Aero's Dynamite 00s Pop Rankdown (Winner!)

[zippy]

Yeah, if this were Bowser’s song it’d be my #1.

[aerodynamite]

#37 Preview

9th lowest SD

Highest Rank: 5
Lowest Rank: 37 (x3)

Points behind #36: 4

1-10: 1
11-20: 3
21-30: 8
31-40: 7

Movements
aerodynamite + Butterflies & Hurricanes 28
singingrulebritannia 29
trilogy 33
beyoncelover 37
zippy 39
nathanalbright 37
rowellfarm490 38
willapted33 35
emerald 36
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 38
wheatsquares33 37
American Idiot 39
BlurryKyle 38
reputainbow 38
Red 39
Az Paynter 40
BB🌕 38
samo🦕 37

[aerodynamite]

Fun fact: Diana Ross is her former stepmother, and her half-brother is married to Ashlee Simpson

#37


Charm Attack
Leona Naess


Points: 258
Standard deviation: 8.604257144 (9th lowest)

samo🦕 5
nathanalbright 12
emerald 17
willapted33 20
Butterflies & Hurricanes 24
Az Paynter 25
aerodynamite 26
singingrulebritannia 27
wheatsquares33 28
BB🌕 29
BlurryKyle 30
trilogy 30
American Idiot 33
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 34
rowellfarm490 34
Red 36
beyoncelover 37
zippy 37
reputainbow 37

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Remaining Songs

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{Spoiler}Back in Your Head
Be Mine!
Calabria 2007
Close To Love
Crashing Down
Easy
Embrace
Feather
Find Your Way Back
Half Asleep
Heartbeat
Home and Dry
If (Dave Audé Mix)
If I Can't Dance
If I Know You
If Looks Could Kill
Just the Way You Are
Let Me Know
Lick Shots
Love Foolosophy
Magic
Millionaire
Naturally
Never (Past Tense)
Polyrhythm
Samsonite Man
Smile
Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved)
Stillness Is The Move
Strict Machine
Stronger
Sunshowers
The One
They
They-Say Vision
Work (Freemasons Mix)

[Red]

This is a perfectly cromulent song that I would have gladly ranked top 20 or 30 in a Hot 100 RD, but here, it's just outmatched.

[aerodynamite]

#36 Preview

3rd lowest SD

Highest Rank: 11
Lowest Rank: 39

Points behind #35: 17

1-10: 0
11-20: 4
21-30: 7
31-40: 8

Movements
aerodynamite + Butterflies & Hurricanes 24
singingrulebritannia 33
trilogy 36
beyoncelover 39
zippy 37
nathanalbright 39
rowellfarm490 39
willapted33 39
emerald 38
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 37
wheatsquares33 38
American Idiot 35
BlurryKyle 36
reputainbow 37
Red 37
Az Paynter 36
BB🌕 37
samo🦕 36

[aerodynamite]

the token last-minute substitution of this rd

#36


Easy
Dragonette


Points: 262
Standard deviation: 7.612862712 (3rd lowest)

samo🦕 11
emerald 16
willapted33 18
American Idiot 20
nathanalbright 22
aerodynamite 23
zippy 23
Butterflies & Hurricanes 26
Az Paynter 27
BB🌕 27
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 27
singingrulebritannia 31
wheatsquares33 32
BlurryKyle 32
beyoncelover 33
reputainbow 34
rowellfarm490 38
Red 38
trilogy 39

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Remaining Songs

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{Spoiler}Back in Your Head
Be Mine!
Calabria 2007
Close To Love
Crashing Down
Embrace
Feather
Find Your Way Back
Half Asleep
Heartbeat
Home and Dry
If (Dave Audé Mix)
If I Can't Dance
If I Know You
If Looks Could Kill
Just the Way You Are
Let Me Know
Lick Shots
Love Foolosophy
Magic
Millionaire
Naturally
Never (Past Tense)
Polyrhythm
Samsonite Man
Smile
Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved)
Stillness Is The Move
Strict Machine
Stronger
Sunshowers
The One
They
They-Say Vision
Work (Freemasons Mix)

[Red]

The only song in my bottom five that I genuinely feel like I might have underranked, because, much like a bunch of my favorite songs in this RD, it's distinct. Something just didn't really sit with me initially, but I'm welcome to let re-listens change my mind.

