- The chorus is full on 90s Euro-trance-pop-whatever. As far as contemporary stuff, it's much closer to mining the same territory as Cascada than Gaga, Katy, or Ke$ha.
- The breakdown will code as dubstep because of the wobble (and because dubstep is becoming just popular enough with certain folks that something will be able to "code as dubstep" in 2011), but rhythmically it's not at all extreme for, like, a slightly R&B leaning pop song.
- I actually really like the breakdown, Brit sounds great on it.
- Whoa trance buildup
- If this is actually just Max Martin and Dr. Luke, what the hell did Britney's actual sessions with Tiesto sound like? (did that even ever happen?) Actually, with the breakdown being what it is, it's like Luke and Max were just like, "she's working with Tiesto and Rusko? We can just do all of that ourselves!")
- I guess I don't like this very much, but if a track can fairly accurately be described as Dr. Luke doing Tiesto, I guess the odds of me liking it aren't very high.
Maybe this Sky Ferreira song will get a push and a re-release next year and maybe her album will come out. But with the way pop music works these days maybe it won't, so it's #1 for 2010. Another great year of traxxxxxxxxxxxx. Assembled for your listening pleasure is a YouTube playlist of the tracks from my top 90 of 2010 (the ones available at YouTube). Power Hour available upon request.
1. Sky Ferreira - "One" (Parlophone) 2. Taylor Swift - "Mine" (Big Machine) 3. Kingdom - "Mind Reader ft. Shyvonne" (Fool's Gold) 4. Willow Smith - "Whip My Hair" (Columbia, Roc Nation) 5. Young Jeezy - "Lose My Mind ft. Plies" (Def Jam) 6. Gyptian - "Hold Yuh (remix ft. Nicki Minaj)" (VP) 7. Girl Unit - "Wut" (Night Slugs) 8. Ciara - "Ride ft. Ludacris" (LaFace) 9. Big Boi - "Shutterbugg" (Def Jam) 10. Katy B - "Katy On a Mission" (Rinse) 11. The-Dream - "F.I.L.A." (Radio Killa/Def Jam) 12. Tensnake - "Coma Cat" (Permanent Vacation) 13. Robyn - "Dancing On My Own" (Konichiwa) 14. Yelawolf - "Pop the Trunk" (Interscope) 15. Caribou - "Sun" (Merge) 16. Javiera Mena - "Hasta La Verdad" (Unión del Sur) 17. The Fives - "It's What You Do ft. Vanya Taylor" (?) 18. Sade - "Soldier of Love" (Sony) 19. The Crystal Ark - "The Tangible Presence of the Miraculous" (DFA) 20. Little Big Town - "Little White Church" (Capitol Nashville) 21. FaltyDL - "My Friends Will Always Say" (Planet Mu) 22. Wacka Flocka Flame - "Hard In the Paint" (1017 Brick Squad/Warner Bros/Asylum) 23. Nebraska - "This Is the Way" (Rush Hour) 24. jj - "Into the Light" (Secretly Canadian) 25. Gucci Mane - "Electricity" (mixtape) 26. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - "Bottled in Cork" (Matador) 27. Subeena - "Picture" (Opit) 28. Ludacris - "How Low" (Disturbing Tha Peace) 29. Duck Sauce - "Barbra Streisand" (Fool's Gold) 30. Justin Bieber - "Baby" (Island) 31. Roll the Dice - "The New Black" (Digitalis) 32. Keri Hilson - "Pretty Girl Rock" (Interscope) 33. Storm Queen - "Look Right Through" (Environ) 34. Diddy-Dirty Money - "Ass On the Floor" (Bad Boy) 35. Arcade Fire - "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains" (Merge) 36. Joanna Newsom - "Esme" (Drag City) 37. Funkystepz - "For U (ft. Lily McKenzie)" (Safe and Sound) 38. Kanye West - "Power" (Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam) 39. Jazmine Sullivan - "Love You Long Time" (J Records) 40. The Extra Lens - "Some Other Way" (Merge) 41. Lloyd - "Lay It Down" (Young Goldie/Interscope/Zone 4) 42. Lil Silva - "Perfussion" (Night Slugs) 43. Young Dro - "Freeze Me" (Grand Hustle?) 44. Hole - "Samantha" (CherryForever/Island Def Jam/Mercury) 45. LCD Soundsystem - "Home" (DFA) 46. Brad Paisley - "Water" (Sony) 47. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Round and Round" (4AD) 48. Los Campesinos - "Straight In at 101" (Arts & Crafts) 49. Enrique Iglesias - "I Like It" (Universal International) 50. Andre Nickatina & the Jacka - "My Middle Name Is Crime" (I-Khan) 51. Justin Martin and Ardalan - "Mr. Spock" (Dirtybird) 52. Zinc - "Wile Out (ft. Miss Dynamite)" (Zinc Music) 53. Miranda Lambert - "Only Prettier" (Columbia Nashville) 54. Glasser - "Mirrorage" (True Panther) 55. Wiz Khalifa - "Black & Yellow" (Rostrum, Atlantic) 56. Katy Perry - "Teenage Dream" (Capitol) 57. Corrine Bailey Rae - "Paris Nights/New York Mornings" (EMI) 58. Moody - "It's 2 Late 4 U and Me" (KDJ) 59. Laura Marling - "Alpha Shallows" (Virgin) 60. Rick Ross - "MC Hammer (ft. Gucci Mane)" (Slip'n'Slide/Def Jam) 61. Mad One - "House Girls 6" (Devine uk) 62. Horror Inc. - "Aurore" (Haunt) 63. Kourtney Heart - "My Boy (ft. Magnolia Shorty)" (?) 64. Teengirl Fantasy - "Cheaters" (True Panther) 65. Grinderman - "Worm Tamer" (Mute) 66. J Stalin - "D-Boy Blues 2010" (SMC) 67. Keith Urban - "Put You In a Song" (Hit Red/Capitol Nashville) 68. Emeralds - "Genetic" (Editions Mego) 69. Beeda Weeda - "Baserock Babies" (?) 70. Lindstrøm & Christabelle - "Lovesick" (Feedelity) 71. Ost & Kjex - "Continental Lover" (Diynamic) 72. Oneohtrix Point Never - "Returnal" (Editions Mego) 73. Damian Marley & Nas - "As We Enter" (Universal Republic/Def Jam) 74. Cassie - "Fuck U Silly ft. Nicki Minaj" (unreleased) 75. DVA & Fatima - "Just Vybe (Soul Power Mix)" (Hyperdub) 76. Dam Funk - "Hood Pass Intact (ft. MC Eiht)" (Stones Throw) 77. Shit Robot - "Take Em Up (ft. Nancy Whang)" (DFA) 78. School of Seven Bells - "ILU" (Ghostly International) 79. The Gathering - "In My System (Jef K System Mix)" (Silver Network) 80. Actress - "Maze (Long Version)" (Honest Jon's) 81. Erykah Badu - "20 Feet Tall" (Motown) 82. Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup - "We No Speak Americano" (Ultra) 83. Trace Adkins - "This Ain't No Love Song" (Show Dog/Universal) 84. Ramadanman - "Glut" (Hemlock) 85. Alphabeat - "Hole in my Heart" (Polydor) 86. Ajay D - "Sax Breeze" (?) 87. Âme - "Rrose Sélavy" (Innervisions) 88. Jam City - "Ecstasy Refix" (Night Slugs) 89. E-40 - "Lightweight Jammin' (ft. Clyde Carson and Husalah)" (Heavy on the Grind) 90. Nina Sky - "You Ain't Got It (Funk Dat)" (self-released)
