Roasting the Top 10 Songs of 2010 

PLEASE do this for 2011 so we can all reminisce on the chokehold that Katy Perry had on society at the time

I was in a Catholic high school in the early 2010's and I have a distinct memory of our chorus teacher getting fed up because all the kids were bitching about how we always had to sing boring religious music during practice and during school concerts. So to make up for it, one day she printed out the sheet music to Dynamite by Taio Cruz and said "Okay class, since you guys wanted to sing something different, we'll sing this." It was so embarrassing and we never complained again

Someday the younger generation will ask us the great question: "Who the hell is Taio Cruz?" And we may have the moral responsibility to find out and answer them.

Love how OMG is not only an F, but it's even sitting right at the bottom of the tier trying to will a new, lower tier into existence, powered by his sheer hatred of the track.

all of these tracks represented the figurative calm before the storm before Rebecca Black's Friday turned the music industry upside down and defined a generation

So much middle school nostalgia and cringe is rushing back to me with these ten songs alone. Half of these songs were basically in the rotation of middle school’s dance playlist.

Bad romance is hands down one of the best Pop songs of all time. It’s in almost every top 10 pop songs list out there, it’s her Thriller, it’s her Bohemian Rhapsody, it’s her like a prayer, a classic pop song that I don’t think will ever age!!!

i love how usher is pushing boundaries into the forbidden G tier

Hayley Williams absolutely made Airplanes. That song would be absolutely nothing without her.

I don’t even think I would be able to critique these songs fairly if I’m being completely honest. They are so intertwined and linked with my childhood that when I hear them, all I’m reminded of is 5th grade and middle school lmaoo

If you listen carefully you can tell that Fantano doesn't like OMG by Usher.

bad romance deserves that S. it's aged so well, still an absolute banger

Fantano is in his basic but fun content era and I’m loving it

Incredible how of all these songs, Bad Romance actually aged like a fine wine compared to the others, an excellent pop song surpassing generations.

This video just slingshotted me back to being fresh out of high school working at pizza hut with my best friend in 2010. One of our coworkers had a radio he would play in the kitchen and I would be forced to listen to every single one of these songs at least once every shift. It was a stressful gig, my hands always smelled like onions and pineapple and I would walk out with a film of grease on my face. But we ate for free and were able to take food to our local gaming cafe and trade stuffed crust pizzas for free time on the computers to play Left4Dead2 until 2 in the morning. Life will never be that good again.

Bad Romance, along with Poker Face, are timeless hits. Gaga ruled the period between 2008 until 2011.

I think he’s starting to catch on… I think people (including me) really like hearing Fantano give his definitive opinions on stuff like clearing up what he actually thinks are 10/10 albums or like him just giving his opinion. I for one definitely like his opinion because as much as ppl hate on him, he’s really knowledgeable on a lot of music. Don’t hate me

Took a songwriting course in high school and had a grade dependent upon me writing a spoof of California Girls, including the snoop dogg rap verse that I had to perform in front of the class. Truly mortifying.

Tik tok by Kesha was very ahead of it’s time . Went back and listened with my friend and we realized she was one of the first doing hyperpop . Hyperpop developed because of those early 2010’s nitecore songs from 2018 but she sounds like a lot of artist doing hyperpop these past few yrs

The 2010s are really starting to have their own recognizably independent vibe from the times we’re in today.

Would love to see more rankings like this, they’re cool to watch because I forget what pop songs came out in what year so every song here is a fun surprise lol

The way Anthony feels about OMG is the way I feel about Hey Soul Sister. One of the worst things ever put to record. Just ghastly in every way.

I un-ironically miss the EDM craze of the late 2000s and early 2010s

Bad Romance is hands down one of the best pop songs in music history. Not to mention the memorable music video (S tier as well). Definitely, the “Thriller” of our generation.

tik tok is so over the top with 2010s tropes that it feels more like a time capsule than a song and that’s why i still love it

Bad Romance was one of my favorite songs as a kid. And 10+ years later, that song, as well as many others from Fame Monster like Telephone ft. Beyonce & Alejandro has still sound fun as they did back then.

