"Florence Arnold (born 28 December 1988), better known by her stage name Florrie, is an English singer, songwriter, drummer and model. Closely associated with the Xenomania production house, since joining as their in-house drummer in 2008 she has played live and on record for popular artists such as Kylie Minogue, Girls Aloud and the Pet Shop Boys.In 2010, she began a solo career." Let's rate that solo career, shall we? What's funny is that when signing up to do that rate, I wasn't really sure where we'd be with Florrie's music and I foolishly thought I'd be faced with a pickle as to how songs from her first three (rather brilliant) EPs would face off against the wealth of new material I assumed we'd have by this point. And so I guess it's something of a happy accident that Florrie's series of delays and "SOON"s have left the selection process for this long-awaited rate rather simple, all in all. The concept of the rate, like any Popjustice rate, is rather simple; rate each song on a scale of 0-10 with zero representing the absolute worst of the bunch and ten the best (half-points are, of course, permitted as always). When you've rated each song accordingly, you simply send your scores into my inbox. Let's see what songs we shall be rating, shall we? The 'Introductions' EP Call of the Wild Give Me Your Love Summer Nights Left Too Late The 'Experiments' EP Speed of Light Experimenting with Rugs What You Doing This For? I Took a Little Something Begging Me She Always Gets What She Wants The 'Late' EP Shot You Down I'm Gonna Get You Back Every Inch To The End Also, in the running for the competition will be 2013's sole Florrie release, in the form of "promo single" 'Live a Little'. My inbox shall remain open until midnight next sunday GMT - 1/12/13 23:59. Happy voting!
Re: The Florrie Rate Just for some clarification - since this will be my first Popjustice rate - we are to rate each song relative to the rest of Florrie's discography, correct? For instance, would I give my least favourite of her songs a 0, even if I would consider it a 6/10 song in general?
Re: The Florrie Rate The way I personally tackle the rating system (and the way I assume most posters follow) is by simply taking the so in question at face value and scoring it accordingly. For example in the case you mentioned, the song would receive the six you think it deserves.
Re: The Florrie Rate Great, that makes sense. It wouldn't feel right giving an otherwise-decent song such a dire rating. Thank you!
Re: The Florrie Rate I think the problem with these rates is that different posters rate in both the ways mentioned. Take the ABBA rate for instance. I know at least one other poster who rated their least favourite song a 0 and their favourite a 10, with all the others coming somewhere in between. On the other hand I don't think I rated anything below a 3 as even their worst songs for me aren't zeros. The problem then becomes that my least favourites are never going to score as badly as that particular poster's, which means it isn't a level playing field. In that sense, I think I may alter the way I score songs to level things out a bit... Anyway, I'll definitely be taking part in this as Florrie is aceness.
