1 Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom Pow – This is not the one, you will find the one elsewhere on this list, but this is a future for house music, just heavy beats and an addictive hook to take you out. It is all compulsory propulsion out of mind – B+
2 Lady Gaga – Poker Face – The reason this is so big isn’t just the obvious but like “Vogue” before it is a dance movement as a signal of world power: a how to be cool do it yourself song – A+
3 Lady Gaga feat. Colby O’Donis – Just Dance – Now here is the proof, while nearly equally as popular as “Poker face”, this doesn’t have lasting power and the proof is, when was the last time you heard her play it live? Now when was the last time you heard her perform “Poker Face” live – B+
4 Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling – The most important song of the century in principle, in practice his chewing gum EDM move is a place we never quite reached The difference between “I Gotta Feeling” and Avicii’s “Wake Me Up” is the difference between modern dance making a move on the pop music throne and modern MOR being usurped by pop music – A+
5 Taylor Swift – Love Story – Her most important song is also the best sine qua non song on the century – A+
6 Flo Rida – Right Round – Though the album was a cultural manifesto, this took a hit from the 1980s and ran with it – A
7 Jason Mraz – I’m Yours – He sings he dances He cloys. He annoys – C
8 Beyonce – Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) – another cultural manifesto and with a surfeit of baby mama’s in Black society, it also has a social poit of view out of step with the times – A
9 Kanye West – Heartless – This entire album is the blueprint for future West, no 808s no Yeezus. A great song – A
10 All-American Rejects – Gives You Hell – The birth of modern rock? Like emo meets EDM with all the help modern technology can provide – B
