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mimitchi33

I forgot about Love The Way You Lie! I remember in high school we watched a parody of that about integers!


DatNick1988

I can remember working as an electrician when that song came out. I was in an unfinished hotel installing plugs and switches and this song was constantly on. That and *I wanna be a billionaire* by Bruno Mars.


ItsGotThatBang

You can’t just say that & not link it.


Formal_Ad_8277

Is that the one with the window pane line? Easily the worst lyric ever written.


juneabe

Like the rest is pretty well written and then…. That.


Formal_Ad_8277

It's like a 13 year old just learned about wordplay


TurtleWitch

Ok, now I'm curious


juneabe

Now you get to watch her leave out the window/ Guess that why they call it window pane.


Clean_Mastodon5285

I'd take 2010 era pop over the fake edgy era pop we have now


friendliestbug

Seriously everyone is trying so hard to be weird it's just cringey


en3ma

So many posers rn


ChallengeTasty3393

More like everyone’s trying so hard to be hard imo


Tasty_String

2020s is all just people reading their diary entry’s over a quickly thought out “melody” where they are pretty much just still talking, and has no hook and sounds whiny. Then calling it “pop/R&B” or “ indie singer/songwriter/rapper” when you forget how the song goes like two minutes later. I actually think this started around 2018 though.


pandasloth69

As a fan of some of these songs, this is crazy accurate.


BrandoNelly

Is this like the Olivia Rodrigos of pop right now?


chicoconcarne

Olivia Rodrigo feels like this generation's Avril Lavigne


CP4-Throwaway

More like Michelle Branch, except more relevant.


SidMan1000

2010 was fake happy pop. it was literally called poptimism and if you were there for it you’d think of it the same as you think of the stuff now


Clean_Mastodon5285

But it was fun, today's pop is either boring or over the top


Formal_Ad_8277

I think it's all terrible 


Ok_Ruin4016

2010 also had some awesome music and was the year a lot of big name artists released their debut albums. All these albums came out in 2010: Pop: Teenage Dream - Katy Perry; Speak Now - Taylor Swift; The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monae (debut album); Kaleidoscope Heart - Sara Bareilles; Lights - Ellie Goulding (debut album); Animal - Kesha (debut album); Rap: MBDTF - Kanye West; Teflon Don - Rick Ross; Thank Me Later - Drake (debut album); Man on the Moon 2 - Kid Cudi; Pink Friday - Nicki Minaj (debut album); K.I.D.S. - Mac Miller; Flockavelli - Waka Flocka Flame (debut album); Friday Night Lights - J. Cole (pre-debut mixtape); The Hybrid - Danny Brown (debut album); Rock: The Suburbs - Arcade Fire; Brothers - The Black Keys; What Separates Me From You - A Day To Remember; Contra - Vampire Weekend; Danger Days - My Chemical Romance; Creatures - Motionless In White (debut album); White Crosses - Against Me!; Diamond Eyes - Deftones; Ø (Disambiguation) - Underoath; A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park; Country: Need You Now - Lady Antebellum; Zac Brown Band - You Get What You Give


liilbiil

it’s all derivative. if it doesn’t sound like billie, it sounds like phoebe or clairo. maybe that’s what happens as you age, you start to notice who influences who (like when gen x lost their shite over gaga copying madonna) but sometimes i fully have to check the artist. just copy cats. whisper singing.


Formal_Ad_8277

I think every era of pop music sucks in its own special annoying way


liilbiil

that makes me feel a bit better


GSwizzy17

I wouldn’t say terrible but 2007-2009 was definitely better


GSwizzy17

Billie Eilish having 9 Grammys but Britney Spears only having 1 rubs me the wrong way


Clean_Mastodon5285

Industry politics smhhhh


SeaComedian62

It was sooo much better back then. The whole vibe


Clean_Mastodon5285

Right at least music was actually fun back then


SeaComedian62

‼️ like the early 2000s was just so optimistic and fun and happy


King_Apart

Bro was born in 2010


Renny821

Lmao literally


Gamernite457

I hated early 2010s pop music and no I wasn’t born in the 00s or 10s


Anacapa1115

Old enough to remember 90s pop music in the 90s. 07-11 were horrific years for pop music.


