• Coastin': Eight songs of the summer better than 'Fancy'    •
These days there are two types of people in the world: Those who
accept the conventional wisdom that Iggy Azalea's breakout hit
"Fancy" is the Song Of The Summer, and those desperate to find
something, anything, to replace it.     • email print     Here's
the problem: Nobody really likes "Fancy." It's the chilly
inverse of Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" (SOTS runner up,
2005). Everything about it seems synthetic and joyless and
blank. America often comes to regret its SOTS, usually by
Christmas. We have successfully agreed to pretend the Black Eyed
Peas (SOTS 2005 and 2009) never existed at all. But never have
we so collectively disliked a Song of the Summer while it was
happening.     There are obvious alternatives: It's not too late
for Ariana Grande, who has three songs in contention (including
a part on the new "Bang Bang," wondrous and sparkly), or "Rude,"
the cheerfully terrible track by Canadian reggae titans Magic!
It could have been the