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Discussion: UK Eccentrics Debut Album Rate.
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14. Quicksand
Average: 8.2381
High: 10 (3x) - MKC, HandsOn, Fruity
Low: 6 (3x) - Owl, Mellark, electroheart
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Singer Elly Jackson told the London Paper about this Electro-Pop song of romantic yearning: "It's about having an intense-moment with someone, when maybe you're watching a film or listening to music, and both of you are yearning for the other one, and it's almost painful to sit next to them."
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My Score: 9
It interesting how some of Under The Sheet's top scorers are the lowest scores for this one.
Considering what is left, this should have made top 10.
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Eh I like Quicksand more than Tigerlily, but I'm not surprised that it was off before it. It still got high though which is great! I like Under the Sheets, but I think it hung on for a little bit longer than it should have.
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13. Guns And Horses
Average: 8.2619
High: 10 (2x) - Auren, HandsOn
Low: 5 (1x) - Jdella11
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This is the third single from English singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding debut album, Lights.In an interview with the BBC, Goulding was asked what her songs are about. She replied: "Everything - I sing often about love and heartbreak, not just my own but other peoples' stories. I'm fascinated by tales. Also, like in 'Guns & Horses,' I talk about something modern which is someone being at a computer all the time. So I take on traditional subjects and also dark things like how technology can ruin things and the emptiness of some relationships."
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My Score: 9
And with this elimination, Ellie is down to 2 songs. Meanwhile, Marina is sitting pretty with 6 of the 12 songs remaining. Decent placement for this.
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I think this song got too high, but it's fine. Definitely preferred other Ellie songs over this one, but her final two songs seem to be right. It'd be weird if their main songs (the two remaining, Shark in the Water, etc) ended up not in the top 10. 
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WHY is I Am Not A Robot still here. 
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12. Shampain
Average: 8.2857
High: 10 (4x) - Clump, HandsOn, Navin, Stevie
Low: 4 (1x) - MKC
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This is the fifth single by Welsh singer-songwriter Marina and the Diamonds from her debut studio album, The Family Jewels. Marina wrote the song with Pascal Gabriel and Liam Howe and it was originally titled "The Shampain Sleeper."
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Marina explained the song's meaning in an iTunes podcast: "'Shampain' is about the depressing side of getting drunk, the obliteration side of having a good time. This was actually the first co-write that I ever did. It was good to write a simpler pop song because when I write on my own the melodies are all over the place. It was good to do something a little bit lighter, and this probably is my lightest track on a record. It's about insomnia and the joys of champagne."
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My Score: 10
What is going on here? 
This should have won. Best song out of those that made the top 20. Very disappointed.
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I'm sure that Marina is happy that this one is out...
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Originally posted by jinzo
WHY is I Am Not A Robot still here. |
Agreed. It is about time.
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Originally posted by Ewan Chaos
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Why? It is one of her best songs.
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11. I Am Not A Robot
Average: 8.4048
High: 10 (6x) - Venus, Auren, Owl, Clump, HandsOn, Fruity
Low: 1 (1x) - jinzo
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Marina Diamandis, who records under the name Marina and the Diamonds, finds it hard to get close to people in relationships, and tracks like this one and "Numb" deal with this subject matter. She explained to The Sun February 5, 2010: "They are both about being emotionally detached. Even though I'm this jolly and bubbly person on the surface, I'm very different with certain people."
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My Score: 7.5
Made it too far. Obsessions is better.
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Top 10.
4 to 3 to 2 to 1.
Mowgli's Road
Hollywood
Oh No!
Are You Satisfied?
In For The Kill
Tigerlily
Bulletproof
Lights
Starry Eyed
Shark In The Water
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Originally posted by Stevie
Why? It is one of her best songs.
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She's said (recently, too) that she hates the song + pretty much always hated it. And she'd only really ever play it on tour/a festival because it's fun for the crowd, which it is.
Robot being out is fine by me. I really hope that Shark in the Water gets top 5 to make up for the VV slaughter at the beginning.
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I will be happy with any of these making the top 5:
Bulletproof
Oh No!
Shark In The Water
Tigerlily
Starry Eyed
Mowgli's Road
The other four need to go.
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Hmmm.
I guess tonight's eliminations were harsh on Ellie. I'm still irked over The Writer being booted out, but Under The Sheets and Guns and Horses are ultimately a little disposable. What in tarnation is Mowgli's Road still doing here, though? Basic piece of screechy tripe.
1. Oh No!
2. In For The Kill
3. Starry Eyed
4. Hollywood
5. Tigerlily
6. Shark In The Water
7. Are You Satisfied?
8. Lights
9. Mowgli's Road
10. Bulletproof
That's my preferred Top 10. I think Hollywood has it nailed on for victory, though.
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Originally posted by jinzo
Hmmm.
I guess tonight's eliminations were harsh on Ellie. I'm still irked over The Writer being booted out, but Under The Sheets and Guns and Horses are ultimately a little disposable. What in tarnation is Mowgli's Road still doing here, though? Basic piece of screechy tripe.
1. Oh No!
2. In For The Kill
3. Starry Eyed
4. Hollywood
5. Tigerlily
6. Shark In The Water
7. Are You Satisfied?
8. Lights
9. Mowgli's Road
10. Bulletproof
That's my preferred Top 10. I think Hollywood has it nailed on for victory, though.
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i BETTER THE **** get out of this thread before being held accountable for murdering a bitch
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WAIT, HOLD UP. Shark in the Water made top 10????
Oh god, I'm so proud. Proud of the song, of atrl, of VV. 
Sidenote: Under The Sheets deserved top 10 ya'll. But I ain't even mad because God in The Water made it.
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I'm shocked at Quicksand and Shampain!!!
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i BETTER THE **** get out of this thread before being held accountable for murdering a bitch
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Jinzo spoke the good truth sis. I'm glad I stopped that song from going any farther by giving it a 5. 
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At least VV Brown has a song in the Top 10 
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Originally posted by Stevie
Sorry for the delay. I will wrap this up over the weekend.
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Oh...
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