RS Top 500

lists are funny

Aside from a small handful of choices like "Thank U Next" or maybe "Hotline Bling" or "Thinking About You," the token 2010s entries all feel grossly forced. Whereas more beloved tracks like "Work" or "We Found Love" or "Trap Queen" would probably not seem nearly as awkward. Even "Hard Times" or Charli XCX "Boys" are better choices than most of these. Or any song from Black Messiah.

Wtf are "Savage" or "I Like It" or "Redbone" doing here? Did "WAP" come in at #501?

Not sure if this is mentioned yet but noticing they made room for every prominent musician who died since 2020. Like "Radiation Vibe" is great but it's a very unexpected choice in context and gets me thinking maybe 10 people voted for 10 different Adam Schlesinger tracks and the editors made an executive decisions to combine those votes towards one song.

...which wasn't even entirely his.

10 specialized top 50 lists instead of a gral top 500

Yeah I really like this idea. Or a randomly organized list of 500 songs chosen only by superfans of the artists being polled. "500 Fan Favorites" or something.

Re: Prominent recently dead musicians, this actually worked in a good way for "The Humpty Dance" since it absolutely deserves to be here and sadly would probably not have been considered otherwise.