My Best & Worst of 2010

By Barry Dutter

BEST SONG: This is a tough one. 2010 was a good year for music -- way better than 2009. But there wasn’t any one song that really stood out as the best. I mean, “Like a G-6” was the most sonically innovative song of the year, but it’s hardly a great song. I guess I’ll pass on this category this year.

BEST NEW ARTISTS: B.o.B. and Bruno Mars both impressed me with their ability to write catchy pop songs that generally don‘t get ruined by having a guest-rapper come in and do a cameo.

WORST SONG: “The Time” by the Black Eyed Peas (It‘s the hip-hop update of “I‘ve Had the Time of My Life.”). Funny, the Black Eyed Peas had the best song of 2009 with “I Got a Feeling.” But their remake of the beloved pop song from DIRTY DANCING was a complete disaster.

WORST SONG LYRIC: “Boom boom boom, even brighter than the moon, moon, moon. “ Katy Perry, “Firework”


WORST SONG LYRIC (RAPPED): “Bikinis, tankinis, martinis, no weenies.” -Snoop Dogg describing his idea of the perfect Hollywood night in “California Gurls”

WORST SONG LYRIC (RUNNER-UP): “Don't be fancy, just get dancey.” - Pink, “Raise Your Glass”

WORST SONG LYRIC (2ND RUNNER-UP): Steve Miller Band, “Hey Yeah”
“Hey now's your chance - you even got the perfect circumstance.
If you can't find someone to dance - just move your hips baby and shake your pants.”

WORST SONG LYRIC: THIRD RUNNER-UP”: “We Are Who We Are” by Ke$ha:
“We’re dancing like we’re dumb
Our bodies go numb
We’ll be forever young”

(That one is bad on so many levels!)

LAZIEST SONG-WRITER: The guy from Train. Whenever he can’t come up with a rhyme, he just throws in a reference to an 80s band like Mr. Mister or Winger.

BEST SONG LYRIC: “It seems to me that ‘maybe’
It pretty much always means ‘no.’” -Jack Johnson, “Flake”

BEST SONG LYRIC (RAP): "Maybe that's what happens
When a tornado meets a volcano."
-Eminem describing a tempestuous relationship in "Love The Way You Lie"


BEST NEW WORD: “Slizzered” You know, as in, “When we drink we do it right, we get slizzered!” It’s ok to make up a new word as long as everybody instantly understands what it means.

WORST CELEBRITY: Charlie Sheen. It’s kind of sad that a crappy show like TWO AND A HALF MEN makes so much money for CBS that even if Charlie Sheen murdered someone, he would still keep his job.

BEST MOVIE: THE FIGHTER (And Christian Bale's performance was easily the best of the year.)

BEST MOVIE NOBODY SAW: HACHI: A DOG’S TALE with RICHARD GERE. Rent it on DVD and you will blubber like a baby. I guarantee it!

WORST MOVIE: INCEPTION (Sorry, it just didn’t work for me)

BEST NEW TV SHOW: WALKING DEAD. I think every show would be better if it had zombies in it!

WORST TV SHOW: THE DEFENDERS starring Jim Belushi and Jerry O’Connell. Finally, my two least favorite actors, together in one series! (I never actually watched it, of course!)


SHOWS THAT I STILL WATCH EVEN THOUGH THEY’RE NOT THAT FUNNY ANY MORE: SIMPSONS and FAMILY GUY

SHOW THAT HAD THE BIGGEST DROP IN QUALITY FROM THE FIRST SEASON TO THE SECOND: MODERN FAMILY. (Still good, but no longer great.)

WORST IDEA: I’m the biggest Spider-Man fan in the world, but I think $65 million Broadway show based on ol,’ Web-Head is a bad idea.