Best Songs of 2015 – #2
‘Want to Want Me’ – Jason Derulo
I’ve been anti-Jason Derulo for so long that I couldn’t help but put him in my top two this year. That’s how friggin’ great I find ‘Want to Want Me.’ It turns haters into lovers. It should be utilized in the Middle East peace talks.
I can’t go so far as to say that ‘Want to Want Me’ has turned me into a Jason Derulo fan — I still find most of his music absurd — but I can no longer dismiss him out of hand.
In Billboard’s fifth spot is Mark Ronson (and Bruno Mars) with ‘Uptown Funk,’ the smash hit that keeps on giving.
At #6 is one of my least favorite hitmakers, Jason Derulo. He’s come up a half dozen times on these Billboard posts and I couldn’t name (let alone hum) one of those songs. He’s the very definition of generic, bland R&B dance pop.
At #22 is ‘Am I Wrong?‘ by Nico & Vinz, the song that — like a musical cockroach — refuses to die.
And I wish that I could say that something unexpected and amazing would round out my two-week Billboard exploration, but the 23rd spot belongs to the luckiest man in show biz, Jason Derulo. Never has so little talent resulted in so many hits.
I haven’t heard a note of this song yet and I already hate it.
At #10, with his second song in the Billboard top ten, is Jason Derulo, a man who clearly made a pact with the devil. How else can you explain his tuneless, sexist garbage dominating the charts? It can’t be that people actually like this stuff, can it?
As soon as I saw that a Jason Derulo song was #3 on the charts this week, I wondered how long the track would run before he said his own name.
That’s my one impression of the Miami-born singer — that he speaks or sings his own name in every song of his I’ve ever heard.
This one turns out to be an exception. He was a woman say it instead, right at the beginning. I guess that’s artistic growth.
