rolling pop in 2009 thread

i like this flo-rida single btw

and yeah Paper Trail has been pretty big (like 5 top 10 singles right?), but I dunno I'm kind of disconnected since I don't listen to radio anymore so I don't really feel the bigness of it.

ha, I've been meaning to post about that one. I OMGWTFLOLed a Flo-Rida song but I liked it. xp

to me, "single ladies" and "whatever you like" feel historically omnipresent

Yeah, can't deny "Single Ladies" really as a cultural touchstone... I don't know about "Whatever You Like" though, that just seemed like a big record... like "Umbrella" or something, there's a big record like that every year.

and I still hate that song

"Umbrella" is totally in cultural touchstone territory.

yeah "Umbrella" wasn't the right comparison

I don't think "Whatever You Like" is going to be as well remembered as "Single Ladies" or "Umbrella". If any T.I. song is, it's "What You Know".

I find it immensely saddening that in 2008, Eminem is able to have a #1 hit.

yeah. this is why I kind of hate itunes.

Kanye needs to hurry up and release "Paranoid" as a single already.

also I think a better comparison wrt "Whatever You Like" is Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous," which was a big record but not one that I think is that important culturally or will be necessarily remebered... not on the level of an "Umbrella" or an "Irreplacable" or what have you...

Kanye needs to hurry up and release "Paranoid" as a single already.

― i and i overstand ilx bomboclaat formatting n ting (The Reverend), Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:25 PM (16 seconds ago) Bookmark

i was thinking this literally 20 mins ago when i was in the car.... i mean if "just dance" can be the #1 single...

arguably "i kissed a girl" is a bigger cultural touchstone than single ladies

"Promiscuous" is by far my favorite song mentioned is this convo, but you are probably right. xxp

whoa jordan u may be right

I guess those two + "Lollipop"/"A Milli" = the big cultural touchstone records of 08?

yeah "i kissed a girl" is definitely getting a segment on the inevitable "I Love 2008" VH1 Special

Maybe "Low" goes on that list too?

see i always felt like "low" was so itunes driven - feel like i've heard "i kissed a girl" and "single ladies" way more on the radio

"lollipop" as well

the first time I heard "whatever you like" i didn't get the hype, but after hearing it on the radio a million times it totally became my jam.

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someone fluent in billboard please explain how ^^^ is an "interesting move"?

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sigh

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i am really pleased that something so euro-dancey is doing well here.

As opposed to all the other euro-dancey songs that have been huge in the past 2-3 years?

ummmmm

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see i always felt like "low" was so itunes driven - feel like i've heard "i kissed a girl" and "single ladies" way more on the radio

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For real? I probably heard "Low" on the radio more than any other song last year, and everywhere else, too. It was completely ubiquitous.

Why do you guys think "Low" resonated like it did? That always really baffled me.

OH FUCK NO XXP

I really, really hope that Asher Roth doesn't blow up this year. I don't think I can take it.

Why do you guys think "Low" resonated like it did? That always really baffled me.

― someone who seems to only rep for ghastly prefab autotuned pop (The Brainwasher), Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:38 PM Bookmark

It was a fun dance song that chicks liked. That's really all there is to it.

THE SONG IS CALLED "I LOVE COLLEGE"

yeah but there are lots of fun dance songs that chicks like... "Low" was like ridiculously successful, I think it was like the most downloaded song ever or something like that

maybe it's because it came at the height of t-pain-mania?

i was going to start a thread about this but basically, is eminem relevant anymore? i am hardly the ILM expert on hip hop but eminem just doesn't seem to fit in anymore (and not in a good iconoclastic way but in a sorry grampa kind of way). and the whole "record of 17 rapes, 400 assaults, and 4 murders, the undisputed, most diabolic villain in the world, Slim Shady!" thing (no i didn't have that memorized)...maybe i'm just getting along in years but that's just gross and it seems that the rap community has been trying to downplay the gangster image lately.

xpost okay what euro dancey stuff has been big in the US the last few years? serious question because i never listen to the radio.

no eminem isn't relevant

Eminem ceased to be relevent sometime around when he dropped Encore.

i didnt know 'mad' was charting (low, but w/e). this is cool. also, three beyonce songs on the charts is :)

nickelback somehow unkillable

xxxpost i dunno if he's relevant or not, but he's fucking EMINEM, he was the biggest pop star in the world for about 5 years wasnt he?

aka people are going to buy his shit regardless

i dunno guys, he does have the #1 single so maybe he is relevant again.

going #1 off itunes sales alone doesn't make you relevant necessarily

xpost okay what euro dancey stuff has been big in the US the last few years? serious question because i never listen to the radio.

― lil waynes babymama (musically), Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:41 PM Bookmark

Have you somehow missed the whole "Euro-dance sounds in everything" trend that kicked off around, say, "Sexyback"? I would imagine not.

it wasn't straight-up euro dance though, i'm thinking swedish hit factory type stuff, and not just borrowing certain elements, poker face isn't that exactly but it's the closest thing i have heard in a while. although i think cascada charted here so nm

xp okay can't eminem be irrelevant AND not be on the charts? can't i have it all?

"please don't stop the music"

White US pop stars appropiating black US music is dope and black US pop stars appropiating Euro music is dope but white US pop stars appropiating Euro music is THE WORST imo.

I realize my JT-love throws that into contradiction, but he was doing both at the same time.

White US pop stars appropriating black US music is dope

ehhhhhh......

I didn't mean that categorically, even if it was phrased as such. Change all those "is"s to "can be"s.

I phrased that v. poorly, come to think of it. But you know what I meant.

yeah I get what you mean

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