SLANT年榜

lant Magazine: The 25 Best Singles of 2011
Kanye West – “All of the Lights”
Tyler – the Creator, “Yonkers”
Adele – “Rolling in the Deep”
Lana Del Rey – “Video Games”
Lady Gaga – “Born This Way”
Robyn – “Call Your Girlfriend”
Fleet Foxes – “Helplessness Blues”
Lady Gaga – “The Edge of Glory”
Beth Ditto – “I Wrote the Book”
Azealia Banks featuring Lazy Jay – “212〃
Das Racist – “Michael Jackson”
Gotye featuring Kimbra – “Somebody That I Used to Know”
Florence and the Machine – “Shake It Out”
Lana Del Rey – “Blue Jeans”
EMA – “California”
Britney Spears – “Till the World Ends”
SBTRKT featuring Yukimi Nagano – “Wildfire”
Lykke Li – “I Follow Rivers”
Girls – “Vomit”
Frank Ocean – “Novacane”
2NE1 – “I Am the Best”
Patrick Wolf – “The City”
St. Vincent – “Cruel”
Beyoncé – “Love on Top”
Battles featuring Matias Aguayo – “Ice Cream”

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1. Kanye West, "All of the Lights." A holdover from last year's epochal My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, "All of the Lights" beats the pulp out of nearly everything released this year. It's also perhaps the most acute example of Kanye West's pitched mania for theatrical expressions of manic-depressive instability, his mixture of self-destruction and self-love, sentiments which carried over to this year's Watch the Throne, albeit muted by Jay-Z's magisterial arrogance, which is more static and less interesting. Beyond the canned horn fanfare and the unhinged breakbeats, the song's chorus ranks as one of the most brilliantly purposeful wastes of big-name talent ever: transport 20 pop stars to Hawaii, record them, hit blend. JC

3. Adele, "Rolling in the Deep." We're all thinking it: Thank goodness Adele got dumped. Without her dysfunctional breakup, the world wouldn't have 21, which, in turn, would have robbed us of "Rolling in the Deep," a fiery, almost sermonic soul-pop missive promising doom, pain, and woe on its unfortunate target. "Unfortunate," of course, because listeners can't help but feel sorry for the guy after hearing the kind of damning rage Adele levels at him, using the full force of her cosmic voice and the song's fierce gospel to pound at his guilty conscience. Even the track's unrelenting foot stomps sound as though they're being aimed squarely at her victim's noncommittal ass. Which is why "Rolling in the Deep" is such a good pop song: Far from a passive lament on the barbs of love, it's a weapon Adele uses with deadly precision to display virtuoso control over both her ex-lover and her craft. KL

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