ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

When my son was very young, he found a copy of RS with Perry on it and fell in love with it, kissed it, kept it in his toybox for a while, was embarrassed when I brought it up

That's kinda the extent of my opinion of Katy Perry I guess

if meghan trainor has a song that sounds like art of noise i'll prob like that too

i just remembered katy perry is doing this year's superbowl. enjoy that americans.

― prolego, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:29 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

with special guest star lenny kravitz lmao

i'll also say that prism & teenage dream get bad raps around here -- neither is a great album and she doesn't have the point of view of carly rae jepsen or charli xcx, but there are some pretty good non-singles across both albums

When my son was very young, he found a copy of RS with Perry on it and fell in love with it, kissed it, kept it in his toybox for a while, was embarrassed when I brought it up

Hope he doesn't know how to use google, because your name is right beneath that post.

http://i.imgur.com/oHEK7Tr.jpg

48 JESSIE WARE "Champagne Kisses" [286 points, 10 votes]
http://youtu.be/8qAp5g5keUA

she doesn't have the point of view of carly rae jepsen or charli xcx

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, January 20, 2015 6:39 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pretty good shade

YAY xp

ayo look at this gorgeous heartbreaking song i did not vote for

voted for this but totally didn't expect this to place. nice :)

i couldn't decide b/w "champagne kisses" "kinda sometimes maybe" & "tough love" for this poll, all are perfect songs

What a beautiful beautiful song Champagne Kisses is.

When my son was very young, he found a copy of RS with Perry on it and fell in love with it, kissed it, kept it in his toybox for a while, was embarrassed when I brought it up

Hope he doesn't know how to use google, because your name is right beneath that post.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:39 PM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not worried - he'd have to be really bored to do that kind of searching, I didn't use his actual name (which is unique), and even if he found it we'd laugh it off. He was like 3 or 4 and probably doesn't remember now.

i just remembered katy perry is doing this year's superbowl. enjoy that americans.

― prolego, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:29 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

with special guest star lenny kravitz lmao

― lag∞n

jesus

her complete cultural appropriation/naivety act is the thing that really grates, and I really think she doesn't understand why it's bad

what's this referring to? her culturally appropriating ancient egypt???

the pervasiveness of cultural appropriation should not exempt it from being identified or critiqued especially in its most flagrant or harmful iterations xp

that whole Jessie Ware album is a huge grower. i voted for, i think, both 'want your feeling' and 'cruel' but i doubt either will place.

if u want to see the worst of katy perry's cultural appropriation see her "this is how we do" video or her horrendous tweets around that time

jessie ware made a disappointingly patchy album but its relatively few highlights were so so good and i'm happy to see one of them here. "champagne kisses" feels like an instant ~classic, in a "this is exactly what you imagined peak jessie ware would be", and it hits all its spots, but my vote went to "tough love"

what's this referring to? her culturally appropriating ancient egypt???

― Mordy, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:42 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/11/katy-perrys-geisha-style-performance-needs-to-be-called-out/281805/

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/26/katy-perry-geisha-performance-american-music-awards-fuss

oh okay - a different song. i thought this was about dark horse.

I would have given this a pretty high ranking on my list if not for my "no album/track artist crossover" rule

the thing that really makes katy stand out re cultural appropriation (a pretty underthought concept that deserves to be interrogated btw) is that she does it constantly

Jessie Ware's album is def patchy but I can't stop listening to it. Love "Champagne Kisses" – those one-note bits are a helluva hook.

it really shocks me that "champagne kisses" has not been made a single yet. like what are they THINKING

http://i.imgur.com/ZzvnEMl.png?1

(another moment of katy perry appropriation)

when Ware hits the high notes *swoon*

braids?

the appropriation of cyberpunk culture?

Thought we would have waited until Iggy Azalea places for this convo but hey let's go

Yay! Don't understand the people who say Tough Love is patchy. I voted for the album, which I think is consistently very good and often excellent.

braids?

― prolego, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:45 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the appropriation of cyberpunk culture?

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:46 PM (1 second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

r u guys english or something

braids?

― prolego, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:45 PM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark

In case yr not taking the piss, baby hairs and cornrows

Is it me or this list so far is very pop, even by ILM standards?

I love the bass synth on Champagne Kisses. It wobbles just enough to sound like a kettle drum.

Oh fuck, "Fancy" is coming up later on.

"Say You Love Me" is garbage – her first garbage song – and the middle stretch settles into this midtempo slump that is fetching if you're in the right mood or are cooking while it's on.

unknown british posters should have a union jack emoji next to their user names

Pitchfork on "Champagne Kisses":

"The same could be said of the album’s most clichéd lyrical moment, the BenZel-produced “Champagne Kisses”, which sounds more like a Miguel B-side than the two Tough Love songs the R&B singer actually contributed to—namely, the mushy “You & I (Forever)” and sexting-my-exes anthem “Kind Of...Sometimes…Maybe”, the latter of which functions as the album's highlight."

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19913-jessie-ware-tough-love/?utm_campaign=search&utm_medium=site&utm_source=search-ac

i was gonna say don't worry about "fancy" then i remembered "bluured lines" placed

fuck, the way "champagne kisses" SWELLS tho

"Say You Love Me" is garbage – her first garbage song

this song is great

unknown british posters should have a union jack emoji next to their user names

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, January 20, 2015 1:47 PM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mods

the thing that really makes katy stand out re cultural appropriation (a pretty underthought concept that deserves to be interrogated btw) is that she does it constantly

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:44 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol yeah, it's like she rode in on the edginess of "i kissed a girl" and then since then has had a geisha moment, a backup dancer with novelty asses moment, and constantly does stupid music video/lyric puns that are about as good as the worst dad jokes

and then she released that "how we do" song

Have honestly never heard of QT or PC music before. On first listen, this is close to my reaction:

Not sure why it solicits so much reaction from either side.

'say you love me' is kinda the 'automatic' of this album, which is to say i think it's a bit generic and completely misses all of JW's strongest talents but she manages to carry it for me and i kinda love it.

Her first garbage song was Wildest Moments. First and only, imo.

i guess it's "cliched" lyrically but i love the urgency of:

whooo's fault is this
that i'm crazy about you

Her first garbage song was Wildest Moments. First and only, imo.
--Johnny Fever

crazy talk here man

i had difficulty choosing between "champagne kisses" and "tough love" and i ended up choosing the latter, i kinda regret that