With voting under way in earnest for triple j's Hottest 100, 2014 — and the youth station scrambling to come up with a plausible policy, hoping to heavens that votes for Swift don't start getting serious, remaning tight-lipped in relation to the Buzzfeed gauntlet, one industry wag has noted the media colossus has let more than a few non-jay-type songs through to the keeper.
To be fair, the dubious noms in 'the world's biggest musical democracy' seem to have been Darwinised around the turn of the millenium, at least according to this list. The debilitating and abject fear for some, of course, is not that Swift would register on the poll (meh) — it's that she might just win the ruddy thing. And at that point, worlds would have collided.
Songs That Have Made Triple J's Hottest Hundy
'I Don't Feel Like Dancing' - Scissor Sisters (#5 - 2006
Vertigo - U2 (#38 - 2004)
You Shit Me to Tears - The Tenants (#3 - 1999)
Simultaneous Loving - Chef (#20 - 1998)
Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen - Quindon Tarver (#16 - 1997)
Mission Impossible Theme - Adam Clayton / Larry Mullen (#68 - 1996)
How Bizarre - OMC (#78 - 1996)
Who Farted? - The Vaughns (#54 - 1995)
Stayin' Alive - N-Trance (#64 - 1995)
Boombastic - Shaggy (#65 - 1995)
Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing - Chris Isaak (#67 - 1995)
Lucas with the Lid Off - Lucas (#72 - 1994)
Go West - Pet Shop Boys (#18 - 1993)
Somewhere - Efua (#26 - 1993)
All That She Wants - Ace of Base (#29 - 1993)
Dreams - Gabrielle (#42 - 1993)
Tease Me - Chaka Demus & Pliers (#47 - 1993)
Boom Shak a Lak - Apache Indian (#67 - 1993)
Mr Vain - Culture Beat (#68 - 1993)
Deep - East 17 (#78 - 1993)
Sweat (A La La La La Long) - Inner Circle (#94 - 1993)
