BPG 2019 - THE END
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Solenciennes
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If Taylor doesn't lose at least 2 songs in the run up to the top 50 I'll be frothing a bit.
BIGGER delivers one of Bey's warmest vocals yet. I've been so happy to hear her embrace her lower register as of late, and it really works on these lyrics that show off her benevolent wisdom. Her generosity! I know the song is connected to the story of Simba but I've always heard it as such a delicate display of motherhood, as if in direct conversation with her children, in a way I haven't heard since "Blue."
I will only entertain the notion that Never Really Over is overrated if it means propping up the superior single Harleys in Hawaii. Both should be top 15 teebs.
He/Him
This is what I love about The Gift, Beyoncé takes the father/son narrative of the movie and transfers the themes for a mother/daughter relationship. “Keys to the Kingdom” even though Bey isn’t in it feels like such a message to girls entering adolescence and losing their spark from the judgement of the world. “Bigger” and “Find Your Way Back” are Beyoncé passing on her knowledge of the world not through the distant stateliness of fatherhood but the warmth and joy of motherhood.
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Billie Eilish - 8
SCORE: 6.000
HIGHEST SCORE: 9.5 x 1 (@godspeed)
LOWEST SCORE: 0 x 1 (@Ana Raquel)
MY SCORE: 6/10
Kinda hauling ourselves out of the zero deluge that typically litters the bottom portion of a rate with this one! I think within hearing the opening seconds of this one (acoustic guitar, pitched up vocals) you know that it probably wasn't going to do down that well with everyone. As always with Billie though, at least the lyrics are on point. But yeah, it's kind of the most pedestrian thing on an album that is defined by decidedly not pedestrian things. This isn't Soundcloud any more, girl. It doesn't even appear to be on her setlists that much, outside of this mash up with "Party Favor" and no, NOT the Tinashe song. Billie's own "Party Favor", which I can only imagine would be something like turning up to your house with either a wicker basket full of cobras or a drum full of merch with that askew man all over it. Or maybe the former is more Taylor's thing. I don't know. I don't have much to say about this song; it's an utter non-entity. Fine, but I'll forget about it the moment I press "Post Reply" and y'all know I've been forgetting whole eliminations this year.
Billie Eilish - 8
SCORE: 6.000
HIGHEST SCORE: 9.5 x 1 (@godspeed)
LOWEST SCORE: 0 x 1 (@Ana Raquel)
MY SCORE: 6/10
Kinda hauling ourselves out of the zero deluge that typically litters the bottom portion of a rate with this one! I think within hearing the opening seconds of this one (acoustic guitar, pitched up vocals) you know that it probably wasn't going to do down that well with everyone. As always with Billie though, at least the lyrics are on point. But yeah, it's kind of the most pedestrian thing on an album that is defined by decidedly not pedestrian things. This isn't Soundcloud any more, girl. It doesn't even appear to be on her setlists that much, outside of this mash up with "Party Favor" and no, NOT the Tinashe song. Billie's own "Party Favor", which I can only imagine would be something like turning up to your house with either a wicker basket full of cobras or a drum full of merch with that askew man all over it. Or maybe the former is more Taylor's thing. I don't know. I don't have much to say about this song; it's an utter non-entity. Fine, but I'll forget about it the moment I press "Post Reply" and y'all know I've been forgetting whole eliminations this year.
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I actually gave 8 a 9, not a 10.
I went to a Billie concert last September, and I was carrying my stuff in a shoulder bag with an "8" on it, but it wasn't until I was getting to the venue that it clicked it with me that that was also the name of one her songs, so that was a cute moment. It was actually the only song from her album she didn't do though.
I went to a Billie concert last September, and I was carrying my stuff in a shoulder bag with an "8" on it, but it wasn't until I was getting to the venue that it clicked it with me that that was also the name of one her songs, so that was a cute moment. It was actually the only song from her album she didn't do though.
He/him
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SCORE: 6.227
HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 8 (@Dangerous Maknae @DJHazey @UncleDeSeanAli @soratami @Conan @K94 @Lost Boy @Laurence
LOWEST SCORE: 0 x 8 (@Sprockrooster @Trouble in Paradise @Ana Raquel @Verandi @Bangers&Bops @Phonetics Boy @Robsolete @MrMannacroix)
MY SCORE: 5/10
I don't know; does owner-of-seventeen-dogs-agoraphobe Ariana Grande seem like someone who would pursue a man who was already spoken for? Imagine the networking, the partying she would have to do, the talking to people to be done. There are couches to sink into; cloudy skies to take photos of; Mario Kart to be played. The only home Ariana is wrecking is whatever property she buys and subsequently ruins with her lack of interior design taste. I don't see it for her but okay. Serving as the third and... let's be honest, final single from thank u, next, it smashed all over the globe, allowing Ariana to score a hat-trick in the UK with all the singles from the album going to No.1. Yeah, I don't think we need to explain the UK's lack of good judgement at this point.
I just don't think this plays to any of Ariana's strengths particularly well. It's fairly boring musically on an album that was defined by how much it pushed her forward in terms of her artistry, it sticks out like some weird ass slutty thumb as the closer to the album, like it was some kind of afterthought that accidentally became huge because we live in an age full of people acting like dick pigs on the Internet when they can barely make eye contact with cashiers in supermarkets so of course it would go down a storm. Meh. The write ups are probably going to be a bit bland as we're now out of things that cause genuine ire but haven't reached the things that are actually good.
The video was where most of the controversy and press for this single was generated. It involves opulent Los Angeles housing, some slab of beef from The CW, an Ariana lookalike, and... a whole mess that I'm sure y'all are gonna break down below. I mostly can't believe I've been tricked into watching another Ariana video. It was performed as part of the opening set of songs on the Sweetener World Tour also.
SCORE: 6.227
HIGHEST SCORE: 10 x 8 (@Dangerous Maknae @DJHazey @UncleDeSeanAli @soratami @Conan @K94 @Lost Boy @Laurence
LOWEST SCORE: 0 x 8 (@Sprockrooster @Trouble in Paradise @Ana Raquel @Verandi @Bangers&Bops @Phonetics Boy @Robsolete @MrMannacroix)
MY SCORE: 5/10
I don't know; does owner-of-seventeen-dogs-agoraphobe Ariana Grande seem like someone who would pursue a man who was already spoken for? Imagine the networking, the partying she would have to do, the talking to people to be done. There are couches to sink into; cloudy skies to take photos of; Mario Kart to be played. The only home Ariana is wrecking is whatever property she buys and subsequently ruins with her lack of interior design taste. I don't see it for her but okay. Serving as the third and... let's be honest, final single from thank u, next, it smashed all over the globe, allowing Ariana to score a hat-trick in the UK with all the singles from the album going to No.1. Yeah, I don't think we need to explain the UK's lack of good judgement at this point.
I just don't think this plays to any of Ariana's strengths particularly well. It's fairly boring musically on an album that was defined by how much it pushed her forward in terms of her artistry, it sticks out like some weird ass slutty thumb as the closer to the album, like it was some kind of afterthought that accidentally became huge because we live in an age full of people acting like dick pigs on the Internet when they can barely make eye contact with cashiers in supermarkets so of course it would go down a storm. Meh. The write ups are probably going to be a bit bland as we're now out of things that cause genuine ire but haven't reached the things that are actually good.
The video was where most of the controversy and press for this single was generated. It involves opulent Los Angeles housing, some slab of beef from The CW, an Ariana lookalike, and... a whole mess that I'm sure y'all are gonna break down below. I mostly can't believe I've been tricked into watching another Ariana video. It was performed as part of the opening set of songs on the Sweetener World Tour also.
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