fire's 2023 album faves rd (winner up!)

[Fire]

seventh song in is....PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND ME WERE BORN TO RUN SO WHERE WE GOIN WHEN THE DANCING'S DONE?

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Ava Max - Dancing's Done

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{Safe Zone}Agora Hills
bad idea right?
Dancing’s Done
Enchanted (Taylor’s Version)
Out Of The Woods (Taylor’s Version)
Psychedelic Switch
Speed Drive

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{Danger Zone}Chemical
El Dorado
Fast Car
Midnight Dreams

[Fire]

eighthsong in is....TAKE ME LET'S FLY AWAY MIDNIGHT DREAMS EVERY TIME YOU'RE NEXT TO ME

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Ellie Goulding - Midnight Dreams

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{Safe Zone}Agora Hills
bad idea right?
Dancing’s Done
Enchanted (Taylor’s Version)
Midnight Dreams
Out Of The Woods (Taylor’s Version)
Psychedelic Switch
Speed Drive

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{Danger Zone}Chemical
El Dorado
Fast Car

[Fire]

ninth song in is....SO I REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE DRIVING DRIVING IN YOUR CAR SPEEDIN' SO FAST FELT LIKE I WAS DRUNK

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Luke Combs - Fast Car

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{Safe Zone}Agora Hills
bad idea right?
Dancing’s Done
Enchanted (Taylor’s Version)
Fast Car
Midnight Dreams
Out Of The Woods (Taylor’s Version)
Psychedelic Switch
Speed Drive

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{Danger Zone}Chemical
El Dorado

down to Chemical vs. El Dorado....which song is #11? find out in like 10 mins!!

[312999]

Unfortunately, I am not happy with whatever is out. Both of these deserved to be top 10. It is probably Chemical out as Zach Bryan is usually more liked.

[Fire]

final song in is....TO EL DORADO, TO HELL IF I KNOW IF YOU'RE STILL ALIVE...

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Zach Bryan - El Dorado

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austin is an album that saw posty moving on from his trap sound into a more rock-ish sound, and "chemical" proves to me that he's an amazing fit for it!! the guitar driven groove is incredible and the transition into the piano keys towards the end of the song is just utterly glorious. this has honestly grown to be my favorite post malone song, love this!

sorry imhappy

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Ranks:
TheOutcast 1
CF15 2
312999 3
PREDS PRIDE 3
Private Dancer 4
M5AGTS 4
Lukas 6
SabrinaFan 7
Fire 8
wrip 9
taylor 10
jtd Thee Stallion 10
jasper0102 11
reputainbow 12
rnb 13
Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast 14
joshtheking 14
.indulgecountry 15
BlurryKyle 16
samo🦕 16
Mayman 17
Anthony !!!!!! 22
singingrulebritannia 22
Gonza'90 23
sickofscrubs 23
Leo ✔ 25
willapted33 25

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{for search/if the graphic isn't showing up}11. Post Malone - Chemical

Points: 335
SD: 7.484647154 (3rd highest!!)

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{YOUR TOP 10}Agora Hills
bad idea right?
Dancing’s Done
El Dorado
Enchanted (Taylor’s Version)
Fast Car
Midnight Dreams
Out Of The Woods (Taylor’s Version)
Psychedelic Switch
Speed Drive

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{movements}Fire + jasper0102 10
SabrinaFan 5
Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast 6
.indulgecountry 10
Anthony !!!!!! 11
PREDS PRIDE 11
Lukas 9
singingrulebritannia 9
Mayman 10
wrip 9
willapted33 11
joshtheking 12
BlurryKyle 13
jtd Thee Stallion 12
Private Dancer 10
sickofscrubs 13
Leo ✔ 13
TheOutcast 12
312999 11
Gonza'90 12
rnb 11
samo🦕 12
taylor 12
M5AGTS 11
CF15 11
reputainbow 11

[TheOutcast]

Sad

[Fire]

and now i present to you...

YOUR TOP 10!!

