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More Olivia up first. Where are her haters at?

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ENOUGH FOR YOU

 

Average score: 5.60

High score: (@supaspaz, @ultraviolence.xx@Ace Reject)

Low score: (@creativity.)

 

 

This acoustic howl of heartbreak from Sour is a moving reminder of an important lesson when it comes to love: Changing who you are to be more of what you think a guy wants just makes you lose yourself – and then him, when he inevitably gets bored of you anyway.

 

Best bit: “Now I don't want your sympathy/I just want myself back”

 

ATRL says...:  “It's like ‘Dear John’ and ‘All Too Well’ had a baby and it was adopted by ‘Begin Again,’” @BnPac figured. “But she does put her own spin on it.”

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I had to grit my teeth listening to that one

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Just now, creativity. said:

I had to grit my teeth listening to that one

OORH!!!

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1 minute ago, supaspaz said:

OORH!!!

When I hear acoustic guitar strings i floor it

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4 minutes ago, supaspaz said:

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ENOUGH FOR YOU

 

Average score: 5.60

High score: (@supaspaz, @ultraviolence.xx@Ace Reject)

Low score: (@creativity.)

 

 

This acoustic howl of heartbreak from Sour is a moving reminder of an important lesson when it comes to love: Changing who you are to be more of what you think a guy wants just makes you lose yourself – and then him, when he inevitably gets bored of you anyway.

 

Best bit: “Now I don't want your sympathy/I just want myself back”

 

ATRL says...:  “It's like ‘Dear John’ and ‘All Too Well’ had a baby and it was adopted by ‘Begin Again,’” @BnPac figured. “But she does put her own spin on it.”

Boring song:coffee2:

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Get rid of all of her songs except JJ / G4U / Brutal / DV at this point.

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1 minute ago, creativity. said:

When I hear acoustic guitar strings i floor it

Creativitie Bobby Brown

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DONNA'S TALE

 

Average score: 5.60

High score: 10 (@Ace Reject, @Taemira)

Low score: (@ultraviolence.xx, @Insanity)

 

 

The best of the titular Heaux Tales belongs to Donna Anderson, a relative of Jazmine Sullivan’s godmother, who delivers a sermon, complete with church organ, about not looking down on sex work because every relationship, even marriage, is built on tricking. Recorded on Jazmine’s iPhone during a dinner party organized by her mother, it’s a profane and hilarious introduction to the materialism anthem “Price Tags.”

 

Best bit: “Let's keep this shit fuckin' rеal/You're fucking your husband, so you can get what the fuck you want”

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1 minute ago, madonnas said:

Get rid of all of her songs except JJ / G4U / Brutal / DV at this point.

Swap "Jealousy, Jealousy" for "Favorite Crime," please!

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That skit was, um, interesting. 

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Just now, madonnas said:

That skit was, um, interesting. 

It's my favorite! It absolutely deserved to be the highest-ranked of the tales.

 

And I find it kind of funny that it won that tiebreaker with "Enough For You."

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First standard 30 track out next. What will it be?

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Definitely one of the ones on the second half of the album.

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HOLD ON

 

Average score: 5.63

High score: 8.5 (@Quicksand)

Low score: (@BnPac)

 

 

Nothing says Christmas shopping quite like divorce! This gospel-tinged offering from 30 about trying to heal from a painful breakup, co-written and produced by Inflo, made its debut in an Amazon commercial a few weeks before the holiday season. An epic journey through self-doubt and acceptance, “Hold On” finally erupts into a choir of Adele’s own friends reassuring her, “You are still strong.”

 

Best bit: “Sometimes loneliness is the only rest we get”

 

ATRL says...: “Too long,” @Ace Reject lamented. @Ewan Chaos agreed that the ending was “cute,” but it was “not worth the whole thing for that payoff.” @BnPac called it a “complete fail.” She said “all the elements of a ‘deep’ soul song were put in but cooked wrong.”

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3 minutes ago, supaspaz said:

First standard 30 track out next. What will it be?

To Be Loved

Edit: I was wrong lol 

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Yeah this is definitely fine to be out already. I know a decent amount of people like I Drink Wine but I'd be happy for that to leave soon too as far as "long songs on the album" go.

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RASHIDA'S TALE

 

Average score: 5.63

High score: 10 (@Ace Reject, @Born to Run)

Low score: (@ultraviolence.xx, @Insanity)

 

 

Jazmine Sullivan prepares listeners for the emotional climax of Heaux Tales with a somber confession by friend Rashida Northington about cheating on her fiancée with her fiancée’s best friend. Layered over a variation of the harmonies from “Lost One,” it lays the groundwork perfectly for the stunning ballad to come.

 

Best bit: “But I fucked up, I fucked that up/And I can admit that”

 

ATRL says...: “Okay, this one was pretty good,” @creativity. acknowledged. “Both the story and the harmonizing in the background.”

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Another tale that beat a real song in a tiebreak. Jazmine her power! Or maybe you all were just really on one in this rate.

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THE RAPPER THAT CAME TO TEA (INTERLUDE)

 

Average score: 5.66

High score: (@Ace Reject)

Low score: (@ultraviolence.xx, @Born to Run)

 

 

Emma Corrin asks all the questions that Little Simz has been wondering about herself on this interlude from Sometimes I Might Be Introvert that interrogates her introversion and what she’s willing to do for fame.

 

Best bit: “What's the price that's worth your freedom?”

 

ATRL says...: “I just don't know how to rate interludes tbh,” @BnPac conceded. Fair enough!

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The orchestral sounds were a little too much in that one but def one of the better interludes

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So that's it for the interludes (depending on how you classify "All Night Parking). Congratulations to Little Simz on winning that battle.

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And now back to your regularly scheduled programming of dragging 30.

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Yeah no complaints on these last few elims, now it's gonna get interesting.

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