2013 Was So Bad 

Macklemore showed up, told us he liked cheap deals on clothes, told us he thought he was gay in the third grade, and then faded into irrelevance

I did the Harlem Shake with a few friends for my 5th grade talent show, and I think that's why I'm an alcoholic now.

Macklemore was a breath of fresh air at the time. Fantano gave them a 7, they got good reviews. Then everyone hated them because they got the Grammy over Kendrick and they acknowledged Kendrick was robbed. I don’t get it

The thing that I always found the most offensive about Cruise by a Florida Georgia Line was that there is legitimately only 4 bars between the first and second choruses. I can’t think of a more blatantly soulless corporate country pop song in existence. Horrible.

I mean thrift shop was a piece of music that significantly increased the profit of second hand stores. That is powerful stuff.

Reminder that Filthy Frank started the Harlem Shake meme

I still say that if Macklemore hadn't won that Grammy for Best Rap Album, and nothing else changes about the timeline, he would not get anywhere near the hate and clowning he gets now and would be looked upon generally well by the community

Can't Hold Us is great. I'm surprised you don't like it. Such a great instrumental, performance and chorus. Everything you want from a hype song. I'm not surprised it's been so fondly remembered.

The fact that Get Lucky and Royals were not the biggest hits of 2013 is upsetting.

The fact that Get Lucky was kept from the number 1 spot on the Hot 100 by Blurred fucking Lines makes me so depressed.

Don't kill the part of you that enjoys the cringy things, kill the part of you that cringes. Thrift Shop remains a bop, as does Can't Hold Us. Also Downtown is fucking magnificent.

Thrift Shop was definitely a product of its time. I appreciate the message of utilizing second-hand clothes and not relying on the newest, hottest, most expensive fashion - but it was one of those songs that blew up and burned out very quickly.

all im learning about this series is that anthony is way more into katy perry than i thought hed be

I am SHOCKED by fantano's placement of Roar. That song is like nails on a chalkboard and simultaneously like staring at paint dry.

I am glad that Blurred Lines gave way to Word Crimes by Weird Al Yankovic

And here I am, enjoying every second of Thrift Shop over all 7 syllables Katy Perry turned Roar into.

I found it interesting that Royals by Lorde didn't make the list, but I looked it up and despite it being one of the highest ranking songs of the entire decade (18), it didn't hit the top 10 in either 2013 (15) or 2014 (20). It must have hit big at an awkward time and ended up being pretty successful in both years without it dominating either one.

If you think 2013 was bad, wait til you see 2014.

“Applause” by Lady Gaga may not have bested “Roar” by Katy Perry at the time but it certainly aged far, far better than “Roar” did over the years 😌✨

was really surprised to not see royals, drunk in love, hold on we’re going home, applause, upon way more 2013 hits. billboards top 10 honestly don’t include any songs i think of when i think of 2013

I don’t care man, thrift store lives in my heart as that goofy ass song you don’t have to take seriously. It’s not its fault the Grammys are stupid.

"Katy Perry's Roar, this is actually one of her best singles, in my opinion." Jesus Christ, Melon

Disclosure, Get Lucky and Royals, not cracking the list is wild. They dominated the charts in the UK

i love "when i was your man". Its relatable and not as corny as a lot of other ballads. The vocal take is amazing from him and it just succeeds perfectly at what its supposed to be. to me its A Tier

Let’s have a moment of silence for Bruno Mars’ Locked Out of Heaven, which ranked at number 11 😔 one of his best songs imo

The praise for “Roar” does make me question… maybe the Fantano haters are right, sometimes?

It’s crazy that ‘Get Lucky’, ‘Royals’ and ‘Gangnam Style’ all dropped this year but didn’t make the top 10. And yet that Florida Georgia Line track did???????

It’s worth mentioning that “Thrift Shop” came out when people were getting tired of hearing rappers brag about their money and materialistic expenses, so that boosted its appeal. Honestly, contrary to Fantano’s take on it, I believe people feel motivated to rag on it mostly as a response to the Grammys upset and Mackelmore’s ensuing lack of popularity and growing scrutiny. The song itself sounds about the same to me as it did back when it came out, which is to say I think it’s a decent, fun, if not expendable single.

Not even JT fan, but Mirrors alone wipes half of the singles here with its ass. And i still have soft spot for thrift shop, it reminds me the fun times of my college years.

This ranking is so wild, Roar is the blandest song Katy ever made in her peak era, no one listened to Harlem Shake past the first drop cuz that’s where the meme ended. Can’t Hold Us and Mirrors are genuinely good songs here and deserved to be higher up.

