2000s-2010s Pop Music Rankdown: The First Chapter

10 years. 11* rankers. Only one supreme song. - NateNJ14

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List of Songs

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-BZA51lVMtOygx9bGBdjCZY_aO6RKCxUdgLv1foKiI/edit

Rankers/Nomination Order

1. mre
2. nate
3. ck
4. ohf
5. matt
6. ben
7. SG
8. dyna
9. bruno
10. jaxx
11. epique (debuted Round 4)

round onE

• Train - Hey, Soul Sister (2010)
• Jason Aldean - Dirt Road Anthem (2011)
• Train - Drive By (2012)
• Katy Perry ft. Juicy J - Dark Horse (2014)
• Fall Out Boy - Centuries (2015)
• Maroon 5 - Sugar (2015)
• Wiz Khalifa ft Charlie Puth - See You Again (2015)
• Ed Sheeran - Photograph (2015)
• Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out (2016)
• Meghan Trainor - No (2016)
• Chainsmokers ft Daya - Don't Let Me Down (2016)
• Chainsmokers ft Halsey - Closer (2016)
• Twenty One Pilots - Heathens (2016)
• Ed Sheeran - Shape of You (2017)
• Ed Sheeran - Castle on the Hill (2017)
• Sam Hunt - Body Like a Back Road (2017)
• Imagine Dragons - Believer (2017)
• Imagine Dragons - Thunder (2017)
• Ed Sheeran - Perfect (2017)
• Meghan Trainor - All About that Bass (2014)

523. The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey – Closer (2016) by CK

i just don't like this song at all....it was massively popular during my freshman year of college and so i heard it fucking everywhere meanwhile my depression was just black hole consuming me and ruining my friendships so of course this awful fluff song became the soundtrack to that. ugh! i literally saw this on the nomset and could not WAIT to give it last place...YES i am an obsessed hater!

save Hey Soul Sister

522. Imagine Dragons - Thunder (2017) by Nate

I'll admit it, I was a huge Imagine Dragons fan, shockingly up into 2014. Radioactive and even Demons was good, easy radio listening for Middle School me (and eventually streaming once I convinced my parents to get me Pandora!). However, this song is just pure ass like most of the things Imagine Dragons are putting out these days. The lyrics are corny as shit. I don't need a song to yell "LIGHTNING AND THE THUNDER. THE THUNDER. FEEL THE THUNDER" at me for the 4 or so minutes that it runs. Once a fave, now in the toilet.

Saving Drive By. It's not perfect, but it's a huge vibe with some good rhythm.

521. Ed Sheeran - Perfect (2017) by dark hOrse

peak hallmark heterosexual core. maybe I just have a cold heart but I can't imagine having such an easy life that you're actually moved by this song

saving dark horse... so you wanna play with magic 😈

520. Ed Sheeran - Shape of You (2017) by Bruno [Now playing: Karol Conká - Tombei]

It's 2017. Ed Sheeran has just released a song called Shape of You, and it's instantly a master hit worldwide. Bruno, all the way in Brazil, is subjected to listening this aborrent, obnoxious song everywhere he goes: in the radios, in the supermarket, on stores, on tv... Bruno listens to it so much the song gets stuck in his head for weeks. Bruno kills himself. The end.

Saving Stressed Out. I've said it before, it's the one 21P song I actually enjoy.

519. Twenty One Pilots - Heathens (2016) by dynaboyjoker

I've made a lot of friends who are big fans of this band over the years, and I really do understand why they're so beloved, how they appeal so generally and deeply to people at the same time. But god this song is just dour, and I don't think that's a very controversial opinion. There's no life to the beat or the lyrics or that attempt at a spiky guitar crunch, no intimidation present in the way dude says his friends are "heathens", no real indication that this is a band a bunch of teenagers fell in love with--it feels basically the exact same as an Imagine Dragons cut. Just feels like a complete representation of flattening your style as hard as possible in order to make money from tie-ins. Being connected to maybe one of the most laughable movies in recent memory doesn't help this song's case either. Level of Concern was a bop, but this song, for several years, was why I could never give leeway to Twenty One Pilots as a band.

Saving Sugar because it was kind of a jam in 2015

518. Fall Out Boy - Centuries (2015) by a somewhat sad SG

I'm probably peaking too early by cutting one of the only songs I have somewhat of a history with this early, but I was still a dedicated Fall Out Boy fan back in 2015 and Centuries totally killed them for me... there's no other song on this list of over 500 that when it came out completely ruined an artist I used to care about and made me plunge from it being a defining part of my identity to barely caring about them anymore and standing by the opinion that they haven't released a good song since 2009. It's really sad that a band I used to put so much stock into ended up making these shitty jock jams but they weren't actually that good in the first place so who cares!

I guess All About That Bass is ultimately fine

517. Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth - See You Again (2015) by Matt

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516. Imag-Ben Drag-Ben-s - Be(n)leiver (2017) by Ben

I think even Dirt Road Anthem and Body Like a Backroad at least have good guitar at some parts. Believer has no good qualities, and I'm saying this as someone who was a fan of Imagine Dragons first album. After that they never released another good song ever. They suck so much. They're so devoid of substance and Believer is where some of their gimmicks like the weird little voice in Thunder first emerge.

Saving Ed Sheeran's Photograph cause it's harmless and I don't think it should go out in the first realm.

515. Sam Hunt - Body Like a Back Road (2017) by Jax

Sam Hunt really sucks. I'm listening to this for the first time in full rn but I remember the clips from HRChart back in the day and like, let's just say I am never going to be in the demographic that enjoys this kind of music. On top of that it's an incredibly bland song so idk what else to say about it. Wtf is up with the "Hey hey hey" sample at the end ... 😭

Saving Don't Let Me Down, a song which I've scrobbled 27 times <3

Round 2, Natelectric Boogaloo: Taking Out The Trash

• Jason Aldean - Dirt Road Anthem (2011) (CARRYOVER)
• Meghan Trainor - No (2016) (CARRYOVER)
• Nickelback - Gotta Be Somebody (2008)
• Plies ft. Ne-Yo - Bust It Baby (Part 2) (2008)
• David Cook - The Time Of My Life (2008)
• Buckcherry - Sorry (2008)
• Artists for Haiti - We Are The World 25 For Haiti (2010)
• Glee Cast - Loser Like Me (2011)
• Eminem - Berzerk (2013)
• Jason Derulo ft. Snoop Dogg - Wiggle (2014)
• Florida Georgia Line ft. Nelly - Cruise (Remix) (2014)
• Rachel Platten - Fight Song (2015)
• Silento - Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) (2015)
• Meghan Trainor ft. John Legend - Like I'm Gonna Lose You (2015)
• gnash ft. Olivia O'Brien - I Hate U, I Love U (2016)
• Lukas Graham - 7 Years (2016)
• Zay Hilfigerrr & Zayion McCall - Juju On That Beat (2016)
• The Chainsmokers and Coldplay - Something Just Like This (2017)
• Lil Pump - Gucci Gang (2017)
• Maroon 5 ft. Kendrick Lamar - Don't Wanna Know (2017)

514. Rachel Platten - Fight Song (2015) by Mattyboi

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513. Maroon 5 feat. Kendrick Lamar - Don't Wanna Know (2017) by Sarah Z (CK)

i didn't know this song had a kendrick verse until i heard the full thing while at a DSW a few weeks ago and i was like...shocked...i was like this has to be the remix right? nope, it is quite literally the original version of the song. i couldn't believe it, because i had been hearing the bland hook on this song in public for years – i feel like this came out in like, 2015 at the earliest, but apparently not – and never bothered to look it up because just from the vocal performance and instrumental, you know all you need to know about this one. it's a lazy, trend-adhering late stage maroon 5 song that a kendrick verse can't save. for one of the most critically acclaimed musicians out there you'd think it would be more public knowledge that he has a verse on a maroon 5 song

i think i will be saving loser like me...i don't know if i've even heard most of it, but i remember glee mania very well and being pleasantly surprised that they came out with an original song that did well commercially. plus around this time last year i was watching glee for the first time with some friends and for the early pandemic era it was a pure and treasured experience

512. Meghan Trainor - No (2016) by E

Meghan Trainor is probably one of the most regrettable fads in the mid 2010s music sphere because she really did just not release anything good ever. All of her singles were just bland pop tracks disguised as "empowering anthems" (despite the fact that all about that bass shames skinny girls but yknow). The second she sort of dropped the shtick and released pure garbage like No which is just a miserable song from the bottom to the top the public dropped her immediately after and for good reason. She sucks

Saving Watch Me because it's hilarious

511. gnash ft. Olivia O'Brien - I Hate U, I Love U (2016) by Jax

My main experience with this song was just general frustration because I felt like I saw so much cringe in it that my peers at the time did not see. Like, I had multiple friends at the time of this song's popularity that were obsessed with it (granted the same girls spent years enamored with Bruno Mars' When I Was Your Man, so the bar was really on the floor the whole time). As much as the song is probably inoffensive in a vacuum, it just kinda represents the weird sadcore minimalist pop movement derived from like Tumblr and Lorde? that really just grinds my gears as someone who was very conscious of its influences when I was a younger teenager. throws tomatoes at gnash's dumb head

Saving Wiggle I guess? Did not think I would be writing that during this rankdown

510. Artists for Haiti - We Are The World 25 for Haiti (2010) by Dyna

Nickelback is bad and all, but no other song in this nomset lazily and cheaply rips off a song that was already dicey in its original context, or has its best parts consist of second-long vocal ad-libs lifted from a dead man. Not only does this song feel exactly as Western-savior-y as the 1985 version, basically all of its additions are bafflingly worse, down to the weird proto-trap beat anchoring the production and a very tiny Justin Bieber singing the first notes. In general, this song reminds me of the worst efforts of traditional media in the decade since: desperate to prove relevance and worth to society while being too arrogant to actually understand what people want. In this case, the music industry could have just shut up and given money to Haiti, and they failed to even do that: the single was barely successful, and Wyclef Jean, the song's biggest anchor to actual fundraising and awareness-raising, had a fraudulent charity taking any donations that could have mattered. The earthquake in Haiti was the first real downbeat news story I can remember, and it would've been inspiring at least if this song could've inspired more people to do good in the world, but it really didn't. I'm just grateful "Earth" didn't make the cut, as far as other terrible charity singles that only look worse in hindsight every year. I genuinely hope that one killed the genre.

saving Like I'm Gonna Lose You because it's harmless and has a nice beat

509. Lukas Graham - 7 Years (2016) by SG

I just listened to a bunch of these I didn't know or didn't remember that well, and still the freshest in my mind, 7 Years, is probably the worst. The hook is incredibly annoying and used way too often and I feel like this same "relatable" song has been written a million times before. As for my personal vendetta, this song used to come on all the time at college between much better songs like Together Forever so it just didn't stack up.

Saving The Time of My Life because it's just a generic American Idol cut and ultimately not that bad

508. Florida Georgia Line ft. Nelly - Cruise (remix) (2014) by Ben

I’m from the South. I don’t mind country music, I actually like a lot of it and honestly some Bro Country can even be tolerable to me because a lot of country singers are still talented even if the lyrics are bad. They’re good boat music, something to just veg out to in the sun on the lake. Florida Georgia Line sucks ass and honestly is everything I hate/hated about Bro Country. Their twang is so exaggerated and they don’t feel natural. I also can’t express enough how much this song dominated the radio. It was on every country station and every pop station there was no escape from it. I’m sure other Southern Rankdowners will agree. I don’t think Nelly helps at all on the track. It’s also just like, these people created Bro Country and as new artists they changed the game. Other famous artists pivoted to match it and abandoned their earlier roots. It just ruined Country music for a long ass time.

I’m saving Gotta Be Somebody, controversial but it’s nostalgic and kind of still slaps. I’m more attached to it than anything else here. I feel like I’m in a mall or at the dentist. Kicks ass.

507. The Chainsmokers and Coldplay - Something Just Like This (2017) by BrunoConkábody

I was a happier man 5 minutes ago before I had listened to it.

Saving... Plies? It sounded the least offensive out of these to me.

506. Eminem - Berzerk (2013) by ohf

I'm an obsessed eminem hater and this weird detour into stadium rock is especially not it. it vaguely sounds like we will rock you, featuring his standard insufferable rapping

saving juju on that beat. leggo

R3: The CKolleCKtion CKo. Experience

hello and welcome to my first nomset, i truly did put a little thought into these and to promote the fact that i did that, i've categorized my nominations.

the carryovers
1. Buckcherry – “Sorry” (2008) - carryover
2. Jason Aldean – “Dirt Road Anthem” (2011) - carryover
the songs i can't support on a moral basis
3. Chris Brown – “Forever” (2008)
4. Lil Mama feat. Chris Brown and T-Pain – “Shawty Get Loose” (2008)
5. Baauer – “Harlem Shake” (2013)
6. Robin Thicke feat. T.I. and Pharrell Williams – “Blurred Lines” (2013)
the songs i just didn't like when they came out
7. Adam Lambert – “Whataya Want from Me” (2010)
8. David Guetta feat. Usher – “Without You” (2011)
9. OneRepublic – “Good Life” (2011)
10. Usher – “Scream” (2012)
11. Eminem – “Rap God” (2013)
12. Maroon 5 – “Daylight” (2013)
13. OneRepublic – “Counting Stars” (2014)
the songs this world would genuinely have improved without
14. Jason Mraz – “I’m Yours” (2008)
15. Maroon 5 - “Sugar” (2015)
16. The Chainsmokers feat. Daya - “Don't Let Me Down” (2016)
17. Justin Timberlake – “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” (2016)
18. Alessia Cara – “Scars to Your Beautiful” (2017)
the song that i hadn't heard until 2 years ago so there was no nostalgia to prevent me from thinking it sucked & i also felt bad for not knowing it, for some reason
19. Soulja Boy Tell 'Em feat. Sammie – “Kiss Me Thru the Phone” (2009)
the song that's decent musically but i just really don't like at all, but know will be saved
20. Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams – “Get Lucky” (2013)

505. Baauer - Harlem Shake (2013) by SG

Similarly to Nate with Berzerk, whenever I think of this song I think of a homophobic chud I knew in eighth grade who skipped study hall to make a Harlem Shake video and subsequently got suspended for truancy. Besides that, when this song came out it was at the center of a debate about whether YT plays should count towards the chart and while on paper they should it also gave us this and a few other certain songs on this list so was it worth it?

Saving save fodder, Get Lucky

504. Robin Thicke ft. T.I. & Pharrell Williams - Blurred Lines (2013) by NathanNewJersey14

Possibly the most disgusting song in this entire rankdown lyrically, so it needs to be cut immediately. Misogynistic and actively talking about rape in a positive light? Robin Thicke is all for it! Let's hear it from the man himself:

"Hey, do you think this is degrading to women?" I'm like, "Of course it is. What a pleasure it is to degrade a woman. I've never gotten to do that before. I've always respected women."

Thanks for respecting women so hard it turned into non-respect! And let me remind you that this song's music video is possibly even worse than the lyrics, AND that he stole from Marvin Gaye, and not even well. Fuck Robin Thicke, but more importantly fuck T.I. and Pharrell Williams for taking part in this charade.

Saving Whataya Want From Me. Vividly remember bopping to it at an ice skating rink. Gay Rights!

503. Jason Mraz - I'm Yours (2008) by ohf

going to continue my assault on white people's wedding songs

saving kiss me thru the phone, an actual pop rap masterpiece & the blueprint for hyperpop

502. The Chainsmokers ft Daya - Don't Let Me Down (2016) by E

I feel like every Chainsmokers song is almost the exact same formulaic garbage and this one is no different. Daya, perhaps the worst vocalist they've used on a major hit, really sinks this one to new depths. Just an absolutely terrible song.

Saving Can't Stop the Feeling I guess, it's fine

501. Maroon 5 - Sugar (2015) by Bruno, dedicated to Gil do Vigor

This song is sooooooo obnoxious. It can't be said enough how much I hate Adam Levine's voice and I'm tired of it. It also suffers from the "I had to listen to it everywhere" syndrome and it's also there in basically every wedding I've attended since. The chorus makes me want to kill myself.

Saving Counting Stars. It's also a song I've heard like everywhere all the time and, while tiresome, I don't hate it, so that's... something ig.

