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Holy High-Fidelity! We are down to the Elite Eight!
Many mighty heroes have fallen along the way, and the remaining battle-proven champions have a fearsome route still to the peak: The Official TNOCS Song of the 2000’s Decade!
For you heartbroken audio lovers: we’re working on a thing for some consolation rounds.. stay tuned…
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Whew! I predict much wailing and gnashing of teeth…
While the tnocs demographic skews towards male its noticeable that this contest is a woman’s world. Just Usher and Outkast left to represent the bros. I’m ignoring Jay-Z’s presence as I doubt there’s anyone that thinks he’s the reason for the success of Crazy In Love.
Also noticeable that as of the last round it’s all about the solo artist. Outkast the outlier again now that White Stripes have been defeated. Not sure either of them could be classed as a band. At a guess I’d say if we did the same process for any decade from the 60s to 90s there would be a lot more bands present.
Anyway, come on M.I.A.
Outkast is not a band in this iteration. Honestly, Crazy in Love is the most duo-ish song here. And unlike in Umbrella, Jay actually serves the song well.
Forget arguing with other commenters, I’ve got two voices inside my head yelling at each other for each pick!
So true!!!! Feeling a bit of Sophie’s Choice going on here…
My guess for the winner is still in the running and doing well. You’ll just have to trust me on this. Of course, I could put my prediction in an envelope kept in a hermetically sealed #2 mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall’s back porch.
And if you get that reference, you’re as old as I am.
“For a truly protected seal, make it a Hermetic seal.”
Sis, boom, bah.
Describe the sound made when a sheep explodes…
Hi-yoooohhhh!!!
“You drive to the Slauson Cutoff, get out of your car, cut off your Slauson.”
Rah-rah rah-ahya
Roma, ma-ah-aya
Ga-ga, ooh la-laya…..
“Hey Ya” vs. “Since U Been Gone”? So much ouch.
I picked “Toxic” to win it all…
“Hey Ya”/”Since You Were Gone” is a perfectly-even matchup.
“Umbrella” is the Rhianna song that even non-Rhianna fans love. Since it’s underperforming, that tells me real Rhianna fans would consider “Umbrella” too basic, and at some point, lose interest with an oversaturated song and get behind a mainstream-adjacent act like Lady Gaga*, whose “Poker Face”, I notice, didn’t reach the Sweet 16, because it’s the Lady Gaga song that even non-Lady Gaga fans love. “Crazy in Love”, and I’m going strictly by Spotify’s numbers, is a much more sophisticated pick(it’s not in Lady Gaga’s top ten) than “Umbrella”.
This post is based on my experience of proclaiming “Float On” as Modest Mouse’s best song on a Modest Mouse-specific message board, and getting an earful.
This theory, in my mind, is valid, because “Lose Yourself” is the Eminem song that non-Eminem fans love, and was inexplicably(to me) cut down prematurely.
*I like the song she contributed for The Hunting Ground, and her David Bowie tribute at the Grammys
Some good matchups here. Like I said last week, the real bloodshed is going to be who places at numbers 9 and 10, I think.
This was oddly far easier than prior votes for me.