rate This Was 2023 | And the winner is...

[Ewan Chaos]

Expected to have Hollywood in my like... top 3 of the album with the EW&F feat, but I do think it's a great song!

[Reverie]

2 minutes ago, supaspaz said:

Does anyone actually know how to pronounce Amaarae? I've been saying it two different ways in my head. And both could be wrong!

Yeah I had look it up to make sure

 

 

I thought I was wrong but I had it right

[supaspaz]

 

SEX, VIOLENCE, SUICIDE

 

Average: 7.06

High Score: 10 (@supaspaz, @Alldeezy, @Ace Reject, @Born to Run)

Low score: 2 (@a_d_22, @creativity.)

 

 

Voter reaction to this musical saga of a brawling couple was nearly as dichotomous as the song itself, which begins as a trippy plea to a moody lover whose “looks could kill” like cancer or Ted Bundy before exploding into a punk temper tantrum. Despite tying for the most 10’s of any track outside the top ten, nearly a third of the scores for “Sex, Violence, Suicide” were below 5, dragging it down to the middle of the pack.

 

Best bit: “Don't care 'bout what I'm asking you/Just fucking tell me, ‘Yes’”

 

ATRL says…: “I love the instrumental,” @Alldeezy raved. “Was just about to say it needs more but then it picks up. I love it.” @glitch, on the other hand, recoiled from “the whiplash I got when this song switched up.” @Ewan Chaos shaded the competition. “In the second half of the song, she literally ended others in this rate whose initials are OR…” he wrote.

[supaspaz]

 

[Reverie]

See real music lovers love Amaarae! Her diversity on this album 

[Suilen]

That switch was interesting, I guess she could end Olivia in her own field if she tried.

[Ewan Chaos]

DAMN amazing song, but I figured it'd be on the lower end of the rate sadly

[supaspaz]

We haven't seen Boygenius since #46, but they're back next!

[kandicha]

I didn't expect Sex, Violence, Suicide to be so polarizing, the switch up was everything!

[supaspaz]

 

ANTI-CURSE

 

Average: 7.12

High Score: 9.5 (@supaspaz)

Low score: 5.5 (@Ewan Chaos)

 

 

An astonishing recollection of Julien Baker’s near-drowning experience at a Malibu beach while on a writing trip with Boygenius. As she regains her bearings amid the crashing waves and returns to shore with a newfound clarity, the band unleashes a barrage of drums and electric guitar and “Anti-Curse” transcends.

 

Best bit: “Tried to be a halfway decent friend/Wound up a bad comedian”

[supaspaz]

I'M SWIMMING BACK

 

[Born to Run]

How is Amaarae's voice annoying 

[Suilen]

Anti-Curse could grow on me if I ever give the album more spins.

[supaspaz]

Just now, Suilen said:

Anti-Curse could grow on me if I ever give the album more spins.

Whole album grew on me tremendously doing this rate. Well, not "Revolution 0." That one can still choke.

[supaspaz]

 

EL DORADO

 

Average: 7.13

High Score: 10 (@Born to Run)

Low score: 5 (@4Real)

 

 

A quietly heartbreaking anthem about a military friend who took his own life after returning home. Zach Bryan promised to donate the profits from “El Dorado” to a veterans suicide prevention organization.

 

Best bit: “El Dorado, hell if they know the difference in a hero/And a man I wish was still by my side”

 

ATRL says…: Voters were perplexed by Kansans’ uncultured pronunciation of the titular town. “Why tf does he say it like that,” @a_d_22 asked. “HATE how he says Dorado,” @Ewan Chaos agreed, “don't care if someone explains to me it's the correct way it's pronounced or whatever.”

[supaspaz]

"El Dorado" also got four 5.5's, which I thought was very funny, because what a random score to get on nearly a quarter of the ballots.

 

I gave it a 9.5 because I have a heart.

[Suilen]

Well, that's a noble cause.

[supaspaz]

 

FEAR AND FRIDAY'S

 

Average: 7.15

High Score: 9.5 (@supaspaz)

Low score: 5 (@Alldeezy, @4Real, @Quicksand, @glitch, @Suilen)

 

 

Five tracks after Zach Bryan’s opening poem, he returns to those anxieties on this barnburner about the death knell of a relationship. All that remains is one more drunken house party on the edge of town and a farewell fuck.

 

Best bit: “I got a fear, dear, that it's gonna end/Won't you get angry at me, say you love me again?”

 

ATRL says…: @Ewan Chaos compared it to “the ‘Whiskey Fever’ of this album kinda (complementary).”

[supaspaz]

And with that, Zach Bryan dips below Boygenius. He now has the fewest tracks left in the rate. But that's it for him today.

[Reverie]

Oh I thought both of these were lovely 

[Suilen]

I have to admit that I don't fear Fridays that much since I work on Saturdays.

[supaspaz]

Lesson of this rate: ATRL may not like lesbians, but at least they're not men

[supaspaz]

 

PRINCESS GOING DIGITAL

 

Average: 7.18

High Score: 10 (@Ewan Chaos, @MP2K, @Reverie)

Low score: 2 (@kandicha)

 

 

Amaarae is ready to stop hoeing around and settle down with a new infatuation on this skittering club track from Fountain Baby, which is reminiscent of one of those great Neptunes productions from the early aughts.

 

Best bit: “Move when I move, I like it, baby” – and we do!

 

ATRL says…: “One of the best songs of last year,” @Ewan Chaos raved. “The intro, the man being all sexy, the BOPPERY of the song, oh yes it all came together for this one.” @a_d_22,who gave it a 4, partially agreed: “Best song on the album but it’s still not very good.” “was worried when I saw the song name but it’s probably the 2nd best song on the album. Didn't expect her to be kinda rocky.”

[Suilen]

Can we go back to Olivia's lashings

[Reverie]

Oh thats insane