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bluth's decade so far | songs #10-1 wooo lord
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The Lana shade isn't cute, but Stan!
And I agrih LMDG is the best on the album.
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worst sings of 14
5 Crazy Stupid Love
Cheryl Forestgateaux-Tsunami
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if you imagine ariana grande's 'problem' as a as a freshly-valeted lamborghini speeding down a highway, crazy stupid love would be a rusty wheelbarrow floundering in the mud. it has some slightly infectious elements but it feels laborious and i feel like i'm waiting for the next part of the song to start
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4 Black Widow
Iggy Azalea ft. Rita Ora
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if you imagine katy perry's dark horse as a glass of vimto or whatever, this song is the equivalent of taking that glass and pouring loads more water in.
it feels really diluted, and i think it tries too hard to be a pop bop suitable enough to follow up fancy (which was a brilliant stroke tbf). the instrumental feels flimsy, iggy's verses are terrible (especially in the second one when she tries to rhyme 'for it' with 'for it' about eight times with no discernible internal rhyme pattern) and the hook isn't as instantaneous as dark horse.
dark horse's lyrics, as well, may have been kinda nonsensical, but the whole black widow metaphor is even more wide sweeping and baseless. it's not really fleshed out that well and it's just something thrown in to dress the song up with a sense of a relatable-factor.
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3 Nobody To Love
Sigma
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it's a very sterile drum and bass remix/interpretation of kanye's bound 2, and i don't appreciate them turning one of my favourite songs from yeezus into a lazy, easy bake hit in the uk. the drum and bass isn't interesting, it's just there and kinda utilitarian.
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2 Rude
Magic!
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if my daughter's boyfriend were a scruffily-dressed stoner who made bad pseudo-reggae music i'd refuse to give him permission to marry my daughter as well. i certainly ain't giving it to him when the self-entitled prick calls me rude for that too.
the lyrics are just flimsy and boring, and the reggae is the overly sterilised type of stuff people with posters of bob marley in their room who pretend to listen to his music like. yeah, the hook is slightly catchy but the rest of the song is just unnecessarily bad. some would call that rude.
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and now for the #1
drum roll
1 Trumpets
Jason Derulo
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i know a lot of people weren't here for me putting wiggle in my worst of list, but that doesn't stop me from finding trumpets to be the most annoying thing i've heard all year
the 'your bra reminds me of a katy perry song' lyric, the way he sings 'every time that you get undressed / i hear symphonies in my head' in some sort of soppy john legend-esque way is nauseating, and the breakdown itself i find just innately irritating.
it's a shame 'don't wanna go home' didn't end his career like it should have done
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so that's my top 10 worst songs done. i imagine a lot of people will disagree hihih. i'll finish off the albums and songs tomorrow
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TDFW and My Everything slay
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i had to think about what tdfw was at first and yes! such a banger.
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The Lana shade isn't cute, but Stan!
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hihih i give credit where it's due
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Rude is actually offensively bad. It's sexist and the "story" of the song is just.... nonsensical. Also it's just a bad song musically.
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I stan for Black Widow but your commentary is on point.
I agree with the rest of your Worst list though, excellent job the #1
and I love My Everything too
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Rude is actually offensively bad. It's sexist and the "story" of the song is just.... nonsensical. Also it's just a bad song musically.
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as i was writing about i kinda wanted it to be my #1. did you get round to checking out chrome sparks?
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and I love My Everything too
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ariana low key delivered didn't she
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Not yet! I will though.
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Wow, how did I miss out on this thread before? There's a LOT of good stuff here (especially loving the respect for "Let Me Down Gently"). And hey, the best part of all: Derulo with the worst song of the year. As he should be until the end of time.
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Crazy Stupid Love + Black Widow specially the last one, is horrible! Can't believe Iggy released that!
I love Nobody To Love tho and I'm indifferent with that top 2
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asdflhkasdhfkj I just DIED at the whole Cheryl Cole thing But it's really a horrible song anyway.
Your drags are always the best
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6 Flicker (Kanye West rework)
Lorde
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i was relatively ambivalent to the original yellow flicker beat. i loved the lyrics, the melodies were nice, but overall as a track something didn't quite hit me.
second of all i'll just say that i think it's amazing how lorde is like, what, 17 still and she's really doing well for herself, curating a soundtrack, associating herself with artists like kanye and hanging out with the likes of david bowie and tilda swinton (there's like a picture of the three together i think). i think she's a really intelligent young woman and she'll go far in her career, artistically if not so much commercially (but she's kinda already proved herself anyway)
i probably love this rework more because it's probably the most vivid taste of kanye we received all year. i've yet to see mockingjay and see how well flicker beat fits into the whole motif, but i the rework is so haunting, and there's a sense of luscious-ness and beautiful minimalism in the rework.
it carries the sparse nature of yeezus' production but it's a lot less abrasive, and it nails exactly what direction i want kanye to pursue with his next album
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5 Blank Space
Taylor Swift
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for me, taylor really hit 'it' on the head with this song whatever 'it' is. i think part of what makes 1989 so enjoyable is that it's max martin except with better-than-usual lyrics and a massively non-contrived facade.
i think part of what makes taylor so successful right now is that she understands what people want in pop music, much like how lady gaga and katy perry captured the zeitgeist with the fame and teenage dream respectively.
her brand of pop is subdued and organic in style like a wintery landscape with a sepia filter, but lyrically carries all the hopeless romantic mantras of the current social media/blogging/tumblr generation. i think she interprets the whole shake it off/too many dates motif a lot better in this song, and i probably think my favourite part is the casual click - like a pen click - 'and i'll write your name'.
