mtv.com's "contenders for 2011's song of the summer"

"super bass" is both the best song and the best summer 2011 jam

like i thought it was a vg song in pink friday context and then this year's warm weather rolled in and it became an UNIMPEACHABLY GREAT song - like the perfect balance between bratty/pretty, aggressive/vulnerable, ruffneck/disneypop, smartass/airhead

super bass = 9/10 (loses a touch of momentum after nicki stops rapping)
the edge of glory = 8/10 (gotta be in the right mood though, unlike "super bass" which can PUT me in the right mood for it)
give me everything = 7/10 (MEMENTO MORI CLUB POP)
i wanna go = 7/10 (not unenjoyable but i cannot get behind this era of britney as a thing to be enthusiastic about in general and would not mind if she just stopped for a while, or even for good)
rolling in the deep = 6/10 (i have grown so sick of this but i did think it was okay when i first heard it, leagues better than anything else adele has put her tedious name to)

the rest are various shades of 0-3/10 gross

oh who am i kidding the amount of times i've put "super bass" obsessively on loop says 10/10 so much more than my ~rational~ assessment ever could

Need to listen to a few more of these before confirming but can't imagine my choice not being "Super Bass".

"Don't Wanna Go Home" has made me laugh pretty hard but I'd only reward a song for awfulness if there was nothing in the list I actually liked.

"Rolling In The Deep" I like most in random club mix derivation, I think.

i like gaga occasionally but edge of glory is one of the most irritating songs i've ever heard, just a really shrill horrible melody.

suuuuuuuuuper baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaass duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhh

that's the kinda poll option i was looking fo
and yes you get slapped if you disagreeing hoe

throw a sidney samson mix of 'where them girls at' in too plz, whichever's fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvSSgUpCsEQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQsQ4-K-OfU

ugh why did i even bother checking 'tgif' again

perry voters burn in hell as ever no argument

"Super Bass" easily, over "I Wanna Go" and the Ne-Yo part of "Give Me Everything."

"Rolling In The Deep" I like most in random club mix derivation, I think.

― Tim F, Sunday, July 3, 2011 10:35 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha yessss

Eminem and Royce Da 5'9" (featuring Bruno Mars), "Lighters"

― dirty deathdrone boys (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 2 July 2011 00:28 (20 hours ago) Bookmark

really?

― flopson, Saturday, July 2, 2011 9:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

lol, this was a response to the post above me where the dude said "at least bruno mars didn't make this list"

I was pretty sure that it was On The Floor by Jennifer Lopez. That stupid song was played everywhere in NYC back in May.

uh are we backlashing on gaga or something?

― bros -izing bros (k3vin k.), Saturday, July 2, 2011 12:38 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I thought we had been for a while.

I guess it's between Sweat, On The Floor or Saxobeat for biggest summer tune worldwide?

saxobeat is pretty dope -- "on the floor" is really great tho

Was surprised "On The Floor" wasn't in this list actually.

how behind is the US on "danza kuduro" & that afrojack song "i want you to take over control" or w/e

Super Bass is alright, but why not Girls Fall Like Dominoes?

because it's not a single in the US

I really want to like "Danza Kuduro", but it's just too relentlessly up or something, like there's no tension in it.

idk dude

is sweat the snoop song? thats dope imo

Super Bass is alright, but why not Girls Fall Like Dominoes?

because it sucks in comparison to "super bass"?

super bass by a mile, though i do also like a number of other songs on this list

LMFAO (featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock), "Party Rock Anthem"

Kind've suprised there hasn't been more discussion of this on ILx - this was #1 in NZ for nearly three months; just fell short of Crazy Frog's "Axel F" stay at the top in terms of chartbusting power, fending off multiple Gaga singles and the like until finally succumbing to Adele. Has enough hooks/segements that I'd thought snatches of it I'd heard out of cars/walking past shops/etc belonged to different songs; seems to sum up that Ke$ha/Kreayshawn L.A. trashthetic (though I'd initially pegged this as incredibly Australian for some reason, both the shuffling and the uh mersh vibe - Tim F, how was this received over yr way?) while working as a novelty dance song cf "The Macarena".

Voting Pitbull ... secretly hoping him'n'Shakira's "Rabiosa" hits the charts.

'segments', not 'segEments', ugh.

Someone needs to record "Party Frock Anthem".

afaict lots of raver kids here do that shuffle dance

I kind of like that song in spite of myself :/

can't believe there's not even a hint of love for this

http://i56.tinypic.com/2zof6hj.gif

song is a solid 7/10

is sweat the snoop song? thats dope imo

― *rolls eyez on me* (D-40), Sunday, July 3, 2011 6:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ha was going to ask the same thing -- been meaning to revive your LA-sleaze cornball rap production thread to admit that i now grudgingly like The Cataracts stuff

can't believe there's not even a hint of love for this

http://i56.tinypic.com/2zof6hj.gif

― bernard snowy, Monday, July 4, 2011 12:58 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

can't even tell what that is

yah 'sweat' is their greatest triumph imo

i kinda like that stupid new boyz song too

"Super Bass" is the easy pick here. Put that on a mix for this weekend with friends at a lake cabin, sounded so great even after multiple replays!