[aerodynamite]

#35 Preview

4th highest SD

Highest Rank: 3
Lowest Rank: 40 (x4)

Points behind #34: 4

1-10: 4
11-20: 2
21-30: 3
31-40: 10

Movements

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{Spoiler}
aerodynamite + Butterflies & Hurricanes
singingrulebritannia
trilogy
beyoncelover
zippy
nathanalbright
rowellfarm490
willapted33
emerald
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾
wheatsquares33
American Idiot
BlurryKyle
reputainbow
Red
Az Paynter
BB🌕
samo🦕

[aerodynamite]

this has a remix with MIMS for some reason lol

#35


Calabria 2007
Enur f/ Natasja


Points: 279
Standard deviation: 12.91695186 (4th highest)

trilogy 3
singingrulebritannia 7
zippy 8
beyoncelover 8
aerodynamite 13
reputainbow 19
Red 21
rowellfarm490 22
emerald 24
willapted33 34
BB🌕 35
wheatsquares33 36
BlurryKyle 36
nathanalbright 37
Butterflies & Hurricanes 37
samo🦕 40
American Idiot 40
Az Paynter 40
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 40

Movements

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{Spoiler}aerodynamite + Butterflies & Hurricanes 26
singingrulebritannia 20
trilogy 11
beyoncelover 6
zippy 4
nathanalbright 9
rowellfarm490 11
willapted33 14
emerald 15
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 21
wheatsquares33 25
American Idiot 31
BlurryKyle 31
reputainbow 32
Red 30
Az Paynter 33
BB🌕 33
samo🦕 35

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Remaining Songs

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{Spoiler}Back in Your Head
Be Mine!
Close To Love
Crashing Down
Embrace
Feather
Find Your Way Back
Half Asleep
Heartbeat
Home and Dry
If (Dave Audé Mix)
If I Can't Dance
If I Know You
If Looks Could Kill
Just the Way You Are
Let Me Know
Lick Shots
Love Foolosophy
Magic
Millionaire
Naturally
Never (Past Tense)
Polyrhythm
Samsonite Man
Smile
Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved)
Stillness Is The Move
Strict Machine
Stronger
Sunshowers
The One
They
They-Say Vision
Work (Freemasons Mix)

[Red]

"this has a remix with MIMS for some reason lol"

Well, I know what I'm doing in the near future...not listening to that.

I knew this would get some low ranks, but I wasn't quite expecting this.

[aerodynamite]

#34 Preview

Highest Rank: 1
Lowest Rank: 40

Points behind #33: 18

1-10: 1
11-20: 6
21-30: 3
31-40: 9

Movements
aerodynamite + Butterflies & Hurricanes 35
singingrulebritannia 38
trilogy 32
beyoncelover 30
zippy 35
nathanalbright 27
rowellfarm490 23
willapted33 29
emerald 32
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 33
wheatsquares33 34
American Idiot 33
BlurryKyle 33
reputainbow 33
Red 34
Az Paynter 34
BB🌕 35
samo🦕 34

[singingrulebritannia]

After this, nobody can say I don't stick my neck out for big hits in personal rankdowns when I think they deserve it, ok?

Some of the tankers here were exactly the people I thought would help me out on this song; I'm incredibly disappointed in y'all!

