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With songs that encourage partying, getting black-out drunk and dancing as if nothing’s wrong, someone unfamiliar with the country’s economic woes would be right in assuming that everything is fine and dandy, and that we just can’t stop partying.įive years ago, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who would believe that an album by The Arcade Fire would debut at #1 on the US Billboard charts. However, you would never be able to guess it judging by some of pop music’s newest party brats, namely Ke$ha, Katy Perry and the increasingly club friendly Miley Cyrus. Edward’s University graduates are finding it tough to find a job and big oil companies still expect us to fork over $2.60 a gallon for gas. There’s no denying that 2010 will be seen as one of the toughest years our country has faced financially in quite some time. Oddly enough, the song hit number one, proving positive that Jock Jams chants and lines like “Honey got a booty like pow, pow, pow” are enough to move units nowadays. The one thing that Usher is renowned for, his voice, was forced to take a backseat to Will.I.Am’s god-awfully embarrassing lyrics and his insistence that Usher sound like a detached robot. From Jason Derulo’s “Flying Solo” to the ubiquity of Internet sensation Antoine Dodson, there was no escaping machine-refined “singing.” While there were a few rare instances of its proper use – see Hot Chip’s “I Feel Better” – the worst auto-tuned crime came in the form of Usher’s smash hit “OMG.” This was an example of pitch correction taking a once respectable artist to new lows. While auto-tune is nothing new, it seemed to be everywhere this year. Somehow this resonated with audiences enough to guarantee that you will hear “Airplanes” at least once an hour and ensured that these (somewhat) self-loathing MCs have a firm place in the popular conscience. While still rapping about themselves, they tend to focus on their lifestyles or how gosh darned hard it is to be famous. However, over the last year, artists such as Kid Cudi, B.O.B, and a certain former “Degrassi” star have turned their gaze inwards. Usually, their music is used as a means to stroke their egos to astronomical proportions, and audiences are quick to eat it up. The self has always been a topic of choice for rappers and hip-hop artists. Yet, there were also several trends that ranged from downright puzzling to proof that popular music needs a shot in the foot. With one of the strongest years in recent memory for quality releases and great bands getting the recognition they deserve, 2010 turned out to be a very good year for music.