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Discussion: Pop Madness '14 // And the winner is...
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Charli XCX - "Breaking Up"
"You have a friend in a band, but they're not that cool"
4/16 songs remaining
 #25 exposé
Eeveelution - 9.5
Theus - 9
MattyTacos - 10
Kim Kardashian - 7.5
Dilettante - 11
Lucas32 - 4
HausofCarlos - 10
conatus - 10
Girlicious - 4
genetic fail - 10
!Blue! - 8
YR.- 9
Pavement Princess - 8
KK_Lover - 5
Kyle. - 10
ontherocks - 5
E-Raine - 7
sh0ckw4ves - 10
bluth - 8
Truth Teller - 3
Luigi - 7
SailorMoon - 10
Conseeded - 5
Chyene - 6
OnikaSlays - 6
Artemisia - 8
collin - 11
musicfan09 - 5
PeopleLikeUs - 10
Terylee - 9
dwuw - 9.3
Frozen99 - 6
Ari Auris - 2
Neonika - 10
IconicFlop - 4
MP2K - 5
Black Umbrella - 2.75
Daydreamin - 3
lovesong - 2
Wonderlust - 6
Futuristic Lover - 10
beautiful player - 8
jacklovesyou1 - 10
downbywednesday - 5
Prometheus - 8
Doogle - 10
MirrocleMonster - 7
Superiore - 9.4
Drowned_World - 7
Ace Reject - 8
borntodie - 5
Supersymmetry - 11
alkralkra - 7
K$Ellie - 8
°ColdFire° - 6.8
Quicksand - 5
Superpower - 6
Stan - 0
MileyRayChrist - 8
SebaMonster - 7
Subomie - 9
BlueTimberwolf - 8
Penk - 10
Dollas n Diamonds - 6
Bloomers - 9
Kang. - 10
B-Luke - 6
Marq - 7
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Average: 7.298
Peak: #12
Lovers: (11x3) Dilettante; collin; ****YesLovato (10x14) conatus; Doogle; Futuristic Lover; genetic fail; HausOfCarlos; jacklovesyou1; Kang.;Kyle.; MattyTacos; Neonika; Penk; PeopleLikeUs; SailorMoon; Sh0ckv4ves
Haters: (0) Stan
Released a promotional single for Sucker, the song is the shortest on the album, but it still packs a hell of a punch. Charli manages drag, read and slay her ex in barely over two minutes, not to mention it's also a real bop. The song also has a video which is a little cute.
Watching this song through the voting period was interesting: at one point the song was almost in the top 10 while at other times it wasn't even top 30. Regardless, it has the most 11s of any song so far.
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Breaking Up was an 11 contender for me but at least it made it this far. My favourite song on that... Album.
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THIS IS ****ING ********
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Member Since: 8/17/2013
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who the hell reported this?
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This thread has been reported to the ATRL moderators. If it is found to be inaccurate, fake, already posted, off topic, or hateful, then it will be closed.
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I should have given it a 10
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AND I HOPE THEY ****ING CLOSE THIS ****
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I'm not gonna get a page for this one am I? Where the **** are the 70 people who voted in this?
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Member Since: 2/7/2014
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********, that's all this is
Why didn't I participate in this rate?!
Oh right, because it meant subjecting myself to Tinashe's album. Sigh...
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Screaming. Continue the Charlene massacre for all I care at this point.
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Charli XCX might know a thing or two about shifting aesthetics over the years — and, more importantly, her eras – since the eventful release of “Stay Away”, that moment in which she channelled both The Cure and Destiny’s Child. She’s since then mastered the bewitched art of choosing very carefully the context she’s later fitting in — the symbols she wants to evoke and the reactions she wants to trigger. Much like someone who attentively places the furniture in a room, I’ve always imagined Charli to be the kind of writer and performer that reckons every move made. Now I know that Sucker is a little more unpredictable than that — it’s still very calculated pop music indeed, but the trick Charli is pulling is that Sucker‘s punk roots lie in the lyrics (she did indeed record a punk album anyway), meaning, as predicted, that they are not exactly in the sound — it is too bratty to make the punk comparison hold itself. “Breaking Up” is the best example I can recall. After all, this is the album’s centerpiece. If there’s anything punk about it, it’s its striking simplicity. Her straightforwardness on the subject of breaking up with stupid boys is anything but a thoughtless move. But here’s the catch: it is indeed supposed to feel simple — we’re talking about a Shampoo kind of chorus in here — yet this is how genius songwriting is best showcased: it’s effortless until you figure out you’ve been tricked all along.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Can we not be reminded of the injustice that masterpiece faced in lovesong's rate, please? Thanks.
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And our 11s:
collin: "WoooH! British Avril kinda slayed every1 here. I don't know if I've ever been as slay'd with 2:18... ever? Kinda pop-punk gold. She did that - and this is why she deserves so much love." Not sure if "British Avril" should be used as a complinement, but yeah, it's great!
Dilettante: "Breaking Up is probably not the most obvious pick, and indeed I was torn between this, Famous, Pretty When You Cry, Bated Breath, Love Me Harder and SuperLove (#justice4ha) - but it best represents what I wanted from this album - the rest of the album is a mess, which either bombs hard or hits gold, but this song is the short, punchy punk-lite I was hoping for. Plus, she first performed it at SXSW and we thought it would be a single in April (I think), so I waited a long time for this song, and feel the most attatched to it out of all the songs in this rate". Well, thank God you didn't give it to Famous!
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Good riddance 
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Oh I was about to ask why I didn't give it a 10 but thanks past me.
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I was torn between this, Famous, Pretty When You Cry, Bated Breath, Love Me Harder and SuperLove
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stan 
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You may have noticed all our album openers are still in. Well, one of them is about to be axed.
Will it be Aquarius, Cruel World, Problem or Sucker?
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omg at least Doing It is still in. 
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