ILM Top 100 2005-2009: TRACKS

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.

Alright, considering some of the conversation that took place between the end of yesterday and the start of today, I fear posting the next placing...but here goes...

56. PANDA BEAR "Bros" (2006) [262.5 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JBU9KlBJWo

is that a single edit?

Too much Taylor Swift on this thread.

I have no idea. The audio just chops off after the video fades out, so I'd guess not.

and certainly not enough dog latin

xposts

/lexbait

Too much Taylor Swift on this thread.

By which I'm assuming you mean any is too much.

Really enjoy the Kanye and Ciara tracks. Speaking as an AC fan since Sung Tongs, "Bros" is just alright; not a patch on anything from Feels, Strawberry Jam, etc., though. "Love Story" on the other hand may well have been my #1 track of the '00s had I bothered to rank my list. It's certainly one of my most frequently played.

For some reason I like Panda Bear a lot more than Animal Collective, but haven't listened to enough AC to pinpoint exactly why. Person Pitch is quite listenable.

in all seriousness, can someone explain me taylor's popularity on ilx? i'm not expecting to get my mind blown or anything (american teen-pop+country is going to have to do something MINDBLOWINGINGLYEXCEPTIONAL for me to begin to enjoy it), but what is it that makes her music so great?

(ps, i have given the album a fair try but really it's not for me).

how about you use the search function?

oh lord dog latin please not again.

Gukbe, I don't believe I've asked this question before.

Said it before, but I still can't get into anything on Person Pitch. Too messy and repetitive and cloudy and tuneless and boring - pretty much everything people don't seem to like about AC, yet it seems to be the AC choice for people who don't like AC. Baffles me.

dog latin, the best "explanations of what makes taylor swift special" are these singles jukebox reviews of "you belong with me" - http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=596 - and this sasha frere-jones profile of her (scroll down to where he starts discussing "our song') - http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2008/11/10/081110crmu_music_frerejones

thanks lex

all up in here

and somewhere there's a lot in here if you scroll down to the top 10 area.

sorry dog latin, didn't mean you specifically re: taylor swift but it seems to come up a lot elsewhere

cool, will read.

Agree that the SFJ profile is a pretty good "intro to Taylor's appeal" piece.

almost all sfj pieces have to be, considering his audience

SFJ piece in a nutshell: "Swift is not an agent of revolution; she, much like Beyoncé, is a preternaturally skilled student of established values. Her precociousness isn’t about her chart success, but lies in the quality of her work, how fully she’s absorbed the lessons of her elders and how little she seems to care which radio format will eventually claim her. Change the beat and the instruments around the voice, and her songs could work anywhere."

55. GWEN STEFANI "Hollaback Girl" (2005) [265.5 points, 12 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgjkth6BRRY

oh love story is great. but its one of the only big taylor swift singles that I didn't vote for.

also I'm really glad to see Oh on here. forgot all about that jam but I loved it when it came out.

When the redheaded best friend, Abigail, is disappointed by a boy, Swift drops back, underplaying a sorrow that probably felt like surgery without anesthesia: “Abigail gave everything she had to a boy who changed his mind, and we both cried.” In weaker hands, this song would be littered with broken hearts; Swift’s boy just “changed his mind.”

^^love this - love the way this motif recurs on "breathe" even more. "people are people and sometimes we change our minds/but it's killin' me to see you go after all this time" - such an awareness of how breakups happen all the time, to everyone, for the most insignificant reasons, and her pain isn't special, it's just what being human entails - but how that doesn't stop it hurting.

lol "hollaback girl", the quintessential "so much silly fun at the time, haven't thought about listening to since" song. got a lot of affection for it.

~ain't no houellebecq girl~

hahaha

the quintessential "so much silly fun at the time, haven't thought about listening to since" song.

Kinda like Robyn, then, eh?