I have to agree it's Bruno Mars who really sold the song. Bob's rapping is good but he is not missed by me

 

HOW COULD YOU SAY SUCH A THING. RIP B.O.B. :(

Nothin' On You just fills me with so much 2010 nostalgia it's actually quite hard to listen to now - I remember April to July having an absolute ton of sunshine that year (and August rather underwhelming in comparison) so it takes me right back to hot summer days with friends that, for the most part, I sadly no longer see. Ones that I'd have convinced myself at the time would have been around forever too, but people can't help moving on.

 

Seems ridiculous to think that Glee had so many big hits during that first series, or indeed to think how big the show briefly was before everyone seemed to just stop watching it overnight some time the following year.

W/E: 05/06/2010

 

#1: Dizzee Rascall - Dirtee Disco

 

 

No Dizzee, just.... Just No, no, no, no. Bye. We’ll meet again, but even then... Just go back to your roots - PLEASE

 

#3: Iyaz - Solo

 

 

He had a second hit? Da f***? I have no memory of this song whatsoever. I always assumed he disappeared off the face of the earth after ‘Replay’ and we’d not heard from him since. My world view has been severely disturbed by this news

 

God, this is a bit dull isn’t it? And it’s exactly what I was talking about in that Jason DeRulo when I said most post-break up songs by guys are about being sad, lonely and unable to live without the girl. Man up Iyaz. You’re a two hit wonder, you can get almost any girl you want. I’m sorry this is such a bad review, but I honestly don’t know what to say. I’m now questioning everything I thought I knew about one hit wonders

 

#5: Eminem - Not Afraid

 

 

Guess who’s back? Back again? With ANOTHER big come back? Tell you friends! Do they even care anymore? Well, I did anyway. May seem like a ridiculous thing to say but to me Eminem is a kind of icon. The guy's been around for so long and has so much success in my lifetime he's been very hard to avoid. He’s like that nice old guy you see in that shop every morning who says hello politely; never really having a massive effect on your life directly but you appreciate his continued presence and you’d sure as hell notice if he was suddenly gone

 

Now, I like Eminem a lot but even I hade to admit 2009’s “Relapse” was a complete misfire. In fact, it’s the only album of his I’ve never owned at one point or another, and he was in need of a second big comeback and I do love Not Afraid for its honesty. It doesn’t shy away from anything Eminem’s been through and he really is back to his best here. There’s a fire in his eyes and voice that hadn’t been there for years and it was just nice to have him back, and better was only to come....

 

#6: N-Dubz feat Bodyrox - We Dance On

 

 

You know what, for N-Dubz this isn’t actually that bad. I mean, it’s not great or anything but it is probably their most tolerable single ever in my opinion and it’s nice to here them actually sing about something verging on being quite a sweet and nice message

 

I may sound a snob here, but they always seemed a bit overly chavvy to me but that aspect is nearly gone here. I can’t believe I’ve given them a positive review but what’s life without a few surprises? I'm still reeling over Iyaz's second Top 3....

 

#9: Sean Kingston & Justin Bieber - Eeenie Meenie

 

 

I should hate this song, I should want to demand someone go back in time, prevent Kingston and Bieber from meeting and then burn any remaining CD’s in a massive furnace. But I’m not, because despite it having all the ingredients to make a monumental failure of a song I actually really, really, really like ‘Eeenie Meenie’

 

It’s ridiculously catchy, the chorus works very well even if the use of an old nursery rhyme is an odd thing to build a song around and Kingston and Bieber’s vocals are probably the best they’d been to this point. I don’t want to like it, it’s certainly not helping any remaining street credit I lay claim too but I just can’t bring myself to dislike this. I kind of love it. I’m not even remotely sorry

 

‘You can’t make up your mind, mind, mind, mind’ – DAMN IT!!! In my head forever and a day now

Edited May 8, 201411 yr by James Silkstone

Solo was my favourite Iyaz track! Shocked you can't believe it, it was amazing :wub: We Dance On used to be great too

