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Post subject: Re: Let's Actually Listen to Spotify's Top 100 Songs
Posted: Fri April 15, 2022 2:00 pm
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Kevin Davis wrote:
#94- "I'm Yours," Jason Mraz
I have a funny relationship with Jason Mraz. I really enjoyed his debut, and actually closely relate his song "The Remedy" with a particular medical incident with my son when he was just 3, and that shit leaves a mark, y'know.
But yeah, even going into this listen with my own Mraz coloured specs on, this song is still just cookie cutter what's popular weak sauce. That whole fake white boy afro beat shit is just..., ew.
Post subject: Re: Let's Actually Listen to Spotify's Top 100 Songs
Posted: Fri April 15, 2022 2:36 pm
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i think 21 pilots are awesome. they have an almost perfect mix of pop, hip hop and rock. this isn't my favorite song of theirs, but this has to be the best song on the list so far.
Post subject: Re: Let's Actually Listen to Spotify's Top 100 Songs
Posted: Sat April 16, 2022 3:24 am
tl;dr
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Birds in Hell wrote:
I'm surprised you guys are watching the videos, I feel like that's a one-way ticket to finding the songs totally unbearable.
It really is. Product of the MTV generation I think -- I spent like 3 years of my childhood thinking videos were awesome, now I watch them every time they're there even though I've found them ridiculous for over two decades.
Post subject: Re: Let's Actually Listen to Spotify's Top 100 Songs
Posted: Sat April 16, 2022 4:34 am
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I was planning on not watching the vids wherever possible as you're right - everytime I do it kinda overshadows the song. But I tend to listen via YouTube as the wiffey is kinda playing along as well, so a little unavoidable until she gets bored of it.
She's a pop fan generally and loves the up-tempo stuff. She also listens to commercial radio in her car and so thinks most of these tunes are indeed "bops".
Post subject: Re: Let's Actually Listen to Spotify's Top 100 Songs
Posted: Mon April 18, 2022 2:30 pm
tl;dr
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Never heard this before either, but it's probably my second favorite song here so far, after Billie Eilish -- nice trancey late '90's rhythm, simple but satisfying melody, and pretty understated as these things go. I'd listen to this voluntarily.
Post subject: Re: Let's Actually Listen to Spotify's Top 100 Songs
Posted: Mon April 18, 2022 2:46 pm
NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK
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21 Stone Temple Pilots: I remember really liking this song when the first Suicide Squad movie came out. It's groovy and has a solid hook. The vocoder, or whatever that distorted voice thing running parallel to the main vocals, gives it a cool kind of creepy, otherworldly feel. (I'd reference oblique harmony but I don't want to upset Reid.) A solid song.
I really like the Calvin Harris / Dua Lipa song. It reminds me of those feel-good late 90s/early 2000s "Ibiza house" songs like Modjo's "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)" and Moloko's "Sing It Back". It has a good hook and Calvin Harris throws in some ear-candy flourishes. It's not a super original song but everything about it works for me. Good track
Post subject: Re: Let's Actually Listen to Spotify's Top 100 Songs
Posted: Mon April 18, 2022 5:01 pm
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I don't mind "One Kiss". I get the generic calls but I also see the summer splashed pop that Jorge referenced and light will always win out over dark. Fun enough tune.
Post subject: Re: Let's Actually Listen to Spotify's Top 100 Songs
Posted: Mon April 18, 2022 5:37 pm
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I don't have any nostalgic connection to late nineties dance music (like I do for other time periods), so this does nothing for me, but I can see how it would do something for others.
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