BIG POP GIRLS 2022 - THE END

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2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) is a bop and a half and I adore @Jonathan27 for giving it his 11 and preaching to the choir with that essay.

I just listened to it while I was reading the write-up and I had a bit of a moment to it, so I guess some songs could have gone before it.


I actually wouldn't mind losing a Beyoncé song or two, but I totally get why everything's still intact from the album as it was the pop moment of 2022.

I guess some participants just sniffed their poppers a little too hard and overscored CRASH as a result.
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2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) is such a happy rush. I remember singing it while cycling in Amsterdam, getting ready for Pride and will always have that wonderful and joyous memory with my best friend. That’s why we play it a lot. It always comes up any Daily Mix I put on on Spotify.

It definitely has some of the Max Martin magic and I think I hear him on the background vocals too? *check notes* couldn’t find notes but I just hear him!
Also Savan Kotecha is credited, just magic. It does remind me a tad of Into You.
 
People always say like "oh i underscored this" but I fear I actually overscored. I gave Lightning like a 10 I think but it actually came on shuffle the other day and jfc if that song isn't annoying as shit, that middle part just drags along forever. It actually made me unlist it from my playlist :/. But I'm too fair of a person to log into the spreadsheet to change my score fksjhdjs
 
People always say like "oh i underscored this" but I fear I actually overscored. I gave Lightning like a 10 I think but it actually came on shuffle the other day and jfc if that song isn't annoying as shit, that middle part just drags along forever. It actually made me unlist it from my playlist :/. But I'm too fair of a person to log into the spreadsheet to change my score fksjhdjs
I'm not.

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Solenciennes

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Karma gets such a bad rep around here. "The lyrics are cringe" as if 80% of her lyrics weren't? At least on this one she seems to be having fun instead of slowly dragging a soggy teabag across the table in music form. Would've Should've Could've belongs in the top 20 though.

I think if I'd been rating the albums now, Karma would have been among my top tracks on the album, it's fully immersed in its own ridiculousness and the production's a blast. I've not been bothered by many of the eliminations before the top 40 but that, Lavender Haze and Beg For You stand out as too early for me.
 
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