God, Dirtee @$&%ing Disco...any credibility that Dizzee had left absolutely vanished with that piece of utter crap. To be fair despite being a #1 it seemed to kill his career too along with the next one coming up very soon, he went from experimental grime legend to not-too-bad grime/pop fusion act to just really bland and terrible mainstream pop. 'Bassline Junkie' did well (probably because for once it sounded kinda unusual) but otherwise he's kinda finished now I think, though now I've said that watch him do a song with Avicii and get another #1 this year :P

W/E: 12/06/2010

 

#1: David Guetta feat Fergie & A Bunch of Randoms – Gettin’ Over You

 

 

I recall absoultely despising this song at the time it came out, and I was very annoyed when it got to number one. I don’t really know why that was, in all honesty I can’t rule out that my reason for hating was remaining hate for Sexy Bitch finding something to latch onto. Because Sexy Bitch is one of my least favourite songs ever, and it was going to take something amazing for David Guetta or Akon to get back into my good books after it

 

‘Gettin Over You’ doesn’t quite do it, however four years have passed and I have to admit I’m quite enjoying it now; especially Fergie and Chris Willis’s parts. Guetta would release a lot better in the future but for what its worth I do actually quite like this.

 

#7: Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart

 

 

The sudden success of Alicia Keys in the single charts during late 2009/early 2010 was something that actually confused me and still does to this day. Here was a woman who up until the release of ‘Doesn’t Mean Anything’ had only two solo top ten hits to her name after nearly a decade in music. Then, out of the blue, she doubles that figure in just over six months.

 

It baffled me because it wasn’t like her music just suddenly got better; I find Doesn’t Mean Anything and Empire State of Mind (Part II) incredibly dull and lifeless. Whatever the reason, I’m still to determine but that said I at least get why this one was somewhat successful as it’s actually a pretty good RnB tune, and significantly less sleep inducing than a few of her previous songs. I’ll never be fan of her, but I’ll give her credit when its due and its due here.

Shocked you can't believe it, it was amazing :wub:

 

Well then PREPARE TO BE SHOCKED WITH THE WHOLE POPULATION.

 

Solo helped me through a French school trip when I was feeling homesick but that's only why I kind of remember it.

W/E: 19/06/2010

 

#1: James Cordon & Dizzee Rascall feat Shout For England - Shout

 

 

Ah, the world cup. Here is my summary of what happens every 4 years:

 

1) “we have no chance”

2) “Oh, our group is actually pretty easy”

3) Win first match convincingly

4) THIS IS GONNA BE OUR YEAR!

5) England struggle through group stage, just get through

6) Lose to Germany on penalties

 

Yeah, a pointless repetitive excersize by now and I have no doubt 2014 will be an exact repeat. There’s nothing really to talk about with this song; it does its job of drumming up support for the squad, even if it does spend half its time namedropping players, but I’m honestly not sure what to say about it. It’s no chore to listen to I’ll admit, but I can’t imagine many actively choose to listen to it anyway. In terms of World Cup Songs that year ‘Waka Waka’ and ‘Waving Flag’ were much better

 

#2: Tinie Tempah - Frisky

 

 

I have to say Labrinth, well his voice anyway, has been one of my favourite new artists of the decade. He pretty much makes any song his featured on, even if his solo stuff (bar Earthquake) leaves a little to be desired. Still, even he can’t quite make me like ‘Frisky’ and that’s a shame as I WANTED to like Tinie Tempah. Really, I did but I just don’t really like this at all

 

It goes off in so many tangents its quite hard to take in, I’m not a fan of how Tinie himself sounds here and the backing music becomes incredibly annoying about half way through. One good song left in him for me I’m afraid, but then its to the scrap heap for ol’Tinie

 

#3: K'Naan - Wavin' Flag

 

 

For me, this is everything that a world cup song should be even if it wasn’t initially intended to be one. It’s got everything that ‘Shout’ should have had; a feel of community, fellowship, hope and celebration that even as someone who would never call him self a fan of the sport, I can see that Football can bring out those feelings in people and Waving Flag brings them out very well

 

It’s actually making me pretty nostalgic for the summer of 2010 again, and it’s just one of those songs I just can’t bring myself to hate because I just find it so happy and joyful. K’Naan’s been well and truly relegated (pun intended) to one hit wonder land now but at least his is decent unlike a lot before and after him.