500. Alessia Cara - Scars to Your Beautiful (2017) by Jax

First of all that title pisses me off. In context of the song I get it (it still sounds dumb but like sure), but to take it out of context and use it as a title!!!! The audacity!!! But yeah, as much as it isn't that cool or interesting at this point to be anti Alessia Cara, this song was really obnoxiously present on the radios for way too long. It's not good.... it's not good

Saving Without You, a song I am shocked to see nominated

499. Buckcherry - Sorry (2008) by Dyna

Just a weak ass apology song performed by an awful post-grunge band less well-mixed, less personable, and less earnest than Nickelback ever was. There’s a good reason no one remembers this genre or feels nostalgic for it, especially this song, which sounds like a worse version of Hoobastank’s big hit. The chorus “I’m sorry I’m bad” would be a miserable apology for the song itself.

Saving “Forever”, a good song.

498. Jason Aldean - Dirt Road Anthem (2011) by Ben

I really don’t think we need to keep this song around for much longer. I’m tired of listening to it cause I can’t remember if it’s the other dirt road song. There are some good things about this song honestly, I genuinely like the chorus as far as standard country stuff goes. It puts me to sleep but in like a bland nice way. However, Jason Andean tries to rap in the verses of this song. Hey, buddy? Are you okay? You can’t be doing this, man. It’s so bad. I don’t understand how this man can just pander so hard it’s so inauthentic. That’s really the entire feel of the song, inauthentic. You’re the Big Green Tractor guy you should not be rapping. Kieth Urban feels more country than you after this song and he’s Australian.

Saving GoodLife by One Republic. When I was a kid this was a really big Feel Good song for when I was sad and it still makes me smile. It’s a little clunky looking back on it with Pickadilly, but I have a soft spot for it.

497. Eminem - Rap God (2013) by Matt

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rOund fOur: atrmi edition

1. Usher – “Scream” (2012) (carryover)
2. Maroon 5 – “Daylight” (2013) (carryover)
3. Flo Rida featuring T-Pain - "Low" (2008)
4. Chris Brown - "With You" (2008)
5. Meghan Trainor - "Lips Are Movin" (2015)
6. Taylor Swift - "Change" (2008)
7. Jason Derulo - "Whatcha Say" (2009)
8. Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris - "Baby" (2010)
9. LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock -"Party Rock Anthem" (2011) (GRAMMY'D; SAFE UNTIL TOP 393)
10. Maroon 5  featuring Christina Aguilera -“Moves like Jagger" (2011)
11. LMFAO - "Sexy and I Know It" (2012)
12. Kelly Clarkson - "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" (2012)
13. Maroon 5 - "One More Night" (2012)
14. Psy - "Gangnam Style" (2012)
15. Justin Bieber featuring Nicki Minaj - "Beauty and a Beat" (2013)
16. Imagine Dragons - "Radioactive" (2013)
17. Katy Perry - "Roar" (2013)
18. Lana Del Rey featuring Cedric Gervais -"Summertime Sadness" (2013)
19. Imagine Dragons - "Demons" (2013)
20. Eminem featuring Rihanna - "The Monster" (2013)
21. Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar - "Bad Blood" (2015)
22. Maroon 5 - "Maps" (2014)

496. Katy Perry - Roar (2013) by E

idk what it is about Katy Perry but none of her songs have ever resonated in a good way for me, I just have never cared for her music. Roar as a song is just really generic and the chorus is irritating to me. I don't have a ton of interesting insight or anything on to why I dislike this one I just have never liked it.

Saving Gangnam Style bc it's a meme and in this nomination list that's probably enough

N/A. LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem (2011) by Lil Nate X

"It's Party Rock Is"

I just know this is going to be a controversial cut, but in my mind it must be done. Like E with Roar, I have just never liked this song, even as a meme. It's the stereotype of the late 2000s early 2010s dubstep bullshit that everyone and their mother went crazy for, except for me I guess. The "Everyday I'm shufflin'" drop is absolutely laughable and not in a "laughing with you, not at you" way, and I have no idea who Lauren Bennett and GoonRock are and what they meaningfully contribute to the song, if anything. I was thinking of cutting the other LMFAO song on this list, But I am sure it will be cut very, very soon. In any case, begone LMFAO.

In another controversial move, I'm saving Radioactive, because Imagine Dragons deserves at least some love, and it's nostalgia for me is too high for me to let go right now.

Just a moment. This cut is fucking bonkers! Party Rock Anthem is no amazing piece of literature, but as the song that more or less inspired this rankdown it certainly deserves better than, like, the second percentile of the entire list of hit songs from my coming of age. I don't have vivid memories of wheezing through a jog to any of these other songs in seventh grade gym and at least finding comfort because the music was nice and upbeat. I don't have memories of any of these other songs being sync'd up to the Cantina Band soundtrack and watching it in the "important videos" playlist for five straight years. We can discuss the nuances of "I'm running through these hoes like Draino" at a later date, but for now, this at least deserves to make the top 400. I use my Grammy. - Dyna

495. LMFAO - "Sexy and I Know It" (2012) by SG

Cutting this mostly because it bothers me for it to beat Party Rock Anthem... this was clearly the inferior LMFAO cut and everything about it is 2011 effort-free sex humor in the worst way and not even in a way I can particularly ironically appreciate. I get that the joke is that LMFAO aren't exactly conventionally attractive but it's not funny in 2021 to see their bulges... whatever they were doing in Party Rock Anthem captured the zeitgeist in a much more harmless way.

Saving Whatcha Say because transplanting a snippet of a much better Imogen Heap song has to be worth something and it was kind of a meme in its own right (drakedead)

494. Kelly Clarkson - "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" (2012) by tbtdif

There are worse songs left on this list but maybe none that aggravate me more. I will probably mention this again, but my litmus test for most pop music is "if I heard this at the dentist/orthodontist, would my mood be slightly improved or get worse", and this is the one that would most likely make me exist in a fog of discomfort for the rest of the day in that hypothetical. Kelly Clarkson is forcing out one-dimensional lyrics atop a gross early-2010s wall of synth, and the hook just clobbers you to the point that you can never forget it, in a miserable way. I really like her first couple of singles and was a big fan of them in middle school and this mostly made me realize she would never do anything interesting like that again, and indeed, all I really know about her post-2012 is she's now hosting a daytime talk show that plays at the dentist every time I've been. I can only assume this is the theme song. Boring, corny suburban mom music, and it's always depressing to realize just how much of an impact stuff catered to them has on our culture.

Saving Baby. There was nobody to compare to my baby and no one could come between us or could ever come above.

493. Taylor Swift feat. Kendrick Lamar – "Bad Blood" (2015) by ck

first, let's get it correct, the remix is actually 100x better than the original, not only are the kendrick verses an improvement over the taylor verses they replace but the production is just a major step up. i also respect and appreciate this song for giving us a) a taylor swift/kendrick lamar collab b) that went #1 c) that had frat boys and high school straight boys streaming 1989 for like all of 2015. i just don't like that this seemingly became like...the defining hit of the 1989 era lol? i think swifties would disagree and say it's shake it off or blank space or whatever suits one's preference, but like, i think this is the song that mentally adjusted people are more likely to think of when they remember the 1989 era, and it's just kind of a disservice. yes, it had the high profile collab, yes, it was the memorable diss track, yes, it had the high budget music video, but like...idk. it's just not that good at the end of the day. what i will say though is one of my close friends who makes music once performed this entire remix a cappella at an open mic night and that's not only a positive and warm memory for me just for the sheer ridiculousness of the situation but also just...wow...i have to respect the balls to do that

as one taylor single falls another rises because i'm saving change & am pretty sure i might be one of like two people in this rankdown who has actually heard it. it is a good song that i'm surprised charted high enough to be in the rankdown but i will support it

492. Maroon 5 – “Daylight” (2013) by Bruno (stream Dilúvio)

For years, I've been wondering what is my goal in life. And now I know, that I was born to end Maroon 5 in this rankdown. Fuck you, Adam Levine, I hope you lose your voice so it will never get through my ears ever again.

I'm saving Rihanna because she doesn't deserve to be this low, even if unfortunately I have to drag Eminem along with her... you know, her parts are good, badgalriri tried.

491. Chris Brown - "With You" (2008) by midterm studying procrastinator

I mean from what I remember this is just a pretty run of the mill R&B pop song? And I'm always down to cut Chris Brown, so I don't have strong feelings here but it can go

Saving Lips Are Movin which admittedly is a weird save but I've got a soft spot for it!

addendum – chris brown sucks on a personal level for sure, but this was the first chris brown song i'd ever heard circa 2008 and i really liked it tbh -ck

490. Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera -“Moves like Jagger" (2011) by (tobidebuts)

I think Misery is pretty generic too, but I feel like this song was what really declared the Selling Out of Maroon 5. Their first two eras in the spotlight they were giving cute little pop rock and this is just....noise. The whistling is supposed to be cheeky and the whole thing is supposed to be coy and flirty, but Adam Levine's goat bleat falsetto is just not sexy at all. The whole cultural touchpoint of Mick Jagger sex god is uh, dated anyhow, and this feels like an appeal to old people sensibilities but in a bad 2011 pop coat?

Xtina is on this song...she was certainly featured. Her part is so adrupt it barely even matters, and to quote an immortal tweet "Christina was at her lowest...fat, nasty and broke. Career in shambles. She came on this bitch mad as hell!!!"

Saving Low which is not low round trash but iconic high placement trash, I KNOW atrmi doesn't have the boots with the fur

489. Imagine Dragons - "Demons" (2013) by BenDy

Copy and paste everything I said about Imagine Dragons before and put it here. Demons also feels like they’re trying to go a more Emo route but they also can’t feel authentic because they’re Imagine Dragons. Demons feels so artificial and fake. I think they stopped being a hit indie band the moment twenty one pilots came out so they wanted to try to pivot. It didn’t work. Bye bitch.

Saving Scream by Usher. It’s Usher. He’s a good enough performer that I don’t want him gone yet. Plus, I miss him.

488. Maroon 5 - "One More Night" (2012) by Matt

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Round 5: Benoms

• I’m The One by DJ Khaled, Beiber, Quavo, Lil Wayne, and Chance the Rapper
• Despacito by Luis Fonsi and Daddy
• Look What You Made Me Do by T-Swift
• Treat You Better by Shawn Mendes
• Like I’m Gonna Lose You by Megan Trainor feat John Legend
• Where Are Ü Now by Skrillex, Diplo, and Beiber (Justin)
• Pillowtalk by Zayn
• Talk Dirty by Jason Derulo
• All About That Bass (No Treble) by Meghan Trainor
• Stay With Me by Sam Smith
• Wiggle by Jason Derulo
• Rude by MAGIC!
• I Knew You Were Treble by Taylor Swift (GRAMMY'D, SAFE UNTIL TOP 383)
• Scream & Shout by will.I.am and Brittney Spears
• Best Song Ever by One Direction
• Don’t Wake Me Up By Chris Brown
• What Makes You Beautiful by OD
• Turn up the music by Chris Brown
• The Lazy Song by Bruno Mars (remember when Bruno was bad. This rankdown makes me sad)
• ET by Katy Perry feat Kanye Weest
• Beauty and the Beat by Nicki (Minaj) and Justin (Beiber) CARRYOVER
• Maps by Maroon 5 CARRYOVER

487. Sam Smith – "Stay With Me" (2014) by celebrity ck

was between cutting this and LWYMMD but this was decided upon. I have a complicated history with this song; one day in 2014, despite still believing I was straight, this song was on the radio and I used it as a litmus test to gauge how my dad would react if I were gay bc we were talking about Sam Smith having a good voice and I was like "I found out the other day Sam Smith is gay and wrote this about a boy..." and my dad literally like didn't even react positively or negatively. So like of course I took that negatively and helped use that to stay closeted. Musically though, idk, this has always struck me as one of the uninspiring mid-2010s hits that white conservative families would love because it wasn't trap music, which was entering its commercial and critical prime around that time. Again, Sam Smith sings well but I just do not think they make interesting music

I will be saving ET because despite it being a great song, you just know some fucker is gonna come in here and try and dunk on "tell me what's next, alien sex"

486. will.i.am ft. Britney Spears - Scream and Shout (2013) by SG

Am I insane or why do people like this song? Everything about it seems like it was made by someone who hates pop music and wanted to make fun of it and everything from the lyrics to the beat feels so low-effort. I don't think anything about the song is on purpose on either so here I am cutting it and being controversial for the first time.

Saving The Lazy Song because I have no problem with it

N/A. Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble (2013) by Matt

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If party rock anthem can get saved this can too...it's simply not right @a banger going down like this. matt never loved me or her or anyone or anything. GRAMMY'D by TE

485. ZAYN - PILLOWTALK (2016) by DJ DYNA

There were two surefire future-noms in this list for me and this was one of them. I hate this song, I hate that it was the first big 1D solo song to blow up, I hate that it was briefly considered cool or artistic or futuristic or progressive. Just boring, plodding, obnoxious music meant I guess exclusively to have sex to, which, idk it's weird to take someone like Zayn Malik and put him on this kind of anonymous, hook-driven song in the first place, and he just sings it like a discount Adam Levine anyway. Mostly I just really hate that this song tries to explode into a driving chorus, and the words accompanying it are "So we'll piss off the neighbors," like, it makes it sound like the main reason you're having sex is to inconvenience the person you share a wall with. Idk it's not even really that aesthetically bad of a song, it just really gets under my skin. Also it sunk insanely fast for a top 10 single and now Zayn is probably the least famous and prolific 1Der as a solo act other than the one who doesn't participate anymore. Way to go king!

Saving Rude.

Addendum: never forget when I scrobbled this 13 times in one day during my freshman year of college. --lurkin' toad

484. T-Swizzle - Look What You Made Me Do (2017) by ohf

there's no denying that this song was the pop culture moment of 2017, with one of the most expensive and talked about music videos ever. this was her comeback single after getting exposed by kim. not that anyone actually cares about that drama (and taylor knows this which is why reputation as an album wasn't actually about her reputation). but you're lying if you weren't a little bit curious as to what taylor was gonna do or say next.

but the obsessed taylor haters made some points because the song itself is pretty lifeless. there's a mashup with britney spears toxic on youtube, and the chorus sounds soooo much better with added strings & guitar. as it stands, with the jack prod, it's just taylor telling us "look what you made me do!" but no one knows what she actually did...

yes it's a cunty statement but it's not the blackout she thinks it is. because at the end of the day, she's still taylor swift, america's country bumpkin. and the closest she can get to blackout without burning all her bridges is this halloween core campy satirical piece of electropop. that's part of the charm of the song, there's a reason no one could get away from "i'm sorry, the old taylor cant come to the phone right now... why... cause she's dead :)" for weeks. but ultimately this song is not why I listen to taylor swift

saving all about that bass cus I like the "I'm bringing booooottyyyy baaaaack" part

483. Jason Derulo featuring Snoop Dogg - Wiggle (2014) by Nate Reuss

Can you imagine that Jason Derulo had not 1, but TWO songs that were exactly the same hit the top 10 of the billboard charts within 6 months? Well, that's what he did with both Talk Dirty (which is also nominated here) and Wiggle, which I am cutting right now. Both Talk Dirty and Wiggle employ the exact same song structure: [END OF VERSE] [THREE SECOND PAUSE] [CHORUS WHICH IS JUST THE SONG TITLE REPEATED x5 OVER SAX/TRUMPET SOLO], and frankly, it's just annoying. I am cutting Wiggle instead of Talk Dirty because the lyrics contained within that structure are absolutely abysmal ["YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THAT BIG FAT BUTT"], and that sax/trumpet solo is worse than Talk Dirty's (in which the sax solo there is actually not that bad). Either way, a horrible song was going to be cut, and I'm at peace with that.

I don't really have any obvious save fodder here (thanks to Dyna saving RUDE!), so just going to save Where Are U Now.

482. Meghan Trainor featuring John Legend - Like I'm Gonna Lose You (2015) by E

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Saving Talk Dirty

481. Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better (2016) by Qualquer Coisa Me Bota No Paredaun (Bruno)

I have a strange disliked towards Shawn Mendes. He has a very punchable face and his voice is annoying. This song is obnoxious and lame. Shawn Mendes makes me wonder if twinks even deserve rights (they don't). Goodbye.

Saving Despacito. Is it bad? Yes. Do I hate it? Yes. But I think it deserves credit for what it's done to latin pop music in recent years.

