#sabrina carpenter song tournament

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WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME . . .

To the Sabrina Carpenter Ultimate Song Tournament. Where, the Carpenters of Tumblr (Us) vote and decide the best song of Sabrina's discography. But before it starts, I need to conduct a poll

Thank you!

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Oc matchup trade for @sugutoad hope you like it girly!

I match Myrielle with...Harwin Strong!!!

HEADCANONS

The day they met was at a tourney, she was sitting next to her brother Alaric hoping a knight would crown her their queen of love and beauty. Ever since Harwin was a boy he had a crush on Myrielle, so to see her favor not be taken yet put nothing but pure joy through his soul. He quickly asked for it on his first match and when he won the tourney he named her his queen of love and beauty.

After the tournament, your father and his quickly set up a betrothal, so the two started with walks through the gardens, then picnics by the beach, and at some point, they were sneaking off to abandoned halls to kiss. to say rumors were following the two of them would be an understatement. so much so your fathers agreed a quick wedding was in order and Harwin and Myrielle didn't put up a fight. for why should they, they already wanted this.

one of their favorite pastimes if for Harwin to sit her in his lap and have her read to him. her voice soothing him after a hard day with the city watch, and calms her for all she wants is to feel his touch, feel his heart beat as she rests her head upon his chest. and both are more than happy to oblige the other.

the night Myrielle went into labor for the first time was terrifying for both of them. her because her mother became ill after her, and Harwin cause he has to see his wife, the love of his life in excruciating pain and there is nothing he can do to help. the maesters do try and make Harwin leave but when he refused no one really wanted to argue with the man nicknamed "Breakbones".

when their son is born, a chubby thing with thick brown hair that already curled, neither could stop staring at him. he was too precious, too innocent, for how could they have made something so pure? "what are you thinking for a name, my love?" Harwi asked as he twirled a piece of their sons hair around his finger. "I was thinking...Lyonal. after your father." Myrielle answered with a smile. so Lyonal it was, and just so you know he was a wild child there wasn't one hour one of those two wasn't chasing after him screaming "NO! GET BACK HERE!"

HOUSE

I put her in House Tyrell, her soft and kind nature mixed with her cunning and ambitious nature matches them perfectly! also her redish brown hair matches them as well so it was a obvious choice for me to put her in house Tyrell.

DRAGON

I give her Silverwing! her kind and gentle nature matches Sliverwing perfectly! so much so that even before reading Myrielle's info I knew who her dragon would be. I think when she claimed Silverwig it was more of the dragon claiming her than the other way around. Myrielle was sitting on the beach with her son, Lyonal, when a great silver beast landed next to them and stared straight at her. She quickly picked up her son ready to run away or at least try to when the beast nuzzled up to her and laid on the ground before her. when King Viserys was told the story he knew that Silverwing had found her new rider.

SHIP TROPES

Brute (Harwin) x Gentle (Myrielle) Idiot always getting hurt (Harwin) x Personal nurse (Myrielle) Kind x Kind

SHIP SONG(S)

What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction Espresso By Sabrina Carpenter

OTHER RELATIONSHIPS

Rhaenyra Targaryen and Myrielle don't like each other one bit. at first, they didn't care about the other, but when Harwin came to Myrielle telling her how the crowned Princess tried to seduce him by calling him into her chambers and stripping in front of him. he swore he left and the next day when Rhaenyra would glare his way is the moment Myrielle knew he told the truth. Rhaenyra had turned to another lord to have her children instead.

Aegon Targaryen had always had a little boy crush on Myrielle, she had always found it cute and let him chase after her. He followed her around so much little Lyonal and Aegon became best friends, their friendship was so strong it would be sung well into Aeny II's ruling.

Alicent Hightower was dear friends with Myrielle, she was one of the few people who didn't treat the Queen poorly or in fear, she treated her like another Lady of Court only with a bit more respect as she is owed. because of this, it isn't a strange sight to find the two drinking tea and venting about life.

