#Ballad Ballin'

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

Hey I hope your Saturday is ballin

Can I get a uh

"Cheese, my brother in chaos, that will fucking kill you"

"what do you m e e e a a a a n dood?"

& "Plenty of folk songs are ballads of them who fuck’t ‘round an’ found out"

(context for the top one btw is my friend wanted to eat 16 One Chip Challenge chips at the same time. Because y'know. That's a normal human want I guess?)

what the fresh fuck is the one chip challenge

is the chip like. spicy?

Askbox is currently closed as I work my way through these older asks

[60vocals]

Pheelz • Ballin

Producer and singer-songwriter, Pheelz released a debut song titled ‘Ballin’ The superb record producer, Pheelz surfaces in the mainstream again with this ballad-record, after his previous collaboration with Davido. Moreover, this comes in as Pheelz’s second official installment for the year already wrapping up so far. Finally, recall that Pheelz made it to Barrack Obama’s 2022 summer playlist…

[saltpepperbeard]

So I just finished the Worldbuilding/Lore Chapters™, and of COURSE I HAVE THOUGHTS/OPINIONS, SO HERE’S MY CHAOTIC TAKE-

First of all, Tigris being Snow’s cousin. Oh my LORD. Didn’t expect it, and it REALLY makes Tigris’ presence in Mockingjay hit different. AND IT ALSO MAKES ME EAGER TO SEE WHY THEY TURN AGAINST EACH OTHER.

The Snow House being poor was also something I did not expect at ALL. I was out here expecting Snow to live in a house of elite status. Which he DID SEEM TO HAVE. and then everything changed when the Fire Nation Attacked. But it was so so crazy to read. And now I know where all the DAMN CABBAGES ARE COMING FROM JDKLSJDLS.

Going off of that, the way his experiences parallel Katniss’/D12 is just...B R U H. Dying of starvation, performing illegalities to feed their families, partaking in Black Markets to attempt to make a living. I could not. I COULD. N O T.

“When Coriolanus is president” I HOLLERED???

The Reaping taking place on July 4th aka the US’ Independence Day ALSO MADE ME HOLLER. LIKE SUZANNE PLEASE WITH THAT STRONG IRONY

To quote my notes exactly, ���The bitch already out here wearing roses omg.” Like I love that they’re his family’s symbol of status, particularly his Grandmother’s.

Seeing the Capitol citizens acting a little more human and not so like...COOKIE CUTTER POMPOUS HEARTLESS ROBOTS is absolutely insane. Like, to see them being IFFY with the Hunger Games/its brutality, and to see them still suffering the effects of the war? Like...they really out here SELF-MEDICATING??? But then also classism is still very much present/they all view the Districts to be scum to varying degrees. Very very interesting to see this perspective imo.

And going off of THAT...The contrast between these Games and the Games we’re familiar with had me REELING. Like they were treated like ANIMALS here, ie the boxcars, the zoo setting, etc. And so I was sitting here like damn, the Capitol really made them into celebrities/made them luxurious to make them more relatable to the Capitol Citizens and make the games more appealing. THEY WERE REALLY OUT HERE TRYING TO GET BETTER RATINGS ON THEIR PRIME TIME SHOW FJKSLDS

And finding out the Hunger Games was named for the Districts trying to starve the Capitol, only for the Capitol to retaliate with the Games. Suzanne really had me INHALING SHARPLY/GOING ON FACE JOURNEYS WITH ALL THE LORE

I went from contentedly sighing at Snow’s characterization/motives to utterly WEEPING because of how I was doubting Suzanne. Like no, Snow’s “attraction” towards Lucy stems from him wanting to exploit her rebellious, interesting nature. He views her as an OBJECT, a pawn to further his own status. AND WHY I WOULD THINK SUZANNE WOULD WRITE ANYTHING LESS IS SO JFLSKJDKSS. MOCKINGJAY MOMTHER I’M SORRY I GUESS JKR PUT A DEEP THORN IN MY SIDE

District. Twelve. Girls. Do. Not. PLAY.

I stan an LGBT Ally/Pietro from Animal Crossing/Dolly Parton tribute

suzanne i s2g if lucy’s last name is a play on “braid” i’m going to SCREAM

the district puppers wanting to attack snow on sight is a Mood and i Support Them

I know a lot of people found the first few chapters boring/slow but...IDK MAN I’M SUPER PUMPED BY ALL THE EXPLANATION/LORE/WORLDBUILDING. MY CUP OF A TEA. AS WELL AS BEING A SLUT FOR SUZANNE’S CLIFFHANGERS AT THE END OF HER CHAPTERS JFKLSJDKLS

[hematomes]

"Balladeer" always makes me think of "baller deers" as in they're cool basketball players. They be ballin'. Like the song by Logic 😂

HELPPP I CAN'T

[nctinfo]

[INTERVIEW] SCMP: K-pop band NCT 127 on their new album Neo Zone: The Final Round, Bruce Lee’s influence on them, and how much NCTzens mean to them

After a successful round of promotions with Kick It, NCT 127 is back with a repackaged version of their March album “Neo Zone”. “Neo Zone: The Final Round” features three brand new songs, including title track Punch, soulful ballad Make Your Day and a fast-running hit Nonstop. 

As they wrap up their first week of promotions, we sit down with the boys via a virtual interview to pick their brains on the new album, their successful live-stream virtual concert, communicating with fans and their future plans. 

Fans were pleasantly surprised with the Bruce Lee concept in Kick It and it seems that Punch continues the player and fighter concept. Given the similarity of themes, how do the members express the new song and dance differently to present something new and exciting for the fans? What message does Punch contain?

Mark: The purpose of expressing the similar concept in both songs was to show that they were not separate pieces, but connected. The storyline starts from Kick It and then continues through to Punch which was what we wanted to do with the repackage. 

Doyoung: Punch and Kick It are connected in the story they both represent. The message is to “overcome any trauma one may have.” 

What is the point move of the choreography for Punch and how was the process of preparing for the performance? 

Jaehyun: The point move of the Punch choreography is during the chorus, as we sing “Hey we ballin”. As we prepared for this comeback, practising the choreography wasn’t necessarily difficult, but I had a lot of fun because the melody just keeps repeating and there were a lot of basic hip-hop moves that the choreography was based on – so that was fun.

Read the full interview: here

[shinnith]

Need a place to save my life’s work for keeps- they do say the internet is forever...

I have fears of losing my master music collection that I’ve been curating since I stole an ipod out of a drunk dudes tent while he was passed out in my backyard and hand recorded each song so, without further explanation, may I present “The Collection” in complete text file. 

COLLECTION 1:

11 Girls 12 12 13 She Way Out 14 Menswear 15 Play It Loud 15 Pressure 18 25 to life 27 1000 nights 1983 1994 1996 1998 A heartbreak A million men Acadia Achievement Acid rain Adderall Addict with a pen Addict Afraid Again Against the grain Agnes Ain't gonna drown Air I breathe Alaska All about us All day and all of the night All the kids are depressed Alone Always An art gallery could never be as magnificent as yo Anchor Another brick in the wall Apologize Are you gonna be my girl Asshole Astoria At seventeen Atmosphere Away Ayahuasca Back to you Backbeat Bad Bitch Bad boy Bad habit Bad liar Bad Reputation Bad things Ballin Barbed wire Barcelona Basket case Be wherever you are Beautiful Because We Can Beggar In The Morning (Barr Brothers) Beggin for thread Belong Berzerk Beside you Between us Big girls don't cry Big machine Big yellow taxi Bills Bite my tongue Bitter leaf Black And Yellow (Dirty) Black Betty Black Holes Blackbird Bleed it out Bleed Bleeding out Bliss Blood in the cut Blood water Boogie Born to die Bourbon Break my heart again Breakeven Breathe me Breathe Broken bones Broken Brother Bruises Bubbly Bud like you Build it better Bury it Buzzcut season California rain Call me Calm down Can't stop Capable Capsize Carry on Cavern's dark Caves Cecilia and the satellite Ceilings Celebrity status Chanel Change it all Changes Charlemagne Charlie brown Chasing cars Chasing pavement Chateau Chemicals Chemistry Chills Chris Collins - Ain't Ready Chris Tomlin - Good Good Father Chris Young - Goodbye Chris Young - I'm Comin' Over Chris Young - Lonely Eyes Cigarettes & Loneliness City life Clarity Classy girls Clementine Cleopatra Clocks Coastline Cocaine Coconut water Cold wind blows Come and get your love Come hang out Come Together Comfort of strangers Connection Conquest Could it be another change Crazy bird Crazy love Cringe Cross my mind Dance Dancing in the daylight Dani California Dark necessities Day gaunts Daydream Daydreamer Days move easy Deep end Defeated Different Dissolve DNA Do I wanna know Do it alone Do you feel it Done with love Don't bring me down Don't Forget Where You Belong Don't just sit here and drink yourself to death Don't let me get me Don't threaten me with a good time Don't Dots and dashes Down on my luck Downtown Drama Drift Drive Drops Of Jupiter Drug ballad Drugs 2 Drugs 3 Drunk Ease Echo Edge of town Elegy Elevator Eminem - Drug Ballad Eminem - Without Me End of the summer Ends of the earth (live) Epiphany Eros and Apollo Ever since new york Everybody gets high Everybody wants to rule the world Everything is alright Eye to eye Eyes closed Face Fake you out Fall for you Fall Fancy shoes Far alone Faux Favorite color is blue Feel it still Feeling whitney Feels Female energy Fight song Fire and the flood First time he kissed a boy First Flashed Junk Mind Fool for love (live) Fool for love Foolish love Forces of the unseen Foreplay Forever ago Forget about dre Freaks and Geeks Friends From the dining room Full disclosure Genghis Khan Geronimo Get away Giants Girl I met on the internet Girls like girls Girls your age Girls, Girls, Boys Give me one reason Give me something Go flex Go fuck yourself Go God I hope this year is better than the last God is on the move Gold Good girl Good man, bad man Good old days Gotta be somebody Green light Greenback Boogie Grown up Gummy H.S.K.T Halcyon Hall of Fame (ft. will.i.am) Hallucinogenics Hands on the wheel Hannah Hard feelings Harry Styles - Sign Of The Times   Hash pipe Heartbeat Heaven Hello my old heart Here comes a thought Here it goes again Here we are Hideaway Highschool Holdin out Holocene Holy Spirit - Francesca Battistelli Home Homegrown Homesick Honey sweet Honey whiskey Hopeless Hors d'oeuvre Hot mess Hotel Andrea Houdini How we feel I Am Who Am I built a friend I can't stand it I don't mind I Dont Wanna Live Forever - Zayn and Taylor Swift Cover I feel everything I follow rivers I get knocked down I hate myself for loving you I have made mistakes I know what I am I know you care I know you love to fall I love you so I might I need a woman I need some sleep I run empty I told you I was mean I wanna get better I want to feel alive I Will Always Be Yours I will follow you into the dark I will follow I won’t give up Iggy Azalea - Work I’m alive I’m an Albatraoz I’m not famous I’m not really fine I’m ready I’m with you Imma Be Impossible In my head In my veins In spite of all the danger In the end In too deep Ink Innocence Insecure Into the sun Iridescent Island In The Sun Islands It’s;s not my fault, I'm happy It’ss not over It’ss on us It’ss time Jenny Jet Pack Blues Jocelyn flores Juicy sweatsuits Jukebox Hero Jump Just can't get enough Just to get high Kate Voegele - Hallelujah Keep your head up Kids Killing me to love you Kings Kiss like a woman Kitchen sink L.S.D. La la la Laser gun Last of her kind Latch - Kodaline Laughing on the outside Leave a trace Lemon boy Lemon to a knife fight Let you down Letdown Let's Skip To The Good Bit Liability Lies, Lies, lies Lifted up Lighters Like gold Like toy soilders Lil Wayne - Mirror (feat. Bruno Mars) Little do you know Little secrets Little Things Little white lies Location Lone digger Lonely alone Lonely boy Lose yourself Lost generation Lost in space Lost kitten Lost song Lost Love again Love game Love is mystical Love like this Love lockdown Love on the brain Love somebody Love Loveless Lover boy Lovesick Mad behaviour Mad Sounds Mad world Magnets Malibu Mama always told me Mars Me Medicated Meet me halfway Meet me in the woods (live) Memo Mercedes Benz Mercury Middle fingers Migraine Mockingbird Moments I’m missing More Morphine Mountain to move Mr Jones Must be the ganja My band My fault.m4a My generation My house My Lighthouse (The Rend Collective) My name is My own worst enemy Nancy Drew Need you now Neptune Netflix & Dusse Netflix Never enough New fears Nightshift No angels No CD No faith in brooklyn No interruption No love No name No scrubs No stranger Norwegian Wood Nostalgia Not afraid Not too late Nothing without love Nothing wrong with me Numb Number one Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Ocean eyes Oceans Ode to the bouncer Oh well Old friends Old pine Old school turntables On the other side On top of the world On top of the world One man town Ooh la Ophelia Out of it Out of mind Overdose Owl City - Fireflies Paint Paper crown Paper moon Paper thin Parasites Past lives Peach pit Peanut butter jelly Perfect day Perfect places Perfect.wma Pills n potions Pink lemonade Pink Love Plastic dreams Play with fire Pleader Please don't say you love me Plot twist Pork soda Pretty little gangster Priorities Promise Promising light Pump up the jam Punchin bag Punching in a dream Purple Haze Questions Radio Rap God Raw Ready to change Rebel Rebel Rebel Recover Rental Replay Revenge Ribs Ride River Rivers and roads Robbers Rock and Roll Rock 'n' roll ain't noise pollution Role model Roman Holiday Run rabbit run Run Runaway Running Sad Machine Sad Salt Satellite Saving us a riot Saw mill Say anything.m4a Say anything.wma Say my name Scary Love Science vs Romance Secrets Self control Senior skip day Settle down Seventeen Sex She moves in her own way She was Sheep She's dope Ships in the night Shout Show it to me Sick of it Silly boys Simple song Simplethings Sing for the moment Sirens Skinny love Sleep in the heat Sleep on the floor Sleepless Smile Sober up Sober Someone New Someone to stay Someone to you Songs about your girlfriend Sorry Soul To Squeeze [October 1993] Space bound Spaceman Starcrossed losers Stay high Stay quiet Stay together Step Stoned & Starving Stop the world I wanna get off with you Strange love Strangers Stronger than I was Stuck with me Suburbia Summer Summersong Super far Superhero Surrender Surround me Sweatpants Sweet Child O'Mine Sweet creature Sweet dreams Sweet Sweetest thing T.I - Dead And Gone Ft. Justin Timberlake - Copy Take control Take it slowly Talk to me Tangled Team Tear in my heart Tee shirt Teenage Evolution Tempted That's how you know The anthem The big bang The birds are singing at night The broken hearts club The color blue The girl The good part The good side The last time The love club The middle The monster The moth and the flame The mute The night we met (live) The nights The one The outsider The real slim shady The re-up The silence These memories These Times Thinking of you This is America This is what makes us girls This life Thoughts & Prayers Tightrope Time of your life Tiptoe.m4a To be human Together alone Total eclipse of the heart Trust issues Trust Turn Turning out Turning Pages Twenty Flight Rock Twisted Two coins Two fingers U.N.I. Ugly Unconditionally Until we can't (let's go) Up we go Uptown Girl Upward over the mountain Van Halen  - Black And Blue Vines Vulcano Wait a minute! Waiting on the world to change Wake the fuck up Walk on the wild side Walk on water Walking all day Walkway blues Want you back Was there nothing Waterways Waves We are all astronauts We might be dead by tomorrow We R Who We R We stayed up all night We will run Weak Welcome home We're not just friends What they want When I'm gone When we were young Where Is My Mind Where is the love Where the sky hangs Who Are You Why can't I Why Wide awake Wild Ones Wild things Wild Wiser Without me Without you Written in the stars Yesterday You And I You are not a robot You don't get me high anymore You don't know where you stand You got to hide your love away You gotta fight for your right You make my dreams You Young blood Young kids, old love Young, dumb and broke Young Younger now Your shirt Your somebody else Your song

