Miss Camaraderie is indeed better, so if Miss Amor had to die for the other to live, I'm okay with that.
BLACK GIRL DEBUT MAGIC™ - WINNER
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Not this GIF.Cheers to Miss Camaraderie for outlasting her usually preferred sister.
No shade but I’m surprised Miss Amor and Miss Camaraderie made it this far.
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#31
Yung Rapunxel
8.526
Highest score: 10 x 14 (@He, @AshleyKerwin, @Posh Spears, @happiestgirl, @Kuhleezi, @KingBruno, @R92, @LE0Night, @Solenciennes, @Remorque, @Jwentz, @Sanctuary, @constantino, @Sprockrooster)
Lowest scores: 6 x 2 (@lalaclairi_, @TRAVVV)
4 x 1 (@Trouble in Paradise)
My score: 8.5
Track background: Produced by lil Internet, who had these words for MTV News in April 2013:
"#YUNGRAPUNXEL" was uploaded to Azealia's Soundcloud on March 11, 2013 (you can read PJ's reaction here). Azealia wrote the track alongside Chadron Moore & Kevin James, which features an interpolation of Mary J. Blige's 2001 hit "No More Drama". She offers her own words in "16 Days of Azealia" here. It's BWET's 10th track, and its video premiered on April 16, 2013.
My thoughts: I just know that this one of her 28 songs that rips a bit on one of “212”’s melodies, plus she screams a lil too much. I remember having to warm to this a WHOLE fucking lot when it came out, as it sounded like she was being coerced into adding screaming for the sake of adding to emulate what had been done with “212”, and I’m sure there are receipts that I don’t feel like dragging up that will ultimately prove me right anyway, so yeah. Enjoyable overall, but it’s not necessarily quintessential for my Azealia narrative and I wouldn’t really choose to play it first. Still tho. Isssolid.
Your thoughts:
@Sprockrooster (10) - If there ever was an 11 coming from this album in this rate it would be this one. It is so much noise and I am sitting here completely sober on a Tuesday morning during in between classes and I am still getting my life like I am drunk and stoned in a fucking club grinding.
@TRAVVV (6) - She successfully captures that angry post break up feeling, but it’s a bit too aggressive sounding for me.
@paperboyfriendd (7) - I don't like the shouty bits
@Bangers&Bops (9.5) - This is one hell of a creepy banger made even creepier by the music video. I live for how hard it pops off right after the thunder intro.
@KingBruno (10) - So much scolding and that over a lively haunted house beat. Fantastic.
@Posh Spears (10) - She really went off and I live for every second of it.
@He (10) - Her fucking screamo track! This has become such an anthem. I adore it, and that chorus is just so cathartic.
@ohnostalgia (7.5) - Abrasive, harsh, defiant, righteous. Ratchets my heart rate up and up and up until I can’t breathe, nerves frayed in all the worst (but best) ways.
@constantino (10) - I am sorry but this is fucking iconic. She came out in the height of her power with something this left-field, abrasive, ferocious and challenging? So bold, so exciting, so Azealia. Oh and her Glastonbury performance is fucking legendary at this point.
@Solenciennes (10) - Surprised I didn’t get blasted out my living room window listening to this again on full volume, such a glorious racket.
@Trouble in Paradise (4) - Feels like basic club music
Live performances/music video:
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Don’t you dare cut my 11 today, I’m getting my MRI and that might be scary enough.
okay but Yung Rapunxel making it this far is a bit iconic
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#31
Yung Rapunxel
8.526
Highest score: 10 x 14 (@He, @AshleyKerwin, @Posh Spears, @happiestgirl, @Kuhleezi, @KingBruno, @R92, @LE0Night, @Solenciennes, @Remorque, @Jwentz, @Sanctuary, @constantino, @Sprockrooster)
Lowest scores: 6 x 2 (@lalaclairi_, @TRAVVV)
4 x 1 (@Trouble in Paradise)
My score: 8.5
Track background: Produced by lil Internet, who had these words for MTV News in April 2013:
"#YUNGRAPUNXEL" was uploaded to Azealia's Soundcloud on March 11, 2013 (you can read PJ's reaction here). Azealia wrote the track alongside Chadron Moore & Kevin James, which features an interpolation Mary J. Blige's 2001 hit "No More Drama". She offers her own words in "16 Days of Azealia" here. It's BWET's 10th track, and its video premiered on April 16, 2013.
My thoughts: I just know that this one of her 28 songs that rips a bit on one of “212”’s melodies, plus she screams a lil too much. I remember having to warm to this a WHOLE fucking lot when it came out, as it sounded like she was being coerced into adding screaming for the sake of adding to emulate what had been done with “212”, and I’m sure there are receipts that I don’t feel like dragging up that will ultimately prove me right anyway, so yeah. Enjoyable overall, but it’s not necessarily quintessential for my Azealia narrative and I wouldn’t really choose to play it first. Still tho. Isssolid.
Your thoughts:
@Sprockrooster (10) - If there ever was an 11 coming from this album in this rate it would be this one. It is so much noise and I am sitting here completely sober on a Tuesday morning during in between classes and I am still getting my life like I am drunk and stoned in a fucking club grinding.
@TRAVVV (6) - She successfully captures that angry post break up feeling, but it’s a bit too aggressive sounding for me.
@paperboyfriendd (7) - I don't like the shouty bits
@Bangers&Bops (9.5) - This is one hell of a creepy banger made even creepier by the music video. I live for how hard it pops off right after the thunder intro.
