The Top 10 Pop Girlie Debut Singles

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Hey, So this today we're doing and we're gonna say it in Unison, the top ten pop girly debut singles talk about why it's important to make a splash with your debut single as a pop girly. It's so important to make a splash for your debut single as a pop girly because there are so many pop girlies and there are so many singles that you can get lost in the fray, a fate worse than death. It's actually a real culture. Number ninety nine Getting Lost in the Fray a fate worse than death.

I mean, especially now you know it's so hard to break through in a way that is monocultural. And yet and she's not on this list spoiler alert. But like Olivia Rodrigo with driver's license, she did that. I can't believe she's not on the list.

We left out. We left it that we might have to make another life, we might have.

To make another list down the road, because that's truly one of the most iconic pop girly debut singles ever.

But I think we're looking at a pretty concentrated set of girlies that and when we say pop girlies, you know what we mean.

I would say popgirlies, and I would say this list is really giving millennial culture because Billy's not on this list and Olivia's not on this list, But.

Pop girlies is a millennial term.

I'm sorry to the other generations, but it is like twenty ten was the year when Like It Sprung, when Like the Fountain was a low.

I also feel like you and I make no apologies about being millennials.

Everyone needs to stop like shrinking into like a millennial. I'm stupid, I'm doing it in New York.

It's a really great millennial impression. It's almost stupid millennious.

Everyone's out here on these streets going, hey, I'm stupid, I'm over medicated, I'm overstimulated, and I'm over educated.

I'm a millennial, honey, and I'm here, I'm in debt.

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Now we should get right into it.

Okay, So, like these lists are sort of famously known for it, we're going to start at ten and go to one, because who wants to start at one and go to ten?

You know what I mean, honey, it's literally diminishing returns, truly. So Number ten so.

The top ten pop girly debut singles of all time, but mostly millennial.

Here we go, Number ten.

Genie in a Bottle.

Christina Aguilera as soon as she comes in and says, I feel like I've been locked up tight in a century of lonely nights.

Waiting for someone to release me. We get a sense of sort of repression, but of a demon willing to be unleashed. Not a demon really, more like a spirit, a spirit like sort of This was Christina saying I have a talent that is ready to be unleashed on the world.

And it is a vivid.

One that that you will remember forever.

And we have remembered forever, haven't we. And you know, growing up, I think on the radio, hearing the difference you gotta treat me the right way versus you gotta rub me the right way, said well, no, why did they change that?

What is so lamp imagery?

Oh?

Why did they change it?

You gotta treat me, isn't it. You gotta rub me the but so like, let's say, and I'm gonna reveal myself as a Radio Disney kid on Radio Disney, they said, you got to treat me the right way.

I think that was classic parents saying I don't want my kids rubbing. Well, I was like, what's so bad about rubbing?

You know?

And then I learned, by exploring my own body the beauty of rubbing.

What happens when you rub is so ultimately, honestly, it was very Christina.

Christina literally put me on a path towards discovery.

This is why it's such a great debut single, because it hints at what's to come in the stripped album.

She was rubbing so hard, she busted, Oh she busted, and the sheets were soaked.

Absolutely, and that's why Genie a Bottle is number ten on the Pop Girly Debut Singles Last Coach List, number nine, I kissed.

The Girl Girl Katy Perry? Wow?

Wow, Who could forget when Katy Perry came out and she dared be sort of a lesbian?

It is, and to be a lesbian is the most daring thing. And so I think, no matter what, even if you're curious, even if you're fully in your identity and your power as a lesbian person, you've dared, you.

Have been daring, You've been bold, You've been adventurous. Isn't it interesting that she sort of came out with I kissed her girl, and then she would sort of go on to be one of the most heterosexual pop stars that we have. Not only did she that, I mean she dated John Mayer.

And that she dated John Mayer, and that she has a child with really no bloom.

Incredibly straight girl things to do. She fucked Diplow, which is about Diplo. That's the straight and now I mean, to fuck a bye guy in the hindsight is very straight, you know what I mean? And to like work in Vegas is the straightest thing you could possibly.

Do, one hundred percent.

I think all the big straight girls, a lot of them on this list, have all worked in Vegas. Well, I kissed her girl? What was your first memory of it? Because I see it, so do you want to know what happened. One of the times I was listening to I Kiss a Girl, I got in one of my very first car accidents while I was playing.

In Long Island. Oh my god, I'm so sorry. It's okay.

It's now more funny than it was traumatic at the time. It was traumatic because I wasn't sure if people were okay, and everyone was okay ultimately, But I did get into a car accident while listening to this song, and it hasn't dominated my memory of the song.

It's contributed.

I did make out with our friend Charlotte while the song played in Las Vegas.

You weren't on that trip.

We had to go see Katy Perry for my birthday and Patrick House's birthday, and.

I made that with our friend Charlotte A bye woman, A little little on the nose, but I love that. I'm sorry.

I know I didn't mean to undercut. I'm just saying, like, I think it's so apropos that you kissed Charlotte. A lot of our gay friends thought it was quote hot hmm. I'm so sorry I didn't. I wasn't coming for you when I said it was on the nose, by the way.

It was on the mouth is what it was, right on the lips, And that's why I kissed A Girl by Katy Perry is number nine on the top ten Pop Girly debut singles Last Golf and number eight Your Love, I Love a ballad, I love It, beautiful.

Ballad with a sample, A ballot with the sample, Ah, listen to this girl, Okay. So you know we should say, of course, these are all of the Pop Girley's debut studio album singles. So NICKI obviously had mixtapes, mixtapes you know, beat Me Up Scotty as classic, but this was when she came on the scene. This is right when this woman was coming on post Monster verse you were like,

I was like, what is this?

It was the birth of a new artist. Well, they were like, you haven't heard of Nicki Minaj yet. I was like no, and then went home from that trip, read up. And then when this song came out, when your Love came out, this I've never been able to get out of my head.

He'd type to keep a couple of hundred and the rubber band. I was just gonna say the same.

Line he that t hap to keep a couple of hundred in the rubber band, the damn mon bam in the mother blam and the money. Grand said he must be from the motherland anyway. I think I met it in the sky when it was a geisha. He was somehow I understand him when he.

Spoke Tai never spoke lies, and it never broke fly so much. Let me get my cape, et cetera.

And all these words coming together make the great song that is Your Love. I'll never forget. Well, my friend Allison Coelo texted me and she said, have you heard Your Love by Nicki Minaj? She introduced you to your Well she didn't, I never mind and then she had just heard it and she said, I had no idea. She was like a real artist. I was like, honey, get ready. Then Pink Friday dropped soon, We're gonna have Pink Friday Part two. Excited for that, Excited for that.

Singles, Last Coach number seven, Miss Independent Kelly.

Clarkson, you came from me earlier when I put this on the list, and you have a point.

I said, does this count? Because I don't know if this is the debut single.

Technically it was not the debut single. It's the lead single from the debut album. And this is sort of where I want to make the distinction, because I feel like Kelly Clarkson does not consider a moment like this her first single. I feel like she considers thank you for teaching Independent her first single. And I told you we could fight about this and you're not taking a combative tone.

Because you just explained it to me and I appreciate. Can I poke holes in that? If she's saying, moment like this was not my debut, I have to respect.

Yeah, she was in no way, in any way in control of that.

Of course the selection.

She and justin saying it, it's not even Nicky mckibbon even record.

NICKI even saying, and so did Tomorrow.

I think I think they all had versions of it that they were getting ready to release as the lead single, and then they didn't.

Have We heard the tamaira version. I would like to dig that up.

I would love to hear that. All I want is more a moment like this. But can we just talk about how Misindependent launched Kelly into true pop stardom and also co written by Christina Aguilera, This actually was a Christina Aguilera castaway.

And sometimes the songs that are always like, you know this song was supposed to be for blah blah blah, I'm always like, well, I'm glad it worked out another way. I'm never like, oh, I wish toxic was saying by Kylie Minou, But no, that's Britney Spears's song.

I mean one hundred percent.

Sometimes the songs end up with the right pop girly yes, and this was the case of that. In fact, to this day, Kelly Clarkson says that one of her favorite songs to perform live is Misindependent.

I love that and for that reason, it's.

Number seven on our list of top ten pop girly debut singles.

Last Coach number six, Just Dance Lady Gaga.

I know this changed her life. Actually, this wasn't the song that changed my life. I know this was the beginning of something that would ultimately change her life. Well, I mean it was a song that like gives you the classic Lady Gaga road map, right, like like you here for the first time, you go, it's interesting. I don't know if I love it just yet.

Then you listen to it again, then again and again and again, and then something happens where you listen to it on the radio or it comes on at the grocery store and you go, wow, damn, that's good.

It's like a breath of fresh air.

Yeah.

Remember a chromatica ball.

When she's sang this, oh my god, Well, she wasn't moving at all and saying just dance. She needn't move. She needn't because when she said just dance, you know who heard her, the little monster, the little months we were dancing fore mother.

Dada doodoo da da doo dooo. I said, she can't come up with words for this, but I don't think there there can't possibly be lyrics for that expression.

Didn't just dance.

Baby, Cooby o'donnas? Kobe o'donnas.

Those two words are why just dance is number six on the top ten Pop Girlly debut singles Last Coach, number.

Five, Baby one More Time, Britney spears. I think we all remember where we were when.

We saw her traps around the hallways, the basketball court. Little heathen, little heathen, little girl, little girl dressed up as a big.

Girl, confusing the fathers, the fathers, the mother's, the daughters and sons.

Yeah, everyone in the family was confused, but intrigued.

I mean this was confusing for us as a generation of little gay boys, because it was undeniable to any living person at the time that she was the hottest person alive. That she appealed to all sectors that if you were a gay boy in the closet, you were like, that's the most beautiful woman in the world, and that was the same exact thing that was being said by the straight boys.

Mm hmm. Yeah, it actually was a unifier. It was a unifier.

Yeah.

I remember Britney Spears.

There was a time in my life when my aunt and uncle were like, who's your favorite singer? And I remember I didn't really have one of the time, so I just said Britney Spears because it felt safe because everyone knew who she was. Aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, the childless know who bring childless, those without nieces and nephews, the parentless, the orphans knew.

You know. TLC was first offered this song. I didn't know that.

Yeah, And you can kind of hear a tea Boss chili vocal on this. You really listen hard.

On the my loneliness.

No, but I'm just saying like, if you if you picture it in your mind's eye, Oh yeah, you can sort of if you picture it in your mind's eye, you can sort of hear uh huh. I can tell on this. Although what would the Lisa Left Di Lopez rap sample be on this?

It would be over the bridge. Although it's the classic Max Martin thing of overlays the bridge onto the chorus the last key change overlaying the bridge onto the chorus at the same time, and it's like wow, like whatever Phil Spectr Wall of Sound equivalent.

Oh my god, I turn but.

I'm sure I'm sure the left diverse would have been over like the my loneliness is.

Killing oh intem doing it twice. I love the bridge of the site and it's don't you know that's the thing, that's the interval.

I love it, and we love it so much that it is number five on the list of top ten pop girly debut singles.

Lost Colt number four Call Me Maybe Carli ra Jepson, Now this is technically not accurate either. Go on and say why, because, as we all know, Carlie ray Jepson places high in Canadian idol. In two thousand and eight, her debut album comes out. Her single is something called Sunshine on My Shoulders. I have not heard this song, but that is technically her debut single. I've not heard that song, but the song. But but you retorted, I retorted,

I I think that when this song came out, everyone knew who Carli Raye Jepson was, and you couldn't tell most people. This wasn't her debut single, and I think it was designed by her record label to feel like a debut single because this was her introduction. If you weren't Canadian and weren't ringing the phones on Canadian idol, you didn't know this, young honey.