COLLECTION 2:           Everyday           The Funeral           Above The Clouds Of Pompeii           Bury a Friend           ( slowed down ) zipper           Toy Box (Remix) - Cal Scruby           Phantom           Feels like summer           Out of my head           Threatz           Ghosts (dylan owen)           Edward Sharpe  The Magnetic Zeros - Home           Home           Eminem - No Apologies  Dirty Version           Space Bound           Talking To Myself-em           grandson Apologize           American Teen           Mariners Apartment Complex           White Crime           Classic Male Pregame           Gratitude           Personality (feat. T Pain)           It's Alright           Notepad           Ghosts (2)           Who Knew           King For A Day           blue cheese           Skrillex - Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites             Jailhouse blues           Snak The Ripper - Poison           The Wheel           Stuck in the middle with you           Drugs           What Redbone would sound like if you used to know it           Borderline           - Till Its Gone             {L.H.} Ghost on the Shore           03 Adolescence           (8D) Do I Wanna Know           (8D) Lucid Dreams           21st Century Breakdown           Affairs of the Heart           Ain't no rest for the wicked           Ain't No Rest For The Wicked by Cage The Elephant           Aint Your Right           Alec Benjamin - Outrunning Karma           The Alphabeat           Always Forever           American Boy           Animal           Apparently           Aquilo - You Won't Know Where You Stand             Aquilo - You're Like Me             Arrested Youth - Brightside           Ashnikko - Hi, It's Me             Ashnikko - Special           Ashnikko - STUPID  feat. Yung Baby Tate           Ashnikko - Working Bitch             Avicii - Levels           Bad day           Bad Decisions           Bad Things           Bagpipes From Baghdad           Bangarang           Beauty           Better Love           Big Bad World           Big Black Car           Billy Idol - Dancing with myself             Bitch, Dont Kill My Vibe           Bitter Sweet Symphony           The Black Eyed Peas - BIG LOVE           Black Veil Brides - In the End           Blank SpaceStyle           Blindsided           Blood           boy pablo - Feeling Lonely             Brain Damage           Bridges           Broken Arrow           Broken           Broken.           Buisness           CA Plane Pour Moi           Car Radio           Car Radio-Twenty One Pilots           Caring is Creepy - The Shins           Casual Affair           Caterpillar           Catey Shaw - Night Go Slow           Cats, Dogs & Rats           Cemetery Drive           Charles William - No Ordinary           Chelsea Dagger           Chelsea Hotel No 2           Cherub - Doses and Mimosas           Cigarette Daydreams           The Clash At Demonheads - Black Sheep           Cocoa Hooves           Come Home to My Heart (mashup of every lorde song)           Come On Eileen           Comfortably numb           Cops           Cough Syrup           Criminal           Crossfire (8D)           Cryin'           Dan Mangan - Road Regrets [Nice, Nice, Very Nice - Track 01]           Dancing with Myself           Darkness           David Guetta - The Alphabeat           David Guetta (Feat. Jessie J) - Repeat           David Guetta (Feat. Usher) - Without You           Dead Presidents III           Dead Sea           Dear friend           Delete Forever           Democracy (Bonus Track)           Disenchanted           Dog Days Are Over           Doin Time           Doja Cat - Trauma           Dreams           Drunk In Love           Dynoro- Hangover           EAGLE EYE CHERRY - STREETS OF YOU           Eminem - The Ringer             The End           Enter Sandman           Erode           Estelle - American Boy [Feat. Kanye West]           Everyone Says I'm Paranoid           Farewell           Fast Car           Feel Again           Feelings           Fineshrine           First Aid Kit - It's a Shame             First Day of My Life           First of the Year           For Elise           For The First Time           Futuristic - I Guess, I'll Smoke           G.O.M.D.           Getting Better           Ghosting           Give Up           Godzilla           Good LIfe           Good Vibrations           Goodbye Stranger           Gorillaz - Rhinestone Eyes           grandson x Moby Rich Happy Pill           Gun Song  - The Lumineers           Guns For Hands           Gypsy           Happy           Hard Sun           Have you ever seen the rain           Heathens           Heavenly Father           Heavydirtysoul           High Hopes           High You Are           Holy.           Hopsin - Witch Doctor           Humility           The Hype           I Can't Help Myself           I Lost Something in the Hills           I Wanna Get High           I Will           Idaho           If I Go, I'm Goin           In The End           In Too Deep (em)           Indie Rock and Roll           Iris           it ends tonight           Ive Got This Friend           J Ember - Lower Than Low           January 28th           Jazz           Jungle           Kerry Hart - I Know A Gun           Kiiara - Gold (prod. by Felix Snow)           Kill You           The Kills - What New York Used To Be           Lana del Rey - Summertime Sadness (SxAde Synthwave Remix)80s           Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful (from The Great Gatsby Soundtrack)           Landslide           Last Night (beer fear)           LauvFeelings             Leader Of The Landslide           Leave it all behind           Leaving Heaven           Let It Go           Let My Love Open The Door           Lisztomania           Little Pistol           Look After You           Love In Stereo           Love letter           The Lumineers - It Wasn't Easy To Be Happy For You (Part 4 Of 10)           The Lumineers - Left For Denver (Part 6 Of 10)           The Lumineers - My Cell           Man To Man           Marsh           Matilda           Me & You Together Song           Meaner Girl           Metallica Enter Sandman             Miike Snow- Animal           Milk Man           Missed Connection           Monster (DotEXE Dubstep Remix)           Morning Song           Move           Mr Fear           My Kind of Woman           My Smile Is Extinct           My Type           Nantes           National Anthem           Need a Minute           New Perspective (acoustic)           New Soul           Nicotine           Night time, my time           No Fun           No Ordinary           No Tellin'           Now I'm In It           Obsessions           Oceans (7 Layers Sessions)           Oh no           Old Time's Sake           On Melancholy Hill           Once Upon A Dream           One Day           Out for a rip           Outrunning Karma           Outta My Head - The Eagle Rock Gospel Singers           Over My Head           Pain - Three Days Grace           Party Favor           Power Trip           Preacher           Promises           Purity Ring - Fineshrine (4AD)           Puzzle Pieces           Re Stacks           Repeat           Return Of Simba           Rhiannon           Rhinestone Eyes           Road Regrets           Rock Bottom           Rocket Man           Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)           Roses           ROSIE           Roxanne           Ryan & Dave           Sabotage           Sad Dream           SADE IN THE 90's           Salad Days           Salt And The Sea           San Luis           Santa Fe           Say You Love Me           Scar Tissue           The Scientist           Secrets           Self Aware Bitch           Setting Sun           Seven Wonders           Sex, Money, Sneakers           Shake it off           The Sharpest Lives           Shelter Song           She's A Riot           The Shins - New Slang           Skinny Love (Das Kapital Remix)           SKRILLEX - Bangarang feat. Sirah           Skrillex - First Of The Year (Equinox)           Sleepyhead           Slide Away           Soaked           Soap           Social Sites           Somebody told me           Speed Of Sound           Spin Doctors - Two Princes           St. Tropez- [2014 Forest Hills Drive]           The Stable Song           Stan (Dido)           Stay High           Stay High (Britanny Howard)           Sticky Situation           Stop and Stare           Stop Children What's That Sound           Streets of you           Strung Out           Sublime - What I Got             Summertime Sadness (SxAde Synthwave Remix)           Supalonely           Sweet Talk           Take a Walk           Take Care           A Tale of 2 Cities           Talk           The A Team- Ed Sheeran           Tessellate           TLC - Waterfalls           Tried to Make You My Own           TRNDSTTR           twenty one pilots - Goner             Twenty One Pilots - Heathens (Suicide Squad)           Two Weeks           Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear           Unaccommodating           Undone - FFH           Venice Bitch           The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony             Viva La Vida           Waste my time with you           Waterfalls           Watsky - Love Letters           The Way I Am           We Built This City           We Didn't Start the Fire           We think too much           Wet Dreams           What I Got           When You Were Young           White Rabbit           Wild Thing           Wonderwall           Yah Yah           Young and Beautiful           Young and Beautiful in the 80s Lana Del Rey (Retro Remix)           Young Man           Youth    [not alphabetically sorted] Everyday           The Funeral           Above The Clouds Of Pompeii           Bury a Friend           ( slowed down ) zipper           Toy Box (Remix) - Cal Scruby           Phantom           Feels like summer           Out of my head           Threatz           Ghosts (dylan owen)           Edward Sharpe  The Magnetic Zeros - Home           Home           Eminem - No Apologies  Dirty Version           Space Bound           Talking To Myself-em           grandson Apologize           American Teen           Mariners Apartment Complex           White Crime           Classic Male Pregame           Gratitude           Personality (feat. T Pain)           It's Alright           Notepad           Ghosts (2)           Who Knew           King For A Day           blue cheese           Skrillex - Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites             Jailhouse blues           Snak The Ripper - Poison           The Wheel           Stuck in the middle with you           Drugs           What Redbone would sound like if you used to know it           Borderline           Till Its Gone  

COLLECTION 3:

         {L.H.} The Yawning Grave          {L.H.} Time to Run          9 Times Out of 10          17          38 Years Old          1985 (Intro to The Fall Off)          Ain’t That A Kick In the Head          Aint No Peace          All The Places          All The Right Moves          All’s Well That Ends          Always Forever          Angel          Angel Of Small Death & The Codeine Scene          Animal (Sky Fierra-Miike Snow Cover)          The Apple          Apple Tree          AUATC          Back In The U.S.S.R.          Back to you          Bad Girls          Bellbottoms          Bennie And The Jets (Remastered 2014)          Benny Goodman          Big Parade          The Birthday Party          Bitterphobia          Black Sun          Bloodflood pt II          Blue          Bobcaygeon          Boys Will Be Bugs          Brain Damage          Breezeblocks          British Bombs          Brittle Bones Nicky          By The Way          C’est La Vie          Celebrity Status (Acoustic)          The Chain          Chasin’ Echoes (Re-Mastered)          Chasing Pavement By MGK          Chicken Fried          Clean Eyes          Closer          Cold Cold Cold          Coldplay - Shiver            Comin Home          Common People          Concrete          The Creator          Current Joys - A Different Age          Current Joys - Fear          Current Joys - Kids          Curse of the Currents          Dance Monkey          The Dead South - In Hell I’ll Be in Good Company The Umbrella Academy Season 2 OST          Dear Dictator          Death Bed (Coffee for Your Head)          Declan McKenna - Daniel, You’re Still a Child            Declan McKenna - Rapture            Delicate          Depress          Diane Young          Diet Mountain Dew          A different Age          Doin’ Time-Summertime          doja cat - 4 morant (better luck next time)          Doja Cat - Kiss Me More  ft. SZA          Doja Cat - Trauma          Don McLean- American Pie          Dont Feel Like Crying          DOPENESS          Down To My Last Cigarette          Drake - Jungle (432Hz)          Dreamland          Eagles - Hotel California            Ego Death          Elephant Gun          Ellie Goulding - Halcyon          Ellie Goulding - Lights (Single Version)          Eros          Exile          Exquisite Corpse          Fear & Delight          Featherstone          Feel          Feeling Lonely          First Class          For Sure          Freakin’ Out On the Interstate          Fresh Roses          Ghetto Gospel          GHOST          Glass Animals - Heat Waves            Glass Animals - Toes            Got It          Got My Mind Set On You (Version II)          The Grand Optimist          Guerra - Residente          Heart          Heart Of Glass          Heaven Up There          The Heavy- This ain’t No Place For No Hero          Help I’m Alive          Hip-Hop Saved My Life          Hoax          Hold On          Hold On (John)          Holding On To You          Holiday          Home (johhnyswim)          Hometown          Homewrecker          A Horse with No Name          House Of The Rising Sun          Hullabaloo          Human Geometry          Hymn For The Weekend          The Hype          Hypnotized (fever fever)          I Am Not a Robot [Clock Opera Remix]          I know you care          I Lost Something in the Hills          I Love You Like An Alcoholic          I Never Learn          I Should Have Known Better          I Think I’m Going To Kill Myself          I’ll Be Around          Immortal          In A Manner Of Speaking          In The City          In The Shadow Of The Valley          In the Year 2525 (Exordium Terminus)          Infinite Victory-The Notorious XX - Wait What          Island In The Sun          It Was A Sin          It’s called freefall          It’s in the Way That You Use It)          It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me          Jarod Lawley - Company          The Joker          Josie          Just Desserts          Kaleidoscope Dope          The Key to Life on Earth          Khalid - Hundred            Kid Cudi, Eminem - The Adventures Of Moon Man & Slim Shady          Kids (Lady Danville- MGMT cover)          The Kids Don’t Wanna Come Home          L.A. Not Alone Girl!          Lady Madonna          The Lakes          Laredo          Lauren O’ Connell - Dancing in the Dark          Lemons (Brye)          Let’s Go Outside          Lights          Listerine          Little lion man          Lockdown          Lonely People          Los Angeles          Love Me Tomorrow          Mad Woman          Madness          Major Tom (Coming Home)          Maniac          Manic Monday          Marcy Me          Marianas Trench Masterpiece Theatre I            MARINA- Savages          Masterpiece Theatre 3 - Marianas Trench with          Meaner Girl          Medicine          Memories          Message          Message For Your Mind          MGK - Mind Of A Stoner ft. Wiz Khalifa            Milky Chance - Cocoon          Milky Chance - Ego            Milky Chance - Unknown Song feat. Paulina Eisenberg          Milky Chance - Where Is My Mind (Pixies Cover)          Miss Atomic Bomb          Modern mystery          Moral of the Story          Move Along          Mustached Messiah          My Life          My Mind Playin Tricks on Me          My Stress          N.E.R.D & Rihanna - Lemon            Nice Fox          Nightmares          No Church In The Wild          No Diggity          No Rain          Novocaine          Numb          Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da          Offer          Oh baby          OK          On The Train Ride Home          Only the Good Die Young          Open By Rhye          Pale Blue Eyes          Panic Attack          The Passenger          Past Perfect          Peach Tinted - The Unknown          Pepper          Phantom Planet - California          Pity Party          Play That Funky Music          Polk Salad Annie          THE PRAYER          Psycho Killer          R.I.P. 2 my youth          Radio Ga Ga          Rare Americans - Berlin          Rare Americans - Garbage Day          Rare Americans - The Moneyz            Rare Americans Gas Mask            Read My Mind          Ready To Go          Rejjie Snow - 23 feat. Caroline Smith          Revolution          Ricky          Rolling Stone          Rose          The run and go          Run Boy Run          Run This Town          Runnin Down A Dream          SAINT MOTEL - Preach            Satellite          Save Me          See You Soon          Sega Genesis          Seven          Seven (taylor)          Seven Wonders          Sex on Fire          Shakin’  Off The Rust          Shameful Company          Shelter Song          Sick Shit          Since The Last Time          Sincerity Is Scary          Sippin          Sister Golden Hair          Sit Down Beside Me          Sleeping Sickness          Sleepyhead          Slick Rick - Children’s Story            Slow It Down          Slow Motion          Small Hands          Small Talk          Snow On Tha Bluff          Sorrow          Soul Of Mischief - 93 Til infinity          Space Oddity          Sparks          Stalker’s Tango          Static On The Radio          Stay Alive          Still Feel          Strung Out          Summer Breeze          Sunshine          Take Me Away          Take me home          Take The Long Way Home          Taylor Swift - the last great american dynasty          Tear you apart          Teenage Wasteland          That’s All          THAT’S THAT          Therapy          They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)          This Is Me Trying          This Life (Vampire Weekend)          Three Second Memory          The Thrill - Wiz Khalifa          To Be Human          To My Enemies          Tokyo          The Trip          Tupac-Keep Ya Head Up          Unknown Mortal Orchestra - So Good at Being in Trouble          Until we bleed          Up all Night (beck)          Vampire Weekend Giving Up The Gun            Video Killed The Radio Star          Vienna (Billy Joel)          Vulcano - Francesca Michielin TESTO          Walking On The Moon          Warm Glow          Wax Tailor - Que Sera          We Can Work it Out          Weeds          The Weight          What A Perfect Day For Crying          What Is Life          Whateva          When It Lands          When The Day Comes          When the Night is Over          Wide Open          Wonderwall          YARMAK - ТУТ МІЙ ДІМ          Yesterday          Yesterday (Atmosphere)          You Are the Right One          You Cant Always Get What You Want          You Don’t Mess Around with Jim          You’re Nobody Till Somebody Wants You Dead          Young And Beautiful          Не приму и даром (Navai , Bahh Tee)          Юность (Dabro

COLLECTION 4:

          2Pac - Changes           2Pac - Keep Ya Head Up             4           (8D) Believer           (8D) Do I Wanna Know           (8D) Don’t Stop Me Now           (8D) Everybody Wants to Rule The World           (8D) It’s My Life           (8D) Lucid Dreams           (8D) Shout           (8D) Stolen Dance           (8D) The Less I Know The Better           (8D) Till I Collapse           (8D) Viva La Vida           (8D)-Another Love           (8D)-Blue Monday           (8D)-Like Toy Soldiers           (8D)-Lose Yourself           (8D)-Ocean Eyes           (8D)-Sing For The Moment           (8D)-Somebody That I Used To Know           (8D)-Summertime Sadness           21 Guns           29 #Strafford APTS           99 Luftballons           1901- phoenix           1979           Affection           Agnes           Ahead By A Century           All These Things I’ve Done           Alt-J (∆) Leon           Always- The Snuts           Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land           Angela           Another Day In Paradise           The Antlers - Kettering           ARE YOU LETTING GO (bennee)           Arizona           arms tonite           Axel Thesleff - Bad Karma           Back 2 Hiphop           Baggage           Bagpipes From Baghdad           Beck - Up All Night           Being special           Bellyache           Ben Franklin           BIG SHOT           Blister In The Sun           Blow At High Dough           Bobby Bloom Montego Bay 1970           boogie (slowed)           Boy Bye (slowed and reverb)           Bread           Burning Pile - Mother Mother (Slowed)           Bury It           Butthole Surfers - Pepper The Umbrella Academy Season 2 OST           Cancer           candy - robbie williams (slowed)           Caves- Noah Kahan           Chaise Longue           champagne problems           Children’s Story           Chris Webby - La La La           Circles           Claire Rosinkranz - Backyard Boy           closure           Cocaine           Coconut Water           Cold War Kids - First           Colorado           Conrad           CONSTANT           The Cost of the Crown - Mercedes Lackey           Courtney Barnett - Before You Gotta Go           Crabbuckit           Dabbla - Psychoville Feat. Graziella  (Prod. Roast Beatz)           Daydreams           Dear Prudence (Remastered 2009)           Democracy (Bonus Track)           Dion - The Wanderer [Fallout 4 - Wanderer Trailer Song]           Doja Cat - Boss Bitch             Doja Cat - Kiss Me More  ft. SZA           Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man - The First Rock and Roll Record!!           (Don’t Fear) The Reaper           Don’t Look Back           Don’t You (Forget About Me)           Donovan - Season of the Witch           Dont Stop Me Now           Dope & Smoke           Down On My Luck (vic mensa)           Drive- Oh Wonder           Drugs (swum)           Easy           easy life - have a great day (visualiser)           easy life - skeletons           Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues [stereo]           The Effects of Climate Change on Densely Populated Areas           Emerald Lake, AB           Eminem White America (Uncensored)           Emma Louise - Jungle           Eve Of Destruction           Evelyn           Evermore           FALLOUT 4 SPECIAL RAP Dan Bull           False Creek Change           Feel It In My Bones           Feel It Still           Feels           For The Camera           Four Out Of Five           Froot           Fuck U Pal           The Gambler           Gerry Cinamon-Kampfire Vampire           Gerry Cinnamon- Sun Queen           Gerry Cinnamon-Canter           Gerry Cinnamon-Head in the clouds           Gerry Cinnamon-Outsiders           Gerry Cinnamon-Six String Gun           Gerry Cinnamon-The Bonny           Gerry Cinnamon-War Song Soldier           Gerry Cinnamon-Where We’re Going           Get Back (Remastered 2009)           Getting Better (Remastered 2009)           Ghost           Gimme More           Gives You Hell           gold rush           Golden           Good Luck           Goodnight Chicago           Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood           Gorillaz - The Valley of the Pagans ft. Beck (Episode Eight)           The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight - New Mother Nature           Hahahaohhoho           Happy Little Pill (Remix) s l o w e d           Heavenly Father           Helena Beat           Heroes (2017 Remaster)           High enough (Slowed Down)           Hit the Road Jack           Home- Leo           Hozier - Dinner & Diatribes           Hozier - Nina Cried Power           Hrdza - Štefan Stephen Штефан           I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME           I Follow           I Follow Rivers - Lykke Li           i kissed a girl katy perry s l o w e d           I Lied           I’m Fine (hazel english)           If You Were Here-Thompson Twins           In A Week (hozier)           It’s in the Way That You Use It (1999 Remaster)           ivy           Jackie and Wilson           Jake Bugg - Two Fingers           José González - Line of Fire           The Judge           Kid Cudi, Eminem - The Adventures Of Moon Man & Slim Shady           Kids (Don’t End Up Like Me)           Kings Of Leon - Closer           Kings Of Leon - The End           Kiwi           Knives, Guns & Bed           L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.           La Foret           Laredo           Left Hand Free           Libraries           Little Slice (feat. Danny Skyhigh McClain)           Location           The Logical Song           long story short           The Lovin’ Spoonful - Summer in the City           Made in Heights - Hors d’oeuvre           Majical Cloudz - Downtown           Man’s World           Maneater           maneater ( slowed + bass )           Måneskin - I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE           Maniac           Marijuana           MARINA - Karma           MARINA - Purge The Poison           Marinade           Message In A Bottle-The Police           The Moneyz           Montreal           The Mother We Share           Mr. Loverman (slowed with reverb)           My House           NENA 99 Red Balloons           New America           Nico And The Niners           No More Questions           Not Your Summer           Nothin’ on You (feat. Bruno Mars)           nowhere to run - stegosaurus rex (s l o w e dd o w n)           Number One           Off The Radar           Oh Wonder - Landslide           Oh Wonder - Technicolour Beat           Old Pine           One week           THE OUTER WORLDS...           Pale Blue Eyes           Peace To All Freaks- of Montreal           Peach Pit - Seventeen           PHARAOH - ДИКО, НАПРИМЕР           Pickup Truck           Poor George           Pumped Up Kicks Remix           Pyro           queen of broken hearts           Rapp Snitch Knishes (feat. Mr. Fantastik)           Real Smooth           The Revillos - Rev-Up           RING THE ALARM           Rip It Up Ready Teddy (Remastered 2010)           Rock Bottom           The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black           Romans Revenge (slowed + reverb)           Rosanna           Roslyn           Run Through The Jungle           Running Wild-Palace           Sedona           Seven Nation Army (Glitch Mob Remix)           She Will Be Loved           Sia - To Be Human (ft. Labrinth)           Sign O’ The Times           Sober (gambino)           Solsbury Hill           Stabilo-Flawed Design             Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner           Stolen Cars           STORMZY - VOSSI BOP           Stromae - Tous Les Mêmes (Clip Officiel)           Stuck on the puzzle           Technicolour Beat           Therefore I Am           Thrift Shop           Tiffany - I Think We’re Alone Now             Time To Win - Down With Webster           tis the damn season           Treat People With Kindness           Two Ghosts           Ulysses- Franz Ferdinand           The Valley of the Pagans ft. Beck (Episode Eight)           VAULT NUMBER 76 Fallout 76 Song           Ventura Highway           VIDEOCLUB - Amour Plastique           VIDEOCLUB En nuit           VIDEOCLUBRoi           Violent (slowed)           Virginia Beach           Waiting           WALLS           Wasteland, Baby!           Wellerman           West Coast           Whale- Yellow Ostrich           What Goes Around- Comes Around           Wheat Kings by Tragically Hip           WHOKILLEDXIX - Spy  My My I think we have a spy           willow           Wovoka           Yellow Ostrich - Mary (Alternate)           You Don’t Mess Around with Jim           You Get What You Give  1998