480. Maroon 5 - Maps (2014) by Jax

This song came out around the time when me and my mom were watching The Voice and my mom was lowkey obsessed with Maroon 5 for a hot minute, especially this song. I never... hated it, I guess, but how is this a passable lead single for one of the biggest acts in pop music??? And it was successful as fuck too so I guess I'm the one that's wrong about that but like ... I find it baffling. It's been said already and I'm sure we will say it again but Adam Levine sucks, Maroon 5's pop music is bad, and this song particularly is so faceless and dare I say generic. Following following following

Saving I'm The One lol I like that song

479. Chris Brown - Turn Up The Music (2012) by Tobi (Respect Women) T

This is a song about turning up the music at the club so you can dance :) Chris Brown makes boring music is a woman-beater and still gets hits to this day for some ungodly reason so I don't feel bad throwing this is in the bottom where it belongs sorry christopher

Saving Best Song Ever because naming your single that as a boy band everyone hates do take nerve

Round 6: SG Strikes Back

• Plies ft. Ne-Yo - Bust It Baby (Part 2) (2008)
• Justin Bieber ft. Big Sean - As Long as You Love Me (2012)
• Justin Bieber ft. Nicki Minaj - Beauty And a Beat (2012) (carryover)
• Chris Brown - Don't Wake Me Up (2012) (carryover)
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Wanz - Thrift Shop (2013)
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us (2013)
• Ylvis - The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) (2013)
• Imagine Dragons - Radioactive (2013)
• Katy Perry ft. Juicy J - Dark Horse (2014) (GRAMMY'D, SAFE UNTIL TOP 372)
• John Legend - All of Me (2014)
• Idina Menzel - Let It Go (2014)
• Andy Grammer - Honey, I'm Good (2015)
• Silento - Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) (2015)
• Shawn Mendes - Stitches (2015)
• Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out (2016)
• The Chainsmokers ft. Rozes - Roses (2016)
• Sia ft. Sean Paul - Cheap Thrills (2016)
• Twenty One Pilots - Ride (2016)
• The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk - Starboy (2017)
• Logic ft. Alessia Cara and Khalid - 1-800-273-8255 (2017)
• Lil Pump - Gucci Gang (2017)
• Post Malone ft. Quavo - Congratulations (2017)

478. Justin Bieber feat. Big Sean - "As Long as You Love Me" (2012) by I'm CKutting early again.

me last round: the EDM drop in I Knew You Were Trouble sounded good then and it does now! bad cut!
me this round: not only does this song have some wack lyrics ("as long as you love me, we could be starving, we could be homeless, we could be broke" from one of the most wealth-blessed men on the planet...okay king) but the EDM drop on this one was bad then and it is now

i will, however, save ALAYLM's Believe era sister, Beauty and a Beat, the song that coined "gotta keep an eye out for selener," a lyric that has remained in the public conscious, from carryover purgatory

477. Lil Pump - Gucci Gang (2017) by Len-Nate Kravitz

Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang)

Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang)

my bitch luh do cocaine

Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang)

Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang, Gucci gang (Gucci gang)

I'm saving a motherfuckin' Starboy.

476. Ylvis - The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) (2013) by Matt

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475. Shawn Mendes - Stitches (2015) by dyna

I hate Dark Horse but at least it's vaguely culturally relevant and kind of hilarious in its wtf-ness, I hate Ride but at least it's fun to sing and mock the stupid way the singer's trying to do reggae. Who on earth has ever actually had fun to this song? It's just some pure shit to hear at the grocery store and nod acceptably to. Shawn Mendes has made some good music since 2017 but he's always gonna be tainted by this being his first hit and also by vaulting up Billboard at a time when I was still watching HRChart and willingly listened to 10 seconds of this boring genreless shit once a week.

Saving Stressed Out, of which I proudly have 12 scrobbles, most of which have come during surprisingly good times in my life. But also Can't Hold Us and Congratulations are genuinely very good songs that have no right to be on this list, and I hope they get saved.

474. Chris Brown - "Don't Wake Me Up" (2012) by Ben

I don’t have anything insightful to say. Chris Brown as a person sucks and as an artist he’s boring. Bye bitch.

Saving Can’t Hold Us. I know I’m dooming Ride, but Can’t Hold Us is a great song. Macklemore’s good he’s just lame. 😭

N/A. Katy Perry ft Juicy J - Dark Horse (2014) by E

Just an absolutely miserable song all around. Weird and kind of cringey video aside the beat is just so mid-2010's it's painful. I'm really not a big fan of the trend in pop music where everything just sounded like rave music with vocals on top of it complete with a really bad drop in there somewhere. The vocals and all the weird vocal accents in the instrumental on it are just wholly unappealing to me and the end result is just a garish song I don't really ever wanna listen to again

Saving Watch Me because it's funny

GRAMMY'D by O

473. Post Malone ft. Quavo - Congratulations (2017) - Bruno "Minha língua é igual um chicote PLEH PLEH"

Kyle Jason looking ass. I simply do not like Post Malone. His songs are offensively boring and lame. I feel like he's barely trying. He should go wash his ass and stop making music.

Saving Cheap Thrills, which I find a pretty good song made by a SIA that wasn't openly terrorizing the disbled.

472. Logic ft. Alessia Cara & Khalid- 1-800-273-8255 (2017) by TE

Eek! As someone with mental heath struggles if this song has ever helped you I'm so grateful, but I think it's kinda terrible :)

I just don’t think Logic, one of the corniest people alive is the person to write this song. To quote Tiffany Pollard, he does not have the vernacular he thinks he posesses.His lyrics have no specificity or depth and hammer down to “life is hard!” Starting off with seemingly honest lyrics about being depressed and then following up with “who can relate!” is also a shitty move that shows he's aiming more for mass appeal and ot become recognized as a brave conversation starter than writing something honest about this. And the shitty part is I do feel like it kind of worked, because even though I know I hate this song I feel bad shitting on it knowing it's about suicide. I can't declare him morally bankrupt in making it or anything but idk sumn don't sit right

Alesia and Khalid come out looking less embarrassed, but her part is boring and also filled with platitudes. His is the only moment of genuine emotion in the song, where the simplicity of the lyrics actually works with the performance and subject matter. Too bad that connection couldn’t reach the rest of the song :/

Saving Roses, the Good Chainsmokers song

471. Twenty One Pilots - Ride by (o)bsessed 21p hater

genuinely so fucking bad and annoying. nobody wanted the midwest emo x reggae x eminem fusion. the people who listen to this are also in youtube comments like "nobody listens to real music anymore"

saving macklemore thrift shop. white boy summer anthem

470. Andy Grammer - Honey, I'm Good (2015) by JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJax

Not sure who even remembers this song but I sure do. This brand of male Target commercial pop music is pretty obnoxious to begin with but the lyrics ????? What the fuck ??? Like absolutely presented as this sweet song about fidelity and being faithful but the lyrics are literally like, everyone in this bar is sexy and if I have another drink I'm going to cheat and hook up with someone so lemme not. "if I stay I might not leave alone"!?

Not that a song about infidelity is automatically bad or immoral or something but... this song is clearly trying to do something ELSE and I think it miserably fails at that. And that's something that's always grinded my gears, idk, maybe I'm weird for that. But the song itself doesn't really sound good in any way so there's also that. In short, confronted with the question of if I want to listen to this song ever again, I would simply reply "Honey, I'm good."

saving Radioactive s/o to Nate (real talk I do not know the Plies song and All of Me is worse so w/e)

Round 7: Dynoms

1. Leona Lewis - "Bleeding Love" (2008)
2. Plies ft. Ne-Yo - Bust It Baby (Part 2) (2008) (CARRYOVER)
3. The Pussycat Dolls - "When I Grow Up" (2008)
4. Beyonce - "Single Ladies" (2008)
5. Flo Rida - "Right Round" (2009)
6. Britney Spears - "3" (2009)
7. Glee Cast - "Don't Stop Believin'" (2009)
8. Black Eyed Peas - "Imma Be" (2010)
9. Miley Cyrus - "Can't Be Tamed" (2010)
10. Nicki Minaj - "Starships" (2012)
11. One Direction - "Live While We're Young" (2012)
12. John Legend - "All of Me" (2014) (CARRYOVER)
13. Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX - "Fancy" (2014)
14. Iggy Azalea ft. Rita Ora - "Black Widow" (2014)
15. Maroon 5 - "Love Somebody" (2013)
16. Ellie Goulding - "Love Me Like You Do" (2015)
17. Selena Gomez - "Good for You" (2015)
18. Justin Bieber - "Love Yourself" (2016)
19. Selena Gomez - "Same Old Love" (2016)
20. G-Eazy ft. Bebe Rexha - "Me, Myself & I" (2016)
21. Ariana Grande ft. Nicki Minaj - "Side to Side" (2016)
22. Kodak Black - "Tunnel Vision" (2017)

469. Justin Bieber - "Love Yourself" (2016) by "Não quero que você fale enquanto eu estou na mesa comendo, obrigada, me respeita, valeu." (Bruno)

I know, it's not 2010, it's ok to like Bieber songs now. But I don't. And I didn't back in 2016 when Love Yourself and Sorry became popular and a lot of people liked him. I really can't stand his voice, and this song is boring.

Saving When I Grow Up. A hit. Iconic. Legendary. How dare you? Dyna has just exposed himself as a white straight guy. :/

468. Plies Featuring Ne-Yo - "Bust It Baby (Part 2)" (2008) by Paul McCartNate

As likely one of the few people in the rankdown who has actually listened to this song (having listened to it when I nommed during round 2) I can say unequivocally that it's pretty boring and underwhelming. And since I have a duty to cut boring and underwhelming songs, here I go cutting. That's pretty much all I have to say? There's a couple of songs like this still left that are pretty much cut fodder because they are random rap duo songs (like Dyna mentioned in the Discord) that surprisingly were top ten hits?

Another question: If this is Part 2 of the Bust It Baby series, where's part 1? Is there a part 3? I could not find evidence for either. This ambiguousness is another reason to cut.

There's a lot of saves I could make here, but I am sure that they will all be saved. However, there's one song here that I know has some obsessed haters out there (not necessarily the rankers here). So, What Am I Waiting For? Saving Love Me Like You Do.

467. Glee Cast - "Don't Stop Believin'" (2009) By E

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466. John Legend - All of Me (2014) by anti-love SG

This song on the whole probably isn't that bad, but I just have a vendetta and have to cut one of my own noms. This song was everywhere when it was a hit and as a resident hater of overly sappy love songs it was just... too much. John Legend should stick to producing.

Saving Single Ladies because even I can admit it's iconic and Kanye was right that its music video should've won the Grammy. Sorry, Taylor.

465. Kodak Black - Tunnel Vision (2017) by Takepic Back The Night

"young kodak they don't wanna see you winninnnn" yeah bro maybe cause you're a rapist. I don't think this is good regardless, the chorus is melodic I guess but his actual bars sound like shit as usual. trash tier person

Saving 3, an absurd nomination what would peter paul and mary think?

464. G-Eazy ft. Bebe Rexha - "Me, Myself & I" (2016) by ohf

I will say that shqiptar queen bebe rexha has a very identifiable voice, and I can see how this became a hit. but it's... not good. she sounds really nasally and g-eazy's blackfishing doesn't appeal to me either. next

saving arianka & onika bottoming anthem side to side

463. Maroon 5 - "Love Somebody" (2013) by Waxon

I mean what is there to say about this song specifically that hasn't already been said about Maroon 5? Nothing and that's pretty telling

Saving Good For You, my #3 Jaxboard song of 2015 <3

462. Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX - "Fancy" (2014) by Ben

It’s Fancy.

In the words of Iggy herself, “You already know”, but what you know is the reasons this song sucks ass. Iggy is a terrible singer. The lyrics are repetitive. The music is just bleh.

Saving Right Round. It was in an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. Every Alvin and the Chipmunks song I see will be saved. Do not quote me on this ever. Unironically though this song is just a classic. I think we should respect our elders and the state of Florida.

461. Black Eyed Peas - "Imma Be" (2010) by Seeq

imma be was in that stretch of hits during which, as britney would say, The Peas were unstoppable but I didn’t think it was as good as the others... I do however have to respect the hustle.

Save can’t be tamed which was the first true cultural reset that I remember

460. Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora - "Black Widow" (2014) by Matt

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Round 8: Brunoms Tombei

1. Eminem - "We Made You" (2009)
2. Taylor Swift - "You Belong With Me" (2009)
3. Kings of Leon - "Use Somebody" (2009)
4. The Band Formely Known As Lady Antebellum - "Need You Now" (2010)
5. Justin Bieber ft. Ludacris - "Baby" (2010)
6. Glee Cast - "Teenage Dream" (2010)
7. Justin Bieber ft. Jaden Smith "Never Say Never" (2011)
8. The Wanted - "Glad You Came" (2012)
9. One Direction - "Live While We're Young" (2012) [CARRYOVER]
10. Miley Cyrus - "We Can't Stop" (2013)
11. Lana Del Rey ft. Cedric Gervais - "Summertime Sadness" (2013)
12. OneRepublic - "Counting Stars" (2014)
13. Maroon 5 - "Animals" (2014)
14. Taylor Swift - "Blank Space" (2014)
15. Taylor Swift - "Shake It Off" (2014)
16. Meghan Trainor - "Lips Are Movin'" (2014)
17. Ed Sheeran - "Thinking Out Loud" (2015)
18. Skrillex & Diplo ft. Justin Bieber - "Where Are Ü Now" (2015)
19. Justin Timberlake - "Can't Stop The Feeling!" (2016)
20. Rae Sremmurd ft. Gucci Mane - "Black Beatles" (2016)
21. Selena Gomez - "Same Old Love" (2016) [CARRYOVER]
22. Post Malone ft. 21 Savage - "Rockstar" (2017)

459. Justin Timberlake - "Can't Stop The Feeling!" (2016) by Nate Dogg

"Afternoon Talk-Show Core" at its very best, this late-career hit from Justin Timberlake is simply basic. Has a little bit of a funky baseline, but it's just squandered hard. I imagine that when this was hitting the charts, Ellen DeGeneres was dancing and grinding on the women in her audience to this song at 4:00 pm every weekday, while upper-cutting a homeless intern. This was probably Justin Timberlake's last big hit, and thanks to this we should probably keep it that way.

Also, very funny that this was the soundtrack hit for the movie Trolls, a movie that I think a grand total of 5 people saw in theatres.

I got a blank space, Bruno, and I'll write your name x

458. The Wanted - "Glad You Came" (2012) by Matt

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457. Justin Bieber ft. Ludacris - "Baby" (2010) by ohf

peak 2010 lmfao I mean I'm not the target audience for this song at all

saving the only lana entry even if it's a remix because it's a bop and btd era holds up

456. Miley Cyrus - "We Can't Stop" (2013) by E

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455. Selena Gomez - "Same Old Love" (2016) by dynaboyj L.

Yeah I'm cutting my own nom. Selena Gomez is far from the worst artist on this list, but she's the one with the most songs that all serve the same functional purpose, carry identical tones and gain nothing from her being on them. She conveys no emotion on "Same Old Love", which is a good idea for a song's theme ruined mostly by a piercing, repetitive hook and certainly not helped in any way by her flat delivery. Also then the producers pitch down her voice for some reason??? It's just a dumb song, crap for the airwaves, but the worst part is that there's so much more of her left to cut.

Saving Counting Stars. Again? Again.

454. Post Malone ft. 21 Savage- "Rockstar" (2017) by Black Iverson

Um.......no. This (and Psycho) are probably the most annoying posty hits to me because they're both os damn boring and both took over the airwaves for a while, especially this one. It came out fall senior year in high school when I was forced to be into the Music of the Time and I have vivid memories of sitting in my best friend's car, enjoying life and then having to pretend this banged. I guess maybe he's trying to sound xanned out but banking your chorus on feeling like a ROCKSTAR then delivering it like you just woke up from a depression nap is uh, choice for sure. I'll never get how the whole Mumble Rap Sucks, actually trend becoming popular at the same time he became a thing because both are just as lifeless and vapid but one's singing I guess.

Shoutout to 21, the only redeeming quality of the song and a secure enough man to aspire to be a pop star. Savage, why DO you have a 12 car garage if you only got 6 cars?

Saving Need You Now #YesSomeRacists

453. Ed Sheeran - "Thinking Out Loud" (2015) by celebrity ck

another average song, weddings will lose this rankdown. I know some rankers think this song is a good Ed Sheeran hit but like this is my cut. Just so tired of white men picking up a guitar and stringing together some cute phrases and all of sudden he’s sensitive and sweet and genius...I will never be fooled.

