RS Top 500

Sorry, wrong thread

Seriously, what's to celebrate in tokenism ? How does Gasolina represent a tradition if the people who voted for this list do not know the first thing about Latin music ? Who in reggaeton needs the acknowledgment or recognition of RS ? To pretend that this has value or meaning is so completely incomprehensible. This list is what it is: 60 years of ongoing biases that are only restated in thinly corrected forms.

― Nabozo

I agree. While it provides surprises having idk 1 reggaeton song, 1 cumbia song, 1 salsa song… at the same time being so eclectic doesn’t work. It doesn’t really provide a full picture and honestly nobody is expecting it. I’d much rather prefer more specialized lists. Because now you have to make space for idk an afropop song in the 400-500 and it’s going to be a very obvious choice. I’d rather have a rock song that rarely gets credit in the lower ranks than the token cumbia song everybody who cares knows already by heart.

Tokenism isn’t what I’m celebrating lol my point is the most of the inclusions on this list which I consider a failure make me cringe & that particular example is like the grain of what could be a more interesting list, the moment where you’re like oh this list *could* actually celebrate more of the breadth of music if they were trying.

I thought my whole point in drawing attention to snoop dogg > slick Rick tradition / continuum made it clear this had nothing to do w tokenism …? Gasolina is more than a “token” song anyway but that’s another conversation

Like I’m genuinely mystified how you could read the part directly before the mention of Gasolina as me advocating for tokenism lol

No worries, it was more a point of frustration I was trying to air than an attack against you or your post. As others have said, yourself now included, I just find the list very mediocre, so I took issue at trying to find an angle of analysis to grant it some kind of hidden significance.

i didn’t see if there was any other reggaeton on there, but would be cool if don omar’s bandoleros” made it

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‘danza kuduro’ imo

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.