BIG POP GIRLS 2024

[happiestgirl]

Girl, I am currently losing my mind over a man I met in October, trust me, I get it.

 

[reputation.]

Finally came out of my hibernation and managed to catch up on the last few cuts of BPG23 and this thread. I am still pressed at how dirty SZA was done. How did Good Days lose??!!???

This one seems too legendaric to miss, so hopefully, I can send my ballot before the deadline. My only problem is that I didn't listen to Cowboy Carter and Tortured Poets that much last year, so I'm not sure if I have enough time to properly digest them.

 

[Inland Empire]

So like…has anyone else noticed Red Wine Supernova is kind of blatant fascist propaganda orrrr

 

[RJF]

Where are the votes? Did all the people I have on my Ignore List submit or something? The DMs’ dusty.

 

[constantino]

Where are the votes? Did all the people I have on my Ignore List submit or something? The DMs’ dusty.

One of your colleagues told us to let our scores marinate for a bit so that's exactly what I'm doing x

 

[Aidan]

The Chappell album had escaped me for some reason and I just never got round to listening to it. I was disappointed by it

Wasn’t expecting My Kink is Karma to be essentially a Taylor song

 

[RJF]

One of your colleagues told us to let our scores marinate for a bit so that's exactly what I'm doing x

Bold to assume I read anyone’s posts but my own!

 

[One of One]

My votes will be in tonight after I make a final decision on my 11.

 

[K94]

Is 'OH LOUISIANA' being rated separately? Always gave 'YA YA's outro to me

 

[soratami]

Is 'OH LOUISIANA' being rated separately?

Not this after all the discussion that melodic piece which features sung lyrics has generated dd. You really said

Bold to assume I read anyone’s posts but my own!

 

[K94]

Not this after all the discussion that melodic piece which features sung lyrics has generated dd. You really said

Me

Have seen now xx

 

[Ensnare]

One of your colleagues told us to let our scores marinate for a bit so that's exactly what I'm doing x

Okay but the Use By date is now approaching so get cooking girlies

 

[Stradiwhovius]

I may be a first-time host, but I’m a long-time participant as an elderly forum member.

My biggest piece of advice when scoring would be to do it on a spreadsheet of your own. Take your time, do your scores, and then once finished, sort your scores from best to worst (or vice versa) to see how songs from different albums stack up equivalently to one another.

The number one error that crops up year after year is that people often throw a 10 to the best song on an album, because they’re listening only within the context of the album itself. Sometimes, the best song on an album can still be worse than the worst song on another! If that artist’s best song this year only deserves a 7.75, so be it!

Once you’ve got to a point where you’re happy that you like all your 6.5s and 8s on pretty much the same level as one another, you’re good to go. For me, I only give out 10s to songs I’d be happy with winning, and choose my 11 from that set as the one I actually want to win.

As for your 0… it’s probably fairly likely you know what that’ll be already.

Finishing my final review of scores in line with this advice tonight and so far the process has pushed one artist's average below 6.

I won't say who but in the interest of not prompting some inflated scores, it's NOT Ms Swift.

 

[Aidan]

Finishing my final review of scores in line with this advice tonight and so far the process has pushed one artist's average below 6.

I won't say who but in the interest of not prompting some inflated scores, it's NOT Ms Swift.

Good luck, babe!

 

[BTG]

Two albums left and at the minute I have everyone averaging at least a six.

 

[Aidan]

The run from Alligator Tears to Flamenco was such a struggle to get through

 

[Plethorya]

I knew if I tried to rate everything by hand I’d end up with basically nothing below a 7, so I listened to everything on shuffle & put them into a list from favorite to least favorite as I listened.
Once that was all done I distributed the scores evenly. That does mean there’s some songs that got low scores that I probably would’ve placed closer to the middle, but it also means I didn’t end up with thirty 10s.

 

[unnameable]

Oh Lord, the spoken interludes are annoying me, why was this a trend in 2024? I will attempt to be like George Michael and Listen Without Prejudice.

 

[Verandi]

Once that was all done I distributed the scores evenly. That does mean there’s some songs that got low scores that I probably would’ve placed closer to the middle, but it also means I didn’t end up with thirty 10s.

... why?

 

[bad karma]

I’m nearly ready but now I’m concerned… How many 10’s are too many 10’s?