Ne-Yo - Year of the Gentleman (2008)

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Year-End Poll #62: 2011

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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.

The greatest end credits song for a Disney Animated film

I love that it wasn't a radio cover of one of the other songs, but something original. It's so romantic and sweet; I'd love for this to become a trademark song for Disney.

Neeeeeeyooooooooooooo

Neeeeeeeeeeyyyyyooooooooo

You Can Find The Instrumental -> Here <-

knew it was his song fr, but never saw him perform it 👌🏾

Fabolous feat. Ne-Yo - Make Me Better

If you're a Gen Z black girl, specifically born anywhere from 1998-2005--if you aren't playing Ne-Yo's 'Never Knew I Needed" at your wedding, tf are you doing??

Ne-Yo - So Sick

The Year Was 2006.

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