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Top 100 Songs of 2012 (Top 20)

These are the best songs of last year according to me, because everybody else’s list is awful.

Previous: 100 - 81, 80-61, 60-41, 40-21.

(Also, these were 2011’s tracks.)

20. Anita Baker “Lately”
The Grand Dame of late-night mumblecore R&B updated one of Tyrese’s early hits and snagged a Grammy nomination for it.

19. Grimes “Genesis”
I never know what Claire Boucher is saying. Does it mean anything? Do we even care? Experimental indie pop that remains accessible for normal people is hard to come by.

18. The Vaccines “Teenage Icon”
The Vaccines have been bringing 2001 back to indie rock for a couple of albums now, especially with their second single from Come of Age.

17. Madonna “Girl Gone Wild”
Easily Madonna’s best single since “Hung Up,” “GGW” proves Madonna is still at the top of the heap for infectious dance music.

16. Fiona Apple “Hot Knife”
Fiona Apple gets a little sassy and a little tounge-in-cheek on this bouncy jazz-influenced cut.

Look at this photo.

Michelle better count her blessings and be glad Beyonce let her breathe the same air on stage because you know Solange had first dibs on that slot.

Watch this video.

Solange “Losing You” Live on Jimmy Fallon

It’s fairly impossible to perform this song badly, so I’m not even surprised it sounds great. I’m more concerned with how I can make enough money to go shopping with Solange or be her in general.

Music Videos I Missed

Some good things are happening in music videos right now. Lemme tell you about em. We got some Solange, Dawn Richard, The Whigs, Ciara, Wanda Jackson, Aubrey O’Day, and Motive.

Watch this video.

Beyonce “Love On Top”

I hate writing about Beyonce. It’s kind of like how I feel about gay guys who take their shirts off at the club. Obviously I have to look, but you are so goddamned annoying and I want you to get hit by a bus.

Beyonce keeps making me look at her.

I’ve been waiting on this video since the album came out, and for all you ridiculous people who spend all your time hating on Beyonce and getting all butthurt that she copied somebody…well…fire up your engines again because this is totally New Edition “If It Isn’t Love.”

Whatever, don’t care.

T-minus 3 seconds until some idiot says “I TOLD YOU SHE WASN’T PREGNANT! LOOK AT HER STOMACH!” Like she couldn’t possibly release videos that she recorded earlier.

Oh, btw Bey, we’re still waiting on that “Party” video. I know Solange is somewhere punching holes in walls because you keep putting out videos she’s not in, while she’s waiting to get some shine thrown her way for making a cameo in a New Jersey trailer park with Janet Jackson’s 1993 braids for all of 3 seconds or however long you let her be in the scene.

I rarely address Solange.

Because she doesn’t do a whole lot other than DJ in random places and walk around dressed like a box of Crayons. But I do keep up with Beyonce because she is so ridiculous and everywhere, so I couldn’t help but run across Solange in some trailer park in New Jersey on the set of Bey’s new video for “Party”.

Can we address these braids???

I am probably so late, but she is rocking these Janet Jackson Poetic Justice old-school braids and I am so feeling it. I like her little whacked-out sense of style sometimes. I actually like her music too so I can be on board with this.

And then I find out she’s become the R&B darling of indie collaborations so good job ma’am. Release two albums that flop? Go hang out in Williamsburg and see what scruffy white boy will let you sing the hook. I’m not mad. At least she thought of it before Ciara.

Anyhow, pics and tunes after the jump.