Mainstream "manufactured" pop songs that you like

[someguy]

I'm sure that there are people here who aren't completely anti-mainstream(I've met people like that)although I noticed how some people didn't say much on it so I decided to make a thread for it. What songs that are very mainstream and the such that you like? I like many. Here are some:

Miss Independant by Kelly Clarkson
main tune in Crazy In Love(everything sucks except that tune-funny part is that it's from another song)
Hey Ya by Outkast
I like a bit of Sam Roberts and Chantel Kreviazuk
Going Under by Evanescence

I have much much more but that's all I can think of right now.

[BadCoverVersion]

Off the top of my head...

Bomb - Kenny 'Dope' & The Bucketheads
Back For Good - Take That
Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) - Spiller
Kids - Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue
Rock DJ - Robbie Williams
Overload, Freak Like Me - Sugababes
Free Me - Emma Bunton
Dirrty, Fighter - Xtina whatserface
Cry Me a River - Justin Timberlake
Crazy In Love - Beyonce

[Haddonfield]

Avril Levine - Im With You

cant get that song out of my damn head!

And Im diggin the latest Matchbox Twenty album. I liked there first record, hated the second one, and this new one is kicking my ass. The new song, Bright Lights, is haunting me!

[Grebdron]

Pink - Misundastood

[Ren Hoek]

Definitely Overload by the Sugababes... a damn fine pop song.

I also kinda liked Sound of the Underground by the tarts of Girls Aloud. Very catchy tune... too catchy, actually. Earlier this year, they played it every morning on the radio and I couldn't get it out of my head. Buggers!

Get Ur Freak On by Missy Elliot and Robbie William's The Road to Mandalay were also decent songs.

[The Heart Collector]

Justin Timberlake - Señorita.


I'm going to hell.

[Shakamaker]

Originally posted by BadCoverVersion
Back For Good - Take That
Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) - Spiller
Kids - Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue
Cry Me a River - Justin Timberlake

Let's never hit a karaoke bar together, drunk. We'll duet these, I'm sure.

[Annie Hall]

In all of their bland glory...

Tearing up my Heart ~ Nsync
Crazy in Love (just the background) ~ Beyonce
Oops, I Did it Again ~ Britney Spears
Show me the Meaning of Being Lonely ~ Backstreet Boys

I'm going to have some sort of ancient torture method practiced on me, I can feel it.

[ilovemovies]

I think most of Britney Spear's stuff is pretty catchy.

And some of Avril Lavigne's.

Does Madonna's Die Another Day song (obviously from the movie) count as pop? If so then I liked that one too.

[Bullet Tooth Tony]

Justin "Like A Love You" and "Dirrty" were too fine pop songs if I do say so myself.

[charliebobo]

Back For Good - TAKE THAT
Quit Playin' Games - BACKSTREET BOYS
Sometimes - BRITNEY SPEARS

[SIREN30]

Dirty-Christina Aguilara
Miss Independant-Kelly Clarkson
I'm WIth You and WHy Should I Care-Avril Lavigne
Just GOt Paid-N Sync
A few songs by Train

Heck, I usually like at least ONE song by everybody....does that make me the devil?:D

(But NOT Brittany Spears or Michelle Branch...I hate their respective voices)

[BorderEevilIII]

Lesser known pop songs that were pretty good by well known artists...

Christina Aguilera-Cruz
Backstreet Boys-Boys Will Be Boys,10,000 Promises,Like A Child,It's Gotta Be You
Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan-Especially For You
N Sync-Space Cowboy
Sabrina-Boys
Britney Spears- What U See I What U Get

[scottish-movie-freak]

N*Sync- Pop

Missy Elliot- Gossip Folks

Justin Timberlake- Senorita

Pharrell Williams- Frontin

Christina Anorexia- Dirrty

Madonna- Music, Nothing Really Matters (love that song!)

[Mad Maggot]

Originally posted by BadCoverVersion
Kids - Robbie Williams & Kylie Minogue


I looooooooooooove that one!


Everything by Madonna-the-whore, I'm a fan of hers, though pretty damn much disappointed by Music and American Life.

[stewiegriffin]

I really can't say that there is anything to like about "mainstream manufactured pop music" it is whats ruining music right now which has been on the decline in terms of quality, I think the problem is that all the MTV/TRL type songs and cd's are just rushed out to the public to make a quick buck and i know this is gonna sound stupid bought it 's almost like an insult to the listeners to pay 15.00 for a cd thats why file sharing has gotten way outta control.


A few songs though that aren't all that bad

Pharell "Frontin"
actually thats it

[areyoubeingserved]

a little song by the name of "can't get you out of my head"

it's true, i can't

[piglet5]

anything by justin timberlake :D

anything by christina aguilara(sp?)

anything by britney spears

[Dorff]

Anything by Kylie Minogue...;)

[BadCoverVersion]

At the moment...

