The Sugababes Discography Rate

beyoncésweave

beyoncésweave

beyoncésweave said:
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So in my hurry to close off voting, I forgot to count myself, kii. Anyway, small amendment:

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Come thru @Uno sis!

Can I just say how thrilled I am that so many of voters turned out? I expected this to be a big rate, but honestly didn't think a defunct and seemingly intermittently loved girlband could attract as many voters as this. For comparison, I think the Beyoncé rate, for an artist at peak popularity and domination, had something like 80 voters (is that correct, @RJF?). There was a point at which even the forum record could have been broken, (if some Lying Cheating C*nts had not betrayed me), but even then, I think this might be the biggest girlband rate ever on Popjustice? (@P'NutButter, I think the Girls Aloud rate had 75 voters?).

An extra special thank you to the many hunties who got on board the Sugatrain with its vast and dense discography specifically for this rate. It is definitely a huge undertaking, particularly if you've lived outside of Europe/Asia/Oceania and have not even had cultural familiarity with them. It means a great deal to me. I hope this rate has been worth it so far, and will remain so as we get things rolling.
 
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AllSixSugababes

AllSixSugababes

Gave Miss Everything a 4 and She's a mess a 7.

Both would be much more enjoyable without that stupid autotune and Miss Everything without Sean Kingston but rather the Babes themselves doing the chorus
 
londonrain

londonrain

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I genuinely don't understand the vocoder being chucked at their voices to this level. 4.0 actually all had pretty good vocals (even if some people don't like the timbre of one or more members' voices) and processing the vocals until they sounded like T-Pain was going to make them sound dated even in 2010. What was the point?!
 
beyoncésweave

beyoncésweave

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Give It To Me Now
Average:4.042
Highest: 10 x 1 (@Blayke)
Lowest: 0 x 4 (@AlexD, @marie_05, @Black Topanga, @Consideration)
My score: 3/10
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We break the 4/10 barrier, with this slice of … nothing. This is just forgettable 2009 dross, isn’t it? Jade leads a fairly repetitive chorus, Amelle some weird post-chorus rap thing, with an occasional “shout!” and some radio transistor voiceover as a middle-eight and they all sound totally over it. It’s just a total by-the-numbers affair. I suppose it’s an achievement that it’s just a totally forgettable song, as opposed to an unlistenable and offensive wreck. But yeah, this was scraping the bottom of the Roc Nation barrel with particular vigour.

Let’s get the tasteless out the way first. tylerc904 hands his third consecutive 7.5+ score for something he finds “Throwaway and basic”. Blayke proudly displays to the world just how low his bar is by throwing this a 10 and deeming it “a very good effort from 4.0. Jade sounds amazing on this and the harmonies during the pre-chorus sound incredible. It reminds me of a diet-Pussycat Dolls song. This is a very good thing. Amelle’s lines aren’t unbearable on this song (for once).” I’m trying to imagine what the diet Pussycat Dolls look and sound like but am failing; Mr.Arroz help me out plz.

Sprockrooster (4) gets insistent “Don't bother, cause I DON'T WANT this”. This might not be the best time to tell them that I’ve had Lemonade playing in the background as I write this (what, you thought I’d listen to “Give It To Me Now”?) PCDPG (3.5) thinks that “This song feels like a filler and the chorus is too childish.” Speaking of filler, here’s Filler (6) who finds it “Not as cringeworthy as I remembered. Would have been a passable Change-era B-side.” Spoiler alert: the Change-era B-Sides did not … do so well. Londonrain (5.5) tries to rationalise the song, “If you remove the ghastly spoken bit and the monotonous "give it to me now" bit, it's otherwise okay.” But what else is left afterwards, precious?

“No, no, KEEP IT AWAY FROM ME NOW,” laughs Ironheade (1), “Uh… I guess it's a bit different from the preceding tracks? But I think that's only because nobody else was stupid enough to come up with these ear-piercing low-end synth horns and process them into weird flatulent noise. The drumbeat is so flat-sounding and stock that it becomes actively unpleasant, and those synth tones are drilling my skull by this point. "Syience" produced this, eh? Mad syientists, I'm guessing. Not to mention we've got more lashings of a grotty and insincere-sounding Amelle, desperately trying to be a type of singer that she simply isn't as the other two fail to make any sort of an impact. Where is the hard-edged belter who so lightened Catfights and Spotlights? Would the real Amelle Berrabah please stand up?” Acl (6) gets his jollies but still hates Amelle, “This is refreshing, I like the jolly beats. Amelle is spoiling it though. I’m finding her really annoying, I assume because I just listened to She’s A Mess.”

DJHazey (4) gets pensive by a cliff, “’Oh my love, love, love, love...’ like Jade is falling off a cliff as she struggles to get the words out. I bet some of you wouldn't throw her a rope as she starts her descent. We've had our share of cringy moments, but this is just plain boring and a tad less offensive for a change...” Little does he know that Jade is actually an accomplished diver and that she don’t need your rope to survive (kii at the pocket-sized gay diver whose name I forget’s cameo). CasuallyCrazed (2) notices how “The chorus is literally one note repeated over and over again. Horrendous.” Mina (3) also finds it “Blah”.

Chanex (4) falls under the evil voodoo tricksies of the album, “Why do I feel like it's not that bad? Sweet 7 is corrupting my brain and making me judge some shit as being superior to other shit. So ok, not horrific but certainly not memorable or interesting.” Constantino (6) seems to have fallen into a similar relativist trap, “This is far from the worst on the album…but it’s still pretty bad. Although I do quite like the production.” When you set the bar on the ground, even the dust that settles on it would appear laudatory, I guess.

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Solenciennes

Solenciennes

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Give It To Me sounds like a rip off of Wait A Minute by PCD. It also reminds me somewhat of one of 2.0's B sides that's in this rate, can't remember the name right now but it's the one with the hook "get up get up and jerk that body".

I can't believe my 0 has outlasted three whole songs so far. Shocking.
 
londonrain

londonrain

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beyoncésweave said:
Londonrain (5.5) tries to rationalise the song, “If you remove the ghastly spoken bit and the monotonous "give it to me now" bit, it's otherwise okay.” But what else is left afterwards, precious?
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Er... fair point.

beyoncésweave said:
Little does he know that Jade is actually an accomplished diver and that she don’t need your ripe to survive (kii at the pocket-sized gay diver whose name I forget’s cameo).
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Tom Daley was the best thing about that awful show. Case in point, the shamelessness of this:

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Solenciennes said:
Give It To Me sounds like a rip off of Wait A Minute by PCD. It also reminds me somewhat of one of 2.0's B sides that's in this rate, can't remember the name right now but it's the one with the hook "get up get up and jerk that body".
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"Future Shokk"? That needs to go soon (once we've got rid of Sweet & Amazing).
 
Ironheade

Ironheade

I don't even know what's going on with Jade's... garment on that single cover.

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It also reminds me somewhat of one of 2.0's B sides that's in this rate, can't remember the name right now but it's the one with the hook "get up get up and jerk that body".
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That'd be "Future Shokk". Which is not that good, but is at least interesting, unlike this.
 
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Give It To Me Now is so bland, one of my least favourites on Sweet 7.
 
Uno

Uno

I just realized the score I gave Situation's Heavy and I'm CRINGING. I'm not sure if I was drunk or what, but I regret it.

(It's less than 5.)
 
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