Agora Hills
bad idea right?
Dancing’s Done
El Dorado
Enchanted (Taylor’s Version)
Fast Car
Midnight Dreams
Out Of The Woods (Taylor’s Version)
Psychedelic Switch
Speed Drive

1. What song(s) are you surprised/happy/disappointed to see make the top 10?
2. What song(s) are you surprised/happy/disappointed to see miss the top 10?
3. Predict the top 10!!

[312999]

I am not too worried about Chemical. I think that it would do pretty decent on the 2023 Rankdown, hoping for top 30 there.

[jasper0102]

I really wish i could’ve put River and Read Your Mind higher but this list was that strong.
Chemical being 11 and giving me a perfect ranking is depressing and satisfying at the same time.
Happy was robbed so hard.
The way Looove isn’t even top 3 on Utopia yet it’s still amazing (Skitzo and Modern Jam would’ve been in my top 3 if they were here, and Meltdown may or may not would’ve been my #1)
Anyways no complaints about this top 10, though i have no idea how it’s gonna go lmao.

[taylor]

MILEY ROBBED WTF 

Read Your Mind is a bop which surprised me as I’m not on the Sabrina bandwagon myself…just haven’t gotten into her really.

Normally Post is a hard pass for me, but songs like “Chemical” and “Circles” (despite its incredibly incessant overplay) are right up my alley, and are where he shines imo.

[SabrinaFan]

Dec 22, 2023 21:05:41 GMT -5 Fire said:

i'm gonna upset one certain participant by saying this but prior to this album i never was all that huge on sabrina carpenter. sure, i liked scattered singles from her here and there, "nonsense" and "fast times" are both pretty good sure, but "skin" is still an atrocity and for the most part she just came off as any interchangeable c-list pop girl circa 2018, like she was ariana cabello or something lol, but i surprisingly found myself liking this album quite a lot!

Ah yes, I think I know the participant you're thinking of. I'd be worried about upsetting her too, she's pretty scary lol. Tbh, the "interchangeable C-list pop girl" comment is fair. She's changed her sound a lot from era to era, which most artists do to an extent, but the difference with Sabrina imo is that she's struggled a bit to find a specific sound/quality that makes her artistry distinct. I'm still not convinced she's even found it with Emails I Can't Send, as I have a theory that each of the four singles from that album were her new label testing out what sound from her would connect most with the GP, but I digress. I still love her for a number of other elements of her artistry, but yeah, carving out a distinct sound hasn't been her strongest suit.

[Fire]

it is now time, my dumbass mistook the timing of the pda's awards show so i thought i wouldn't reveal today, but good news! i can!

#10 Movements:


ah fuck, this dumb thing broke! sorry y'all...no movement previews for the top 10 :(

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{Participants}participants:
1. Fire
2. jasper0102
3. SabrinaFan
4. Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast
5. .indulgecountry
6. Anthony !!!!!!
7. PREDS PRIDE
8. Lukas
9. singingrulebritannia
10. Mayman
11. wrip
12. willapted33
13. joshtheking
14. BlurryKyle
15. jtd Thee Stallion
16. Private Dancer
17. sickofscrubs
18. Leo ✔
19. TheOutcast
20. 312999
21. Gonza'90
22. rnb
23. samo🦕
24. taylor
25. M5AGTS
26. CF15
27. reputainbow

[Fire]

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{for this imma heavily quote from my blog lol}

Before I heard this cover, Tracy Chapman’s original was a song I found good, but not quite great. But this year, a very special connection formed between me and this song. So something [about my AVM rupture is that it] took away my singing voice, not directly (or at least I don’t think directly), but because I had that rupture, I was put on a ventilator while I was in a coma, The ventilator, while it saved my life, also damaged my vocal cords, and I bet y’all are thinking “Oh boo hoo, you ungrateful brat, you lose your singing voice in exchange of having your life back”, but just hear me out; imagine one day just having something that was incredibly therapeutic to you and your favorite part about yourself, just taken away from you, and you don’t even know what happened or why it happened, that’s what losing my singing voice felt like to me, and as a result, I stopped singing for several months because I utterly detested how I sounded and even stopped listening to a lot of music....But then one day, I just randomly got very hooked on “Fast Car”, both this cover and the original, and started singing this, and I genuinely loved singing it, regardless of whether I sounded like a dying dolphin or not. For that reason, I call “Fast Car”, both Luke Combs’s cover and Tracy Chapman’s original, the song that helped me find myself again. It also probably helps that Luke Combs’s cover, even without all my personal significance, is just incredible; I actually think the melody here is even better than the original, no, the song itself is not better than Chapman’s original, admittedly Combs singing from the perspective of a checkout girl can at points feel a little clunky, but that perspective is what made the original song so great, in the original, you could tell that Tracy Chapman is this girl who must break the cycle of poverty and addiction her father and neglectful partner are going through by making the difficult decision to cut off those relationships, but I can easily overlook that when Luke Combs sings this as well as he does here, you can clearly tell that he loves the original song so much here...

