Name a better mainstream pop song released this decade.

Run Away With Me

Royals is the only contender and even still it falls behind Somebody That I Used To Know by a long shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ

>>74274610
I can't
>>74274726
close but no

>>74274610
Some Nights would be the obvious answer

Beyonce - Countdown

get lucky/lose yourself to dance

>>74274779
>beyonce
lol ok

>>74274799

This

>>74274799
yeah Get Lucky is a perfect pop song

>>74274610
that song holds up 6 years later

>>74274610
I don't understand how this even got popular. It's a genuinely great song.

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>>74274610
Man i fucking hate this song.
Everything about it pisses me off, its kind of incredible, the instrumental, the weird vocals, the phrasing of the melody with the rising notes, hell, even the clip is annoying.
Looking at this guy face make me want to punch him so hard i dont know why please help me

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Does pic related count?

https://youtu.be/-bYxADz3ztA

Nothing else even comes close

>>74274610

24K Magic.

Somebody that I Used to Know is practically adult contemporary. And that's okay, but it's hardly a pure pop song.

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>gotye will merely be remembered as a one hit wonder
>no one will never give pic related a chance because of this song
it hurts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUF-IlF1UW0

>>74274610

It was the best Sting song to come out in a long time, I'll give you that.

>>74274957
It's literally Seville by Luiz Bonfá with SWPL lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpYsxwD4Uc0

Tenacious D the Devil in the movie rock off scene
Or
Master Ken 100 attacks to the groin and speed hitting
-fbfounder.Native

>>74275062
The first seven sounds like an exact copy, but the rest just seems to be an inspiration for Someone I Used To Know.

https://youtu.be/eimgRedLkkU
this is pop r-right?

>>74275146
>but the rest just seems to be an inspiration for Someone I Used To Know.
could be, that is.

>>74274746
Ew. That song is terrible.

>>74275176
Explain

call me maybe

are you kidding

>>74275176
You're terrible

>>74275186
Its that Fun song right? It's annoying and I heard it twice a day. "Whoawhoah whoah oh whoah woah oh." I just don't like it.

My Girls

>>74275228
agreed, song got old really quick
the term for the WHOAs is the "millennial whoop" btw

>>74275228
It's literally Cecilia by Simon and Garfunkel. It's impossible not to like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5_QV97eYqM

I cannot

You are correct

>>74274610
your favorite martian's cover of gotye's somebody that i used to know

>>74275277
>It's literally Cecilia by Simon and Garfunkel. That's a great reason not to like it.

ftfy

>>74275336
So what's it like having no taste?

>>74275228
Not an argument. Any song that's overplayed gets annoying. Doesn't change the fact that it's a gorgeous pop song

Starboy

>>74275346
i don't know, i'm not the person vouching for fun

Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

>>74275267
REEEEEEEEEEEEE IT'S BEEN AROUND FOREVER IT'S JUST SUDDENLY POPULAR BECAUSE THE SAME 6 PEOPLE WRITE LIKE EVERY POP SONG

>>74275364
>someone is actually defending a fucking fun. song.

>>74274746
>>74275277
>>74275346
>>74275364
>>74275400
go to bed jack antonoff

>>74275388

This actually might be it.

It's so good that even though I objectively don't like the song, I still kinda do whenever it's on.

>>74274610
Born This Way or gangnam style.

>>74275400
I know, just bullshitting

>>74274999
That was the worst song in the movie, and possibly the worst Disney song ever made.

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>>74275440

>>74275422
Fun. is bad how?

Get Lucky
Happy
The Hills

>>74275012
He's just somebody that we used to know.

EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!

>>74275481
They're the epitome of shitty, self-important pop music.

>>74274610
Party Rock Anthem

>>74275481
do you get all your music from fueled by ramen
is 21 pilots and paramore on your playlist as well

>>74275481
Some vague platitude about "pretentious hipsters"

Sounds like every /mu/core band like Of Montreal

>>74275456
Its easily the best song. How Far Ill Go is the worst. If you really believe either are the worst Disney songs ever then you havent seen very many Disney movies

>>74275516

Yeah it's impossible to hate this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg00YEETFzg

Where is my prize?

