ATRL Moderator madonnas Posted July 30, 2022 ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 6 minutes ago, supaspaz said: ROLLIN STONE Average score: 7.82 High score: 10 (@supaspaz, @madonnas, @BnPac, @Norte, @Born to Run) Low score: 2.5 (@Quicksand) Little Simz’s most skillful rhymes arrive on this dichotomous third single from Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, showcasing her nimble flow and quick wit, even when her “evil twin” takes over in the back half and slows down the tempo. “Rollin Stone” offers a bombastic travelogue of Simbi’s jet-setting adventures, living the high life from Brazil to Japan to Italy, over a scuzzy grime beat. Co-produced by Jakwob, it’s one of only a handful of tracks on the album that involves a collaborator besides Inflo. Best bit: “Bad bitch say that she wanna know what's underneath/I can show you things in private, know I hate to cause a scene, yeah” ATRL says...: “This is the material Azealia should be serving us,” @BnPac asserted. @madonnas fantasized that, “if we could give 11s, I would give it to this one.” Best song in the rate
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted July 30, 2022 Author ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 1 minute ago, Reverie said: Which could be everyone except Olivia I think! Shade!
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted July 30, 2022 Author ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 SLIDE TACKLE Average score: 7.83 High score: 10 (@supaspaz, @madonnas, @Ewan Chaos, @Reverie) Low score: 1 (@Insanity) Wanting to be happy and actually feeling it are two very different things, a conundrum that Japanese Breakfast contends with on this airy plea for compassion from Jubilee. Michelle Zauner tries to navigate the hate in her heart and “Slide Tackle” her mind into compliance over an indie dance track, featuring a fabulous saxophone solo, that would have been playlisted at all the Williamsburg house parties a decade ago. Best bit: “I want to feel it/But with the feel, there is an ache I meet/To desire living” ATRL says...: “This just feels like an amalgamation of ‘80s indie rock subgenres put together in a blender and everything turned out perfect,” @madonnas said.
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted July 30, 2022 Author ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 Just now, supaspaz said: High score: 10 (@supaspaz, @madonnas, @Ewan Chaos, @Reverie) Me and all my homegirls! We were just missing @Ace Reject and @BnPac.
ATRL Moderator madonnas Posted July 30, 2022 ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 1 minute ago, supaspaz said: SLIDE TACKLE Average score: 7.83 High score: 10 (@supaspaz, @madonnas, @Ewan Chaos, @Reverie) Low score: 1 (@Insanity) Wanting to be happy and actually feeling it are two very different things, a conundrum that Japanese Breakfast contends with on this airy plea for compassion from Jubilee. Michelle Zauner tries to navigate the hate in her heart and “Slide Tackle” her mind into compliance over an indie dance track, featuring a fabulous saxophone solo, that would have been playlisted at all the Williamsburg house parties a decade ago. Best bit: “I want to feel it/But with the feel, there is an ache I meet/To desire living” ATRL says...: “This just feels like an amalgamation of ‘80s indie rock subgenres put together in a blender and everything turned out perfect,” @madonnas said. My second fave song in the rate
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted July 30, 2022 Author ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 3 minutes ago, madonnas said: Best song in the rate It definitely deserved top five!
Reverie Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 2 minutes ago, supaspaz said: Me and all my homegirls! We were just missing @Ace Reject and @BnPac. Not enough 10s tbh
ATRL Moderator madonnas Posted July 30, 2022 ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 Like that is such a perfect song. Maybe mid 80s scritti politti tributes aren’t for everyone
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted July 30, 2022 Author ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 PUT IT DOWN Average score: 7.85 High score: 10 (@Ewan Chaos, @Ace Reject, @Norte) Low score: 5 (@Lucas32, @McNulty) Flipping the script on “Price Tags,” this saucy bop from Heaux Tales, produced by KeY Wane, is about being so dickmatized by a man that you’re willing to do anything for him – drop everything to meet for a quickie at a moment’s notice, hand over the keys to your car for the night, even pay his rent. “I got whatever he need/Long as he give me that D,” Jazmine Sullivan sings with a shrug. She can’t help it. Best bit: the cascading harmonies of “He put it down (put it down, put it down, put it down)” on the chorus ATRL says...: @Ewan Chaos enjoyed that it was “like the song version of that ‘call me old fashioned, but I was raised to take care of my husband…’ meme.”
