This became a song people either loved or hated. I fell on the love side; it was like Elvis on steroids.
4. Macklemore & Lewis - Thrift Shop
Backlash over this song, but particularly the video, developed over the song's send-up of commercial hip-hop culture. More on that further down the list but the important ingredient here is thrift shopping has long been the province of young, creative people in low-paying jobs. And $50 t-shirts deserve all the ridicule they garner.
3. Disclosure - When a Fire Starts to Burn
UK brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence have been called 2013's stealth success. They were still living in their parents' home and taking festivals by storm last summer and hypnotizing people with the likes of ...
2. Lorde - Royals
So ... about that backlash over criticism of hip-hop culture. Between "Thrift Shop," Lily Allen's "Hard Out Here," and "Royals," hubcaps and gold overlays took a minor stabbing. Are the complaints valid? I don't know. Perhaps. If so, they are no more (or less) valid than womens' complaints about 25 years of bitch/ho.
1. Kanye West - Black Skinhead
And then there was this. Did someone say "bitch"? Why yes, actually.
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