This is the only video by Fantano where the comment section isn’t completely a meme and people are actually typing serious thoughts out, crazy

Bad Romance is one of the songs that as a kid I liked it but as I grow I appreciate more and more, such an iconic pop song, imo top 10 pop songs of all time AT LEAST

Melon just ripped apart middle school dance classic OMG for 2 whole minutes. Please do 2011 and 2012

“need you now” to me has always felt like that one scene from SpongeBob where he’s stuck at the chum bucket and missing mr krabs. That scene always plays in my head whenever I hear that track.

Your content lately has been at a pretty high point. Really liking you trying these new things, creating these new series, giving more things to look forward to with the channel.

That pop-rap-dance fusion era was genuinely disgusting. David Guetta, LMFAO, Flo-Rida, Pitbull, Taio Cruz and the shit that Black Eyed Peas brought out in those years. Katy Perry’s and Lady Gaga’s songs have aged infinitely better because it doesn’t try to be every fucking genre. There’s a reason why every positive comment on this video boils down to: this was the soundtrack of my middle school days, nostalgi is the only way you can still like it. It literally only appealed to middle school ages and people who like soulless, formulaic genre crossovers.

I completely forgot about Dynamite. Damn that chorus just exudes summertime fun.

This is reminding me of being 18, in uni, going to clubs and learning to hate chart music with an absolute passion.

Early 2010s dance pop was so much fun and I demand it comes back.

Bad Romance aged like fine wine. So much energy and your ears are being tenderly caressed my her voice

Wow I absolutely find Usher - OMG a banger I remember how hard this went off in clubs it's groovy as hell.

Glad to see Fantano call out the last decade of mainstream country, as it's abandoned its roots to achieve a new level of soulless and forgettable wannabe pop mediocrity.

I don't remember Anthony being that pissed about a song like he is here with OMG.

Usher’s OMG became and still is frequently played at sporting events and so I can see why it was so big. Also that bass beat that sounds like a SEGA Genesis made it is so skungy it’s kind of great

The chorus on Airplanes legitimately never get old. Hayley carried the shit out of that song.

So happy to hear what you had to say about bad romance. My partner and I were listening to it the other day and i was blown away with how fucking good the beat still sounds after all these years. Still a banger

Kesha single handedly brought crunkcore towards the front along with 3Oh!3 and for that I will always love her, ahead of their time

I literally only remember Taoi Cruz because Alestorm, a pirate metal project, covered his song Hangover and made it 10x more energetic and listenable.

As somebody who was growing up in the early 2010s and heard a ton of pop music back then, I had absolutely no memory of Usher's OMG. I knew every other song on this, but I had no recollection at all of OMG.

i always hated dynamite because my math teacher made their own version of the song.. 😥

Ever since I heard “The Monster,” I’ve thought a lot less of “Love The Way You Lie” than I did when it came out. It’s still a strong emotional collab and has a solid flow, but both artists just show off their abilities so much better on the former song. I’d put “The Monster” in my top ten first 100 times out of 100.

This was the era when I was most closely paying attention to what's on the charts/popular, and I couldn't for the life of me hum the melody of either of those two Taio Cruz songs from memory, though I remember his music being so ubiquitous and earworm-y...looking back at the 2010s chart toppers, it's so clear that - more than in any previous decade - so many of these songs won't stand the test of time. They were designed to be disposable. I _wish_ I could forget Hey Soul Sister.

So happy to see Bad Romance in S tier. I find it to personally be one of the best pop songs of the 21st century, legendary, trailblazing 🔥

The quality of soft synths have come a long way since this era.

As a survivor of the 2010s, I must agree with nearly everything you said about these songs

Really surprised Fantano finally gave his score for Save Me, San Francisco by Train. So happy he gave it a 10. Loved when he said, “Death Grips makes silly music, Train fucks very hard.”

