Early 2000s Rock Chicks Rate

slaybellz

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#29

Amy Studt - Misfit

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3/5

Score: 8.060

My Score: 8
Highest: 11 x 1 (@Pineapple) 10 x 4 (@unnameable, @Robsolete, @phily693, @Music Is Death)
Lowest: 5 x 1 (@theincredibleflipper)

Misfit was the second single from her debut album False Smiles. It was released in 2003 and charted at #6 in the UK.

Amy Studt is a singer-songwriter from England. Growing up in a musical family, she started writing music at a very young age. At 12 years old, she contracted a rare bone disease and spent two years in and out of the hospital learning to walk again. Amy also used this time to write music, and her demos from that period would go on to get her signed to Simon Fuller's 19 Management, and Polydor records. She released her debut album two years later which went Top 20 in the UK.


@Memoria (7) - I remember buying her album but in hindsight, I liked the idea of the UK having its own Avril Lavigne much more than the execution of it. I preferred both Just A Little Girl and Under The Thumb to Misfit, but none of them could ever compare to the queens of the genre.

@berserkboi (6.5) - Pleasant but the melody is on the weak side!

@livefrommelbs (9) - The whole 'I'm not like the other girls' lyrical narrative is SO 00s, but the melody on this one is undeniable'

@Sprockrooster (8) - She did not have to spill my life story with the world.

@DJHazey (8.75) - Hey now here’s a great first impression for a change. (There weren’t alot of songs I didn’t previously know, to be fair) Of course when a bop goes more into teen-pop territory, I’m going to be here for it alot easier. It’s just effortlessly catchy pop.

@Pineapple (11) - Such a forgotten bop. It sounds like it should have been an easy #1 for her, I don’t understand why it didn’t work out that way. The entire 'False Smiles' album is great too, she had the whole package. I love this kind of coming-of-age movie music video too.





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No!

I was hoping for a lowkey underdog triumph for Amy into the top 10 here. Misfit just really ticks all the right boxes for me. It's like that perfect coming-of-age film soundtrack. I do actually prefer Under the Thumb, but that entire album is just so good. Any of those singles would have been my 11, maybe except for that ill-fated cover of Sheryl Crow's All I Wanna Do.

And yessss, Ladder In My Tights was such a missed opportunity as single #4. Judging by those streaming numbers, I think that would have saved her career.

In recent times, she's actually been writing and providing backing vocals for the upcoming Foxes' album.

(Her second album My Paper Made Men is absolutely gorgeous too btw)


 
DJHazey

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The big Breakaway singles haven't really aged well for me, it's nothing personal against anyone's favorite. I used to be obsessed with the songs but not so much in 2021.
 
pop3blow2

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Verandi said:
Breakaway (song) has one of the worst mixing jobs in the history of pop music.
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This is so true. The end of the song, (from the bridge) is especially awful.

It reminds me of another 2004 song I love that I've said is possibly the worst mixed song of the 00s: Hilary's 'Fly'.

I love both 'Breakaway' & 'Fly' so much I try to listen past the mixing, but it is rough. It doesn't help that around that time I was in a record production class... so my ears were more tuned that kinda of stuff more than normal. It's like a cat walked across the board, murdered the EQ, & everyone was just like, 'whatevs!'

I envision this:



The even funnier thing is that, in general I absolutely love John Shanks production (he's one of my fave producers).... and he did both of those songs! We all have off days, I guess. ddd
 
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Verandi

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pop3blow2 said:
It reminds me of another 2004 song I love that I've said is possibly the worst mixed song on the 00s: Hilary's 'Fly'.
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The "Fly" intro having that random hiss/whistle that shatters your eardrums every time you listen with headphones? That was a classic, that was a classic.



At least both songs sound more professionally mixed than whatever Kylie gave us on her last two albums *eyes emoji*
 
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slaybellz

slaybellz

#28

Fefe Dobson - Take Me Away

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8/24

Score: 8.097

My Score: 10
Highest: 10 x 7 (@Sprockrooster, @Daniel_O, @Ana Raquel, @ohnostalgia, @Epic Chocolat, @Music Is Death)
Lowest: 5 x 1 (@LKane) 5.5 x 1 (@Verandi)

Take Me Away was the second single off Fefe's self titled debut album. It was released in 2003 and charted at #20 in Canada. It was also her first international single and her only single to date to chart on Billboard's Hot 100 in the US, where it peaked at #87.

