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enjoyed the screamer in the lil wayne video

36 - Ting Tings, The - That's Not My Name
91.5 points, 8 votes
28 in P&J

Don't fancy the girl at all but I think "That's Not My Name" is a really fun song - heard it at a club a few weeks ago at just the right time in my personal dance buzz and it really nailed me somehow. Just got me all skittery. I like how they marshal all this production drama as the song goes on, even though there's absolutely no content to back it up - it really works, IMO.
― Doctor Casino

haha i knew something was up when the video was for birdman's "100 million" instead of "got money"

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i don't some songs on this list but i understand why people might be inclined to enjoy and vote for them. the ting tings - i just don't get it.

tings tings = transvision vamp '08

(i like that song)

I did give a couple of points to their other one, but I don't see the appeal of this at all either

i liked the dizzee rascal version

late on this but i like the dj koze version of "minimal" a LOT more than the original - and agreed that wayne's rap is the only thing i dislike about that cassie track (love the leadup to the, uh, 2nd chorus i guess? the halfway-buried "you gotta learn to love me")

i like the ting tings' song partly because of a congenital weakness for sparse beats with sing-song girl vocals. (see also "milshake," lumidee, nina sky, m.i.a. -- not that this is as good as those, by a long shot, but i just have a sort of pavlovian response to that kind of thing.) and also like dr. casino says, i like the way it builds and gets all noisy in the final minute.

35 - Rihanna - Disturbia
92 points, 9 votes
16 in P&J

i cant believe that is not lower

that song & video stopped me from completely hating rihanna last year.

bum bum deedum

song really grew on me

i can't believe it's not higher! top 5 me (i think).

yeah thats what i mean by lower

yikes

for me

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aha

Probably my song of the year. My only wish is that Rihanna were more appealing as a pop star. I find her so boring and soulless. A personality transplant would suit her nicely.

"Disturbia" is one of those songs that you can tell is trying so hard not to be boring, but yet....is.

the video is what really got me into this song. i still dont really 'get' rihanna and i think she's still way too distant sometimes, but whatever i love her songs

xxp musically!

truth bomb. belting out "BUM BUD DA DEE DUM" is the only fun i've been able to have with it.

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it's like a first draft for 'Just Dance'. This is alright, but there's something else there in the Lady Gaga tune to elevate it

"Disturbia" is infinitely better than "Just Dance" by simple virtue of being done by Rihanna instead of Lady Gaga.

I knew the Ting Tings would be in here somewhere but thank god we got them out of the way relatively early.

yeah they suck

34 - Lil Wayne feat. Static Major - Lollipop
94 points, 8 votes
31 in P&J

lollipop completely blew away my expectations for this album...it's fucking epic.
― Preview of the Matrix 12

I really love the way Weezy's verse on Official Girl starts, by the way, it's like he just throws himself into the momentum of the track. Admittedly it loses that momentum pretty quickly but I'm glad he's on there.

(Also, Wearing My Rolex is going to finish above A Milli on this poll, I'm calling it)

"lolli lolli" >>>> "lollipop"

i hope it does matt

i think "lollipop" is gonna sound great in like 10 years

Does Lollipop sample "Reflections" by the Supremes? I've always thought so.

Lolli Lolli is a jam too. Candy-themed rap songs are generally pretty great.

Thought Cassie would rank higher (my number one), but I'm glad to see that it's generating discussion...

'Lollipop's pretty good. I didn't think much of it when I first heard it and hadn't heard it since, so glad to get the opportunity to reappraise. Very nice low-end. I had forgotten all about him for some reason when it came to voting, or I'd've given 'Let The Beat Build' something

33 - Lindstrøm - The Long Way Home
97 points, 10 votes
(3 votes, 23 points for Prins Thomas Edit)
1561 in P&J

Prins Thomas Edit

"Lolli Lolli" has to be one of the five worst songs to reach my ears this year.

Does anybody know the first line of "Minimal"? I'm pretty sure the last word is "dance."

(unintelligible)
'Cause that music got no groove
Got no balls
No me hace pumpin' pumpin' pumpin'.

Porque yo quiero bailar
Con un ritmo mas nocturno
Mas profundo
Mas sensual
Basta ya de minimal

(No!) Es lo que bailo
(Hay!) Otras movidas
(Si!) Vas padelante
(Mas!) You gonna get.

Lil Wayne sucks.

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how dare you

- dunno why i'm still surprised at the amount of love 'lollipop' gets vis à vis a) wayne's output overall b) wayne's output in 2009 c) hip-hop in 2009, but it's definitely perplexing - i don't dislike it at all but c'mon, really?
- cosine those repping for the og 'minimal' above the missing-the-point koze rmx
- 'disturbia' is merely ok - rihanna never needs to be autotuned ever again but the lyrics are great & the hook is undeniable; lol @ dumb-dumb-de-dumb, dumb-dumb-de-dumb-dumb though, it's funny cuz it's true
- 'official girl' is INCREDIBLE, i expended maybe more words on cassie than any other artist in 2008, so no more here
- ting tings ughhhhh, how can you

I am merely loving how wondrously sore-thumb the HMHB song is and will continue to be in this poll

- dunno why i'm still surprised at the amount of love 'lollipop' gets vis à vis a) wayne's output overall b) wayne's output in 2009 c) hip-hop in 2009, but it's definitely perplexing - i don't dislike it at all but c'mon, really?

yeah word -- as a fan of plenty of autotune/ringtone singles, that's one that is just way too long and doesn't have much of a hook, don't hate it so much as i don't get it.

oh yeah i forgot to slag off the HMHB song and what i assume was the bloc-voting borne out of terrible taste to get it here in the 1st place

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yeah it's just wayne jumping on a bandwagon in a really rote way - a good bandwagon but 'lollipop' has been done so many times, often better. and yeah god SO UNNECESSARILY LONG

if anything "Lollipop" really made me go back and appreciate "Sensual Seduction" a lot more

32 - Goldfrapp - A & E
98 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 vote
50 in P&J, 73 in p4k

please everyone, hold your comments about goldfrapp!

31 - Ne-Yo - Closer
98.5 points, 10 votes
25 in P&J

closer = R&B single of the year.
― titchyschneiderMk2

Guess it would have made more sense to vote for this instead of "Single". I burnt out on it by the end of the year though.