If you're not living in Manitoba with the landline dialing you know carl Ray's number every week, you didn't know who the fuck she was.

No, you did not.

I'll never forget. At the time when this came out, a lot of the narrative around her was like, well, you know, she's forty, and I was like what. And I think that I think the truth of it was she was in her like late twenties and people like she's so old. Fuck that fuck it sucks so much, but you know it doesn't suck. The earworm that is Call Me Maybe by Calie ray Jepson.

Can I say something before we move on with strings? For me, the strings and the strings are the thing that I'm always like, it's like a booooo.

I'm like, yes, it's kissy.

It's one of the most you can never listen to, which is why Call Me Maybe? By Carlie Ray Jackson is number four on the top ten Pop girly debut singles.

Last Cult, Last Cult, number three Crazy in Love Beyonce. I mean what song is more?

When it starts at the Renaissance World Tour, serotonin releases into your brain. Oh my god, the horns, the iconic stomp, stomp, the dance at the end.

I would say the white girl stomp was an invention, ironically of Beyonces in this music video and in the subsequent live performances.

Yes, she made that kind of stomp something that white girls saw and said, I can walk too.

I bet I can lift my eyes a little bit higher, shake my hips, sway them to and fro to fro here there back forth. Can we talk about this? When I talk to my friends.

So quietly, who he think he is? Look at what you did to me?

When I talk to my friends so so quietly, writing the way that the that the chorus comes back in when you don't expect it after the jay Z Verse, Like the jay Z Verse kind of ends a little bit sooner than it's supposed to do. Geniees, do you remember when she said, got me hoping you page me right now? Even in the year of our twenty twenty three, we're still being like, got me hoping you page me right now? I hope I get paged by the item of my affection.

This is one of those things like there is such a fear these days around like, oh, let's not like throw slang into like our scripts or our songs, because then it'll date it too quickly.

Hmm.

Every now and then it's fine. If it's good enough, it won't matter because guess what, we're gonna be singing it quoting it twenty years from now and we're not gonna care.

Look out for my new single, Apple Watch dropping in twenty twenty four. I look down, Am I Apple Wash eerie seven. I look down, am I Apple Watch Series seven? Say your name?

Saw you? What text to me?

Boy?

iOS seventeen phone had up? Did the iOS AA? And that's why Crazy in Love by Beyonce is number three. I'm the top ten popularly debut Singles last colt number two TikTok Kesha.

Well, I guess we should save this for the end of this discussion for this particular song, But now I can't not say it.

This was supposed to be number one. It was supposed to be number one, and then no one reminded me of another.

Song, and I said, wait, hold the phone on the phone popular expression for wait a second.

Uh huh.

I knew that that one had to be number one, but this was number two. Here's the famous thing about my life. The first time I heard this song, not only did I hate it, I actually thought music was over.

I'm like, what are you kidding me?

I remember the second time I heard it, I thought it was the biggest smash I had ever heard in my life.

What do you think today?

I think it's number two on the list of top ten popular Singlesauce Coach, that's what I think. This song is fourteen years this recording fourteen years old.

This is incredible.

You want to know why it's so iconic because it gets Kesha across in a nutshell. All these songs need to get the artists across in a nutshell and everything about pretty much all of these songs says this is who I am. Here is the introduction to who I am, Like literally every single one of them. Like Ginny in a Bottle you have that like raw sexuality and vocals Kiss a Girl.

You have the cheeky humor your love.

You have like Nicki Minaj giving giving you like fucking like a female rapper hasn't done before, Like syllabic acrobatics.

You're like, damn, like I would never have thought, like Kabaha Na Green and the Rubber Band just laying many things and the money Graham you know, I mean, you're like, oh shit.

Yes, like giving like verity, verbosity and dexterity to everyone and then everyone's sort of nailing it in their own right. Then misindependent, you have like that big chorus that's indicative of Kelly that like big blasted choruses and those tasty little verses.

Tasty verses where she's low and crispy, okay, and then keep going.

