pretty lamentable selection ≠ bfd

hey, they reviewed some random unofficial ciara mixtape that some random DJ put together! that's crate digging!

wonder if they'll review the actual ciara album now.

"DJ Got Us..."

dude's been breaking my heart ever since America broke his by ignoring Here I Stand

actually a really hard decision. it's probably between "papers" and "lil freak" as they both are departures from usher's normal output that work really well. "hey daddy" used to be one of my favorites but if you actually listen to the lyrics it kind of ruins it (not a flattering image for him)

I probably like "Lil Freak" more than it would otherwise merit because it sounds so non-2010, that kind of brooding bounciness it has reminds me of, like, LeToya's "All Eyes on Me" or similar. And I like the way it seems to be more about his bi girl's enjoyment than you'd expect from a minaj-a-tois plotline in a rap or r&b tune.

The Nicki verse is good I reckon apart from the last line.

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hey how about u guys put together your single-lp best ofs from the post-confessions albums so i don't have to

or link me to where ships already did it, whatever

Just made a similar playlist a couple weeks back. trimmed it to 80 minutes, left out some jams.
http://i64.tinypic.com/2ibf6m0.jpg

o yeah link if u want it https://open.spotify.com/user/theshipment/playlist/3Ku9aHvO5FCvyqfp5UtggB