sorry taylor, cf15, and...me

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Ranks:
taylor 1
CF15 1
Fire 1
.indulgecountry 2
Gonza'90 5
Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast 6
M5AGTS 6
sickofscrubs 7
TheOutcast 8
samo🦕 10
Anthony !!!!!! 11
singingrulebritannia 11
joshtheking 12
SabrinaFan 12
wrip 12
jasper0102 13
Leo ✔ 16
BlurryKyle 17
reputainbow 17
willapted33 17
PREDS PRIDE 19
jtd Thee Stallion 19
Lukas 20
rnb 20
312999 21
Private Dancer 21
Mayman 24

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{for search/if the graphic isn't showing up}10. Luke Combs - Fast Car

Points: 329
SD: 6.945042709 (11th highest)

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{remaining songs}Agora Hills
bad idea right?
Dancing’s Done
El Dorado
Enchanted (Taylor’s Version)
Midnight Dreams
Out Of The Woods (Taylor’s Version)
Psychedelic Switch
Speed Drive

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{movements}Fire + jasper0102 4
SabrinaFan 5
Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast 4
.indulgecountry 3
Anthony !!!!!! 4
PREDS PRIDE 5
Lukas 7
singingrulebritannia 8
Mayman 9
wrip 8
willapted33 9
joshtheking 10
BlurryKyle 10
jtd Thee Stallion 11
Private Dancer 12
sickofscrubs 11
Leo ✔ 12
TheOutcast 11
312999 12
Gonza'90 11
rnb 12
samo🦕 11
taylor 10
M5AGTS 10
CF15 10
reputainbow 10

[Fire]

#9 Preview:

[Fire]

if weathervanes was americana that i felt wasn't very accessible, zach bryan's self-titled album was that americana if it was accessible! i feel like people who know me well enough may have expected "i remember everything" to be here instead, but i'll say it again, "i remember everything" is mid to lower tier kacey, "el dorado" otoh, might be my favorite zach bryan song i've heard thus far, a song written about him losing a friend, and yes, its songwriting does hit all my weak spots, but eh, i still love this

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Ranks:
jasper0102 3
312999 4
Anthony !!!!!! 4
TheOutcast 4
singingrulebritannia 5
BlurryKyle 6
joshtheking 6
willapted33 6
Private Dancer 7
Mayman 7
Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast 8
Gonza'90 8
sickofscrubs 10
taylor 11
Fire 11
samo🦕 12
PREDS PRIDE 13
.indulgecountry 13
CF15 15
reputainbow 15
jtd Thee Stallion 16
wrip 19
Leo ✔ 22
rnb 22
Lukas 25
M5AGTS 25
SabrinaFan 26

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Points: 323
SD: 7.170889235 (9th highest!!)


9. Zach Bryan - El Dorado

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{remaining songs}Agora Hills
bad idea right?
Dancing’s Done
Enchanted (Taylor’s Version)
Midnight Dreams
Out Of The Woods (Taylor’s Version)
Psychedelic Switch
Speed Drive

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{movements}Fire + jasper0102 4
SabrinaFan 11
Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast 11
.indulgecountry 11
Anthony !!!!!! 9
PREDS PRIDE 10
Lukas 11
singingrulebritannia 9
Mayman 8
wrip 9
willapted33 7
joshtheking 6
BlurryKyle 6
jtd Thee Stallion 6
Private Dancer 6
sickofscrubs 7
Leo ✔ 7
TheOutcast 7
312999 6
Gonza'90 6
rnb 6
samo🦕 6
taylor 6
M5AGTS 8
CF15 8
reputainbow 9

[Fire]

#8 Preview:


at least someone caught on...