8:18 **vinyl scratch sound** YOU'RE NOW LISTENING TO **car crash sound** 102.3 **elephant sound** REAL ROCK FM **explosion** WHERE WE PLAY NOTHING BUT ROCK, ROCK, AND MORE ROCK **glass shattering sound** **police siren** THIS AIN'T YOUR GRANNY'S STATION **Imagine Dragons - Radioactive starts playing**

Roar getting a lot more praise than I was expecting that song grinds my gears

roar above mirrors is genuinely insane

Not gonna lie, growing up as a teen in the 2010’s it was kind of fun, and I enjoyed the music on the radio at the time. I’m grateful that I’ve expanded my horizons and listened to music I never would hear on the radio but I can still look back fondly on those years and the music and still derive some semblance of enjoyment from it. But cruise makes me want to dive off a bridge.

Oh my god Anthony, still coming in with the 20/20 experience hot takes. I relisten to this album occasionally and it STILL sounds fantastic to me. Mirrors is a CLASSIC of modern pop

Thrift shop is a bop and no one can tell me otherwise

Can't Hold Us was an ELITE summer anthem, can't believe you've done this Anthony

I'm telling you Anthony when you hear Can't Hold Us in the club you will absolutely wanna put it in S. People go insane over that track and it's an absolute blast every single time

S: Can't Hold Us A: Thrift Shop, Mirrors B: Radioactive C: Cruise, When I Was Your Man, Just Give Me a Reason D: Roar E: Harlem Shake F: Blurred Lines

The fact that Applause off Artpop wasnt top ten this year was a *crime*

Am I deaf or is Mirrors like an A tier song

I feel like the weirdest part of Radioactive was the puppet dog-fighting music video. Like I really don't get why that was the choice they went with.

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis were unironically great fun. I still listen to Gold and Downtown regularly

This was the year I was a freshman in college. The communal bathroom I had to use in my dorm always had the pop radio playing. It was living hell. Roar, mirrors, blurred lines, and radioactive played on a near constant loop everyday. I would need to take a dump, walk into the bathroom, hear blurred lines start, and just turn and leave. Dark times.

This series is so fucking awesome. Keep em coming Melon😭 2014 was cursed too

it's still really trippy, as someone from Seattle, to see how people remember Macklemore. I was never a huge fan, but prior to his mainstream breakout around that time, he was somewhat of a Seattle local rap scene staple. It's just so strange for me to even think of him as the fleeting mainstream success that he was in 2013.

I went on a family cruise in 2013 and it was the worst decision Ive ever made in my life. The song cruise ft nelly played nearly every 10 minutes on the top deck. It made a memory though, a very terrible memory that will haunt me and everyone around me in dementia.

This video is giving me Vietnam flashbacks of the year itself and Todd in the shadows video and I love it because it reminds me even in high school dominated by this shit I was listening to much better new shit at the time

While 2013 had some bads, it offers the mind-blowing stuff too like Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires, Arctic Monkeys' AM, Arcade Fire's Reflektor, Kanye West's Yeezus, QOTSA's Like Clockwork, and Daft Punk's Random Access Memories. Those albums defined my '13 school life so much.

So I started teaching music in 2013 and the kids wanted to learn most of these songs cause they were so big at the time so thanks for the memories, Melon. 🤗

2013 was a bad year for me to be the music director at my college radio station that insisted we play top 40 pop. I should have known it was a bad sign when we got a demo CD proclaiming it was “the moment you’ve all been waiting for! The debut single for rock and roll’s newest sensation; “It’s Time” by Imagine Dragons!” “Radioactive” was not only the best single off the debut album from Nickelback 2.0, but would end up being the best song the band has ever released. I was also pressured all year by my staff to have Gangnam Style in heavy rotation. Dark days. This review was triggering.

I just can't help but feel if a rapper said the same things as blurred lines it wouldn't be seen as offensive. Like, Eminem got less criticism for writing about tying someone up and burning the house down and that song was just as successful.

Really wish Clarity hit the top 10 that year, because that song is still a bop all these years later.

Honestly I can't see another thrift shop/ gangnam style track at all which is what makes them so special. Those tracks worked because the energy was vastly different back then and encapsulated it. Nowadays when I look at the charts - everyone's tryna be too cool/too hungry for success to really let something goofy like that flourish.

I have so much nostalgia for this year that I just can't get past. 2013 music will always have a special place in my heart.

Fantano when this series is caught up, im curious if you would do tiers for Madden Soundtracks 🧐

Can’t believe 2013 was nearly a decade ago. Feels shorter.

Actually been seeing a lot of recent love to Mirrors, not sure what sparked that online but makes sense cause that and 20/20 were always great imo. Couldn’t disagree more on that

The state of Florida and Georgia owe us all an apology for Florida Georgia Line and the proliferation of hick-hop.

Just as reference, here are numbers 11 - 20: 11 *Locked Out of Heaven* Bruno Mars 12 "Ho Hey" The Lumineers 13 "Stay" Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko 14 *Get Lucky* Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams 15 *Royals* Lorde 16 *I Knew You Were Trouble* Taylor Swift 17 "We Can't Stop" Miley Cyrus 18 *Wrecking Ball* Miley Cyrus 19 *Wake Me Up* Avicii 20 "Suit & Tie" Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z I don't know how these didn't get higher

Roar was just that fucking brave song with different lyrics

Mirrors is probably one of JTs best songs not gonna lie, super emotionally rich for a pop song in my mind.