[aerodynamite]

the way the #1 and #40 came back to back


#34


Find Your Way Back
Michelle Branch


Points: 283
Standard deviation: 11.26660056

nathanalbright 1
trilogy 11
Az Paynter 11
beyoncelover 12
American Idiot 15
rowellfarm490 19
samo🦕 20
Butterflies & Hurricanes 28
emerald 29
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 30
reputainbow 31
wheatsquares33 33
BlurryKyle 33
singingrulebritannia 34
aerodynamite 34
Red 37
willapted33 39
BB🌕 39
zippy 40

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Remaining Songs

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{Spoiler}Back in Your Head
Be Mine!
Close To Love
Crashing Down
Embrace
Feather
Half Asleep
Heartbeat
Home and Dry
If (Dave Audé Mix)
If I Can't Dance
If I Know You
If Looks Could Kill
Just the Way You Are
Let Me Know
Lick Shots
Love Foolosophy
Magic
Millionaire
Naturally
Never (Past Tense)
Polyrhythm
Samsonite Man
Smile
Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved)
Stillness Is The Move
Strict Machine
Stronger
Sunshowers
The One
They
They-Say Vision
Work (Freemasons Mix)

[zippy]

Calabria 2007 is one of the two songs in this rankdown that I remember listening to on my iPod in the late 00’s, and it still sounds fresh.

[Red]

There are three Michelle Branch songs that would have escaped my bottom five here, and, even though this is fine, this isn't one of them.

[aerodynamite]

#33 Preview

Highest Rank: 2
Lowest Rank: 39

Points behind #32: 5

1-10: 2
11-20: 4
21-30: 5
31-40: 8

Movements
aerodynamite + Butterflies & Hurricanes 16
singingrulebritannia 26
trilogy 24
beyoncelover 24
zippy 25
nathanalbright 21
rowellfarm490 26
willapted33 31
emerald 33
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 34
wheatsquares33 32
American Idiot 28
BlurryKyle 28
reputainbow 31
Red 32
Az Paynter 31
BB🌕 31
samo🦕 33

[aerodynamite]

the first of the umpteen "If" entries to show up

#33


If I Know You
The Presets


Points: 301
Standard deviation: 11.30562579

Butterflies & Hurricanes 2
American Idiot 5
nathanalbright 11
Az Paynter 13
trilogy 15
wheatsquares33 17
beyoncelover 22
BlurryKyle 25
zippy 26
samo🦕 28
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 28
emerald 32
reputainbow 33
rowellfarm490 35
singingrulebritannia 35
aerodynamite 36
willapted33 38
BB🌕 38
Red 39

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Remaining Songs

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{Spoiler}Back in Your Head
Be Mine!
Close To Love
Crashing Down
Embrace
Feather
Half Asleep
Heartbeat
Home and Dry
If (Dave Audé Mix)
If I Can't Dance
If Looks Could Kill
Just the Way You Are
Let Me Know
Lick Shots
Love Foolosophy
Magic
Millionaire
Naturally
Never (Past Tense)
Polyrhythm
Samsonite Man
Smile
Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved)
Stillness Is The Move
Strict Machine
Stronger
Sunshowers
The One
They
They-Say Vision
Work (Freemasons Mix)

[Red]

Certainly not awful or anything, but this just kind of felt a bit over the top.

[aerodynamite]

#32 Preview

Highest Rank: 4
Lowest Rank: 39

Points behind #31: 10

1-10: 3
11-20: 4
21-30: 5
31-40: 7

Movements
aerodynamite + Butterflies & Hurricanes 29
singingrulebritannia 34
trilogy 34
beyoncelover 28
zippy 34
nathanalbright 36
rowellfarm490 37
willapted33 38
emerald 34
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 32
wheatsquares33 33
American Idiot 34
BlurryKyle 35
reputainbow 35
Red 35
Az Paynter 35
BB🌕 34
samo🦕 32

[aerodynamite]

maybe my favorite album track of hers. it was between this and "Rock Wit U" to include on this list

#32


Samsonite Man
Alicia Keys


Points: 306
Standard deviation: 10.76003687

emerald 4
beyoncelover 7
samo🦕 9
BB🌕 12
Butterflies & Hurricanes 17
Az Paynter 18
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 19
reputainbow 24
willapted33 28
trilogy 29
wheatsquares33 29
singingrulebritannia 29
Red 31
nathanalbright 34
BlurryKyle 35
aerodynamite 35
rowellfarm490 36
zippy 38
American Idiot 39