[M5AGTS]

Dec 23, 2023 20:09:01 GMT -5 Fire said:

#8 Preview:


at least someone caught on...

Hey remember we have to act like we're don't hate each other for today cause we're nominated for best duo.

[samo🦕]

hmm...it says "no previews" but M5 is usually wrong so that must mean it *is* a preview...M is the 13th letter of the alphabet and 13 + 5 = 18 and there are 8 songs left so it must be song 1/8 which is Agora Hills.

[Fire]

move aside dua lipa! there's a new nu-disco queen in town! but fr, ellie goulding is someone who has a natural ability to have her more understated vocals seamlessly fit into powerful production without it overpowering her. and she really showcases that incredible ability on this song!

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Ranks:
CF15 3
.indulgecountry 3
Leo ✔ 5
Lukas 5
reputainbow 5
rnb 6
samo🦕 6
PREDS PRIDE 7
singingrulebritannia 7
jtd Thee Stallion 8
Fire 9
SabrinaFan 9
jasper0102 9
BlurryKyle 10
Gonza'90 11
Anthony !!!!!! 12
312999 13
taylor 14
joshtheking 15
Private Dancer 17
Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast 18
Mayman 18
TheOutcast 18
wrip 20
sickofscrubs 21
willapted33 21
M5AGTS 24

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8. Ellie Goulding - Midnight Dreams

Points: 319
SD: 6.190430403 (8th lowest!!)

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{remaining songs}Agora Hills
bad idea right?
Dancing’s Done
Enchanted (Taylor’s Version)
Out Of The Woods (Taylor’s Version)
Psychedelic Switch
Speed Drive

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{movements}Fire + jasper0102 9
SabrinaFan 7
Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast 9
.indulgecountry 7
Anthony !!!!!! 6
PREDS PRIDE 7
Lukas 5
singingrulebritannia 6
Mayman 6
wrip 6
willapted33 6
joshtheking 7
BlurryKyle 7
jtd Thee Stallion 7
Private Dancer 9
sickofscrubs 8
Leo ✔ 8
TheOutcast 9
312999 9
Gonza'90 8
rnb 8
samo🦕 7
taylor 9
M5AGTS 9
CF15 9
reputainbow 8

[Fire]

#7 Preview:

if at this point you still think you're getting a real preview you're fucking delulu

[Fire]

ava has grown to be one of my favorite artists right now, i absolutely love the era of music she idolizes lol. and i've always thought she had an underrated vocal range and theatrical nature in her vocals, it was honestly pretty close between this and "weapons" for which song i chose for this list. this may be my favorite ava max song honestly.

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Ranks:
M5AGTS 3
TheOutcast 3
taylor 5
.indulgecountry 5
jtd Thee Stallion 6
Mayman 6
reputainbow 6
Fire 7
samo🦕 7
Private Dancer 8
Lukas 8
jasper0102 8
rnb 9
PREDS PRIDE 10
singingrulebritannia 10
SabrinaFan 10
Leo ✔ 11
BlurryKyle 12
Anthony !!!!!! 13
CF15 13
joshtheking 13
Gonza'90 14
312999 19
wrip 22
Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast 23
willapted33 24
sickofscrubs 26

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{for search/if the graphic isn't loading}7. Ava Max - Dancing’s Done
Points: 306
SD: 6.445949468 (13th lowest)

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{remaining songs}Agora Hills
bad idea right?
Enchanted (Taylor’s Version)
Out Of The Woods (Taylor’s Version)
Psychedelic Switch
Speed Drive