Just Dance Gaga. Just dance gave pure pop.

Dance pop, the revival of like Euro inspired dance pop techno.

Maybe one more Time gave tongue in cheek. I mean those like little Stevie Wonderism vocals that Brittany had in the very beginning Brittany that really was like pure nineties pop sound too, like that she engineered and was like sounded perfectly on.

But it's through one person. That's like yearning teenage yearning through one person. So good, m okay, now call me maybe.

I think call me maybe was just like a true genius or songwriter getting it across and saying to you, it doesn't matter what you want. You're singing my song.

Yeah.

And I think Carli ray Jepson like, especially for gays now, it doesn't matter when Carli Ray comes out, You're singing it.

Really is amazing how at this point she's established her the thing she's established as like something different from like Taylor's version. Let's say it's like, here are the B sides that are gonna be just as good as the regular album yep. Like we've gone through three cycles of this now and I'm like, that's amazing.

Yes, TikTok said I'm a mess and I'm chaotic, uh huh, and you're singing along to it.

We skipped it.

Crazy and love, oh crazy and love literally even the jay Z feature. It's just all like, this is Beyonce saying I am a take charge. I remember the first time I heard this, I thought, Michael Jackson, I thought, like timeless. That's what I love about Crazy and Love is it is a timeless sound. You could put it out today. It would be a hit, even with the page me lyric. I think she'd find a way to make that like innovative.

It's powerful, yes, as it harkens to the classics.

It's dance forward, and also it had an iconic dance move attached to it, which she would do many, many, many times. I feel like that's also a part of Beyonce that like gets lost. That's the fact that she's like pretty much always gives you like, even if we don't have the visuals explicitly on it a renaissance like we have like dances that we're doing to the songs, like She's just timeless and Crazy in Love was that?

Crazy Love was that?

And then TikTok by Kesha as we finished this conversation about that song College for.

Us absolutely and said, I'm a nasty, nasty pop girl who speaks singing, but it's melodic and musical and brilliant and she would do that many many times, and that's why it's number two on our Top ten Popularly debut Singles Lost Cult, which brings us all the way to number one. London Bridge Fergie, Yes a stupid, stupid, stupid, so stupid makes no sense? How oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, Burgie ferg what's up baby?

It makes no sense? How come every time you come around my London London.

Bridge want to go down?

Like much of her first album, her debut album, The Ductress, doesn't make any sense, but we never have gotten a better album. Since it's art, It's one of the great pieces of art we've experienced in culture.

The hits from that album are bountiful. Tell me a better song than Glamorous? Go Ahead, Delicious, Don't cry because.

I'm gonna miss dude like a time, isn't there playing it? I'm gonna get a loo with my life. I said every song tasty girl, tasty girl, clumsy when I'm following is lumsy?

Are you kidding me? People are still on these streets singing glamorous. When they feel glamorous. The thing that pops into their head is they start spelling the damn.

Word I can't describe how London Bridge opened the door to Fergie. Yes, and here's the thing. It gets lost in the conversation. Yeah, not anymore, not anymore. Number one, because the second everyone turns off this podcast, they're gonna go to their Spotify, their Apple Music, whatever there is. They're gonna go to their walk came in if they're still using one. They're gonna go to their vinyls. They're gonna whip out the Duchess final that they definitely own and it got to get one.

I'm getting one.

They're gonna put her on the player, put the thing on the record and start spinning London Bridge.

I mean, this sound is powerful. I'm so glad we landed on This.

Isn't the Grey Goose Get Your Girl for Loose?

So dangerous to come out in the time when I was going to sweet sixteens on high school because did have your girlfriend and loose in front of my friend's parents. My Humps was a sinful song that made our generation devils, wares and devils, and then we thought we knew Fergi then. But like even with London Bridge, it's that same thesis that you were saying earlier, where this blasted down the doors. Fergie created the culture of our generation being whores and devils, and that's real culture.

At number eighty created the culture of.

Our generation being wares and devils, and that is Bye London Bridge.

Bye.

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