Twist #3: Make It Like Your Birthday
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1. FKA Dancehall - Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
2. Bey_Rihstan - Britney Spears - Toxic
4. !Blue! - Beyoncé - Drunk In Love (feat. Jay Z)
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1. FKA Dancehall - Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
2. Bey_Rihstan - Britney Spears - Toxic
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Les ATRLers - Season 03 ∙ Episode 3: Entries (Brethren)
Episode 3: Entries (Brethren)
The judges will get a private message from me.
You guys should read every entry and discuss them here in the thread.
Deadline: Tuesday, March 31st 4pm ET
Superiore
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Originally posted by Superiore
WRITER: Lady Gaga PRODUCER: DJ White Shadow RELEASE DATE: September 19, 2012
2012. A year of huge thirst t'was for the Monsters, a thirst only partially quenched by our own very tease, Lady Gaga, in September and October with two quick lil tracks: first Cake Like Lady Gaga and short after her vocal remix of Zedd's Stache. The former was endorsed through performances in Gaga's tours, an additional exclusive verse for the Mugler Fashion Show and it was supposed to have a video directed by Terry Richardson( x | x ), that, as of now, lives in poverty under some bridge in Chicago together with the Do What U Want's one. Poor dat!
Lyrically, it totally fits in the "I'm better than you" category starting from the very beginning.
Stuntin' all day, swag on 100 million
Stefani doesn't even give us the time to get into the first verse that we already find her bragging about how she's rich and ain't afraid to show it. After this, she goes on a roll, exposing in detail her expensive lifestyle (champagne, fashion, jet) and achievements (sold-out-shows, huge earnings, great popularity) to the poor "trick ass bitch[es]"' that will never hold ANY of that goodness while also subtly sliding in a reference to, guess what, her biggest hit with "**** your face". She previously stated how in Poker Face's chorus she alternated "po-po-po-poker face" to "fu-fu-fu-**** her face". Explicit double entendres queen! Another vastly-known hit of hers, Paparazzi, gets a mention later in the song but, in this case, not in a subtle way. The whole song goes ahead with an insane amount of boasting all through it. You roll the Reggie Bush (low quality weed)? She rolls all the good ****! She runs the world, she mops you all across the floor and SNATCHES YOUR WEAVE, "under 30, hundred million" and a HUGE fanbase. She's basically so better than everyone else that she can only compare herself... to herself ("I roll like Lady Gaga")! So, WHAT IS YOU? In the Mugler Remix's added verse she also drags Cathy Horyn, a New York Times style critic, and her partner Art Ortenberg essentially cause they ain't Lady Gaga (and because she told Donatella that giving Gaga vintage Versace pieces was a bad and inconsiderate move but that comes second).
I’m gettin’ fat and so is my bank
I’m on a sold out world tour bitch
The final lines put the ultimate nail in her haters' coffins. Before the additional verse, all the media attacks cause of her increased weight happened and, thereafter, she started the Body Revolution, which wasn't supposed to be a competition of nudes between twinks but that's LittleMonsters.com for you, folks! While every magazine was morbidly analyzing her fat thighs, her bank account was getting way fatter thanks to the sold-out stadium shows of the Born This Way Ball Tour (#bless). In this track the bragging never ends and she managed to sound pretty cocky and confident, as a gangsta rappeuse.... until the ARTPOP's flop and the late 2013 meltdowns reached her mind.
Ballin' bigger than LeBron... Who y'all think y'all frontin' on?
Don't act like you forgot, I call the shots, shots, shots
Kamikaze, if you think that you gon' knock me off the top
Every time I drive by, I'm the only thing you're playin'
In a drop top, doin' hundred, y'all in my rearview mirror racin'
The moment the task was presented, it became very evident there was only one appropriate choice for me to make, "Bitch Better Have My Money" that is. Not only does the song fit the given theme to a T, but it's currently on everyone's lips and pretty exclusively what I've been listening to these past few days. Inescapable, plain and simple. Call it predictable, perhaps, yet acknowledge the unapologetic, in-your-face arrogance exuding from Rihanna's delivery. She means business and has the merits to back it all up. Even in itself, that commanding attitude is enough to put a "bitch" in their place. Still, she goes beyond that, shooting her mouth off to establish her superiority and letting the words inflict further damage on anyone getting in her way. As the above-highlighted quotes evidence, the cockiness is strongly present in the lyrics as well. Boasting how even the great LeBron pales in comparison, her competition can merely try to keep up with her to then find out the efforts may only end in self-destruction. Instead, they "better" just come to terms with it, pay their dues and submit to her dominance. That said, there's no question "Bitch Better Have My Money" sees Rihanna deeming herself as the best, and with that conviction, she simply faces no opposition.
