Legitimately good songs that have gotten radio popular in the last decade

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Wtf, people don't like Uptown Funk?

Anyways, Kendrick Lamar-Swimming Pools is probably the best.

Also Call Me Maybe might be one of Carly Rae's worst songs IMO.
 
QuantumSquid said:
bruh you probably think outkast's music is good
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Are you implying they aren't?

In which case, here are my revised answers for OP's """legitimately""" good songs: 22 by Taylor Swift, I Can't Feel My Face by the Weeknd, Roses by the Chainsmokers, Lean On by Major Lazer, and "MY MOMMA DON'T LIKE YOU BUT SHE LIKES EVERYONE" by Justin Bieber.

How on the nose am I?
 
M52B28 said:
Umm, are we talking about the radio in the US? CATQ isn't that big of a name in the US and the only time I've heard her music was in Chipotle and that song was Saint Claude.


I don't listen to the radio much, but how often do you hear that song?

Also, the French version of Tilted murders the American version.
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I'm talking about the UK, and it's been on all summer
 
I guess if you're like a hipster /mu/tant then nothing, everything sucks and everything mainstream is awful.

But otherwise, way too many to name lol.
 
collige said:
Looking at the list of Billboard #1 Singles:
Work
The Hills
Whatever You Like
Single Ladies
Kiss Kiss
Temperature
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Work as in the Rihanna song? Work work work work work hur dur dur dur dur. ??????

Or is there a different one 'Im missing
 
Obviously a lot of these got massively overplayed but I thought they were all great pop songs the first time I heard them.

Empire State of Mind
I Kissed a Girl
I Gotta a Feeling
Moves Like Jagger
Grenade
Shake it Off
Uptown Funk
Thrift Shop
Happy
Can't Feel My Face
 
Stressed Out is legitimately good. Anyone over the age of like, 22, can relate to that song.

It's really cool that Twentyonepilots are getting all the exposure all of a sudden. They deserve it.
 
acohrs said:
Rihanna please don't stop the music. Was an incredible dance song and probably the song in Europe that made her a star. Went inter-railing when I was 18 and that song was essentially the soundtrack to the trip as we heard everywhere we went
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Shaffield said:
Electric Feel
Midnight City
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These ones, I think that song from Rihanna is to this day the only one I really like from her.

Also, at least in Germany,
Half Moon Run - Full Circle is to this day a wonderful Indie Song
Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar was amazing 70s inspired soul
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy was a massive hit and is still incredible.

and I remember that they played quite a few times on the stations.
I surely forgot some of them. Despite being more the guy who loves his more "underground" stuff, there's still quite some stuff on the radio I really like.
 
I don't tend to like a ton of pop music, but I really enjoyed Shake it Off and Take Me to Church.

I'm still shocked at how many people think Take Me to Church is a religious song. It's like people only hear the church part lol
 
guess I am the only person who likes "take me to church"

edit: oops lol

Media said:
I don't tend to like a ton of pop music, but I really enjoyed Shake it Off and Take Me to Church.

I'm still shocked at how many people think Take Me to Church is a religious song. It's like people only hear the church part lol
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ya, it is about how giving in to love is like giving in to faith
 
cwmartin said:
Uptown funk????!?!! Ugh it's legacy will forever be rooted as a shitty wedding song that the wedding parties perform their "entrance" to. Song is a flaming dumpster.


"Uptown funk gon' give it to ya" WTF ARE YOU EVEN SAYING
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Yeah I work 2-4 weddings a week and every white person wedding blasts Uptown Funk. Black and Hispanic weddings don't play it much. You're right that it's completely come that shitty wedding song that they play at every wedding like Single Ladies and Don't Stop Believing.
 
Once In a Lifetime has crept onto Classic Rock playlists and sounds like it's on another planet in comparison to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bob Seger.
 
Lord_Byron28 said:
Yeah I work 2-4 weddings a week and every white person wedding blasts Uptown Funk. Black and Hispanic weddings don't play it much. You're right that it's completely come that shitty wedding song that they play at every wedding like Single Ladies and Don't Stop Believing.
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What songs have you heard played at non-white weddings?
 
QuantumSquid said:
bruh you probably think outkast's music is good
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Get out.

Lord_Byron28 said:
Yeah I work 2-4 weddings a week and every white person wedding blasts Uptown Funk. Black and Hispanic weddings don't play it much. You're right that it's completely come that shitty wedding song that they play at every wedding like Single Ladies and Don't Stop Believing.
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Uptown Funk is Mark Ronson trying to make an 80s R&B song and ending up with a bad, soulless version of one.
 
Alcotholic said:
"Legitimately good songs" is an opinion.
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Everyone knows it's just an opinion. I don't care for any of the songs (or their genres) others have listed in this thread, but if this thread helps someone discover some new tracks, it'll be worth it.
 
EleventhHourSuperpower said:
Everyone knows it's just an opinion. I don't care for any of the songs (or their genres) others have listed in this thread, but if this thread helps someone discover some new tracks, it'll be worth it.
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Listen pal, I don't think you understand how things work around here. This is a music thread, so you have to identify with an extremely narrow taste in music, then automatically declare everything outside of it "shit". Then you wait until someone calls your favorite genre and artist "shit", then you call theirs "shit", and repeat until everyone has convinced themselves they have divine knowledge and authority on what makes music good.
 
EVO said:
Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know

It gets hated on because radios overplayed it, but it's a modern pop classic.
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yeah. instrumentation is dope. i remember during the time it came out, almost everyone was annoyed with hearing it all the time, but nobody would say it was a bad song, by any means.
 
Mulgrok said:
guess I am the only person who likes "take me to church"

edit: oops lol



ya, it is about how giving in to love is like giving in to faith
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Awesome, another person here likes the song! :)

I think it's a bit more complicated than that, in that giving into a BAD relationship is a lot like throwing all your faith into a religion that isn't good for you either.

"Something meaty for the main course,
That's fine a looking high horse.
What you got in the stable?
We've a lot of starving faithful.
That looks tasty,
That looks plenty.
This is hungry work." Etc
 
One of the unintended effects of that Glee show was that it got Queen's Somebody to Love played on the radio. A lot.

It was always one of their hits (on their hits album), but I literally had never heard it on the radio before Glee re-popularized it.
 
QuantumSquid said:
Outkast is real good in my opinion, I just thought that guy struck me as someone who also thought Outkast was good. I know a guy in real life who likes Outkast but despises Uptown Funk.
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You really have to expound on your original comment, breh. Outkast, despite their hits and crossover into the mainstream, was one of rap's most expansive and innovative groups. No money grubbing record label or group would make something as adventurous as Stankonia.
 
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