>>74275507
>>74275521
>>74275526
Holy shit guys, it's just a good pop song by mainstream standards is all I'm saying.

>>74275573
Not really.

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>>74274799
>>74274726
>>74274610
I was thinking about this topic recently and these were the three songs that immediately popped into my head. What is it about them that makes them stand out from the average radio-pop song?

>>74275456
>That was the worst song in the movie
Maybe
>worst disney song ever made
Hell no. Its still a solid 7/10

Pumped Up Kicks

>>74274610

I'm telling you guys,

It's 24K Magic by Bruno Mars.

>no one has said Runaway yet
How?

>>74275456
It was the worst song in the movie but there are much worse Disney songs my dude

>>74275608
when they were released, they sounded like nothing on the radio
now everyone on the radio's doing what they were doing years ago
in a really retarded way, they were ahead of their time

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>>74275631

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>>74274746
>>74274799
>>74275631
The only correct answers ITT

I like a few of the songs posted in this thread. I have no idea how Gotye got popular. Shut Up Dance was nice to hear on the radio two years ago. It's basically just Jessie's girl, but I like Jessie's Girl and they aren't distractingly similar. The rest of the album was better though. Style was a really good pop song. Only one I liked from her last album.

>>74274610
XO Tour Life

Human Sadness

Uptown Funk

>>74274958
are you a happy person?

>>74275649
Runaway by Electric Youth?

>>74275862
By Kanye

>>74275481
f the haters, fun. is amazing.

>>74275573
I'm the third guy. I'm agreeing with you.

They hate it because "hipsterism" but it really ain't a far cry from a band like The Mountain Goats

>>74275884
r/music is more your style, I think.

>>74274610
>implying that's possible

>>74275631
TIL that Pumped Up Kicks was released in 2011 and not 2006. Weird.

>>74275897
>They hate it because "hipsterism" but it really ain't a far cry from a band like The Mountain Goats
You're high as fuck. Fun is nothing like The Mountain Goats.

>>74274799
Dubs don't lie

DES

Hotline Bling

>>74274610
this shit is sonic melatonin

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>>74275947
Man, fuck off with that shit. Reflect on your lonely existence. This is why.

>>74275526
this is true.
/mu/ loved Fun. when Aim & Ignite came out. Some Nights isn't as good, but the only reason the band is hated is because they became popular.

>>74275882
i never heard runaway on the radio
all the shit in this thread is some radio shit, runaway was never that mainstream

>>74276140
This. And Some Nights is a surprisingly consistent album, although the first half overshadows the second because they're all hits.

>>74275852
i wish

>>74275481
uplifting inspirational soft garbage for the young at heart
generic marching beat with easy yet powerful melodic vocals. perfect radio music if you are gaming on your smartphone while mummy drives you to school.
It's one step above coldplay.

Unironically this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk

>>74276115
what

Hard Times

>>74274610
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOubzHCUt48

pumped up kicks

pumped up kicks

pumped up kicks

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>Ctrl+F
>Shake it Off
>0 Results

>>74277417
Hi, Lawliet

TT

Robyn - Dancing On My Own

All of the singles from Robyn's Body Talk album are great.

>>74275506
kek

Lorde - Team

>>74275481
I liked Aim and Ignite a lot. Some Nights was eh.

i win. https://youtu.be/3O1_3zBUKM8

>>74274726
Helena Beat was better.

i said it; fuck you.

Borrowed a phone for a few months. Only good song on it so it got played on repeat when many a drunk ride home on the train.

>>74274610
I can't

This

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pBkHHoOIIn8

>>74276004
this is the only correct answer. What a fucking banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxpDa-c-4Mc

>>74274610
Lorde-Tennis Court

Fireflies, easily.