PS. I apologize if the links were taken down before you had a chance to go through my entry. I ask for your understanding considering the circumstances (newly released song, no official audio). Luckily, you can always listen to the song on your iTunes library.
!Blue!
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My Entry
Ok for my entry i chose Rihanna's "Phresh Out The Runway"
Before BBHMM this song was probably the song in which she bragged the most.
It was also her most cocky one. And you can clearly hear it even when you don't know the lyrics simply judging by her delivery and to an extend from the production.
The song simply oozes confidence.
The lyrical content, which previously said is about her bragging, definitely underlines the cockiness and the confidence. She brags about material things/ her wealth and lets everyone know that she's able to afford things like designer clothes ("Heels Givenchy huh") or expensive jewelry ("My jewelers are diamond rollers" or "I got 50 mutha****ers in my watch") because she has a huge amount of money (basically the last few lines of the second verse).
Despite all this boasting. She never outright says "I am better than you" but i don't think she even needs to do that. Although i think the bridge kind of implies it. She is aware that people want to know more about her lifestyle and how fun it is probably because they envy her. But in general what she's singing about basically speaks for itself.
Also in the live performances you can clearly see how much she is feeling herself and how she's owning the stage. She knows that she can compete with those models maybe even that she's better than them
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Buddy!
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Originally posted by Buddy!
~Survivor~
Rihanna: Pour It Up
Rihanna has a reputation for writing songs, and even going on twitter tirades my bad cici to show off what she's earned as an artist. Most notably the amount of money she has. With 2013's single Pour it up off her album Unapologetic, the lyrics clearly show bad gal riri ain't afraid of letting the world know how rich she actually is. I mean the title of the song suggests that she's throwing money up in the air. “money on my mind, throw it, throw it up, watch it fall from the sky"
Analyzing the lyrics further..:
"Strip clubs and dollar bills
I still got my money
Patron shots can I get a refill?
I still got my money
Strippers goin' up and down that pole
I still got my money"
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"Valet cost a hundred bills
I still got my money
Gold all up in my grill
I still got my money
Who cares how you haters feel
And I still got my money
Call Jay up and close a deal
I still got my money"
"So who cares bout what I spend
I still got my money
My pocket's deep, and they never end
I still got my money"
This song may not be exactly what comes to mind when we think of songs that deals with bragging, or stating the fact that Rihanna feels as if she is better than anyone. "Valet cost a hundred bills, I still got money" "Gold all up in my grill, I still got money" Emphasizes the fact that she's not afraid to throw away her money on material things. "Strippers goin' up and down that pole, I still got my money" this low key shady line is pretty much Rih denouncing the job of a stripper, that she dosen't have to take her clothes of on a pole to earn her daily check.
"My pocket's deep, and they never end" couldn't explain her point of "i'm better than you" mentality any further.
Hugamari
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Originally posted by Hugamari
♥ Les ATRLers ~ Survivor ♥
*Theme ~ "I'm better than you"*
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"Look at me; I know I'm fly"
The song I chose for this round is Girlicious' "Like Me", and right from the opening line, you can tell these girls think they're the hottest **** on the market. They command attention throughout the whole song, not only through the lyrics, but the absolutely unapologetic delivery of the lines.
Thematically, "Like Me" is from the perspective of a girl who knows she's "fly", and claims another girl is trying to be "like her", but can't, and is made strikingly clear with lines such as "Try'na talk like me, try'na walk like me, try'na get all the boys in the club like me" and "She wish she was a dime like me, 'cause I'm a hottie, in this a party; she wish she was me, but that's too bad."