COLLECTION 5:

          3AM (matchbox 20)           The 1975 - Chocolate           The 1975 - Give Yourself A Try           Alphaville - Big In Japan           alt-J - Hunger Of The Pine             Apocalypse - Cigarettes After Sex           bbno$, y2k - lalala             Beastie Boys - Get It Together           Belter - Gerry Cinnamon             Big Data - Dangerous (Oliver Remix) euphoria OST           Big Pun - Twinz (Deep Cover 98) (Feat. Fat Joe)           Big Sean - Wolves ft. Post Malone             BIRTHDAY           Blue Foundation - Eyes On Fire             Bon Iver - Perth (Stripped)           Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy           Broken Bells - The High Road           Byjoelmichael - Be With You             California Dreamin’           candy - robbie williams (slowed)           Centerfold           Chase McBride - 1937             Chet Faker - Cigarettes and Chocolate           Chet Faker - Gold             Circus Britney Spears           Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through The Grapevine           Daniel Powter - Bad Day             DARE           Don’t Be Nice           Doug E Fresh & Slick Rick-The Show           Ed Sheeran - Grade 8             Eminem - Berzerk           Eminem - No Apologies Dirty Version           Eminem - Tone Deaf           Eminem White America (Uncensored)           Eric B & Rakim - Follow The Leader           Eric B. Is President           Eve Of Destruction           Fall Into Place           Florence + the Machine - Shake It Out             Flower Face - Angela             Flume & Chet Faker - Drop the Game           Footsteps in the Dark, Pts. 1 & 2           From This Valley           Funnel Of Love - Wanda Jackson (ft. the Cramps)           Future Islands -A Dream Of You And Me           G-Eazy - Lady Killers ft. Hoodie Allen           G-Eazy - The Outsider           G-Eazy Achievement           George Ezra - Green Green Grass           Give Yourself A Try           Good Day Sunshine (Remastered 2009)           Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood             Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc           Got To Get You Into My Life (Remastered 2009)           grandson- Apologize           Gregory D and Mannie Fresh - Buck Jump Time           Harry Styles - As It Was           The Head And The Heart - Down In The Valley           Homeless           Homeliss Derilex - Daily Operations           Human of the Year           Hurricane (Johnnie’s Theme)           Hypnotize (2007 Remaster)           I Feel Alive           I Heard It Through The Grapevine           I Saw You Close Your Eyes           I Still Haven’t Found What ‘m Looking For           IDGAF Watsky             Iggy Azalea - Posh Spice (Visualizer)           Insane in the Brain           Intergalactic (Remastered 2009)           Istanbul (not Constantinople)           Iyaz - Replay           Jai Paul - BTSTU           James Hersey - Coming Over (Filous Remix)           Jay-z 99 problems           Johnny Jump Up - Gaelic Storm           Juice WRLD - Conversations             Kavinsky - Nightcall (Drive Original Movie Soundtrack)             Kid Cudi - Tequila Shots           Kid Francescoli -Moon           Kids In America [2020 Remaster]           Kings Of Convenience - Misread           Kings of Leon - Pickup Truck           Kings of Leon - Use Somebody           Lennon Stella -  Thank You (Dido Cover)             Lilly Wood & The Prick and Robin Schulz - Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix)           Little Simz - Point And Kill feat. Obongjayar             Little Slice (feat. Danny Skyhigh McClain)           Lord Huron - Meet Me In The Woods           Lord Huron - The World Ender             Lord Huron - We Went Wild             Love Letters           The Lumineers - A.M. Radio             The Lumineers - BRIGHTSIDE             Lupe Fiasco- Hip Hop Saved My Life           M83 - Go! feat Mai Lan           M83 Steve McQueen           Made In Heights - Drexler           Made In Heights - Viices           Maren Morris - My Church             MARINA - New America             MARINA - To Be Human             Marshall Mathers           Medicine (daughter)           Mild Orange - Some Feeling           Milky Chance - Love Again             Milky Chance - Tainted Love             The Moth (Les Deux Love Orchestra Cover) -  Aimee Mann [Mr. Robot S02E12]           Mother Mother - Hayloft I             N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton           Nas - It Ain’t Hard to Tell             NEVER REALLY MINE           New Motion - She Said           O Children - Nick Cave & The Bad See           Of Monsters and Men - Phantom           Of Monsters and Men - Visitor             The Oh Hellos - Soldier, Poet, King           Oh Wonder - Twenty Fourteen           OMC - How Bizzare           Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Electricity           Outkast - Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac)           Palace - Friends Forever             Peace Prevail           Peach Pit - Vickie           The Pernice Brothers - Judy           Pham - Golden State[feat. Ben Zaidi]           Pham - Movements (feat. Yung Fusion)           PHARAOH - ДИКО, НАПРИМЕР           The Pharcyde - Runnin           Pink Lemonade           Promise           Rainbow Kitten Surprise - Hide           Rainbow Kitten Surprise - Matchbox           Rainbow Kitten Surprise - Mission to Mars           Rare Americans - Black Sheep (Offici 1           Rare Americans - F_K U Pal           Rare Americans - Pandora’;s Box           Rare Americans - PHD           Rare Americans - Rhythm Kitchen (ft. D Smoke)           REMINGTON           REPRISE           Rocket 88 (Original Version) - Ike Turner Jackie Brenston           The Rolling Stones - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction           RUN DMC, Jason Nevins - It’s Like That           Running Up That Hill           Safe & Sound feat. The Civil Wars           Said The Whale Gambier Island Green           SAINT MOTEL -Move           Saint Valentine           Santigold - Disparate Youth             serial killer - lana del ray (slowed + reverb)           She Wants Me Dead           Sigrid - It Gets Dark           Slaine - 99 Bottles           Snail Mail -Ben Franklin             Snak The Ripper - Eight Hours A Day (High Quality)           Snak The Ripper - Eight Hours A Day             Snak The Ripper - Forgotten             Snak The Ripper - Trust the Process             Snak The Ripper - Yup             Son Of A Preacher Man           Special Ed - I Got It Made             Square Dance           Stick to Your Guns (feat. Julia Nunes)           Stornoway - Zorbing           Strawberries & Cigarettes           Stromae - carmen           Stromae - Fils de joie             Stromae - L’enfer             Stromae - Santé  The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon           Sublime- April 29, 1992           Sunflower- Post Malone           Supertramp - Breakfast in America (Written & Composed by Roger Hodgson)           Surf Curse - Freaks           Tamino - The First Disciple           Taylor Swift – mirrorball           Taylor Swift – peace           These Boots Are Made for Walkin’           This House is a Circus           Tongue Tied           The Tragically Hip - New Orleans Is Sinking (.)           Triggaman (The Showboys)           Ultrasound- Johnny Massacre           Unwell           Wake Owl - Gold           Wallows - Are You Bored Yet (feat. Clairo)           The War On Drugs Red Eyes               Warren G - Regulate   ft. Nate Dogg           Watsky- Bet Against Me [All You Can Do]           Wet Leg - Wet Dream             Where’d All the Time Go?           Wiz Khalifa - So High ft. Ghost Loft           Wonderful Life           World Renown - Come Take A Ride 1994           The xx - Crystalised             The xx - Islands           Young Magic You With Air           Younger Hunger - Dead Inside             The Youth           Youth           Zen- K Flay

COLLECTION 6:

         The Black Keys - Gotta Get Away          Bon Iver - 00000 Million          Bon Iver - Beth/Rest          Bon Iver - Blood Bank          Bon Iver - Flume          Bon Iver - Skinny Love          Bon Iver- Wash          Cage The Elephant - Trouble          CHELJI - 23          David Kushner - Miserable Man            David Kushner - Mr. Forgettable          Dennis Lloyd - NEVERMIND          For Emma          The Glorious Sons - A War On Everything            The Glorious Sons - Come Down            Gorillaz - Cracker Island ft. Thundercat            Gorillaz - Tomorrow Comes Today            Harry Belafonte- Day-O          I Sat by the Ocean          Lil Wayne - Mirror (feat. Bruno Mars)          Madness - Our House          Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime ORIGINAL 1970          My Chemical Romance -Sing          REO Speedwagon - Take It On the Run          Sarah Osborne Fire Moon          The Suburbs - Arcade Fire          T.I - Dead And Gone Ft. Justin Timberlake          THREE DOG NIGHT One  (1969)          Towers - Bon Iver          Vance Joy - Saturday Sun            Young the Giant - My Body

[hoensdatter]

My Current LY:T Song Ranking

because no one asked

1. 134340 - i love pluto and i love yoongi and i love high notes okay? okay

2. TTU - ballads? vocals? it’s so soothing 

3. Paradise - a bop for gays only and the lyrics,, bro

4. Outro: Tear - the moment the highlight reel shit started playing i was crying in a roadside ditch

(im gonna say 5-8,,, the order is very interchangeable ok i cannot decide between these)

5. Magic Shop - uh wow i needed this so much thank u kookie ily

6. Airplane, pt. 2 - EL MARIACHI EL MARIACHI EL MARIACHI

7. FAKE LOVE - jin has lines and is in the center and they all can step on me

8. Anpanman - at first, i didnt like it, but then my eyes opened and holy moly guacamole it’s such a bop? BALLIN BALLIN STILL BANGTAN 

9. Love Maze - BABY JUST DONT GIVE A DAMN

10. Intro: Singularity - i have NOTHING against this song i love tae so much it’s just not my typical style of music <33

11. So What - i still love this song but it’s like half a skip? i need the lyrics to listen to this more, otherwise im just like,,, yeah, cool. it’s a Best of Me situation ok but it’s much better than best of me

overall a solid 11/10 please listen to LY:T <333

[deadcactuswalking]

REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 14/02/2020

This’ll either be a long episode, a very confusing one, or both. We have nine new arrivals, which might actually be our most ever, although it’s probably tied with one from last year unless we had something ridiculous like twelve new arrivals. Let’s just get this over with.

Top 10

First of all, celebrating its second week at #1, we have “Blinding Lights” by the Weeknd stable since last week at the top spot. I love this song, so I’m definitely glad to see it here.

Speaking of songs I love, “The Box” by Roddy Ricch isn’t moving either at number-two.

In fact, much like most of our busy weeks, the top 10 doesn’t necessarily reflect that, as with some exceptions, there’s nothing of note to speak of here. “Before You Go” by Lewis Capaldi is stable at number-three.

The number-four spot has also stabilised; “Don’t Start Now” by Dua Lipa is there, and doesn’t seem to have any competition.

Neither does “Godzilla” by Eminem featuring the late Juice WRLD, unfortunately, at number-five.

Up two spots to number-six for whatever reason is “Life is Good” by Drake, then Future – this might rebound even higher next week due to a DaBaby remix.

“Someone You Loved” by Lewis Capaldi is down a spot to number-seven, but it’ll be back in the top five once the BRITs have their impact. Delightful.

Our big story in the top 10 is the 13-space boost for “Roses” up to number-eight, meaning it’s Saint Jhn’s first ever top 10 single in the UK, and, yeah, sure, we’ll give Imanbek credit for that too, since his unauthorised house remix really blew it up all over Europe. Hence, I’m pretty sure this is the first Kazakh lead artist on a UK Top 10 single, and that’s pretty epic.

Billie Eilish’s “everything i wanted” is down two spots to number-nine.

And finally, to round off our top 10, is the non-mover, “Adore You” by Harry Styles.