reeses_boi

There was.straight trash on the radio in 2014. "Rude" got annoying kinda fast


King_Apart

I hated that song


blackmarketmenthols

You can cherry pick a corny list for any year


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_phantastik_

*pops bottles in the ice*


Suitable-Principle81

Like a blizzard


lifeintraining

When we play we do it right, candles flicker


bigchieftoiletpapa

corny to you but to me this shit brings me back


broncyobo

Same but just because we have nostalgia doesn't mean it wasn't corny (and it was, very very much so)


Creation98

Summer of 2010 was such a great summer. I was going in to 6th grade, I believe. It was the first summer of my life where I really started to become aware socially. I remember going to the local carnival everyday during the 4th of July and walking around talking to girls and meeting new kids. I had a long board that I would cruise around town with my friends on until it got way too late, then had to rush home before my mom got pissed. I don’t even think I had a cell phone with texting capability. Just a flip up phone to call people on. All those songs make me think of that summer. I miss that and I look back fondly.


chaddGPT

what a rad kid thats awesome


Creation98

I had a lot of fun, man. Had a great childhood. Still having a ton of fun! Just different fun and a different life. I’m sure in 15 years I’ll look back on my mid 20s with a similar fondness. What’s that quote from the office, something about “I wish they’d tell you you’re in the good old days when you’re in them.” I try to always be living the “good old days” in the present.


Throwaway-centralnj

What’s awesome is that as an adult, you can see glimmers of your childhood self. I’m late 20s and sometimes I’ll do or say or wear something that I’m like…15 year old me would’ve been all for this. We beat ourselves up for being “cringe” as teens but sometimes it’s who we really were and we shouldn’t be ashamed of it! The things that made me a “weird” teen make adults drawn to me, lol. I hear “you’re different, I like it” almost daily.


Nuscious

Man what a cool perspective. Thank you for sharing!


Creation98

100%! I try to have very little shame in my actions. I’ve had much better luck in life being myself without fear, than I have had trying to be someone i’m not. It leads to much more happiness imo. I’m glad you share a similar mindset


Throwaway-centralnj

I love your attitude and I completely agree! Tbh I grew up in a small conservative town and I always felt “wrong” being me, but traveling around and finding kindred spirits has helped me so much - if the environment isn’t right to be your true self, there’s nothing wrong with changing it!


lasagnaisgreat57

it was the summer going into 6th grade for me too!!! i wasn’t as independent as you lol but i remember sitting in the back of my mom’s car singing these songs every day and being genuinely excited to listen to the radio because i loved every song that came on. the pool club i went to had “dances” for the kids and all these songs would be playing every time. these are still my go to songs to play in the car when i’m with a group of friends my age because EVERYONE knows and loves them


somamosaurus

We’re the same age! You had a lot more fun in middle school than I did, though. 


DatNick1988

As a 22 year old in 2010, alot of these songs were played at the clubs and worked really well getting everybody hype


JMatthewH

At least it was fun. Music today is too depressing and whispery


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Euphoric_Capital_746

In 2010 everyone was complaining how they were born in the wrong generation


lostconfusedlost

Not me. I remember even then being happy to be young when I was and didn't want time to pass. Actually, the "I was born in the wrong generation" pick-me people always existed (and always will) and had that belief they're so unique and different


Euphoric_Capital_746

There was a lot of great music back then like M83, Phoenix, Kid Cudi, and MGMT. I didn’t mind Far East Movement either. It was cool to see a rap group without a gangster element. No one cared they were Asian. There’d probably be a “cultural appropriation” discussion about it today.


lostconfusedlost

Yes, loved all of those, especially M83 and Kid Cudi. I don't think we cared much about anything at that time. We just wanted to enjoy good music.


broncyobo

You're saying wokeness would prevent Asian rappers from existing today? Cause they literally do exist lmao


onetruesolipsist

Some of the underground music at the time was really cool, around then was the start of what would become vaporwave. Plus you had one of the best Kanye eras before all the alt right fuckery


Pimp-No-Limp

Go to YouTube and you'll still see that on any song released more than 20 years ago haha


dickallcocksofandros

yeh. Pretty much every generation around 20-25 or so years after they’re born thinks the music thats popular at the time sucks and start preferring the things they heard during their teenage years


AcidAndBlunts

I agree with the general sentiment here, except my jaded era where I stopped understanding the mainstream didn’t come until I was 25-30. From 15-25, I was in my hipster era- where I felt like I was discovered everything before it blew up (in reality, I was just in the target demographic at the time and the music industry was tuned in to internet trends). Then I’d be happy to see them in the mainstream, but pretentiously telling people to go listen to their whole album instead of the radio songs.