The music video, although simple, is also effective in getting this message across. Throughout the video, "Girlicious" can be seen moving and dancing in a boxing ring, and it's evident that they know they're hot, and are confident about it. From the lyrics, to the outfits, and even how they look at you through the video, the one message that's conveyed is clear..."I'm better than you."
GotSkill
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Originally posted by GotSkill
Feeling Myself
ATRL loves a powerful women. In all, stanning is basically fighting for whose fave is more powerful. Probably the only thing better than one powerful woman is two, which is why this is the perfect song for this challenge. The song itself, basically a 4 minute boast, fits the challenge perfectly. What steps the song up just one more level is the fact that it is entirely comprised of the two leading ladies attempting to out-brag each other. Bey chants about how she stopped the world with her self titled surprise release, even offering that everyone remembers exactly where they were when they heard the news. Nicki raps her long list of accomplishments and calls herself the queen of rap, saying you can ask anyone who the queen is
and they'll say it's her. Their tight flow and catchy melodies over a driving beat could convince anyone they're the queens of this business. Never has a bragging track felt so authentic as in Feeling Myself.
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Les ATRLers - Season 03 ∙ Episode 3: Entries (Sistren)
Episode 3: Entries (Sistren)
dwuw
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Originally posted by dwuw
Episode 3: I'm The Best
Diva
I chose Diva, a Beyoncé single from I am... Sasha Fierce, for this challenge. We had to search a song with the theme "I'm the best", and that's what this song is about. The song starts with the line "I'm a diva" repeated for multiple times. So, since the first second, we already know the theme of this song. Then, in the first verse, she brags about herself and her accomplishments, as we can see in the lines "Been the number one diva in this game for a minute!" and "Fifty million 'round the world and they say that I couldn't get it". She also calls herself a queen - since she's known as Queen B - and about her success in every radio of the world. The chorus is repeated again, and the line "I'm a diva" slowly starts getting stuck in our minds, so we don't forget about it in a long time. In the second verse, she sings about her getting money just because she's a diva, and offers everyone who doesn't think she's a diva to meet her, because she knows she's a diva and no one can tell her otherwise. The chorus repeats for a third time, and in the bridge, she brags about herself too. "Since 15 in my stilettos, been struttin' in this game", she, herself, knows that she has been having a great success since she was 15 (Destiny's Child), and she's still one of the biggest female singers in the world more than 15 years later. She also refers - in that line - how she's been working really hard since day one, to get where she is right now, and that's why she's so confident with herself. After this short "analysis", we can see that the song is just about Beyoncé saying "I'm the best".
posh
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-------For this challenge, I decided to go with the classic "Anything You Can Do" from Annie Get Your Gun. The general basis of this song is that despite being a girl, Annie can still do anything that Frank can do, in fact, she can do it better! The song consists of these two debating who can do what better, with Annie of course always coming out on top. This isn't a serious song about being better than "e'ry other bitch in the club," or anything like that - "Anything You Can Do" has a charm that lies within how playful the lyrics are. Certain parts of the song, such as "I can sing anything higher than you" and "anything you can sing, I can sing sweeter" actually have the two demonstarting their talents, showing that
they can walk the walk. There's even some shade thrown in there when Frank tells of how he can survive on only bread and cheese, to which Annie replies, "so can a rat." Frank ultimately admits defeat during their note holding battle, and belts "yes, you can!" For decades this song has stood as not only a staple in the musical community, but also a great motivator for women, encouraging them to not downplay themselves.
Who better to convey this week’s theme than the modern-day epitome of narcissism himself, Kanye West. Rather than name-drop a couple of rappers that were prevalent at the time, (ala Lamar on Control) within the outset of the track he takes it one step further, in true Kanye fashion, & claims to be the best rapper of the century. The implications go beyond just his musical accomplishments, he believes he has greatly influenced the twenty-first century as a whole, beyond just rap.
"I got the power to make your life so exciting"
This adequately sums up the underlying message behind the entire song. Inferring that at the end of the day, his mere presence has the ability to uproot all the misery and misfortune in one's life, which essentially entails it can be more fruitful than an entire life's worth of work.