Save glee teenage dream because they made it gay and that’s feminism

452. Eminem - "We Made You" (2009) by SG

I'd never heard this song until yesterday and all it really is is a bunch of 2009 pop culture references like Sarah Palin and Britney Spears that probably weren't even really funny in 2009. Eminem's rapping is just as annoying as ever here and even the chorus from a featured artist isn't one of the best, so here it can fall.

Saving Animals because it sucks but can any of these other songs say they have a pretty good Beastars AMV?

451. Kings of Leon - "Use Somebody" (2009) by Jax

Look I'd listen to this song rn and form an actual opinion beyond what my 9-10 year old self thought of this on the radio, but 3 of my favorite girl groups just released new songs and i'd rather listen to those. Clearly this song was not for my demographic at the time and I haven't ever revisited but I cannot imagine I would be that into it based on my memories of the whiny ass melody and vocals. Also there was a kid in my elementary school named Leon with really bad eczema (?) and I always pictured him when this song came on. Not really positive or negative there but a weird association I have n.n

Saving Shake It Off bc Hey, hey, hey Just think while you've been gettin' down and out about the liars And the dirty, dirty cheats of the world You could've been gettin' down To this sick beat My ex man brought his new girlfriend She's like, "Oh my God!" I'm just gonna shake And to the fella over there with the hella good hair Won't you come on over baby? We can shake, shake, shake (Yeah) Yeah, oh

450. Meghan Trainor - "Lips Are Movin'" (2014) by Ben

I don’t like Meghan Trainor anyway but there’s something about the weird instrumental in this song they annoys me even more than her usual songs that aren’t about being a TradWife or whatever. The chorus is okay, but the rest of the song is just so bland and mediocre. I’m so glad Meghan’s moment ended.

Saving the Beiber song with Jaden in it purely for Jaden. I don’t care about any of these songs really so whatever happens to them happens to them.

Round 9: Jax vs Men

1. One Direction - "Live While We're Young" (2012) [CARRYOVER]
2. Skrillex & Diplo ft. Justin Bieber - "Where Are Ü Now" (2015) [CARRYOVER]
3. OneRepublic – “Good Life” (2011)
4. Alex Clare – “Too Close” (2012)
5. Jason Mraz- "I Won't Give Up” (2012)
6. The Lumineers – “Ho Hey” (2012)
7. Phillip Phillips – “Home” (2013)
8. Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z – “Suit & Tie” (2013)
9. Bruno Mars – “When I Was Your Man” (2013)
10. Capital Cities – “Safe and Sound” (2013)
11. Eminem featuring Rihanna – “The Monster” (2013)
12. A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera – “Say Something” (2013)
13. Passenger – “Let Her Go” (2014)
14. Pharrell Williams – “Happy” (2014)
15. Coldplay – “A Sky Full of Stars” (2014)
16. Nico & Vinz – “Am I Wrong” (2014)
17. Sam Smith – “I’m Not the Only One” (2014)
18. R. City featuring Adam Levine – “Locked Away” (2015)
19. Pink – “Just Like Fire” (2016)
20. Zedd and Alessia Cara – “Stay” (2017)
21. Maroon 5 featuring SZA – “What Lovers Do” (2017)
22. Shawn Mendes – “There’s Nothing Holding Me Back” (2017)

449. Sam Smith- "I'm Not The Only One" (2014) by Ben

I’m sorry, Sam Smith just sucks. This song plods around so much and it sounds like they’re singing with their mouth full. I like folk and shit, but this song just feels so lifeless and forced. It feels super inauthentic and it’s so boring. There’s no momentum in it.

Saving Good Life again. Genuinely like a lot of these songs tbh even though I thought of the wrong Home song and nearly saved this one.

448. P!nk- "Just Like Fire" (2016) by Jealous of Britneypic

It's weird seeing these artists that have been relevant since the early 2000s evolve. Like I wasn't really cognizant for R&B Pink, but looking up videos it feels sooo strange. That being said, both that and Chad Pop Rock Mid 2000s-Early 2010s Pink are better than the listless mom pop girl we get now. This song was for the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland sequel which lol to begin with but it truly is a soundtrack song in that it's about absolutely nothing. She has to have written this exact chorus like a million times by this point and her vocal on NO ONE CAN BE JUST LIKE ME ANYWAY....girl, find the note.

This thing's crime is really just being generic. Like it's not painful to listen to but....whocurr. I was considering changing my cut to The Monster until she started rapping in the bridge and then I decided some crimes can never be forgiven.

"So I can get it running

Just cause nobody's done it

Y'all don't think I can run it

But look, I've been here, I've done it"

Girl...it is not a verse if you are literally rapping the same words against each other.

Saving There's Nothin' Holding Me Back, a less offensive form of mall music

447. Passenger - "Let Her Go" (2014) by The Artist Formerly Known as Nate

Let's imagine a scenario.

It's January 2014. You're a freshman at NYU from Southern California who has recently broken up with your SO. You've never experienced a winter before. You decide to go an upscale, gentrified coffee shop in the Lower East Side to escape both the cold and to calm your nerves after your breakup. You order a $12.99 latte and watch the world go by. Suddenly, "Let Her Go" by Passenger plays. The song makes you realize the mistake you've made in breaking up with them. But it's too late.

End Scene.

The hypothetical person I'm describing here is probably the only person is the world who has ever liked this song.

Sidenote: #angst perusers will note that Passenger is the favorite band of the cutter's "former friend" who wanted to be "friends on a schedule". Therefore, Passenger (and by association the former friend) deserve to eat shit.

Saving Am I Wrong. I stan my Norwegian kings

446. Pharrell Williams – “Happy” (2014) by ohf

this song inspires zero happiness in me, it's like the yin/yang to logic's suicide song. cmon pharrell you can do better than this

saving suit & tie JT has bangers let's not lie

445. Maroon 5 ft. SZA - "What Lovers Do" (2017) by SG

I just listened to this for the first time and was originally going to cut The Monster, but I just cut an Eminem song and I may as well help defeat Maroon 5 too. This song is pretty bland and lifeless and I can't see why I'd put it above even just as bad Maroon 5 cuts that at least have a little life to them like Sugar or Moves Like Jagger. The feature does nothing for me either though I'm sure SZA deserved better.

Saving Too Close because I have decent memories of it

444. Skrillex & Diplo ft. Justin Bieber - "Where Are Ü Now" (2015) by Bruno Desculpa se eu nasci debochada

Dubstep was a mistake. Skrillex was a mistake. JB was a mistake (his voice is so goddamn annoying). I'm sorry for Diplo, but he did chose to do instead of a collab with MC Carol that would've swiped the grammies and won this rankdown, so you know...

Saving When I Was Your Man. I like this song, sorry. The other Bruno can't go now.

443. R. City featuring Adam Levine – “Locked Away” (2015) by dyna "dick valentine"

This song was not bad enough to make my list of noms two rounds ago, but it sure was close! 2015 was probably the year I paid the most attention to the pop charts and this was here every fuckin week even though nobody cared about it then and sure as hell nobody remembers it or thinks about it now. I don't think it's offensive in any way, even Adam Levine saying "if I got locked away" like he's some kind of gangster is mostly just amusing, and the verses are fine. It's just, maroon 5's shit was all over the charts when it had absolutely no reason to be, and no underlying personality to it, and it was that way the entire decade (and god help us might last another). Fuck that!!!! Give me more interesting bad music.

saving Safe and Sound, which is just a nice little dance track!

442. The Lumineers – “Ho Hey” (2012) by ck

i have a bit of an irrational dislike for this one; i hated it when it was a radio hit. like i just was not a fan at all... but like, thanks to the many lumineers stans that populate my life, i have reached the conclusion that it's in this exact niche of my music taste where i could probably have grown to like it a lot without that bias had i heard it for the first time in like the 2015-17 timespan. but you could have only convinced me in 2017. that kind of vibe is mostly where i was at during that year, which was mostly a bad time for me, and as such, i fear for the universe that we are not far off from where i am a lumineers stan apologizing for my ho hey distate. this circles back, instead, to the fact that i didn't like it much at its peak, and not some kind of sweeping pro-ho hey moment

let's do this good 1D single a favor and save ms carryover live while we're young

441. Jason Mraz - "I Won't Give Up" (2012) by E

Honestly I had completely forgotten what this song was until I relistened to it then I forgot what it sounded like immediately upon finishing it. If that doesn't tell you how immensely forgettable and milquetoast this song is, I don't know what will.

Saving Say Something, I guess? all these songs suck

440. Phillip Phillips - "Home" (2013) by Matt

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Epic's Noms/Round 10: I Wanna Cut Songs In This Club

1. The Monster- Eminem ft. Rihanna (2013)
2. Stay- Zedd ft. Alessia Cara (2017)
3. Forever- Chris Brown (2008)
4. Good For You- Selena Gomez ft. A$AP Rocky (2015)
5. Loyal- Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne and French Montana or Too Short or Tyga (2014)
6. Crack A Bottle- Eminem ft. Dr. Dre and 50 Cent (2009)
7. Rude- MAGIC! (2014)
8. I Gotta Feeling - The Black Eyed Peas (2009)
9. Billionaire- Travie McCoy ft. Bruno Mars (2010)
10. Love The Way You Lie- Eminem ft. Rihanna (2010)
11. The Time (Dirty Bit)- Black Eyed Peas (2010)
12. Fuck You (Forget You)- Ceelo Green (2011)
13. Tonight (I'm Lovin You)- Enrique Iglesias ft. Pitbull (2011)
14. Fuckin' Perfect- P!nk (2011)
15. E.T- Katy Perry ft. Kanye West (2011)
16. Look At Me Now- Chris Brown ft. Busta Rhymes & Lil Wayne (2011)
17. Tonight Tonight- Hot Chelle Rae (2011)
18. Payphone- Maroon 5 ft Wiz Khalifa (2012)
19. Drive By- Train (2012)
20. Started From The Bottom- Drake (2013)
21. Love Me- Lil Wayne ft. Drake & Future (2013)
22. Talk Dirty- Jason Derulo ft. 2 Chainz (2013)

439. Train - "Drive By" (2012) by E

down with lame ass white boy pop. As a certified obsessed train hater I am so glad to be able to get rid of this lol. idk what it is about Train but they just feel so obnoxious to me despite honestly being pretty run of the mill late-2000s early 2010s bottom of the barrel pop music. The guy's voice sucks ass too tbh

Saving Talk Dirty again because this is also terrible but funny, and funny always wins out in my eyes

438. Chris Brown – "Forever" (2008) by celebrity ck

i never thought this song was that good in its prime. some kids at my school did, but as stated earlier on this page, my preferred chris brown – exclusive era cut is with you. that song is out and so this one will also be eliminated from the race. the story behind forever is possibly its only saving grace. it's a funny concept that probably couldn't happen in 2021: a quick song recorded for a gum commercial sounded so good that it got extended into a full single on the dime of said gum company. but like, idk. unique origins don't singlehandedly make a song worthwhile and it is, ultimately, a song by chris brown. wild to think about the sensitive r&b boy pre-girlfriend beater stage of his career where he guest starred on the suite life of zack and cody

lots of songs here i wouldn't have nommed but that's the struggle... of course being me has its setbacks. i'm actually gonna go for crack a bottle here, mostly for having lines that inexplicably run through my mind to this day despite not hearing the song for years

437. Katy Perry featuring Kanye West - "E.T." (2011) by N⟁TE

Grammy me for all I care.

Is it nostalgic? Yes. Is it good? No. The song is one of the most overproduced pieces of work I think I've ever heard. The synths are jarring, the vocals are weird (I really do not like "take me, t-t-take me"). It's just very noisy and not something I would listen to in regular rotation.

Plus, Young Nate wanted to sing this song at the elementary school talent show, and I don't know what I would've done if I had gone through with this. It's embarassing even to think about.

I woke up with a strange tattoo, kinda looks just like you, mixed with Zach Galifianakis. Saving Tonight Tonight.

436. Eminem ft. Rihanna - "The Monster" (2013) by GS

I was about to cut Love The Way You Lie when I realized this song is kind of just a worst version of it? Eminem is predictably annoying on this one and Rihanna's chorus doesn't add much of anything; at least the Love The Way You Lie one is iconic to a degree. I've also technically seen this one live from when I saw Bebe Rexha (lol) so I feel like I have the authority to cut it.

Saving Fuck You because I still like it and I'd unironically like to see it in polls

435. Magic - "Rude" (2014) by The morally corrupt jo haseul

Obnoxious white boy reggae radio fodder is obnoxious. I know this song has stans so feel free to grammy i guess, but this song was inescapable in 2014 much to my disdain and nothing has really changed my opinion on it since then. So it goes.

Saving good for you again! I'll go to bat for revival era selener!

434. Maroon 5 ft Wiz Khalifa - "Payphone" (2012) by Bruno running out of Karol Conká themed name ideas

Death to Maroon 5 I hate Adam Levine's voice etc etc there's nothing new to say about this at this point I'm just in this rankdown to eradicate this band. The song sucks and I'm tired of it just like most of their songs.

Saving I Gotta Feeling, a genuinely good song. The peas are unstoppable not really their other song in this nomset sucks and could go *wink wink*.

433. Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars - "Billionaire" (2010) by matt

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save Tonight (I'm Lovin You)

432. Lil Wayne feat. Future and Drake - "Love Me" (2013) by Dyna

This only has name recognition to me because it was featured in todd in the shadows' worst of 2013 for being misogynistic trash with no charm, and yeah, somehow lil wayne going "Baby just make me come, then don't make a sound" to some woman seeking his validation still just is really disgusting! I get lil wayne's appeal as a rapper, finally after several years of treating him exclusively as a punchline, but this lyrical content in the name of being "shocking" (homie is just exemplifying being shitty to women) sucks and is why i'll never fully come around to like, respecting his influence. Beat is an earsore, and god future/drake's hook has nothing going for it. 2009-13 was filled with these Young Money crossover fests that never got significant top 40 play, and even though they gave us All I Do Is Win, the fact that this unremembered dreck is one of them means i'm grateful the whole genre passed us by.

Saving Look At Me Now. See that's a song on which Lil Wayne has some actual charm!

431. Chris Brown feat. Lil Wayne and French Montana or Too Short or Tyga - "Loyal" (2014) by Ben

Yeah, I can’t imagine a more deeply infuriating song than listening to CHRIS BROWN rap about how women aren’t loyal. Get fucked. Musically the song also sucks ass. The piercing Let Me See that’s shouted every five seconds. The droning beat. But god, Chris Brown is insufferable and I’ll continue to cut him as soon as I see his name.

Saving Love The Way You Lie, I genuinely Stan. Whoops.

430. P!nk - "Fuckin' Perfect" (2011) by ((( O )))

unfortunately adding the F bomb to this song doesn’t make it any less mom pop, sorry. the “pretty pretty please don’t you ever ever feel” part is sorta catchy but I’m never gonna unironically listen to a feel good anthem

saving zedd stay I guess it’s the only one I know

Round 11: Matt's Noms Part 1

1. The Time (Dirty Bit) - Black Eyed Peas (2010) (carry-over)
2. Started From The Bottom - Drake (2013) (carry-over)
3. Lollipop - Lil Wayne featuring Static Major (2008)
4. Shake It - Metro Station (2008)
5. When I Grow Up - Pussycat Dolls (2008)
6. Gotta Be Somebody - Nickelback (2008)
7. Let It Rock - Kevin Rudolph featuring Lil Wayne (2008)
8. Battlefield - Jordin Sparks (2009)
9. BedRock - Young Money featuring Lloyd (2010)
10. In My Head - Jason Derulo (2010)
11. Not Afraid - Eminem (2010)
12. Teenage Dream - Glee Cast (2010)
13. The Lazy Song - Bruno Mars (2011)
14. Mr. Know It All - Kelly Clarkson (2011)
15. Live While We're Young - One Direction (2011)
16. Best Song Ever - One Direction (2013)
17. Pompeii - Bastille (2014)
18. Latch - Disclosure featuring Sam Smith (2014)
19. Hotline Bling - Drake (2015)
20. My House - Flo Rida (2016)
21. 24K Magic - Bruno Mars (2016)
22. Too Good At Goodbyes - Sam Smith (2017)

429. Eminem - "Not Afraid" (2010) by Ben

The song sounds like a Nickleback Butt Rock song. The lyrics for this song are so fucking bad and the only thing that I will share from it rather than going on and on is this one about farting.

Saving 24K Magic which is the real reason I jumped to cut. What is it doing here? I’m absolutely disgusted.

