Songs of 2010, #14-11

Keep on truckin' and keep on moving through the songs of 2010. Only a batch of four now since that works out better if I'm going to have this done in some sense of order by Friday.

14. Any Which Way by Scissor Sisters

Gr. So, the big return of the Scissor Sisters in 2010 wasn't as big a success as it could have been, which was a massive shame since a lot of Night Work was their best work yet: Any Which Way leads all the others, although Invisible Light, Sex and Violence and Whole New Way are close contenders to best song of the album. What makes Any Which Way particularly memorable is Ana Matronic's absolutely awesome refrain towards the end of the song; I've said it before and I'll say it again, Ana is probably one of the best women in music at the moment. She probably has one of the best stage presences I've ever seen. She's just awesome. The version of the song they did with Kylie at Glastonbury was also suitably amazing and certainly a sight to behold, particularly since it was Kylie's debut at the legendary festival.

13. Airplanes by B.o.B (ft. Hayley Williams)

The song that inspired about a million Facebook statuses, Airplanes is still pretty damn good even if everyone and their cat has now heard the line "I could really use a wish right now". To be fair, yes it's a good chorus but I sort of have a love/hate relationship with that girl from Paramore (as she shall be forever known in my heart) since the only Paramore song worth a listen is Misery Business and we had to sit through The Only Exception in Glee in the middle of a BRITNEY SPEARS TRIBUTE EPISODE.

*ahem*. Anyway, as I was saying before: even if it's overplayed and firmly etched in everyone's minds now, Airplanes is a pretty good song. B.o.B's had a good year and this firmly put him on the radar, with his rapping probably being the best bit of the song when you listen to it a few times.

12. Teenage Dream by Katy Perry

It's fair to say that at one point in 2009, it looked pretty grim for Katy Perry. GaGa was on the scene and pretty much taking her place as the new girl on the block and doing a damn good job of it: after the smash of I Kissed a Girl and then the absolutely awesome Hot N Cold (still one of my favourites of all time), she sort of floundered with Thinking of You and Waking Up In Vegas. But boy did she come back fighting this year; California Gurls was a bit of harmless fun but it was the follow up, Teenage Dream, that really re-established the new Mrs. Brand. It's a bit sad that the Glee version of the song has pretty much eclipsed it in popularity now, since the original is a damn good song no matter how you look at it. No surprise that she chose to name the album after the song, really.

11. Take It Off by Ke$ha

Oh, Ke$ha. Only she could decide one day "hey, I'm going to get a load of friends together and we're going to do another video for my new song for the sake of it". I mean, let's be clear about something: she's hardly the best vocallist ever. All of her songs sorta sound the same (apart from maybe Your Love is My Drug). But that's good because all of those songs have been pretty damn infectious pop and there's no harm in sticking to a winning formula. Take It Off has been her best song since Tik Tok though, particularly thanks to the chorus that gets in your head and just won't leave. Probably like Ke$ha herself at the end of a party. Or maybe I've just been watching too much Glozell:


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