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  • PHOTOS: Best Pop Song Of 2009 — In Pieces

    Posted on December 31, 09 | Leave a Comment
    If there has been any unifying idea or theme to music in the 00s, it is surely the squashing, the shriveling, the incredible shrinking of music itself. Out went the album, in came the single (and the ringtone!). As our attention spans raced toward :00, it sometimes felt like we had traded in big anthems and sweeping melodies for fragments, the hook, the bits and pieces. Maybe that's all that we have left now that everyone controls their own playlist. But is that so bad? At this moment in pop history, it seems appropriate to look at music, and enjoy it, for the parts as well as the sum total. We're not out to create a mashup (DJ Earworm did that well enough, thanks), but we've been taking a good look at the best song bits of the year.

    Check out our picks for the best work of 2009 in eight key categories — are these just eight great ideas? Pieces of one imaginary masterpiece? Or a little of both?
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BEST GRATUITOUS SOUND EFFECT – Miley Cyrus (referencing a rapper whose music she’s never heard), “Party In The USA”: While the song itself is undeniable, we’re still curious at Miley’s (and her songwriters’) decision to reference Jay-Z as the artist she hears during her (fictional) taxicab ride. Nothing’s more gratuitous than stumbling through inauthentic lyrics just for a passing whiff of cred.

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Honorable Mention: That deep computerized voice on the Black Eyed Peas’ “Meet Me Halfway”

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By Idolator Staff at 4:38 PM on Wed Dec 30 2009
Posted to: Beyonce, David Guetta, Feature, Jordin Sparks, Kelly Clarkson, Kelly Rowland, Kings Of Leon, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Shakira, The Noisettes
  1. 777sweetp  |   Posted on Jan 1st, 2010

    Miley Cyrus u are a great talent my daughters are big fans they listen to your music and watch your show it is great u are given the opportunity to be accepted as Miley Cyrus after Hannah Montana was so popular, i think you are a very beautiful young lady, but don't try to grow up fast enjoy your youth while you have it , it is no hurry just slow down & remember you are still a child.

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  2. guest  |   Posted on Jan 4th, 2010

    Funny how you all pick out certain singers to point out the songwriters involved in the creation of the songs almost to discredit the artists but forget to give credit to Neyo on Russian Roulette's lyrics but praise the delivery of the artist. Thank the producer and writer for that piece of work and creating the mood for the song.

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