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted July 30, 2022 Author ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 3 minutes ago, madonnas said: Like that is such a perfect song. Maybe mid 80s scritti politti tributes aren’t for everyone While simultaneously being a Future Islands tribute.
ATRL Moderator madonnas Posted July 30, 2022 ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 1 minute ago, supaspaz said: While simultaneously being a Future Islands tribute. Without the scratchy vocals!
Reverie Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 But hes so big call him King Kong When he call me up he like DING DONG
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted July 30, 2022 Author ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 Next, another song that made the top ten of the Hot 100 is not seeing the top ten of this countdown!
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted July 30, 2022 Author ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 2 minutes ago, Reverie said: But hes so big call him King Kong When he call me up he like DING DONG She's truly so funny
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted July 30, 2022 Author ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 DEJA VU Average score: 7.90 High score: 10 (@ultraviolence.xx, @Insanity, @Invisibility, @Born to Run) Low score: 5 (@Saddy, @BnPac) Sour’s second single proved that the Olivia Rodrigo phenomenon was real, not just a flash in the pan. Debuting at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, on the way to an eventual #3 peak, it made her the first artist to launch their first two singles in the top ten. “Deja Vu” also showed a different side of Olivia musically, despite continuing the scorned lover narrative from “Drivers License.” Softer, but with a venomous streak that complicates her victim status, the song floats along on fantastically intimate details (“Now I bet you even tell her how you love her/In between the chorus and the verse”) and unusual production flourishes (a dose of fake laughter in the first verse) as Olivia watches her ex replay their relationship with a new girl. The anthemic bridge was inspired by Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer,” and following the album’s release, she, along with co-writers Jack Antonoff and St. Vincent, retroactively received a writing credit. Though overshadowed by the singles that preceded and succeeded it, “Deja Vu” did become some people’s favorite flavor of Olivia, earning spots on year-end lists from Pitchfork, NPR and Rolling Stone’s Rob Sheffield. Best bit: the distorted guitar drop post-chorus is everything ATRL says...: “Doesn’t sound ANYTHING like ‘Cruel Summer’ nn,” @Ewan Chaos asserted, “but get that cash money St. Vincent.” @BnPac couldn’t “decide if I like this or dislike it. Maybe the latter, because the chorus does nothing to me. The way she sings ‘you’ annoys me, but that instrumental behind is a killer. So very Taylor! I feel like I'm repeating myself.” @creativity. heard a different influence. “This is right out of Pure Heroine,” he said.
ATRL Moderator madonnas Posted July 30, 2022 ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 A little overrated. This is a fair spot for the song.
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted July 30, 2022 Author ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 I thought "Deja Vu" was a disappointing "Drivers License" retread when it debuted, but it's really grown on me!
Reverie Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 I think I like the instrumental more than the vocals
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted July 30, 2022 Author ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 2 minutes ago, Reverie said: I think I like the instrumental more than the vocals As I said, that distorted guitar! An incredible hook.
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted July 30, 2022 Author ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 I LOVE YOU, I HATE YOU Average score: 7.97 High score: 10 (@BnPac, @Reverie) Low score: 6 (@Born to Run) Little Simz confronts her father over his absence from her childhood and the lingering traumas it caused on this searing fourth single from Sometimes I Might Be Introvert. “I Love You, I Hate You” doesn’t yet offer resolution, with the titular phrase threaded throughout the song like she can’t make up her mind. “My ego won't fully allow me to say that I miss you/A woman who hasn't confronted all her daddy issues,” Simbi admits, but she’s finally ready to understand his perspective and maybe forgive, if only for her own serenity. That dynamic is captured metaphorically in the music video, where their likenesses sit at two ends of a table that grows longer and shorter between them. Best bit: “Never thought my parent would give me my first heartbreak” ATRL says...: “This is so early 2000s,” @madonnas stated.
Reverie Posted July 30, 2022 Posted July 30, 2022 I'm not forgiving for you I'm forgiving for me, like.... Yup
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted July 30, 2022 Author ATRL Moderator Posted July 30, 2022 Just now, Reverie said: I'm not forgiving for you I'm forgiving for me, like.... Yup I need to take her lead in my own life
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