Song
What was Time magazine's best song for 2012?
Gangnam Style
Year-end media picks. "Gangnam Style" was ranked No. 25 on the "Rolling Stone"s 50 best songs of 2012 list and No. 8 on "SPIN"s 40 best songs of the year. The song also took the No. 8 spot on the 2012 "Billboard" 20 best K-Pop songs list by Jeff Benjamin and Jessica Oak, who commented "song stands out not only for its slick, electronic production but also for its deeper critique on high-class society." According to MTV's list of the 2012 best songs, the song was ranked No. 8 with MTV news staff James Montgomery's comment: "'Gangnam' is either the track we, as a culture needed right now, or the track we, as a culture, deserved". "TIME" magazine chose it as the second best song of 2012 after Usher's "Climax", writing "The YouTube meme, a good-natured, mind-bendingly catchy lampoon [...] turned into a global obsession". The song was one of the best songs of the year on "The New York Times" pop critics' list and "E! Online"s No. 1 pick on the top 10 pop songs of 2012 list. Digital Spy ranked the song No. 20 among the 20 best singles of the year. It was voted the 12th best single of 2012 by "The Village Voice"s 40th annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll. Music critic Robert Christgau placed "Gangnam Style" as the No. 2 single on his 2012 Dean's List.