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Remaining Songs

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{Spoiler}Back in Your Head
Be Mine!
Close To Love
Crashing Down
Embrace
Feather
Half Asleep
Heartbeat
Home and Dry
If (Dave Audé Mix)
If I Can't Dance
If Looks Could Kill
Just the Way You Are
Let Me Know
Lick Shots
Love Foolosophy
Magic
Millionaire
Naturally
Never (Past Tense)
Polyrhythm
Smile
Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved)
Stillness Is The Move
Strict Machine
Stronger
Sunshowers
The One
They
They-Say Vision
Work (Freemasons Mix)

[Red]

Other than the obvious choices, yeah, this seems about right as a choice for Alicia. It only wound up in my bottom ten because I had to put ten songs there.

[aerodynamite]

#31 Preview

Highest Rank: 2
Lowest Rank: 38

Points behind #30: 1

1-10: 3
11-20: 2
21-30: 8
31-40: 6

Movements
aerodynamite + Butterflies & Hurricanes 14
singingrulebritannia 21
trilogy 20
beyoncelover 25
zippy 26
nathanalbright 24
rowellfarm490 24
willapted33 18
emerald 24
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 27
wheatsquares33 29
American Idiot 30
BlurryKyle 27
reputainbow 29
Red 29
Az Paynter 32
BB🌕 32
samo🦕 31

[aerodynamite]

another bottom 10 finish for the duo, though only barely this time

#31


Back in Your Head
Tegan and Sara


Points: 316
Standard deviation: 9.449090885

willapted33 2
Butterflies & Hurricanes 9
samo🦕 10
nathanalbright 16
BlurryKyle 19
trilogy 23
wheatsquares33 24
aerodynamite 24
zippy 24
singingrulebritannia 25
Red 26
rowellfarm490 27
American Idiot 28
beyoncelover 31
reputainbow 32
Az Paynter 34
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 35
BB🌕 36
emerald 38

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Remaining Songs

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}Be Mine!
Close To Love
Crashing Down
Embrace
Feather
Half Asleep
Heartbeat
Home and Dry
If (Dave Audé Mix)
If I Can't Dance
If Looks Could Kill
Just the Way You Are
Let Me Know
Lick Shots
Love Foolosophy
Magic
Millionaire
Naturally
Never (Past Tense)
Polyrhythm
Smile
Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved)
Stillness Is The Move
Strict Machine
Stronger
Sunshowers
The One
They
They-Say Vision
Work (Freemasons Mix)

[Red]

You got me to rank The Con-era T&S bottom 15, what even is this RD

(that's nothing, wait until you see my 24)

[willapted33]

i've listened to a bunch of T&S songs for pulse games and never really clicked with one until this, which fully clicked with me, disappointing to see it leave so early

[aerodynamite]

Extras
As I mentioned in the OP, many more songs were in consideration at some point than what ultimately made the final cut. A few of these extras will be presented throughout reveals


Cooler Kids - All Around the World (Punk Debutante)


Dannii Minogue - Put the Needle on It


David Morales - How Would U Feel


The Ditty Bops - Ooh La La


Edun - Put 'em Up

[aerodynamite]

Results So Far

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{Spoiler}31. Tegan and Sara - Back in Your Head
32. Alicia Keys - Samsonite Man
33. The Presets - If I Know You
34. Michelle Branch - Find Your Way Back
35. Enur f/ Natasja - Calabria 2007
36. Dragonette - Easy
37. Leona Naess - Charm Attack
38. Peaches - Talk To Me
39. Miike Snow - Animal
40. Amerie - Talkin' To Me

Rankdown Closeness

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{Spoiler}Red 4.4
reputainbow 4.6
wheatsquares33 5.9
rowellfarm490 6.1
BlurryKyle 6.3
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 7
zippy 7.7
BB🌕 8.1
singingrulebritannia 8.5
willapted33 9.8
American Idiot 10.4
aerodynamite 11
trilogy 13
Az Paynter 14
nathanalbright 14.1
emerald 14.2
beyoncelover 14.6
samo🦕 16.2
Butterflies & Hurricanes 16.6

