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Electropop and dance are continuing to be the most popular sound in pop music. LMFAO's Party Rock Anthem is notable, not only for the song's chart performance, but for its production and songwriting style. We're starting to see the rise of the wordless chorus, which will come to define a lot of pop music in the 2010's. It makes sense that this style would take off with the rise of EDM in the mainstream (especially festival EDM), but we'll also start to see this shift towards wordless choruses in pop and rock. If you're familiar with the "Millennial Whoop", you may be able to recognize where this is going.
But despite the rise of electronic music, it's still interesting that there are multiple songs on this poll with retro influences. With Adele's Rolling in the Deep, CeeLo Green's Fuck/Forget You, and maybe some elements of Maroon 5's Moves like Jagger. We'll continue to see this influence in later years (especially when more songs start using brass instruments in their production), but it will pale in comparison to the electronic sound.
Speaking of CeeLo Green's hit this year, whether you want to give the slot to the "fuck version" or the "forget version" is up to you. It seems like both versions had relatively equal levels of success (with the censored version doing better on radio and the explicit version doing better on iTunes). Usually Billboard distinguishes between different versions of songs when releasing their charts, but I just see the two versions lumped together. So just assume that this poll is listing whichever version you're more familiar with.
Dedicated to all of you. To all human beings.
(And I apologize if i have to $P@M , but we've got a lot of catching up to do.
So hi! I'm the creator of the "CeeLoGreen Fans" page (Formely, "Gnarls Barkley Fans" on Youtube / Instagram. For almost 20 years I've been digitally collecting CeeLo-Danger Mouse-GoodieMob-Dungeon Family texts, images, videos and music! This days I had the honour of having not only The Mighty Goodie Mob follow me on social medias, but also CeeLo Green himself, and that's an honor. And now, a duty.
So I decided to post them to all who, just like me, truly enjoy their music, their art their poetry and contradictions. It's been an honor to be a fan of such characters, such artists with so much soul.
In hopes that someday we'll have a 3rd Gnarls Barkley album (which CeeLo has been 'announcing' for some years - and in the 2024's Grammys too) and other ventures and adventures by those artists - specially CeeLo Green, who made me love music, rap, soul.
Hope yall enjoy this trip back down memory lane, into the deep, the Dirty (South), the beginning, even in darkness of the before - but also into the future! Their future. Their music. 🖤
With love, from the greatest CeeLo Green fan out there,
@Joegrafia.