Boardsies Decide - The Greatest Song from 2010s

Necro

Hey folks,

Seems to be a clamour for this contest so I'm going to run it in the coming weeks.

So get your nominations in for the Best Song from 2010 to 2020 - lettuce see where it fits in with the other decades in terms of genre, taste etc..

Criteria: Must have been released as a single since Jan 1st 2010.

I'm going to allow 20 nominations per person so we will see how this shapes up.

So get them in, hoping to run this over a weekend at the end of November/early December depending on entries...

JohnGreenFan

Nominations in!
I could easily have put in about 100...

Kolido

JohnGreenFan wrote: »

Nominations in!
I could easily have put in about 100...

I would be the opposite, of the top of my head I could name the songs I know on one hand. If I do a little research I'm sure I will be familiar with a few more.

Will get my nominations in in few days Necro

Zaph

Don't be silly, everyone knows there hasn't been any good music released since the 80s. :pac:

I'm with Kolido on this, I'll have a look at it but I think I'll struggle to come up with 5 nominations, never mind 20.

Purgative

I thought of two, but when I checked one was 2006, and the other was 2008 .


But I'll be delighted to play along and share my vast musical knowledge with everyone.:)

lassykk

I struggled hugely to find any songs I love from the 2010s!

Struggled to find 15. None of which will get past round 1!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

20 nominations in. Easily could've done another 80 or so off the top of my head. They'll all probably get voted out early on for some awful bullsh*t like What Does The Fox Say to go on and win because democracy is stupid and everyone always votes terribly in these things...

I suppose that's just part of the fun of it... :rolleyes:

Sawduck

Not my favorite decade for music but i managed to put together a list of 20 songs that wouldn't make me switch the radio off

Necro

130 songs submitted so far.

Just the one submitted twice...

JohnGreenFan

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

20 nominations in. Easily could've done another 80 or so off the top of my head. They'll all probably get voted out early on for some awful bullsh*t like What Does The Fox Say to go on and win because democracy is stupid and everyone always votes terribly in these things...

I suppose that's just part of the fun of it... :rolleyes:

Can't believe I forgot What Does The Fox Say!!
Really looking forward to this tournament and possibly finding some new music by artists who are still around and releasing new music!!

Rikand

Necro wrote: »

130 songs submitted so far.

Just the one submitted twice...

I have a feeling this will be very similar to the contest I ran for worst song ever

Kolido

Rikand wrote: »

I have a feeling this will be very similar to the contest I ran for worst song ever

And possibly more authentic

Necro

Rikand wrote: »

I have a feeling this will be very similar to the contest I ran for worst song ever

I'm gonna stick up for the 2010's and say that a lot of brilliant music has been released in that decade. However the nature of the charts has definitely changed, with people buying less singles and relying more on the internet (and occasionally movie/TV soundtracks) than radio or charts to find new stuff. So "chart music" has arguably gotten worse, but a lot of great music still exists outside the charts.

Challenge here won't be naming 20 great songs, it will be picking 20 that are relatively well-known enough to stand a chance in a competition where people vote quickly and instinctively go for what they know over what they don't. But I'll give it a go!

Also Starring LeVar Burton

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'm gonna stick up for the 2010's and say that a lot of brilliant music has been released in that decade. However the nature of the charts has definitely changed, with people buying less singles and relying more on the internet (and occasionally movie/TV soundtracks) than radio or charts to find new stuff. So "chart music" has arguably gotten worse, but a lot of great music still exists outside the charts.

Challenge here won't be naming 20 great songs, it will be picking 20 that are relatively well-known enough to stand a chance in a competition where people vote quickly and instinctively go for what they know over what they don't. But I'll give it a go!

Couldn't agree more. Well said.

Necro

Deleted User wrote:

Challenge here won't be naming 20 great songs, it will be picking 20 that are relatively well-known enough to stand a chance in a competition where people vote quickly and instinctively go for what they know over what they don't. But I'll give it a go!

On this... I'll see if I can time limit the contests maybe rather than have a first to X I think.

Give people the option (if they want) to listen to the songs.

Kolido

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm gonna stick up for the 2010's and say that a lot of brilliant music has been released in that decade. However the nature of the charts has definitely changed, with people buying less singles and relying more on the internet (and occasionally movie/TV soundtracks) than radio or charts to find new stuff. So "chart music" has arguably gotten worse, but a lot of great music still exists outside the charts.

Challenge here won't be naming 20 great songs, it will be picking 20 that are relatively well-known enough to stand a chance in a competition where people vote quickly and instinctively go for what they know over what they don't. But I'll give it a go!

Yeah I would agree also, my earlier comments were more a criticism of my knowledge of the decade rather than the state of it.

Funny enough, I ended up nominating over 20 songs after a little research, some great music it has to be said

Necro

Up to 188 songs now, still time left to get yours in though!

12 songs have multi nominations now at this stage

Purgative

Could you a bit of a taste?

Necro

Purgative wrote: »

Could you a bit of a taste?

Sure, I'll put up a few songs and they can be YAYed or NAYed as to whether they will start in the first round proper

Necro

First three songs - I'll do another three tomorrow

Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

Adele - Someone Like You

Ward Thomas - Guilty Flowers

Most YAYs or NAYs by 9am tomorrow determine if the three above start in the first round proper.

JohnGreenFan

Are we yay'ing all three songs or each one individually?

Kolido

Nay
Yay
Yay

Necro

JohnGreenFan wrote: »

Are we yay'ing all three songs or each one individually?

Each one individually.

