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It's a good song but I don't know if I've ever like, seeked out to play it.  Maybe its cause the rest of the album doesn't give that much. 

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Lizzo was not in the top ten - or top twenty - until the last six ballots.

 

This next song shouldn't even be here, but one of y'all was really blasting in 2022. Carryover votes!

 

8.

 

Photo album on the counter, your cheeks were turnin' red
You used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed
And your mother's tellin' stories 'bout you on the tee-ball team
You taught me 'bout your past, thinkin' your future was me
And you were tossing me the car keys, "Fuck the patriarchy"
Keychain on the ground, we were always skippin' town

And I was thinkin' on the drive down, "Any time now
He's gonna say it's love," you never called it what it was
'Til we were dead and gone and buried
Check the pulse and come back swearin' it's the same
After three months in the grave
And then you wondered where it went to as I reached for you
But all I felt was shame and you held my lifeless frame

 

 

 

 

Taylor Swift, "All Too Well (10 Minute Version) [Taylor's Version]" (88)

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“About Damn Time” is quite mediocre. I’ve been kind of amazed at how it cleaned up with critics at the end of the year.

 

But “Cardboard Box” is such a slay! Love to see it here.

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On 1/21/2023 at 8:44 PM, potent said:

Quicksand wasn't here yet right? It must (should) be in the top 10...

 

Uhh, BMS and Anti Hero, Alvvays (this is probably wishful thinking lol), idk what else

Free Yourself? This is Why?

Someone on another forum reimagined this as a Girls Aloud comeback single... and now I love it even more.

 

7.

 

Free yourself
Keep on moving up that mountaintop
Why don't you please (Plеase), yourself (Yourself)?
If it feels so good then don't you stop
Free (Free), yourself (Yourself)
Keep on moving up that mountaintop
Why don't you please (Please), yourself (Yourself)?
If it feels so good, then don't you, baby, don't you stop
Don't stop, don't stop
Baby, don't you—

 

 

 

Jessie Ware, "Free Yourself" (89)

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1 minute ago, Ace Reject said:

This next song shouldn't even be here, but one of y'all was really blasting in 2022. Carryover votes!

Okay, if literally one person who doesn’t understand release years puts something like this on their list, I don’t think the carryover votes rule should apply. It’s a 2021 song! Same with “Cold Heart.”

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I don't care for ATW 10 minute version all that much.  The original is just better and does what it needs to do. 

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Just now, madonnas said:

I don't care for ATW 10 minute version all that much.  The original is just better and does what it needs to do. 

The stuff she added for the 10-minute version actually makes the song worse. It’s too bad, because the original is one of her best.

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Just now, supaspaz said:

Okay, if literally one person who doesn’t understand release years puts something like this on their list, I don’t think the carryover votes rule should apply. It’s a 2021 song! Same with “Cold Heart.”

I concur but... was outvoted. Take it up with @Mr. Loco!

 

The following songs all have 100 points or more - including one no one's guessed!

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Just now, supaspaz said:

The stuff she added for the 10-minute version actually makes the song worse. It’s too bad, because the original is one of her best.

It's what I consider to be "fanservice."  Obviously it worked, it went #1, but it's a little pandeirng.  I have zero doubt in my mind that she wrote a bulk of the lyrics recently and not back then. 

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Well supa knows very well how I feel about that entry! 

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10 minutes ago, supaspaz said:

Ready for “Alien Superstar” to win

The highest an album track has ever ranked...

 

6.

 

I'm one of one, I'm number one, I'm the only one
Don't even waste your time trying to compete with me (Don't do it)
No one else in this world can think like me (True)
I'm twisted (Twisted), I'll contradict it
Keep him addicted, lies on his lips, I lick it

 

Unicorn is the uniform you put on
Eyes on you when you perform
Eyes on I when I put on
Mastermind in haute couture
Label whores can't clock, I'm so obscure (Unique)
Masterpiece, genius
Drip intravenous

Patty cake on that wrist
Tiffany Blue billboards over that ceiling (Unique)
We don't like plain
Always dreamed of paper planes
Mile-high when I rodeo
Then I come down and take off again (Unique)
You see pleasure in my glare
Look over my shoulder and you ain't scared
The effects you have on me when you stare
Head on a pillow, hike it in the air

 

Too classy for this world indeed.

 

 

 

Beyoncé, "ALIEN SUPERSTAR" (102)

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Surprised All Too Well didn't end up even higher!

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Break - but first, guesses for the top five? 

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2 minutes ago, madonnas said:

It's what I consider to be "fanservice."  Obviously it worked, it went #1, but it's a little pandeirng.  I have zero doubt in my mind that she wrote a bulk of the lyrics recently and not back then. 