428. Disclosure feat. Sam Smith – "Latch" (2014) by celebrity ck

i think i said a few rounds ago that i like sam smith's voice, but this was my first introduction to it and i'm pretty sure i didn't like it lol. my dad likes this song and usually when i say he likes a song it's in celebration but i had to question his taste level on this one. disclosure wouldn't peak til they collaborated with lorde anyway

i want to save......so many songs! but i will save gleenage dream again. it might be my lauren o'connell of the rankdown. the culturally phenomenal abysmal black hole of good ideas that was glee (2009-2015) will be respected here.

427. Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil Wayne - "Let It Rock" (2008) by Nathaniel

The whole aura around this song is so confusing to me... a random, unknown rock guy song with a feature from one of the biggest artists of the time and it was a smash hit? I don't understand it at all. I guess Lil Wayne's power carried it across the line. Anyhow, this song is not that great: Rudolf's voice is irritating, the feature from Wayne himself is mediocre, and the rock feel throughout feels... synthetic.

Matt made me play my hand so I will have to save Pompeii, sorry to Latch whom I considered grammy-ing. No worries though, I'll get my payback in due course.

CK addendum: rap rock is such a uniquely late 2000s concept and i just have to stan. this song was a middle school classic for me and i think i could genuinely recite the entire song lil wayne verse included. but i can see why it's considered abrasive and irritating: because it is. the hook, though, is catchy as fuck and i just...like idk this song is just SO good and SO bad at the same time i love it. i literally stole my parents' money to buy this on itunes (read: it wasn't really theft, there was a time during spring 2011 when i asked my parents if i could use their credit card to buy 5 songs on itunes. i bought this as a sixth and justified it with info you'll later see in this addendum). basically spring 2011 ws a formative time for me because it was truly the first time i grasped my own autonomy and took charge of my life by quitting middle school band to play john in peter pan instead. the director of that production has since passed, rest in peace to a king. but i quit band because i wasn't really willing to put in the DEDICATION to become a good flute player after like two years of skating through band. and plus, our band teacher had really hyped this concept up to us: learning to play LET IT ROCK. and i quit because we finally got the let it rock sheet music and we really SUCKED at it.....i genuinely believed we would never get to play this song in concert. very similarly (both of these groups were instructed by the same person at this point, i think), in choir we learned rolling in the deep but never performed it, which hurt. however, i quit band and then like 2 months later our band played let it rock at our grandparents' day (i wish i could explain this) and i had literally like...i was like TRASHING this performance before it happened to my friends. i was like "band sucks and let it rock sounded so bad." and like these two girls i later hung out with like four years later, one is now married and the other is a food influencer, they turned to me like, "will this is actually good!" and i didn't regret quitting band but i was like fuck LOL my clown era begins now. so that's why i was gonna cut let it rock but didn't, but let it rock was considered a save just for being fucking CATCHY and a song that i felt cool for liking. a couple popular people in my middle school really LOVED this song and i did too which helped me ascertain social status for a little bit. ALL THIS BEING SAID? the superior kevin rudolf single is I Made It!

426. Bruno Mars - "The Lazy Song" (2011) by Epique

Some of us don't feel like doing anything ANY DAY Bruno, but our capitalistic system forces us to! I think the concept of this song is cute and goes against the main problem with the early Bruno hits where they're all overdramatic and screechy, but it's also just...so 2011. The Snuggie, teach me how to dougie which was already a dated reference, the gorillas in the video because lolRANDOM XD. The song itself is really not that special- he sounds weirdly smug about doing nothing and I guess I understand the direction but spending a song abut not doing anything...listing things you could be doing is a choice. This one could've stayed in the drafts king <3

save When I Grow Up, for Lala Ri

425. Flo Rida - "My House" (2016) by Ibuki Stan (SG)

I've stated before I hated this whole trend of weirdly slow and down-beat "party songs" and out of them all I don't really see anything to appreciate in this one. Flo Rida delivers his own hook and takes away what's usually a reprieve from his mediocrity. It's truly amazing how someone can have so many hits and barely even be famous.

Saving Shake It because I'm here to save shitty pop punk from before 2010

424. One Direction - "Best Song Ever" (2013) by Bruno the HCIC: Head Conkárina In Charge

Honestly, I was particularly never on the One Direction train, but they had some good songs, and I think they got better with time. Best Song Ever is not one of them. In fact, it might be their worst song to me. Isn't it ironic, don't you think? -Alanis Morissette -me

Saving Hotline Bling. It started as a meme, but I admit, I like that song.

423. Kelly Clarkson - "Mr. Know It All" (2011) by dynaboyj

This is just dumb bad country and it’s not that much different than stronger, Kelly Clarkson is again tryinng really hard to sell not great lyrics and it’s very middle of the road. We can ask for better from female pop stars.

Saving 2 Good at Goodbyes

422. Lil Wayne featuring Static Major - "Lollipop" (2008) by ohf

lil wayne will be getting #420 on my watch. I mean I can respect lil wayne for his presence in the music industry but I don't really like his brand of autotuned mumble rap. playboi carti outsold. the chorus is ok on this song but god this is also the most dated thing in the world

saving jordin sparks WHY DOES LOVE ALWAYS FEEL LIKE A BATTLEFIELD :megaphone:

421. Drake - "Started from the Bottom" (2013) by 🤰

Well I didn't think I had heard this in full before I just listened to it but it turns out I basically have because this whole song seems to be the same droning beat and one line. Apologies if there are any Drake stans who know more about this song than I do but it's not doing it for me 🙎‍♂️

Saving In My Head for being the most inoffensive option I think?

420. The Black Eyed Peas - "The Time (Dirty Bit)" (2010) by E

Honestly just a really uninspiring dance pop song from the era that really does nothing for me. The beat's kinda trash and when that's like the whole focal point of the song then the song is completely disposable

Saving BedRock because yes it sucks but it's kinda funny

Matt's Noms Part 2

1. Gotta Be Somebody- Nickelback (2008) (carry-over)
2. Live While We’re Young- One Direction (2012) (carry-over)
3. The Time of My Life- David Cook (2008)
4. Tonight- Jonas Brothers (2008)
5. Crush- David Archuleta (2008)
6. You Found Me- The Fray (2009)
7. Right Round- Flo Rida (2009)
8. Boom Boom Pow- Black Eyed Peas (2009)
9. I Gotta Feeling- Black Eyed Peas (2009)
10. Waking Up In Vegas- Katy Perry (2009)
11. LoveGame- Lady Gaga (2009)
12. Party In The USA- Miley Cyrus (2009)
13. Whatcha Say- Jason Derulo (2009)
14. Sexy Bitch- David Guetta feat. Akon (2010)
15. Bottoms Up- Trey Songz feat. Nicki Minaj (2010) (GRAMMY'D, SAFE UNTIL TOP 317)
16. Black and Yellow- Wiz Khalifa (2011)
17. Don’t You Worry Child- Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin (2012)
18. Can’t Hold Us- Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton (2013)
19. Gentleman- Psy (2013)
20. All About That Bass- Meghan Trainor (2014)
21. One Dance- Drake feat. Wizkid and Kyla (2016)
22. Juju on that Beat- Zay Hilfigerr and Zayion McCall (2016)

N/A. Trey Songz feat. Nicki Minaj - "Bottoms Up" (2010) by Naeight

Mr. Steal Your Girl, the man brought you the hit song "I Invented Sex", gives us 2010's "Bottoms Up", a song that is only good when you're 6 four lokos deep dancing in a sketchy underground club. Trey's vocals on this are absolutely abysmal, and Nicki's verse is comedic to the point of cringe("Do You Like My Body? Anna Nicki/Rest In Peace To Anna Nicole Smith", like what? It's not even a topical reference by this point, she'd been dead for 3 years). In any case, Mr. Steal Your Girl becomes the next to fall.

Saving EDM legends Swedish House Mafia, a song that got me through the early stages of middle school

i'm not idoling but this cut is absolutely abysmal -seeq

^ retweet, I think seeing this actually ruined my day. --Mr. Z

^ if a bitch (nate) tryna get cute imma stomp her... throw a lot of money at her then yell fuck her! using my grOmmy

419. Psy - "Gentleman" (2013) by Bruno Conká

Pretty much I would let Gentleman know that she is a fat cunt and the shoes that she gave me were not something that I would particularly buy for myself. They were old, maiden type of shoes and she said that those shoes were meant to be worn on a beautiful woman. So if that’s the case, she should’ve put them back on the rack, and she should’ve never even purchased them, because she was unqualified to own those shoes if that’s the case. And, um, I think Gentleman is just a disgrace. She’s a disgrace to humanity and she’s a disgrace to women who are actually beautiful and classy and, um, she just doesn’t have the vernacular that she thinks she possesses. Somebody lied to her several times and told her that she was fly, hot, and sexy, and Gangnam Style, and she’s nothing like that, she’s nothing of the sort.

Saving I Gotta Feeling. The pears are unstoppable part 2 the remix electric boogaloo.

418. Wiz Khalifa – "Black and Yellow" (2011) by Epic

I have nothing against Wiz but this is boring as fuck. There's no reason to repeat black and yellow THAT many times and if there are 2 notable cities in PA Pittsburgh is DEFINITELY #2 so the hometown pride does nothing for me. #GiantsNation #GoBirds

Saving Party in the USA, the Britney and Jay-Z songs don't deserve this slander!

417. David Cook – "The Time of My Life" (2008) by ck south africa

the late '00s/early '10s American Idol era was a weird time to be alive for me. my first real grasp of a pop culture phenomenon was finding out what Idol was because all the kids at my school and their families were obsessed with it, then immediately finding out my parents not only had no interest in this show but weren't going to let me watch it. and as such i was perpetually out of the loop annually during Idol fever every year and just kind of kept up with who was succeeding via Wikipedia pages and who was charting high after every episode on iTunes. is my Idol exclusion what set me on the path of self destruction that eventually led to my god awful 2017? maybe.

but it was also weird in hindsight because it was a cultural phenomenon in every aspect, but long-term it did not produce really any celebrities in that era. it's true that notable contestants from that era probably would ring a bell with, idk, 25-50% of people our age nowadays. but Jordin Sparks is really the only contestant that became a household name for a moment and doesn't immediately scream "American Idol alumnus" when I see her name¹. even phillip phillips, whose name seems poised to become mom-famous for like 5 years, still reads entirely as "American Idol alumnus" to me, even with his smash hit song that remains inescapable in some ways to this day.

this bizarre power that Idol still had to bring names and faces into the public conscious in long-lasting ways while no longer creating A-list celebs a la JHud/Carrie Underwood/Kelly Clarkson is exactly what leads me into cutting David Cook. in some ways, is this a revenge vote? hell yeah. i can't believe i was made to feel like an outsider over something so big with so little impact. like, i remember David Cook's win as a pop culture moment that just felt BIG:

the battle of the Davids (Cook & Archuleta) at the top two of that season felt almost scripted, but it was all the rage in '08, a buzzier vote than obama v mccain. my fourth grade class (and from what i've gleaned from conversations in life, most fourth grade classes that were uncannily plugged into American Idol) was huge on 18-year-old twink² David Archuleta in a boy band pop idol sort of way whereas parents liked David Cook's brand of 2008 adult contemporary pop rock.

i would go so far as to say David Cook winning American Idol was predictable in that sense, but it was seen as an upset at the time. catastrophically, even, as this is possibly the American Idol outcome that truly spawned the "well the runner-up does better in the long run" discourse that seemed to take over that era of Idol. in hindsight, it is funny that both David Cook and David Archuleta managed to secure top 10 hits with their Idol finale singles, because...like...... who are they now? aside from Archuleta's iCarly/Hannah Montana appearances, both fizzled out. David Cook disappeared entirely, then 1D eventually came along and swooped up any growing pop boy revival energy that Archuleta was working on cultivating. but he was REALLY cultivating it:

but where this is a revenge cut against the very concept of American Idol, this is also a musicality cut. David Archuleta's song is not much better than David Cook's: both are just kind of whatever examples of what COULD be popular in the 2000s and both probably should be cut this round. But I'm letting David Archuleta win out against David Cook in this timeline to give the girls above³ some justice. saving Live While We're Young again, this time not to be edgy but because I genuinely feel more for it than I feel for (almost) the rest of this nomset

¹maybe Adam Lambert gets that kind of independent recognition from me too, but idk for sure. there is a lot to unpack with him being possibly one of the first gay people I had ever heard of that may have led to me knowing what being gay meant and we will not be unpacking that today.

²some people have issues using gay body type terms to describe non-homos. but like, come on. that's a twink.

³see what i mean???? that era of Idol seemed to matter so, so much and yet had so little of a lasting impact. I guess the most comparable thing we have in the late '10s/early '20s is The Bachelor franchise; at least, in terms of a cultural phenom that brings random people into the public sphere of reference and conversation. but even then, that's a different ballgame! no one is notable post-show for doing anything but existing, there's no real career trajectory other than being a hot topic (possibly) while you're on the show and becoming an influencer when you're off. I don't think a group of children would sit in front of a tv with pics of a guy named Ben Smith on their shirts crying when he loses

416. Jonas Brothers - "Tonight" (2008) by ohf

I just don't think the jonas brothers are an interesting boy band, and this is the epitome of generic feel good pop rock. like I would have had this song downloaded on my ipod & listened to it after a good day of middle school. not bad but I don't think these songs have the same effect on me anymore

now if we're talking about pop rock CLASSICS, saving waking up in vegas

i don't disagree with anything about this cut, just want to vocalize that i DID have this downloaded on my ipod and i DID listen to it after good days of middle school --ck

415. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton - "Can't Hold Us" (2013) by SG

I've established myself as an obsessed Macklemore hater and I'll continue to be one... I don't really have a deep, serious gripe other than I never found his entire routine to be very funny and while this song isn't nearly as obnoxious as Thrift Shop, I still heard it way too many times to have anything but negative feelings for it. Same Love though I will entertain as a song with some value, but apparently it peaked at #11 and thus isn't in this rankdown so here lies Macklemore.

Saving You Found Me because it's cheesy and all but that's the appeal of The Fray

addendum: --Toad

414. Nickelback - "Gotta Be Somebody" (2008) by Jax

Someone had to do it I guess? I mean no one needs to hear from me why Nickelback is bad, but it's just so hard to take Chad Kroeger's ass seriously. Listen to the first 20 seconds and hear how he comes in on the "THIIIIIIIIIS TIME", like it's impossible not to laugh 😭 I don't even think the melody of this song is horrible or anything, it's honestly a lot poppier / livelier than I expected, but you really could not catch me willingly listening to this

Saving Lovegame? I don't think it's getting cut but I am truly not passionate about any of these songs

413. Drake feat. WizKid and Kyla - "One Dance" (2016) by E

Bland, gentrified dancehall music with uninspiring features. So naturally it was #1 for like two months.

save Whatcha Say

412. Flo Rida - "Right Round" (2009) by Dyna

I was just having a bad year in 2009/10 and hearing this song all the time at fifth grade events generally was paired together with me feeling like shit bc of grief. As for actual criticism: flo rida’s star-sustaining talent is writing a good club hook and this is just not that, it kinda stomps and jumps and hurts my ears like a fly buzzing around the room. It has no musical similarity to its sample other than both of them being sweaty and horny which comes off weird recontextualized as hetero/zeroing in on oral sex. The verses don’t matter but the flow is bad. Finally: Kesha made a good call being uncredited on this, she’s usually a good singer even in her stuff I don’t like but her voice is super pinched and she really does sound like Katy Perry at her most obnoxious. More like right downed am I right.

Saving sexy bitch because sometimes we are all trying (and failing) to find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful.

411. Meghan Trainor - "All About That Bass" (2014) by Ben

My crusade continues, and I cut another Meghan Trainor song cause it’s one of the few left in the last part of this round. All About That Bass is a very weird song, and I don’t feel like as a dude I should talk a lot about it’s role with the Body Positive Movement. The song is still super childish, not very good, and I don’t want to hear any adult woman call her ass a boom-boom. Really don’t have anything deep to say to justify the cut here. Meghan Trainor was a mistake. This isn’t as bad as future husband, but it’s still just kind of shows how out of touch she is as a person? I don’t know what’s happened to her, but she gave TradWife vibes which skeeves me out to no end.