Larys Strong had always unnerved Myriellle, she would be kind to him but if she didn't have to interact with him she wouldn't. his calculating eyes and how it always felt like he was using her like some pawn. to say she was relieved when Harwin decided to take over his families seat would be a understatement.

Simon Strong was a funny old man in Myrielle's eyes. he loved to tell stories on Harwin's childhood. Harwin tries to stop them but even then he's laughing at the memories. hearing these stories makes Myrielle realize why their son Lyonal is so wild, because Harwin was. Myrielle adored Simon so much the next time she was pregnant and it was a son, she quickly named him Simon.

MOONBOARD

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REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 22/06/2024 (uh... the Kid LAROI?)

Sabrina Carpenter has an even more impressive second week than her first, as “Please Please Please” strides up to the top spot for her second #1, dethroning Eminem’s “Houdini”, now at #3, and joining her own “Espresso” at #2. Welcome back to a relievingly dull episode of REVIEWING THE CHARTS!

Rundown

As always, we start this slow week with our notable dropouts - songs exiting the UK Top 75, which is what I cover, after five weeks in the region or a peak in the top 40. This week, we bid farewell to mostly long-runners or current bottom-feeders. This time around, our obituaries contain “Forget About Us” by Perrie (Edwards), “obsessed” by Olivia Rodrigo, “You & Me” by Disclosure featuring Eliza Doolittle after its return last week, “End of Beginning” by Djo (just as I start to really like it), “Never Lose Me” by Flo Milli and, of course, thank goodness, Vance Joy’s “Riptide”.

As for our returns and gains, we have Sabrina’s residual gains from her biggest moment yet: “Feather” returns to #75 after peaking at #19 earlier this year. Our notable boosts end up being more varied, with “Pedro” by Jaxomy, Agatino Romero and the late Raffaella Carrá at #67, “Nasty” by Tinashe at #66, “Set My Heart on Fire” by Majestic, The Jammin Kid and Céline Dion at #54, “PICK UP THE PHONE” by PAWSA featuring the late Nate Dogg unfortunately at #49, more Chappell Roan gains with “Red Wine Supernova” at #46 and “HOT TO GO!” at #39, “As it Was” by Harry Styles at #33, and naturally, given it’s the Euros, “Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home)” by comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner and Britpop group The Lightning Seeds is back at #32. It’s topped the charts several times since it first charted in 1996 and routinely re-enters based on different football tournaments and events. I’ve discussed it pretty in-depth on an episode from years ago, so I won’t elaborate as much as I probably would otherwise here, but I suppose we’ll see it rise on the charts in accordance with how the England team’s performance shakes throughout.

As for our top five, well, I already ran through a lot of it, and it’s largely a stable week - “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by Shaboozey at #5, “BIRDS OF A FEATHER” by Billie Eilish: both songs that haven’t moved since last week. As mentioned prior, we then have the trio of “Houdini”, “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” in the top three, and without further ado, time for our uneventful little batch of new songs.

New Entries

#69 - “NIGHTS LIKE THIS” - The Kid LAROI

Produced by Clams Casino

Now, I’m not saying that just because there are very few new songs and generally a not a lot of bigger stories, we will have a nearly entirely unremarkable group of new tracks. It just happens that this week, that is indeed the case. There are little quirks, of course - this may just be a Kid LAROI album cut from last year because, well, that’s just what we’re doing this week, but it’s good to see legendary cloud rap producer Clams Casino on the chart. You probably know him from his work with Lil B and A$AP Rocky, and he brings a similar sampled ambiance here, though the main lead is so distorted it almost sounds like it would fit a hexd record amidst all the stuttering and pretty minimal drum patterns but the drums themselves hit really heavily. It’s very much a modern-day rendition of a more typical Clams Casino beat from the early 2010s. It’s a really good beat. So what does Mr. LAROI do? Uh… like a minute of vocal riffing. This isn’t even a minute and a half, it’s practically an interlude with some of his nicest, or really, least awkward, falsetto performances, but outside of some vague breakup grovelling, this does not have much to it other than a really good instrumental… which does it wonders, but I struggle to really call it a fully-formed song. I assume TikTok is behind this, but an extended version would be a smart move here.

