| abstract | - Todd: So...how was your 2016? Montage clips of Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna - "This Is What You Came For"; Mike Posner - "I Took a Pill in Ibiza"; Flo Rida - "My House"; Sia - "Cheap Thrills"; The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey - "Closer"; Rae Sremmurd ft. Gucci Mane - "Black Beatles"; The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk - "Starboy"; Beyoncé - "Sorry"; Rihanna ft. Drake - "Work"; and Kiiara - "Gold" Todd (VO): [nervously laughing throughout] Here's the part where I play the dour music and some appropriately grim clips to make it seem like things were really bad and the year was just a long stretch of bleakness. I mean, I do that every year, and it funny 'cause it's ironic. Like, calm down, Todd. Yeah, it's not funny this year. I don't know why I'm laughing. Nothing's good anymore. Todd: [finally through] Look, there's no denying that this was a particularly brutal. Montage of screenshots from various pages all saying basically the same thing: 2016 was the worst year Todd (VO): A year in which we kept losing our best and brightest, and empowering our stupidest and worst. And if... Todd: ...there was ever a year that the mood of the music scene matched the outside world, it was 2016 'cause the... Clips of Rihanna - "Needed Me"... Todd (VO): ...pop music of 2016 was fucking dismal. It was like this unending background drone of white noise. Like, even most of the good stuff, the stuff I liked, was pretty downbeat. [...and Twenty One Pilots - "Stressed Out"] Not only was most of it not good, a lot of it didn't even sound finished, like it was like a first draft or maybe there were a couple tracks missing from the mix. By July, I was already prepared to declare it the worst year for pop music since I've started reviewing. Todd: But we survived. We're all still here...for the moment, and we need to chronicle the year that was before we deal with the disasters to come. So get ready. We're counting down... Clip of Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, and Imagine Dragons with Logic and Ty Dolla Sign featuring X Ambassadors - "Sucker for Pain", which serves as the interlude throughout the countdown. Todd (VO): The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2016 Imagine Dragons: I'm just a sucker for pain
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