I really enjoyed basking in the OMG hate. I love Usher but that song makes me want to throw babies. I have the same vitriol for Love in This Club. My best friend asked me to help them move and the first song they put on when we got to the house was Love In This Club. I win the friend of the year award for putting up with that shit.

I hate how ingrained into my system that stupid “Hey Soul Sister” song is thanks to Movistar. If you were a latin american kid, hell not even a kid a fucking person in latin america, during the early leg of the decade you’d heard that in commercials on the tv, radio and even while making a call. Sometimes you’d get a call and only hear the fucking song. I never, ever wanna hear that song for the rest of my life lmao.

Crazy how songs from 2009 like Bad Romance and Tik Tok (August 2009) are going to be remembered forever as 2010.

I would absolutely love if you just did this for like every year lmao. I went back and listened to a lot of these and it was such a fun nostalgia trip for me

party rock anthem will always hold a special place in my heart. i’ll be blasting shit on my deathbed, bad 2010s production included

My mom is maybe the biggest Train fan I've ever met. I've listened to more Train than maybe I would care to have or at least care to admit. The reason that my mom resonates with Train so much is because the lyrics are so non-sensical that since english isn't her first language she can just kind of turn her brain off. I mean, I used to think that AJR was relatively inoffensive as a band, and then there hit a point where the lyrics hit my brain, and I was like, shit, "I've got quinoa in my fridge, but I'm not feeling raw" is trash. I'm kind of terified of meeting the millenial stereotype that this was written for. Like I get that they have to exist, but I refuse to acknowledge their existence.

Bad Romance is one of my favorite songs of all time honestly. It's just wall to wall sound, and Gaga's vocals are amazing.

I was living for the tongue lashings of Usher and Train. I enjoyed how the distance of time allowed you go at it with both barrels.

while people talk a lot about fantano’s impact in the music reviewing scene and internet music discussion in general, nobody talks about his impact in the metal plated wallets that fit in your front pocket debates. Me and my homies about it all the time man, we have several of them and usually get excited when they drop a new design. Me and my homies be clicking that affiliate link faster than Drake releases a bad album.

Bad Romance for sure deserves that S tier

this was the year i moved to the us from mexico so these songs were the first big consumption of american media i’d ever had. all of the songs are so nostalgic for me even omg 😂

The fact all these songs still get a lot of play in the club/in H&M stores is kinda wild

It’s insane to consider the tolerance level I had for obnoxious music as a kid, when I was in middle school everyone and their mother was jamming out to OMG on the dance floor, now it makes me want to physically throw up.

Anyone else ever notice how similar the instrumentation/production of “Tik Tok” and “California Gurls” is? Chalk it up to Dr. Luke.

The fact that Primadonna Girl isn't anywhere on Billboard's 2012 list is criminal.

Absolutely loving this - a continuation of this series would be so fun!

Your thoughts on Kesha are pretty spot on for me as well. I think something can be dated in an almost charming way, and I think Tik Tok fits that to a tee.

As a total metal elitist gatekeeper at the time… when Bad Romance came out I loved it and didn’t even try to hide it from my friends lol

hey anthony, still loving your vids mate. that nuke on Usher's OMG cracked me tf up.

Your content lately has been fantastic. PLEASE keep up with these top 10 of the year tier lists, and albums you rate 10 in previous decades.

great format. now do the other 70 years of modern music.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought a lot of pop music production in the 2010s was pretty grating on the ears

I love OMG and have so many good memories with it. All this slander was painful😞

That roast of O.M.G was goddam beautiful. A Fantano classic.

Just DJ’ed a wedding for a couple who wanted all of these 2010’s songs for their reception. Got kinda nostalgic and felt like I was back at my middle school dances (my dad was djing those, so it’s extra nostalgic!)

