If you ever needed proof that Rolling Stone was a completely dismissable publication, here it is. "Out of touch" doesn't even cover it. I don't wanna spend hours on this so let's just focus on the abomination that was the Top 50 Songs of "All Time". This excerpt alone should give you a general idea of why this entire list is toilet paper.
Let's start with the 50th GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME EVER FOREVER ALL TIME according to Rolling Stone. Are you ready for the reveal to this monument to sound? Fucking GASOLINA by DADDY YANKEE. I fucking shit you not. To give you some perspective to how inept of a choice this was, here are some songs that are officially, objectively worse than GASOLINA by DADDY YANKEE according to Rolling Stone: Blowin in the Wind by Bob Dylan (#100). One fucking hundred. There were at least 50 songs better than Blowing In The Wind and at the TOP of that list was GASOLINA BY DADDY COTDAM YANKEE. Here are some other songs that just couldn't hold a candle to the influence and power that GASOLINA has: Stayin Alive by the BeeGees (#99), In My Life by the Beatles (#98), Good Golly Miss Molly by Little Richard (#92), Hey Jude (#89), Yesterday (#72)....it goes on like this. These songs are pure piss apparently when speaking Daddy Yankee's magnum opus GASO-FUCKIN-LINA.
This alone should be enough to tank the credibility of the magazine for life but WAIT--THERE'SH MORE. Royals by Lorde is the 30th greatest song ever written by the hand of fucking man according to Rolling Stone. Suck a dick "I Cant Get No Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones ...you come in at #31 because Lorde JUST edged you out with her undeniable brilliance. Take notes, Mick Jagger. You might learn something.
But not as much as you would learn from the 20th greatest song that God ever allowed to occur---something called "Dancing on my Own" by someone called "Robyn" that came out in 2010. Listen to the song if you haven't heard it because nobody fucking has. It's pop trash. But to Rolling Stone, it's exactly ONE SPOT better than Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" recorded in 1939. Sorry, Billie. Robyn is "dancing on her own" now and the world was never the same.
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