Agreed 100% on everything you said re: Macklemore. It's really upsetting how quickly he swept in and took over. And yet somehow he finally put out a genuine love letter to classic hip-hop with some creative flows in Downtown and nobody noticed it.

SO EXCITED for the announcement of the Macklemore flavored chewing gum! Can't wait to try it 🍬 11:35

2013 was an incredible year for EDM tho

Anthony’s a coward for switching up on Thrift Shop.

I feel so proud whenever Anthony says row instead of column

love this series, hope you do years earlier than 2010 after you finish these.

I would love a series like this for the 2000s lol

Don't think I can forgive you for that Mirrors take Anthony

I was 12/13 in 2012/2013, and even then I recognized how night and day the years were. Looking back at 22 I feel the same.

2012 was the last great year for Pop. 2013 was when I started to get endlessly angry at Top 40 radio and it wouldn't go away until like 2017.

there's NO WAY anthony avoiding the word "tier" every time he's placing an album is NOT to deliberately piss me off

I lived in Seattle from around 2010-2015 and I still suffer from Thrift Shop/Same Love/Can’t Hold Us PTSD. Like that shit was already playing EVERYWHERE, but being in Macklemore’s hometown on top of it…. Every Seahawks/Mariners/Sounders game (I went to a LOT), every mall, every grocery store, gas station, public restroom, every 30-40 year old white male or female hipster driving by with their windows down….. the horns on Thrift Shop still haunt my dreams. Sometimes I wake up in cold sweats, nervously shaking and staring into the darkness in the corner of my room, and I swear I can see a faint image of Macklemore standing there in a cheetah print fur coat with a $0.99 Goodwill tag hanging from it and he’s holding a pair of scissors and he looks me dead in my eyes and says “………… BUT SHIT IT WAS 99 CENTS!!!!” and then proceeds to cut the tag off before roller blading off into the darkness….. Will the nightmares ever stop?!?!?

I love can’t hold us cause the horns pop off and it’s awesome lol. I’ve only had 2 songs in S tier this far (Bad Romance, Call Me Maybe) this would be the third :(

Oh man, listening to Mirrors again brought me a lot of nostalgia. So many memories.

I really loved Pompeii by Bastille during that time for some reason.

It’s surprising to me that Royals didn’t make the top 10 considering how big that song was in 2013.

I feel like Unorthodox Jukebox as a whole felt like a bit of a transition into the type of his music he does now. I don't think "Treasure" wouldn't have been too out of place next to "Uptown Funk" or a lot of his 24K Magic album.

Ya know what Thrift Shop is? A proto-Cheap Thrills. It has that *celebrating being poor but still having a good time* vibe but without sounding instantly dated

Disagree w thrift shop hate, it doesn’t hold up perfectly but still a fun song and can’t deny the beat has the energy and bounce right

Can't Hold Us is an eternal banger I don't care. One of the best hype anthems ever. Great instrumental, fantastic chorus and good Macklemore performance.

Can you add a super small snippet of each song that you’re talking about? Short enough not to get flagged but long enough to drastically improve these types of videos, no worries.

I like Macklemore and the heist haven’t listened to them in years but I like still to this day it has a special place in my heart

Listening to Mirrors to spite Melon is what I’ll be doing for the rest of my October

I had major depression in 2013 so makes sense, in a better place now thank god

7:08 "This track may have mustard" Thank you, Anthony, for informing your viewers who may have food allergies

The only good thing to come from Blurred Lines is that Word Crimes is one of Weird Al's best songs.

Daft punk was pretty memorable with RAM that year

I literally blocked Macklemore from my mind until now

When you did the FGL thing you sounded just like my coworker from Detroit imitating my boss here in South Ga

I went back and listened to little bit of each song during this video and it felt like i just traveled back in time to high school lmao

Thrift Shop is still a banger to me in a fun way. It wasn't afraid to be silly, nothing else on the charts sounded like it and along with Lorde's Royals, sorta pushed an anti materialist, anti consumerism mentality. Guarantee there was an uptick in Thrift store sales instead of always buying something new, trendy and expensive.

Can’t hold us at D? Damn that song was fucking banger. And I didn’t even like Macklemore at all but I’d give that song at least a B tier

petition to make anthony play the songs when he rates them, so I don’t have to open another tab to listen to them and remember them.

Greatest contribution JT has ever contributed to pop culture was playing the Napster guy in The Social Network

Sorry but Mirrors is simply one of the greatest love songs of all time

I’m really sick of the Macklemore hate, I can’t speak on anything after The Heist, but I still fucs with Can’t Hold Us, Thrift Shop, & Same Love they’re classics and a great time

2010-2015 were literally my college years so each of these videos takes me back to all the stress and anxiety I had during those years lol.

Listen we gotta S tier Harlem Shake because without it the domino effect of Joji's rise to internet fame through Filthy Frank may have not been WITHOUT THIS LEGENDARY SINGLE