ILM's Top 100 Tracks of the 2010s

Every year I see people wonder what was/will be the song of the summer and this is the last consensus choice I can name.

pretty big consensus for Old Town Road

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58. Taylor Swift - Style (2014)
[378 points / 8 votes]
Previous Placement: 6 in 2014
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If we still cared about this sort of thing, I'd have thought "Good 4 You" last year and "As It Was" today would be the picks.

As It Was and the song with the Tom Tom Club sample are the only contenders

just for the record...

“Hard Times” has a firm spring in its step, which is good, but where’s the beef? where’s the grit? at this point the rollout could do with a healthy dose of Burna

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), 16 August 2022 19:02

anyway

félicitations, Nabozo

grit's cancelled

read that as "grift."

that certainly isn't

We never go out with Harry Styles

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57. Hatchie - Stay With Me (2019)
[382 points / 7 votes]
Previous Placement: 36 in 2019
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Hatchie song is great but this poll is remarkably one-note.

"Style" is the 3rd Max Martin cowrite, I believe. Thinking he'll get at least a few more from Taylor + Britney + Ariana.

I figure there's an AI that could provide ilxors with an endless stream of disco-ish/synthy songs by artists with names like Muxlie and Kleevan.

was gonna say, nothing specifically against Hatchie but this song absolutely epitomises this poll so far and its absolute commitment to glossy female-fronted soft-yearning (ideally that sounds like something from 20+ years ago - this is the Underworld-via-80s one isn't it)

keyes otm lol

if clairo places next i'm going evil mode

Keyes ftw

Lol

devastating post

"Style" is the 3rd Max Martin cowrite, I believe. Thinking he'll get at least a few more from Taylor + Britney + Ariana.

― Indexed

You’re missing one:

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56. Demi Lovato - Cool for the Summer (2015)
[383 points / 8 votes]
Previous Placement: 6 in 2015
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xp I really don't know ILM at all

this poll is remarkably one-note.

Lol Keyes xps

Am not much of a Swift fan but Style is a great song, was cut from my ballot on the last go around though.

i didn't know "cool for the summer" was max martin co-written

Thinking he'll get at least a few more from Taylor + Britney + Ariana.

Unless there's a ton of support for "Shake It Off" or "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", I think we're done for Max Martin cowrites of Taylor Swift songs. I think the fact that "Style" has placed as low as it has makes me think we only have a small handful of Taylor Swift tracks left that could possibly place.

“Cool For The Summer” is a great record tho. I didn’t vote for it, but I’m happy it’s here - one of the first entries to actually make me feel that way. if not grit then give me oomph.

as a wise woman once said:

I want to go where the people dance
I want some *action*, I want to live
*Action*, I got so much to give
I want to give it, I want to get some too

Xp: it’s pretty much the same template as a Katy Perry song.

Oh wait I was thinking about Jessie J’s Domino lol

I heard you all wanted a break from tasteful disco-ish songs

Careful what you wish for

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55. Richard Dawson - The Vile Stuff (2014)
[386 points / 6 votes]
Previous Placement: 14 in 2014
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Moka's paw

hee hee. thanks to a one-song-per-artist policy i didn't even vote for this! but it is just the best. thank u based voters

We're the worst

there are only two kinds of music: boring and unlistenable

screw the pop perverts, give us an AI that churns out endless imago content with names like Steve Parkinson and technology_mountain.jpeg

NYT photo of a Obama to Trump voter who calls himself an independent.

Unless there's a ton of support for "Shake It Off" or "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", I think we're done for Max Martin cowrites of Taylor Swift songs. I think the fact that "Style" has placed as low as it has makes me think we only have a small handful of Taylor Swift tracks left that could possibly place.

― MarkoP, Wednesday, August 17, 2022 9:21 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Can't clearly articulate why but I think there's a good argument that both of these songs are better representations of the 2010s and Taylor Swift's talents/output than either "Blank Space" or "Style," which similar to "Cool for the Summer" feel more like the Martin formula grafted onto an artist.

Also, no chance that any of the Reputation tracks place? Haven't looked back at that year's poll but thought "Delicate" and "Gorgeous" had a chance.

The Dawson-related track I voted for was Hen Ogledd's "Problem Child," which to me was like something as good as an early Peter Gabriel solo track dropping out of nowhere, but I'm not sure if anyone else feels that way.

Good tune

Yesss, thank you Dawson voters! Amazing track.

hey here's one I voted for (though Cool For The Summer was on my long list as well), i like a lot of the songs from peasant but i think voted for the album instead but this song stands on its on. I don't quite understand why I like Richard Dawson but can't ever get into Bjork since they seem like they came at similar stuff from different angles.

Problem Child is amazing and definitely on my longlist. TVS, Nothing Important and [another song] were basically all jostling for one spot very, very high up my ballot. Which did I choose? Ooooh etc.

TVS is great for so many reasons, but I urge people to hear the full 16-minute version that keeps the intro intact; it's a pretty glorious piece of world-building of its own right. And then the rest is bildungsroman into the swirling drunken abyss of eternity

Ogre would have had an equal claim if nominated too

My first acquaintance with "The Vile Stuff." Good stuff.

Also, no chance that any of the Reputation tracks place? Haven't looked back at that year's poll but thought "Delicate" and "Gorgeous" had a chance.

The only Reputation track that was nominated was "Getaway Car", which could still place.

i can't listen to richard dawson for too long (and i can't think of him without thinking of the god delusion guy), but he's certainly memorable.

When I saw Cool for the Summer on the noms list, that's when I realized that I had forgotten to nominate Confident. I much prefer that Demi Lovato song.

God, glad it's that low, at least

fun fact, you too can write lyrics to the vile stuff with this handy formula: 1 extremely british-sounding name + 1 bodily function + 1 act of violence + 1 obscure location in the british commonwealth