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 Before you ask: - No Smithy there's no mention of Kelly Clarkson in this thread - No Nicky91 there's no mention of Maan in this thread - No Lucas there's only one mention of a Eurovision song in this thread and it's not one you like - No Ross., Louisa Johnson came very close to the top 100 but I had to cull her to squeeze in one of these ten - No Jake, Trigger Bang was released too late to have any impact on this thread - No Nathan, Superorganism might show up next year though - No ShakeyJake10, you can't vote in a wildcard - No Alf there's no mention of Showaddywaddy in this thread I know you're all v excited for this so I'll just dive straight in and do ten at a time! Sorry if I missed any out!!! #100 - "Summer Bummer" by Lana del Rey & A$AP Rocky & Playboi Carti I was torn between including this or Coachella/Woodstock in my Mind. In the end this won out! Lana del Rey is very much someone I've kept at arm's distance away from me since her great breakthrough singles, and suffers a lot from treading out the same singles every album campaign, but this was something a little bit different and I enjoyed the production of it a lot! For fans of: scowling at beaches during July, pouting, clutching a bottle of Jack Daniels that you don't really want to open #99 - "Crybaby" by Paloma Faith I'm trying my absolute best to keep myself from going "I preferred their earlier material!" too often during this list but Paloma is definitely such a person. The Architect, however, was far more diverse than the two albums that proceeded it and this almost accidentally sounds like Drake's "Passionfruit" which I've only just noticed now and is by no means an insult! Her best single since 'New York' by a clear margin! Also, the music video: someone's been watching Stranger Things! For fans of: roller-discos, singing the backing vocals AS WELL AS the lead, sequins. #98 - "Not My Baby" by Alvvays A Cults album came out this year and I briefly reflected on that period of the late 00s and early 10s where great indie-pop was made and seemed to be in abundance. The Cults album this year was not an example. This one was though! And thank you Jake for introducing me to them. Her voice is quite lovely. For fans of: Shoegaze pop, waving your arms at the back of a bus like you're in an E4 teen dramedy, leaving children at orphanages. #97 - "Sweet F'in Love" by Alicia Keys Released at the very start of January, Kaytranada produced this and was very much a key part of the things I enjoyed about 2016. Alicia Keys has one of those voices that's best accentuated by minimal productions and this is a good example. For fans of: Rolling around in bed with a framed photograph of Jason Momoa, whispering sweet-nothings to garden gnomes, tickling yourself with feathers. #96 - "Loving Life" by Rationale Sometimes I wonder what the point of radio is - mostly whenever Heart is on and I'm not allowed to change the channel. But this was one of the year's best random discoveries that made me take my phone out and jot lyrics down so I could look it up later. I don't know much about Rationale but this should've been a lot bigger. For fans of: 90s-vignette video footage of complete strangers having fun in a park, v soulful vocals over chilled house beats, generally loving life I guess! #95 - "All Stars" by Martin Solveig and ALMA The VASTLY superior and top-quality 'Places' was released in the blurred territory between 2016 and 2017 that made it impossible for me to feature it in either list, so I'll make up for that by including the much underrated (I say that but he's not really that far behind Guetta is he?) Solveig's main contribution to 2017. 'All Stars' is a stupid music video but great fun and showcases ALMA's big voice nicely. For fans of: Cheap green-screen music videos, Certified Bangers, gentle reminders that All Stars season 3 of Drag Race should kick 2018 off nicely. #94 - "Prom" by SZA Sadly not a musing on a 16 year old's formal dance, SZA instead makes a bunch of promises to a partner who's getting impatient. One of those songs that feels like it's over a lot quicker than it should be, which one can only presume is a good thing. For fans of: super-80s synths and guitar hooks, Carly Rae Jepsen's Emotion basically #93 - "745" by Vince Staples Big Fish Theory is one of those albums I really love yet still can't quite pinpoint a major highlight of it: '745' is the only track I feature in this countdown and I guess that's because I'm a sucker for a bassline. For fans of: BMWs, very specific pick-up times and a joyless relationship #92 - "Havana" by Camila Cabello & Young Thug I guess much could be made of the caricatures of latin-Americans in the music video and I guess much could be written of the Fifth Harmony beef but that'd all be far too much energy spent on what is essentially just a super-catchy and super-obvious pop song that I should hate myself for falling for... but don't. For fans of: charts #91 - "Amar Pelos Dois" by Salvador Sobral There were a whole host of kinda-condescending and snobby interviews from Sobral in the build-up to his landslide Eurovision win that alienated a lot of the die-hard For fans of: Swaying side to side slowly, sighing wistfully over foreigners, upsetting gays everywhere.
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