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Image ID: destiel confession meme announcing that the rapper Silentó (who made Whip/Nae Nae) was sentenced to 30 years for voluntary manslaughter and other charges

i had to do it

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Year-End Poll #66: 2015

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Choose your favorite song from 2015

1. Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars

2. Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran

3. See You Again by Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth

4. Trap Queen by Fetty Wap

5. Sugar by Maroon 5

6. Shut Up and Dance by Walk the Moon

7. Blank Space by Taylor Swift

8. Watch Me by Silentó

9. Earned It by The Weeknd

10. The Hills by The Weeknd

Voting ended onJun 20, 2023

I thought I would be able to go two polls without a song being sued by Marvin Gaye's estate over plagiarism accusations. Anyway, the sound of the 2010's is splintering in an odd way. Like the previous poll, we're seeing more songs with retro influences such as Uptown Funk and Shut Up and Dance. But as for the sound of the 2010's itself, we're starting to see more trap in the mainstream, both in terms of artists and production styles. And with See You Again, the wordless chorus (millennial whoop) is cementing itself as a major staple of the decade. But just below the top ten, we're also seeing the rise of another genre in the mainstream: tropical house. But we won't cover that until later.

We are now deep into the streaming era by this point, but not without its controversies. While some artists like Taylor Swift were fighting against streaming services, others tried to take this direction into their own hands. But again, we'll cover that in a later poll.

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Todays rip: 15/12/2023

Whip Fortress

Season 7 Featured on: .​@​GiIvaSunner Whips & Nae Naes on Ellen the Generous 2: another hit

Ripped by circunflexo

Early on into this blog's life, one of the events that I just KNEW that I wanted to talk about was Season 2's Whip and Nae Nae day. Like many of the events from Season 2 and 3, it's an event I have a lot of fond memories of, particularly in making me realize just how good the SiIva team are at taking just about any source and making amazing use out of it. And yeah, I finally did get around to talking about it last month with The Ultimate Whip and Nae Nae - yet in that time I spent idling, I was beaten to the punch by the SiIva team themselves - in August this year, the event got a full-on sequel literally just called Whip and Nae Nae day Part 2. The event was bigger, the album was bigger, and most of all - the rips, like Whip Fortress, were all top-classic naenae content.

Though I certainly liked a lot of the rips part of the original Season 2 event, it did also feel like its main goal was to just play into the joke as much as possible. That, in my eyes, led to a lot of rips on its album that felt a bit too simple in nature, mashups or melody swaps that didn't take enough advantage of the potential of its original audio source. In that sense, comparing that album to the one made for the Season 7 event shows the evolution of the SiIva team demonstrably well - every rip uses the song in immensely creative ways, to where no two tracks on the album really feel similar despite all sharing The Same Joke. Amidst all that quality, there are rips like Whip Fortress - rips that almost make me forget that the event is supposed to, at least on some level, be "ironic" or "bad on purpose". Because, full-stop, I LOVE the rip as a genuine arrangement of the original Wind Fortress.

Cave Story as a game already means a lot to me, and I've been meaning to cover more rips from the game here on the blog - it just so happened that the first one I landed on, is one that on the surface appears to be something so silly. Yet circunflexo doesn't try to override the original song's emotional highs with the absurd source used in remixing it - if anything, the unique tone and iconic-sounding beat of Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae) only help the track, despite the direction the lyrics attempt to point your focus in. Whip Fortress succeeded like all the best rips do, in making me love both the source used in remixing the original track AND the original track itself more through their combined powers. Because no joke, no meme and no shitpost, no matter how stupid it may seem, is too far gone to be turned into a banger. The rippers at SiIvaGunner make absolute sure of that.

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the 5th grade whip and nae nae prank: part 1

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The Beutiful cabin where Silento and Tamers12345 make love in while Justin Trudeau deffinetly doesnt watch through the window ;)

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Hazel, dancing: FRANK LOOK- I JUST LEARNT HOW TO DO THE WHIP NAE NAEEE

Frank: Never really knew that she could dance like this

Leo: SHE MAKE A MAN WANNA SPEAK SPANISHHH

Frank: This is your last warning

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