I've always maintained the Call Me Maybe is a huge banger. Carly's vocals literally sound like she's smiling the entire time and really convey the feeling of flirtiness. And the chorus strings! My god, the strings!
@@carlyslayjepsen it’s more than just hearing her smiling, she just strikes me as honest on any emotion she tackles. Gimme Love has a certain legitimate scale and drama that I feel like I don’t get from her contemporaries
If you love the song, I suggest looking into Marianas Trench. Their lead vocalist Josh Ramsay helped co-write & produce the track for Carly as both are 604 Records alumni.
I think it's a miracle that Somebody That I Used To Know became as popular as it did on the pop charts given how different it was from all the other hits of the time. It's so understated, yet sure of itself. It wasn't gaudy dance pop but it managed to resonate just as loudly.
@@DeadstormX27 it's amazing how having a song plastered into your head can make you hate it, and then when you finally go to listen to it on your own terms it manages to be amazing. Our brains: "don't you dare influence me peasant"
I remember when Somebody That I Uses To Know dropped. Many of my friends were going crazy saying that there was finally somebody at the level of David Bowie or Peter Gabriel to bring inventiveness and art to mainstream pop once again, and that the future of pop was gonna be bright... Its been 10 years.
The lead singer hated the fame and stopped releasing music altogether from Gotye soon after just so he could get less coverage. Just made music with his friends in another band and for fun. Its a shame because he had a really unique style that would made many bangers.
Somebody That I Used to Know is not only one of the best pop songs of all time, but one of the best breakup songs of all time. Perfect track through and through.
2012 was THAT summer for me. So many good memories. More days at the local pool than not. Old enough to experience the world but young enough to not be weighed down by it. I’ll always look back fondly on that year and it’s music 🥲🧡
Yep same here, I was 22 years old. No care in the world with so many bangers playing on the radio. You definitely hit it on the head with "old enough to experience the world but young enough not to be weighted down by it"
I remember hearing Call Me Maybe on the radio all the time when I was in junior high and absolutely hating it. I thought I was "too tough" and "too cool" to like a song like that. Now that I'm an adult, I can really appreciate just how well crafted of a pop song it is. It's absolutely adorable and extremely catchy and fun. I totally understand why it was as massive as it was.
I never hated the song but like I was definitely not a fan of mainstream pop music at the time and only listened to 90s rap. Fast forward a decade later and now I’m a huge Carly rae jepsen fan and ended up buying VIP tickets for her current tour😂
The entire Making Mirrors album from Gotye is so fuckin underrated. Everyone always seems to talk about him like he's a one hit wonder but he's got so many other good songs. Making Mirrors might actually be my favourite album from 2011
being an one hit wonder doesn't mean he's a bad artist, just as having lots of hits doesn't mean an artist is good. there are a lot of one hit wonders out there whose music is pretty solid overall despite not achieving the same recognition, gotye is definitely one of them. now just look at drake, he has lots of hits and most of his singles chart pretty high... and yet his career has been extremely mediocre for years now.
Still in my top 5 albums of all time, hearing it on iTunes when it came out absolutely transcded me. Making Mirrors will always remain the soundtrack of one of the best years of my life.
"Paolo Cruz" More reasons to add why 2012 was an amazing year for mainstream music. Also, around that time Lana Del Rey got mainstream which brought Indie Pop to be mainstream and was a backlash to the club boom of the Late 00's Early 2010s . A year later, the genre would blow up due to the success of Lorde's Royals which is imo the Smells Like Teen Spirit of the 2010's. To me, Alternative Pop being a backlash to the club boom with artists such as Pitbull and Flo Rida is like how Nirvana ended Hair Metal in the 1990s imo
Personally, I think the production on We Are Young really works in the song's favor. It sounds so loud and cramped, just like a crowded bar full of shitfaced people going crazy. Even Janelle Monae's feature works for me, because it's like she's the love interest that gets drowned out by the party, which fits the lyrics of the song.
@@soupalot Everyone thought the world would end in December of 2012. Something about the Mayan calendar I don’t really remember why but I do remember it was a HUGE deal back then lmao it was all over the news and everything it genuinely terrified me for a bit too.