They'll still feature in the contest, but where they start is up to y'all

JohnGreenFan

Tame Impala - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards - Yay
Adele - Someone Like You - YAY
Ward Thomas - Guilty Flowers - Nay

Purgative

Kolido wrote: »

Nay
Yay
Yay

Same please Necro.


The first one sounds like something I've heard before from ages ago almost like Pink Floyd or similar.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Yay ; I enjoy the few Tame Impala songs I know, wasn't familiar with this one, but 'tis a good one

Yay ; have a new found respect for this song after Trigger entered it in my Walrus and it really grew on me, otherwise this could've gone the other way

Yay ; one of my nominations here, been following Ward Thomas since they debuted on the music scene back in 2014 after randomly going along to a gig of themselves and The Shires (who were also just starting out) in Whelans, and was hooked on both bands straight away. Limited myself to one song per artist when nominating, so went with a Ward Thomas one I hadn't previously featured in any other Forum Games.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

JohnGreenFan wrote: »

Ward Thomas - Guilty Flowers - Nay

You've made yourself an enemy here today. I will remember this. I will definitely remember this. You're on my sh*tlist now.

the purple tin

Yes for Tame Impala and Ward Thomas.
A resounding no for Foghorn... er I mean Adele.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I must say I really like this pre-tournament preview and In or Our business. Fair play to Kol for starting this trend, and Necro for keeping it going.

JohnGreenFan

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

You've made yourself an enemy here today. I will remember this. I will definitely remember this. You're on my sh*tlist now.

Just didn't stand out to me as a particularly great song I'm afraid.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

JohnGreenFan wrote: »

Just didn't stand out to me as a particularly great song I'm afraid.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Don't worry JohnGreenFan, the sh*tlist only applies to this tournament and its only meant to be a bit of banter, you're not really my enemy, but you should know that I do hate you and you're a monster...

Also, just so I can make sure my insults make sense, is the John Green you're a fan of the author or the stupid sport-hurler person?

It's been a while since I've actively sought out enemies in a tournament...

I'll say Yay to all three as I'm in a good mood.
Tame Impala is clearly the best of the three though. :cool:

ShaneU

I like them all so yays all around from me. Good start

Necro

I will put up three more and that's yer lot till tomorrow :P

Necro

Luis Fonsi feat. Daddy Yankee - Despacito

Billie Eilish - Ocean Eyes

Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball

ShaneU

Despacito - Nay
Ocean Eyes - Yay
Wrecking Ball - Nay

Purgative

Yay
Nay
Yay

Kolido

Purgative wrote: »

Yay
Nay
Yay

Same for me please

Despacito - Nay
Like an aldi Ricki Martin

Ocean Eyes - Yay, she's good

Wrecking Ball - yay, a guilty pleasure

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Nay ; I don't hate it, but its only alright compared to the other songs that have popped up so far, and was overplayed to death at the time, so I say send it to the prelims and have it fight for a spot in Round 1

Yay ; another of my nominations, think Billie Eilish has a fantastic voice and this song brings out the feels whenever I hear it, it has a really haunting atmosphere to it. I think I only ever listened to her properly after one of her songs popped up in a Walrus here last year, so one of the discoveries via Walrus

Yay ; there was so much talk and "controversy" about the video when this came out, that I think the song was a bit overshadowed, it's got a lot of heart to it and hard not to sing along whenever I hear it. Not on the same level as some of the other songs that have shown up, but I like it enough to give it a nod

the purple tin

No to those three.

JohnGreenFan

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Don't worry JohnGreenFan, the sh*tlist only applies to this tournament and its only meant to be a bit of banter, you're not really my enemy, but you should know that I do hate you and you're a monster...

Also, just so I can make sure my insults make sense, is the John Green you're a fan of the author or the stupid sport-hurler person?

It's been a while since I've actively sought out enemies in a tournament...

I was a fan of the author when I made the account so yeah, that's who it refers to. Who's John Green the hurler?

Also Starring LeVar Burton

JohnGreenFan wrote: »

I was a fan of the author when I made the account so yeah, that's who it refers to. Who's John Green the hurler?

So you can read then? Or did you just watch the film adaptations?

I have no idea who the hurler is (can't stand sports), I just heard the name in passing there awhile back and it rung a bell because of your username. I had always assumed it was the author prior to that.

JohnGreenFan

Yay to all three songs - would have been a Nay to despacito but I actually like the version without Justin Bieber

JohnGreenFan

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

So you can read then? Or did you just watch the film adaptations?

I have no idea who the hurler is (can't stand sports), I just heard the name in passing there awhile back and it rung a bell because of your username. I had always assumed it was the author prior to that.

would you believe I've only seen the film adaptation of one of them, actually.

hahahahaha you're mixing the author up with John Mullane so #ILovesMeCounty

Despacito - Absolutely not, utter muck.

Ocean Eyes - Nay, not Billie's finest effort.

Wrecking Ball - Absolutely yay.

Sawduck

Yay
Nay
Yay

Also Starring LeVar Burton

JohnGreenFan wrote: »

would you believe I've only seen the film adaptation of one of them, actually.

That's one more than I've seen so. I only know him by reputation, haven't read or seen any of his stuff.

Ah lookit, I can't stay mad at someone who has a nod to literature (even if I don't know whether he's any good or not) in their username, at least it means you're more well read than most of the scruffs around here.

Despacito - Nay, might have been tolerable if it wasn't overplayed to death.
Ocean Eyes - Yay, not the Billie one I nominated but still quite nice.
Wrecking Ball - Yay, it's a decent enough tune even if she herself was unbearable at the time (thankfully she seems to have grown up and mellowed out a bit now, and does have a good voice tbf)