tournament 🩸 ATRL's Song Contest 🩸 Winner revealed (pg.769)

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Fiona Apple - On The Bound: Always liked this a lot. It does run a little long and get repetitive, falls near the bottom of my When the Pawn ranking but still a really good song

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Clairo - 4EVER: It’s got a decent groove to it, not my fave tho

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Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography: Queen of teen angst. Also I like the way she pronounces “eventually” lol

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Isabella Lovestory - Hit (feat. Chucky73): She ran the mother marathon

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Kimbra - Teen Heat: Omg bop, love the way it blows up. Always thought if I revisited TGE I would like it less but this one still hits!

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Mitski - Star: Would’ve preferred pretty much any of her other eligible track nines, this is nice but the album still hasn’t fully hit me yet :/

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Lauren Spencer Smith - Love Is An Overstatement: Very much a pass

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Sudan Archives - Home Maker: Love the ominous intro, bop

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Selena Gomez - Revival: Never cared for it sorry, production is somewhat interesting though

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Perfume - Secret Secret: Feel like you were attempting a pander to me… full disclosure Triangle is their only album I know well (although I do remember quite liking Game too) but this is good!

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Hilary Duff - Dignity: Whew a hit, love Disney-pop idc

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Kehlani - altar: Yup

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Frou Frou - Let Go: Solid pick!

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Hilary Duff - G*psy Woman: Okay bopppp! Come on Blackout Jr.

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About to drive across the country so let me get this show on the road before I depart 

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Hmmm need my headphones but cba to get out of bed… dilemmas!

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Victoria Monét - Touch Me: buttery, smooth, gorgeous… a reliable, safe and intelligent pick especially if looking for my points specifically yup

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Nova Miller - Mi Amor: I was about to drag because to be honest submitting her at this stage of the competition is a very unserious pick… however the round was highly limiting. I’m gonna choose to slide on the 18 years thing because that is v unfortunate

 

Remembering when @luckystrike introduced me to this album and I spammed it for about 2 days before very much being over it, the song isn’t bad, it kinda bops, but very unremarkable and cheesy

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Imogen Heap - Just For Now: one of my faves on the album. This entire project makes me think of my brother who regularly played it from beginning to end, like daily shdjdjdjd. Although we didn’t have the best relationship growing up, I am very nostalgic for this, kinda makes me tear up a little. The song is just magical 

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fromis_9 - LOVE BOMB: tapping my foot a little. This was very fun! I was worried it would veer into abrasive territory with that initial drop but thankfully it did not. Bridge was a cute change of pace too

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Fiona Apple - On The Bound: It’s good but I wouldn’t revisit. I was exhausted by the end 

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Clairo - 4EVER: very cute actually. I don’t really know her stuff that well beyond the studio albums tbh but this is distinctive and cool for the theme 

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Ashlee Simpson - Autobiography: Interesting pick.  It’s cool, always thought this track had single potential. It’s not really the style of music I listen to on a regular basis but for what it is, this is executed well and the lyrics/sentiment are very fun 

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Isabella Lovestory - Hit: Omg. Bold choice. I’m afraid I absolutely hate the opening instrumental. It did grow significantly as the song dropped that noise, like it goes kinda hard? But overall I will be passing

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Kimbra - Teen Heat: The first 80 seconds was very weak, her voice is not attractive enough to dominate the music like that nn. When the track picks up for the chorus section, this is exciting. The extravagant / maximalist production is where her music excels imo but then the dull (almost painful) territory returns again multiple times. It’s a no from me