Year I graduated highschool, was too busy being a born in "Le Wrong Generation" teen to even give any of these songs a chance (except Gotye cuz it sounded like 80s music 🤣)
Azealia Banks - "212" Until this year per a RU-vidrs' video about 2010's hits, I'm not sure I even knew this song back in the day unless it was just briefly in passing. However, after hearing it, I'm sad I didn't know it. Despite Azealia's terrible views and personality, the song is such a banger. The production and beat transitions are flawless, the lyrics are so hard hitting and only seem to increase in intensity through the song. It's truly a track that was far ahead of its time for the lane it was in. 9/10
I can't think about "Glad You Came" without hearing the Kidz Bop version that turns "hand you another drink, drink it if you can" into "hand you another dance, dance it if you can." The things my brain decides to remember after 10 years, I swear.
AMEN! 🙏🏾 It’s a classic track that is just as great today as it was ten years ago and it’s an undeniable delight anytime I hear that first synth pattern hit my eardrums!
@@baronvonbeandip I think I may agree. Lights is a good song with interesting lyrics and vocals but the song as a whole is above average whole Call me maybe is like an altimeter
The song got cut off by year, only getting popular around the last half of 2012, I'm pretty sure if there's a list of the most popular songs from the last half of 2012 to the end of the first half of 2013 "Gangnam Style" would be in the top 10 of that list
I often tell my music-loving friends that 2012 is my fave year in music. not for these pop singles, but the albums that came out that year. there's my gateway to Grimes with an all-time fave in Visions. then there's K-Dot's GKMC, Frank Ocean's Channel Orange, Tame Impala's Lonerism, Beach House's Bloom, and even the G.O.O.D. Music Cruel Summer mixtape!
I'm glad you gave Call Me Maybe and Carly the recognition she deserved. I wasn't a fan of that song originally when I heard it, I mean, I was graduating high school in 2012 and I wanted to hear Avenged Sevenfold and System of a Down and shit but I'd always had a pop side to me and when I discovered Carly's album EMOTION, I was floored. I thought it was better 80s pop than The Weeknd. The Weeknd still slaps but I'm a huge Carly fan.
I wasn’t really into pop music as a kid (I was entering my preteens in 2012) but the very first joke I made in Minecraft was covering a friends house in torches, laughing through the lyrics “baby you light up my world like nobody else” Good memories
2012 was such a good year honestly It was pretty much the definition of the early 10's The internet was starting to become bigger, everything felt to fresh and new in comparison to the 2000's Its been 10 years since 2012 and to this day i still consider it my favorite year
Im currently going to school at Full Sail University for Recording arts and im learning alot about production and mixing and just improving my critical listening skills. This has been a fun series to watch because my critical listening skills have gotten better so its fun to hear all these old songs from my childhood and realize how dated some of these songs are but goddamn re listening to tracks like “Bad Romance” and “Somebody that I used to know”, its amazing to hear how well these songs hold up today! Fun stuff Anthony!
Can’t believe you put “Stronger” in D tier. I know it’s off Graduation and I know that one line about gay women hasn’t aged too well but the Daft Punk sample along with classic Kanye production and flow make it a classic imo
I turned 21 in 2012 and so that's when I started hearing all these songs in awful college bars, so these all have pretty strong nostalgia value for me.
°boardface° is great as well, I miss the guy so much, I know he's playing and writing music with his band The Basics plus he's been doing other side projects (archivial of the ondioline and production of some new indie artists) but in comparison of the quality of his projects as Gotye, The Basics' stuff is almost trash in my opinion
Appreciate the Gotye love! I highly recommend trying out his 2 albums, personally I like a lot of those tracks way more than his most famous song. I hope he’ll return someday!
2012 actually was a good year. I will always associate Death Grips' music with extreme heat and the smell of house paint from listening to Ex-Military and The Money Store while painting houses in Arizona that summer.
I remember when Lights released in like late 2010 I was playing OG one nonstop until the Bassnectar remix dropped. I still think that remix is the pinnacle of pop EDM remixes from that era.
Starships has probably the best hook in all of early 2010s pop music, name a hook that's just as catchy while also giving that trademark pop-melon-choly sound
i only pulled up to make sure you put call me maybe in S tier, everything Carly Rae came out with was pure gold, and excited for her currently dropping album.
2012 is that one year where everyone agrees it was good. I was too young to remember some stuff, but hell the songs threw me back into the past. Good times, indeed
Despite production issues, We Are Young deserves an A cause it's one of the most memorable song of 2012, it aged well, it's well written and it's very catchy. Change my mind
Also insane year for rap singles too. Motto, Maad city, Clique, Mercy, N*gg*s in Paris, Dance a$$, rack city (last two are more guilty pleasures)… also Money Store came out that year. Great year for the radio
2012 was a beautiful year for music and life in general. This really make me miss all the boy band poppy music we had at the time. Really gave me positive vibes. Justin Bieber, 1D, hell even Austin Mahone! And the fashion, snap backs and high top shoes galore. Good times man, good times.