 

Seems appropriate that these reviews occurred just before the 2014 World Cup kicks off, now I’m off to go and mourn how quickly the last 4 years have gone

 

 

Love these reviews :wub:

YES Wavin Flag <3 liked that alot back then. forgot about Frisky though lmao- just a poor version of Pass Out really, would've been such a non-#1 if it had got there

 

Wavin' Flag brings back so many memories not just of the World Cup, but the great summer after I finished school!

There was the version of 'Wavin' Flag' with will.i.am and David Guetta who just flew the flag:

 

 

Hope that gets a boost when the World Cup comes.

 

'Shout' was Simon Cowell's idea wasn't it if I remember.

W/E: 26/06/2010

 

#3: Example - Kickstarts

 

 

Oh, and joining ‘Water Colour’ and ‘Stereo Love’ in the fight for best dance track of the year is this little gem from Example. ‘Kickstarts’ is an absolute tune and probably to this day still his finest hit; music you can actually dance too and he pulls off the singing/rapping thing so incredibly well it’s hard not to find this song charming

 

When the verses end, the ‘might be holding your hand, but I’m holding it loose’ and the build up to the chorus are all brilliant but nothing quite beats the ‘And the love Kickstarts again’ followed by the INSANELY brilliant instrumental. Just amazing, and yeah consider me a pretty big fan of Example from this point on for about two years

 

#4: Kylie Minogue - All The Lovers

 

 

VERY UNPOPULAR OPINION WARNING: I. Do. Not. Like. This. Song. A shame really as at the time of writing I can’t imagine I’ll be getting to review any other Kylie songs for the remainder of this thread (at the time of writing I’m assuming ‘Into The Blue’ won’t be smashing, still have yet to hear it anywhere). Because, I do like Kylie and I’d like to give this song a glowing review but... I just don’t like it

 

Granted, I’m not really sure why I don’t like this song to be honest because I really should do. It’s Kylie, and it’s dance-pop. Those ingredients alone should make this absolutely brilliant for me but for whatever reason it always leaves me a little cold and I much preferred ‘Get Outta My Way’ to be honest. I’m aware this is a very unpopular opinion and this is generally considered one of Kylie’s finest in years but I’ve just never felt it. It’s not totally terrible, I’m just not sold on it for whatever reason.

 

#8: Robyn - Dancing On My Own

 

 

Oh now this is absolutely wonderful, probably my favourite song so far. Robyn, like Kelis, is I feel one of the most underrated and underappreciated artists of our time (much more so than Kelis to be honest). In a time when crappy dance pop seemed to be taking over, as we delve further into the summer you’ll see, here comes Robyn with a mind blowingly good dance pop number

 

‘Dancing On My Own’ is just wonderful and an absolute pleasure to listen too. It’s a song about loneliness, jealousy, unrequited love, bitterness, sadness and blends all five of those strong emotions so incredibly well thus making it the most human of all the songs reviewed so far. The instrumental, Robyn’s vocals, the music video, the pure tragedy in her voice and the fact that its all so relatable make this perfect. We’ve all been there, seeing the person we love or think we love with someone else and just feeling like you’ve had all the stuffing knocked out of you. Maybe I’m overselling this a little, and I’m gonna go as I could literally talk about how much I love this for days.

 

#10: Lady Gaga - Alejandro

 

 

Now, over on planet Gaga things aren’t getting any less over the top and ridiculous and to be honest it’s all wearing a bit thin by this point. 18 months of chart domination, I think we were possibly all ready for a break from the new ‘Queen of Pop’ – and it did look that way back in 2010, not so much now, but back then she really was shaping up to be the next big long lasting pop star

 

There’s no doubt Gaga was a breath of fresh air when she arrived on the scene, the pop scene needed someone like her to give it a kick up the backside but for me there was only so much weird eccentricity I could take before getting a bit bored. I always think over elaborate music videos are made 99% of the time because the song they’re made for is a bit shit and the artist/puppet masters need to cover that fact up. Now, Alejandro is by no means a bad song, it’s perfectly enjoyable as pop songs go but I think I was always destined to be a bit bitter to this song when the glorious ‘Dance In The Dark’ was passed over as a single. But Alejandro does just plod along a little, and as a song its probably my least favourite single of hers up to this point.