I’m saving Boom Boom Pow. I don’t want anyone to call me out on Hypocrisy. It’s fun, and I’m stupid. It’s also the best out of what’s left. Best song about Boom Boom in the rankdown. Actually, fuck it. I’m not going to apologize. The 2000 and late line transcends time. Anyone that has a problem with my saves and cuts can eat my entire ass

Epic's Noms: I Cut A Hit And I Liked It

1. Crush- David Archuleta (2008) (carryover)
2. Juju On That Beat- Zay Hilfigger & Zayvion McCall (2016) (carryover)
3. I Kissed A Girl- Katy Perry (2008)
4. Crack A Bottle- Eminem ft. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent (2009)
5. Birthday Sex- Jeremih (2009)
6. Hey, Soul Sister- Train (2010)
7. Fuck You (Forget You) by CeeLo Green (2011)
8. Grenade by Bruno Mars (2011)
9. Look At Me Now by Chris Brown ft. Busta Rhymes and Lil Wayne (2011)
10. Tonight Tonight by Hot Chelle Rae (2011)
11. Lighters- Bad Meets Evil ft. Bruno Mars (2011)
12. Stereo Hearts by Gym Class Heroes ft. Adam Levine (2011)
13. Whistle by Flo Rida (2012)
14. Talk Dirty by Jason Derulo ft. 2 Chainz (2014)
15. Love Never Felt So Good- Justin Timberlake and Michael Jackson (2014)
16. Animals- Maroon 5 (2014)
17. Jealous- Nick Jonas (2015)
18. Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)- Silento (2015)
19. Good For You- Selena Gomez ft. A$AP Rocky
20. Don't Mind- Kent Jones (2016)
21. We Don't Talk Anymore- Charlie Puth ft. Selena Gomez (2016)
22. Fake Love- Drake (2017)

410. Maroon 5 - "Animals" (2014) by ohf

idk this song has always been weird to me, with lyrics like "baby, I'm preying on you tonight, hunt you down, eat you alive"..police?? and in the video he's literally dancing around bloody surrounded by hanging meat :beth:

saving I kissed a girl because it's pride month 🏳️‍🌈

Addendum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFdR1BaciC8

409. Jason Derulo feat. 2Chainz - "Talk Dirty" (2014) by Naaaaaaaaate

I cut Wiggle, now Talk Dirty is getting the axe. Very similar gripe I have here, egregious lyrics with a chorus that's just the song title x15 over and over again. Only good thing is the sax backing, and even that's a sample from a Balkan rap group so it's not even original. Jason Derulo can and has done better!

So much stuff I wanna save here, but I must save Pat Monahan & Train as they have the most enemies.

408. Justin Timberlake & Michael Jackson - "Love Never Felt So Good" (2014) by Matt

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407. Flo Rida - "Whistle"(2012) by Dyna

See I had this whole big Grenade cut planned and then realized it's actually kind of fun to sing along to. Sometimes that's what makes a song advance in a rankdown. This is far less interesting-bad than Grenade but it's also just mediocre and it's somehow the other Flo Rida song about oral sex? Very, very discomforting to me to have this pudgy, fun dude who writes good pop-influenced and extremely polished, almost Kidz Bop-oriented hooks sing a chorus requesting a blowjob from a girl. Over this like fucking Eagle-Eye Cherry riff too! I dunno, it just doesn't line up to me. I want my fun music to at least make its sex lyrics subtle, and you just can't do that, can you Flo Rida?

Saving We Don't Talk Anymore not because it's particularly great but because I've related to it a lot regarding my one breakup and this might be the only time i'll ever get to mention that kind of thing. Also it's pretty well-produced. Apologies to Kent Jones, whose big track is kind of ironically good but not really a sleeper hit.

406. Chris Brown ft. Busta Rhymes and Lil Wayne - "Look At Me Now" (2011) by Bruno (Tombei reached #1 in Brazil)

It's bad and has Chris Brown on. Sometimes it's all it takes.

Saving Grenade. I like it. SG Dyna didn't take the opportunity, so I'm now saving it.

405. Zay Hilfigger & Zayvion McCall - "Juju On That Beat" (2016) by SG

I knew I was apparently missing something when I heard this song for the first time last week and according to Wikipedia this song got 150 million views and a dance trend I never saw anything about. I'm sure this song means something to people who were in junior high in 2016. But also one of these rappers got accused of domestic violence, so really, should I feel bad about cutting it?

Saving Tonight Tonight because it's stupid fun and reminds me of 2011

404. Eminem feat. Dr. Dre & 50 Cent - "Crack A Bottle" (2009) by ck south africa

this song is nostalgic for me but I relistened the other day and god did some of those lines age poorly……also I didn’t give 50 cent enough credit when this song was fresh. he kinda steals the show. anyway also doing this because 2009 needs to take more hits

when one nostalgic Eminem song falls another rises, saving lighters

403. Jeremih - "Birthday Sex" (2009) by Ben

The premise of this song seems like a Lonely Island song. There’s something comforting and nostalgic about this type of music, but that can’t distract me from how this song sounds like ass. It’s your birthday so I know you want to RiIiIiIde out.

This will be an upset but I’m gonna save Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae). If I couldn’t save anything this round and I could just cut twice and get rid of that squealing twerp Nick Jonas I would but I can’t and I’m legally required to save something. Watch Me is just kind of okay. I think it’s fine and that’s better than most of these moms.

402. Nick Jonas - "Jealous" (2015) by The moral return of Jo Haseul

Toxic relationship anthem tf... Nick sounds bad on this song and he looks like a rat! "It's my right to be hellish" no the fuck it is not mr jonas!

Saving Good for you, selener is making polls if I have anything to say about it

401. Drake - "Fake Love" (2017) by E

Not my first or second choice of the remaining six to cut but I got sniped so here we go. Honestly this is just another mediocre Drake song in the sea of mediocre Drake songs, it's not his worst nor his best so may as well save any Drake discourse for other, more noteworthy songs

Saving Don't Mind I guess, all these songs are bad so I'll save the dumbest one left

[&] by loona out june 28 2021! These are Jax's noms :) cut wisely! - Jenny Nicholson (Jax)

1. David Archuleta – “Crush” (2008) [carryover]
2. Gym Class Heroes featuring Adam Leine – “Stereo Hearts” (2011) [carryover]
3. Finger Eleven - “Paralyzer” (2008)
4. Webbe featuring Lil Boosie and Lil Phat – “Independent” (2008)
5. Jessie McCartney – “Leavin’” (2008)
6. T-Pain featuring Lil Wayne – “Can’t Believe It” (2008)
7. Lil Wayne featuring T-Pain – “Got Money” (2008)
8. Young Money – “Every Girl” (2009)
9. Pitbull – “Hotel Room Service” (2009)
10. Trey Songz featuring Fabolous – “Say Aah” (2010)
11. Jeremih featuring 50 Cent – “Down on Me” (2011)
12. DJ Khaled featuring Drake, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne – “I’m on One” (2011)
13. Lil Wayne featuring Drake – “She Will” (2011)
14. Alex Clare – “Too Close” (2012)
15. Justin Timberlake – “Mirrors” (2013)
16. Capital Cities – “Safe and Sound” (2013)
17. Coldplay – “A Sky Full of Stars” (2014)
18. Sam Smith – “Lay Me Down” (2015)
19. Twenty One Pilots – “Stressed Out” (2016) (GRAMMY'D, SAFE UNTIL TOP 298)
20. Drake featuring Quavo and Travis Scott – “Portland” (2017)
21. French Montana featuring Swae Lee – “Unforgettable” (2017)
22. Shawn Mendes – “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” (2017)

N/A. Twenty One Pilots - "Stressed Out" (2016) by E

One of the many many awful 21p singles to plague 2016/2017 and probably the one that had the single most amount of success. Pretty much every single song that came off blurryface (+Heathens, a similarly terrible track) were annoying gentrified white boy raps and reggae and this one is mostly in the former. This is also comboed with the chorus which is equally annoying. This song occasionally still plays on the radio at my job so I feel a special hatred for it and am so happy it's gone.

Saving Paralyzer, I guess. Mediocre rock song, but idt it's thaaat bad

GRAMMY'D by Ben

400. Pitbull - "Hotel Room Service" (2009) by Nate-alie Anderson

This song brings back really bad memories of my classmates playing it constantly during recess, and is generally an awful listen. Pitbull here is trying to to create a new version of Mambo No. 5 (seen clearly at the end when he lists the women he wants to fuck) , but falls flat on his face while squandering a sample from one of the best house songs of all time by shit-ily rapping over it. Also, Pitbull, at least have some class. Don't fuck these women at a motel OR holiday inn! At least pay for a Sheraton or Hilton.

Saving Safe and Sound my beloved

399. Webbie feat. Lil Boosie & Lil Phat – “Independent” (2008) by ck south africa

peak low effort 2000s rap...90s/00s hip hop is so funny because some of those names, like Lil Boosie and Lil Phat, truly feel like parodies now. i guess art is the imitation of life, which in turn imitates art which resulted in DaBaby & Lil Baby – Baby.additionally...isn't it a little funny that all 3 of the artists on Independent are irrelevant now? we joke about streaming era post-pandemic charts being so open for anyone to succeed like never before but who the fuck is webbie...

i want to save i'm on one or she will buuuuuut i think i should save stereo hearts

398. Justin Timberlake – “Mirrors” (2013) - Big Bruno Brasil

So there's a loooot of mediocre songs sang by white men with obnoxious and grating voices, and I can't pick one. I'll actually pick this one because 1. I've heard this one the most out of the songs on this list, which means that is has annoyed me the most times; 2. JT has good songs, and I do like some of his songs, so I know he can do better (unlike, say, Shawn Mendes); 3. justice for Janet.

Saving I’m on One because it has Rick Ross. I barely even listened to the song, but are of these worth of a save? I don't know about that. :sandra:

397. Alex Clare- Too Close (2012)- Epic

This is commercial music which would normally be just boring but honestly I hate this more for Doing Too Much. I know this was during the boom of dubstep but it is SO AGGRESSIVE and it is just not pleasant to my ears. Also "it feels like I am just too close to love you" is meaningless and sounds like something a bad boyfriend would say lol

Saving Every Girl (In The World), I can excuse misogyny but I draw the line at EDM

addendum - was going to grammy this but it aged like milk. however, let it be known that this was a natefave back when it was popular - nate!

396. Shawn Mendes - "There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back" (2017) by Matt

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395. Sam Smith - "Lay Me Down" (2015) by dyna

My tenth-grade compsci teacher had sam smith's greatest hits on repeat in class the entire year and it was 8am and i just wanted to sleep. I can feel my eyes get red and itchy just thinking about it. This was, for whatever reason, the one I hated the most (other than maybe the acoustic version of Latch). My acapella group did this song my freshman year and it was fun, but did not particularly make me come around on the song, and John Legend's parts were the only good ones anyway, which apparently did not hit the top 10. Otherwise it just sucks in all the other ways sam smith did musically at this time. Bye!

Saving Unforgettable

394. Lil Wayne featuring T-Pain – “Got Money” (2008) by SGroup

I just listened to a bunch of these songs I didn't know and they almost all blurred together as lame sexual party songs, but this one was the worst only because I can stand all of these other voices better than Lil Wayne's. I'd never heard of this song before so I hope it's not a big loss to anyone else.

I don't really want to save any of these but I remember hearing Leavin' on the radio as I fell asleep when I was 10 so I guess that's something

393. Coldplay - "A Sky Full of Stars" (2014) by O

coldplay has some tunes but this song is essentially all of their worst qualities in one; just cheap house trying to sound euphoric but really only festival kids tripping would find enjoyment in this.

saving drake idk why I’m warming up to him

392. David Archuleta - "Crush" (2008) by Ben

it’s been here too long and I listed to it and felt nothing.

saving Can’t Believe it. I rolled a 1d4

Brunoms: Dilúvio Edition

1. "Burnin' Up" - Jonas Brothers featuring Big Rob (2008)
2. "You Belong With Me" - Taylor Swift (2009)
3. Trey Songz featuring Fabolous – “Say Aah” (2010) [CARRYOVER]
4. "Hey, Soul Sister" - Train (2010)
5. "Cooler Than Me" - Mike Posner (2010)
6. "Teenage Dream" - Glee Cast (2010)
7. "Jeremih featuring 50 Cent – “Down on Me” (2011) [CARRYOVER]
8. "Loser like Me" - Glee Cast (2011)
9. "Boyfriend" - Justin Bieber (2012)
10. "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" - Taylor Swift (2012)
11. "Just Give Me a Reason" - Pink featuring Nate Ruess (2013)
12. "Radioactive" - Imagine Dragons (2013)
13. "Summertime Sadness" - Lana Del Rey featuring Cedric Gervais (2013)
14. "Pompeii" - Bastille (2014)
15. "Shake It Off" - Taylor Swift (2014)
16. "Blank Space" - Taylor Swift (2014)
17. "What Do You Mean?" - Justin Bieber (2015)
18. "Sorry" - Justin Bieber (2016)
19. "Roses" - The Chainsmokers featuring Rozes (2016)
20. "Castle on the Hill" - Ed Sheeran (2017)
21. "Paris" - The Chainsmokers (2017)
22. "...Ready for It?" - Taylor Swift (2017)

391. Glee Cast - "Loser Like Me" (2011) by Nate *construction noise* NJ14

The whole concept and fun of Glee was taking popular songs and doing fun and interesting covers of them. I don't see how creating your own original song does anything worthwhile. For an original song its totally unoriginal and to be honest it sounds like a Disney Channel Original Movie theme song (sorta like a Lemonade Mouth situation, but that would be insulting to Lemonade Mouth. stream determinate)

How am I gonna be an optimist about this? By saving Dan Smith (BYU Bastille)

390. Lana Del Rey feat. Cedric Gervais - "Summertime Sadness" (2013) by O

I won’t let the obsessed lana haters get the satisfaction of cutting her only entry anyway this edm trash is not why I listen to lana and I care about it as much as any other Cedric gervais song

saving blank space...they’ll tell you I’m insane

389. Train - "Hey Soul Sister" (2010) by E

Just a super cringey white guy with guitar ballad, the lyrics suck, the vocals suck, it's not even really ironically funny

saving what do you mean

388. Justin Bieber - "Boyfriend" (2012) by Epic

This is the weird era of Bieber where he was too old to be doing squeaky voice schtick and too young to be actually sexy so we get this weird PG-12 sex song. It sounds just like 2012 and its weird liminal space leads us to the awful, awful double entendre "swag, swag, swag on you". Justin Bieber WILl ejaculate swag on your 12 year old daughter who owns all his albums! #myworld2.0

save We Are Never Getting Back Together, I mean, this is EXHAUSTING @saving taylor

387. Pink feat. Nate Reuss - "Just Give Me A Reason" (2013) by Jax

The novelty of the fun. guy getting another (solo) hit is kinda cool but whocurr.

Saving

386. Glee Cast - "Teenage Dream" (2010) by Matt

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385. Imagine Dragons - "Radioactive" (2013) by CK

I was a big supporter of the first imagine dragons album at the time but this song was never a favorite of mine. It felt like peak “lead vocalist screaming lyrics for effect” which we now know would later become the entire imagine dragons brand. The world would have been better off if a different song off of night visions became their defining debut hit… I remember the day my choir teacher said we would be learning this song and I was like idk…..don’t really want it…..luckily that threat was not followed up on

Save burnin up duh

384. The Chainsmokers feat. Rozes - "Roses" (2016) by SG

I'm a bit of an obsessed Chainsmokers hater and I stand by none of their songs (at least the ones on this list) are good. I don't have much of a preference between this one and Paris but I heard this one a lot more and it got a lot more annoying so here it falls.

Saving Cooler Than Me because I indeed thought it was cool when I was like 12

383. Trey Songz featuring Fabolous – “Say Aah” (2010) by Dyna

This hook stinks! I kind of ironically am into the way 2010 music just looks and feels so different from stuff now, even the popular rap stuff. But this song was probably made to zone out to when you're in your head at a club and no other purpose. Also the lyrics are all rehashes of lines from better songs.

Saving Paris because it's good.

