BIG POP GIRLS 2024
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I’m working on this, I’m just trying to figure out what’s the best way to do it.
Thank you to our hosts for hosting (a truly monumental task to get it done so efficiently and with such verve! icons!), and thank you to everybody else for collectively not allowing Dua Lipa to win this rate!
Something Beautiful is almost definitely getting my 0!I’ve enjoyed this rate so much I’ve almost forgotten that my favourite album barely scraped the top 50 (with my 11!)… The promo campaign for Miley next year starts now!
Thank you @aux @Ensnare @Laura Vanderbooben and @RJF for putting so much care into this rate.
Here's to Tatiana Rosner McRae lifting the trophy this time next year!
Here's to Tatiana Rosner McRae lifting the trophy this time next year!
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Wow. Oh wow.
The level of quality on display. Dare I say this has been the best Big Pop Girl Rate ever. I wholeheartedly enjoyed or tolerated every song we had to rate this year.
Thank you to @aux @Ensnare @RJF and @Laura Vanderbooben for taking us on a fantastic ride this year. Talk about a team effort.
The level of quality on display. Dare I say this has been the best Big Pop Girl Rate ever. I wholeheartedly enjoyed or tolerated every song we had to rate this year.
Thank you to @aux @Ensnare @RJF and @Laura Vanderbooben for taking us on a fantastic ride this year. Talk about a team effort.
Top 2 for Dua and Bottom 3 for Beyonce & Ariana. My legacy.
Thank you @aux, @Ensnare, @Laura Vanderbooben & @RJF. I know how difficult it is running a rate and you guys did it perfectly. What a great year for pop, despite the very obvious result, I can't be too mad because it's a good enough song <3
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Thank you for hosting @aux, @Ensnare, @Laura Vanderbooben and @RJF. A brilliant job as always, and I have to admit I wish the pace had been a bitsy slower just so we could all have enjoyed this for a while longer.
I also feel that it's very meaningful how these two things happened on the day of the finale:
1) Addison Rae announced her debut album release date
2) Katy Perry left the planet
Anyway, here's hoping some more A-listers drop their projects within the next few months so we can have us another battle royale in the next edition, even if 2024 was very much a one of a kind year in pop, and this rate definitely did that justice.
I also feel that it's very meaningful how these two things happened on the day of the finale:
1) Addison Rae announced her debut album release date
2) Katy Perry left the planet
Anyway, here's hoping some more A-listers drop their projects within the next few months so we can have us another battle royale in the next edition, even if 2024 was very much a one of a kind year in pop, and this rate definitely did that justice.
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The Madonna Discography Rate was the first time I thought about converting a rate into a book – the wealth of information from the write-ups alone, how it stands as premier music writing (plus the sociological and queer history layers to it all). And then I'd have to get to the iconic Sugababes rate by @beyoncésweave, BPG Classique 2011, so many more.
Once I submit my master's thesis, maybe I'll concoct some formatting and layout ideas... It doesn't have to be a book, it could be a Google Drive with the threads compiled in documents. The threads should at the very least be archived on Wayback Machine (and plenty of rate graphics are already deleted from imgur/imgbb servers). I just despair a little at the thought of Xenforo running amok and wiping all of these interactions, friendships and haterations.
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Hey! You stole my post!!! Hahaha!
But yeah, she was just so mid, compared to everybody else. Every girl who had an album showcased had a lot to love here! Absolutely nothing on Tortured Poets stood out, except for a Post Malone feature, of all her songs, this year, to get my highest score. A 7.134 average, nowhere near the lowest, thank heavens, but still, quite mid among my scores.
Don't want to keep focusing specifically on her. But I'd like to say one more thing about how I felt on this thread. I know this won't be fun, since the worst ever Kennedy in America is calling all of us an 'curable' 'epidemic'. Please could you all look at slurs for autistic and mentally ill people, and learn why it should include the word, 'deranged'. Especially for something as simple as seeing someone give a 0! Absolutely unnecessary to almost ruin my sleep, and shake my mood for my brain, of which I'm afraid, tends to overreact to arguments.