 

Gaga will be back, but its good to have a break from your favourite new toy every once in a while

Edited May 19, 201411 yr by James Silkstone

There goes my favourite Top 10 hit of the 2010s to-date in your review thread, "Dancing On My Own" by Robyn.

 

Lots of great tracks making the Top 10 in Summer 2010, especially enjoyed "Wavin' Flag" too - that brings back a lot of memories, particularly spending a Sunday afternoon before my night shift going to watch England v Germany and seeing Lampard's disallowed goal. Not quite as painful as Sol Campbell's disallowed one from June 2004 which ended what arguably could have been England's best chance at a European Championship.. I mean Greece? WTF.

W/E: 03/07/2010

 

#1: Katy Perry feat Snoop Dogg - California Gurls

 

 

And so, as Gaga reaches the end of her imperial faze Katy Perry begins her with possibly one of the most ridiculous but weirdly brilliant songs she’s ever done. Written as a Californian response to Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind”, I doubt ‘California Gurls’ makes the most positive of messages for the state. Or is it meant to be tongue in cheek? I’m assuming the latter is true, but I don’t think I care enough to really find out

 

She’s capable of much better than this for sure, and superior songs from the future ex-Mrs. Russell Brand are on the way but I can enjoy ‘California Gurls’. It’s summery, fun and yet another of those songs I just find so overwhelmingly positive I can’t bring myself to dislike and I love Snoop here. No masterpiece, but with the amount of positive reviews I’ve been giving lately has made me wonder if I’m unfairly judging 2010 on just a few hum dingers. Because this is just summery pop fun.

 

#8: Eminem feat Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie

 

 

And yet another song making me think that I’ve underestimated 2010, ‘Love The Way You Lie’ was at the time probably my favourite Eminem release since ‘Lose Yourself’ some 8 years earlier. A lot of people I know prefer funny Slim Shady-esque Eminem but for me his brilliance comes with his more serious endeavours and ‘Love The Way You Lie’ is no exception.

 

Taking domestic abuse and destructive relationships and making a hit song about them is no easy feat but Shady pulls it off and the song is brilliant because of the conviction, belief, anger and a kind of self hatred present in his voice here. And that’s not to take any credit away from Rihanna, who delivers fantastically here and the knowledge that she tragically does know what she’s singing about does make this all the more effective and real. For me, Eminem is and always will be one of the greatest musical superstars of my lifetime and I hope to god future generations know of and remember him. I may go over the top in my love for things sometimes, but this is just evidence that Eminem was back and he was back to his best. It may have been brief, lord knows I was a little disappointed with Marshall Mathers 2, but it was glorious

W/E: 10/07/2010

 

B.O.B feat Hayley Williams - Airplanes

 

 

Oh how overplayed this became amongst people my age! Seriously, I was on a bus coming home from school one day and so many people were playing this on their phones that some kid decided to just unplug his and play it for the rest of the bus. I can see why we all found it so brilliant; At 14/15 you think you’re very grown up and deep thinking (No one more than me, I was taking GCSE Philosophy & Ethics at the time) and the fact that ‘Airplanes’ is deep but shallow enough for its message to be decoded by teenagers made this insanely popular, and we all thought we were being deep

 

Now, as a song ‘Airplanes’ really aint half bad at all – B.O.B does what he does with conviction and Hayley Williams sounds simply delightful during her chorus. I’d actually be tempted to say that considering how popular this was for so long its actually been somewhat forgotten. Still, play it to anyone my age and they’ll most likely look back with a slightly embarrassed smile on their face as they remember making a bit 40 Facebook statuses consisting of the chorus lyrics. Good times. And I was psyched to see Hayley bag herself a number one, kinda, I just wish Paramore could have the same success. Or even a top ten single!