382. Justin Bieber - "Sorry" (2016) by Ben

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Dyna's (Mostly) Boring Birthday Noms

1. Jeremih featuring 50 Cent - “Down on Me” (2011) [CARRYOVER]
2. Ed Sheeran - "Castle on the Hill" (2017) [CARRYOVER]
3. Jesse McCartney - "Leavin'" (2008)
4. Flo Rida feat. will.i.am - "In the Ayer" (2008)
5. Jay-Z and T.I. featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne - "Swagga Like Us" (2008)
6. Miley Cyrus - "The Climb" (2009)
7. Dr. Dre ft. Eminem and Skylar Grey - "I Need a Doctor" (2011)
8. Far East Movement - "Rocketeer" (2011)
9. Lady A - "Just a Kiss" (2011)
10. Bad Meets Evil ft. Bruno Mars - "Lighters" (2011)
11. Lil Wayne ft. Drake - "She Will" (2011)
12. David Guetta ft. Nicki Minaj - "Turn Me On" (2012) (GRAMMY'D, SAFE UNTIL TOP 278)
13. Pitbull ft. Christina Aguilera - "Feel This Moment" (2013)
14. Avicii - "Wake Me Up!" (2013)
15. Selena Gomez - "Come & Get It" (2013)
16. Miley Cyrus - "Wrecking Ball" (2013)
17. One Direction - "Story of My Life" (2013)
18. Ellie Goulding - "Love Me Like You Do" (2015)
19. T-Wayne - "Nasty Freestyle" (2015)
20. Drake - "Summer Sixteen" (2016)
21. Kygo and Selena Gomez - "It Ain't Me" (2017)
22. Portugal. The Man - "Feel it Still" (2017)

381. Selena Gomez- "Come & Get It" (2013) by Justin Russo Should Have Been The Family Wizardpic

The fact that this is what catapulted her into pop music stardom is so funny to me because like...she relaly has been boring from the start lol. Steal some Bollywood voices for "ambience", repeat the same phrase over a bad beat, sing verses no one can remember, check! The sad part is she does kind of sound better than she does on her songs now (probably with the help of copious autotune but hey)

Saving The Climb, there's always gonna be another song to nom, I'm always gonna wanna make it move

N/A. David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj - "Turn Me On" (2012) by Ben

Really overblown dance EDM song that’s just super overproduced and doesn’t really carry any personality or force behind it. I’m not the biggest Nicki Minaj fan now, but I can’t deny that she’s got some talent. I don’t think you can see that in this song because of David Guetta. This song really feels like a product of its time and not in a good way. It just feels dated in ways that a lot of the songs haven’t really hit. Sorry for not having a lot of passion for this cut or a lot of my cuts so far. But we aren’t near music I’d bother mercy cutting yet. I was debating cutting Lady Antebellum because god damn is the Lady A shit fucking stupid, but Just A Kiss is genuinely pretty good. So, someone else can do that if they want.

Saving Portugal. the Man’s Feel it Still. I’m a Portugal. the Man Stan tbh and even though I really want to save Wake Me Up! I know that everyone else here also has taste and won’t cut it.

GRAMMY'D by Jax

380. Drake - "Summer Sixteen" (2016) by Nathan Kress is "Freddie Benson" in the new series iCarly (2021) streaming NOW on Paramount+

What is there to say about this song other than its drake and its mediocre? I mean, listening to this song I just sat there like 😑. Also, Drake made this song so hard to find a version that isn't a live concert version. What does he have to hide? I had to use Dailymotion to listen to a good, non-slowed down version of this! Do you know how desperate you have to be to willingly use Dailymotion? Thanks a lot, Aubrey.

My head's spinning around, I can't see clear no more....so what are you waiting for?

379. T-Wayne - "Nasty Freestyle" (2015) by SG

I'd never heard this song until it was nominated this round and I probably could've gone the rest of my life skipping it. Apparently it was a Vine meme back in 2015 and like anything from Vine that wasn't iconic it can stay lost to time. It is, indeed, a nasty freestyle, but not a particularly interesting or memorable one.

Saving Rocketeer because it's admittedly not great but I have nostalgia

378. Pitbull featuring Christina Aguilera - "Feel This Moment" (2013) by O

I’m always thinking about that tweet that’s like “Xtina came on moves like jagger mad as hell like rent was due”. it really made me realize how unnecessarily shouty her vocals are. Pitbull seems like a standup dude irl but I never like his role as the hype man on songs either

saving wrecking ball because I have a bias for the bangerz era, this song is eh but the video makes it

377. Ed Sheeran - "Castle On The Hill" (2017) by matt

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ck addendum - this is like the best ed sheeran song, shame it was cut before many others

376. Dr. Dre ft. Eminem and Skylar Grey - "I Need a Doctor" (2011) by Bruno

An aptly named song, I indeed need a doctor after listening to this. Why won't Eminem just die in this rankdown ffs. He needs to be stopped.

Saving It Ain't Me, if only because we gotta keep an eye out for Selener.

addendum- not grammying this but this cut stings a bit bc i LOVED this song at age 13 and would have died to save it in the rankdown...i am not 13 anymore BUT it had to be said -ck

375. Jeremih featuring 50 Cent - “Down on Me” (2011) by E

Boring

saving Lighters

374. Jay-Z and T.I. feat. Kanye West and Lil Wayne - "Swagga Like Us" (2008) by ck cook islands

cutting this specifically because they didn't credit M.I.A. for the sample. that's it. i heard this song years before hearing paper planes which SUCKS because i think about it every time i listen to paper planes now

save she will ig...a song that aged a little poorly but stays a good drake feature

373. Flo Rida feat. will.i.am - "In the Ayer" (2008) by P.T.T. (Paint the Town)

Well i'm listening to this for the first time but it certainly is a 2008 Flo Rida song. I don't really even have anything else to add, this song isn't interesting

Save story of my life which isn't great but it's certainly inoffensive to me

SG's Noms Part 2: Stream Dark in Here, better than all 22 of these songs

1. Jesse McCartney - “Leavin’” (2008) [CARRYOVER]
2. Flo Rida featuring Wynter - “Sugar” (2009)
3. Katy Perry - “Firework” (2010)
4. Lady A - “Just a Kiss” (2011) [CARRYOVER]
5. Tyga - “Rack City” (2012)
6. Psy - “Gangnam Style” (2012)
7. Flo Rida - “I Cry” (2012)
8. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz - “Thrift Shop” (2013)
9. Ed Sheeran - “Don’t” (2014)
10. Idina Menzel - “Let It Go” (2014)
11. Sia - “Chandelier” (2014)
12. Fetty Wap - “Trap Queen” (2015)
13. Flo Rida featuring Sage the Gemini and Lookas - “G.D.F.R.” (2015)
14. Silento - “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” (2015)
15. Fetty Wap featuring Remy Boyz - “679” (2015)
16. Ed Sheeran - “Photograph” (2015)
17. Desiigner - “Panda” (2016)
18. DRAM featuring Lil Yachty - “Broccoli” (2016)
19. Alessia Cara - “Here” (2016)
20. Sia featuring Sean Paul - “Cheap Thrills” (2016)
21. The Chainsmokers - “Paris” (2017)
22. Cardi B - “Bodak Yellow” (2017)

372. Silento - "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)" (2015) by Ben

Watch Me is the bare minimum of what it takes to make a song, and while it might work it still just doesn’t really have the substance it takes for me to want to keep it over anything else while I still have a lot of options I’d like to save this round. I’m not a dancer. I find the concept of dance itself to be insanely mortifying and embarrassing after I had way too much at a wedding when I was five and didn’t understand what shame is. Watch Me has brought that back in an absolutely terrifying way as it has ushered in a new age of dance music. Vine and TikTok ruined dancing. Now everyone thinks they can dance. You can’t. You’re cringe and you’re bad and yet you have 700k followers. When I was a kid and I danced to the Cupid shuffle seven times at one wedding the only followers I had were my family, and now the only clout I have is a mind numbing memory I need to lock up back in my mind every two months. Also, I’m just bitter. Dance music can be better. The Hustle is an incredibly fun song. Disco is amazing. Is Watch Me the new Hustle? Is Watch Me Disco? Am I not hip? Am I old? All of these thoughts are deprsssing. Fuck off, youth. I don’t understand you and so I reject you.

Saving Thrift Shop. I’m white. I’m cringe. I like Macklemore. I’d save Chandelier but Jesus Sia has dug a goddamn hole to China. I’m not touching that with a five foot poll right now. It’s also 5:40 AM and I haven’t slept and I don’t want to think.

371. The Chainsmokers - "Paris" (2017) by E

The final Chainsmokers song, and nothing about it is discernably different than literally any other Chainsmokers song (aside from Selfie, which thankfully we're spared from in this rankdown). Bland, bog standard edm that does absolutely nothing for me.

Save Broccoli

370. SIA - "Chandelier" (2014) by Justin TimberNate

Personal scandals aside, I really don't like screaming Sia. That's all she does on this song. The raspy voice really kills any vibe. If you want better Sia see this instead. She should stick with an Indie Pop sound rather than trying to go into electro-pop & edm, which she has done for the last decade or so. But alas, I can't dictate what she should do. My only remedy is to cut.

saving the pride of Paterson Fetty Wap and Trap Queen

369. Ed Sheeran - "Photograph" (2015) by Bruno

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368. Ed Sheeran - "Don't" (2014) by ck

it's a middling ed sheeran radio hit, he is just kind of passionately saying some bits of the english language to slander ellie goulding and it's just not for me

save cheap thrills

367. Jesse McCartney - "Leavin'" (2008) by Matt

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366. Lady A - "Just a Kiss" (2011) by LaDyna

Cutting my own nom again because: I just think the pro-purity message of this song is really lame and over-earnest in a cheesy way. The fact that it's a dude and a lady both singing about not wanting to mess something up by taking it further than a kiss makes it feel more like christian music than anything I like about country music. The technical stuff is good but this song is boring.

Saving 679 because i recorded a cover of it in 11th grade that got 800 plays on soundcloud and was super embarrassing in retrospect.

365. Tyga - "Rack City" (2012) by Epic

I have vivid memories of this playing all the time on the bus in 2012 and me still hating it back then, lol. "Ten ten ten twenties on your titties bitch" is undeniably a little funny, but the rest of the song is mids and Tyga is.....not a good rapper or person. Definitely something that can be left in 2012

save Let It Go, doing it for the theater kids

364. Alessia Cara - "Here" (2016) by Jax

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363. Flo Rida featuring Wynter - "Sugar" (2009) by O

sorry to this man but I have no intention of cutting a teenage dream song, I also have no intention of listening to this but flo rida songs are usually not good

saving firework, even tho it’s a generic anthem it’s major nostalgia for me, we sang it at my middle school graduation + I remember annually revisiting the music video every 4th of July

Ben Noms

1. Change- Taylor Swift
2. Fearless- Taylor Swift
3. Love Sex Magic- Ciara ft. JT
4. Second chance- Shinedown
5. Good Girls Go Bad- Cobra Starfish [GRAMMY'D, SAFE UNTIL TOP 258]
6. Jump Then Fall- Taylor
7. Today Was a Fairytale- Swift
8. My First Kiss- 30H3! feat Kesha
9. Rock That Body- Black Eyed Peas (BEP)
10. Find Your Love- Drake
11. Cooler than Me- Mike Poser
12. Speak Now- T-Swift
13. Hey Baby (Drop it to the Fooor)- Pitbull and Pitbull’s Friend David Gutta
14. On the Flooor- J-lo and J-lo’s friend Pitbull.
15. I’m On One- DJ Khaled and Friends
16. Strange Clouds- B.O.B. And Lil Wayne
17. Make Me Proud- Drake and Minaj
18. She Will- Drake and Lil Wayne (carryover)
19. I cry- Flo Rida (carryover)
20. GDFR- Flo Rida and Friends
21. I’m the One- DJ Khaled
22. Strip That Down- Liam Payne ft Quavo

362. Liam Payne ft. Quavo - "Strip That Down" (2017) by Harry Stanpic

There are a lot of messy songs that are nominated and not great, but none of them are as boring as this one. Liam Payne was one of the most forgettable 1D members to begin with, and him deciding his post-boy band persona would just be douchebag was um...a choice. The deep OOH STRIP THAT DOWN voice is creepy, the chorus is filled with platitudes, Quavo gives a total rent-a-rapper feature blegh blegh blegh. According to my google search he's trying to win his fiancee back via Instagram stories so lol gl with that.

Saving Fearless, Benjamin has CLEARLY never danced in a storm in his best dress

361. Taylor Swift - "Speak Now" (2010) by Obsessed Taylor Hater

Saving On The Floor, probably the only other song in this nomset I recall listening to.

N/A. Cobra Starship - "Good Girls Go Bad" (2009) by E

None of the songs in this round are particularly terrible but this one just kind of annoyed me the most. It's a song I had never really hard prior to this but it just feels so inessential that I feel like if I never hear it again, I won't be missing out on anything.

Saving I'm The One because it's kinda funny

I can't let the band I obsessed over for a sad two years of my life go out like this so I'm using my Grammy. Not going to pretend like this is a particularly good song but it has the star power for me - SG

360. Taylor Swift - "Jump Then Fall" (2009) by A Compassionate Taylor Hater

Look, Taylor has so many songs in this rankdown. It's unbelievable. While I've never been a huge Taylor fan, I appreciate her bigger hits throughout her career. But it's time to trim the fat out of this rankdown. Let's be real with ourselves, these Taylor deepcuts are not going to make polls, nor should they. Plus, After streaming all of the Taylor Songs left, this is definitely the weakest. Just generic country-pop that Early Taylor mastered.

Saving Cooler Than Me. one of the few songs in this rankdown that got the esteemed honor of being included on the GTA V soundtrack

359. Ciara ft. Justin Timberlake - Love Sex Magic (2009) by SG

I listened to a bunch of the songs in this nomset I didn't know today and this was easily the worst of them all. It never really gets going and fails to be sexy, fun, interesting, or really anything else of note. Maybe we should just admit Justin Timberlake was never cool.

Saving Shinedown's Second Chance, the other emo(ish) song in this nomset I once really cared about

358. Taylor Swift - "Today Was a Fairytale" (2010) by ck

I appreciate this song for being a movie soundtrack single in the top 10 & also that it was able to slide onto Fearless (Taylor’s Version) but like it’s just fine. And there’s literally another Taylor Swift movie soundtrack single in this rankdown so liiiike idk this isn’t necessary Save make me proud. Nicki ate

357. Drake - "Find Your Love" (2010) by dyna

This cut took like 45 minutes and physically drained me: it was a real tossup between drake and the other Drake song because goddamn was he fucking boring 90% of the time and i honestly really think i hate his singing voice. He also sucks at writing verses, the one here is like four lines and that and the chorus repeats throughout this song indefinitely. There's all these little tricks to provoke sentimentality like these mopey keys and this falling siren kind of sound, like the homies are a sunset on a hill, but it just doesn't work for me at all. This has an overly self-serious music video which also turns me off. In many ways it reminds me of "Hold On, We're Going Home", another song with a decent beat that is just ruined by drake trying to be all sweet and emotional. He's best when he's just admitting he's a dick, I think. The other song's still bad though. Somebody cut that shit.

Saving I Cry

356. Black Eyed Peas - "Rock That Body" (2010) by Matt

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355. Taylor Swift - "Change" (2008) By O

sorry fellow swifties but fearless is her worst album and this tween country pop rock is nails on a chalkboard to me for some reason. it lacks the bite of self titled & lacks the maturity of speak now. just not why I listen to taylor and change has to die for style to rise

saving 3oh3 feat. kesha because it's a bop

354. DJ Khaled and Friends - "I'm on One" (2011) by Jax

Tbh have not heard these songs aside from GDFR and I don't feel like listening so random.org made this cut for me. Sorry bout it

Saving GDFR for being the one I know and I don't hate it... it really is going down for real

O's Noms

1. “Gangnam Style" - Psy
2. "Cups (When I'm Gone)" - Anna Kendrick
3. “Good Feeling" - Flo Rida
4. “If This Was a Movie" - Taylor Swift
5. “It Will Rain" - Bruno Mars
6. "Party Rock Anthem" - LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock [GRAMMY'D, SAFE UNTIL TOP 251]
7. “How to Love" - Lil Wayne
8. “Good Life" - OneRepublic
9. "Tonight Tonight" - Hot Chelle Rae
10. “I Like It" - Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull
11. “DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" - Usher featuring Pitbull
12. “Ridin' Solo" - Jason Derulo
13. “Fireflies" - Owl City
14. "Don't Trust Me" - 3OH!3
15. "My Life Would Suck Without You" - Kelly Clarkson
16. "I Told You So" - Carrie Underwood featuring Randy Travis
17. “Paralyzer" - Finger Eleven
18. “Take You There" - Sean Kingston
19. “Live While We're Young" - One Direction
20. "Try" - Pink
21. "Strange Clouds" - B.O.B. And Lil Wayne (carryover)
22. "She Will"- Drake and Lil Wayne (carryover)

N/A. LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock - "Party Rock Anthem" (2011) by A Man Scorned

(See original writeup here)

You would not believe your eyes, if 10 million fireflies, saved Owl City

Grammy'd by Ben yet again

353. One Direction - “Live While We're Young" (2012) by Brunissim Ourfali

Yeah I hated that song. Tbh I kinda hated all "hey we are young lets live!!!!" songs from that cuz I was a sad young boy who didn't live.

