Comments on: No. 41: Vanessa Hudgens, “Sneakernight”

By: music education

music education — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:01:22 +0000

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By: bcapirigi

bcapirigi — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:16:19 +0000

This song does have at least one redeeming quality, in that it at least tries to make sure girls are eating before they go out. That’s something, right?

By: solanine

solanine — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:14:10 +0000

Wow, I’m surprised you don’t like “Better in Time”. The song itself is admittedly kind of dull, but the arrangement is one of the nicest in recent ballad-pop, to my ears.

By: cryptosicko

cryptosicko — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:16:15 +0000

Sneakertight < My Humps

(also, “Watcha Say” sucks way harder than the actually-kinda-pretty “Better in Time”)

By: vbr

vbr — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:51:06 +0000

I hope against hope that Asher Roth makes an appearance on this list.

By: ampersandparade

ampersandparade — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:32:54 +0000

I never cared for “Better In Time,” and when it became a single I was confused; it’s just saccharine, all sugar and in the worst way- you literally cannot grab hold of it because there is nothing solid to it. My extrapolating that analogy gives me the writing credentials necessary to work on Vanessa’s next record, or at the very least Corbin Bleu’s.

Nicole Scherzinger’s mere name causes me to laugh aloud my haughty pop laugh. I surely hope several of her efforts, solo or otherwise, makes this list at some point.

By: bonkers09

bonkers09 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:59:03 +0000

@dusty vinyl: First of all, Better in Time is in NO WAY better than SOS and Watcha Say, both of which, as Maura points out, are redeemed by their well-mixed samples. Also, gonna agree on the awfulness of this track: between the dumber than dumb/product-pushing lyrics, obnoxious horn that blares every so often, and off kilter (again, perfect description:) drunken late-night karaoke vocals. Still, I don't mind Hudgen's breezier "Say OK" that much and I kind of have a guilty pleasure for "Baby Come Back to Me" (although the unsung part of that song is still crap).

By: dabug

dabug — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:27:01 +0000

Maura, I am dreading the entry when you finally smack down Ashlee Simpson, but I have long been training for this day and I trust you will be an admirable and focused opponent (bows).

By: dabug

dabug — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:24:57 +0000

Yeah, “Better in Time” is good, and there are actually several Vanilla Hudge songs I quite like, though this is probably her most in-yr-face bad song. Not worst, because she has plenty of gross boring songs I dislike more than this one, but check “Don’t Talk” (her best by a mile), “First Bad Habit,” and “Say OK” (second of which, IIRC, was co-written by Dr. Luke).

By: dusty vinyl

dusty vinyl — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:02:46 +0000

Better In Time is clearly Rotem’s best song. Beautiful and understated and one of the unexpected delights of 2008 I thought. And very out of kilter which much of the rubbish on his credits list.

By: kicking222

kicking222 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:13:18 +0000

@bcapirigi: Well-played! Completely unrelated to this song (if it can be called a "song"): Are we going to see Kevin Federline on the list somewhere? After all, when your album is by far the worst-reviewed in Metacritic's entire database, there have to be some excruciatingly awful tracks in there.

By: bcapirigi

bcapirigi — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:14:50 +0000

I still use Sneakernight as a verb sometimes. As in, “That Head Shoulders Knees And Toes song totally sneakernights “Birthday Sex” in the Dumbest Lyrics of 2009 department.”

By: NunyaB

NunyaB — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:10:06 +0000

I understand the comparisons to “Like a Feather”, but merely mentioning this song in the same breath as it still sets my teeth on edge.