Wednesday, January 5, 2011

The Year in 2010: Lyrics

We can't technically get things started this year until we finally give up making lists about last year. So, in the spirit of clingy things, I am opening up a poll to all eleven of our readers (please leave a comment, Mom). I need to choose an appropriate lyric to represent the year of 2010. We had some brilliant work from some brilliant minds* and it is impossible to boil the work down into a single Best Lyrics by myself. I need help.

And the nominees are...

Katy Perry, "Firework"
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind?

Lady Gaga, "Alejandro"
You know that I love you, boy- you're hot like Mexico.

Justin Bieber, "Baby"
And I was like, "Baby, baby, baby, oh! Baby, baby, baby oh!"

Ke$ha, "We R Who We R"
We're dancing like we're dumb-dum-duh-duh-duh-dumb.

We need to crown a Best Lyrics of 2010. Please help. I'm leaning toward Ke$ha, or throwing in a surpise- Miley Cyrus is a scene-stealer, you know.

*excellent lead in to my documentary, Misunderstood Genius Syndrome.

6 comments:

  1. I don't know-- there is a certain mastery in Gaga's simile.

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  2. "Misunderstood Genius Syndrome..." I like that.

    As for the lyrics, I'm going to go with Katy Perry. Why? Because she sang with Elmo.

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  3. I'm down with plastic bags drifting in the wind ... although if I hear that song one more time on the radio, I might explode like a firework myself (and not in the double entendre way she no doubt means).
    ;)
    Kevin (one of the faithful 11!!)

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  4. I've got to vote with Kevin. It's that plastic bag in the wind thing that grabs me the most from your list of nominees.

    May the best (!) lyric win!!!

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  5. Nope. I'm with Justin Bieber: BAby, baBY, BABY, OH, baby--oops, ran out of pronunciations. Never mind. Second choice, plastic bag and in the wind.

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  6. Sarah is Anonymous. I don't get all this techno stuff.

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