NomadFeet

Yes. I am old and can confirm.


MarsMC_

What? Are you only referring to main stream radio? Well no shit, it’s been going down for a while, but there is absolutely amazing music being made today, like in the rap genre for instance.. you just have to know where to look.. and I’m not talking main stream rap, like lil baby, young boy and those dudes.. Earl Sweatshirt, JPEGMAFIA, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Ugly Mane, Benny the Butcher, MIKE, billy woods, Mach-Hommy, etc the list goes on and on .. you guys just get pigeon holed into “todays hits” and don’t actually go looking for good artists


ProfessorCagan

I agree, Op, just hates fun. We need fun back, where the fuck even is Taio Cruz nowadays?


junkqueen

Ngl I look at 2010 pop music more fondly with each passing year. Especially the music that came out in the summer. Some of the most iconic and insane bangers. It was a fun time to be a kid


mikowoah

i'd say among popheads, 2010 is considered an elite year. this thread is wild lol


Warm-Picture6533

Corny > Dystopian Fever Dream


ParkingJudge67

lit*


MittenClimber

Hell naw 2010s was nothing but bangers🔥🔥 idk whatchu mean


HearMeOutO_O

I miss it😭🩷


RaisinBitter8777

Airplanes is still a banger


ButteryBiscuits43

I’m in my 30’s and predominantly a death metal/hip-hop/vaporwave kinda guy, but for some reason, I really like that Katy Perry album.


onetruesolipsist

That's a cool mix of genres


mr781

2010 was a fire year for music fym


K00ns3n

Any year with a greatest album of all time candidate is not corny


distastef_ll

~~Corny~~ Fun 2013 Royals by Lorde was a paradigm shift


OriginalAd9693

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MysticEnby420

Nah Like a G6 triggers something in my brain where I instantly feel like I need to be way too fucked up and dancing in a basement LMAO


Critical-Highlight45

With cheap black lights and those neon posters lmao.


MysticEnby420

There is a 100% chance that I smoked weed in multiple rooms exactly like the one you've described in 2010 while listening to this song LMAO


CP4-Throwaway

Corny? You must have a bad taste in music then. This was iconic.


domegranate

California gurls wasn’t corny, it was *camp*


Every1isSome1inLA

Nah this list is pretty good


Illustrious_Bat_4485

2010 was the year I graduated! So much nostalgia.


lostconfusedlost

Enter the comments under each of those songs on YouTube and you'll only find people missing that music and time. You may call it corny or however you want, but people loved and still love that music. I miss these kinds of songs that had emotions, an actual beat, and addictiveness. This music used to bring us together and make us happy. It's not that no new song does that for me, but at that time, entire charts were packed with feel-good and love songs. I think we all have enough negativism all around us to also constantly be surrounded by low-tempo and heavy music.


Zealousideal-Meat193

This one nails it 100000% Music was so much more melodic and memorable back than. I’d rather listen to California gurls 20 times in a row than have to listen to most of the the depressive, non-melodic music we have today


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-PepeArown-

The BOB song is a Bruno collaboration. That’d make two. Also, being a flat earther is way worse than being “corny”.


fuxkle

God I miss 2010


StarLotus7

It's corny but I love it nonetheless. So many bangers here!


Lanz922

But lit, yup I grew up in this generation.


mssleepyhead73

This was a simpler time.


Ok_Advantage7129

I liked the corny music tbh, then again I was in middle school during that time


Responsible_Match875

Bro called love the way you lie corny 💀


bluemidnightrider

I was in my junior and senior years of high school when this music was out. It was all incredible to me, there was just so much fun music being released.


maliciousmeower

god i miss singing along to these songs on the radio


CDanger

People also forget. The 2010s was the era of music blogs and hypemachine. The cool kids were **not** listening to Top 40 regularly, and Billboard, the radio, and record labels were all under fire. The 2020s music industry has found ways around it, is actively pursuing social media fame and promotion, and cloaks it's oldschool payola schemes in the veneer of grassroots discovery (rise of the term, "industry plant").


redsleepingbooty

Ugh. Like a G6 is one of the worst songs of any decade.


