Most Embarrassing ILM Top 3 Singles 2014-2002

In some ways it would be fitting, as the last five years have felt like all of the "beige" music has bubbled to the top, ticking off enough boxes to cast a wide net of interest but being safe enough to not challenge anyone or push them out of a listening comfort zone.

Your buyers' remorse on Terje makes me sad, ILM.

Tho I would accept "Why They Hide They Bodies Under My Garage" as the acceptable consensus alternative dance pick.

I'll rep pretty unreservedly for all pre norse terje!

Tiresome.

Like all 3 songs:
2012: Inspector Norse / Call Me Maybe / Adorn
2008: Blind / Happy House / Paper Planes
2007: Umbrella / Atlas / Paper Planes

Like 2 of these songs:
2014: 2 On / Two Weeks / No Flex Zone
2006: Crazy / What You Know / My Love
2004: Toxic / Yeah (LCD Soundsystem) / Galang
2002: Work It / Weak Become Heroes / Freak Like Me

Like 1 song in here:
2005: 1 Thing / Biology / Since U Been Gone
2013: Get Lucky / #Beautiful / Still Into You
2011: 212 / Video Games / Super Bass
2010: Wut / Hard in da Paint / Round & Round

Like none of them:
2009: You Belong With Me / Daniel / Bad Romance

Did Paper Planes place two consecutive years in no. 3?

Didn't we have a rule of not nominating any songs that placed in the top numbers the previous year? Or was that rule imposed after this incident?

That was the incident which institutionalized the rule.

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Someone (else who isn't me) needs to do an album version of this poll.

yeah I might

btw, I'm going to vote for the year Kaputt won. I don't care what else I've forgotten.

oh shit i just realized that was girl unit wut not le1f wut, hmm

lol between that and ppl mistaking the ariel pink song for a selena gomez song idk if we can trust any votes for 2010

ended up voting 2003 b/c "Hey Ya"

2005 is maybe the best for me, w/ 1 thing my least fav of that group

Is anybody seriously embarrassed about liking "Hey Ya!" in 2003? Should they be? I mean it was seriously one of the most liked and likable songs going. I don't mind saying I got pretty sick of it at a certain point, but when it first dropped it was super fun.

yea hey ya is still a good song

actually that, ignition & the 4th place crazy in love would be really strong for 03

Never ever got tired of that one. xp

I think the first time I became aware of Hey Ya! was a friend's diaryland entry reading:

Don't want to be your daddy
Just want you in my caddy

that song is awesome

idk i just think hey ya is terrible & embarrassing, is that so hard to understand

i don't really care for DFA shit. i consider its hype kind of embarrassing. so 2008, easy.

2014

2008 certainly seems the most useless--2 pro forma dfa songs and a repeat entry--but 2013 has the songs i'd least want to listen to

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"Happy House" is the best song released in ILX's history.

it's so excellent

"hard in da paint" is wretched

^ what the fuck u thinking

"Happy House" is so twee.

LAUNCH ME INTO SPACE

"loved up on e" getting confused with "twee" here

Oh my god why have I never heard "Happy House" on e. Probably cause I've only done it once but shit...