Yes my lovelies, it is that time again. I've been getting a few wall messages from y'all, and this is really happening! Let's chat and discuss some things.

Like, is it me or does Tinashe have Singles Run all sewn up? All Hands on Deck/Player/Party Favors/All My Friends. Woo Lorde.

Categories

Album
Song (For the lyrics, music and arrangement)
Single
Track (any album track or b-side)
New Artist
Male
Female
Group
Collaboration
Producer
Mixtape/EP
Music Video
Comeback
Singles Run

Pop
Traditional Rock (more mainstream options)
Modern Rock ('alternative,' yet not super indie)
Independent
Country
Electronic/Dance
R&B
Urban Alternative
Rap

Also, can we guarantee that Bitch I'm Madonna takes Collaboration, or is that too on the nose?

Yassss.

I would fume.

Oh, look, it's that thing I'm invited to and I'm hopeless for everything other than the rock categories every year!

...that doesn't mean that I would mind taking part again this year.

Hope you know that Comeback this year is pretty much going to go down to the wire between Sleater-Kinney and Janet Jackson, so you should listen to both!

Also, reminder y'all - for all genre categories, everyone is eligible, but for the general categories (Male/Female/Group/New Artist), only those who have released ALBUMS (read: not mixtapes or EPs) in 2015 can be voted on.

This is the second time this week you've come at me with Janet Jackson.

yesssss to both

Oh yes I remember the halfways

It's been so long since I've participated in a live chat with other ATRL members. I'm looking forward to this.

bitch im madonna deserves all the awards ever

fff the live chats are always messy. kinda looking forward to it. hope it's on a night while I'm still at school.


Does my boy toy Troye have any competition for Best New Male or whatever the equivalent category is? He's the only one I care about enough to fight for this year.

There's really nothing like the live chats, tbh. I love them so much.

Fetty Wap, The Weeknd, and Chris Stapleton (if the latter two qualify) are contenders for a Best New Male category (though I don't think we'll have one).

Never participated, but I'll be glad to.

Poor Roisin losing that comeback in the halfways and Janet solidifying the full-circle loss.

Anyway, I'm excited!

Peeps should post here what they've been enjoying this year so I don't get blindsided by some random ass single that somehow everyone but me knows and I look like a fool while everyone votes for it (I feel like that happened so much in the halfways).

Each one, teach one!

BTW, let's take a look at all the artists that SHOULD receive votes in the main categories:

Male

Ryan Adams (1989 her power)
Arca
Justin Bieber
Eric Church
Future
Jamie xx
Kendrick Lamar
Miguel
Father John Misty
Panda Bear
Shamir
Chris Stapleton
Sufjan Stevens
The Weeknd

Female
Adele
Courtney Barnett
Bjork
Alessia Cara
Lana Del Rey
Hilary Duff
Selena Gomez
Grimes
Julia Holter
Janet Jackson
Carly Rae Jepsen
Madonna
Marina & The Diamonds
Ashley Monroe
Roisin Murphy
Kacey Musgraves
Joanna Newsom
Natalie Prass
Jill Scott
Suzanne Sundfor
Jazmine Sullivan
Meghan Trainor
Carrie Underwood

Group

Beach House
Blur
Chvrches
Deerhunter
Fifth Harmony
Little Mix
One Direction
Rae Sremmund
Sleater-Kinney
Tame Impala

Hew's missing?

I could join, although my time zone and weird schedule might mess me up. If there are r&b / soul categories, I'm definitely in

Can we have a refresher on what "Male" and "Female" is representative of? I always forget. Is it just their body of work for the year?

Fetty Wap, Drake, Bryson Tiller, and Sam Hunt.

Everything Everything for group imo