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{movements}Fire + jasper0102 7
SabrinaFan 4
Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast 11
.indulgecountry 8
Anthony !!!!!! 10
PREDS PRIDE 9
Lukas 7
singingrulebritannia 7
Mayman 7
wrip 7
willapted33 8
joshtheking 9
BlurryKyle 9
jtd Thee Stallion 8
Private Dancer 8
sickofscrubs 9
Leo ✔ 9
TheOutcast 8
312999 8
Gonza'90 9
rnb 9
samo🦕 9
taylor 8
M5AGTS 7
CF15 7
reputainbow 7

[Fire]

#6 Preview:

maybe i should've worded myself better, this is the last reveal of the night, the top 5, assuming nothing unexpected occurs should come some time tomorrow

[Leo ✔]

okay y'all fucked this up with Ava beating Ellie

[Fire]

embarrassing confession #1234567876545678909876787656787654567 of this rd, i still haven't listened to planet her, blame my laziness for that lol. but i'll just say, scarlet was a decent album, but i couldn't help but feel like i'd hoped for more. that said, "agora hills" is great, it's very different coming from doja, she still delivers endless personality here but she manages to balance it out with her cooing(?). also "like fortnite imma need your skin" is lyric of all time, only doja can somehow make that lyric work half a decade (holy fucking shit) after fortnite was in any way relevant lol

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Ranks:
Private Dancer 1
Lukas 1
wrip 2
taylor 3
SabrinaFan 3
joshtheking 4
sickofscrubs 4
M5AGTS 5
rnb 7
CF15 8
Leo ✔ 8
Mayman 8
Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast 10
reputainbow 10
jtd Thee Stallion 12
TheOutcast 12
willapted33 12
BlurryKyle 13
samo🦕 14
PREDS PRIDE 17
singingrulebritannia 17
.indulgecountry 17
jasper0102 19
Gonza'90 20
Fire 20
312999 24
Anthony !!!!!! 24

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6. Doja Cat - Agora Hills
Points: 300
SD: 6.964763923 (10th highest!!)

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{remaining songs}
bad idea right?
Enchanted (Taylor’s Version)
Out Of The Woods (Taylor’s Version)
Psychedelic Switch
Speed Drive

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{movements}Fire + jasper0102 20
SabrinaFan 13
Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast 13
.indulgecountry 13
Anthony !!!!!! 17
PREDS PRIDE 16
Lukas 13
singingrulebritannia 13
Mayman 13
wrip 11
willapted33 10
joshtheking 8
BlurryKyle 8
jtd Thee Stallion 9
Private Dancer 7
sickofscrubs 6
Leo ✔ 6
TheOutcast 6
312999 7
Gonza'90 7
rnb 7
samo🦕 8
taylor 7
M5AGTS 6
CF15 6
reputainbow 6

[PREDS PRIDE]

1, 2, 4, 5, 6

great top 5, I like agora hills but it would've been a boring winner

[M5AGTS]

I thought Doja was a lock for top 3 lol or even a winner contender. This was not an upset I wanted to see.

[312999]

Anything but Speed Drive and Enchanted for the win.

[SabrinaFan]

10. I admittedly didn't love this when it first came out, but it's grown on me quite a bit and I consider it to be really good now.

9. Tbh I don't really care for Zach's style of singing, and based off of what I've heard from him ("Something in the Orange," "I Remember Everything" and now this), I can't say I'm a fan.

6. This was robbed! I was hoping it'd be top 5. It's up there with "Like That" and "You Right" as being one of my all-time favorites from Doja.

Remaining ranks: 2, 4, 6, 8, 15

I'm predicting the top 5 will be in this order:

5. Speed Drive
4. Out of the Woods (Taylor's Version)
3. Psychedelic Switch
2. Bad Idea Right?
1. Enchanted (Taylor's Version)

[jasper0102]

I love how we sent the only 2 men in the top 10 out in the first 2 spots (though Zach deserved better screw y'all).
Midnight Dreams and Dancing's Done going out back-to-back in the right order but one spot too high from me getting 2 perfect rankings back-to-back is depressingly amusing.
Probably would've put Agora Hills higher now though idk why it's this high.
ANyways Olivia or Taylor (1989) FTW (though i'll be fine with any winner)

[taylor]

Luke Combs and Doja Cat robbed wtf