December 2011
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dylzo’s songs of 2011 - a countdown.
THOSE WHO NEARLY MADE IT
#14. “How I Roll” - Britney Spears.
#15. “Murder To Excellence” - Kanye West & Jay Z.
#16. “Beat Of My Drum” - Nicola Roberts.
#17. “Midnight City” - M83.
#18. “Video Games” - Lana Del Rey.
#19. “Stay Awake” - Example.
#20. “Hold It...
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dylzo’s songs of 2011 - a countdown.
#1. “Anna Karina” - Blue Scholars.
my bad if anyone was trying to rationally predict this list. every song on this list, and a handful others from 2011, “got” me. you know, there are some things you here that just get inside of you instantly, and you never forget them. but Anna Karina is the one song from 2011 that got me...
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#2. “Romeo” - MONSTA.
pop is wonderful. pop is silly. pop is amazing. pop is, perhaps above all these things, enormously frustrating. MONSTA exemplify the kind of miraculously intoxicating alt-pop that indie kids look down upon and mainstream pop fans never get to hear about, making way for a niche hip blog market to scream their...
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dylzo’s songs of 2011 - a countdown.
#3. “The Edge Of Glory” - Lady Gaga.
it’s when she sings it live that The Edge Of Glory really comes to life. i certainly have no qualms with calling it a literally perfect song. it’s catchy as hell, it’s passionate, it’s undeniably Gaga in all the right ways, it’s personal, you could dance to it, and...
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dylzo’s songs of 2011 - a countdown.
#4. “212” - Azealia Banks.
it sounds fresh, it sounds spontaneous, it sounds entirely effortless, entirely new. properly *filthy* in its no-holds-barred full-frontalness, it’s a song that gets inside you instantly, rewarding even more on repeat listens than when you first hear it. Banks’ rapping feels undeniably like the...
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dylzo’s songs of 2011 - a countdown.
#5. “We Found Love” - Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris.
if this was a list of the most defining songs of the year, this would be on top without hesitation. it’s a song so entirely of the moment - which includes some in-vogue 90s nostalgia - that it could very well sound dated within a year or two; and yet, that doesn’t matter. i...
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dylzo’s songs of 2011 - a countdown.
#6. “Till the World Ends” - Britney Spears.
it’s unusually layered for a hit of its stature, it’s hyperactively sexualized like much fantastic pop, it’s a song extremely characteristic of its artist…there’s so much to say about Till The World Ends, but i’m so over-the-moon overjoyed to say that i...
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dylzo’s songs of 2011 - a countdown.
#7. “Why I Love You” - Jay Z & Kanye West.
i don’t care what anyone says, i still adore Watch The Throne and found it difficult to pick a song from it to put on this list - the epic grandeur of Murder To Excellence, the brash, joyful Made In America, the dangerous infectiousness of No Church In The Wild - in the end, i chose...
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dylzo’s songs of 2011 - a countdown.
#8. “Rewrite” - Paul Simon.
Old Simon’s gloriously titled So Beautiful Or So What can probably now be seen as a seminal late-career album for Simon, his best-received in at least twenty years - maybe since Graceland, even - and “Rewrite” is the song that stood out most spectacularly on umpteenth listen, on an album...
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dylzo’s songs of 2011 - a countdown.
#9. “I Wanna Be Your Man” - Willy Moon.
like an alien landing onto the desolate pop music landscape, Willy Moon could easily be seen as a mysterious male/british equivalent to the confusing success story of Lana Del Rey. an ex-heroin addict reinventing himself as a 50s revivalist for the ironic electronica generation, you could be...
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dylzo’s songs of 2011 - a countdown.
#10. “Love You Like A Love Song” - Selena Gomez & the Scene.
bubblegum was quietly outstanding in 2011, experiencing something of an ironic post-Gaga revival with the extraordinary success of One Direction and the nostalgic sound of new spinners from the likes of Nicola Roberts and Britney Spears. no song got the balance of...
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#11. “Hanna’s Theme” - the Chemical Brothers.
like many of their contemporaries, The Chemical Brothers, longtime kings of electronica, recently forayed into the big, scary world of movie soundtracking. yet no one else, not even the mighty Daft Punk on Tron: Legacy, succeeded quite like the Chemical Brothers’ appropriately...
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dylzo’s songs of 2011 - a countdown.
#12. “Countdown” - Beyonce.
Countdown represents Beyonce, as she is now, at her very best - and, thus, pop music at is very best. not in a long time has such an exciting and excitable pop song reached its way into the collective public conscience in such a way - every word, every beat, every inane screech of “boof boof”,...
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Watchprettyposes:
Imogen Poots in Christopher and His Kind (2011)
this performance, aghhhh.
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“The greatest Gaga moment of 2011 also ended up involving a hat. It appeared -...”
– Popjustice on “Born This Way”.
You can just tell that Peter Robinson has been thinking of the correct way to word this for weeks. Such a passionate love letter.
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2011 - the year in review →
One story for each day of the year. Marvellous.
Source: The Guardian
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