ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 ALL-AMERICAN BITCH Average: 7.88 High Score: 10 (@Reverie, @Born to Run) Low score: 5.5 (@Achilles.) Olivia Rodrigo’s own favorite song on Guts is its opener about navigating the stifling expectations placed on women in American culture. With a title drawn from Joan Didion’s Slouching Toward Bethlehem, the restrained acoustic verses devolve into thrashing punk on the chorus, revealing the rage and frustration roiling beneath the sweet exterior that Olivia must maintain. Courtney Love, if she’s over the plagiarism accusations, would be proud. Best bit: “I'm grateful all the time/I'm sexy and I'm kind/I'm pretty when I cry” ATRL says…: “This is the pop punk we've been needing from her/in general!” @Ewan Chaos effused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 4 minutes ago, glitch said: I'm guessing that means Miss Rodrigo will be out. Hopefully it's All American ***** Your mind 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 Next one (finally!) takes us to an 8 average Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glitch Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 I just find the lyrics here so cringe. I think one day we need to have a conversation about her co-writer being a 40 year old man writing songs about being a teenage girl. It's giving men who don't know how to write women Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 LOVE IS EMBARRASSING Average: 8.00 High Score: 10 (@supaspaz, @Into The Void, @kandicha, @creativity., @glitch, @Ace Reject) Low score: 3 (@Achilles.) The things we’ll do because of a crush, becoming people we don’t even recognize “for some weird second-string loser who’s not even worth mentioning.” Olivia Rodrigo takes stock of her most cringeworthy moments on this hilarious fist-pumping anthem from Guts, including waiting by the phone for a guy who said he needed space, lending her boyfriend a shoulder to cry on about his ex’s new man and setting off an international incident with “Drivers License.” Best bit: “You found a new version of me/And I damn near startеd World War III/Jesus, what was I even doin'?” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glitch Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 I often find Olivia's music quite unrelatable but this song is the complete opposite. I think we've all done embarrassing things for guys who absolutely were not worth it I have to give her her 10s where they're deserved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 @Achilles. was the only score below a 7. Without him, LIE might be the winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 2 minutes ago, glitch said: I often find Olivia's music quite unrelatable but this song is the complete opposite. I think we've all done embarrassing things for guys who absolutely were not worth it I have to give her her 10s where they're deserved This song is like Kelly Clarkson with a sense of humor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 Someone else's turn next...and one of my absolute favorite songs of last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glitch Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 Why do I have a feeling like it's gonna be Victoria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 ON MY MAMA Average: 8.09 High Score: 10 (@supaspaz, @Into The Void, @Ewan Chaos, @creativity., @Suilen) Low score: 2 (@Born to Run) With her third single from Jaguar II, Victoria Monét finally got the breakthrough hit that she (and we!) had spent years waiting for. A slinky celebration of her own flyness that’s dripping with brassy swagger, “On My Mama” is equally quotable (that post-chorus sampling Chalie Boy’s “I Look Good”) and danceable. In fact, viral choreography from the early aughties-referencing music video, which won Video of the Year at the Soul Train Awards, helped push the song where no Victoria song had gone before: into the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100. It ultimately peaked at #33, and topped urban radio, after earning Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best R&B Song. Best bit: “When they say, ‘She get it from her mama’/I'ma say, ‘You fuckin' right’” ATRL says…: “I know the Monet stans are tired of her promoting this song, but...like...it's undeniably the best song on here! It deserved to be heard by everyone!” @Ewan Chaos argued. “Okay, I don't mind this one," @Alldeezy admitted, “thanks to SongPop.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 3 minutes ago, glitch said: Why do I have a feeling like it's gonna be Victoria You called it again. OMM was actually in position to win, until that 2 from @Born to Run on the final ballot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glitch Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 4 minutes ago, supaspaz said: You called it again. OMM was actually in position to win, until that 2 from @Born to Run on the final ballot. Ban worthy I fear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 The next song actually tied with "On My Mama," but has more 10's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 Just now, glitch said: Ban worthy I fear... We're going to have words, because I don't understand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glitch Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 Alright outlasting on my mama was not what I expected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING ft. Kacey Musgraves Average: 8.09 High Score: 10 (@supaspaz, @Quicksand, @kandicha, @creativity., @Achilles., @Born to Run) Low score: 3 (@glitch) Was the lead single from Zach Bryan debuting at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 a wake-up call for anybody else about just how massively popular he is? This yearning duet with Kacey Musgraves definitely leveled Zach up, spending months atop both the country and rock charts and winning him his first Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. A nostalgic dialogue between former lovers, “I Remember Everything” begins as a sparse and ponderous guitar elegy before swelling with orchestral strings and whiskey-soaked regret. Best bit: “The sand from your hair is blowin' in my eyes/Blame it on the beach, grown men don't cry” ATRL says…: “So much better than everything else in this rate that I considered knocking a point or two off of all 69 other songs here,” @Achilles. wrote. “Unfathomable that it didn't get Song and Record nominations. One of the top classics of the decade so far.” @Ewan Chaos agreed that it’s a “beautiful, gorgeous song...but I'm going to rank it a little lower so that some other Zach songs get a bit more love.” That may have been enough to prevent it from being his top track in this rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naval23 Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 YES I KNOW THAT HES MY EX BUT CANT 2 PEOPLE RECONNECT I ONLY SEE HIM AS A FRIEND Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 Just now, naval23 said: YES I KNOW THAT HES MY EX BUT CANT 2 PEOPLE RECONNECT I ONLY SEE HIM AS A FRIEND A masterpiece! And still in contention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 @glitch, you got your revenge on @Born to Run with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 Bad news for someone, as one of the albums is about to be eliminated next! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 7 minutes ago, glitch said: Alright outlasting on my mama was not what I expected Feels perhaps typical of ATRL to go for the dance track over R&B, but "Alright" is also so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glitch Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 1 minute ago, supaspaz said: @glitch, you got your revenge on @Born to Run with this one. I don't understand why people like this song so much? Is it just because there's a woman singing...he had better songs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glitch Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 1 minute ago, supaspaz said: Feels perhaps typical of ATRL to go for the dance track over R&B, but "Alright" is also so good. Yeah Alright is one of my faves on the album so I'm not mad about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted May 11 Author ATRL Moderator Share Posted May 11 2 minutes ago, glitch said: I don't understand why people like this song so much? Is it just because there's a woman singing...he had better songs It's not beyond the realm of possibility. But I do find it quite moving! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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