tournament 🐎 ATRL's Song Contest 🐎 Winner revealed (pg.721)

[Kelp]

Anz - You Could Be (feat. George Riley): A very fun and agreeable cute bop, maybe all George Riley needed all along was better production

[Kelp]

Lua de Santana - PiRi PiRi: absolutely hated it, it's like if Sevdaliza tried to make neoperreo, I need the finalists to be for real with some of these songs

[Kelp]

SUMMER CAKE - Love Villain: It's nice! I have no complaints, a chill enjoyable vibe

[Kelp]

Babyface - Girls Night Out (with Doechii): Fun! Again it's cute

[Kelp]

Sidibe - Tellin' U: Sending her one song that has been sent before it so messy asfadsjljs, I do like this a lot though, although it does feel like a copout, but I have no teeth in the game so who cares I'll rank it well

[Kelp]

Tori Kelly - shelter: Um another interesting choice for the finale. I actually like this song though, the production is rich/reverby and good imo, just wish the melody was a little more memorable outside of the fast part

[Kelp]

Nao - Bad Blood: Surprised this one was never sent before, but ngl I always found this one annoying with that little distorted riff repeating SOOOO much, idk I have mixed feelings because I think it sounds pretty nice otherwise

[Kelp]

LISA - Rockstar: The review about this submission ruining the integrity of the game sent me klsdajfklfjalkfjs lmaoooooooo. Honestly based on who she is this was much better than I expected, seems this worked for the people you wanted to pander to, it's decent-to-good for me, I liked that it went through a few different vibes in its short duration

[Kelp]

Clairo - Sexy to Someone: Well yes it's one of my favorite songs of the year, I feel these lyrics in my soul

[Kelp]

Tori Amos - Cruel: This finale is sooooo unserious I- I mean I guess I was going to send Schwey I guess so who am I to talk but that was because I already won so :wendyum: I appreciate that it's really different and I like the trip hop vibe so it won't be dead last for me, but in general it felt very toneless

[Kelp]

SG Lewis - Call On Me (with Tove Lo): If this played at H&M I would not look up as I perused graphic tees, the Shazam app would definitely stay closed

[Element]

Madonna - Swim

Overall plesant, but it doesn't really leave an impression on me.

[Element]

Avril Lavigne - Push

Interesting that this was released in 2012 -- it moreso captures her early 00s sound tbh! I quite enjoyed the chorus melody and nostalgic vibes.

[Element]

Hannah Diamond - Affirmations

There are moments here where I was bopping; but in other moments, I was getting a bit annoyed at her voice/the production.

[Element]

Hiatus Kaiyote - Molasses

Not super into this

[Element]

HYRA - Seventh Heaven

This was very fun! I was bopping. The chorus was a bit of a letdown compared to the verses - but enjoyable still.

[Element]

Anz - You Could Be (feat. George Riley)

Super cool, glistening production. Love her voice. The melody is strong too. What's not to like? Apparently, I played this 20 times back in 2021 so that's exciting and bodes well for your points!

[Element]

Lua de Santana - PiRi PiRi

This is bold... too bold

[Element]

SUMMER CAKE - Love Villain

I like this! It's very sweet and melodic. I do fear it will get lost in the shuffle and will probably end up in the middle of the pack for me.

[Element]

Babyface - Girls Night Out (with Doechii)

This is how you make a bopppp ok ladies. Very very fun and catchy!! The beat is a bit generic but who cares rly

[Bacardo Royale]

swim - madonna

 

very soothing, classic album

 

 

[Bacardo Royale]

push - avril lavigne

 

cute throwback

[Bacardo Royale]

affirmations - hannah diamond

 

quirky, listenable

[Bacardo Royale]

Molasses - Hiatus Kaiyote

 

unique way of singing, i dig it sorta kinda

[Bacardo Royale]

Seventh Heaven - HYRA

 

a bop