Attitude Annual: Our Top Ten songs of the year
By Josh Haggis
The year might be rapidly coming a close, but we’re not ready to say goodbye to 2014 just yet.
Enter the Attitude Annual 2014 – our collection of the greatest interviews, the hottest photo shoots and our favourite features over the last 12 months, all handily gathered together in the ultimate compendium of the magazine.
To tempt you into grabbing yourself a copy, here’s our round-up – one of many in the annual – of the Top Ten songs that were released this year.
Sia – Chandelier
This was the year that Sia stepped out of the shadows of song-writing and ‘featuring’ and became a star in her own right, albeit, with a paper bag on her head, facing the wall. Altogether now: “I’MMM GONNA SWIIIIIIING”
[youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vjPBrBU-TM[/youtube]
Taylor Swift – Shake It Off
Taylor launched her “I’m a proper fucking pop star now” era with this banger, which was so self-referential, Madge could have written it. Complete with parody-laden video, it slayed.
[youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM[/youtube]
Iggy Azalea – Fancy
You’d be hard-pressed to find many functioning human beings who can’t recite this Iggy rap from memory, and it’s also the song that saw Charli XCX shout “REMEMBER MY NAME BOUT TO BLOW,” and then she did.
[youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-zpOMYRi0w[/youtube]
Pitbull Feat. Kesha – Timber
C0uld this be the most euphoric pop song of all time? We want it played as we walk down the aisle and we want it played as out coffin-bound decomposing body lowers into a hole in the ground: “IT’S GOING DOWN, I’M YELLING TIMBERRRRRR”
[youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHUbLv4ThOo[/youtube]
Ella Henderson – Ghost
Ella Henderson didn’t win The X Factor, then she went away to grow, then she met Ryan Tedder and he wrote her this killer chorus and she recorded it at his house on her 18th birthday and the rest is history. The end.
[youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA8AfQaUnXM[/youtube]
Paloma Faith – Only Love Can Hurt Like This
It began – as it so often does – with Diane Warren yelling “CUNT” down the phone, and ended with Paloma belting out this melancholic chus up the octave. Her best song, and her finest moment.
[youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKr9gWqwl4[/youtube]
Katy B – Crying For No Reason
Katy had a real ‘moment’ with this turn when she performed it on Graham Norton. Part ballad, part banger, the bridge itself is better than any song any other Katy could hope to come up with. #ThoseAdlibsThough
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Tove Lo – Habits (Stay High)
Our favourite Swedish offering of 2014 came in the form of this self-deprecating break-up tune about drug-taking and meaningless hookups – the remix of which took it to number one at lightening speed.
[youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYM-RJwSGQ8[/youtube]
Nicki Minaj – Anaconda
Her Minajesty set the Twitterverse reeling when she revealed the single cover, and followed up by shaking her “big fat ass” to impeccable effort on the video, singing out dicks bigger than a tower (and she wasn’t talking ’bout Eiffel).
[youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZX4ooRsWs[/youtube]
Kylie Minogue – Into The Blue
Alright, so Kiss Me Once may not have been the comeback Kylie fans were hoping for, but the single was great, and should definitely join the Kylie greatest hits log…about halfway through the second disc.
[youtube height=”HEIGHT” width=”WIDTH”]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL6FaI-wJxs[/youtube]
So before we all launch into a brand new year, why not enjoy your festive break by re-living the golden moments of Attitude 2014 with this digital-only über-issue. And if you like what you see, why not treat yourself and save money this Christmas with a subscription for 2015 here.
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