It was a killer entrance for the then-23-year-old rapper-singer: The release became the first Number One single in the U.S. Hill and her singers recorded it after dinner one night, channeling a barbershop-quartet style as Hill warns both men and women of being too concerned with sex, power, and appearances.
“She wanted to bring some of that doo-wop swing essence to the song,” backup singer Lenesha Randolph recalled. Hill’s debut solo single following the success of the Fugees’ The Score was a bit different from what fans had heard from the young star. Veteran producer Luny Tunes drove up the intensity by adding the thrum of motors and the singer Glory’s voltaic call for “mas gasolina,” while Daddy Yankee delivered his breakneck verses with so much power that the song sounds like it could combust at any moment even decades later. The line morphed into a ubiquitous chorus that ignited a global fervor for reggaeton. The Puerto Rican rapper was in San Juan when he heard a man shout, “Echa, mija, como te gusta la gasolina!” - a playful phrase lobbed at girls who would seek out the sleekest rides to get to parties.
More on How We Made the List and Who Voted
The result is a more expansive, inclusive vision of pop, music that keeps rewriting its history with every beat. More than half the songs here - 254 in all - weren’t present on the old list, including a third of the Top 100. Where the 2004 version of the list was dominated by early rock and soul, the new edition contains more hip-hop, modern country, indie rock, Latin pop, reggae, and R&B. They each sent in a ranked list of their top 50 songs, and we tabulated the results. Ward to Bill Ward - as well as figures from the music industry and leading critics and journalists. To create the new version of the RS 500 we convened a poll of more than 250 artists, musicians, and producers - from Angelique Kidjo to Zedd, Sam Smith to Megan Thee Stallion, M.
So we’ve decided to give the list a total reboot. But a lot has changed since 2004 back then the iPod was relatively new, and Billie Eilish was three years old. It’s one of the most widely read stories in our history, viewed hundreds of millions of times on this site. In 2004, Rolling Stone published its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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