US #2s of 2010

Something like:

1. Lady Gaga "Bad Romance" (7 wk [3 in 2009 + 4 in 2010])
2. Young Money ft. Lloyd "BedRock" (1 wk)
3. Taio Cruz "Dynamite" (3 wk) or B.o.B. ft. Hayley Williams "Airplanes" (1 wk)
4. Taylor Swift "Today Was A Fairytale" (1 wk)
5. Lady Antebellum "Need You Now" (2 wk)

Don't think I've heard:

Artists for Haiti "We Are the World 25: For Haiti" (1 wk)
Iyaz "Replay" (1 wk)

anyway, "Bad Romance" will take this poll w/ "Need You Now" coming in second

voting "need you now", "bad romance" got its props in '09

"need you now" is amazing but i'm gonna throw some love at "dynamite", which is also a classic

Oh, "US" number twos.

I was reading this list going "Really? It did that well over here?"

Bad Romance obv

kinda want to vote for "Bad Romance" since it did well in US #2s of 2009 but there's only one other song here i can stand and i don't like "Need You Now" nearly as much

Bad Romance is probably objectively the best, but I went with Airplanes, which I mostly like because it reminds me of that Michelle Branch song.

I love "Bad Romance" but the song that will bring back this year is "Dynamite."

"Need You Now." I need it every damn time.

"Bad Romance". Better than any of the #1s.

#2 is right

bah, voted "Need You Now" because I saw the last poll first, which lacked "Bad Romance." This really shouldn't be a question.

Taylor Swift "Today Was A Fairytale" (1 wk)

assuming i'll be the only voter for this?

you know I love Taylor Swift, but that's such a slight song!

such a slight song!

I'd go back to December,
turn around and change my own mind

^ u next month, upon re-reading this thread

lol

"replay" kind of a jam

"replay" is a total jam

i'm also a big fan of the "replay"/"rude boy" mash up from the 'dj hero' commercial

http://i55.tinypic.com/aymstx.jpg

lmao

i saw an old timey (bluegrass?) band play "replay" at the portland waterfront and it...worked?

I'd go back to December,
turn around and change my own mind

^ u next month, upon re-reading this thread

hahaha please show this to whiney so he knows what a real zing is

even whiney's lw zings hit harder than that

"bad romance" over "need you now" and fuck the rest

I've only heard Bedrock and I Need You Now. The only song I know by the overrated costumed wench is Pokerface and I want to keep it that way.

airplanes 4 eva

MintIce: pokerface is terrible but "Bad Romance" is actually great.

xp how can you call her "overrated" if you've only heard one song

anywho "bad romance" obv, though I do like "need you now"

aren't there like 38 weeks missing here? maybe i'm missing something

oh i got it you're not counting ones that made it to #1

yup that's right. i was hoping there would be more #2 singles near the end of the year but instead we had this really weird rapid-turnover phase where basically everyone got a turn at being #1.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

in which rogermexico discovers that yes, there is a poll in which he would vote for "airplanes" after all...

"Today Was a Fairytale" is a slight song but the chorus sounds great on the radio I reckon.

ranked:

Lady Gaga "Bad Romance" (7 wk [3 in 2009 + 4 in 2010])
Taylor Swift "Today Was A Fairytale" (1 wk)
B.o.B. ft. Hayley Williams "Airplanes" (1 wk)
Taio Cruz "Dynamite" (3 wk)
Lady Antebellum "Need You Now" (2 wk)
Iyaz "Replay" (1 wk)
Artists for Haiti "We Are the World 25: For Haiti" (1 wk)
Young Money ft. Lloyd "BedRock" (1 wk)

gaga's in a realm of her own & will get plenty of votes (not to mention WIN) so i voted for tay

Voted Artists for Haiti to raise awareness no actually because these are all horrible.

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

i'm the only "replay" vote? come on, it's better than the 25 for haiti thing at least

replay is awesome -- would've been my third pick behind dynamite & need you now

i assume the haiti votes were jokes

i wish i could assume the same thing about the "dynamite" votes. c'mon raise your standards, this is very very mediocre pop music

i throw my standards in the air sometimes

that's my favorite pure pop song of the year, the whole thing is just hooks

the whole thing is unmemorable mush

like you forget how it goes before it's even stopped playing. i dare say hearing anything that's not actually actively hateful so incessantly on the radio could make one come round to it, but it doesn't need to be recognised as great pop.

and we are living in an era where the bar has been lowered such that anything that manages to be better than ke$ha seems like a relief of sorts

i think that it conveys euphoria better than any super popular house biting huge pop song has in the past few years

it was tough for me to pick "dynamite" over the ill blu remix of "good times" but i think the verses are better on "dynamite"

it conveys maybe 1% of the euphoria of kelis's last album

oh ok the only super popular track off that album was the shit one but the pop charts are a mess these days

taio cruz is such a fucking nonentity

yeah the kelis album got jobbed

well yeah totally re taio cruz -- i think the verses on "dynamite" are great tho in their total direct simplicity -- it's great nursery rhyme style rap

i just listened to it again and ughhh it's so bad, i fucking hate that rudimentary sub-bep x sub-guetta sound - it's just appalling, remedial shit

and i have managed to ALREADY forget how it goes again - five seconds after it ended and i'd be unable to sing a bar of it

me + Tim (??) staying strong for T.Swift

anyway, "Bad Romance" will take this poll w/ "Need You Now" coming in second

― markers, Friday, December 17, 2010 3:50 AM

hardest prediction ive ever made

i don't get you lex, that is the most immediately catchy song of this year

i was pretty much singing it for all the rest of the day after the first time i heard it

i'm sayin

i have definitely forgotten how it goes overnight. words, melody, everything. in one ear and straight out the other.

sounds like someone doth protest too much

and we are living in an era where the bar has been lowered such that anything that manages to be better than ke$ha seems like a relief of sorts

― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, December 24, 2010 2:38 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

boy, always suspected me u were closeted rockist in poptimist taylorings... 10 years time singin' Geir's tune u b. ugh!

ke$ha should be tried at the hague

but then so should we all... so should we all.

yes if you dislike ke$ha that makes you a ROCKIST

rmde

who even thinks in terms of rockist vs poptimist any more anyway?

^^^he do?

back to yr emersons, lakes & palmers u!

this is a dumb argument

^aha, somebody gets it!

Man, I had no interest in figuring out what Taio Cruz' Dynamite was until this, but I just youtubed it and that's a pretty solid jam. It gives me a positive feeling!

otm!

boy, always suspected me u were closeted rockist in poptimist taylorings... 10 years time singin' Geir's tune u b. ugh!

Ke$ha is not at all bad though. Heavily 80s synthpop influenced and all, which is of course a good thing. :)

jesus christ the kesha repping of late is starting to remind me of when ppl started to say that actually reagan was very smart in the 80s

http://i55.tinypic.com/r94xo7.png

Geir challops reach a new level.

G€ir is not at all bad though.