Hole In The Head - Sugababes
Sweet Dreams My L.A Ex - Rachel Stevens
Maybe - Emma Bunton
I Better Leave Right Now - Will Young

[KcMsterpce]

Gone - N'Sync

Insatiable - Darren Hayes

[ANavissi500]

Senorita - Justin Timberlake
Celebrity, Pop, Girlfriend, Gone, I Drive Myself Crazy - N*Sync
Beautiful - Christina Aguilera
most songs sung by American Idol finalists and winners, esp. Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken

[Sugar_Kane]

Cry Me A River, Rock Your Body - Justin Timberlake
Come Into My World - Kylie Minogue
Feel - Robbie Williams

[someguy]

White Flag by Dido

Please kill me

[The Postmaster General]

"My Life" - No Doubt

[jake]

Thank God for Kazaa, so I don't actually have to go into a shop and buy:

Affirmation by Savage Garden
Keep on Moving by Five
When You're Looking Like That by Westlife
and Oops I Did It Again by Britney

[Scarface98.9]

Some stuff by:

Blink 182
Avril Lavigne
Green Day (I know they weren't manufactured, but after they became famous)

[A.J. Hakari]

Originally posted by someguy
White Flag by Dido

Please kill me

You and me both.

[someguy]

Originally posted by Adam J. Hakari
You and me both.

Yay. Someone else lkes the song. Now...the video on the other hand. That's crap.

[arto_j]

Originally posted by Adam J. Hakari
You and me both.

Gonna have to come in and say that I quite like that one too.

[Jon Lyrik]

Well, I liked some of Avril's stuff, but generally, I'm completely and utterly anti-mainstream for music.

[my_name_is_neo]

I must admit that Justin Timberlake's "Like I Love You" has a good beat to it.

So does Christina Aguilera's "Dirrty".

And if Evanescence counts as pop, then add "Going Under" to that list.

That's about it.

[A.J. Hakari]

I'll g'head and add Liz Phair's "Why Can't I" to the list.

[SkyNet]

i dont exactly klnow what you mean by MAINSTREAM... because i dont see how OUTKAST HEY YA can be considered Mainstream Pop.. but... ill just give the name of 2 songs that came to mind when i read the thread title:

Backstreet Boys: The Call
Justin Timberlake: Cry Me A River

[VincentPrice]

Here's a few....

I Want It That Way by The Backstreet Boys...One of the catchiest songs ever.

Say My Name by Destiny's Child

She's So High by Tal Bachman

[williass]

here's something you may be surprised to hear...ALmost EVERY Pop band is manufactured, has huge marketing campaigns, and has people writing the "songs." LOL!!!!!

[someguy]

Originally posted by williass
here's something you may be surprised to hear...ALmost EVERY Pop band is manufactured, has huge marketing campaigns, and has people writing the "songs." LOL!!!!!

Uh......thanks for the info.

Antoher song is Hey Ya by Outkast

[Psychopath2616]

Cry me a River.....I know its sad but true.....and some stuff off Britney's new cd In the Zone....I've seen clips of her all over television and heard a few minutes of some songs like- Breathe on Me and Toxic have cool beats and are actually catchy

[Shakamaker]

Where Is The Love - The Black-Eyed Peas
Missing You - Puff Daddy

I know, I know, I know. But I don't give a fuck. :)

[someguy]

Toxic by Britney Spears

HAVE YOU SEEN HER IN THE VIDEO?!:eek:

[Kastman]

yes i have seen her sumgi ;) and i ike that song too...



btw, hey ya isn't mainstream or manufactured IMO... but it is good.

[darchangel]

"fighter" and "beautiful" by christina aguilera

"larger than life" and "backstreet's back" by the backstreet boys

"when the lights go out" by five


i'm in hell. :(


"talk hard. steal the air."

~darchangel~

[neco82]

"More To Life", Stacie Orrico.

Manufactured, yes, but SO DAMN CATCHY!!!

[Tommy Doyle]

Meh... all of it!!!

:D :D


Well, okay, like not totally ALL of it... I mean, I can think of like, ten pop songs off the top of my head that I don't like. Like.... uhm..... what's that song by that band? They sing stuff... yeah, hate them... :p


But of course my soft spot is for Madonna. Can't ever get enough of her!

[FilmBuff84]

Sugababes - HOLE IN THE HEAD
Emma - MAYBE
Britney Spears - TOXIC (Actually the majority of IN THE ZONE is decent)
Justin Timberlake - CRY ME A RIVER
Christina Aguilera - DIRRTY

[Emo]

I'm so damn against pop music but once in a blue moon there's a song that i liek ti and it kills me a little inside :(
such as
Brittany Spearts - Toxic (what the hell.....her last song, i think me against the music, is probably the worst thign i've heard in a while, but this one is pretty damn great)
I like some of madonna's poppy stuff like express yourself and vogue, but they still don't compare to her less-mainstream releases such as Bedtime Stories and Erotica which are my 2 fav songs by her, however i hate anything from 1996 on (well Paradise is decent)

Take That - Back for good is a pretty catchy song altho it's pretty old
I don't know if you'd consider Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue - where the wild roses grow as a pop song but thats one damn fine song
and i also liek osme of those funny "party" sogns like
inner circle - sweat

[one_crow_sorrow]

Outkast - Hey Ya
Madonna - Die Another Day

[someguy]

Break Stuff by Limp Bizkit
Here To Stay by Korn
Ballroom Blitz by Sweet
I Try by Macy Gray
Milkshake by Kelis

[soundbomb81]

Don't Tell Me - Madonna
If You're Not The One - Daniel Bedingfield
A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton
Girlfriend - *N Sync & Nelly
Round Round - Sugababes
The Bad Touch - Bloodhound Gang

These songs are Irresistible :eek:

[arto_j]

I'm really, really liking Kylie Minogue's Red Blooded Woman right now.

Hopefully they don't overplay it too much...Maybe I'll just avoid those particular radio stations most guilty of that to make it easier for me.