The Britney-Sounding One (Top 10 Singles of the 2010s)
Here's a top 10 of the '10s. My desired number one, Brown Eyed Girls' Nivea lip care ad "Smile Chock Chock," turns out to be 2009, too bad. In the category Cheesy Eastern European Dance Tracks, "Money Maker" isn't as outrageously ridiculous as "Mi Mi Mi" - it's very normal by comparison and wasn't even the version of the song that got pushed (instead, a tiresomely sexy, heavily electro version w/out Raluka) - but has more feeling.
1. T-ara "Lovey-Dovey"
2. T-ara "You Drive Me Crazy"
3. Sheck Wes "Do That"
4. Orange Caramel "Lipstick"
5. Playboi Carti "Magnolia"
6. Baauer "Harlem Shake"
7. Heavy-K x Moonchild Sanelly "Yebo Mama"
8. DJ Sava ft. Raluka "Money Maker"
9. Wassup "Jingle Bell"
10. Serebro "Mi Mi Mi"
Playlist:
13 runner-ups: Silentó "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)," Lil Pump and Carnage "i Shyne," Lil Debbie "F That," The Chainsmokers "#Selfie," HyunA "Red," 2NE1 "I Am The Best," HyunA "How's This?" Grimes "Kill v. Maim," Jovi "Ou Même," Crayon Pop "Bar Bar Bar," Bali Baby "Do Da Dash," Roach Gigz "Pop Off," Fat Cat "My Love Bad Boy."
A difference between this and my '00s list is that the '00s tracks were all high-impact songs on the order of "Get Low" and "In Da Club" and "Since You Been Gone," high in my world and the outer world too. Whereas probably the biggest impact item here is "Lipstick," which is mainly having a subterranean effect as it and various Crayon Pop tracks provide the template for Momoland et al. to create light diversions amidst the K-pop heavies. "Magnolia" ought to be a crown jewel in the land of mumble and Soundcloud rap, but I don't know enough about hip-hop to know if it is. "Harlem Shake" and "Mi Mi Mi" flashed by as "what's that?" dance novelties. "You Drive Me Crazy" actually reached number one on the Gaon chart but I doubt that when people think of 2010 in K-pop it's the song that'll come to mind (except maybe as "the Britney-sounding one"). "Lovey-Dovey" was outshouted by "Roly-Poly" before it and by the insane " scandal" after. "Yebo Mama" probably registers as just another in a stream of good house from South Africa - and that's a pretty accurate description of it, though Sanelly has star potential. "Do That" got lost amidst better-known tracks by Sheck Wes, though it's the one that snaked into my nervous system. Wassup got lost altogether. And the version of "Money Maker" that got attention wasn't this one.
As for what these songs mean to me, in their different ways "Harlem Shake" and "Mi Mi Mi" shake my teeth, "Magnolia" shakes me up but with an undertow that provides balm to its own agitation. "Do That" crawls the streets, "Lipstick"'s a spray of sweet, "Jingle Bell" is a gentler sweet, and "Money Maker" and "Yebo Mama" are a smooth talker and a midnight stalker, each a kind of relief, though "Yebo Mama" has an apology in the lyrics that the sexy performance doesn't seem to acknowledge.
And T-ara. Do I have anything more to say about T-ara? "You Drive Me Crazy" is a smooth "Slave 4 U" or a jagged "Baby One More Time..." "Lovey-Dovey," my number one, is just a warm little shuffle knock-off.
The Britney Sounding One:
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1. T-ara "Lovey-Dovey"
2. T-ara "You Drive Me Crazy"
3. Sheck Wes "Do That"
4. Orange Caramel "Lipstick"
5. Playboi Carti "Magnolia"
6. Baauer "Harlem Shake"
7. Heavy-K x Moonchild Sanelly "Yebo Mama"
8. DJ Sava ft. Raluka "Money Maker"
9. Wassup "Jingle Bell"
10. Serebro "Mi Mi Mi"
Playlist:
Click to view13 runner-ups: Silentó "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)," Lil Pump and Carnage "i Shyne," Lil Debbie "F That," The Chainsmokers "#Selfie," HyunA "Red," 2NE1 "I Am The Best," HyunA "How's This?" Grimes "Kill v. Maim," Jovi "Ou Même," Crayon Pop "Bar Bar Bar," Bali Baby "Do Da Dash," Roach Gigz "Pop Off," Fat Cat "My Love Bad Boy."
A difference between this and my '00s list is that the '00s tracks were all high-impact songs on the order of "Get Low" and "In Da Club" and "Since You Been Gone," high in my world and the outer world too. Whereas probably the biggest impact item here is "Lipstick," which is mainly having a subterranean effect as it and various Crayon Pop tracks provide the template for Momoland et al. to create light diversions amidst the K-pop heavies. "Magnolia" ought to be a crown jewel in the land of mumble and Soundcloud rap, but I don't know enough about hip-hop to know if it is. "Harlem Shake" and "Mi Mi Mi" flashed by as "what's that?" dance novelties. "You Drive Me Crazy" actually reached number one on the Gaon chart but I doubt that when people think of 2010 in K-pop it's the song that'll come to mind (except maybe as "the Britney-sounding one"). "Lovey-Dovey" was outshouted by "Roly-Poly" before it and by the insane " scandal" after. "Yebo Mama" probably registers as just another in a stream of good house from South Africa - and that's a pretty accurate description of it, though Sanelly has star potential. "Do That" got lost amidst better-known tracks by Sheck Wes, though it's the one that snaked into my nervous system. Wassup got lost altogether. And the version of "Money Maker" that got attention wasn't this one.
As for what these songs mean to me, in their different ways "Harlem Shake" and "Mi Mi Mi" shake my teeth, "Magnolia" shakes me up but with an undertow that provides balm to its own agitation. "Do That" crawls the streets, "Lipstick"'s a spray of sweet, "Jingle Bell" is a gentler sweet, and "Money Maker" and "Yebo Mama" are a smooth talker and a midnight stalker, each a kind of relief, though "Yebo Mama" has an apology in the lyrics that the sexy performance doesn't seem to acknowledge.
And T-ara. Do I have anything more to say about T-ara? "You Drive Me Crazy" is a smooth "Slave 4 U" or a jagged "Baby One More Time..." "Lovey-Dovey," my number one, is just a warm little shuffle knock-off.
The Britney Sounding One:
This entry was originally posted at https://koganbot.dreamwidth.org/374917.html. Comments still welcome here, there, and anywhere.