#58 - “Kisses” - BL3SS and CamrinWatsin featuring bbyclose

Produced by BL3SS, CamrinWatsin and Punctual

I’m quite tired, I have a bit of a headache and I’m looking forward to being able to publish this episode and take a good rest. Thanks to these guys I’ve never heard of for making that much easier. Over half of BL3SS’s discography on Spotify consists of versions of this song, which is only two minutes. BL3SS is a production duo from London, Watsin’s an Irish DJ, and this is vocalist bbyclose’s only song, with professionals Punctual here to iron out the creases on a pretty standard house track. bbyclose goes for a bratty, Caity Baser-esque cadence that leaves a lot to be desired, especially since it seems to just be a take that’s been copied and pasted over some basic albeit catchy synth bass and four-on-the-floor beats. I appreciate the frenetic drums midway through and the clashing breakbeats earlier, making it feel uniquely tense considering how minimal the melodic elements are, but again, it’s just a bit of an idea rather than a fully thought-out song. The fuzzy synths in the final drop are a good enough pay-off, but it feels like way more could have been developed upon. There’s nothing wrong with a good basic dance tune but the atmosphere isn’t there, there isn’t really a second hook to latch onto, and the remixes are even shorter, including a remix by rapper Kak Hatt that is barely longer than the Kid LAROI interlude. None of them effectively improve on the original or go for a drastically different approach. It’s just all perfectly cromulent dance music.

#55 - “KEHLANI” - Jordan Adetunji

Produced by Prodbyli

Okay, so let me get this straight: not a single Cash Cobain-produced song will chart, but a rando with basically no credits will replicate the sexy and/or slizzy drill sound identically and get a viral hit. Kehlani won’t chart with her lead single from her album that just released today, but a song named after them to garner clicks, which actually samples Summer Walker instead, specifically her 2019 track “Potential”, will magically appear at #55. Then Kehlani will end up on a yet to be released remix of it in spite of the fact they’re just one of six women mentioned in just the chorus, because they can’t get a hit otherwise. Sigh, I mean, it’s got everything you’d expect from sexy drill, a subgenre I’m… very well-versed in if you want a full-on lecture at some point, I’d be glad to share. It’s got damn near every sound you’d be familiar with, even the occasional dripping sound effect which I thought was absent until the second chorus, it’s building tension constantly but also has the stop-and-start feel of a Jersey club track because of the busy but tedious percussion. The high-pitch rapper is about as nasal as the chipmunk R&B sample, he’s talking about a sexy woman amidst basic, fast-paced flows and occasional pop culture references. It’s all textbook and unfortunately, that’s all it is. And once again, it’s barely two minutes but, if you look at the lengths of better and more interesting sexy drill songs, that’s not exactly a complaint. My personal favourite song from the genre is shorter than that Kid LAROI interlude yet feels like a complete track, it’s just kind of how this subgenre works. Hopefully something more interesting or closer to Cash, Chow Lee or wolfacejoeyy from this genre can break out soon, because they have more character than this and genuine hit potential that has so far gone somewhat unnoticed in the UK. I have a full playlist of my favourite sexy drill songs, and not only do so many of them deserve this spot more, they sound like they’d make more SENSE as a hit than this. They’re actually catchy, and funny! I love this sound on principle hence why I’m spending more time on this than I need to and also hence why I don’t hate this, but this is still far from a good impression if you’re a UK chart-watcher opening your ears to this genre for the first time.

