"I Am My Own Mommy, The Fuck!" (Top Singles, One-Third Through 2018)
Closed my 2017 Top 100 on March 3, giving myself a sigh of relief that "Gummo" and "The Race" were near misses and I wouldn't have to write about them. But here those guys are anyway, 6ix9ine and Tay-K, sure things on this list for "Billy" and "After You." And I still haven't done my writeup for 2017. Probably don't have much more to say about
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"Ninety One may be the best boyband since the Backstreet Boys" implies that the Backstreet Boys are better than Big Bang, which they're probably not, even if their top songs are a greater top. Certainly they're not as interesting as Big Bang. I was just kinda thoughtlessly falling into the idea of the Backstreet Boys as a gold standard, riffing off of Christophe having once said that Big Bang's "Blue" was the greatest boyband song since the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" (inspiring my Boyband 15 post) and my misremembering Christgau having called the Backstreet Boys the best boyband since the Beatles.
(What Xgau actually wrote was a lot more complicated: he says Backstreet Boys are not just another in a string of girl-directed concoctions - runs through a short historical list of mediocrities with maybe Wham! not being half bad, before arriving at the Beatles whom the Backstreet Boys are not remotely as good as, also not as good as the Jackson 5 - and there are a slew of talented early '90s "MotownPhilly"-inspired black rhythm 'n' vocal groups who set the template for the Backstreet Boys while being too sexually explicit and too black to get to the mass of white teen nice girls.)
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