 

Enrique Iglesias feat Pitbull - I Like It

 

 

......And the rot sets in. God, this is everything I hated about the dance-pop movement, and yes it was a movement, embodied in one song. Lazy and clichéd lyrics mixed with over auto tuned vocals and the general presence of Pitbull and all the time you’re wondering how the hell Enrique managed to end up like this

 

OK, he was very unlikely to ever repeat the critical and commercial success he’d received with ‘Hero’ a decade earlier but that’s no reason to turn into some kind of crappy club anthem creating douchebag who’s lyrics revolve all around sex and partying. 2002 Enrique is very disappointed with you 2010 Enrique. 2002 Enrique treats girls with respect, he wants to be their hero whilst 2010 Enrique encourages girls to cheat on their boyfriends with him. Maybe he’s out of town working so he can afford to take her on a nice holiday? Ever thought of that whilst you were trying to get your leg over Enrique? No didn’t think so

 

Man, he’s like the Benjamin Button of emotional maturity

 

Kelly Rowland feat David Guetta - Commander

 

 

Oh I shouldn’t like it but I do. I just feel sorry for Kelly Rowland, had she not been in a band and overshadowed by Beyonce I feel like she would’ve have been a much bigger star. The talent in there, and it’s just a shame she had to fall into second place. Then again, she’s luckier than Michelle who is fed scraps every so often and the other three girls who I assume are locked in some basement somewhere. I mean, Kelly’s probably at least been allowed to look at Blue Ivy (Still a stupid name, I don’t care who her parents are)

 

Considering I just called Enrique out for going from deep and heartfelt to clubby douchebag, I should really do the same for Kelly. After all she did start out her solo career singing about school shootings or suicide.... I think, that’s what seemed to be going on in the video for ‘Stole’ anyway. But the difference is, I truly believe Kelly belongs here and she sells ‘Commander’ in a way that is much better than Enrique does ‘I Like It’.

 

Kelly is flawless in her deliver here, you end up truly believing she is your commander. I think as long as Beyonce doesn’t find out Kelly’s getting ideas above her station she should be fine continuing in this vain.

 

 

Another excellent batch of reviews there! Loved your remark about 'Airplanes'--yes, the lyrics are falsely profound :lol: I wonder what song the kids are using as their status nowadays, pretending to be deep.

 

And comparing Enrique to Benjamin Button...genius!

W/E: 17/07/2010

JLS - The Club Is Alive



Ewww.

Yolanda Be Cool vs. DCUP - We No Speak Americano



Remember when I was thinking that I’d maybe severely underrated 2010? Yeah, I don’t know what I was thinking and clearly I’d forgotten about this turd of a... Is it even a song? Nope, I prefer to think of this as a collection of noises and an annoying disrespect of the silent film industry in its video

This is good for one thing, and one thing only, and that is the dance from The Inbetweener’s movie in a years time. But even that only seemed to remind people that this existed – JUST AS THEY WERE STARTING TO FORGET. Sorry, but I can’t even say the novelty war off of this for me – as it was never there in the first place

3OH!3 feat Ke$ha - My First Kiss



Did we all have musical lobotomies this week or something? Jesus Christ, this is probably my favourite of all the songs that entered this week and I still wanna launch it into the sun. I liked 3OH!3 back in 2009, especially ‘Don’t Trust Me’ and I liked ‘Starstruck’ too but this one just doesn’t do it for me. Ke$ha sounds more wasted than normal, the guys sound like 17-year old stoners (and look like them too quite frankly), and at least tell us more details of your first kiss if you’re going to bother releasing a song about it

Did it end at the kiss? Who was it with? Where was it? How old were you? Why do you feel the need to tell us? There is a chance for emotional depth, back story and humanization here guys – take it! When you’re best known song lyrics are ‘If you’re boyfriends got beef, tell I’m a vegetarian and I aint f***ing scared of him’ then you need that depth

No, but in all seriousness this song is bad. My first kiss was at an ice skating rink with a girl named Rachel when I was 12 just incase you were wondering. Which you probably weren't

Edited May 29, 201411 yr by James Silkstone

I really like The Club Is Alive actually, and I'm not even particularly fond of JLS.

Also, a quick note from me this will be the last review until Monday 23rd June as I have exams starting next week and pretty consistently over the following fortnight