songs from the 2010s that looking back weren't really all that bad

[itsfredtitmus]

Bangarang - not sure what I see in this
I Kissed a Girl - I think it's just kinda glam sound that makes me like this and hot n cold.
I even kind of like the problematic lily allen-esque "the songs really twee, but there's rude words!!" and vaudeville of Ur So Gay

anticipating no replies

[Lemming]

We're just doing chart/pop music, right?

Katy Perry - Roar
Absolutely fucking hated it when it came out, but it's actually not a bad pop song.

OneRepublic - Counting Stars
Really grew on me, after initially despising it due to its omnipresence. There's a little alligator in the video!!!

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks
Yep, it's just a hook repeated over and over and over again, but I genuinely can't hear any catchy hooks at all in 90% of chart music from this decade, so I'll take what I can get.

Vance Joy - Riptide
Liked it since I first heard it, even if his voice is annoyingly moan-y.

Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
Another that I loved from the first time I heard it. The fact that it drives everyone else crazy only fuels my adoration of it.



If we stretch it back to 2009:
Lady Gaga - Poker Face / Bad Romance
Two QUALITY songs right there. Just Dance is pretty good too.

Owl City - Fireflies
Defended this song on here before and caught flak for it, but I will never back down

[doppelkorn]

Great choices.

Ke$ha - Timber

[grassbath]

Clean Bandit (feat. Jess Glynne) - Rather Be

[DrGreggles]

When was 'Song For Mutya'?

Edit: 2007 apparently.

Never mind.

[Pseudopath]

When was 'Song For Mutya'?

Edit: 2007 apparently.

Never mind.

Easily done. The thread starter included a Katy Perry song from 2008.

Robyn - Dancing On My Own has got to be up there, surely?

[itsfredtitmus]

Owl City - Fireflies
Defended this song on here before and caught flak for it, but I will never back down

YOU BLOODY DESERVE IT TOO. A DIRTY SONG.

Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
I like The Rubinoos but I think I like this more than the original (realise it isn't a cover but it may as well be)

[Dr Rock]

Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines

[itsfredtitmus]

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Lil Wayne - Lollipop
Remember thinking this was utter wank but it's just FINE, really. The guitar solo in it is funny as well
It came out in 2008 but it sounds like it's from 2005 nowadays

[Sebastian Cobb]

Marina and the Diamonds - I am Not a Robot.

Uffie - Pop the Glock

[buttgammon]

Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
Another that I loved from the first time I heard it. The fact that it drives everyone else crazy only fuels my adoration of it.

Crazy in a bad way? Because it drives me crazy in a very good way. I think she's fantastic.

It's a bit too recent to be looking back at it but Strangers by Sigrid. There's something about her that I find very irritating which put me off at first but I genuinely like the song.

I've had Be the One by Dua Lipa in my head all week but it's probably driven by the fact that I fancy her more than any other celebrity since I was single (Aldi advert woman a few years ago doesn't count as a celebrity). Last summer, my girlfriend, her sister and I spent a week decorating the flat and we played the same playlist on a loop all week. This song just happened to be on the playlist, so it also makes makes break out into a cold sweat thinking about how much trouble I had painting the corners.

[Pseudopath]

Marina and the Diamonds - I am Not a Robot.

Good shout. She's a massively underrated artist. Quite fond of Radioactive too.

[Dr Rock]

Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines

Sorry, I meant this. It's not on YouTube so I hosted it on a thingy.

https://instaud.io/21Am

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

What's the official consensus on 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams? Cause that's a nice one. I think that Pharrell is also a proper fun lad and would like to go hang out with him. His hat is also good

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Also why has everyone (including me) unanimously picked pop songs when that wasn't specified in the title? O_O

[momatt]

I have listened to it all, and I think the music made in this ten year period is rubbish.

[asids]

Easily done. The thread starter included a Katy Perry song from 2008.

Robyn - Dancing On My Own has got to be up there, surely?

I'll second this.