Climbers

To my surprise, we do actually have a few notable climbers, and a lot more than I expected at that. First, there’s “You should be sad” by Halsey up five spaces to #12, making a pretty unexpected play for the top 10. There’s also “Lonely” by Joel Corry up 14 spaces to #16 off of the debut, and “Lose You to Love Me” by Selena Gomez inexplicably moving up six spots to #21. Maybe in the wake of a Justin Bieber album, there’s some stan revenge streaming? It’s a stretch but that’s honestly my only explanation other than it making another, more organic chart run. I do have a reason for Jonas Brothers and the nine-spot boost for “What a Man Gotta Do”: the second video as well as the One Show performance, which is still something millions of people watch here in the UK. “Better Off Without You” by Becky Hill and Shift K3y is up 12 to #24 off of the debut and finally, “Say So” by Doja Cat is up 10 spots to #25 also off of the debut (Not complaining about that one).

Fallers

There were some pretty massive fallers this week but also not actually that many that were notable, and definitely ones that demonstrate a transition period between Winter 2019/2020 and Spring 2020, but these are also mostly hip-hop and rap, hence can be explained by streaming cuts, an arbitrary UK chart rule that affects nearly exclusively one genre for the most part. That’s not the case for all of them though; “Wake Up Call” by KSI featuring Trippie Redd is down 17 spaces to #28 because it’s a song by a YouTuber, and hence usually a bit crap. The rule did affect, however, “ROXANNE” by Arizona Zervas, down 24 spaces to #33, and “Memories” by Maroon 5, an exception to the rule seemingly, down 23 spots to #39.

Dropouts & Returning Entries

There were a hell of a lot of dropouts and actually two returning entries, for once. All of these dropouts don’t seem like they’re going to gain much traction after this week, and if they do, it’ll probably be some kind of fluke or special event that gets them back up there. I can see about three or four of these returning to the dregs of the top 40, but otherwise this seems to be the end of the line for most of these. “Bruises” by Lewis Capaldi is out from #15, “Pump it Up” by DJ Endor is out from #23, “Lose Control” by MEDUZA, Goodboys and Becky Hill is out from #25, “This is Real” by Jax Jones featuring Ella Henderson is out from #26, “Ride It” by Regard featuring Jay Sean ends its second run out from #29, “Gangsta” by Darkoo and One Acen is out from #32, “Don’t Rush” by Young T & Bugsey with Headie One is out from #34, “Ladbroke Grove” by AJ Tracey is out for what must be the fourth time from #37, “Those Kinda Nights” by Eminem featuring Ed Sheeran is thankfully out from #38, “Vossi Bop” by Stormzy is temporarily out from #39 but the BRITs will probably pick this one up and boost its numbers, and finally, “Big Conspiracy” by J Hus featuring iceé tgm is out from #40. The other two J Hus songs are somehow still in the top 40.

The two returning entries are, firstly, “Hold Me While You Wait” by Lewis Capaldi returning at #30, seemingly in a trade with “Bruises”, because, I guess two Capaldi songs in the top 10 isn’t enough. The second is “Pee Pee” by M Huncho at #40, and I just love how stupid that song is. It’s actually a pretty fun and arguably good song, but I also have so many questions about it, like why the album it’s from is called Huncholini the 1st. I’m glad to see it back here though. Anyway, before we get to the new arrivals, here are some songs below the top 40 that I could see getting here in a couple weeks, if that. Not all of them are good, not all of them are bad. We have “All I Want” by Olivia Rodrigo at #72, “No Judgement” at Niall Horan at #70, “Yikes” by Nicki Minaj at #69, “No Shame” by 5 Seconds of Summer at #68, “What if I Told You that I Love You” by Ali Gatie at #63, “Charades” by Headie One and Fred Again at #57, “Stop this Flame” by Celeste at #56, “Staqdo” by MoStack at #54, “Mya Mills” by Lil Pino at #50, “Run” by Joji at #46, “High Fashion” by Roddy Ricch and Mustard at #45, and finally, “Ourself” by NSG at #43. Now, for our new arrivals.

NEW ARRIVALS

#38 – “Ballin’” – Mustard and Roddy Ricch

Produced by Mustard, Justus West and Gylttrip

Okay, so this is a song I’ve been predicting would breach the top 40 for ages, mostly because it’s already been a massive hit in 2019 for the US, and hence is on my list of the best hit songs of 2019, which will probably be the last of one of those lists that I actually do. It’s #14, so it’s not that high, but I feel like I should talk more in-depth there since the list’ll be out as soon as possible, probably this month. It’s Mustard’s first UK Top 40 hit as a lead artist (Congratulations) and Roddy Ricch’s second �� I love this song, we’ll talk about it more another day, that’s all.

#37 – “Suicidal” – YNW Melly

Produced by Z3n

Okay, so let me explain: Yes, YNW Melly, real name Jamell Demons (Fitting name by the way), is still in prison facing murder charges. This is the third album he’s released behind bars, obviously the others were released while he was incarcerated for less serious offenses, but it’s not exactly a new concept and hey, the label aren’t milking his death, at least, although they are milking the murder of two other people, so I guess that point’s out the window. It’s not impossible to make an album from prison but they’re probably just taking snippets of his SoundCloud stuff or unreleased demos and re-releasing it as new content. This is his second UK Top 40 hit after “Murder on My Mind” – if you go by just his song titles, this man is guilty as all hell – and well, it was never going to be any good, was it? The dull piano-lead trap beat isn’t emotive at all, and with the disruptive producer tags and clipping bass, as well as the generic emo guitar, it just feels emotionless, which is awful for a song called “Suicidal”, and YNW Melly is actually giving it all trying to replicate a typical emo-pop song with his voice that I actually love hearing most of the time, especially when it’s drowned in Auto-Tune like this; the vocal track here, despite oddly mixed, would sound great in isolation. Sadly, this beat is so boring, and he goes off topic so many times, with his structure-less flow and monotonous rambling about how he’s got his bag now and everyone’s wishing bad on him now (Probably because he’s facing murder charges)... yeah, this just does nothing for me, and it’s clearly an immature attempt at making a deep, powerful break-up song, even with some of the most pathetic inflections I’ve heard from the man in that “I’m drinkin’ Hennessey” bridge, as well as his heartbreak ending up being as deep as “I swear to God, I swear to God, you stupid bitch”. Yeah, no, this is not great at all, and way too long, by the way.

#36 – “Birthday” – Anne-Marie

Produced by Oak

So, if you forgot who Anne-Marie was, first of all I don’t blame you because so did I, but second of all, she’s a pop songstress who often hops on dancehall or house beats with a voice and delivery that treads the line between indie-girl mumble mouth and a fake Caribbean accent. This is the lead single from her second album, that actually debuted dangerously low—seriously, this is looking like it’s prepared for a sophomore slump ala Camila Cabello’s Romance late last year, although admittedly Anne-Marie’s chart presence, whilst seemingly omnipresent in 2018 and early 2019, has dwindled considerably. This is her tenth UK Top 40 hit, and well, I don’t exactly know what to expect but I’m guessing some fluffy, vaguely tropical dance-pop tune, but it could be a ballad for all I know. It doesn’t look like I’m too far off, but this one is particularly obnoxious, with a dated, beeping synth tone acting as the main melody, an aggravatingly static hi-hat pattern, a messy and out-of-place drum beat that sounds straight out of a shit Flume rip-off, some of Anne-Marie’s most obnoxious Auto-Tuned vocal inflections (And some of her most Kehlani-like, may I add), and vocal mixing that is questionably lower than the drums in the pre-chorus, even though they’re clearly not backing vocals. The chorus is hilariously trite, saying, “Goddamn, it’s my birthday”, and that people should give her money because it’s her birthday. Basically, it’s about a spoiled teenager on her 16th birthday being all rebellious and edgy to spite their parents but without any actual emotion or passion, and instead some pathetic vocal runs and disgusting, cluttered instrumentation... actually, that would describe a teenage birthday party pretty well. The little chuckle at the end in place of an outro is also really cringe worthy. What an awful song – it’s been a while since we’ve had a hit here that seems fundamentally broken, but this gets pretty close.

#34 – “Know Your Worth” – Khalid and Disclosure

Produced by Disclosure

R&B singer Khalid and EDM group Disclosure, two acts I happen to be very fond of whenever they appear on this show, have collaborated for the second time since 2019’s “Talk”, a song which I love but won’t be making an appearance on my best list for that year for one simple reason that’ll seem obvious once you read that list. This collaboration doesn’t seem to be for an album, though, and is instead an advert for Levi’s jeans. Nice. It’s Khalid’s thirteenth and Disclosure’s sixth (ironically excluding “Talk” as they weren’t properly credited as lead artist) UK Top 40 hit, and it sure is a Disclosure song, with their more modern EDM touches they’ve been picking up recently in productions like the aforementioned “Talk” and Mac Miller’s “Blue World”, but with some really sweet steel pans, the same stilted groove they’re known for, a quirky collection of beeping synths and a familiar yelling vocal sample that I can’t find the original source for anywhere. Khalid rides on the instrumental pretty nicely and smoothly but this really isn’t anything special, with the lyrics mostly being some kind of general motivation or self-empowerment, mostly directed towards a girl whose significant other doesn’t exactly treat her like she is worth, apparently to Khalid. I think Shawn Mendes is rubbing off on you, mate.

#32 – “London” – M24 featuring Tion Wayne

Produced by ETS

Hey, Tion Wayne! I like this dude a lot, and I was thinking about him a couple days ago, thinking that he’d had his time up on the charts, but he seems to be back with M24, another British rapper, for this new single. Tion Wayne is one of the main reasons “Options” by NSG is one of my most-listened songs of last year, and has since delivered excellent verses on “Bally” with the equally charismatic Swarmz and tried to lighten up the amazingly dull “Keisha & Becky” by Russ splash, who has since changed his name because of course he has. It’s safe to say he’s one of my favourite of the recent crop of London rappers, simply because of how fun his cadences can be. I was surprised when I saw him on a sharp black-and-white cover art with a song about London, which I assumed would be about the struggles of gang violence and poverty that Tion Wayne has since risen above, but instead, for his fourth UK Top 40 hit and M24’s first ever, we have a chorus that goes, “That gyal wan’ shock, one eye on her arse like, “Holy f***”, look at the arch, you know I buss, back up the arse like uh-uh”. That’s actually about what I expected from Tion Wayne to be honest. Looking back on all those songs that I mentioned, especially “Bally”, it has interesting, eccentric, exciting and energetic cadences, as well as some upbeat production that is sourly missing from people like Aitch and DigDat. That’s why while I was slightly disappointed by the more minimalist, dull, colourless drill production, which honestly actually kind of bangs, I was welcomed by Tion Wayne’s hilarious hook, especially the “UH UH” ad-lib, and his injections of humour into the verses, which M24 tries as well. Both M24’s more aggressive stuttering delivery and Tion Wayne’s more carefree flow work for this beat (which is unfitting for a song that’s supposed to be about attractive women by the way; this is in no way sexy), with Tion Wayne’s first verse seemingly carrying the theme of “beef”, and he likes a fight in prison because it’s “beef in a cell”... “like Beyoncé”? Huh? He kind of gets away with it though, as the next line is even funnier; his gun is like his roll-on deodorant because it doesn’t leave shells. He shouts out his designer-brand boxers then says that he will fight a man for his phone charger. You get why I like this dude, right? He’s kind of absurd. M24 and Tion Wayne trade bars on the second verse, with M24 even lightening up to say that his sex is so good that his groupies try to invite their mother. Lovely. They also share some clever worldplay about “ye” (drugs) and Kanye, both comparing themselves to Kim Kardashian in the process. All this is without overstaying its welcome, by the way, it’s less than three minutes. Wayne then, for a final few bars, adopts the “A$AP Forever” flow to shout out basically every woman in England, as well as saying this:

I f*** your girl from the back / I put my block on the map

These two events (hopefully) have no relation to each other, like at all. Never change, Tion Wayne.

#31 – “Destined for Greatness” – Tobi & Manny featuring Janelle

Produced by Krunchie and Zdot

I knew this was going to be a tricky one once I realised that I know more about the producers than I do about any of the three primary vocalists here. Krunchie and Zdot are responsible for much of Bugzy Malone’s discography, especially the older stuff. Anyway, this is the first UK Top 40 hit for Tobi & Manny, a duo much like Young T & Bugsey or Krept and Konan made of two members or affiliates of the Sidemen, namely: Tobi and Manny, two brothers that joined KSI’s group of YouTubers, rappers, entertainers, FIFA players, what have you. They teamed up with their sister Janelle, who actually contributes very little to the song, no more than a short intro and backing vocals, for a kid-friendly motivational anthem – on a dark, menacing beat. Of course. Yeah, this is pathetic. Both Tobi and Manny have no interesting bars, and whilst it is mostly a story-telling song, there isn’t any passion in their voices about their come-up, so why should I care? Janelle doesn’t exist, and if she does, she’s annoying, joining in on the bland hook for a somewhat colourful addition to the shitty non-entities of Tobi and Manny, both of whom are just phoning it in, but I feel like this is them trying to be their best, to be honest. This is just corny, and aggravatingly so, with a boring beat to boot. I have no idea how this debuted this high, when it is this painfully amateur. “We’re controlling the game like Nintendo Wii”? Give me a break. Oh, and I listened to Tobi’s only other official single as part of the Sidemen on “The Gift”, and somehow he had the best verse.

