BPG 2019 - THE END
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eccentricsimply
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The fact that the only songs I remember from Lover are the ones I gave a 0 to and the one I gave a 9.5 to........ it says a lot.
Here’s a heartfelt song about London which is a genuine 10/10 though:
Whew. Adele really peaked with her first single huh
Whew. Adele really peaked with her first single huh
The way this is going all so smoothly thus far... It's pleasant.
London Boy just makes me think of that iconic tumblr post that said something like ‘one of the girls at Secret Sessions said that they thought London Boy was about Harry Styles instead of Joe, and Taylor Nation took her outside and then we heard gunshots but Taylor said it was unrelated” ahajshshsj.
Every time I check this thread and 7 rings had not been eliminated yet my blood pressure spikes. I know y’all salivate every time Ariana tosses her ponytail or warbles a half-hearted ‘yuh’ but this is really too much.
Eh, if we were rating the video I think it’d be out by now. As just the song itself it’s basically the same issue as London Boy in that the lyrics are shit but the song slaps. I reckon lower 50’s for ha.
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SCORE: 5.15
HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 1 (@Remorque)
LOWEST SCORE: 0 x 6 (@Solenciennes @savilizabeths @RMK @Laurence @Rem @Diet Pop!)
MY SCORE: 4/10
Does anyone really even remember how this goes? Clap if you remember how this goes. I'm listening to it back right now and it's fine, just a bit unnecessary like pretty much every single post-album endeavour Ariana embarked upon last year. I feel like this was also around the time when things started feeling just a little less... special. Like, let's be honest: we pop whores love the ceremony of it all. We love the gap between albums that allows up to dream up nonsense and keep threads at the top of Pop & Justice for no reason. We love the announcement, the new era look, the single cover drop, the eventual single, and eighteen months later the album chucked out onto Deezer because everyone stopped caring a year ago. Like I get where Ariana is coming from in terms of wanting to put out material the moment it's finished and I get that she wants to *pauses, swallows audibly, gags* help her friends out (when is the Doug Middlebrook single coming out?) but you're not helping your friends out releasing sub-three-minute, barely-finished ditties that sound like Future rejects. Especially when ten seconds of the running time is................. studio banter that is 100% so cute and deeply needed for the experience.
I feel like this was the beginning of diminishing returns for Ariana in a summer spent releasing cast offs like someone trying to reduce the weight on a lifeboat so it doesn't sink. Except from the fact that her career is a state of the art cruise ship, so why is she playing below deck? It also doesn't help that I don't find Ariana as a personality all that interesting, so her releasing a song with her bestie is honestly so utterly irrelevant to me, but that's a story for another day.
Below is the video (LOOK! THEY'RE SO CUTE! I SHIP THEM SO HARD!!! (ó﹏ò｡)) and a live performance from the flop outreach section of the Sweetener World Tour. If you somehow like this song enough to listen to Victoria explain it for nearly ten minutes, there's also a Genius video.
SCORE: 5.15
HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 1 (@Remorque)
LOWEST SCORE: 0 x 6 (@Solenciennes @savilizabeths @RMK @Laurence @Rem @Diet Pop!)
MY SCORE: 4/10
Does anyone really even remember how this goes? Clap if you remember how this goes. I'm listening to it back right now and it's fine, just a bit unnecessary like pretty much every single post-album endeavour Ariana embarked upon last year. I feel like this was also around the time when things started feeling just a little less... special. Like, let's be honest: we pop whores love the ceremony of it all. We love the gap between albums that allows up to dream up nonsense and keep threads at the top of Pop & Justice for no reason. We love the announcement, the new era look, the single cover drop, the eventual single, and eighteen months later the album chucked out onto Deezer because everyone stopped caring a year ago. Like I get where Ariana is coming from in terms of wanting to put out material the moment it's finished and I get that she wants to *pauses, swallows audibly, gags* help her friends out (when is the Doug Middlebrook single coming out?) but you're not helping your friends out releasing sub-three-minute, barely-finished ditties that sound like Future rejects. Especially when ten seconds of the running time is................. studio banter that is 100% so cute and deeply needed for the experience.
I feel like this was the beginning of diminishing returns for Ariana in a summer spent releasing cast offs like someone trying to reduce the weight on a lifeboat so it doesn't sink. Except from the fact that her career is a state of the art cruise ship, so why is she playing below deck? It also doesn't help that I don't find Ariana as a personality all that interesting, so her releasing a song with her bestie is honestly so utterly irrelevant to me, but that's a story for another day.
Below is the video (LOOK! THEY'RE SO CUTE! I SHIP THEM SO HARD!!! (ó﹏ò｡)) and a live performance from the flop outreach section of the Sweetener World Tour. If you somehow like this song enough to listen to Victoria explain it for nearly ten minutes, there's also a Genius video.
Legit forgot I even rated this at some point. What an afterthought.
This being the first Ariana out is certainly a twist. Hmm. I guess a certain Ariana song got a lot of high scores too.