I like the foster the people song

I do too, actually. A better MGMT than anything off their last album. Still nowhere near as good as "Super Bass" though.

can't even tell what that is

― some dude, Monday, July 4, 2011 5:10 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

it takes some real detective skills to figure out which song bernard snowy was referring to with this gif featuring shots of dj khaled & drake

it's a small, dimly lit gif, didn't recognize them

anyway "i'm on one" blows, only thing it really has going for it is that it doesnt sound like the last 8 identical dj khaled singles

super bass = 9/10 (loses a touch of momentum after nicki stops rapping)

I disagree with this actually, just because its whole mallpop vibe is so lush.

Of these "songs of the summer," the Adele may be the only one I literally encounter everywhere I go, and on every station. Most of these I haven't heard in passing yet, but the summer is young! That LMFAO video is pretty good, as is the Guetta.

Matt DC otm re: "Super Bass" and I usually hate when Nicki choose to sing instead of rap, which explains why I've detested a majority of her singles so far. I mean, given the current pop/rnb/rap crossover market, I totally get why people want her to sing like Rihanna (or whoever), but when she's got such a commanding control over a unique instrument like hers when she raps, I get frustrated when she's so reigned in. I feel like "Super Bass" lets Nicki be Nicki AND gives up a radio-ready pop hook.

the bridge is the only part of "Super Bass" that i like at all

R&bullshit like "Right Thru Me" is prob more Nicki Being Nicki than anyone wants to admit

it's a small, dimly lit gif, didn't recognize them

― some dude, Tuesday, July 5, 2011 6:33 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest

i'm not gonna harp on this but calling that gif too small & dimly lit is some grandma shit

i guess i am harping on it, but anyway

NOT GONNA HARP on this either again, but "super bass" could only be called lush in the ringtone era, and even that regard it's not really

it is, though! i looked at it for like 30 seconds thinking Drake's dance moves looked like Pharrell's and i was like wait is this "Frontin'"?

I meant lush in the Britishes sense, ie great.

LMFAO is on some Das Racist 'clever' shit except instead of arch rap nerd meta it's just NO LED IN OUR ZEPPELIN!!!!!!

used to be when Berry Gordy's offspring wanted a little pop notoriety they'd call in a favor from Michael Jackson for a hook, now we just get a douchey Mad TV version of the Black Eyed Peas

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Unusually spot on poll results.

man that adele song, like at a certain point you can't really front, that is a pop hit for sure. i hear it all the time and i pretty much can't criticize it, catchy as hell

the correct winner!

and the four 0-votes are the four irredeemably awful songs on the list. haven't heard "lighters" yet tho.

I really can't tolerate the way Adele sings at all.

"Rolling In The Deep" is pretty great and still huge in the summer but kinda silly to be on this list in the first place, it's been out since like November

people fronting on "Give Me Everything" itt

i really love "give me everything"

hear that song 5 times a day and i'm still not really sick of it!

the secret best part of that song is pitbull's post-chorus chorus (?)

WE MIGHT! NOT! GET! TOMORROW!

btw i might possibly be in miami next week to talk to pitbull

the secret best part of that song is pitbull's post-chorus chorus (?)

― gucci mande (J0rdan S.), Thursday, July 7, 2011 10:21 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark

there are basically four parts to the chorus that total 24 bars -- and Pit's verses are only like 12 bars! the song is practically all chorus

i still have no idea who nyer is or what her role in the song is

she's the female voice who sings on 1/4th of the chorus -- afaict she's just some random hot video chick that pitbull gave a part on the song

i still don't understand why all these dance producers like afrojack, guetta, benny benassi etc. get a 'featuring' credit just for doing the beat -- y'all might do that in europe but here in america timbaland has to get in front of the mic and mumble a couple times to get billing on the track

it's a post-khaled world

just another symptom of America's descent into socialism IMO

the funny thing about "give everything to me" is that pitbull shout out ne-yo & nyer on the intro, so clearly afrojack labeled for a credit afterward?

pitbull also says "kodak" twice in one sentence on the intro, so i don't think it was very carefully considered

lol that is true

i wonder if kodak is experiencing a cristal-esque sales bump, i should've bought some stock

like (cherry) chapstick in 08

God, "Where Them Girls At" may have, by a long shot, the worst Nicki verse ever.

Peebee!
Peebee!
Who is Peabo Bryson?
Two years ago I renewed my license.
Anyway why'd I start my verse like that?
You could suck a dick or you could suck on a ballsack
No, no,
I don't endorse that.
Pause that,
abort tha.
Just the other day mi go London, saw dat, kids ina the street
Paparazzi, all dat

not to mention the lazy, obnoxious "DAY DA DAY DAY DAY DAY" babbling. Barf. Sorry, I guess I could have put this on one of the Nicki threads. This poll actually has a decent number of enduring summer jams, mixed in with stuff I heard way too many times at my last restaurant job and would pay money to never hear again e.g. "Lighters," "Rolling In The Deep," "Super Bass," and "TGIF."

Still dig "Party Rock Anthem" though.

haha you didn't even mention that the verse ends with BECKY BECKY BECKY

anyway, KP & pitbull are pretty much the only two of these that i'll bump in the car -- maybe "i'm on one" begrudgingly

idk

― dirty deathdrone boys (J0rdan S.), Saturday, July 2, 2011 12:29 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feeling nostalgic for a time when j0rdan would only bump "i'm on one" begrudgingly

ha, I totally missed that Guetta/Nicki/Flo Rida. what a shitshow.

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