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4 2 On
Tinashe
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yeah it's predictable having this on my year end list, but the song is also a banger
for me, the rivalry between my favourite tinashe release (as a single/promo single) this year was a case of the hare and tortoise. i liked 2 on, but feels like vegas also hit me in the right place too. as the year went on and i began to experience 2 on in all its wonderful mustard-scented glory in the context of drinking and dancing, it caught up and took over feels like vegas.
i feel like the whole mustard trend is getting old in hip hop/r&b, but 2 on gets it right and it has tinashe carry the song as much as the production.
i'll probs discuss my other aquarius highlights later
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so i really wanted to post some more albums now but i have to dash off and meet a friend will try and get them up later and respond to the comments. thanks y'all for watching
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Your worst list Crazy Stupid Love is a joke, Trumpets is the worst song from Jason.
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Short update, but Blank Space and 2 On are flawless
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Wow, how did I miss out on this thread before? There's a LOT of good stuff here (especially loving the respect for "Let Me Down Gently"). And hey, the best part of all: Derulo with the worst song of the year. As he should be until the end of time.
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yaas another let me down gently stan idg why la roux doesn't have more support on atrl tbh, maybe if she released another bulletproof?
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Crazy Stupid Love + Black Widow specially the last one, is horrible! Can't believe Iggy released that!
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they're both just terrible derivatives of two bigger, better hits
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asdflhkasdhfkj I just DIED at the whole Cheryl Cole thing But it's really a horrible song anyway.
Your drags are always the best
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Your worst list Crazy Stupid Love is a joke, Trumpets is the worst song from Jason.
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aaaahh someone who shares my contempt for jason
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Short update, but Blank Space and 2 On are flawless
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they're both such massive bops, rite?
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Rude is abhorrent.
2 On and Blank Space
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This list is SEXY and will make ours BETTER. I can feel it already.
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6 Blue
iamamiwhoami
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not going to lie, but i could never really get into kin which is a shame since everyone labels it the superior album. maybe blue is a lot easier to digest, but i thought this album was a solid dreampop effort.
it's a really enchanting aquatic experience, which merges these haunting oceanic backdrops against really solid pop melodies. of course, hunting for pearls and fountain are great, but whenever the chorus to blue blue kicks in i die a little inside. the way the songs cooly meander between the subdued and submerged to the ethereal, gripping choruses it reminds me of the moment in the fountain video where the waves crash into the rocks behind joanna and soar upwards. at least i think that happened in the video. i think they managed to capture something so natural, beautiful and calm in song form and i really enjoyed it.
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5 1989
Taylor Swift
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anyone who says 1989 is just 'prism 2.0' is grossly misinformed. while katy's self-professed spiritual album contained about as much personality as a hallmark gift card, 1989, i feel, still shines with the young-girl-diary confessional and personal style with taylor's most ostensibly pop music she's ever made.
it's a completely solid body of work, the only duds on the full deluxe edition being welcome to new york, this love and wonderland, and as a whole it forms a brilliant cohesive snapshot - like a polaroid - which captures the true essence of relationships and social dynamics amongst young people today.
my personal favourite - among others like wildest dreams, blank space, clean (which is AMAZING and needs more respect) - is definitely new romantics. the way it sardonically opens with 'we're all bored', the way in which the chorus is a rush of adrenaline. however, what makes new romantics so great is that it presents taylor at her sharpest in encapsulating the tumblr generation. it's something which raises a voice for those lost within the social media vaccuum, gravitating waveringly between different posts, pictures and memes from the world around them and wishing they had something else. i think new romantics captures the youth fascination with scarlet letters and hopeless romantics, and is a testament as to why so many people bought into 1989.
no one should be ashamed to 'bandwagon' taylor, she just so happened to be the first atrl-main pop girl since, like, 2011 to not disappoint with an all-out pop record.
edit: oh yeah i also reviewed this for atrlcritic if anyone is bored enough: http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.ph...7#post24918567 xoxox
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4 Wonder Where We Land
SBTRKT
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wonder where we land sees SBTRKT attempt something a lot more wide-sweeping and ambitious than their eponymous debut, and some may say (and be right) in saying this does come at a slight detriment to the record, but it's still a highly enjoyable album.
of course, the collaborations with sampha tend to work the best here (temporary view in particular, but nothing quite as good as 'something goes right'), but there are some other fantastic additions into the SBTRKT narrative like 'new dorp. new york', 'higher', 'decemberist' and 'everybody knows'. for people who truly loved their debut, there are plenty of elements here which match up to it, however their spacing out across a vaster expanse of tracks may make it more difficult to discern. all in all, it's a solid record and the artwork is probably my favourite from this year.
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Your writing reminds me of PopJustice so much.
Love it though!
Expose the trash that is Jason.
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so i was thinking about my favourite songs list and i just realised that i could have made it a lot better so i might have to make some last minute changes hihihih.
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Rude is abhorrent.
2 On and Blank Space
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ahh, your taste
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Your writing reminds me of PopJustice so much.
Love it though!
Expose the trash that is Jason.
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nnn thanks
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Blank Space, 2 On
1989 The New Romantics acclaim
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