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[PurpleGaga27]

Well folks, here's my take of the top ten songs of the decade. Yes, most of the music sucks in the mainstream area until I discovered synthwave/retrowave where it changed me the way how I listen to music.

 

10. PSY - Gangnam Style

The song that changed culture and the new revolution of dancing. It also became a worldly viral sensation and a meme too. Later Harlem Shake and other new types of dancing followed after. Strangely it was released on the year doomsday was wrongly predicted to happen.

 

9. Luis Fonso (ft. Daddy Yankee) - Despacito

Probably the best and most popular foreign language song of all time despite 6.5+ billion views in YouTube? Mix in pop, rap and reggae and you get this best song coming out of Puerto Rico since Ricky Martin made that moment with Livin La Vida Loca. A chillwave remix called Despacito Resonance made it sound even better.

 

8. Kavinsky - Nightcall // Violette Wautier - Drive (tie)

Nightcall is one of the best and (if not) most popular synthwave/retrowave songs of all time fitting for the Drive (2011) movie until seven years later, Violette Wautier's orchestral pop version of Drive even deserved to fit in that movie as well.

 

7. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers)

It was (and still is) Pharrell Williams best singing song, period. It's one of the best post-disco songs ever.

 

6. Madelyn Darling - Somebody's Watching Me

The cover song of the decade. The usage of darksynth and organ makes it one of the best Halloween tracks worth listening to. It was also used in the Nancy Drew TV ad promos.

 

5. The Weeknd - Blinding Lights

The song to end the 2010s decade. This song surprised me and most synthwave fans because it almost reflects the soundtrack to Stranger Things and people wanted that song in that show. The Weeknd is one of the few mainstream artists to have attempted the synthwave/retrowave genre. Don't forget he used to collaborate with Kavinsky on a rare synthwave track before this one.

 

4. Michael McCann - Icarus

The synthwave/ambient theme that changed the way how we listen to cyberpunk/futuristic music especially in the world of Deus Ex.

 

3. Jessie Frye - Fantasy

One of the most nostaglic, fresh, emotional and pure synthwave songs coming out from an incoming Synthwave Princess. One of the most underrated songs of the century and deserves mainstream status.

 

2. Adele - Skyfall

Best James Bond theme song ever. Best doomsday song ever. Best orchestral pop song ever. Worth a billion dollar song. But still underviewed because it deserved more than a billion views.

 

1. Nina Boldt - Beyond Memory

The rare gem song that made her a Synthwave Queen. One of the most underrated songs of the century and deserves mainstream status. Very nostaglic, fresh and pure. I may have listened to this song more than listening to Skyfall and Everything She Wants combined.

 

 

Honorable Mentions (get ready for a surprise):

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-- Charlie Puth's See You Again

Charlie Puth deserved most of the credit of this song that's supposedly felt that it was his signature song, but it's a tribute song to the late actor Paul Walker. Wiz Khalifa co-wrote the song but ruined it with unnecessary rap (should have been using R&B or reggae) and even claim the song as mainly his with Charlie featuring. But hey, the music video is still more popular than Gangnam Style and only second to none to Luis Fonso's Despacito.

 

-- Wayfloe's Rose Ellen Dix

Who thought about writing such a song about such a person? It's one of the most underrated songs of all time. As for the music itself, it even fits on a song about Lady Gaga as well, because the music reminded me of Lady Gaga's Bloody Mary.

 

-- Neon Nox's Checkpoint (ft. Rebecka Stragefors)

One of the best singing songs I have heard that provided the real voice. Another underrated song coming out from a synthwave classic.

 

-- Ramin Djawadi's Game of Thrones theme

The TV theme of the decade. One of the best TV themes of all time... to a mature audience.

 

-- Lazerhawk's Electric Groove

A synthwave/retrowave classic that will have you wanting for more groovy music.

 

-- Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow

The theme song to A Star Is Born which won numerous awards and Gaga still sounds like a "fame monster" in that one.

 

-- Lady Gaga - Bloody Mary

Her best voice to date with a monster performance, but an underrated song.

 

 

Now here's my take of the 5 worst songs in the last 20 years:

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1) Rebecca Black's Friday

Terrible writing and production led to this being criticized as the worst pop song ever. Blame co-writer Patrice Wilson for that one and not the singer. The song that started the downfall in the music industry.

 

2) Alison Gold's Chinese Food

It's unwise, stupid and unprofessional to write a so-called parody song about food that doesn't make any sense, and co-writer Patrice Wilson deserves to be fired.

 

3) Justin Bieber's Baby

The 80s synthwave version mix of this is 1000 times better... really. The popular original didn't really sounded like a pure R&B song after all not especially when you mix in a off-tone rap verse in it.

 

4) Sia's Chandelier

50% R&B, 50% real music, short song. Sia sounded like Beyonce in this one, and her accented singing voice sounded seemingly too annoying when played a lot over airplay. But guess what, Jordan Sparks' male voice nailed that cover 1000% better.

 

5) Kesha's Tik Tok

The song to start out the 2010s decade with a fusion of 50% real music and 50% out-of-tone rap. Most mainstream songs ran out like that since then in a unprofessional way, and the same goes to music videos where people wear less clothes and dance more than ever before.

Edited by PurpleGaga27, 31 December 2019 - 06:34 AM.