@KingBruno (10) - So much scolding and that over a lively haunted house beat. Fantastic.
@Posh Spears (10) - She really went off and I live for every second of it.
@He (10) - Her fucking screamo track! This has become such an anthem. I adore it, and that chorus is just so cathartic.
@ohnostalgia (7.5) - Abrasive, harsh, defiant, righteous. Ratchets my heart rate up and up and up until I can’t breathe, nerves frayed in all the worst (but best) ways.
@constantino (10) - I am sorry but this is fucking iconic. She came out in the height of her power with something this left-field, abrasive, ferocious and challenging? So bold, so exciting, so Azealia. Oh and her Glastonbury performance is fucking legendary at this point.
@Solenciennes (10) - Surprised I didn’t get blasted out my living room window listening to this again on full volume, such a glorious racket.
@Trouble in Paradise (4) - Feels like basic club music
Live performances/music video:
Your write ups are so good that even when it's a song I dislike I feel bad about my low score and bitchy commentary. Then I listen to the actual song and feel better
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#29
20 Something
8.564
Highest score: 11 x 1 (@Petty Mayonnaise)
10 x 12 (@He, @1991, @Trouble in Paradise, @Kuhleezi, @ohnostalgia, @R92, @LE0Night, @Solenciennes, @paperboyfriendd, @Sanctuary, @2014, @Sprockrooster)
Lowest scores: 6 x 2 (@happiestgirl, @soratami)
5 x 3 (@BML, @A&E, @kermit_the_frog)
My score: 8.5
Track background: Produced by Carter Lang & The Antydote, who also co-wrote the song with SZA. It is Ctrl's final track, completing the fourteen-song set, and coming full circle as an acoustic song sonically similar to opening composition "Supermodel".
My thoughts: In a similar way to how "Miss Amor" and "Miss Camaraderie" are known to be sister/cousin tracks, I hold the same for "20 Something" and "Supermodel, as both stand to be two-parts in a far more expansive story. As someone who'll turn thirty before 2018's close, "20 Something" has been really paramount for me after a really turbulent 2016/early 2017 - a period where I wasn't necessarily prepared for the many life lessons that I was made to endure. But, left without a choice, I kinda just had to buck up and keep myself going through what felt like a setback art every turn. Losing loves, losing faith... losing friends, to suicide, to overdoses, to car accidents... all which brought a new absorption of the lines ("hopin' to keep the rest of my friends / prayin' the 20 somethings don't kill me, kill me") for me. Not to mention the theme of also wrestling with the thought of being young and staying young ("hopin' my 20 somethings won't end") while realizing that growing older is undeniably inevitable, and our wide eyes will only, with time, see even bleaker things/events. "20 Something" evolves from "Supermodel", in that while the latter clings to another's love and attention for the wish of validation, "20 Something" flips that, shifting the focus to self; casting strong emphasis on how we as individuals need to love and tend to ourselves as time passes to find that validation for ourselves. If Ctrl is a nicely-edited narrative of becoming older and understanding our place in the world, then "20 Something" is the climactic moment before we write our own epilogue, mirroring us as listeners, going off into the world, just a bit more knowing of what is still generally just the unknown. It's probably one of the most beautiful songs I've heard.
If you haven't yet seen, I wrote a little bit more about both tracks and the album concept earlier int the year here.
Your thoughts:
@Sprockrooster (10) - Sonically this is very similar to the opening track, and I love that symmetry. It also means there is also some form symmetry lyrically. Her ambition towards what she has become.
@TRAVVV (9.5) - Fuck me up completely. An anthem.
@Bangers&Bops (9) - I like how off kilter the production sounds, it feels like if you tilted a globe and it threw the planet off balance. A few interesting production choices on the latter half of this project. Loving the horns, Imagery galore. I'm loving all the colors “Pretty Little Birds” is being painted with; SZA is making sure to cover the entire canvas. Those horns! I can't get enough of them.
@He (10) - the melancholy this song evokes is just incredible. “praying that 20 somethings don’t kill me…” ugh
@ohnostalgia (10) - It’s very mean to make me, in the last year of my twenties, listen to this. But honestly SZA, I’ve heard that thirties > twenties. At least that’s what I’m clinging onto
@constantino (9) - A perfect closing bookend and sister track to Supermodel, both sonically and tonally. The sequencing on this album really is immaculate.
@Solenciennes (10) - Another one of the stand outs from the album, SZA’s voice is at its best here, the stripped back guitar props her up in the best way.
@Trouble in Paradise (10) - Serious Frank Ocean and damn are these lyrics relatable. Love how bare her vocals are here.
Live performances:
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SIGH.
One more out later today homies.
*sniffles*
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I REFUSE. 20 Something is Top 10 material. Rate cancelled. All y'all looking for bops and missing one of the best commentaries on the shit that is your 20s ruining my day.
I feel like Yung Rapunxel will be playing as I'm greeted at the gates of Hell by Azealia.
One of my least favourite Azealia songs but I appreciate the experimentation that comes with it. The beat is chaotic in the best way. Luckily she managed to come up with a better song for Lil Internet's "Street Angel" beat (which went on to become Heavy Metal and Reflective). 20 Something should've gone way further though.
One of my least favourite Azealia songs but I appreciate the experimentation that comes with it. The beat is chaotic in the best way. Luckily she managed to come up with a better song for Lil Internet's "Street Angel" beat (which went on to become Heavy Metal and Reflective). 20 Something should've gone way further though.
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Me to this Yung Rapunxel placing.
Also FYC:
