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Discussion: MEGARATE: UK #1s, 2000-2012 (The final!)
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Originally posted by adrianbeane
"About You Now", "Push The Button", "Hole In The Head" and "Round Round" are in NO WAY better than this.  |
I think Hole In The Head is as amazing as Freak Like Me.
Freak Like Me SHOULD be at least inside the top 20
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73. What Took You So Long? 6.526
Meh, I won't miss it.
74. Promise This 6.513
Blah.
75. Freak Like Me 6.461
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76. Run This Town 6.395
Out too soon, but it wasn't destined for great things.
77. Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) 6.365
WHAT THE ****!!! **** HOW DOES THIS EVEN HAPPEN? WHT?1
80. Goodies 6.329
This is also a terrible elimination. Deserved top 30. It's a BOP.
80. I Kissed A Girl 6.329
Finally.
80. The Tide Is High (Get the Feeling) 6.329
Meh
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I didn't know this started
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Originally posted by jinzo
113. Rita Ora- How We Do (Party) (4.795)
Highest score: 10 x3 (Kool_Aid_King, berberocka, CrazyCat)
Lowest score: 0 x6 (Cassiopeia, JDella11, jqnetto, Glassheart, tell_me_a_lie, Regina George)
An unflattering picture of Rita Ora:
Rita's US debut peaked at #62. Well done, you global artist. This song samples Notorious B.I.G's Party and ********. The video synopsis on Wikipedia says the following:
"The video starts with a group of people dancing in a dark colored room wearing brights clothes, in which Ora then walks into the room wearing a crown and begins singing to the camera. In other scenes, Ora is jumping and dancing in a white colored room with other dancers."
Like WHOA, slow down there Lady Gaga. Don't go mad with the concepts.
Jinzo's verdict: 5
YASSS. PUNCHED OUT.
This song is as terrible as it is unfortunately addictive. I'll forgive Rita if she releases Radioactive next, though.
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and omg I am screaming at your write ups 
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And Freak Like me and Spiller going out so soon. My 10's 
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Let's continue. The first song comes to you straight from the year 2012. 
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73. (=) Carly Rae Jepsen- Call Me Maybe (6.526)
Highest score: 10 x7 (madonnas, supaspaz, Strangergab, adrianbeane, berberocka, VJoker, Chemist)
Lowest score: 0 x3 (Stevie, Glassheart, Dream)
An unflattering picture of Carly Rae Jepsen:
So the most iconic song of 2012 is out! With a chorus as catchy as Beyoncéitis and a hook as kitschy 80s as Gaga is never ever going to get, this smash has been covered by artists, including Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Dan Deacon, Fun, Big Time Rush, The Chipettes, R5, Lil' Wayne, Enter Shikari, Ben Howard, Nickelback and Cody Simpson. And, most memorably, Barack Obama. The sweet little girl from Canadian Idol has gone on to birth one of the biggest-selling digital singles of all time, with an amazing 7.5m+ sales worldwide. That's equivalent to the entire population of Bulgaria or Israel buying the song. With room to spare.
....I think it's personally because of the sexy-ass guy in it.
Jinzo's verdict: 9.5
HEY, I just met you
And this is crazy
But here's my number
So call me maybe?
....Honestly, one of the best pop songs for years.
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A future Pop classic tbh.
I should've given it a 10
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71. Atomic Kitten- Whole Again (6.566)
Highest score: 10 x3 (tell_me_a_lie, Kool_Aid_King, MP2K)
Lowest score: 0 x2 (Dream, adrianbeane)
An unflattering picture of Queen Kerry Katona:
A true miracle story, Whole Again was the fifth single to be released from the Kitten's Right Now ablum. The song came at a time when the band faced imminent destruction- their 4 singles previous had all flopped, and the video for this was budgeted on an absolute shoestring. Like, it was Beyoncé's 7th single-type low budget. However, the success of the song was completely unexpected and unparalleled, selling around 900,000 copies in the UK alone, and propelling the girls into the upper echelons of the girlband hierarchy.
