Early 2000s Rock Chicks Rate

slaybellz

slaybellz

#5

Stacie Orrico - (There's Gotta Be) More To Life

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2/24

Score: 9.321

My Score: 8.5
Highest: 11 x 3 (@unnameable, @Slice of Life, @londonrain) 10 x 14 (@Sprockrooster, @Phonetics Girl, @soratami, @livefrommelbs, @yeRleDanaL, @2014, @Daniel_O, @Conan, @Robsolete, @AlmostFamous, @phily693, @Memoria, @Guy, @Music Is Death)
Lowest: 7 x 1 (@Ana Raquel) 7.5 x 1 (@Hurricane Drunk)

(There's Gotta Be) More To Life was the second single from Stacie's self-titled second album. It was released in 2003 and charted at #30 in the US. The song was also an international success, going Top 15 in several other countries.


@berserkboi (9.5) - LOL - Most vetoed track in PJ00s History? Peut-etre!

@saviodxl (8.3) - Now I see where Natasha Bedingfield got the inspiration from to create Pocketful Of Sunshine.

@Epic Chocolat (8.5) - Classic crossover christian pop hit.

@DJHazey (9.75) - I vividly remember how this video was always passed around Popjustice at random moments of ‘insert a catchy Youtube reply’ when I first began my tour on this forum and one day I actually clicked on it. That was a great day.

@livefrommelbs (10) - An all-time classic. Stacie sings the hell out of it and the whole thing just as such power and emotion. Flashbacks to me lying in bed listening to this crying because my Habbo Hotel account got hacked and I lost my rare furniture.

@Sprockrooster (10) - No Christian has gotten into my spirit as much as miss Orrico. Yes, we do preach the holy book of both Britt Nicole as Carrie Underwood as well, but it is this very track that is the gospel I find faith in.

@Memoria (10) - Everyone in my year group at school loved Stacie Orrico regardless of what music they'd typically listen to. A transcendent anthem.

@unnameable (11) - Stacie is a Christian artist. I find a certain joy in a song protesting the emptiness of material things that has the format of a top 40 radio pop song, which is often regarded as the most disposable type of music possible. Stacie – shaking your world view one song at a time.






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#4

Alanis Morissette - Hands Clean

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1/24

Score: 9.451

My Score: 10
Highest: 11 x 3 (@fatyoshi, @Robsolete, @aux) 10 x 18 (@Sprockrooster, @theincredibleflipper, @soratami, @livefrommelbs, @yeRleDanaL, @berserkboi, @2014, @Daniel_O, @saviodxl, @Blond, @Hurricane Drunk, @ohnostalgia, @AlmostFamous, @Verandi, @phily693, @LKane, @Guy)
Lowest: 6 x 1 (@Ana Raquel) 7 x 1 (@Slice of Life) 7.5 x 1 (@Phonetics Girl)

Hands Clean was the lead single from Alanis' fifth studio album Under Rug Swept. It was released in 2002 and went #1 in Canada.

Alanis wrote and produced the song herself. The lyrics talk about a predatory affair she had with a much older man when she only 14 years old. In a 2004 interview for Q Magazine, she said this about the song:

"The grudge I hold is against myself for having been quiet for so long [...] I've covered his ass for so many years. So now it's almost like ... I wanted to liberate myself from not beating myself up any longer. It's almost irrespective of his involvement now; it's more about me and my relationship with my own past."


@Memoria (9) - "Fast forward to a few years later" (2 decades) and I still have no idea what she's saying in the verses. It could be messy, but I don't seem to mind since the melody is great.

@DJHazey (9.75) - "oooooo" hold on, we’re about to lose our wigs. Often tagged as her best song. You won't find too many valid arguments against that opinion.

@Sprockrooster (10) - Sometimes I feel like Alanis’ early 00’s material might be better than her late 90’s material (which is excellent – do not quote me) and that is fuelled by this masterpiece. A perfect slice of singalong poprock that lifts your spirits. In my poprock rate it did not even reach the top 10, which I consider an injustice. Let’s right this wrong.

@livefrommelbs (10) - My all-time fave Alanis song! Such an incredible chorus, and a proper story in the lyrics.

@berserkboi (10) - Slay with your storytelling, Alanis!! SLAY!!!

@saviodxl (10) - Whoever that person is that washed their hands clean of this and requested silence, I'm glad they've been exposed in this song.





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Robsolete

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slaybellz said:
Highest: 11 x 3 (@fatyoshi, @Robsolete, @aux) 10 x 18 (@Sprockrooster, @theincredibleflipper, @soratami, @livefrommelbs, @yeRleDanaL, @berserkboi, @2014, @Daniel_O, @saviodxl, @Blond, @Hurricane Drunk, @ohnostalgia, @AlmostFamous, @Verandi, @phily693, @LKane, @Guy)
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Clean and pristine.

slaybellz said:
Lowest: 6 x 1 (@Ana Raquel) 7 x 1 (@Slice of Life) 7.5 x 1 (@Phonetics Girl)
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Filth and scum.

In a career littered with amazing song after amazing song, Hands Clean is her masterpiece.
 
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