#51 - “Choppa” - Byron Messia and Lil Baby

Produced by Rvssian

Byron Messia, a dancehall artist from St. Kitts and Nevis, probably best known for his top 20 hit “Talibans” that peaked at #12 in 2023, is finally back with a single of his own on the charts, enlisting the seemingly go-to crossover rapper of the day Lil Baby for a largely onomatopoeic single about shooting down opps. There’s a simmer to the dancehall groove for sure, especially with the way the subtle tropical drums are mixed to the left, but the higher-pitch vocal loop feels a bit too cheap and robotic to really play off it very well. Messia himself is a bit less reserved, coating himself in his own ad-libs and harmonies in a way that isn’t as interesting as it seems to be covering up some lyrical deficiences - the body drops like a Netflix series? The chopper sings sweetly like it has diabetes? Okay, well, Lil Baby is a complete non-presence lyrically and matches Messia’s vocal tone to some extent, meaning that his slightly off-beat flow renders his verse as a waste of time that was added in post-haste, especially given the structuring: it interrupts Messia’s second verse, splitting it into two, and he only ever returns for a weirdly-mixed recitation of the lead artist’s outro. Not even any ad-libs in the chorus. Once again, production isn’t bad, but as a full song… at least the performances might be finalised? It’s closer to three minutes?

#48 - “DEVIL IS A LIE” - Tommy Richman

Produced by Jonah Roy, Max Vossberg and Kavi

I think Tommy Richman could have a relatively successful - albeit brief - hitmaking career in R&B. He’s got a unique voice mirroring really only one artist - Brent Faiyaz - and even then, he’s not got the same production choices and he goes for a flow closer to rap. I also respect how he didn’t go for the exact same vibe as “MILLION DOLLAR BABY”, deciding to switch his 2000s rap influence from Memphis to almost a New Orleans vibe. I’m assuming he’ll do chopped and screwed for the third one. There is an undeniable funk here for me, but once again, both the beat and Richman’s performance feel pretty half-baked and perhaps rushed. What was special about “MILLION DOLLAR BABY” was how its brevity contained so many hooks and earworms, even with just the one verse and infectious chorus. This is a cute throwback jam, I suppose, and it seems to be rising on streaming pretty well, but it has one-hit wonder follow-up written all over it: a different sound, perhaps one that fits his unique style more than his slight left turn of a big hit, some vocal inflections reminding you of said big hit, a title that cashes in on the song of the summer famously losing that same phrase. It’s completely serviceable, but it stops right there and fails to take any risks or even construct itself in a way that distracts you from how barebones it really is, considering its typical verse-chorus-verse-chorus-vocal-riffing-outro structure that barely rakes up to two minutes once again. I can’t help but think that if all five of these songs are not reaching any kind of interesting development or ambition, it can’t be purely for any thematic reason and might just be laziness or, probably worse, marketing. But this was a slow week. Naturally, we’ll get clunkers that just aren’t good enough to find themselves debuting as high on any other week. This Richman fellow though, he’s sticking around… for now.

Conclusion

Clams Casino gets Best of the Week for that beat on “NIGHTS LIKE THIS”. As for the rest… it’s the mid-off of the century, pick your own. As for what’s on the horizon, it may be an exciting week but once again, like this week, the levels of fame from those actually dropping a substantial work are not that consistently high, so we may end up with just more filler. Regardless, thank you for reading, rest in peace to James Chance, and Stephen Spencer of Dario G, and I’ll see you next week.

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Mun Comforts

Comfort food(s): Pizza, M&M's, grilled cheese, fried rice

Comfort drink(s): Shirley temples, capri-sun (pacific cooler to be specific), chocolate milk, matcha milk tea

Comfort movie(s): Divergent, Nerve, Brave, The Incredibles, Mean Girls, Shrek

Comfort show(s): Kill la Kill, Toradora, Spongebob Squarepants, Arcane, Harley Quinn: The Animated Series, Bob's Burgers

Comfort clothing: Hoodies, crewnecks, sweat pants, pj pants

Comfort song(s): Tek It by Cafune, literally anything from the band Fleshwater, anything from old Paramore, Already Over by Sabrina Carpenter, On Purpose by Sabrina Carpenter

Comfort book(s): ...do comics count? If so, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy (2019-2020) and Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat Bang! Kill Tour (2021)

Comfort game(s): Minecraft, League of Legends: Wild Rift, Subway Surfers, Unreal Tournament (2014)

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Tagging: Steal it from me bc I'm doing this late ahhhh

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Hypnosis Mic -D.R.B.- Rule the Stage (Liberty Guild vs. Dotsuitare Hompo)

Sypnosis:

After managing to defeat the other teams in the qualifying rounds, it is announced that Liberty Guild will be the team representing Okinawa Division in the D.R.B. This is a first, as they will be the first-ever foreign team to participate in a Japanese rapping tournament.