2008-2013 were amazing years, but the peak of it was 2012, definitely a crazy year for me, especially because I was young and was basically hearing these bops as well as other hits from prior years that I missed out on and never heard. Also hip-hop/rap albums were also pulling out bangers. Man that year was filled up with adrenaline.
As someone who has never and will never go out of my way to listen to their music, that “what makes you beautiful” song was always kinda catchy and harmless to me
“Somebody that I used to know” was playing as I drove my 3-month old puppy to my home back in 2012. He’s a proper geezer now. Also shouts out CRJ. She only makes fire strictly speaking
Somebody That I Used to Know is so sick that it often comes up in memes in 80s version, in sped up version, in cinematic/epic version and it always sounds fucking amazing
2012 didn’t have to cut me off and make it like we never happened and that we were nothing. I don’t need it’s love, but it treats me like a stranger and that feels so rough.
You would think even tho internet artists didn't chart super high back then that he woulda at leasr mentioned Sosa bc 2012 and 2013 are known as his years, especially 2012
Carley Rae Jepsen is an amazing artist. One thing I love about her is that her sound and quality have been consistent. She has set some trends but she also just does whatever she wants.
I’d say the production on we are young gets the job done, the opening drum beat is extremely recognizable (was a TikTok trend) and the snare gives the song a lot of drive. Also a pretty memorable vocal performance especially when he exclaims “I just thought” and of course the chorus is killer. Easy S tier for me.
thx for this anthony, was 13 years old in 2012 and that was the last year of my childhood imo. got into smokin weed and drinking from a young age and it really took that edge out of my life. Still struggling with it a lot honestly, dont understand how some do the straight edge lifestyle
theres really like 3/4 songs i’d give a 9/10 or above (die young, lights, Somebody that i used to know), and it competes with 2018 for the weakest ten best hit songs. for comparison 2011 had eight 9/10s and 2013 had six edit: going through 2018, it had a LOT more good songs than i remember (a lot more than 2012 as well). 2010/2019 might be the closest thing to 2012 but even then i think their lists are better
Looking back, 2012 was a HUGE shift into the current state of pop music. A lot of the music on this list is still relevant today, and the days of electro pop and pitbull felt so far behind it.
Call Me Maybe is awesome I’ve been listening to it proudly these past few weeks. While my friends are still stuck in their ‘ew pop’ phase, my sister and I have never been closer in our music tastes thanks to our revisit with that song and I cannot be happier. You really start to realise, ironically as derivative and mainstream as Pop attends to be, there really is an ‘elite’ in pop music that stands the test of the time past all the filth, looking at you Chainsmokers
its incredible how experimental hip hop artist jpegmafia not only had a substantial influence on vaporwave music, but also wrote the 2010s best pop tune long before being a succesful rapper
My middle school years had nothing but bangers. So so so grateful to have lived through that. 2010 - 2013. Never forget, all we have now is the memories 😞
Glad to see “Somebody That I Used to Know” getting the love it deserves! Such a beautiful track with great vocals , killer chemistry, and a certain baroque melancholy that’s practically impossible to find in any other modern pop songs.
Oh good time is such a fun pop summer song. It’s by no means great or mind blowing but it works and knows what it wants to be without being pretentious
I was a teaching assistant in Germany during 2012/2013, and it was very funny to see German kids who were still learning English walking around trying to sing "Call Me Maybe" - just every variation under the sun, "HEY! We have met now, and I am crazy, this is a number, so bring me baby, HEY! I have met you, and you are crazy, we've got a number, let's have a baby, HEY!..."
Call Me Maybe and Somebody That I Used To Know could not be more different songs, but because both of them were written, constructed, and produced so magnificently they both wound up being surprise dominant smashes. I'm still blown away that Somebody That I Used To Know was the mega smash it was because it was from an artist that was unknown to the US and it didn't sound anything like what was popular at the time.
God. This year. God FUCKING DAMN. My CHILDHOOD. This and 2013/14 were my radio prime. Somebody you used to know has always been an all timer for me. I loved it from the moment I heard it. I’ve always loved we are young, just beautiful nostalgia. The Wanted and glad you came, one direction. God Damn the nostalgia. I remember hating call me maybe because I was a boy and boys weren’t allowed to like that music (also I was a snob because my family were big music people). Looking back it’s a nostalgic banger. God I love this year, even the awful songs