The success was so much, in fact, that a much higher-budget video was planned to market the band to the US. The video, filmed in the streets of New York City, had to ultimately be canned as a result of the 9/11 attacks. Queen Kerry Katona soon left the band to procreate and to begin her now iconic and notorious life of obesity, drugs, boozing and terribad reality TV shows on ITV2.
Jinzo's verdict: 7
A real classic in British girlband history, but a little slow and dated these days to match up to the likes of the Spice Girls and Girls Aloud.
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More Atomic Kitten out, thank god.
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70. Pussycat Dolls- Stickwitu (6.579)
Highest score: 10 x8 (Strangergab, Glassheart, Regina George, Kool_Aid_King, berberocka, boyamama, Flashing Lights, classicmainstream)
Lowest score: 0 x4 (madonnas, JDella11, jqnetto, Ace Reject)
(Or, alternatively...)
If you aren't cool and urban like Britney and don't know any wiser, the title of this song is actually a colloquialism for the far more elegant-sounding Stick With You. Everyone's favourite mid-2000's peddlers of smut, this ballad allowed the band to show off a far more reserved side.
Though I'm sure "...loosen up my buttons" following it immediately afterwards in the PCD tracklist doesn't exactly make the message seem at all sincere.
And "I'll stickiwitu forever"...trying telling that to crusher of small child's dreams and wrecker of girlbands and stealer of limelight Ms. Scherzinger...
Jinzo's verdict: 4
Just so utterly mediocre. When I want my Pussycat Dolls, I want them turned to 11 on the whoarrrr scale, none of this MOR bollocks.
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Made it way too far.
(ABOVE FREAK LIKE ME ajd dkks d)
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This song is cute though. MILLIONS of times better than that mess Don't Cha
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Wait, which 2012 songs are left? And why isn't CMM the highest 2012 song?
Great elminations otherwise.
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70. (=) Sonique- It Feels So Good (6.579)
Highest score: 10 x6 (HaHa2011, Cassiopeia, JDella11, Chemist, Flashing Lights, MP2K)
Lowest score: 0 x1 (jqnetto)
An unflattering picture of Sonique:
It Feels So Good is a strange case. It was first actually released in December 1998, henceforth making it the oldest original song in our entire rate. It reached a peak of #24. However, being released again in May 2000, it became the first time since Kate Bush in 1978 that a British female spent 3 weeks at #1.
The Ciara of the UK, rumours often fly around that Sonique is indeed a man. But like Beyoncé's writing credits or whatever hides underneath Gaga's codpiece....we just don't know.
Jinzo's verdict: 8.5
An amazing, ethereal feel to it. So unlike everything else in the rate. It's good to listen to as you drive alone through the countryside. I have no idea why.
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I'm thrilled Jepsen is out! 
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The picture 
I gave this a 5. Its very forgettable to me.
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68. B.o.B ft. Hayley Williams- Airplanes (6.590)
Highest score: 10 x8 (Strangergab, dinorel, jqnetto, airbornE, Kool_Aid_King, berberocka, boyamama, VJoker)
Lowest score: 0 x2 (Glassheart, adrianbeane)
An unflattering picture of Hayley Williams:
Though the two share a song, the two didn't really share a video. Because of Paramore's existing touring commitments, Hayley filmed her sections at an entirely different time to Mr. Simmons. At the 2010 BET Awards, the Pt. 2 version featuring Eminem received a live performance. Filling in for Hayley's parts was some mammal called Keyshia Cole. I'm not sure if that is a man or a woman. I just don't know. Very recently, Hayley's hook was also stolen and used by Onika Maraj while she "spits" a verse for B.o.B's latest hit, Out Of My Mind. Which I'm sure is Bubbling Under somewhere.
Jinzo's verdict: 7
Now I stan the hell outta Paramore; they were 2nd on my Last FM until not too long back. But I do not use B.o.B's basic as 2 Chainz garbage. A 7 based on Ms. Williams' glorious hook alone.
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