After a day of work, Ace Douglas, leader of Liberty Guild, prepares to leave and head back to Okinawa. However, he is stopped by none other than Rei Amayado, a well-known conman and a member of Osaka Division's rap team, the Dotsuitare Hompo. Though the two have seen each other in Chuohku, they've not actually talked to each other before this moment.

When Ace inquires Rei as to what he wants, the conman simply offers him two tickets to a comedy show hosted by his friend, Sasara Nurude, leader of the Dotsuitare Hompo. Though he doesn't fully trust Rei and has no liking for Japanese comedy, Ace, nonetheless, takes the tickets, if only so he can hurry up and begone from the conman's presence. Upon returning to Eagle's Nest, he offers the tickets to his girlfriend and fellow team member, Evelyn Rose, who begs Ace to come with her. Though he doesn't want to, he eventually gives in.

While the two are at the show, Rashaad Young, owner of Eagle's Nest and the third member of Liberty Guild, is taking an afternoon nap, which, unfortunately, is interrupted by none other than Rei, whom Rashaad has had dealings with in the past. Though he doesn't trust the conman, he reluctantly lets him in the bar and asks him what he wants. At first, Rei evades the question, but then answers by asking Rashaad what are his reasons for joining the D.R.B. Rashaad retorts by flipping the question back to Rei, who, again, evades answering. He finishes the drink that Rashaad gave him and prepares to leave, but not before warning Rashaad that getting mired in events that don't concern him will put him in a bad spot. Rashaad simply states that Rei should 'take his own advice'.

Meanwhile, at the show, Ace decides to give it a chance as Sasara begins his routine. However, the comedian's humor is lost on the diplomat, and he spends the remainder of his time on his cell phone, browsing through PROFILE. This doesn't go unnoticed by Sasara who chooses to mix things up a bit by telling jokes about America, which doesn't escape Ace's attention. At first, he doesn't really mind until one of Sasara's jokes goes too far and insults his grandfather. This causes Ace to lose his temper and step on stage where he then makes a "joke" about Sasara's horrid rap and comedy skills. At this point, a rap battle ensues that ends in a draw between the two leaders.

The very next day, news of the incident reaches everywhere throughout Japan. Rei, who foresaw this occurring, is pleased as he knew that Ace would lose his cool when his country is involved. It is for this reason that a match between the Liberty Guild and the Dotsuitare Hompo is scheduled to occur. Although all of Okinawa and a few outlying areas are on the side of Liberty Guild, they are hopelessly outnumbered, as most of Japan is on the side of Osaka Division. This does little to hamper Ace, as he promises to get revenge on Sasara for his words.

Now, with the two teams facing each other, the battle soon begins. Will Liberty Guild manage to uphold the honor and pride of America in this epic fight? Or will the Dotsuitare Hompo have the last laugh against the United States team?

Cast:

Zac Efron as Ace Douglas

Sabrina Carpenter as Evelyn Rose

Amaury Nolasco as Rashaad Young

Yoshihiko Aramaki as Sasara Nurude

Masamichi Satonaka as Rosho Tsutsujimori

Naoya Gomoto as Rei Amayado

Staff:

Original Work: @okinawa-division

Director: Ryan Frazier @okinawa-division

Screenplay: Ryan Frazier @okinawa-division

Music Director: Ryan Frazier @okinawa-division

Theme Song: Okinawa Division, Liberty Guild @okinawa-division, Osaka Division, Dotsuitare Hompo

Organized By: @okinawa-division

Bonus! "In Character" Photos:

Liberty Guild

Dotsuitare Hompo

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