I literally can not with you people, what the fuck...
#41 (Tie Part 2) - Stay: 7.33
(created by Suburbia)
Highest: 1x11 (@Mirwais Ahmadzaï) 2x10s (Me @AbCF15) 2x9s (@Sprocky's BF @Remorque) <- Taste I love you.
Lowest: 1x2 (@phily693) 1x3 (@Ana Raquel) 1x4 (@iheartpoptarts) <- I love you all but WORMS FOR BRAINS.
My Score: 10
Favorite Lyric: Usually when I don't put something here, it's because there's just nothing that grabs me, but with this song, I literally just can't choose. I love every single second of it. I'm so mad at you guys.
Trajectory
5 Voters: #62
10 Voters: #56
15 Voters: #56
19 Voters: #41
Total Points: 139.25
Stay was written by Miley and John Shanks, and produced by John, for Miley's third album Can't Be Tamed. Starting off as a piano ballad, it builds into a more arena ready, elecronic ballad with drums, and synth handclaps, giving it a more anthemic feel production wise, with Miley's intimate, captivating, and heartbreaking vocals expressing how hard it is to be in a long distance relationship. I'm so pissed. Of all the songs from the album - of all the songs
left -
this is what you decide to kick out right before the top 40? I can't fucking deal with the balladphopia. The song is a lyrical and musicl masterpiece, simple, but perfect. Miley sounds
amazing, and she makes me wanna cry every single time I listen to this. It was
this close to being my 11 - it was down to this and Who Owns My Heart - and now I wish I went with this just to give it a better fate! UGH! The song is very clearly about Liam, and the struggle of dating him while they were both busy with their careers, probably ending it at some point because of that, despite still loving each other. Honestly, it's so sad to think about, I can't. The song was only performed on the Gypsy Heart Tour once, in San Jose. Anyway, personal story time: When I was 15 and finishing up my sophomore year of high school, my friend had me start talking to an online friend of her's, because he was curious and confused about his own sexuality. She showed me a picture of him and I thought he as really cute, so I was like Yeah I'll help him, and maybe something will come of it. So I started talking to him that day on Facebook, and we started with a bit of small talk, but eventually I asked him why he was curious, and we just kept talking about it, and me, being a very ballsy almost 16 year-old, suggested that onve we get to know each other more, we could start dating, and he said he would like that. I was over the moon, because this is the first guy I felt I had a chance with - I had recently gotten over my first real gay crush - and I was hoping for more. We continued talking, and a couple days later I realized I didn't actually know where he was from - I figured around my area, since he was friends with one of mine - but when I asked him he revealed he acutally lived in Nicaragua - which, if you don't know, is a tiny country in Central America, aprroximately 3,000 miles away from me. I decided to not let this be a deal breaker for me. I figured could still work out right? So we kept talking, and about two weeks after we met, about midnight on June 14th, we officially started dating. Even though we had only ever texted on Facebook, it felt like something to me. And it continued to. We never got past that level of communication, but most of the time, it was enough for me. We continued to be together, talking as often as possible, and being very very dorky in our messages - there were a
lot of cutesy sticker exchanges - and by the time my 16th birthday rolled around, I was completely smitten with him. We talked about any and everything that we thought of, and it wasn't long before I realized I had fallen in love with him. And yes, I
did love
him, and who
he was, not some image of him in my head, depsite the distance/communication barriers. He spoke English fluently so that was never an issue, and I had taken it upon me to learn more Spanish so I could talk to him in his first language. Eventually I even told him about my struggle with mental health, which I'm always scared to tell anyone, and everything he told me afterwards just made me love him more. We had hoped to make it so he could visit me, but there were a lot of issues - hopefully by the time my junior prom rolled around so we could go together, but it never worked out and I ended up going alone. Now, if you had asked me about it, I would've said I was fine. But I wasn't. The cracks in us we're starting to show, but I did evrything I could to cover them, because at this point I was scared to lose him. So I stayed, and I fell deeper, even as we fell apart. Eventually I realized that it just wouldn't work anymore, and I felt like he wanted to, but couldn't end it, so I did. He didn't seem to handle it well at first, but I think that was more for my sake then anything else. But I knew it was better for both of us. We were together from June 14, 2016-January 11, 2018. A year and a half. He was my first boyfriend, and the first person I had ever fallen in love with. We stopped talking for a while after that, but eventually we started again, just to see how the other was doing. He had also become really close with my closest, oldest friend, and it was clear they were interested in each other, so I gave them both the go-ahead. This is quite a while later and I had extremely moved on. But he revealed to her that what he and I had was a once-in-a-lifetime thing, and while he had loved me, he would never date another guy, and this confirmed the suspicions I had gathered in my head that he was more straight then bisexual, which is what we both assumed. While I wish things had gone differently, I'm glad I had been able to share that experience with him, and help clear his confusions up. So, even though we never "met", he could never "come back home" because he had never been here, but I relate to this song on such a deeply personal level, and I can't believe you heathens kicked it out befoe top 40/30/20/10. Tasteless. Critics didn't have much or anything important to say about the song, so I'm just going to give the floor to y'all.
All of our commentators at least liked the song, so I don't have to go on a rampage, even though you didn't give me much to work with.
@M24 (7.7) makes me suspicious, but with that score I'll let it slide:
Cute ballad. Can't say much more than that. That seems just a little
too shady, but I'll leave you alone. For now.
@pop3blow2 (8.8) has perfect ears:
Very heartfelt vocal. Really like the production here, too. I can always trust your taste. I hope
@savilizabeths (8) is upset about this, since it's one of the few songs she actually likes from the album:
Very very pretty. We love a good piano moment. Yes. Yes we do. Well
most of us anyway. Since
@Mirwais Ahmadzaï didn't submit any commentary, I'll close out with
@DJHazey (8.5) who thankfully saw the light:
Definitely a song I haven't listened to once since the last time it was in a rate. Not sure why as it's not that bad, even if the catchiness is very subtle. I was probably like "oh slow song, see ya!" but I've grown a bit as a music fan. I'm going to make sure this gets alot more plays in the future. It did right? Please tell me it did.
Y'all don't deserve her:
The song live:
A couple of my favorites with similar lyrical themes
This was mine and his song:
And this one really helped get me to make the decision to end it:
The talent in this post, holy shit.