Oh, clearly. That “fuck the patriarchy” line was definitely not 2012 Taylor. But she’s got her fans wrapped around her fingers enough to believe it.

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America Has a Problem is better. 

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1 minute ago, Ace Reject said:

The highest an album track has ever ranked...

 

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I'm one of one, I'm number one, I'm the only one
Don't even waste your time trying to compete with me (Don't do it)
No one else in this world can think like me (True)
I'm twisted (Twisted), I'll contradict it
Keep him addicted, lies on his lips, I lick it

 

Unicorn is the uniform you put on
Eyes on you when you perform
Eyes on I when I put on
Mastermind in haute couture
Label whores can't clock, I'm so obscure (Unique)
Masterpiece, genius
Drip intravenous

Patty cake on that wrist
Tiffany Blue billboards over that ceiling (Unique)
We don't like plain
Always dreamed of paper planes
Mile-high when I rodeo
Then I come down and take off again (Unique)
You see pleasure in my glare
Look over my shoulder and you ain't scared
The effects you have on me when you stare
Head on a pillow, hike it in the air

 

Too classy for this world indeed.

 

 

 

Beyoncé, "ALIEN SUPERSTAR" (102)

Damn. Almost.

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“Alien Superstar” was my #3, but at this point it’s pretty clearly my top two didn’t even rank. Not sure what to even root for now.

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1 minute ago, supaspaz said:

“Alien Superstar” was my #3, but at this point it’s pretty clearly my top two didn’t even rank. Not sure what to even root for now.

Perhaps... this song, which no one suggested? There was a reason I asked you to add her to the banner...

 

5.

 

If I had everything I wanted would I want more?
Would I keep fighting if there's nothing left to fight for?
Sometimes I feel like I'm just sinking into quicksand, quicksand
I used to think that this was something I could die for
I hate admitting to myself that I was never surе
Sometimes I feel like I'm just sinking into quicksand, quicksand

 

 

 

Hatchie, "Quicksand" (116)

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ADT and Free Yourself didn't make my list, but I liked them. I think they were on my top 50.

So could Cuff It and BMS both be in the top 5? I guess As It Was too since I have a hard time believing it's not here at all.

 

My guess is Alvvays didn't make it since the people who voted probably all chose different songs lol. I wanna say This is Why is still up here since Paramore always does well, and my last guess would be Quicksand but I guess at least one of those is wrong since one hasn't been mentioned before...

 

Wet Leg? Joji? (Now I'm just going off of what I want lol)

 

EDIT: I wanted Quicksand, but I guess it's too indie(?) to get universal appeal. Top 5 is still amazing though.

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The weakest single from the album :fan:

 

It's a Stay With Me 2.0 song, but I get why its her highest.  I would have included The Rhythm / The Key but they aren't even singles, and with Hatchie I just didn't even expect this song to crack the top 40 :dies: good for her though!

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Just now, supaspaz said:

@madonnas, “The Rhythm” was on my list! Incredible song.

I think it *was* on my list but I switched it for Lights On which I think had a higher chance

Sorry for the unintentional sabotaging :chick3:  

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On 1/21/2023 at 5:09 PM, Ewan Chaos said:

HMs: Love Atopos, Bizcochito, Blessing, Somewhere Near Marseilles (should have been on the full list), America Has a Problem, and The Loneliest Time (should have not only been on the list but top 10 wtf?!)

 

53-49: Love every song, wowwwwww

49-41: Some great songs (Sacrifice, Love Me More, Shakira), but the rest is eh. I think Heat Waves is the most ew

40-31: Serious trash (I'm Good and Taylor fdml;fjdofj) but also Used to (Grow on) Me, X, Less than Zero, and How Long :heart:

30-21: Baby is kinda soty but happy for it to be top anything at all. Beg For You too high but cute, HATCHIE CAROLINE CARLY WEYES yaaaaasss Not Camila sdsjdjsds. Honestly tate gets a "most-improved" award for me after that trash song last year

20-11: omg Kiss of Life I'm sure I had it high last year. Flawless song from flawless queens. Bad Habit, This Hell, Saoko, and No One Dies From Love being so high YAAAS :heart: abcdefu on here and so high is foul tho

 

No clue t10, anti hero is at least gonna be somewhere on there if not #1.

 

 

On 1/21/2023 at 6:42 PM, supaspaz said:

Don't speak such a tragedy into existence

Your long national nightmare is over.

 

4.

 

It's me, hi
I'm the problem, it's me

At teatime, everybody agrees
I'll stare directly at the sun, but never in the mirror
It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero

 

 

 

Taylor Swift, "Anti-Hero" (128)

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The song itself is fine, really, but in late 2022 it just feels so behind the times.

 

I mean, it's a mega smash, so what do I know?

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