#and flo rida

[chloesimaginationthings]

Hit her with that Mike FNAF stare

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Flo Rida feat Kesha - Right Round 2009

The song - to use Wikipedia's phrasing - heavily interpolates the chorus of the Dead or Alive song "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" in its hook. It reached the top ten of the music charts in nineteen countries worldwide, and is one of the best-selling singles of the digital era.

[best-overplayed-song]

fun facts

in the '80s, Run DMC was pushing an anti- drug and gang message: "If only one kid turns away from gangs or drugs, we’ve been successful … Life is hard enough without drugs or joining gangs … We offer kids alternatives. We tell them they can go play ball, go to school. There are lots of other things you can do besides taking drugs or joining gangs … We are not thugs. We don’t use drugs. People try to stereotype us"

years later, DMC admitted "Yeah we was getting high as hell. I was a cocaine man, Run was a weed head, and Jay was weed and 40s. The coke in the ‘80s was the best coke ever!"

when asked why the woman in the song was described wearing 2 different outfits, T-Pain said: "The first girl is dressed how Flo Rida likes. Second girls is dressed how I like. Flo likes a classy lady. I like a lazy bitch"

[iowkey-ioki]

[agaliata]

"They with me in the dark"💍❄️

[lanadel-heyyy]

we are not dealing with a serious person

[ccarrot]

... hold on..

is that...

[countdown-to-the-end]

hi i'm alive and i still draw this pendejo

[wilsonfrfr]

Please don’t tell him about climate change I’m begging you he’s too innocent to know it’ll break his world view

[chloesimaginationthings]

PLEASE

draw you movie Mike as Josh Hutcherson in that whistle meme.

You’re not gonna believe this but….

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[junkyardromeo]

all im saying is i would go to the club if they played trashy 2000s pop

[best-overplayed-song]

fun facts

when asked why the woman in the song was described wearing 2 different outfits, T-Pain said: "The first girl is dressed how Flo Rida likes. Second girls is dressed how I like. Flo likes a classy lady. I like a lazy bitch"

According to Dolly Parton, "Jolene" was inspired by a red-headed bank clerk who flirted with her husband Carl Dean at his local bank branch around the time they were newly married.

Jolene’s name is based on that of a young fan who came on stage for her autograph: "I said, ‘You’re the prettiest little thing I’ve ever seen. What is your name?’ And she said, ‘Jolene.’…I said, ‘That’s the prettiest name I’ve ever heard. I’m going to write a song about you'"

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #60: 2009

[Image description: a collage of photos of the 10 musicians and musical groups featured in this poll. In order from left to right, top to bottom: The Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift, Flo Rida, Jason Mraz, Beyoncé, Kanye West, The All-American Rejects. End description]

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Apparently something happened this year involving 3 of the artists on this poll...

Anyway, last poll I talked about the 2008 financial crisis and now more than ever we can see the effects the Great Recession were having on popular music. Upbeat party music provided listeners with a feeling of escape. The Black Eyed Peas shifted their style from hip-hop to a more electropop sound, leading to the groups commercial peak. Songs like Lady Gaga's Just Dance presented lyrics about having a good time despite everything falling apart. Musically, the latter half of the decade was defined by electropop. To quote James Oldham, the head of A&R at A&M Records at the time:

"All A&R departments have been saying to managers and lawyers: 'Don't give us any more bands because we're not going to sign them and they're not going to sell records.' So everything we've been put on to is electronic in nature." (x)

Even outside of pop music, the rising popularity of the electronic sound and online distribution allowed musicians easier access to production tools and audiences. According to Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit, the electronic sound allowed him to make music while still living in his dorm. While not obvious now, this small-scale "bedroom pop" sound will become even more prevalent in the following decade.

Another staple of this sound is the increasing popularity of Auto-Tune. We already discussed its use with artists like T-Pain, but Kanye West's use of the plugin on 808s & Heartbreak is also notable. Instead of using the vocal effect as the backbone for a party track, here Auto-Tune is used to convey the coldness of the lyrical content. While incredibly controversial, this album would be a huge influence over the genre. And when we look at the direction rap starts to head in the coming decades, the changes in the genre don't make sense without bringing up this album.

And with that, the 2000's have come to a close and we are finally reaching the next full decade of these polls.

[dysautonomia]

Let‘s be real here: Shawty is one of us POTSies! What else could this describe but a POTS episode?

She hit the floor

Next thing you know

Shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low

That accurately describes the feeling when you lay down but you need to get even more horizontal!

[lanadel-heyyy]

please leave my poor pookie alone