No idea when I will ever watch Eras on Disney+ btw, despite actually adding that concert, and her old Netflix doc, to my Letterboxd watchlist, because a part of me does care about her music and how it's performed for her fans. But yeah, with the reactions I received, because I gave one of the Top 5 songs of 'Tortured Poets' a throwaway 0, cheers, very, very, very much, for causing an extra delay on watching it.
That delay, partially because of cheap reality TV-style insults from random Swifties on here, and partially because I'm bored, at least for now, of beginning her concert, is only gonna get longer, until I finally choose to click 'watch'. And to be honest, and unserious, I simply don't know when to watch Eras! With that said, I still haven't watched Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan on Netflix, neither, despite choosing that concert as the very first film to watch on a Letterboxd Scavenger Hunt in 2025. Broken promise, straight away. But I'm too busy being inspired by fictional cinema and theatre, and it doesn't always include two BPGs, like Wicked did. I'm just too busy in taking care of my wellbeing, and trying to work out how to write out an actual project, instead of choosing to write non-paying inspirational posts, random posts like these which I know won't be much liked or popular, and learning to how to act and sing, with only a Media diploma and degree, and put off by Runner roles. But also, I don't need a very small but noticeable part of tagging and online drama, to overreact to, through my most painful and most overreactive Winter, for my brain, in years! But now, my dopamine is back in place!
So let me say this, leave these silly (quite frankly, if I have to reclaim that word) 'deranged' overreactions in 2025, and let us put it in the same place, as hooking autistic people to radiators, beds and electric shock 'therapy' appointments, which I continue to be worried about, over in the States. Just be a little more mature and caring about these small things. And please understand why I don't ever want, either myself or my decisions, to be called 'deranged', on the Internet, again. Even though nobody in politics, US nor UK, seem to care about neurotypicals, the queers, or anybody, nor how they constantly, spin, spin, spin, have no proper answers, and look like an absolute smuck to the entire world!
I'm done with this topic! I don't care about the reactions, nor the replies. I just knew I was gonna be mentioned alongside Taylor, and I need to say my thoughts before I forget about them, ready for this Spring and Summer.
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Anyway, quite a long post choosing to post about my least favourite part of this year's PJ BPG experience. So I'm choosing to post something about the winner, to be more positive!
I'm very happy about Ariana, and her song, winning. I was rooting for 'we can't be friends'. Being so passionate with J-pop, K-pop and MT, it was among the earliest appearances, this year, for a BPG song on my On Repeat and Repeat Rewind playlists, before Good Luck Babe took my space for my 11, for the whole summer, no competition, for the sheer emotion of her performance and lyrics. I couldn't say the same for Girl, so confusing or Houdini, even though Houdini was also much loved, but it wouldn't be my 11, like Ariana could have been, or could it have been Birds of a Feather, an actual easy listening hit of 2024?!?!? Who knows?!?!? They're all what if's, such a unhealthy part of my personality, even though it sometimes helps. But Chappell got my 11, and yet, Ariana was gonna win with that beautiful lead of a score. A somewhat satisfying win, this year.
Thank you to the hosts of this rate, and making the graphic design so beautiful. Just be careful about how you tag me, next Winter!
I'm very happy about Ariana, and her song, winning. I was rooting for 'we can't be friends'. Being so passionate with J-pop, K-pop and MT, it was among the earliest appearances, this year, for a BPG song on my On Repeat and Repeat Rewind playlists, before Good Luck Babe took my space for my 11, for the whole summer, no competition, for the sheer emotion of her performance and lyrics. I couldn't say the same for Girl, so confusing or Houdini, even though Houdini was also much loved, but it wouldn't be my 11, like Ariana could have been, or could it have been Birds of a Feather, an actual easy listening hit of 2024?!?!? Who knows?!?!? They're all what if's, such a unhealthy part of my personality, even though it sometimes helps. But Chappell got my 11, and yet, Ariana was gonna win with that beautiful lead of a score. A somewhat satisfying win, this year.
Thank you to the hosts of this rate, and making the graphic design so beautiful. Just be careful about how you tag me, next Winter!
