I figured that was what you meant in the pm once you posted that write-up.
◢ ◤ The Avicii Discography Rate ◢ ◤ WINNER!
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Yes!
(And in case you were wondering, had you switched your 11 to the other song you were considering, the outcome for either wouldn't have changed.)
Well, that's comforting. I still wonder if I gave my 11 to the right song but it's irrelevant now dddd.
He/Him
Seek Bromance has done really well to get this far. Wasn't expecting that at all!
But how much longer can it hang on?
londonrain
Staff member
I cannot at @berserkboi clogging up this thread with his constant complaining about this song, only to have given it a score which isn’t low even by his standards.
A “Vision of Love in the ’90s rate” tea.
A “Vision of Love in the ’90s rate” tea.
What a convenient and timely lead-in to this next elimination!
I will give to you the love you seek and more
(so what are you waiting for?)
I will give to you the love you seek and more
#13
Seek Bromance
Average: 7.959
Standard Deviation: 1.975
High Scorers: 10x5 (@HarryEzra, @Sprockrooster, @Blond, @Petit nain des Îles, @AshtrayHeart)
Low Scorers: 3x1 (@Eric), 5.5x1 (@Oleander), 6x5 (@Empty Shoebox, @Raichu, @Filippa, @WowWowWowWow, @Mina)
(so what are you waiting for?)
I will give to you the love you seek and more
#13
Seek Bromance
Average: 7.959
Standard Deviation: 1.975
High Scorers: 10x5 (@HarryEzra, @Sprockrooster, @Blond, @Petit nain des Îles, @AshtrayHeart)
Low Scorers: 3x1 (@Eric), 5.5x1 (@Oleander), 6x5 (@Empty Shoebox, @Raichu, @Filippa, @WowWowWowWow, @Mina)
While I left a lot of early Avicii songs out of the rate (mostly for being instrumentals only - Heart Upon My Sleeve’s success in this rate came as a pleasant surprise!), the earliest career representation I included was the 2010 release Seek Bromance. As previously spotlighted, Seek Bromance started out as an instrumental track called Bromance:
Later, vocals were sampled from a Samuele Sartini song called Love U Seek performed by Amanda Wilson and incorporated with the instrumental version to create Seek Bromance. This led to a dissonance between the song and the instrumental, as some of y’all pointed out in your commentary. I gave this song a 6, and I think it should have left somewhere between #25-#35. It’s not a discography standout of Avicii’s to me at all. Some of you agreed:
@Eric (3) - I feel really bad giving such a low score, but the vocal and video (and the disconnect between the lyrics and the video!) just grate so much. It only scored 3 due to the instrumental.
@Empty Shoebox (6) - This is all right for an early career record, but compared to the rest of the output, it's not brilliant.
@Filippa (6) - I like the video and its interpretation. The song is nice but I neither like the vocals nor the melody much.
@WowWowWowWow (6) - I love Amanda Wilson and all, but not every song needs a vocal version!! Particularly if the vocal wasn't even written for the instrumental to begin with.
@berserkboi (7.2) Good beat and worthy début of the list but still on the faceless side
There were a few strong proponents of this track, though:
@LiK (9.5) - First heard this song at my first rave I ever attended it always takes me back. This is in his top 3 best melodies ever... Amazing song.
@phily693 (10) - Still a total bop!
@Sprockrooster (10) - I remember this coming out and literally OWNING the entire summer. A true moment to go back to as it was one of the best summers ever; simply because our personal lives lined up perfectly to have lots of time. Now some of my friends have children and understandably there is less time. It was good to have those times! And I love how that feeling of joy and friendship is captured in less than 4 minutes. I guess that is what music can do. And that is exactly what Tim did.
@Blond (10) - This was my introduction to Avicii and I think at the time I only knew him as Tim Berg. I used to go clubbing in Liverpool a lot and this was always the type of the music that they would play there, and this song got a huge amount of attention. Before this song I didn’t actively listen to dance music “in my own time”, only when we were all getting ready to go out. But I really fell in love with this song and it definitely opened me up to a whole new genre.
Official Music Video:
Next up: we won’t get to the top 10 without losing at least one more 11.
he/him
Amanda Wilson, queen of taking other songs and shoving them into club songs. Talent! Coco Star found needing a miracle!
Also, let the record show that Seek Bromance was @berserkboi 's lowest score of the entire rate, though he didn't call for its elimination once until after I finally eliminated poor Rapture.
You just jinxed it
Happy to see Seek Bromance did so well. It made me an avicii fan and I echo the sentiments shared @Sprockrooster
londonrain
Staff member
I’m sad that Rapture didn’t make it in to the Top 10 as I think it’s brilliantly produced. But I’m not surprised as it seemed to be getting called out as overstaying it’s welcome more than it should’ve.
I had no idea the singer from Seek Bromance was also the vocalist that brought us this bop back in 2005:
I had no idea the singer from Seek Bromance was also the vocalist that brought us this bop back in 2005:
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Don't feel guilty! I wish I had given Seek Bromance a lower score in retrospect. (I still have a 3 and a 4 left in the running.)
he/him
I know it’s because it’s a mashup of the two song titles but “Seek Bromance” has to be one of the dumbest song titles I’ve ever heard in my life.
Somebody might argue that some Madonna stans approached this rate like vultures but what do I know.