>>74279963
delete this

>>74277417
Culture vulture song from a culture vulture artist, bet you like We Can't Stop and Bon Apetit too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2smz_1L2_0

>>74274610
I'm just posting this here because I think more people should listen to Gotye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWIKQMBBTtk

>>74275367
Not even the best song off that album

pumped up kicks

>>74274610
west coast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKxuiw3iMBE
>Tempo changes
>Isis-style beats (panopticon Isis, not ISIL)

dark horse was also pretty good

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>>74274610
Did anyone like Vows by Kimbra?

It was a while before I realised she was the singer to the Gotye song

>>74275156
It wasn't that famous, neither in this decade, that's 2008-09 iirc

>>74280875
Around the time Vows was released she was well liked around here, she also did a Miami Horror song in their debut.

>>74274746
disgusting

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL1UzIK-flA

>ctrl+f
>no work

y'al trippin

>>74274799
Get lucky is an annoying piece of shit song with literally nothing interesting about it.

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>>74274610
I think you're onto something here, OP.
His shitty hair, pathetic stare, her strong looks, yet helpless attitude - it's pretty much how I perceive that era to be like, or how I perceive people in it to be like.

In many ways, that is how I was. I shared that horrible haircut and that pathetic stare, I shared that idea of being butthurt whenever relationship ended, like I'm equal to a woman in that regard.

In many ways, this song sort of reminds me of what a pussy I was in my teenage years, or how pussy the entire world was. I honestly think society is getting tougher nowadays, tougher and more resilient, more masculine. That's one of the reasons why female pop stars are now trying to be more like Lana Del Rey was back in those days (she got tons of shit for her feminine figure), and why romance and intimacy are gone from the music industry.

Romance and intimacy are domain of weak males, and designed to feed feminine narratives, with them gone, the masculine is set to rule again.

I mean, just compare the two presidents, you'll see I'm right.

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>>74281806

>>74274799
no

>>74274726
When I first heard this I thought it must be from the 70s or 80s.

DESPACITO

Sign of The Times

Get Lucky
I Feel It Coming
Can't Feel My Face
Uptown Funk/24K Magic (It's the same damn song that I'll take any damn day)
Somebody I Used to Know
Call Me Maybe (This would be Run Away With Me if it was a hit)
Royals (Shame Homemade Dynamite didn't hit)
Sign of the Times
Pumped Up Kicks

>>74281806
You're retarded for projecting your internal life onto the entire culture. Also
>Romance and intimacy are domain of weak males
lmaoing at your life.

>>74275481
mu used to love aim and ignite. shame newfags have taken over.

>>74274958

That's called an artgasm. Enjoy it.

>>74275367
You're absolutely right

>>74275364
>Any song that's overplayed gets annoying
I can listen to Wouldn't It Be Nice by the Beach Boys 1000 times back to back and love it each time

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRGUgcSypko

Name a better cover of a mainstream pop song from this decade.

>>74281742
Trash song

>>74282016
Good list, add Starboy and POWER. and it's perfect

>>74282025
>You're retarded for projecting your internal life onto the entire culture
Culture heavily impacts the way you live, and the way you think.
Your problem's not me projecting, your problem's my "wrongthink".

Another problem is you do not recognise simple evolutionary traits of weak males.

It has been well established by evolutionary scientists, such as Richard Dawkins, that literary works are a way for weak males to appeal to females.
Such was the role of storytelling in the ancient times as well. If you look at who the greatest artists of our era are, you'll notice it's all male or female lesbians, people who are designed to produce art as a form of a mating call.
That also applies to popular music, if you look at who the composers and lyricists are.

Any time I see this video I can't help but wonder if her breath smelled terrible

>>74282324
Holy fuck, could you be any more of a pseud? If you're really no longer a teenager, that whole post should be embarrassing.

>>74282230
Oh yeah POWER was a hit, that's a no brainer
Best song on MBDTF anyway
All of the Lights was the bigger hit though
Starboy was the saving grace for the shitstream of hits of 2016

>ctrl + F "Midnight City"
>0 results

The fuck

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>>74275500
dub dubs confirms the truth

>>74283403
Wasn't a hit
Definitely top 20 of the decade material though

>>74275255
>this decade

>>74274799
that is the most boring pop song ever