Rolling Stones named "How I Roll" best song of 2011

1. Britney Spears, “How I Roll”

Britney hooks up with the Swedish production duo Bloodshy and Avant, who also gave her “Toxic” in 2004 and “Piece of Me” in 2007, and like the first two chapters of the trilogy, it’s fiendishly inventive girl noise. Every sound effect that jumps out of the mix – Brit slurring the word “speakerrrr,” digital finger-snaps, a real beatbox pretending to be a human beatbox – builds the tension. There’s even a plot: An ordinary girl sits in her lonely room, dreaming of party lights far away, wishing she could escape to a place where she can show her kneesocks and drink tequila on the rocks, where there’s music and there’s people and they’re young and alive. But the mean old world won’t let her break free, so she just sings along with the machines until she turns into a machine herself, because only the beat understands her. There’s your story of pop music right there.

2. Big Sean featuring Nicki Minaj, "Dance (A$$) (Remix)"

3. Beyoncé, "Countdown"

4. EMA, "California"

5. Bon Iver, "Beth/Rest"

6. Jay-Z and Kanye West featuring Frank Ocean, "No Church In The Wild"

7. Pistol Annies, "Hell on Heels"

8. Rebecca Black, "Friday"   ---   (WTF???)

9. Nicki Minaj, "Super Bass"

10. Stevie Nicks, "Annabel Lee"

11. Rihanna, "We Found Love"

12. Destroyer, "Kaputt"

13. Azealia Banks, "212"

14. Kurt Vile, "Runner Ups"

15. Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"

16. Radiohead, "Separator"

17. Neon Indian, "Fallout"

18. Thurston Moore, "Mina Loy"

19. The Horrors, "Still Life"

20. Xeno and Oaklander, "Sets and Lights"

21. Paul Simon, "Rewrite"

22. Avril Lavigne, "What the Hell"

23. Yuck, "Get Away"

24. Nicki Minaj, "Girlfriend"

25. Lady Gaga, "Edge of Glory"


Source: Rolling Stones