I knew this was going to be a Taylor Swift song because the last 5 or so "best songs" threads were about Taylor Swift lol.

I'm gonna go with Friday as well.

Ryudo said: There hasn't been anything good the last 14 years. Since 2000 music has overall sucked. Garbage.

You're looking in the wrong places then bud, there are a lot of gems even now, it's just that the music we loved before isn't "mainstream" anymore. You have to dig deeper for it now ;)

I hate it when old people say that there's no good music anymore. Stop listening to the radio and have your grandchildren teach you how to use a computer. I'm sure you'll find plenty of good music released this year alone.

As for the topic: Blehh..

None... everything toda is a lame rip off, remake and are using Music corp hired musicians to write their songs, which are the reason why half of it is the same.. written by the same musician and performed by different so called artist... Music isn't dead.. it's just underground

One man, one mind who writed this
Still the best song an lyric from the last 39 years.

QUEEN
Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics
(Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality;
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see)

I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm (easy come, easy go
Little high, little low)
Anyway the wind blows, (doesn't really matter to me),
to me

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oo-o-o-o-oo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come
Sending shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody - I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Mama, oo-o-o--oo - (anyway the wind blows)
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all...

INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE

I see a little silhouetto of a man
(Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning - very very frightening me)
Gallileo, (Gallileo),
Gallileo, (Gallileo),
Gallileo Figaro - (magnifico-o-o-o-o)
I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
(He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity)

Easy come easy go - will you let me go
Bismillah! No - we will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go - let him go
Bismillah! We will not let you go
Will not let you go - let me go-o-o-o-o
No, no, no, no, no, no, no no no-no-
Oh mama mia, mama mia, (mama mia let me go
Beelzebub has a devil put aside
for me
for me
for) ME!

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh baby - can't do this to me baby
I just gotta get out - just gotta get right outta here

INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE

Ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh...

INSTRUMENTAL BREAK

Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters - nothing really matters...
to-o meeee...........(Anyway the wind blows).....

It's a tossup between Friday by Rebecca Black and All About That Bass by Meghan Traynor.

Some powerful stuff there that will be required listening for folks 50 years from now the same way The Beatles and Johnny Cash are today.

Outside of pop, they have many that are better. I'd say Madness by Muse has great lyrics for example.

As for popular artist, Taylor is one of the better ones when it comes to lyrics. I'd say others are still better though

The only "new" artist I love and I think is unique is Lana Del Rey. Otherwise most of it, including Taylor Swift, is poor, generic churned out rubbish. Much bombast and little substance. I am genuinely bemused when these manufactured, commercial, soulless "artists" gain such devoted, obsessed fanatics who would have you believe that if that person broke wind into a microphone it would be the most profound thing ever heard.

ironmanDX said: Rebecca Black. Friday   youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0

Now, that's a musical masterpiece if I ever heard one! It's up there with other masterpieces like JB's Baby and such..