"POWER" is not a bitchfest. It's homage (to him-self). All of his various guises-- King of the Assholes, drama queen, Red Bull'd 12-year-old, strangely relatable megalomaniac-- are mashed up into three minutes of a pure & unfiltered spectacle. Every sound is ready for the arena, and every couplet is ready for the 140 character treatment, including "At the end of the day, god damn it I’m killing this ****; I know damn well y’all feeling this ****" He knows, and so do we.
Bey_Rihstan
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Originally posted by Bey_Rihstan
SURVIVOR
SONG: Hard - Icon, Robyn Rihanna Fenty ft Young Jeezy.
With lyrics like "That Rihanna reign just won't let up" "But the hottest bitch in heels right here" or
"All up on it, know ya wanna clone it, ain't like me, that chick too boney", it should be no surprise as to why I've chosen this for the "I'm better than you" theme. Rihanna tosses shade at everyone & Let's everyone know that her throne or pedestal will not be touched by a basic bitch (or anyone for that matter). Not only does she talk about being materialistically better than you, she also talks about being stronger than you in the song. Young Jeezy's verse is actually random as hell, but he talks about being on top in random lines, too.
FKA Dancehall
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Originally posted by FKA Dancehall
There's a lot of man snatching music, and a lot of you wandered so now I'm stronger and moving on music, and I think we value both of those a lot. We praise going after love and wasting no time to find it again, but I think we've (as a society) forgotten making love work and fighting to keep that love going. I think of what my daddy, Ben Affleck, said to Jen Garner teary eyed:
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I want to thank you for working on our marriage for 10 Christmases. It’s good, it is work, but it’s the best kind of work, and there’s no one I’d rather work with.
And how the media ran with headlines like: Marriage Troubles! Ben CHEATING?! JENNIFER WEAK AND IN IT FOR THE CHILDREN? Feminism and We're Stronger Than This NOW. But I think they really missed the value of what he said. How much the situation behind his words and this song relate really isn't out buisness, but if it relates, then whatever.
This song is unique beyond relating to the above,just the way it addresses the person after her man. While some might retroactively accuse Loretta Lynn of many things, including why she's singing about the other woman and not her man with wondering eyes, that's besides the point. That's another song, but this one is about someone who made her intentions clear and Loretta is clapping back with a, you're a basic bitch and what you have to offer is nothing compared to the several years of my loving relationship - highs and lows included.
Of course divorce could be a great thing and has its use (and this song isn't against it, check LL's controversial banned Rated 'X' where she clocks double standards), but every relationship is its own and we can't draw broad conclusions and go after women who stand by their men, for whatever reason. Which today, is often as damning as the cheating was for the man.
umich
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Originally posted by umich
Team Sistren SONG: Mary J Blige - The One (featuring Drake) ALBUM: Stronger With Each Tear (2009)
I chose Mary J. Blige's The One (featuring Drake) because it perfectly fits the theme of this week's challenge of I'm Better Than You. Basically, MJB gets straight to the point with letting the male know that she is simply "the one."
She opens with: "Them other girls you done been with, none of them got nothing on me." Clearly, she has no issue with letting her potential man know that she is above and beyond any female that he's dated or been involved with. A direct lyric of confidence is what MJB delivers here. Furthermore, she goes on to say "The way I walk, way I talk, my swagga ... look around, every dude wanna have her ... I ain't saying that I'm the best, but I'm the best." Here, MJB explains why those other girls "ain't got nothing" on her and ends with a play on words as if she wanted to say I don't mean to toot my own horn, but... toot toot! In the chorus, MJB tells him to "stop looking for her, I'm the one." Her blunt cockiness makes her comfortable to feel that she has what it takes to make him settle. Other lyrics such as "...quality, I'm custom-fitted" and "every boss wanna have her" are more than likely other forms of self-gloating since she feels that various men want to be with her due to her quality and tailor-made appearance. Although the lyrics are limited in terms of depth, it's one of those songs that conveys a message without saying too much. That's why she is the self-proclaimed "One."
My Entry