The continuously hatred towards Gangnam Style is ugly and misguided. We all showered director Bong Joon-ho with praises for his criticism of social inequality on Korea. You know who did it first 9 years ago? Psy did. Gangnam Style walked so Parasite could run. And I'm here to give the credit it deserves.

352. Pink - "Try" (2013) by E

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351. Finger Eleven - "Paralyzer" (2008) by Carlos

This song has a place in Internet history, but beyond that I don't really see a reason to keep it. While I wouldn't say it's as bad as its more famous counterparts like the Nickelback cuts here, it's still the same lame post-grunge I'd rather see gone sooner rather than later.

Save Don't Trust Me, another iconic emo song I have to stump for... yes it's a little misogynistic but it was 2009 and pop punk, what do you expect

350. Hot Chelle Rae - "Tonight Tonight" (2011) by Epic

This is just so embarrassing, annoying teen bop schlock from people who ad to be a tleast in their 20s. I'll admit it is catchy, but that doesn't make something good. Almost grateful for the la-la-la's because it saves us from more lyrics like the random "joke" about Zach Galifanakis

save my life would suck without you, mom pop excellence

349. OneRepublic - "Good Life" (2011) by CK

I often speak of how fun it was in the early 2010s when "mainstream pop" meant messy hedonistic dance pop/R&B hits and beep boop wavy guitar albums by college students with synthesizers; OneRepublic is strictly excluded from this narrative. Among the wave of white guy bands that also popped up around this time, I just really could not get behind Ryan Tedder's voice and extremely regular music. it wasn't for me – Good Life is probably their worst offender to me just because like...idk.....how uninteresting @another song about being happy and going places. Not every song can be Ricky Nelson's ethically debatable Travelin' Man or B.o.B's extremely cool and great song So Good

Saved It Will Rain

348. Enrique Iglesias ft. Pitbull - "I Like It" (2010) by Ben

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Saved Ridin' Solo

347. Carrie Underwood ft. Randy Travis - "I Told You So" (2008) by dyna

This is country that at least expresses a feeling and isn't just pop, and carrie underwood is honestly really good on it but the feature is actually quite weird and kinda kills the vibe! Randy Travis is a gospel guy who's over twenty years older than the extremely young-at-this-point carrie underwood and the song makes sense, and is honestly really earnest and nice, as a ballad sung by a bummed-out young lady until he shows up and delivers this unsettlingly smug and aged energy. Daddy issues amiright?

Saving Good Feeling. I guess I just really like flo rida.

346. Anna Kendrick - Cups by Matt

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345. Drake and Lil Wayne - She Will by Jax

The other 2 Lil Wayne songs didn't sound that bad but this one was very boring and one note. Thats all I can offer here 🤷‍♂️

Saving How to love

ck's hungover noms

1. "Love in This Club"  - Usher featuring Young Jeezy
2. "Sexy Can I" - Ray J feat Young Berg
3. “Shawty Get Loose" - Lil Mama & co.
4. "Fearless" - Taylor Swift                
5. "You Found Me" - The Fray          
6. "Young Forever" - Jay-Z featuring Mr Hudson
7. "Bulletproof" - La Roux      
8.  "Rocketeer" - Far East Movement featuring Ryan Tedder
9. "Never Say Never" - Justin Bieber featuring Jaden Smith
10. "No Sleep"  - Wiz Khalifa
11. "Strange Clouds" - B.o.B featuring Lil Wayne (carryover)
12. "Without You" - David Guetta featuring Usher
13. "If This Was a Movie" - Taylor Swift (carryover)
14. "Diamonds" - Rihanna
15. "Let Me Love You” - Ne-Yo
16. "Get Lucky" - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams
17. "Counting Stars" - OneRepublic
18. "The Heart Wants What It Wants" - Selena Gomez
19. "Want to Want Me" - Jason Derulo
20. "Cold Water" - Major Lazer featuring Justin Bieber and MØ
21. "We Don't Talk Anymore" - Charlie Puth featuring Selena Gomez
22. "Portland" - Drake featuring Quavo and Travis Scott

344. Jason Derulo - "Want To Want Me" (2015) by Matt

save Get Lucky

343. Charlie Puth feat. Selena Gomez - "We Don't Talk Anymore" (2016) by Nate has run out of good nicknames for this

Very underwhelming duet here from Charlie and Selena. To me their voices don't really work together to create an interesting or bop-able song to play. It really feels like they wanted to copy the story and plot of Somebody That I Used To Know (and other songs before it in the "we used to be lovers but you moved on" genre) but failed miserably, because you can't simply copy Somebody That I Used To Know and expect a good song to come out of it, you need extra oomph, uniqueness, good production, and so on.

Save Bulletproof. I'm having fun, don't put me down!

342. Justin Bieber feat. Jaden Smith - "Never Say Never" (2011) by Bruno

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341. Ray J ft. Young Berg - "Sexy Can I" (2008) by SG

Out of the songs I didn't know and listened to and out of all the ones here, I'd say this one was easily the worst. Kind of just a dry sexual club anthem that even other songs put up here like Love in this Club did better. Maybe there's a reason Ray J isn't remembered for his music.

Saving You Found Me, a 2000s soundtrack hit

340. Selena Gomez- The Heart Wants What It Wants (2014) by TE

zzzzzzz. Other than the opening monologue at the beignning of the video (c'mon alex russo) acting skills and the little "what the heart waaaaants" background vocals, there's nothing about this that interests me. It's probably about Bieber which like lol I can't imagine he did anything good enough for you to write a song this forgiving and empathetic sis

Save Fearless

339. Taylor Swift - "If This Was A Movie" (2011) by Ben

Saving Love In This Club. I will be the Rankdowns number one Usher Stan. What a legend.

338. Far East Movement ft. Ryan Tedder - "Rocketeer" (2011) by E

literally hadn't heard of this song until now, listened to it, and it's a shitty bland pop song. who would've thought

saving Portland

337. Major Lazer featuring Justin Bieber and MØ - "Cold Water" (2016) by O

literally nobody asked for justin bieber on a dancehall beat, mø adds nothing and the drop is shitty too.

saving counting stars onerepublic issa bop

336. Ne-Yo - "Let Me Love You" (2012) by Dyna

was the only song i had heard left that i felt comfortable cutting, it's not terrible but it mostly feels being forced to shop at a really pristine outlet mall on one of those days when i didn't get much sleep and feel kind of hungover. There's so many more clothes to try on.

Save No Sleep

335. Lil Mama featuring Chris Brown and T-Pain - "Shawty Get Loose" (2008) by Jax

grating asf, just loud but not fun. and chris brown is here? get out loser

save without you x

Nate Noms Some Songs That He Used To Know

1. Young Money - "Every Girl" (2009)
2. Kesha featuring 3OH!3 - "Blah Blah Blah" (2010)
3. Ludacris - "How Low" (2010)
4. Jay-Z featuring Mr Hudson - "Young Forever" (2010) (CARRYOVER)
5. B.o.B featuring Lil Wayne - "Strange Clouds" (2011) (CARRYOVER)
6. Bad Meets Evil featuring Bruno Mars - "Lighters" (2011)
7. Pitbull Featuring T-Pain - "Hey Baby (Drop It to the Floor)" (2011)
8. Madonna featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A - "Give Me All Your Luvin'" (2012)
9. Pink - "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" (2012)
10. Flo Rida featuring Sia - "Wild Ones" (2012)
11. Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko - "Stay" (2013)
12. Taylor Swift - "I Knew You Were Trouble." (2013) (GRAMMY'D: SAFE UNTIL TOP 230) (KANYE'D)
13. A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera - "Say Something" (2013)
14. Pitbull featuring Kesha - "Timber" (2014)
15. Katy Perry featuring Juicy J - "Dark Horse" (2014)
16. Charli XCX - "Boom Clap" (2014)
17. Pitbull and Ne-Yo - "Time of Our Lives" (2015)
18. One Direction - "Drag Me Down" (2015) (GRAMMY'D; SAFE UNTIL TOP 232)
19. Ariana Grande - "Focus" (2015)
20. Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber - "Despacito" (2017)
21. Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello - "Bad Things" (2017)
22. Zayn & Taylor Swift - "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" (2017)

334. Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello - "Bad Things" (2017) by Matt

save Young Forever

N/A. One Direction - "Drag Me Down" (2015) by Seeq

Usually I actually will back the musical integrity of 1D but Drag Me Down is just kind of middling 2016 pop and not in a good way.

save Give Me All Your Luvin' one of the best songs of all time

GRAMMY'D by Dyna

333. Pink - Blow Me (One Last Kiss) (2012) by E

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332. Taylor Swift - "I Knew You Were Trouble." (2013) by Bruno

It's annoying. The only thing about it is the story of a scary metalhead sitting next to my sister on the bus, and he was listening to music on his earphones, so loud that my sister could heart it... and he was listening to this song. lol <3 Random Metalhead Swiftie is my fave Swiftie, sorry guys.

Save Dark Horse

GRAMMY'D by Jax

- Bruno

331. A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera - "Say Something" (2013) by Jax

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330. Young Money - "Every Girl" (2009) by Dyna

I was kind of into this ironically (“Anyways, I think you’re bionic” is a world-class lil wayne Casanova line) until Mack Maine left a pretty bad taste in my mouth by acknowledging his desire to fuck a then-16 year old Miley Cyrus and saying he gives v-cards to r**ds in two lines. Obviously sexualizing famous children and throwing slurs around isn’t unprecedented in rap but this feels like a fun, stupid 2009 group rap otherwise, not something where you’d want to casually be offensive for shock value. I guess “I’m on my bill Clinton shit/and Hillary can Rodham, too” (a funny line imo) is kinda tone deaf given bill’s numerous sexual assault charges too. Whatever, nobody remembers this song anyway, but woof those two lines definitely made me want to burn this song before even listening to anything else.

save Time Of Our Lives

329. Bad Meets Evil- "Lighters" (2011) by Tobi

This is fine, I guess? The Bruno chorus is generic as hell and the Eminem verse feels ENDLESS. As much as I'd love to hear him talk more about milking the rap game's titty, I think he can pack it up here.

Saving Despacito

328. "How Low" by Ludacris (2010) by SG

Out of the songs I just listened to for this round, this one was easily the worst; Ludacris's rapping doesn't even stack up to any other replacement-level rapper of the era and the high-pitched chorus is both anticlimactic and annoying. Congrats on overcoming my prejudice against both Sia and Ariana to fall here.

Saving Strange Clouds from carryover purgatory in honor of when I used to unironically like B.o.B

327. Flo Rida featuring Sia - "Wild Ones" (2012) by Ben

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326. Ariana Grande - "Focus" (2015) by O

the verses are really really good but I haaate the "focus on me!! fo o o cus on me!!" part it's almost as song-ruining as the sample in the light is coming

save kesha blah blah blah instantly turns me into a drunk white girl

rEvenge of my noms

1. Pitbull ft. T-Pain - "Hey Baby (Drop It to the Floor)" (2011)
2. Zayn & Taylor Swift - "I Don't Wanna Live Forever" (2017)
3. Danity Kane - "Damaged" (2008)
4. Pink - "So What" (2008)
5. Beyonce - "If I Were A Boy" (2008)
6. The Fray - "You Found Me" (2009)
7. Pink - "Raise Your Glass" (2010)
8. Mike Posner - "Cooler Than Me" (2010) (GRAMMY'D; SAFE UNTIL TOP 223)
9. Miley Cyrus - "Can't Be Tamed" (2010) (GRAMMY'D: SAFE UNTIL TOP 217)
10. Bruno Mars - "Grenade" (2011) (GRAMMY'D; SAFE UNTIL TOP 218) (KANYE'D)
11. Demi Lovato - "Skyscraper" (2011)
12. fun. ft Janelle Monae - "We Are Young" (2012)
13. fun. - "Some Nights" (2012)
14. Icona Pop ft Charli XCX - "I Love It" (2013)
15. Ariana Grande ft. Iggy Azalea - "Problem" (2014)
16. Idina Menzel - "Let It Go" (2014)
17. Ellie Goulding - "Love Me Like You Do" (2015)
18. Selena Gomez ft ASAP Rocky - "Good For You" (2015)
19. Ariana Grande ft Nicki Minaj - "Side to Side" (2016)
20. Rihanna - "Love on the Brain" (2017)
21. Charlie Puth - "Attention" (2017)
22. Demi Lovato - "Sorry Not Sorry" (2017)

325. Demi Lovato - "Sorry Not Sorry" (2017) by ck

I’ll always root for the general success of Demi but this song is what the kids would call “dated” – literally sounds like it would have been a bad radio hit in 2012 even though it came out in 2017. Sorry Not Sorry is lucky that it only sticks in the public conscious through girl bosses and a drag race lip sync that was probably a fluke for how good it was. I didn’t even know SNS hit the top 10! That’s crazy

Save IDWLF which isn’t that great but the novelty of ex-1Der x Taylor Swift on a 50 Shades song that almost went to #1….I mean like….

N/A. Mike Posner - "Cooler Than Me" (2010) by Matt

save Let It Go

GRAMMY'D by Nate

Not gonna hold off any longer. This song has continued to be one of my favorites for almost 11 years now, and I WILL NOT see it die a death this early, especially without a writeup. I will use my first Grammy here. - Nate

324. Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea - "Problem" (2014) by Nate

This song is a major reason why I nominated Focus last round. It's better than Focus, but only marginally, and both are very underwhelming. The two things I really can't stand here is #1. Iggy's verse, which seems clear to me that they got at the last minute at the height of "Iggy-Mania" (pretty much the entirety of Spring and Summer 2014 where Iggy was legitimately the biggest musician around, at least in the United States) in order to make a quick buck (and succeeding at that), and #2. That really bad chorus of Big Sean (I think? He was dating Ariana at this time) whispering in my ear like we're about to have sex or something. It's really off putting to me, and ruins the song because Ariana's verses on here are not bad. It's just that everything surrounding her causes the whole thing to collapse on itself.

I'm an Ellie Goulding stan I save all Ellie Goulding (this is the third time I have saved Love Me Like You Do)

323. Ariana Grande ft. Nicki Minaj - "Side to Side" (2016) by Dyna

Yeah this is probably the worst song left actually. Insane that this is what ariana grande was doing all the way back five years ago, when I was 16? Maybe it's my fault I haven't really kept up on her public image but this kind of confusing, gross-horny BooooOOoOOOooOy has been my defining image of her music for a long while (I thought it was a more recent development, but I thought wrong) and that just does not really appeal to me.

Conversely I can't understand how it took until 2016 for Nicki to make a Minaj/menage a trois pun in a single. Her verse is ok, whatever. This song is boring and makes me feel weird.

Saving Attention i'm keeping post-Marvin Gaye charlie puth in this world!!!!

322. Pink - "So What" (2008) by Bruno

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321. Selena Gomez ft A$AP Rocky- "Good For You" by TE

This was the first real hit of ~new selena~ completely removed from any Disney and like....she was really announcing her uninteresting nature from minute 1. There's nothing compelling about this song, the most it says about Selena is that she wants to look good for her man, truly groundbreaking pop music. better luck next time ms spring breakers

Saving Love On The Brain, I'D run for miles just to save the sooooong

320. Bruno Mars - "Grenade" (2011) by O

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Save You Found Me

GRAMMY'd By Bruno

- Dyna

N/A. Miley Cyrus - "Can't Be Tamed" (2010) by Ben

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save some nights

GRAMMY'D by CK

319. Danity Kane - "Damaged" (2008) by SG

This was the only remaining song I'd never listened to and I wasn't really impressed when I did; pretty standard girl group fare that's been done better many times and the spoken male vocals at the end didn't really add anything either. I feel like Aubrey O'Day is someone I heard Camps people talking about in 2015 and seemed kind of interesting but I guess I haven't streamed CBB like they did.

Saving We Are Young because it's admittedly not great but fun. were, at least at one point, SG-adjacent. Fueled by Ramen rights

318. Pitbull ft. T-Pain - "Hey Baby (Drop It to the Floor)" by Jaxon

I'm listening to this for the first time and it's bad but damn I miss when generic radio fodder had such full loud instrumentals. The entire chorus is so dumb lol, i cant justify this getting past any of the other noms v.v

Saving i love it, i too crashed my car into the bridge i watched i let it burn