Highest Rank Revealed

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{Spoiler}Red 21
reputainbow 19
rowellfarm490 19
BlurryKyle 19
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 19
wheatsquares33 17
BB🌕 12
zippy 8
Az Paynter 8
singingrulebritannia 7
American Idiot 5
samo🦕 5
emerald 4
beyoncelover 4
aerodynamite 3
trilogy 3
willapted33 2
Butterflies & Hurricanes 2
nathanalbright 1

Lowest Rank Remaining

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{Spoiler}Red 34
zippy 36
trilogy 37
American Idiot 38
reputainbow 39
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 39
wheatsquares33 39
Az Paynter 39
samo🦕 39
nathanalbright 39
rowellfarm490 40
BlurryKyle 40
BB🌕 40
singingrulebritannia 40
emerald 40
beyoncelover 40
aerodynamite 40
willapted33 40
Butterflies & Hurricanes 40

Top Tens Remaining

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{Spoiler}Red 10
reputainbow 10
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 10
wheatsquares33 10
rowellfarm490 10
BlurryKyle 10
BB🌕 10
zippy 9
American Idiot 9
Az Paynter 9
nathanalbright 9
singingrulebritannia 9
emerald 9
aerodynamite 9
willapted33 9
trilogy 8
samo🦕 7
beyoncelover 7
Butterflies & Hurricanes 7

Bottom Tens Remaining

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{Spoiler}Red 2
reputainbow 3
rowellfarm490 4
BB🌕 4
zippy 4
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 5
wheatsquares33 5
BlurryKyle 5
American Idiot 5
willapted33 5
singingrulebritannia 6
aerodynamite 6
beyoncelover 6
Az Paynter 7
nathanalbright 7
emerald 7
trilogy 7
samo🦕 8
Butterflies & Hurricanes 8

[Az Paynter]

If The Presets had been 'This Boy's In Love' they likely would've been in my top 10. I loved seeing them here regardless.

Dannii would've been a potential #1 for me. (I know, shocker - but also I do very much like that song).

[aerodynamite]

#30 Preview

10th lowest SD

Highest Rank: 5
Lowest Rank: 40

Points behind #29: 12

1-10: 2
11-20: 2
21-30: 11
31-40: 4

Movements
aerodynamite + Butterflies & Hurricanes 31
singingrulebritannia 31
trilogy 31
beyoncelover 32
zippy 24
nathanalbright 30
rowellfarm490 29
willapted33 32
emerald 25
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 28
wheatsquares33 31
American Idiot 32
BlurryKyle 32
reputainbow 27
Red 28
Az Paynter 28
BB🌕 30
samo🦕 30

[aerodynamite]

the way I considered half of Read My Lips (one of my fav pop albums) before deciding on this instead

#30


If I Can't Dance
Sophie Ellis-Bextor


Points: 317
Standard deviation: 8.706033187 (10th lowest)

emerald 5
reputainbow 8
zippy 11
beyoncelover 20
Az Paynter 21
American Idiot 22
samo🦕 24
Red 24
trilogy 25
aerodynamite 25
rowellfarm490 25
singingrulebritannia 26
Butterflies & Hurricanes 27
nathanalbright 28
BlurryKyle 28
🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 33
willapted33 35
wheatsquares33 35
BB🌕 40

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Remaining Songs

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{Spoiler}Be Mine!
Close To Love
Crashing Down
Embrace
Feather
Half Asleep
Heartbeat
Home and Dry
If (Dave Audé Mix)
If Looks Could Kill
Just the Way You Are
Let Me Know
Lick Shots
Love Foolosophy
Magic
Millionaire
Naturally
Never (Past Tense)
Polyrhythm
Smile
Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved)
Stillness Is The Move
Strict Machine
Stronger
Sunshowers
The One
They
They-Say Vision
Work (Freemasons Mix)