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Dustyyyyy Robyn Nachos...you came in like a dangerous woman and left the competition breathin’ heavy. The judges have no problem saying that tonight, these Nachos...are SUPREME.
Condragulations, you are the winner of this challenge!
Funnily enough, this is a rate for which I had an almost instinctive knowing of where my 11 would go right from the get-go, even before fully listening to the songs.
I held off for a while, trying to see what my gut would tell me after sitting with all the great music last year gave us, and also Gracie Abrams, and nothing could beat the emotional reaction that 'we can't be friends' gave, and continues to give me to this day.
I'm not the best with words,
so I know I can’t beat the beautiful write-ups you’ve given to it, other than to say: it’s rare to find this level of emotional maturity and honesty in such a small song. It's like an open, beating heart you innately want to protect, because when growing up I think you start cherishing this vulnerability more and more, after living on a system that forces us to neglecting them or running away from them. I'm thankful for this song.
And that’s exactly why I was very tempted to give my 11 to girl, so confusing, which unexpectedly (although not really, ’cause your Sisita is a crier, she cries at everything) made me bawl the first time I listened to Lorde’s response. Not that it’s meant to be a tearjerker or anything, but at her best, Ella has a pen that works exactly like a mirror. How can something so specific to her reality resonate with… me? How DARE she? How dare I imprint on her life experience?! Anyways. What a song, and what a perfectly unique way to remix one. Beautiful commentary @Stradiwhovius!
And to my favorite sociopathic heathens, @Laura Vanderbooben, her boobs, @RJF, @aux and @Ensnare -
thank you always for your time, your energy, and your patience with our constant idiocy. These rates are our very own Music Video Night with your girlies. A place of connection over music, even if sometimes I want to physically beat most of you. It's beautiful that no matter what, no matter where we live or what music we gravitate most towards even though my taste is better than yours, we still have this for us to share and to laugh and stuff.
I held off for a while, trying to see what my gut would tell me after sitting with all the great music last year gave us, and also Gracie Abrams, and nothing could beat the emotional reaction that 'we can't be friends' gave, and continues to give me to this day.
I'm not the best with words,
so I know I can’t beat the beautiful write-ups you’ve given to it, other than to say: it’s rare to find this level of emotional maturity and honesty in such a small song. It's like an open, beating heart you innately want to protect, because when growing up I think you start cherishing this vulnerability more and more, after living on a system that forces us to neglecting them or running away from them. I'm thankful for this song.
And that’s exactly why I was very tempted to give my 11 to girl, so confusing, which unexpectedly (although not really, ’cause your Sisita is a crier, she cries at everything) made me bawl the first time I listened to Lorde’s response. Not that it’s meant to be a tearjerker or anything, but at her best, Ella has a pen that works exactly like a mirror. How can something so specific to her reality resonate with… me? How DARE she? How dare I imprint on her life experience?! Anyways. What a song, and what a perfectly unique way to remix one. Beautiful commentary @Stradiwhovius!
And to my favorite sociopathic heathens, @Laura Vanderbooben, her boobs, @RJF, @aux and @Ensnare -
thank you always for your time, your energy, and your patience with our constant idiocy. These rates are our very own Music Video Night with your girlies. A place of connection over music, even if sometimes I want to physically beat most of you. It's beautiful that no matter what, no matter where we live or what music we gravitate most towards even though my taste is better than yours, we still have this for us to share and to laugh and stuff.
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I'm not listening to The Tortured Poets Department againHow can I convince everyone we can keep the good times going with a mid pop girl rate?
What a ride! I think it speaks to the talents we have here that this entire rate was one of the most engaging, exciting and just simply fun experiences in the forum's history. The latter can be hard to come by these days, and I think it speaks to our collective camaraderie that it never got too serious and felt like a genuine celebration of this year and these women (if I'm forgetting something in the 300 PLUS pages just let it be!). That said, all the hard work put in by our hosts remains beyond commendable: I don't know how y'all still manage to give me new ways into pop music, but I appreciate the hell out of all of you for it.
Now who do I need to CC on these n*des to get a sports car/Revolving Door top 2 next year
Now who do I need to CC on these n*des to get a sports car/Revolving Door top 2 next year