#29 – “React” – The Pussycat Dolls

Produced by Will Simms, Johan Gustafson and Ivares

The Pussycat Dolls were a girl group formed in the 2000s, who were reasonably  big worldwide and massive here in the UK. They weren’t made by a British talent show, but they were similarly generic and basically just the sexier alternative to the more teeny-bopper groups, and hence I guess were made more for boys than they were for girls, in that respect, but even for today, despite being produced and directed by men for men and presented consistently in an awfully objectifying manner, they have kept that “girl power” schtick. You may know them for “Don’t Cha”, “Buttons”, “Beep”, “I Hate This Part”, whatever, they’re all garbage. After the group split only lead singer Nicole Sherzinger retained relevance and officially made the only good song tangentially related to the Dolls, with her (originally uncredited) feature on “Club Can’t Handle Me” by Flo Rida and David Guetta. I mean, it’s a low bar that you’d think they’d be able to ascend, but I can’t think of a single song from the Dolls that is better. Anyway, they’re all in their 40s now, and they’ve reunited for their eleventh UK Top 40 hit (and their first since 2010’s “Hush Hush, Hush Hush” peaked at #17), with massive comeback, television debut, high-budget music video and... a chart debut at #29. Yikes. Well, the Dolls were always dancers rather than singers, so people won’t purchase the single in the streaming era where you can choose what to listen to and you’re not having songs pushed down your throat by radio stations incessant label promotion (Well, at least not most of the time, Drake). I think the only reason the song is even in the top 40 at all is that the UK Singles Chart decided three years ago that YouTube streams counted for the chart. Listen, the song is manufactured plastic dance-pop that’s worth no-one’s time, with even the most distinct voice in the band, Scherzinger, sounding like a vocaloid. The chorus is a massive rip-off of the melody from the verses of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “I Really Like You”, by the way. Once I heard that, I couldn’t get it out of my head. Jepsen’s song is actually good, by the way.

#27 – “Power Over Me” – Dermot Kennedy

Produced by Koz

Remember “Outnumbered”? That was a pretty decent folk-trap hit, right? Well, Dermot Kennedy is back for his second UK Top 40 single, which was actually released far before his breakout hit but is getting the push now, “Power Over Me”, originally released in 2018. Now, it’s basically the same concept: Irish dude croons and belts over a guitar-lead pop song... but this isn’t a ballad, and instead has a real kick to it, figuratively and literally, but very little groove. The song isn’t bad at all, and I love the concept of a song of not him having the power in this relationship, but him finding himself subservient to this girl, who he paints as some kind of deity figure, and it’s convincing. God, I love how the drums sound in this song. The humming in the pre-chorus is just so sonically pleasing as well. The belting in the bridge and the mesh of guitar, on the other hand, isn’t really, but damn, the strings in the final chorus are genuinely gorgeous, and it’s catchy as hell, so for a good folk-rock love song, yeah, I can vouch for this one. There’s a MEDUZA house remix to this that hilariously misses the point of this song but sounds crazy good doing it, and might be a bit better than the original, if just for the blend of 80s post-disco and 16-bit chiptune bass in the drop. Either way, this is a good song, and reminds me kind of 2000s alt-rock, as did “Outnumbered”, to be honest. Maybe I should check out that debut self-titled album.

#14 – “Intentions” – Justin Bieber featuring Quavo

Produced by Poo Bear and the Audibles

This is the most 2016-sounding song that was released after 2017, and that’s just off the title alone. You guys want to add Chance the Rapper while you’re at it? God, what an anti-climactic end to our new arrivals. Justin Bieber and Quavo. I cannot imagine a blander, less interesting duo than Justin Bieber and Quavo. I think I’ve lived approximately five Quavo verses ever, the dude is so non-descript compared to the rest of the Migos, especially Offset, who, to be honest, I’ve become quite a fan of in recent months. It’s Bieber’s 46th UK Top 40 hit or something to that effect, and Quavo’s seventh but who cares, honestly? Who is listening to Bieber out of passion for his music or voice or whatever? Only his biggest, most loyal fans. The general public who casually listen to Bieber are listening more out of morbid curiosity than anything else, and for someone who seemed like the biggest star in the world at some point, that’s just depressing. Yeah, I have nothing else to say, and I’ll continue to ignore actually reviewing this dude’s songs, even once the album bomb comes next week, if it even does. I think the “(feat. Lil Dicky)” song might be even more dreadfully embarrassing than the “(feat. Quavo)”, actually.

Conclusion

All things considered, this was a below-average week but I had a lot of fun reviewing these songs, so at least most of them were interestingly bad or had intriguing stories behind them. Even if I didn’t review it, the Best of the Week is still going to “Ballin’” by Mustard and Roddy Ricch, with Honourable Mention probably being a toss-up between “London” by M24 featuring Tion Wayne, and “Power Over Me” by Dermot Kennedy. The Worst of the Week is undoubtedly “Birthday” by Anne-Marie, with “Destined for Greatness” by whoever that was by picking up the Dishonourable Mention. This could be one of two or three big weeks on the horizon, so watch out for that and follow me on Twitter @cactusinthebank for my real-time reactions to said weeks, and more pop music ramblings. Thank you for reading!

REVIEWING THE CHARTS 2020

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kpop group tag

tagged by @danielsoftgf @porkjeojang and @wannasseu ♥♥♥ rule: click here to play the click and drag game!

company: starship (w my homeboi gwanghyun)

number of members: nine

position: main vocalist 

genre of music: ballad

collab w/: verbal jint (YEE BOI)

do i go solo: you become a big hit! (HELL YEAH I WOULD)

scandal: gambling (dis thing v accurate :-))

years active: 10

after my career: lyricist (dang we ballin)

tagging: IDFK WHO ELSE HASN’T BEEN TAGGED BC I DID THIS SO LATE SO DO IT IF U WANT IG LMAO

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free ballin’: the true story of tom petty

by Ben St. George

   This past weekend we lost one of America’s greatest rock n’ roll icons. Paul Thomas Hewson or “Tom Petty” as we all know him was one of the founding members of Lynyrd Skynrd and went on to become a household name through his solo career spanning from the 1970s through present day.    Born on March 2, 1952 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey to Carol and John Bongiovi (Hewson was his mother’s maiden name), Paul knew from a young age that he wanted to be a rockstar. In his teens he started a local band called “The Quarry Men” with a few of his high school friends. Although the band didn’t last long or even make it out of town, Hewson’s childhood friend Rick Allen played drums for the group. Rick would go on to become the drummer for Def Leppard and work on many collaborations with Petty in later years.    Despite his roots and minor career in New Jersey, Hewson knew he had to branch out and redefine himself if he was ever to achieve his dreams and get the opportunities he wanted. In 1970, at the age of 18, Hewson left home for Memphis, Tennessee to pursue a record deal and begin his own band. The harsh realities of life soon took over, however, and he worked full time as an appliance salesman to make ends meet for himself and then girlfriend June Carter. Music had to become a side job for Hewson for the first few years before his big break.    In 1977 Ronnie Van Zant and Paul Hewson finally had their fateful encounter that would change both their lives (and one of their names) forever. The story goes that one night in April of that year, Hewson was performing solo at a local bar in Memphis when Van Zant began drunkenly heckling from the audience. Hewson abruptly halted his act to charge this unknown heckler and beat him with his acoustic guitar. After a scrappy few minutes of arms and beer bottles flailing, the two were separated. Apparently sobered up from the action, Van Zant exclaimed to a silent room “Gee, mate I thought you were pretty damn good. I was jealous is all. You didn’t have to be so f-ing petty about it!” The room burst with laughter and the dynamic duo of “Tom Petty” and Ronnie Van Zant would go one to create the iconic band Lynyrd Skynyrd that very month.    Throughout both his career with the band and his solo work, Petty created a colossal imprint on rock n’ roll and music history. From the band’s Billboard #1 hits “London Calling” and “Black Water” to Petty’s own timeless ballads of “Winds of Change” and “Layla” and countless more; Tom Petty has left an insurmountable legacy behind him. He finished his career with 18 Grammy wins, 5 triple platinum albums and two inductions to the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame; one for Lynyrd Skynyrd and one for his solo career.    His death comes as a shock to most as Petty was in the middle of his “No Filter” European tour which had sold out every show prior to his passing. There was no end in sight to the popularity and demand for this American songwriting icon. It is only right that his timeless words travel back to us in this time of grief: All our times have come. Here but now they’re gone. Seasons don’t fear the reaper. And neither did you, Mr. Petty. Rock in peace

[saltpepperbeard]

Y’all I did it. I finally did it. 

I finished Ballad.

And now I’m sitting here like 

[sunkentreasurecove]

When I met you boy you was the sweetest thing Like a Sade tape in the coldest spring When I saw your eyes I thought they shined for me Just being in your space was divine me Gave you true smiles and a lot more time Then them ballin cats who fiend to be mine But really love you wasn't even fuckable The way you were made you highly untouchable Peeped you though every move you made Studied from a distance watched the games you played And some would say I shoulda never came closer But I ain't never had the taste for the phrase not supposed ta So I chose imagine that Put a plan into play to make it public fact That I'm the one and you shoulda knew That them other girls have never loved you like I do For you I'd dive into a treacherous sea Bring you Neptune's jewels to keep you happy I would fly into a merciless sun steal you the sky 'cause you're the one Mighta took some time but most good things do Manifest when the time is true I admit I was nervous 'cause things get changed Something about my lifestyle makes love so strange So many angles and tangled components Everybody want to touch just for the moment But you put a new hue in my blue Added a perspective to my concrete views 'Bout tossin caution into the breeze Followin' emotion like streams to the seas Top priority believe you me Like love how you feel, you alright, whatchu need? It's more than your lips on the nap of my necks Or your hands on my breast, with your leg on my thigh Or the look in your eyes as you slide inside It's the way you make me want to live instead of die The funniest part is that I've never claimed you Yet and still when I talk to God I name you Even got you own song look, you a star No need to call names you know who you are I'd give you everything be the mother of your seeds Keep the world at bay if you need time to breath Be the chest to rest on when things a bit to much These offers they stand so no need to rush You young black and gifted whole life aheada you I love for that would never try to tame you So I remain dedicated in the wings Inspired by your laugh to wait for things I just hope you aware of what you actually got A true woman make my man want for not So when you here this song know I'm speakin to you This is a be -girl ballad, for true

Mystic, Neptune’s Jewels

[womenofcolor15]

JUNETEENTH MUSIC PLAYLIST: Wale, H.E.R., Da Baby, Alicia Keys & More Drop The Necessary Black Empowerment Tracks For The Culture

We’ve got the perfect playlist to rock out to  from artists like Wale, H.E.R., Da Baby, Alicia Keys and more as you celebrate Juneteenth. Take a listen inside….

It’s Juneteenth and several artists have dropped new music that exude black empowerment. Lyrics that paint the picture of what’s going on in our nation today. Music artists dropped new music this Friday to kick off Juneteenth RIGHT.

Rapper Wale is lending his voice to the revolution! The DC rapper surprised his fans with a new EP titled, The Imperfect Storm. The six tracks were inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement “with a revolutionary spark and his ancestor’s spirit.” It’s poetic infused with politics and current events.

The nation is TIREDT of police brutality and racism. Over the last few weeks, people have been hitting the streets to protest against racism, police brutality, systemic racism and social injustice. The protests were sparked after the death of George Floyd went viral.

"Seen a white riot get a black n*gga shot/Strapped fully, yes, 'cause the pig finna ride/Blasphemy, yes, they ain't askin' for God/They ran through the stores, they ran through the spas/It's hard to get mad when it's mad niggas gone,” Wale rapped on “Movin’ Different.”

On his track titled “June 5th/QueenZnGodZ” he talked about cultural appropriation and the raging protests that have been going on across the nation.

”Okay, who black, who black, who black, who not?/I know you mad, you mad, they mad they not/We the sports and the music, do the math, we the culture/And I gotta ask of you, what have you brought?,” he rapped.

My daughter seen the murder on cellular phone/And that was not on purpose, was orderin' Trolls Okay, they mad, they mad, they mad, they hot/Thinkin' the badge is better than havin' some heart Okay, look now, look now, look how they runnin'/They beatin' white people down just to show us what's comin'/Or to show us we nothin', or to show us we only welcome when singin' or ballin'/Nigga, shut up and dribble (Shut up and dribble)/ Or shut up, perform for them, 'cause they hold all the money,” he rapped.