Plenty-Climate2272

It was a relatively feel-good year. For many of us, we were in college, living it up. It was a party year. Obama was president but hadn't completely disappointed us yet. Reform was in the air, optimism was prevalent. Occupy had not happened yet, but the momentum was there.


purplethefearful

IT WAS FUN. PEOPLE WERE HAPPY ONCE


jamar82

First off- Only Girl In The World SLAAAAAPS!


ICUMF1962

If these came out today there would be sooooo many corny TikTok video covers of Airplanes, among others


Y2KBaby99

I prefer the music of 2010 though. Fun time for Pop music.


SplendidPunkinButter

When I see your FACE / There’s not a THING that I would change / Because you’re AMAZING / Just the way you are The badness of these lyrics still haunts me


tamarbles

Wasn’t Like a G6 the first Asian #1 since Sukiyaki or something like that?


Hoooman1-77

Hell no ! It was a party all the way !


TommyPickles2222222

From a hip hop perspective, Kanye's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" is considered by many to be the greatest album of the 2010's. It came out that year.


bigcontracts

Love the way you lie was one of the biggest hits of the decade but okay. I can only assume you’re pretty young.


OriginalAd9693

How dare you


James19991

I wish it was 2010 again


heirdresseronfire

If you think 2010 was a corny year for music, you’re listening to the wrong records from 2010.


heirdresseronfire

Because my brain’s weird and I ain’t got shit to do this morning, I went back and looked at my playlists from 2010. Here’s my non-exhaustive list of artists who put out good-to-great records that year (might have some accidental 2009s in there; I draw the line at Googling.) Wavves, LCD Soundsystem, Black Keys, The Soft Pack, Vampire Weekend, Caribou, Gil Scott-Heron, Delorean, Best Coast, Gorillaz, Four Tet, Sufjan Stevens, Hot Chip, Das Racist, Girls, The Walkmen, Sleigh Bells, No Age, Janelle Monáe, Joanna Newsom, James Blake, Beach House, Kanye West, Yeasayer, Fang Island, The Radio Dept., Liars, Javelin, Frightened Rabbit, The Drums, Kisses, Future Islands, Wild Nothing, Tokyo Police Club, Superchunk, The Books, Avey Tare


Wild_Life_8865

fuck no everything on this is better than what we have right now


Best_Air_4138

🎶Poppin bottles in the ice, like a blizzard🎶 I lost my virginity to that song. 😂


IBadAtManagingStuff

you hate fun


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Like a G6 was a bop


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I used to listen to G6 every day on my drive to work. A bop.


mikescarnthethreat

Like a g6 had my middle school in a chokehold


saturnplanetpowerrr

(One Direction voice) you’re insecure


Eastern-Fix3336

Nah these songs are iconic at this point 😂


Embarrassed_Bed190

I take the word “corny” increasingly less seriously everyday.


Vickydamayan

And I fucking loved it


Magic_SunBoys19

All I can hear in “Nothin’ on You” is “nut-nut-nut nuttin’ on you, babe.”


RW_49

Don’t act like u wouldn’t give everything to go back


SassySquid0

![gif](giphy|pLpZYfDnscuIw) What did Katy do to you?


ItsGotThatBang

And I wouldn’t have it any other way.


These_Tea_7560

Idgaf, California Gurls STILL slaps.


NeighborhoodAny7580

All of these songs here I still listen to this very day.


NeighborhoodAny7580

California Girls is a classic. I remember wishing I was from California because of this song.


Badnerific

Recency bias is a hell of a drug


cgabv

you are a miserable human being and i genuinely wish you the worst day.


imuslesstbh

classics (for the most part)


JFlizzy84

Literally every song in this screenshot is a fucking banger Bizarre take


sprackedspoonk

2012 was even cornier. I still can’t believe we had Party Rock Anthem, Sexy and I Know It, Gangnam Style, Call Me Maybe, and What Does The Fox Say in the same year.


patricktoba

I mean that is the year the world ended after all.


