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Top 12 Pop Songs About the Internet

The Internet is taking a while to fully integrate pop music lingo. After all, it’s kind of awkward and tech-y, and doesn’t always lend itself to easy rhymes and smooth cadences. Nevertheless, it’s beginning to make that mainstream cross-over, as evidenced by Idolator’s listicle of the Top 12 Pop Songs About the Internet. We’re especially enamored with this list because it’s afforded us the opportunity to re-discover the short-lived Canadian dance duo Prozzak, and one of their biggest hits, “www.nevergetoveryou” (watch out, it’s dangerously catchy). We were somewhat surprised by one absent web-savvy song, included after the jump.

Awesome.

“Camera Phone” by The Game feat. Ne-Yo (click for video)

You could argue that this isn’t really about the Internet, but we consider smartphones an extension of web technology, which makes this a perfectly connected pop song.

(via Urlesque)

One Response to “ Top 12 Pop Songs About the Internet ”

  1. [...] favorite lists so we scrapped it. Since then we’ve discussed songs that address technology a couple times, but never in quite such broad terms as those at play in Switched’s listicle of the Top [...]

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