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October 09, 2006
Keep trying
I don't know what sort of expert this fellow is, but the Top 40 guide on About.com offers his list of the top ten pop singalong songs of all time. This may have been the worst list I've ever seen:
1. Baha Men, Who Let The Dogs Out
2. Beatles, Hey Jude
3. Bee Gees, Stayin' Alive
4. Whitney Houston, I Will Always Love You
5. Tommy James, Mony Mony
6. Joan Jett, I Love Rock N' Roll
7. Don McLean, American Pie
8. Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody
9. Santa f/Rob Thomas, Smooth
10. Village People, YMCA.
Okay, alltogether now: W. T. F? Who Let The Dogs Out is the greatest singalong of all time? Is this a joke? This is a song that has inspired a not-too-flattering t-shirt. This is a song that was unwelcome about the third time you heard it on the radio. This is a song that is overplayed at every football stadium. There is no way THAT is the number one singalong of all time. Now, I can't really quibble with 2, 6, 7, 8 and 10, but the other ones simply have to go.
Stayin' Alive? I Will Always Love You? Smooth? I don't think I can think of any circumstance where a whole room of people would all sing Whitney Houston's vocal chord-tearing tune in unison, unless maybe you happen to be in a room with nothing but American Idol rejects. Smooth? That's a great song, but it's not the sort of song that makes you want to scream at the top of your lungs.
I think there are certain songs that are classic singalongs. I'd put, oh, Bon Jovi's Livin On A Prayer, BNL's If I Had A Million Dollars, or even something like Stacy's Mom by Fountains of Wayne on my list. But Whitney Houston? Surely you jest.
Posted by oz115 at October 9, 2006 02:58 PM