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I'm genuinely shocked the next song didn't make the top ten.

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If it’s oxytocin …..

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the way deja vu is among one of the the 10 good songs in this entire rate

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BE SWEET

 

Average score: 7.98

High score: 10 (@ultraviolence.xx, @MP2K, @Ewan Chaos, @Invisibility, @Reverie)

Low score: (@Insanity)

 

 

When her publisher set her up in a writing session back in 2018, Michelle Zauner and Wild Nothing frontman Jack Tatum grumblingly crafted a mainstream pop song that they ultimately planned to sell to another artist and make some money. But Zauner grew so attached to “Be Sweet” that she kept it for Japanese Breakfast, releasing it as the lead single from Jubilee. This ebullient burst of ‘80s electropop about taking a chance on love, which Zauner compared to Madonna and Janet Jackson, became one of the breakout indies hit of 2021, reaching the top 40 on alternative radio, winding up all over critics’ lists at the end of the year and even getting translated into Simlish for The Sims 4 Cottage Living.

 

Best bit: shouting along to the “I wanna believe in you, I wanna belieeeeeeve” refrain, which also inspired a cute music video based on The X-Files

 

ATRL says...: “Please indie artists sell out and make 80s pop, I’m begging you!” @madonnas pleaded. “It’s always good!” @Ewan Chaos effused, “Best chorus ever? Best chorus ever.”

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Just now, Insanity said:

the way deja vu is among one of the the 10 good songs in this entire rate

Wait now. Only 10 good songs?! If you hated everything so much, why did you participate?

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Noooo not Olivia's best song out of the top 10 :cries:

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Also, not @Insanity showing back up just in time to see his handiwork.

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1 minute ago, supaspaz said:

Wait now. Only 10 good songs?! If you hated everything so much, why did you participate?

i was exaggerating lol

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5 minutes ago, supaspaz said:

I need to take her lead in my own life

Well, only if you want to or think it'll actually help you ofc! But to be able to say it to their face...

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Not Be Sweet too??? Posing in Bondage, you have to pull a top 10 baby

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Moment of truth: Japanese Breakfast and Adele are both down to one song. And one of them is eliminated next.

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2 minutes ago, supaspaz said:

Moment of truth: Japanese Breakfast and Adele are both down to one song. And one of them is eliminated next.

This is a disaster for me.  

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POSING IN BONDAGE

 

Average score: 8.00

High score: 10 (@supaspaz, @madonnas, @Lucas32@Invisibility, @creativity., @Taemira, @Norte@Reverie)

Low score: (@Insanity)

 

 

The highest-ranking track from Jubilee on the countdown is, rather unexpectedly, this aching second single about missed connections and craving closeness with another person. Originally recorded in 2017, “Posing In Bondage” was reconceived and fleshed out for the album, doubling in length as it became a somber, spacey ballad with a sweeping extended instrumental outro. Though released before, the music video is a sequel to the billionaire bunker murder of “Savage Good Boy,” with Michelle Zauner, blood smeared across her face, visiting an empty convenience store in the middle of the night and making friends with the clerk.

 

Best bit: “Done up and fixed on/All of the nights you turned away my touch”

 

ATRL says...: “I keep forgetting what these songs sound like after I listen to them,” @creativity. lamented of Japanese Breakfast’s album. “Except for this one, though. So good!”

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Poor Jbrekkie. Adele stomped.

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I’m literally so shocked and upset right now 

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2 minutes ago, supaspaz said:

Poor Jbrekkie. Adele stomped.

As I said, she got the last laugh

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JBREKKIE gave us an indie rock album that had eveything.  Something for everybody, and good lyrics and emotive vocals.  Not pretentious either.  And she was paid dust!

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1 minute ago, madonnas said:

I’m literally so shocked and upset right now 

Stunned into silence. I was confused by the utter lack of reaction.

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1 minute ago, madonnas said:

JBREKKIE gave us an indie rock album that had eveything.  Something for everybody, and good lyrics and emotive vocals.  Not pretentious either.  And she was paid dust!

Not complete dust! She placed three tracks in the top 20.

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Up next is maybe my favorite song in this rate

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Just now, supaspaz said:

Not complete dust! She placed three tracks in the top 20.

She deserved at least 2-3 in the top 10!

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