ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2017

this that put the kids to bed

it's like the best pop song of the year and i'll think less of the list for it missing xp

didn't vote any Kendrick for tracks b/c whenever I put on "DNA" I had to listen to the rest of the album & so the album was so obviously album of the year / decade / whatever, a unity

but it's not like i helped it out, it's just kinda kicking it at the end of my ballot xp

"dna" is so awesome

If Lost In Your Love placed then New Rules definitely will but top four is way too high.

either way, it looks suspiciously like the top four tracks are all by women

Kendrick videos are always great, but the ones from DAMN are just another level.

saer is a woman right?

New Rules just doesn't do much for me, nothing really hooks me and i wish it had a real chorus idk

DNA's placement is obviously well deserved, beat switch is great

it has an extremely real chorus

The one two three bit is magnificent but the actual 'I got new rules' hook is a real damp squib after that.

"DNA" is his best pure single imo

Voted for Akanamali after it appeared on the campaigning thread, so thanks to whoever posted it. Gorgeous track

part of the appeal of "new rules" is how it encases a breathless chorus hook within an expected drop, we'll have to agree to disagree on "damp squib"

love to discuss a song that may not place at all at this point lol

yeah matt otm. i get that it's trying to have the vocals be like the processed (are they processed? i can't tell) vocals in a drop, and they're not quite the focus there, but it doesn't work for me

I know murder, conviction
Burners, boosters, burglars, ballers, dead, redemption
Scholars, fathers dead with kids and
I wish I was fed forgiveness

amazing

he is so great

Alfred otm

there's been a kind of sameyness to the poll this year imo (obvs this only bothers me because it's not my kind of sameyness; if 5 dancehall tracks had placed I'd be psyched), but it is p cool that all three "afro"pop songs are from three different countries and in different languages

lotta lurkers have drifted away imo

'Akanamali' didn't strike me at first but by the end I was completely on board. Very good choice, ILM.

https://i.imgur.com/WKP4OEP.jpg

04 SELENA GOMEZ "Bad Liar" [525 points, 15 votes, 1 first place vote]
https://youtu.be/NZKXkD6EgBk

The Singles Jukebox loved it too. It keeps threaten to turn into a 2006-era Ne-Yo single.

great song, the only one of hers I've cared for (that I've heard)

just like the battle of troy

good song i should have voted for

good song, didn't quite stick with me after I loved it the first time around,

the video for this is charming

lotta great delivery in this song. "ooooooooh / you're taking up a fraction of my mind," ".... AND OH BABY LET'S MAKE / reality / actuality," etc.

the second half of that song is probably my favorite kendrick moment of all time. the aggressive/aggressively repetitive sample always reminds me a bit of chicago footwerk stylez

xps to kendrick obvs

OH BABY LET'S MAKE

Key moment in song's greatness imo

love you like a love song 4ever

many thanks to whoever from TSJ was following the south african charts to find akanamali

Bad Liar is great and just missed my ballot, weirdly the Psycho Killer bass line doesn't really have anything to do with what makes it work so well, it's just there

love you like a love song 4ever

― nxd, Thursday, January 25, 2018 11:45 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heard this song in the grocery store a few weeks ago, was nice to be reminded of it

Bad Liar is great and just missed my ballot, weirdly the Psycho Killer bass line doesn't really have anything to do with what makes it work so well, it's just there

― ufo, Thursday, January 25, 2018 1:45 PM

this

I was gonna vote for this and then didn't, it's no Good For You but it's cool

Brad and JF otm about "OH BABY LET'S MAKE"

this did little for me and i've liked previous SG singles *shrug*

it's closest to Hands to Myself out of her previous singles, which is a good thing

https://i.imgur.com/0tQoRI7.jpg

03 CARLY RAE JEPSEN "Cut To The Feeling" [617 points, 20 votes, 2 first place votes]
https://youtu.be/dD4kkeJv34o

welp there goes my prediction

I should've voted.

This song seemed like minor CRJ to me at first, but my love for it has grown all year long.

didn't realize ppl liked this one so much, don't think it'd make my crj POX

it's impressive on its own that a c-side nearly won out

anyway, great song that weirdly didn't his immediately for me

*hit

It's no "Cry."

i figured this was going to win by default at this point, great but probably middle of the pack as far as Emotion-era songs go?