Prolific.

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                  In sad news, former “Gossip Game” star turned “This Is Us” writer #JasFly has passed away at the age of 39. Her passing has shocked the industry and has sparked an outpouring of love and praise of Jas and her impact on creatives, friends and loved ones. Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones at this time.

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He also gave a shoutout to "This Is Us" writer Jas Fly, who recently passed away.

Take a listen to his surprise EP below:

In other new music...

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                  #ICantBreathe is out everywhere now. #BlackLivesMatter

A post shared by H.E.R. (@hermusicofficial) on Jun 19, 2020 at 5:45am PDT

H.E.R. just debuted a new track "I Can't Breathe," which is a powerful track written in the wake of killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor on Juneteenth. She titled the track "I Can't Breathe," George Floyd's last words - the same phrase Eric Garner said as he was being choked by police officers in 2014.

"These lyrics were kind of easy to write because it came from a conversation of what's happening right now, what's been happening, and the change that we need to see," H.E.R. said before her iHeartRadio Living Room concert. "I think music is powerful when it comes to change and when it comes to healing, and that's why I wrote this song, to make a mark in history."

Take a listen below:

And peep her iHeartRadio performance below:

Also...

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                  I have felt called by music like I never have before.⁣⁣ I have been following its lead.⁣⁣ It has led me to the song “A Perfect Way to Die”.⁣⁣ The song title is so powerful and heartbreaking because WE are heartbroken by so many who have died unjustly.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Of course, there is NO perfect way to die. That phrase doesn’t even make sense. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Just like it doesn’t make sense that there are so many innocent lives that should not have been taken from us due to the destructive culture of police violence. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Sometimes I don’t have the words and music is the only thing that can speak.⁣⁣ I hope this speaks to you.⁣⁣ I hope one day this song won’t be so relevant.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Let’s NEVER stop fighting for justice.

A post shared by Alicia Keys (@aliciakeys) on Jun 18, 2020 at 9:36pm PDT

Alicia Keys served up new music to pay tribute to the black lives that were stolen at the hands of police and white people. The new track is titled "Perfect Way to Die" where she collaborated with Sebastian Kole on the emotional ballad. The song was written from a black mother's point of view whose children have been killed due to police violence.

"I have felt called by music like I never have before.⁣," Alicia wrote on Instagram. "I have been following its lead.⁣⁣ It has led me to the song 'A Perfect Way to Die'.⁣⁣ The song title is so powerful and heartbreaking because WE are heartbroken by so many who have died unjustly.⁣⁣" ⁣⁣

Take a listen below:

As for another socially charged track....

Rapper Da Baby recently dropped a "Black Lives Matter" remix of his hit track "Rockstar" with Roddy Rich. The remix features new bars from Da Baby where he talks about his own violent experiences with police officers and the protests against the police bruatliaty that have been talking over the nation.

Take a listen above.

More new music...

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                  The Product III: stateofEMERGEncy coming 6/26

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  Singer August Alsina just announced he has a new album dropping on June 26th. It's titled The Product III: stateofEMERGEncy and it'll be accompanied with a 5-part documentary series titled "stateofEMERGEncy: The Rise of August Alsina." It'll debut Sunday, June 21st via YouTube.

The album and documentary come as a unit following years of Alsina’s ongoing battle with his severe auto-immune disease, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), and the passing of his sister, leaving him as the guardian for his three young nieces. Both projects dive deep into his lifetime of trials and tribulations all before the young age of 27, and are intended to be experienced together as he tells his story through an authentic humanizing lens. Fans will witness Alsina pull back the curtain on what he’s been through along his path up until now, how he is coping with the cards he’s been dealt, and how he is finding healing through it all. Each episode from the documentary is paired with a track off the album leading up to the full album release on Friday, June 26th.

The Product III: stateofEMERGEncy is a robust 27-songs with features from Yo Gotti, Tink, Lil Wayne, Juicy J and Darrel Walls. stateofEMERGEncy: The Rise of August Alsina documentary explicitly reveals Alsina’s troubling past, his loved ones surrounding him and the life-changing moment creating an instant pause in his career. With only 15-minutes each episode, Alsina opens up about his auto-immune disease, his homeless experience and his anxiety, giving fans a glimpse of his hometown and childhood life in New Orleans leading up to the release of Product III: stateofEMERGEncy.

Get ready!

As for education in music...

  We have a responsibility to seek to nurture talent & empower the next generation of Black leaders. ASCAP partners with historically Black colleges & universities on summer intern leadership program, launching w/ @HowardU @CAU @Morehouse @BennettCollege > https://t.co/BwUjiaJokx pic.twitter.com/dYPTL23zoA

— ASCAP (@ASCAP) June 19, 2020

ASCAP - the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers - announced the launch of a new paid internship program for students enrolled in historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the U.S. Woot! Grab your phone, pull up the notes application and take down this information.

This summer, the PRO will offer five HBCU students the opportunity to join ASCAP’s team to gain real-world experience in the music industry.

Howard University (Washington, DC), Clark Atlanta University (Atlanta, GA), Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA), and Bennett College (Greensboro, NC) will be initial partners in the program, which will run through July and August. Interns will work remotely, alongside ASCAP professionals in their field of interest.

ASCAP plans to continue and expand the initiative moving forward, offering paid internships to HBCU students each summer.

“We have a responsibility to seek to nurture talent and empower the next generation of Black leaders in the music business, just as we do on the creative side,” said ASCAP Senior Vice President, Rhythm & Soul Nicole George-Middleton. “Our goal is to provide experience within ASCAP and to help our interns connect with the larger industry as they pursue their careers.”

BONUS:

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                  Oh Okay it’s going down tomorrow 8pm est on @verzuztv !

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  Tonight, Alicia Keys and John Legend will battle it out on the piano for the Verzuz Battle tonight at 8pm/EST.

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Column: Favorite Rap Mixtapes of June 2017

With a daunting cascade of releases spewing from the likes of DatPiff, LiveMixtapes, Bandcamp, and SoundCloud, it can be difficult to keep up with the overbearing yet increasingly vital mixtape game. In this column, we aim to immerse ourselves in this hyper-prolific world and share our favorite releases each month. The focus will primarily be on rap mixtapes — loosely defined here as free (or sometimes free-to-stream) digital releases — but we’ll keep things loose enough to branch out if/when we feel it necessary. (Check out last month’s installment here.) --- T.E.C. & Maine Musik - Spider Nation [stream] At some point during my third listen to Spider Nation, I realized that two rappers featured on it had since died. BTY YoungN and Zoe Realla are just two of too many killed this year in Baton Rouge, a troubled city for which a burgeoning rap scene has become a source of national attention. Along with the city’s fastest-rising star YoungBoy Never Broke Again (age 17), T.E.C. & Maine Musik (both 23) have made the most of the spotlight, collecting millions of views across their catalog of music videos (Baton Rouge’s primary method of music distribution). To ignore their music is to bury your head in the sand; while unkind to the gun-shy, Spider Nation is a direct transmission of an experience into which millions are born. –Corrigan B --- Adamn Killa - I Am Adamn [stream/download] Adamn Killa is the type of rapper who does one thing, and will do it proudly ‘til death — the ineffable aura encircling his flow lilts in how it refuses to make a case for its drooping metrics: yawning hooks trail off and form concentric rings around a self-image of solitude as Adamn constantly repeats his own name (“Please don’t ask me who I am, it’s on my face” he warbles on “Too Late”) and pens dirge after ballad about how bad his haters smell. I Am Adamn is the rising Chicagoan’s first proper album, bringing a hi-fidelity touch to the sparkling, gauzy production lane that 2016’s slept-on Back 2 Ballin tape codified. Adamn is nothing new for the eponymous rapper, but it is the best document thus far of what he does: immaculately mastered beats from Ryan Hemsworth, Shlohmo, UV Boi, and Dolan Beats form a silky continuum for Adamn’s cobwebby shittalking meditations to spread out, comfortably anesthetized in their sleepy half-articulation. –Nick Henderson --- 5G - LOR5TH [stream] Falling timbrally between OPN’s Replica and Tommy Wright III’s cassette discography, LOR5TH is a hypnagogic patchwork of trashed samples, off-kilter rhythms, and spoken-word chants that feel so aggressive they’re dreamy. Think of Deafheaven’s approach to blast-beats and tremelo-picked riffage ― the black-metal outfit’s arrangements are densely packed enough to fold in on themselves, creating blank space. Or perhaps they just melt in one’s mind like candy and good barbecue do on the tongue. However the San Fransico quartet manipulate their musical state of matter, Philly’s 5G and his all-star line up of beatmakers are equally capable of doing just that ― creating a liquid stream of harsh vibes that collect in the brain like warm pool water trapped in one’s inner ear. LOR5TH’s two Spaceghostpurrp-produced cuts are its best offerings, each adding grisly meat to 5G’s calculated, skeletal delivery. –Jude Noel --- Mozzy & Gunplay - Dreadlocks & Headshots [stream] The first time many of us saw Gunplay he was in Columbia, on the set of a Rick Ross video shoot, extolling the purity of the country’s cocaine and sniffing it on camera. But what if that purportedly candid WorldStar video was itself a staged video shoot, the Medellin cityscape actually the wall of a Hollywood sound stage? Gunplay’s brand is that of the wild card, the dreadlocked, tattooed man on coke with the machine gun. This being established, Gunplay could’ve rested on his WorldStar laurels… but then he would’ve been Stitches. Instead, he outshined the Boss every chance he got and built a rep as one of the most consistent mixtape pumpers of his time. That is, until it all stopped, leaving a vacuum where the rapper’s left nostril once resided. What happened? Who’s Mozzy? Whatever. Entertainment is spectacle, but if Gunplay was a mere provocateur, he wouldn’t have been missed. He was. Here’s hoping he’s back for good. –Samuel DIamond --- Chief Keef - Thot Breaker [stream/download] I don’t know what surprised me more while listening to Thot Breaker — that Chief Keef is still producing his own tracks, or that they all sound amazing. In terms of his entire musical craft, Keith Cozart has entered a new era, swapping the Chief Sosa mask with that of Chief Turbo. Every song is the kind of distracted love song he’s so good at making, blending what sound like true expressions of his emotions with crass and imaginative storytelling. “She told me that she loved me /And then I closed the curtains,” sings Turbo on “Couple of Coats,” practicing the latter and sort of expressing whatever of a romantic ethos he, one of rap’s ultimate cynics, has. The all auto-tuned delivery sounds somewhere between that of Almighty So, a kind of critical touchstone, and the in-your-face vocal style of more recent mixtapes. Turbo’s grown-up beats, though, are the main attraction. “Drank Head” reminds me of listening to Kingdom circa “Bank Head” (no pun consciously intended). If you “thought that you had Turbo in your palm,” like he speculates on “Alone (Intro),” he has 12 more tracks on deck to show you how wrong you were. –Will Neibergall --- Slim Jesus - The Most Hated [stream] He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool (Proverbs 10:18). Slim Jesus is a celestial entity that feeds off the hatred of others and is willing to intercede in the physical world in order to sow his feast of discontent. The Ohioan emcee’s controversial single-cum-video “Drill Time” wormed its way into meme status in the summer of 2015, largely thanks to the dubious authenticity of its white, pubescent mastermind, and partly on the strength of its deliciously sinister production and eyebrow-raising use of simile. It was the sort of track that one could take great pleasure in despising ― obnoxious enough to grab your initial attention, but catchy and stupidly clever enough to keep you bobbing your head, eventually joining in Jesus’ sneering, deliberate flow as he threatens to “take you out like a fucking date,” or catch you at the “wrong place at the wrong time.” To bump “Drill Time” is to ride the fence between pleasure and pain, toying with the idea of jumping toward either side. Nobody is more acutely aware of the unifying-yet-polarizing effect of Slim Jesus’ music than Slim himself ― his first-ever mixtape, The Most Hated, released nearly two years after the dust of “Drill Time” settled, is dedicated to those that have rebuked him in the past. The tape’s unlikely to garner any new detractors (or even do 5-digit numbers on Spotify), but I find it doubtful that doing so was in Slim Jesus’ plan. It’s instead the harvest of a patient farmer, gorging on his bumper crop of animosity. –Jude Noel --- Hus Kingpin & Big Ghost Ltd. - Cocaine Beach [stream] This shit splendid god namsayin?! Hus Kingpin got more jewels than Rabbi Yehodavich and the Hasidim boyz namsayin?! Just crazy, stupendous, ultra-violet, super-shine glow packs for the babies and all that. Toys, toolies, and King Tut hats out the archives, ya dig? Archaeology-type hieroglyph linguistics for you to see something, say something with your third eye and all that, love. But back up off me before you get touched, alright lord? Nah you good there, hibernate on it. Plus, Big Ghost jet-skiing on the wave-o like Spring Break forever kid. No splash neither, you feel me sunspot? Like the god incorporated his self in the tidal structure, Yao Ming? Noam Chomsky? –Samuel Diamond --- Starlito - Attention Tithes & Taxes 2: Gentrifried [stream] I’d almost forgotten that mixtapes used to feature other peoples’ beats. Then again, it’s easy enough to believe that Starlito is in short supply. He’s one of the hardest-working rappers in the business — this marks his fourth mixtape of 2017, yet is a mere aperitif for a proper album, Hot Chicken, coming next week. Nashville incarnate, Starlito has ruled his town for over a decade, enjoying a sort of localized dominance seemingly unique to southern rappers. Since a stint on the path to stardom in the mid-2000’s, Starlito has matured right along with his music, a sort of constant against which the rest of the rap game’s ebbs and flows may be measured. Lito has an excess of thoughts that need sharing, and he takes the opportunity to go on the record about topics that might not make the album, including his spat with Post Malone and the incarceration of his longtime collaborator Kevin Gates. –Corrigan B http://j.mp/2s9L45i