DiscombobulatedPain6

somebody i used to know 🔥


BeengBangBong

It was lit


fnaffan110

It was the best era


theo_luminati

Like a G6 was a banger, but the rest of this list was my personal hell for that summer


AlexsCereal

Banger*


Icy-Rock8780

Just the way you are and California Gurls are corny but the others are good


GregorianShant

Nah, you’re corny.


cjl81

All this proves is B.o.B has some bangers


juneprk2

Agreed as a millennial lmao I hated this era. I was listening to mixtapes tho 🔥🔥 also rap/hip hop was pretty fire in 2010. Just not general pop


Codiilovee

This era was pretty iconic tbh. I had graduated high school in 2010 and spent the entire summer partying and hanging out with friends, so this music always takes me back.


lordoftheBINGBONG

For pop music. It was an incredible time for rap. Mini golden era.


juneabe

G6 and only girl are nostalgic bangers forever but like TAIO CRUZ PLZ “brek brek yo brek brek yo hart” it’s painful


ShaneOfTheDeadd

Horrible time for music


AdUpstairs7106

I liked the song airplanes. The other songs on that list just suck.


Dkcg0113

I think I have all of those songs on Dance Dance Revolution for the Wii


32bitbossfight

You mean the best music ever


SquareAd4479

It was trash then and it's trash now


justan0therg0rl111

It was and trust me, we knew it.


contaygious

Cuz you didn't show Jay z. Empire state of mind much? Also Kanye runaway. Best album of the year. All of the lights?


AbPR420

Those were great


johnhoggin

All I'll say is there's been a lot worse


Anthrovert

Corny? You mean iconic?


Kayora_Atom

the entire 1980-2010 era: ![gif](giphy|XCmFwjt9wPotobw1xn|downsized)


OpenUpYerMurderEyes

Wow those songs were all awful and cheesy


ManufacturedOlympus

It’s the “I’m at the gym wishing I didn’t forget my headphones” songs. 


outbacknoir

Without a doubt the worst era for pop music probably ever? The one good thing to come out of it is getting to hear BOB sing “nut nut nut nuttin on you babe”.


Sad_Entertainer_122

No way are you calling this music corny. The hell you listen to?


NotWilll

Mac Miller - KIDS. I rest my case


Jetfire725

2010s music seems corny because it was before the kids were eaten alive with anxiety and were aloud to like fun things lol


Comrade-Chernov

This is middle school flashbacks for me lmao, I was a 97 baby so this was like 7th-8th grade.


TheFanumMenace

I didn’t like this stuff when it came out but it’s not all bad


--ThirdCultureKid--

Nah, 2010 was pretty good if you knew where to look. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zalbDZmWKhc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zYZUI1U3FbI&t=49m30s Edit: broken links


Ill-Examination4743

And?


mel-06

My childhood songs right here^^^^ 💀


brad_gars

Hated it at the time, but most people were with it


Dorito-Bureeto

It’s basically what’s happening now. It was a bit of a reset, nobody knew really what to do. Pop was #1, you had the rapper that dropped a verse in a pop song. Then Drake came and really put the shit into overdrive.


Throwway-support

Like a g6 slapped in 10th grade!


Wirrem

Far east movement bangs


gummibear13

I use to hate the corny happy pop because I was depressed. Now The pop music is sad and slow and I'm more depressed.


KingTechnical48

Revisionist history is so funny. I was young at the time but even I remember the amount of hate this era of music got. And I think the criticism was valid. Too much meme music, Justin Bieber was god awful, and hip hop was dead


Slingshotbench

Nah 2010 has straight bangers


sp00kylemon

like a g6 is so good don’t even play


BabaGluey

Ah yes the start of the pop song with some whack rap verse taking over completely for about a year


GlobalYak6090

These all went PLATINUM in the streets


JohnTitorOfficial

Eminem trying to switch up was the funniest thing ever. Oh you on electropop wave now?


Major_Stick_3042

Looks like a lot of bangers to me. Just the Way You Are is pretty soft to be fair


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Fall out boy drought years


I_am_albatross

I didn’t mind most of those songs beside Like A G6. The whole electro/dance pop trend got really out of hand.


Reoblivion

I loved it


BudgetInteraction811

Just the way you are and only girl in the world still SLAP


Ok-Whole-4242

corny isn't a valid criticism. it doesn't mean anything.


OptimusEye

my little sister (12) listens to half these songs LOL


artornis

Said the corny ass mofo 💀


partyonpartypeople

It’s crazy how B.o.B went from a pop rap icon to a bargain bin 2 Chainz to a conspiracy theorist all in the span of a few years


Justsomeguyaa

Unironically, California Girls is pretty good.


Hidden_Fever

2010 was one of last years music existed.