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And the last song to miss the Top 70 is...
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SUPERREVIVE: @Salami
HIGH: (10) @Salami, @tj-x, @boom bazooka joe, @RUNAWAY, @lovechoerrymotion, @thommyh, @Music Is Life & Death, @Oleander (9.5) @aux (9.25) @Macsun (9) @Remorque, @Joli Chat, @junglefish, @Sanctuary, @Trinu 3.0, @leedlelee..., @TéléDex, @GeiPanda, @Vixen
LOW: (2) @eatyourself (4) @ysev, @Attis
MY SCORE: 7
LEADERBOARD JOURNEY:
10 voters: 93
20 voters: 85
30 voters: 84
40 voters: 82
50 voters: 73
60 voters: 70
62 voters: 71It's time, my dear @Salami. Tonight, we say goodbye to our first Taeyeon song, Can't Control Myself.
Can't Control Myself is taken from Taeyeon's third studio album, INVU. It served as the album's pre-release single. It was written by Taeyeon with Moon Seol-ri and composed by Celine Svanbackm Kauritz Emil Christiansen, Mich Hansen, Jacob Ubizz and Ryan Jhun. Of course, Can't Control Myself was a hit, peaking at number 8 on the Circle Digital Chart. Taeyeon's power!
Can't Control Myself was Taeyeon's follow-up to the Doja Cat-aping bop that is Weekend and on my first listen, it truly sounded like a major letdown. Girl, this is not how you follow up such a bop! No but I'm actually not disappointed that Can't Control Myself is not a bop. I have a lot of love for Taeyeon's ballads/midtempos (U R and Drawing Our Moments are two of my most favourite Taeyeon songs ever!) but there's just something about Can't Control Myself that didn't land for me. It's really just... a bore. The hook "cause I can't control myself, oh oh, oh oh," while catchy, just did not do it for me.
I promised @Salami I'll give Can't Control Myself a chance to grow on me and it actually did... sort of. I now recognize that Can't Control Myself is quite refreshing coming from Taeyeon considering it doesn't really sound like any of her past singles. And Taeyeon really is a gifted vocalist and she sounds marvelous in Can't Control Myself, like she always does. Still, I just couldn't give Can't Control Myself a higher score especially if we compare it to her other competing song, the mammoth that is INVU.
Comments time! Lowest scorer eatyourself can finally breathe a sigh of relief as he has finally successfully killed Can't Control Myself: "What sort of Dido adjacent P!nk cosplay is this?" Attis disrespects Taeyeon omfg???: "This gayle ass song." Take this back! And codecat is sick of Taeyeon's Christian rock agenda: "This song is kinda a struggle to get through why do we always have to rate some sort of Christian rock adjacent music from Taeyeon every year." Did someone say Christian rock adjacent music? Stream Stacie Orrico's music today!
"Points for deviating from her usual sound," Wills prefaces. "But there isn't much here to return to." I think vague is just whelmed: "it's nice. not her best, but far from her worst." And bbynewyear baits the BLACKPINK haters: "Perfectly normal? It makes me want to listen to Rosé's 'On The Ground' instead..." Pleek! Us Blinks do not need new enemies especially now that Jisoo's solo is just around the corner!
soratami describes Can't Control Myself as: "A little something for the Avril Lavigne stans." Oh, it's for @eliminathan then! Joli Chat loves a good acoustic moment: "Miss TaeYeon giving us acoustic in a sea of drops, amazing." ohnostalgia suffers trauma... thanks to me?: "Finding out @Slice of Life was not a fan was a very challenging ten minutes of my life." I will not take slander from a Fine hater!
boom bazooka joe gives love to the music video: "A stunning song and a STUNNING video. Her Amelie-era." Agreed, I would actually love for Taeyeon to take on acting! aux celebrates Taeyeon's great guitar-driven songs: "This is such a perfect song for Taeyeon. I love how it ramps up out of nowhere. I really like the guitar-driven songs that she has in her discography, now that I think of it. The chorus is such an earworm."
Of course, I have to give the final word to the number 1 Can't Control Myself stan, Salami!: "Nearly a year old and I'm not bored of it. I know it's not the most exciting song, but Taeyeon can sing anything and make it work. Is there a more versatile Kpop star than her? I don't think there is. It's a nice pop rock ballad, she sounds fantastic in it and the way it goes off at the end...2023 really brought out the SNSD fanboy in me."
I'm surprised it made it this far with how much it was being called out from the start. A win in my books! Godspeed.