Now let's pick some songs that are actually from the 2010s since you lot don't seem to know:

Dua Lipa - New Rules (I know she was already suggested up the thread but not this song)

Pink - Blow Me (One Last Kiss)

Lorde - Green Light

The Weeknd - I Feel It Coming

Karmin - Brokenhearted

Ariana Grande - One Last Time

Marina and the Diamonds - Primadonna (pretty much everything from the Electra Heart album actually)

[Icehaven]

Get Lucky.

[Norton Canes]

Lukas Graham - 7 Years

Always makes me do a little cry.

[DukeDeMondo]

Also why has everyone (including me) unanimously picked pop songs when that wasn't specified in the title? O_O

Also, some of the records listed were never considered "bad" in the first place. "Call Me Maybe" was widely praised at the time. "Dancing On My Own," too. And Marina And The Diamonds have been fairly well reviewed from the get-go.

What's going on here, anyway, for god sake? 

[purlieu]

I Kissed a Girl - I think it's just kinda glam sound that makes me like this and hot n cold.
I even kind of like the problematic lily allen-esque "the songs really twee, but there's rude words!!" and vaudeville of Ur So Gay

Katy Perry - Roar
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
Lady Gaga - Poker Face / Bad Romance

Be the One by Dua Lipa

Dua Lipa - New Rules
Ariana Grande - One Last Time

I think I liked all these from first listen. I mean something like 'Be the One' seems an odd choice, it's one of the least overtly commercial sounding pop hits I've heard in ages. Could easily fit on some independent dream-pop album.

Lorde - Green Light

I hated this at first, though. Felt so generic and obviously 'anthemy' after the skewed minimal pop of her debut, and in comparison to interesting stuff like 'The Louvre', but it's grown on me over time, so I suppose this is a genuine 'looking back'.

I've always liked pop, though. I've had a steady stream of pop albums in my collection, regardless of what age I was, whether it was Britney and Girls Aloud and Robyn in the 00s or all of the above this decade. I wasn't aware of the term 'poptimism' until a couple of years ago, so I've never really followed trends with listening to pop (and I can't stand a lot of stuff that seems to be highly rated - Beyonce, for example).

Anyway, as this isn't intentionally a pop thread, I'll go for 'Wonky' by Orbital, a track which I absolutely loathed when I bought the album, but has really grown on me since. I still fucking hate 'Beelzedub' though, that's practically an album ruiner.

[Jerzy Bondov]

Lukas Graham - 7 Years

Always makes me do a little cry.

WHAT?!?!?! Mate.

[Vodka Margarine]

There's a reservation for Ritual Union by Little Dragon in my eventual top ten of the decade, fo sho.

[Brundle-Fly]

1... 2...3...4...Ba-bup-bup-bup-baaa!

[Brundle-Fly]

Bup-bub- - bup-bub-bub- bub-bub- bub-bub-bub...

[Twit 2]

Lukas Graham - 7 Years

Always makes me do a little cry.

One of the few songs that can accurately be called 'shit-awful'. Sometimes I find myself hoping he's died in some sort of crash.

Also, most songs mentioned so far range between shit and tolerable - you're all too kind. Mind you, I have a soft spot for Ed Sheeran's Castle on the Hill, so can't fucking talk.

[purlieu]

Also, most songs mentioned so far range between shit and tolerable - you're all too kind.

You're a wrong bastard, you are.

[Steven]

Mind you, I have a soft spot for Ed Sheeran's Castle on the Hill, so can't fucking talk.

Get. Out.

[grassbath]

Lukas Graham - 7 Years

Always makes me do a little cry.

Soon I'll be sixty years old, my daddy got sixty-one
Remember life and then your life becomes a better one
I made a man so happy when I wrote a letter once
I hope my children come and visit once or twice a month

[grassbath]

Anyway, as this isn't intentionally a pop thread, I'll go for 'Wonky' by Orbital, a track which I absolutely loathed when I bought the album, but has really grown on me since. I still fucking hate 'Beelzedub' though, that's practically an album ruiner.

In the minority here probably, but I think that the first half of that album is among the best stuff they've done.