ILM's Top 100 Tracks of the 2010s

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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

+ 1 apostle!

I'm always against instating a max-placements-per-artist rule for the yearly polls but am wondering if it might have made this decade one more interesting. Just feel like a thousand more songs by Taylor/Haim/Destroyer/1975 will ruin me.

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54. Lana Del Rey - Video Games (2011)
[387 points / 8 votes]
Previous Placement: 2 in 2011
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never liked this song, but i can still remember all the lyrics. so i guess that's a point for lana

Boy, did I just not get LDR in 2011. Still not a "Video Games" fan but I cried uncle in 2017.

"Blank Space" or "Style," which similar to "Cool for the Summer" feel more like the Martin formula grafted onto an artist.

We have a recording of "Blank Space" pre-Martin involvement and it's almost identical

Just feel like a thousand more songs by Taylor/Haim/Destroyer/1975 will ruin me.

In regards to the first three artists, I think we only have like two songs at most from each that could possibly still place.

The 1975, on the other hand, could make up the entire Top 10.

"style" also doesn't really sound like a typical max martin song to me. martin does a lot of things but he usually doesn't do nu-disco

I think of LDR as the Quentin Tarantino of music. Eminently problematic Los Angeles goofball who has somehow tapped into something that by all rights should be pastiche but if it hits for you, it really hits.

not a bad comparison, especially as LDR seems more inspired by film and TV than actual music

astonished she hasn't really launched an acting career yet (or has she)

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53. Paramore - Still Into You (2013)
[395 points / 7 votes]
Previous Placement: 3 in 2013
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martin does a lot of things but he usually doesn't do nu-disco

I think you're forgetting his work with The Weeknd.

this feels like the first genuine TOO LOW of the poll, even though i didn't vote for it or consider voting for it. it is surely ilx-canonical

Karaoke heaven.

Insanely joyful song. Hope the album makes up for this lowly placement.

This was my number 2, and yes it does feel too low.

On the other hand, if "Ain't It Fun" out places it, I'll still be happy.

Haha I actually like this one. Nice hooky uptempo song and one of the few recent chart pop songs I can think of about staying with someone over the long term.

The only thing that kind of taints this song for me is the reality that Hailey Williams is no longer in a relationship with the subject of the song.

I think you're forgetting his work with The Weeknd.

― MarkoP, Wednesday, August 17, 2022 9:53 AM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he wasn't responsible for the disco-iest songs on starboy, and "can't feel my face" and "blinding lights" take more inspiration to post-disco pop, though i guess i'm probably splitting hairs there.

On July 1, 2017, the couple formally announced that they had separated due to Gilbert's repeated infidelity

only music is forever

voted for "still into you," such a banger

:( xp

I was also thinking of "Take My Breath" and some of the stuff from his latest album as well. But yes, we might just be splitting hairs over the subtle differences between nu-disco and post-disco.

But is this nu disco?

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52. Dua Lipa - Don’t Start Now (2019)
[399 points / 7 votes]
Previous Placement: 15 in 2019
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i don’t really think that the fact that they’re not together anymore hurts the song. there are hints throughout the song that they have a very passionate, rocky kind of love that doesn’t make sense to a lot of people on their lives

it encapsulates that blurry line between lustful infatuation and a lasting kind of love, and how one can often be confused for the other

good post

Still Into You is still fantastic, expected it to challenge for top ten tbh

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51. Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You (2012)
[405 points / 5 votes]
Previous Placement: 23 in 2012
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that must be the highest points per vote so far

he looks great, fab screenshot.

"don't start now" is fine, not best of decade material imo. i do think it's cool that the big hook is in the pre-chorus, not the chorus

I have a meeting in 10 mins and I’ll hopefully be back in an hour or so to resume polling duties.

Here’s a track that I voted highly for and love that it made it.

We all need to take some time.

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50. Pachanga Boys - Time (2011)
[406 points / 6 votes / 2 Nº1 votes]
Previous Placement: 12 in 2012
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yay
My number one vote