This song and Fefe Dobson in general meant a lot to me as a kid. As a young black girl who was slowly getting into Rock music but felt like I wasn't supposed to be, seeing someone on TV that looked like me rocking out was very affirming. In a recent interview with NYLON Fefe talked about what it was like being a black girl in a genre that was largely dominated by white women:

"When I had first come out, they'd see me and they'd be like, "Okay, we get it. Brandy Spears" because her voice is pop, but she's Black. It was very weird. ... My manager got questions all the time like, "Do you really think this Black girl is going to do pop-rock and this will work?" It's insanity. That's an insane question, first of all. ... I've had a lot of young and older Black kids, Black women and Black men tell me how much I've impacted them. When they tell me, it's a blessing."


@livefrommelbs (8) - I like the bones on this one, but it just lacks the oomph I like from my 00s pop-rock!

@Memoria (9) - Feeling really ancient right now as I remember first hearing this song when trying to download 'Take Me Away' from the Freaky Friday soundtrack from an unnamed peer-to-peer file sharing program. Not a bad thing, since this song is much better.

@berserkboi (9) - Wow, this aged well! I don’t think I gave this such a high score last time I rated it!

@DJHazey (9) - What a fierce manner in which to say hello to the music world huh? If Paramore had released this, it would’ve been triple platinum.

@Sprockrooster (10) - I expect this to do very well, as this is poprock by the numbers.

@Epic Chocolat (10) - As enjoyable as ever. First song I heard of her, very good first impression.





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berserkboi

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How sad to hear about the shit takes Fefe had to put up with from the Music Industry! Glad she persevered and achieved what she did! Take Me Away really grew on me by the time I rated it here - would have been happy with it outlasting more songs.

Breakaway needs to go now, the weakest from Kelly’s section by a bit!
 
slaybellz

slaybellz

ohnostalgia said:
But Breakaway is the only song to have a demo version and an official release from two artists in this rate. (I think anyways, because Chantal and Avril usually co-wrote together). I don’t hear what the haterz are hearing.

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Omg at them changing the lyric from "snow" to "rain" at the beginning. Just taking the Canadian vibes right out.

Also yes at that Free Winona shirt. Queen!
 
slaybellz

slaybellz

#27

KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See

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2/5

Score: 8.139

My Score: 7.5
Highest: 10 x 6 (@soratami, @berserkboi, @DJHazey, @saviodxl, @Slice of Life, @phily693)
Lowest: 2 x 1 (@Conan) 3 x 1 (@Daniel_O)

Suddenly I See was KT's third single from her debut album Eye to the Telescope. It was released in 2005 and charted at #12 in the UK.

KT Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter. Her debut was an international success, and became the 50th best-selling album of the 2000s decade in the UK, going five times platinum.


@Memoria (7.5) - Pleasant enough, but the real gem of her discography is Black Horse & the Cherry Tree.

@livefrommelbs (7.5) - Overplayed to the point of irritation, but it was still a moment when it came out. Just ask every female protagonist in every noughties rom-com.

@Sprockrooster (9) - A modern classic.

@berserkboi (10) - An absolute classic I always wanted to rate, thanks @slaybellz!

@DJHazey (10) - The ‘long forgotten gem’ of the rate for moi. When it first came on shuffle, I was thinking “wait a damn minute, that’s who sings this!?” I’ve seen her name before but for some reason I thought she was an artist from decades before or something. A mess I know, probably just got her name mixed up with someone else. Anyhow, the way I never knew this was a hit song nor did I ever even know what she was singing in the chorus for the longest time. I swear she came to some local festival a long time ago and played when I was a teenager and that’s how I first heard it. I don’t even think it was from the radio. Anyways, I’m rambling, it’s an underdog to root for amidst the skyscrapers.





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