ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

59. TAYLOR SWIFT "Love Story" (2008) [259 points, 12 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xg3vE8Ie_E

xp not to be too crude, but is Wearing My Rolex what Andy Samberg is parodying in "J*** in my Pants"?

lol why is that? i like hip-hop and r&b so...

fwiw when jackie chain raps "put the top up and watch these hoes dyke it" i basically imagine straight dudes gettin' it on for my benefit, so it's not really misogynistic

xps T-SWIFT!!!!

also it's a hilarious rap line

Well you object to misogyny in rock music, I just assumed it would apply across all music.

it's not misogynistic if the hoes are independently dyking it imo

or if you have some bizarre interpretation playing out in your head in which the hoes aren't hoes at all, apparently

Taylor Swift. Well, now, there's a song that's just straight awful.

lol
xps

Taylor Swift. Well, now, there's a song that's just straight awful.

― Parenthetical Grillz, Friday, July 2, 2010 2:44 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Have to agree with this, I like pop-country trash as much as the next guy but you have to draw the line somewhere...

you can have male hoes

can males dyke it up?

it's not misogynistic if the hoes are independently dyking it and have signed a release form in triplicate saying that they consent to being referred to as hoes in the understanding that this is merely a signifier of manly but non-threatening attraction and should not be construed to have any demeaning connotations such as might be imagined by women and sensitive hoe-saving indie listeners

the equivalent of dyke it up? it's just transference

xxxp

Was going to post a Sarah McLachlan video to illustrate how bland TS is, but then I discovered that Sarah McLachlan is totally hardcore by comparison.

Love Story is a great song. Inevitable ILM debate is not so good.

59. TAYLOR SWIFT "Love Story" (2008) [259 points, 12 votes]

All this talk about hoez dyking it up I fear we are missing the real misogyny here.

(Sorry that was probably the most half-hearted trolling attempt ever)

58. KANYE WEST ft. JAMIE FOXX "Gold Digger" (2005) [261.5 points, 12 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwNcNOTVzY

it's too bad that the dyking it up discussion wasn't punctuated by "stronger"

That song was absolutely everywhere. Always got a Cantaloop vibe from it...

lol true

xpost to sarge

someone needs to just c/p this entire thread to posts very much in character

YOU GET ME WRONG! PERSON PITCH IS NOT ONE OF THE WORST THINGS I HAVE EVER HEARD, IT IS FAR AND AWAY THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD. IF I HEARD SOME SEAN KINGSTON OR SOMETHING AND WAS LIKE "DAMN, THIS IS THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD" I'D HAVE TO BACK UP AND BE LIKE "WAIT A MINUTE, THIS IS NOT WORSE THAN FUCKING PANDA BEAR." I'D RATHER LISTEN TO AN HOUR OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS TEARING OUT REBAR.

― The Reverend, Friday, July 2, 2010 5:10 AM

Tbh, I never made it past halfway through the second track and then I skipped around to see if it all sounded like that, the answer to which I found to be an affirmative.

― The Reverend, Friday, July 2, 2010 5:15 AM

Rev, I <3 you and all, but booooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Don't disrespect the singular awfulness of 311's Transistor (the rest of it is worse than "Come Original", I bought it because the drummer was on the cover of Modern Drummer that month :/) until you've at least given the rest of the album a shot

"gold digger" is a classic to me but i certainly can't stand to hear it anymore and didn't even think about voting for it

gold digger might be my least fav of the big kanye songs

"gold digger" was the only kanye song i nearly voted for, total summer jam classic imo. ASS LIKE SERENA, TRINA, JENNIFER LOPEEEEZ #misogyny

watch their asses dyke it

i liked every other single from that album better than gold digger, though its not bad by any means

really the biggest negative about gold digger as perpetuating jamie foxx as ray charles

yeah i never loved Gold Digger and it's definitely my least favorite of his early hits, but i don't mind it, now and then it's fun.

the biggest negative about gold digger as perpetuating jamie foxx as ray charles

^ this!

Gold Digger is pretty much the only Kanye single I like.

is still fun to holla WE WANT PRENUP

love story shd be abt 50 places higher u all wack

prefer it to 'you belong to me' but i'm guessing that will be way up there and i ain't gonna complain coz <3 u taylor

t-swift haters are the worst. "pop country trash"?!

57. CIARA ft. LUDACRIS "Oh" (2005) [262.5 points, 11 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSYCI4K5qGM

johnny otm both

Al thank u for making sure I was being particular and specific. I still think the record is undervalued tho and I'm not sure how yr clarification changes things

well for one, you said that it was critically underrated, when it clearly isn't, except by maybe pitchfork

YES CIARA - my second vote!!!!! my #3 - i remember saying in 05 that "oh" was a genius pinnacle of human achievement and, yeah, it definitely still is.

~we keep it gutta u should know~

i can't imagine anyone not loving "oh"

t-swift haters are the worst. "pop country trash"?!

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, July 2, 2010 3:10 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm not a Taylor Swift hater, I'm a boring canned Autotune country song hater.

Then again maybe those are functionally equivalent.

there's always been something about "oh" that has kept it about an 8/9 for me and not a 10/10... i think maybe it's cuz i think the verses are much better than the hook

Would expect Promise to make this list as well. Those two tracks are so good they make pretty much everything else she's done redundant for me.

those two tracks are basically why ciara is the greatest pop star of the past half decade for me

Thought that was in then

Sorry wrong thread, Hangs head.