For some reason tweeny-pop seems to factor well on critic's lists. There's far less of those weird inclusions on the album list than the singles list.

aren't ranked all that highly, though (with some bubbling under). In some cases, it just takes a few notable placements to appear.

I agree about "Macarena"- what were critics participating in Pazz-N-Jop thinking? Same with Blender, for its Top 500 list.

Thought of another one: Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca"

I noticed almost every song on the "unacceptable" list is from my least favoriote genre, teen pop.
For some reason I thought that Stacy's Mom was an 80's song because my mom liked it.

If many of those same critics updated their lists years later, may of those songs wouldn't be included, but at that time they were considered some of the best of that year. On the other side of the equation, how many songs that did not make any year end lists are now considered by many critics to be amongst the greatest from that year? How many critics are going to put a song like Katy Perry's "California Gurls" in their top song lists this year? This is what makes this forum so much fun to debate these things... now I have to get the infectious "Mmmbop" out of my head!!!!