#1. Rehab
by Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse is so confident she's got the goods on Rehab that she starts
her vocal a half beat before the music comes in. She's not a foreplay
kind of gal. What she is is mouthy, funny, sultry, and quite possibly
crazy. "They tried to make me go to rehab/ I said 'No No No,'" she
announces, and while real life indicates she ought to reconsider, it's
impossible not to be seduced by her originality. Combine it with
production by Mark Ronson that references four decades worth of soul
music without once ripping it off, and you've got the best song of 2007.
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