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The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 2014 REDUX

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  The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 2014 REDUX So as I highlighted in both my original and redux worst list for this year and even in my original best list, 2014 is comfortably below the rest of the 2010s in quality for pop music. In fact I’d genuinely call it the worst year for pop music of the 21st century so far. But I suppose that’s not entirely fair; 2014 did have a surprising number of real gems and I had to make more than a few pretty painful cuts from this list. However, it is likely that some of these songs are only on this list because they stick out in a great way from the blandness of 2014’s pop music scene. 2013 and 2014 were both very transitional years for pop music, where the club boom of the early 2010s had died out but trap had not taken over the musical landscape yet. But as I said in my worst list redux, “if 2013 was the wild wild West in the middle of a tornado, 2014 was the devastation after the storm, where in pop, it seemed like radio stations defaulted to the bland
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The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2014 REDUX

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  The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2014 REDUX So, in my original 2014 lists, I said that 2014 was the worst year of the 2010s for pop music. And when revisiting this year, while I did discover that there were a few songs I was a tad too harsh on (hell, my best list had a shocking amount of competition), there were still a very high number of mediocre to bad songs on the year-end list for 2014, to the point that now, having listened to every year-end list of the 21st century thus far, this is easily the worst year for pop music this century so far. But now for the big trends in pop music this year. 2014 was after the club boom completely collapsed but before trap took over the pop music landscape. Thus, this year was kind of transitional; somewhat of a free-for-all where every genre tried to compete for being the next big thing. We see this kind of period in pop music from decade to decade all the time. In the 2020s, for example, it’s probably 2023 and 2024. However, if 2013 was the wild w
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