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The pose adopted by Paul Simon in Graceland is among the more popular of the last thirty years: meeting girls at a cinematographerвЂ™s party, going to Graceland as an observer of poor boys and pilgrims much weirder than the narrator. The white man out of his depths is a familiar trope in Western culture. вЂњAll I know are sad songs,вЂќ he insists, and the melodies he wrings from his guitar suggest that all he knows are moribund ones too. In the original, Posner wrote about a simp dropping a molly in the MediterraneanвЂ™s best known pleasure dome. вЂњWitheringвЂќ describes the folk singerвЂ™s voice - it withers like arugula in the Mojave.

But вЂњI Took A Pill In IbizaвЂќ sucked in acoustic form too. What a comedown.вЂќ So wrote TIMEвЂ™s staff in its worst of 2016 list. But the much more popular SeeB remix sapped it of its wit, turning it into the exact thing it was satirizing. вЂњThere was something clever about PosnerвЂ™s withering takedown of drug-taking EDM bro culture. Mike PosnerвЂ™s вЂњI Took A Pill In Ibiza (SeeB Remix)вЂќ

I took a pill in ibiza seeb remix style full#

Songs beloved by colleagues and songs to which IвЂ™m supposed to genuflect will get my full hurricane-force winds, but it doesnвЂ™t mean that I wonвЂ™t take shots at a jukebox hero overplayed when I was at a college bar drinking a cranberry vodka in a plastic thimble-sized cup.

I promise my readers that my list will when possible eschew obvious selections. I donвЂ™t want to hate songs to do so would shake ever-sensitive follicles, and styling gel is expensive. Like a good single, a terrible one reveals itself with airplay and forbearance.