[theworstbob]

yellin’ at songs: june, week four

capsule reviews of the pop songs which debuted on the billboard hot 100 on 24 june 2017 and 23 june 2007

23 June 2007

28) "Nobody's Perfect," Hannah Montana

Ah, yes. This. This was a thing which occurred in 2007, and this is a thing I am certainly excited to reevaluate, given the general worth it has contributed to society in the intervening decade. This won't be the thinkpiece, of course, given that we have three Hannah Montana songs, two Miley Cyrus songs, and one Billy Ray Cyrus song to think about. ("Shake It," a Cyrus-affiliated production, does not debut this year.) So, this song. I am a 27-year-old piping a hot track from a Disney Channel show or original movie into his ears. It is clear I shouldn't be here, and for so many reasons. I did not need to hear that, even if I make mistakes, I will survive and be OK. I am an unexceptional white dude. I KNOW the world will always make a comfortable home for me. This gets a B-. I don't give grades, but this is getting a B-, because right now, I feel like a teacher reading the seventy-eighth essay on Langston Hughes they've ever read and just going, "Yep, you wrote the requisite five paragraphs, I don't care how many grammars you badded, you did something, and I'd rather just not read this anymore."

88) "Shut up and Drive," Rihanna

The only thing more important than dropping that first mega-hit is nailing the follow-up. You know you're probably not gonna go back to back (foreshadowing), but you still need a song solid enough that you won't fade from the public consciousness once the public decides they have overplayed your song. This song does its job admirably. It isn't anything world-shattering, but it's good rowdy fun, it's different enough from "Umbrella" what with its tinge of rock influence while still being uniquely Rihanna, and it has that big dumb hook that has anchored Dreamworks movies for a decade. This is not the best song in the world, but it's pretty heckin' sweet.

94) "These Are My People," Rodney Atkins

A stirring tribute to mediocrity, this song has maybe my least-favorite lyric in recent memory: "It ain't always pretty/But it's real." Two people wrote this song, neither of whom are Rodney Atkins. Like, come on. Like, this is a song about a boring-ass upbringing awash in all the country stereotypes, yet here we have Rodney Atkins, someone with an interesting upbringing who at one point was himself a songwriter, setting anything that could be unique about this song so that he can, what, make money off drunkards at the BPOE requesting this song on the radio? ...That is a jauntry fiddle this song has, though, I'll give it that. I just don't understand why these country dudes never tried harder. I mean, not trying has proven to be an incredibly lucrative path, but are all these country dudes so morally bankrupt they would forsake artistic pursuit for the mighty dollar?

95) "A Bay Bay," Hurricane Chris

Like, this is also dumb? But at least I can rest secure knowing Hurricane Chris wrote every single generic word in this song, and I know that Hurricane Chris truly believed in his vision of a world where white folks and gangstas could set aside their differences for one song so they could holler "A Bay Bay" in the club. And as much as I loved that sweet happy fiddle on "These Are My People," I would listen to this beat a thousand times before I listened to what is by country standards hella weak fiddling ever again. It's a dumb song, but at least I can believe in the message it's sending, even if I'm not 100% sure the message it's sending actually means anything. My memory's foggy, I'm pretty sure "A Bay Bay" meant "hell yeah?" It doesn't matter, we left this song in 2007 for a reason. Return home, young friend.

97) "Paralyzer," finger eleven

This song is pretty sweet. It owes a tremendous debt to Franz Ferdinand, but the world owes a tremendous debt to Franz Ferdinand for its ever existing, so it's hard to hold that fact against this song. Like, if you're gonna bite, bite from the greats, and if we're being honest, the buttrock twist on the great mid-aughts post/punk revival is kind of great? It gives this song an actual edge that "Take Me Out" never had, "Take Me Out" feeling like four fancy gentlemen taking you on a tour through whimsy and wonder. That song still sounds great being dragged through mud and pounded with ten thousand fists, and it even emerges with something like an actual attitude? It's an attitude of someone who doesn't go to nightclubs actually going to a nightclub and finding themselves overstimulated, sure, but it fits that attitude.

100) "I Wonder," Kellie Pickler

There are some cold, cold lines in this song. "I hear the weather's nice in California" is brutal, but "I look in the mirror and all I see/Are your brown eyes looking back at me/They're the only thing you ever gave to me/At all" is devastating. I also love that there's a country song about a mother having abandoned her child; mommy issues are relatively unexplored in popular culture, but ESPECIALLY mommy issues had by women. This is one of the more lyrically unique songs I've heard, and I really want to forgive this song for trying to be a bleh over-produced basic country diva ballad. It's like a Tootsie Pop; I know there's chocolate in the center, but I'm not gonna eat a goddamn sucker for ten minutes just to hit that one piece of chocolate. I procrastinated and am writing all thirteen or whatever of these reviews in one sitting aND THESE ARE THE SIMILIES Y'ALL SHITS IS GETTIN

i’m not copypasting the top 20s because neither of them changed, y’all know what songs i like, and if not, hit up the yellin at songs tag to see past editions (note to self: make a tag for these posts, why are you writing a recurring series and not tagging the posts)

24 June 2017

42) "Down," by Fifth Harmony ft./Gucci Mane

"It's like Bonnie & Clyde just walked in/A gangsta and his bride just walked in." ...Okay, well, I didn't think "But it's real" would be topped QUITE this quickly, but I mean, how is Bonnie... not... a gangsta? Like she didn't rob AS many banks as Clyde, but just because she was late to the party, doesn't mean she wasn't a gangsta, she still robbed hella banks. Also, "We on the same team and we ballin'/Got me showin' off my ring like I'm Jordan." Michael Jordan had six rings. Like I know your prison time didn't coincide with Michael Jordan's amazing run of six NBA titles in eight years dude, come on, get it together. Anyway, this song, it's OK. It bleeped and blooped pleasantly, and everyone in Fifth Harmony is at least OK at singing. It was a song I listened to and have on the longlist for year-end Top 50 Or So.

53) "To the Max," by DJ Khaled ft./Drake

this is a song most aptly described as another one. it's another song where dj khaled memes at the top. it's another song where drake sings poorly about some bullshit. it's another drum track i'd rather hear performed by a drummer. it's another one. dj khaled also memes at the end. i apologize for starting this review before the song ended but, as dj khaled just intoned, it's another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, another one, anot73) "4 AM," by 2 Chainz ft./Travis ScottThis was also okay, but right now, I'm like nine songs deep, and the best two have been the seventeenth-best Rihanna song (unscientific ranking, don't @ me) and a rip-off of a much better song, and I just, Travis Scott's fine. I like his particular brand of trap music. I like how the song goes out-of-tune here and there, it's a really interesting touch, it makes the song feel like you're awake at 4 AM and jumping every time something flickers in the window because you don't know what's supposed to move at 4 AM. At least I don't need to listen to the next one, he says, realizing this means the true next one is goddamn bro country with the words "small town" literally in the fucking title.

82) "Whatever You Need," by Meek Mill ft./Chris Brown & Ty Dolla $ign

I think it's admirable that Meek Mill has come back from being owned by Drake. It must be really brutal being the only rapper Drake could possibly ever own. I'm sure he has made delightful pop/rap garbage, and I'm not going to listen it 'cuz, hey, look who's there!, but I'm glad he's here, and I hope to listen to one of his songs eventually.

85) "Small Town Boy," by Dustin Lynch

The worst three seconds of my life were the three seconds after I forgot what this song was called and thought Dustin Lynch had another song called "Smal Town Girl." I was going to throw my computer out the window. It's... It's a less dramatic gesture than it sounds, I live in a garden-level apartment, there's a chance Bertha 2.0 would survive. Let's listen to the song! "I'm a dirt road in the headlights/I'm a mama's boy/I'm a fist fight/Kinda county line/Kinda cold beer/Little hat down/Little John Deere." There are 27 words in this verse and 15 of them are used to create cliches, and that's just, that's just efficiency. You're busy. This song understands that you don't have time to sift through a dictionary to read those words you love, so it gives them straight to you, no fancy city metaphors or adverbs, just prepositions and dirt roads. It's a bad song.

87) "Know No Better," by Major Lazer ft./Travis Scott, Camila Cabello & Quavo

Look, what happend to "Run Up" is one of the greatest injustices of the 21st centuries, but I am relieved that this is the song seeking to right that wrong. Two of 2017's most ubiquitous stars and, for some reason, Travis Scott being gentler and fluffier than he's ever been, making a song that's a nice place to be for a few minutes. I don't love this as much as "Run Up," I love few things in life as much as I loved "Run Up," but it's a neat song! Major Lazer is a rather good popsmith, and I might just be holding on to this song just a bit too tightly because ah geez y'all can see what's coming I'll need these memories to be my light in the dark.

94) "It's Everyday Bro," by Jake Paul ft./Team 10

If this is a joke, it's a bad one, and if this is an actual attempt at music, it is not worth acknowledging much farther than this sentence.

97) "Somebody Else Will," by Justin Moore

...OK, the intro was legit. Like, for the half-minute or so that this was a lightly-funky song, I was down, and then it Borchettad and I remembered that this song always had a ceiling, but yo, whoever wrote this and gave it that smooth-ass intro -- I'm looking at Tebey Ottoh, seeing as he's the only credited songwriter with a Wikipedia page, Tebey Ottoh! I'm picking up what you're putting down, and I'm kinda stoked to hear what you do when you're not working with a big machine. (It's really interesting how there's literally a country music label pumping out shitty song after shitty song called Big Machine, and we're all OK with it. Like, a business called Big Machine that puts out a popular product that actively worsens the minds of its consumer base is like a thing out of a Mystery Science Theatre movie. We don't talk enough about how Big Machine does exactly what you'd think a company called Big Machine would do.)

99) "Nobody Else But You," by Trey Songz

I haven't calculated how many artists from 2007 have had songs chart in 2017, but it can't be too many, right? It's hard to stay relevant for a decade. Even if you're a country dude, like, Rodney Atkins and Craig Morgan are fixtures in 2007, and I would be stunned if I saw those names in the next few months. Fall Out Boy and Foo Fighters released new songs that didn't chart, and Paramore only qualifies because "Hard Times" was big enough to last for a week. Lily Allen didn't last, Fergie's nowhere to be seen, Jordin Sparks made a respectable go but isn't showing up anytime soon. Two of the young women with 2007 hits ended up being contestants on The Voice. Akon might as well be dead. You know who has endured?  You know who has survived, while countless others have fallen? Trey Songz. I can't think of a single live performance Trey Songz gave that showed the world how talented he was. I have never heard anyone on the street have a discussion about the latest in Trey Songz news, now can I remember the last thing Trey Songz did that could be considered newsworthy. I couldn't name any Trey Songz songs, and I am literally staring at the YouTube video for the Trey Songz song I just listened to. It is directly within my line of sight. I think it was called "Nobody Needs to Know" or something? How. How has Trey Songz survived this long. Who is listening to Trey Songz. Trey Songz has released seven studio albums. I don't know if I'm going to listen to them all, because there's music I'm more certain I'll like that I can listen to, but I have to figure this out, 'cuz man, I'm stumped.

again, no top twenties, let’s just get to what sort of matters but doesn’t, at all

Who Won?

...No one? I wanna say no one because I’ve been here for three hours and it’s a heat index of 92 in Minneapolis and my air conditioning unit is three rooms away from the room in which I keep Bertha 2.0, and none of these songs were worth calling winners. I guess 2007 had “Shut up and Drive” and “Paralyzer.” Those were solid Bs, plus you had the B- I gave “Nobody’s Perfect.” 2017 had at least three Cs, depending on how charitable I wanna be with the grade for that Justin Moore song with the cool bass line. But -- ah, I don’t wanna reward mediocrity, 2007 had the high points, let’s reward the songs I can honestly say I enjoyed. I guess 2007. I guess we’re gonna tie it up.

2017: 12 2007: 12

Next week, 2007 gives us Jack Johnson, My Chemical Romance, and Piles. Like that’s it. I should’ve waited until next week to procrastinate, three is much less than six!