Actually would love for this video format to maybe also include some critical faves (say, top 5-7 of the billboard but also top 5-7 on pitchfork’s list or something). Fun idea with lots of legs though. Agree that OMG is an all time bad pop single.

I can't get over how perfectly Tik Tok fits into the tier of " a little better than average but I can't for the life of me tell you why"

Bad Romance is a staple and the benchmark for great pop music

"We Found Love" is the best 2010s dance pop song. It belongs on the list.

THANK YOU Fame Monster is god level, that shit has aged like fine wine

Huh, i always thought Bad Romance released in 2009. But that means Lady Gaga was slaying for three years straight!

I think the main issue with OMG by Usher is that it sounds like a demo. It sounds completely unfinished and unpolished. It could have possibly been decent if they had put more time and effort into it. Either way, I’m surprised it became such a massive hit in that form.

I was wondering if you could do one for Todd in the Shadows? He's one of my personal favorite critics ever and he does top 10 lists for popular music specifically Or Diamond Axe Studios because he's also like the best pop music reviewer ever Also, I would LOVE more of this stuff. I really like seeing your opinions on stuff like this!

Anthony you can’t say “And now you crying out the window, guess that’s why they call it window pane” and call it a review

Keep em going! Love the series!! Also, OMG was played so much at my high-school dances. So much uninspired music was popular during that era, I couldn't listen to my small town radio for like 4 years.

Please continue to make more videos like this where you talk about older music! They've been great so far.

Yes Anthony, I drove around in truck delivering auto parts parts for all of 2010 so I know all these songs extremely well and that Usher song has always been suuuuch garbage. Thank you for acknowledging my past trauma

"Hey Soul Sister" and "Dynamite" are two of my least favorite songs ever to this day. I hated them when they came out and I still hate them now.

I love tik tok. I think the production is actually fantastic in terms of mixing, in terms of the dated sounds I think that’s the point. It was pulling from dance mhsic but like you said in a more punky alternative dance scene (maybe even crunkcore and bit music inspired). I think there’s absolutely a certain irony going into the making of it, similar to what the hyperpop scene has done now just intesnfied which is something Kesha even said herself, that she purposefully was silly and “dumbed herself down”. I think it’s nostalgic, great baseline, cool vocal production in a late 2000s/2010 way and really fun!!! My favorite on the list other than bad romance for sure

2010 was not a bad year, 2010 was finding it's placement or footing heading into this new decade coming out of the 2000s. 2010 we got a mini Eminem comeback, B.O.B. had two no. 1 hits, I still love Nothin On You & Airplanes. Personally Nothin on You I like better than Airplanes. Usher OMG Idk I like it, I remember seeing the music video on like a VH1 top 20 video countdown when it was new. So maybe it's just me. Katy Perry Teenage Dream Era is my favorite Era of Katy Perry. She was really dominating the charts at this time. I believe this album became the second album after MJ's Bad to have like 5 hit songs on one album something like that but I could be wrong. Lastly Kesha's Tik-Tok I did like as a wee lad, but now because of the Tik-Tok app I can live without this song. Kesha does have great songs. So I'm not gonna say she is trash.

Yoooo I don't even need to watch this video before I answer the question. YES plz do more of these types of videos. So glad you started off with one of my most favorite years of music and one that has forever shaped my taste of what I listen to. When I saw the title in my inbox, I was HYPED

Lets argue: fantano should make more predictions (which tracks will age poorly, which new songs will be hits, which artists are likely to blow up, which albums will go on to become classics)

oh my gosh all of these instantly played back in my head. i must've heard these collectively hundreds of times

great concept! hope you do more years for this. and my school forced us to do a lipdub video to dynamite, perhaps the most 2010 combination of things.

Hey Soul Sister is the only song from this list that I still hear every now and then through malls and clothing stores

“Gonna give this one the d” -fantano, 2022

okay this video was lit was so much fun to go along with you predicting the rankings. please make more of these!

These types of videos are fun Anthony please continue making them :)