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Discussion: MEGARATE: UK #1s, 2000-2012 (The final!)
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Member Since: 10/14/2011
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I'll be doing the results early tonight as I'm going to be partying.
So about 6:30pm-7pm GMT.
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Member Since: 10/14/2011
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Are you ready for today's instalment?
- The first song is a shock.
- The second song is a bit of a sucky loss, too.
- The third song is about love.
- So is the fourth one.
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Member Since: 9/26/2011
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Originally posted by jinzo
Are you ready for today's instalment?
- The first song is a shock.
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I think I'm prepared. It surely cannot get worse after ''Pure Shores'', ''Freak Like Me'', ''Groovejet'' etc..
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Member Since: 2/23/2012
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I don't want any shocks
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Ready for this
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this rates such a mess. i assume most people were like.
ooh i know this song!! childhood, 10 <3
ew what is this ive never heard it, *listens to 20 seconds* 0 *throws in an occasional 1 or 2 to not look biased*
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36. Christina Aguilera ft. Redman- Dirrty (7.447)
Highest score: 10 x6 (backtoback, Strangergab, airbornE, berberocka, boyamama, classicmainstream)
Lowest score: 1 x1 (conseeded)
A collection of unflattering Xtina photos. Because there's just so many to choose from:
The one, the only, the US #48 smash! This was the moment we saw our good young Christina become "Xtina", the sex-having condom-maybe-or-maybe-not-wearing weight-gaining-sometimes-losing man-having-sometimes-not-having mess-always-all-the time young woman.
It's probably most well-remembered for its video. Whilst Britney was that Lucky Hollywood girl who was Stronger than yesterday, good old Xtine was delivered what has been described as a "post-apocalyptic orgy". Mud wrestling, lady boxing, sthenolagnia (the sexual fetishisation of muscles), the works.
She was dragged to the piTs by media and pop girl alike. Whilst Shakira called it " a step too far", Entertainment Weekly called her " the world's skeeziest reptile woman". This dragging would continue to this very day in 2012, where she continues to be mocked and laughed at in equal amounts. "Comeback" Your Body is #16 on iTunes. Buy now!
Jinzo's verdict: 7.5
It's okay, but far, far, far too try-hard. She would have done so much better to stick with the teen-pop lane and then mature into Back to Basics.
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Not quite the shocker I expected.
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That's a good result for that song
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Isn't it funny how the "XXXtina" act has never worked for her, yet she keeps going back to it? Maybe this third flop will finally send the message.
Anyway, I actually like "Dirrty" (though I'm iffy on that extra 'r' in the title). It's a total bop! But it's definitely time for it to go.
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35. Kelly Clarkson- My Life Would Suck Without You (7.461)
(the worst single cover ever? biblio!)
Highest score: 10 x7 (Strangergab, superben, tell_me_a_lie, Regina George, Kool_Aid_King, Pink Panther, CrazyCat)
Lowest score: 0 x1 (madonnas)
An unflattering picture of Kelly Clarkson:
Her first and only ever UK #1- despite only spending 17 weeks in the chart (compared to 35 weeks for Since U Been Gone). Call it a comeback, call it her only call to relevancy. She's the only ever American Idol contestant to have gotten #1 in the UK. Poor, er...Ruben Studdard? Taylor Hicks? Lee DeWyze? Christ, your talent shows are awful.
Jinzo's verdict: 8
Good, solid, passable. Nothing ground-breaking. She's never really been one for doing things not by the numbers, has she?
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An inferior imitation of "Since U Been Gone" that finished about 50 spots too high.
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Solid song. Still too high.
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Member Since: 9/26/2011
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Should have been out already.
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Member Since: 12/25/2011
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Dirrty should've been higher
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I love this song
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34. Leona Lewis- Bleeding Love (7.526)
Highest score: 10 x14 (HaHa2011, backtoback, Strangergab, Cassiopeia, Glassheart, lovesong, airbornE, Kool_Aid_King, berberocka, boyamama, Flashing Lights, Soma80, Konichiwa, MP2K)
Lowest score: 0 x2 (conseeded, JDella11)
Leona's choreography:
One of the most successful UK-based singles of all time? Quite possibly so. It reached #1 in 34 different countries worldwide (US included), the first to do this besides Candle in the Wind. It's sold 9 million worldwide, making it one of the most successful singles of the last decade. In summary, it has done quite well for itself. What becomes of Heartbreak on Hold, we are yet to know. And now she's banging Colton Haynes in her videos. Everyone's a winner.
Except Alexandra Burke. Who is Farrah?
Jinzo's verdict: 2.5
Boring, tedious. Monotony. Melodramatic. Just downright mediocre. Never liked it, never will.
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Member Since: 12/1/2011
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both of those songs shouldve been out ages ago
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