No, because my points are taken from an excel table that creates an average from
1. First impression
2. Lyrics and depth
3. Melody and/or catchiness
4. How does it compare to CLAT
If she got a 9.75, then so be it!
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1. First impression
2. Lyrics and depth
3. Melody and/or catchiness
4. How does it compare to CLAT
If she got a 9.75, then so be it!
Putas in STEM!No, because my points are taken from an excel table that creates an average from
1. First impression
2. Lyrics and depth
3. Melody and/or catchiness
4. How does it compare to CLAT
If she got a 9.75, then so be it!
The Ann Veal of pop music!
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I don't know my friends' bitch ass kids.
now kithI won’t stand for this - look at the casual way Barbra’s left hand is draped over her good friend JJ’s arm while she playfully peaks over his shoulder - as all good friends do!
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No, because my points are taken from an excel table that creates an average from
1. First impression
2. Lyrics and depth
3. Melody and/or catchiness
4. How does it compare to CLAT
If she got a 9.75, then so be it!
Me, who loves applying statistics to anything I do, is living for this.
You couldn't pick her out of a lineup of one!
HIGHEST
10 x 2? Jesus really okay wow stan. (@daninternational @Vasilios)
0 x 1
@TheOnlyOne
LOWEST
1 x 2 (@Plethorya @rdp)
In what is actually a surprise to no one, this is the first cut from my two designated albums. I think the word that sums up "Anything For Love" best is frustrating. Brevity seems to be the name of the game in pop music at the moment, so we've all become no stranger to albums barely managing to get to a half hour runtime, but despite that this still manages to feel frustratingly slight. It also kind of makes no sense in an already all over the place album, something which I actually consider a bit of a feat. This bizarrely sweet midtempo little ditty that feels like its building to something just to abruptly end. I don't get it. Even to do this write up I went searching for answers.
...Which only lead me to:
...Okay.
Even as someone who thinks Radical Optimism is great, I can admit that the album simply doesn't have the luxury of wasting tracklist space on something that feels so utterly unfinished. It doesn't get the luxury of passing for an interlude on an eleven track, thirty-six minute affair. There was a brief flicker of hope when the extended edition of the album came out. Oh! That's where they will have put the complete "Anything For Love" I'm sure! Maybe it'll even be a lil single! Maybe she'll debut the full thing at Glastonbury! No. Instead it's an enforced "listen twice xx" meme brought to life that actually exposes some lovely instrumental parts while also sounding like an iTunes preview hastily spliced together. There's literally not enough song to extend into something that passes for an acceptable four minutes of music. It's also a weird song to go to Danny L Harle for, but the entire album (sometimes to its benefit) kind of has that vibe.
The only bit of commentary comes from its lone zero, aptly named @TheOnlyOne, "I’m giving this a zero instead of anything on the noise that is Brat or the slog that is TTPD because this actually could’ve been a good song if she stupidly didn’t ruin it. I can’t express enough how little of a fuck I give about “Danny eating salted liquorice” taking up time for what could’ve been a highlight on this album!! Nothing in this rate has infuriated me more than the first 28 seconds of this “song” if it can even be called that. PLEASE leave your giggling fits in the studio making it onto official tracks behind in 2024. Hate it hate it hate it. Learn from this, Dula!" You let it all out, honey.
Despite it being half a song, it has actually received a good few outings. It's currently sitting pride of place on the tour setlist, and even got a fairly lovely outing when she performed at the Royal Albert Hall last year. I know some users were there; did she remotely explain this track at all? Anyway, enjoy!
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I gave this a 6 which is overly generous. I got carried away because I actually like the whole album, and whilst this is the weakest of the tracks - I still enjoy the actual song.
I agree that given the slender runtime, wasting precious seconds on low-res chatter was a bad decision, but the song itself is pleasant.
The ‘extended version’ is such a wasted opportunity to rectify the undercooked nature of this. Gordon Ramsay is screaming somewhere.
I agree that given the slender runtime, wasting precious seconds on low-res chatter was a bad decision, but the song itself is pleasant.
The ‘extended version’ is such a wasted opportunity to rectify the undercooked nature of this. Gordon Ramsay is screaming somewhere.
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I listened to this multiple times, gave it a 5 and couldn't at all tell you what it sounds like. No, I'm not listening again to find out.
How this album's aesthetics lurched from her being styled like she was going into the Thunderdome for every performance, to bleached brows in the pool, to people pyramids next to the pool, to swinging from monkey bars, to her staging being made out of fibreglass from B&Q... get a creative director sis.
Such a baffling choice that ironically makes me radically pessimistic about her future music decisions. Bye flop.
HIGHEST
10 x 2? Jesus really okay wow stan. (@daninternational @Vasilios)
0 x 1
@TheOnlyOne
LOWEST
1 x 2 (@Plethorya @rdp)
In what is actually a surprise to no one, this is the first cut from my two designated albums. I think the word that sums up "Anything For Love" best is frustrating. Brevity seems to be the name of the game in pop music at the moment, so we've all become no stranger to albums barely managing to get to a half hour runtime, but despite that this still manages to feel frustratingly slight. It also kind of makes no sense in an already all over the place album, something which I actually consider a bit of a feat. This bizarrely sweet midtempo little ditty that feels like its building to something just to abruptly end. I don't get it. Even to do this write up I went searching for answers.
...Which only lead me to:
...Okay.
Even as someone who thinks Radical Optimism is great, I can admit that the album simply doesn't have the luxury of wasting tracklist space on something that feels so utterly unfinished. It doesn't get the luxury of passing for an interlude on an eleven track, thirty-six minute affair. There was a brief flicker of hope when the extended edition of the album came out. Oh! That's where they will have put the complete "Anything For Love" I'm sure! Maybe it'll even be a lil single! Maybe she'll debut the full thing at Glastonbury! No. Instead it's an enforced "listen twice xx" meme brought to life that actually exposes some lovely instrumental parts while also sounding like an iTunes preview hastily spliced together. There's literally not enough song to extend into something that passes for an acceptable four minutes of music. It's also a weird song to go to Danny L Harle for, but the entire album (sometimes to its benefit) kind of has that vibe.
The only bit of commentary comes from its lone zero, aptly named @TheOnlyOne, "I’m giving this a zero instead of anything on the noise that is Brat or the slog that is TTPD because this actually could’ve been a good song if she stupidly didn’t ruin it. I can’t express enough how little of a fuck I give about “Danny eating salted liquorice” taking up time for what could’ve been a highlight on this album!! Nothing in this rate has infuriated me more than the first 28 seconds of this “song” if it can even be called that. PLEASE leave your giggling fits in the studio making it onto official tracks behind in 2024. Hate it hate it hate it. Learn from this, Dula!" You let it all out, honey.
Despite it being half a song, it has actually received a good few outings. It's currently sitting pride of place on the tour setlist, and even got a fairly lovely outing when she performed at the Royal Albert Hall last year. I know some users were there; did she remotely explain this track at all? Anyway, enjoy!
No surprise, one of the weakest on the album. I gave it a 5, more than generous.
As the most earnest girl you all know, I gave Anything for Love a 9 because the melody and lyrics resonate with me as someone who does clock in to the Professional Yearning Unit moderately often. It does feel cut off before it can truly take off but I just can't help but want to play it over and over.
Greedy escaping from the bottom 10, still participating and thriving despite certain factions coming for her sun kissed, flexible neck since the start
