ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 STRANGER Average: 5.59 High Score: 8.5 (@Quicksand, @Reverie) Low score: 1 (@Born to Run) With all the joviality of a cotton commercial jingle, Olivia Rodrigo celebrates that feeling of waking up one morning and realizing that she’s finally over an ex. Zooey Deschanel is shaking! Best bit: “You are the best thing that I'll ever keep so far out of my life”
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 Title changed to reflect the lack of interest in this update. Nevertheless, I persist!
creativity. Posted April 28 Posted April 28 The apostrophe in Fridays drives me crazy. Minus 2 points for bad grammar
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 Oh, another excellent song out next. I think it's deeply misunderstood!
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 1 minute ago, creativity. said: The apostrophe in Fridays drives me crazy. Minus 2 points for bad grammar YES! What the fuck is that about?
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 Just now, Suilen said: Stranger was cute, but damn, the massacre. And it's not letting up quite yet...
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 SMALLER ACTS Average: 5.65 High Score: 10 (@supaspaz) Low score: 2 (@glitch) An utterly romantic tribute to a woman drawn to “Smaller Acts,” such as cooking dinner for her. Grand gestures don’t matter, because “she’ll only love you for you.” Best bit: the lo-fi sound quality – a croaking frog and a distant firework in the background suggest Zach Bryan recorded outside – enhances the mood ATRL says…: “The vocals at the end of this were…interesting,” @glitch observed.
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 I was literally the only score above a 7 for this one fjdgsfsfas 2
glitch Posted April 28 Posted April 28 The poem was a cute intro, I quite liked it. Smaller Acts was my least fave on the whole album. He was fighting for his life on that one
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 1 minute ago, glitch said: Smaller Acts was my least fave on the whole album. He was fighting for his life on that one Because he was touching Heaven?
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 LACY Average: 5.72 High Score: 9.25 (@kandicha) Low score: 1 (@Born to Run) On this dreamy ballad from Guts, Olivia Rodrigo sings with such desire about a girl she’s jealous she could never be that it starts to resemble lust rather than envy. (A hint of lesbianism? No wonder the voters didn’t care for it!) The reference to Brigitte Bardot sparked speculation that “Lacy” is none other than Sabrina Carpenter. Best bit: “And I despise my jealous eyes and how hard they fell for you”
glitch Posted April 28 Posted April 28 Lacy is such an ugly name and anyway she did the whole comparing herself to another woman thing better on "Jealousy Jealousy"
glitch Posted April 28 Posted April 28 Also "skin like puff pastry" sounds like a drag, not a compliment. It's giving flaky dry skin 1 1
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 3 minutes ago, glitch said: Lacy is such an ugly name and anyway she did the whole comparing herself to another woman thing better on "Jealousy Jealousy" It's interesting, I find a lot of Guts to be a one-to-one reinvention of Sour. Often for the better, but not always.
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 SPOTLESS ft. The Lumineers Average: 5.97 High Score: 8.5 (@creativity., @Achilles.) Low score: 3.5 (@kandicha, @Suilen) How nice to learn that the Lumineers are still around (ho!) and duetting with Zach Bryan on this folksy plea to throw caution to the wind and take a chance on an imperfect man (hey!). Best bit: “Pеople die a thousand times to get to who they are”
glitch Posted April 28 Posted April 28 (edited) 4 minutes ago, supaspaz said: It's interesting, I find a lot of Guts to be a one-to-one reinvention of Sour. Often for the better, but not always. Yeah it really is. I think she needs to ditch Dan ***** for the next album. Edit: ATRL censoring his name will never not send me Edited April 28 by glitch 1
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 2 minutes ago, Suilen said: Too many men on one song Lesbians and men — 2/5 of this rate was really torture for ATRL. Amaarae and Victoria got off easy. 2
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 And we're finally hitting the 6 averages now!
glitch Posted April 28 Posted April 28 IMO their voices don't blend that well together, but I can't really tell who's who, so maybe that's a sign they do 1
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 MAKING THE BED Average: 6.00 High Score: 9 (@greento, @Born to Run) Low score: 1.5 (@Quicksand) Olivia Rodrigo grapples with how the massive success of Sour upended her life on this synthy power ballad from Guts. Though she’s losing her passion for music by doing it as a job, spending too much time with people she doesn’t really care about and feeling like a victim of fame, Olivia admits that she’s the one “Making the Bed” by pursuing pop stardom. Best bit: Give Dan Nigro a raise for that kickass guitar solo after the bridge! ATRL says…: “‘We have Taylor Swift at home’ Taylor Swift at home:” @Ewan Chaos joked. @a_d_22 “felt like it dragged on forever.” 1
ATRL Moderator supaspaz Posted April 28 Author ATRL Moderator Posted April 28 Up next is one of the only songs today that's not Olivia or Zach.
Suilen Posted April 28 Posted April 28 Well, I might've dragged Olivia myself but I still feel bad for her.
Recommended Posts