AcceleRATE: Biggest Pop Girls of 2018

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Subspace88 tries to get cute. "I can’t believe Zedd had the audacity to not only rip off one of his own songs in 2018, but also auditioned every white woman in the western music industry for this song. Still good tho." I mean Demi, Lauren, Camila...but yeah.
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I don't know why you included Demi, she's obviously 1% African-American.
I did actually forget those three had recorded it though whoops my bad.
 
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SCORE: 7.104

Highest Scores:
10 x 9 (@Verandi, @OspreyQueen, @Posh Spears, @RetroPhysical, @Jwentz, @inevitable, @Sanctuary, @RMK, @Andy French), 9.5 x 2 (@CasuallyCrazed, @sapnu puas)
Lowest Scores: 1 x 1 (@Blond), 2 x 1 (@MrMannacroix), 3 x 1 (@Laurence), 3.5 x 1 (@ohnostalgia)

Ooh this moody bop. Bartier Cardi was Cardi's second headlining single (like any good rapper on the rise, she accumulated several features in between this and Bodak) but didn't set the charts quite as aflame as its predecessor, hitting at a merely respectable #14. The themes are much the same; Cardi announces that she loves diamonds, cars, money, and Offset, with some speculating that she loves the latter so much she copied his flow (a charge she furiously and pointedly denied, though the Migos similarities are heavy here). The most out-of-left-field part of this single is it having a video directed by Petra Collins, with the same gauzy, basement camcorder aesthetic pioneered by the Boy Problems and Fetish music videos.

Mirwais mentions that very thing. "The ‘offset offset uh!’ is a bitsy irritating, but I mostly love this. I even love 21 Savage’s nasty ‘pulled the rubber off and put hot sauce on her titties’ line. Petra Collins directing the video was a genius choice that completely elevated the song as well." Who doesn't love a surprise hot sauce titties move? Always spices the evening up. Right paperboyfriendd? "The bit where 21 raps about his sperm for the majority of his verse of bags is a bit of kii ddd. Other than that, it’s a banger." Phloo (not Solenciennes, I checked) says "her completely ripping off tommy genesis leaves a bit of a salty taste in my mouth but she highkey made the better song so how mad can we be?"

happiestgirl
speaks for the world, intervening on Cardi's Ariana and Pete teas with, "We get it sis, you fucked Offset. This is kind of boring honestly." Solenciennes (not Phloo, I checked) says, "A bit annoying but the way she clucks through the song's fun." codecat, consumed by guilt, admits "I feel bad for liking this so much considering the inclusion of a certain rat on the chorus/21's Nyquil™ verse but Bartier Cardi is too vibrant to give up without a fight. The simple piano + 808 beat amplify the electricity of the chorus hook to a point where you find yourself humming every single word and memorizing everything in a span of 30 minutes...she's never doing this one live again isn't she."

Andy French's relentless industry payola strikes again with Subspace88 saying "I can’t hear this song without thinking of @Andyfrench’s remix of 5 In The Morning adding Cardi into it. One of the better songs." johnny_tsunami tosses a single dry-ass dead-ass rose on Nicki's grave. "Her flow is incredible here and her confidence is contagious. Cardi continues to prove that she is currently the best in the game after Nicki died this year." Ashling92 agrees, "Cardi’s flow is probably at its best here." Trouble in Paradise, however, recalls differently. "I remember when this was her Bodak follow up and being worried for her. I find this song terminally boring and the lyrical word play is pathetic."

"Now that she’s taken the pussy off Offset, who does she put the pussy on when she performs this live?" frets GimmeWork, and the answer is you! The FANS! "Is this supposed to be a key track?" asks Raichu. "It was a single, after all, with a pretty cool video. But it falls pretty flat for me despite having a bit of charisma. It’s very one-note and lacks an engaging hook. No, the repetition of Offset doesn’t count." KingBruno sneers, "Her rhyme scheme is awfully weak on here, but I guess it will still work for her teenage fans who fill up like 90% of her fan base." sexercise cackles, "This aged well." More than could be said for you. Kisses!

Verandi sits at a book signing table. No one else is there. "This is awful on many levels but I enjoy it - A Memoir."







 
"Now that she’s taken the pussy off Offset, who does she put the pussy on when she performs this live?" frets GimmeWork, and the answer is you! The FANS!
I yelled!

Verandi sits at a book signing table. No one else is there. "This is awful on many levels but I enjoy it - A Memoir."
Never Underestimate A Girl The GP Bad Taste.
 
he/him
Bartier Cardi is mediocre upon first listen but it really slaps you in the face after a while. Every time I hear that chorus I get the urge to scream it as loud as I possibly can.

CARDI TOOK YOUR MAN YOU UPSET UH
CARDI GOT RICH THEY UPSET YEAH
CARDI PUT THE PUSSY ON OFFSET
CARTIER CARDI B BRAIN ON OFFSET


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