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Post by crazyb on Apr 28, 2017 18:42:35 GMT -5
Never actually bothered listening to this song until the rankdown.
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Post by aerodynamite on Apr 28, 2017 18:44:16 GMT -5
Fancy rankdown presentations are gonna be the new thing, aren't they?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 18:45:47 GMT -5
Didja know? - Macarena was originally released as a single in Spain in 1994, where it became a decent hit. The next year BMG bought Los Del Rio's local label out and made it a goal to turn Macarena into a US smash. The song was remixed and pushed to night clubs and cruise ships, then released as a single here in 1995. It only peaked at #45 that year, but the next year it became the latest dance craze and made its way to #1. - Macarena holds the Hot 100 record for longest time to reach #1, taking 33 weeks over two separate chart runs to reach the top. - Macarena is a female name meaning "Mother of God." Los Del Rio got the name from La Macarena, one of the eight corners of Seville, Spain. However, the inspiration for the song itself was a Venezuelan flamenco dancer named Diana Patricia. When the song became a hit she became known as 'Macarena' in her home country. - Who the heck are the Bayside Boys? Well, when the original version of the song first hit Miami Beach, Power 96 received a bunch of requests for it. The station had an English-language-only policy at the time but one of the overnight djs snuck in a spin at 1:30 in the morning; that was enough to reel in the program director, who gave the DJ two days to come up with an English remix. The DJ got two of his friends (Carlos De Yarza and Mike Triay The Bayside Boys) to whip something up in one day. Even after going back and creating a more polished mix, the label chose to go with the quickie version for the single release. - According to Yarza, Los Del Rio seemed to have no desire whatsoever to meet them, despite the Bayside Boys being interested. so they've never performed this hit together. - Like Debby Boone, this would be Los Del Rio's only hit on the Hot 100.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 18:49:19 GMT -5
Fancy rankdown presentations are gonna be the new thing, aren't they? Reason #1294 why I feel so at home on Pulse: everyone else is just as extra as I am! I think I was more excited about the Excel spreadsheet I made for this than the rankdown itself. I'm so lame.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 18:52:28 GMT -5
Oh, Macarena is #33 but I forgot to put its rank in the title and didn't feel like fixing it because I had already had to fix this once for something else, so it is what it is. (Didja know? I am a lazy bitch who clearly doesn't proofread)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 18:53:37 GMT -5
Fancy rankdown presentations are gonna be the new thing, aren't they? Reason #1294 why I feel so at home on Pulse: everyone else is just as extra as I am! I think I was more excited about the Excel spreadsheet I made for this than the rankdown itself. I'm so lame.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 18:53:53 GMT -5
My mother gets grumpy when she's hungry and we ordered Chinese. Be back in ~2 hours with #32 and #31!
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Post by Leo β on Apr 28, 2017 19:35:24 GMT -5
Amazing presentation πβ€ Sorry for my nick Hahaha Also haters for Macarena can go out >_>
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 21:50:54 GMT -5
Didja know? - Olivia's management had to talk her into recording this song. They were immediately convinced it was a hit, but she was worried about it affecting her family-friendly image. It ended up having no effect (if anything it actually made her even more popular). - To distract from the sexual nature of the song, the director of the video came up with an aerobics theme centered around Olivia taunting a bunch of fat guys only for them to become super-buff gays who pay Olivia dust to pair off with each other in the end. - Steve Kipner, one of the songwriters, might have a thing for pretty, innocent-looking blondes singing thinly veiled sexual innuendos: he also co-wrote Christina Aguilera's Genie in a Bottle. - Olivia is indirectly responsible for setting a chart record for someone else's song - by blocking Waiting For a Girl Like You for 10 weeks, she gave Foreigner the longest stay at #2 without reaching #1 (later tied when anote Eminem's Lose Yourself Missy Elliott's Work It).
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Post by matteeeb on Apr 28, 2017 21:56:28 GMT -5
WTF? This is a bop
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Post by aerodynamite on Apr 28, 2017 21:57:53 GMT -5
Not surprised recency bias worked against this one. :/
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 22:11:47 GMT -5
Didja know? - This is one of four songs explicitly dedicated to deceased loved ones to stay at #1 for more than 10 weeks. The listening public apparently really believes in making sure they have worked through all five stages of grief before moving on, but unfortunately Wiz makes a rather hasty exit from the rankdown with little grief from this crowd. - This is the first of eight songs to have both a #1 and a #35 ranking. Sorry it had to go so soon, pjscott! We won't see the others until we reach the halfway mark. - SYA holds the record for the fastest rise from #100 to #1 on the chart (five weeks). Only eight other songs have managed this 100-to-1 trajectory, in any span of time - and Wiz is currently the only person to do it twice. He accomplished it before with his first #1 hit, Black & Yellow. - SYA was originally intended for Eminem and 50 Cent, but Eminem turned it down because he was working on the soundtrack for Southpaw. - On a slightly related note, SYA and Eminem's Lose Yourself share the record for longest stay at #1 for a rap song, with 12 weeks.
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Post by Golden Bluebird on Apr 28, 2017 22:13:15 GMT -5
- Olivia is indirectly responsible for setting a chart record for someone else's song - by blocking Waiting For a Girl Like You for 10 weeks, she gave Foreigner the longest stay at #2 without reaching #1 (later tied when anote Eminem's Lose Yourself Missy Elliott's Work It). It also got blocked by "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" by Hall & Oates. "Waiting for a Girl Like You" was a very unlucky song.
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Post by aerodynamite on Apr 28, 2017 22:13:21 GMT -5
See ya :sip2:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 22:18:12 GMT -5
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Post by Leo β on Apr 28, 2017 22:23:52 GMT -5
Physical deserved better
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 22:25:04 GMT -5
I didnt expect SYA out before BBP and Happy or One Dance honestly.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 22:25:18 GMT -5
WHAT THE F**K
NOOOOOOOOOO
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 22:47:23 GMT -5
Crap I forgot to do this rankdown Also how can ya'll get rid of Physical just like that? Iconic af jam
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 23:41:07 GMT -5
Not surprised recency bias worked against this one. :/ I think it's a combination...like, I genuinely believe Physical (and You Light Up My Life) are two of the corniest songs I have ever heard. But is it really because they are corny songs, or are they just products of a different era and I'm simply not able to connect to them? I do like a lot of '70s and '80s music so I'd like to think it's the former, but truthfully there's no way for me to ever know where my objective opinion ends and generational bias begins. It's also only fair to point out that the bottom five contains two 90s song and one song that was released barely two years ago, so recency bias can't explain all of it. Switch out Physical for the Foreigner song, or YLUML for a Donna Summer tune, and we might have had an entirely different outcome.
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Post by Az Paynter on Apr 29, 2017 0:32:58 GMT -5
Yay Boom Boom Pow wasn't bottom five! I like how you took your cues from me re: presentation, Cynthia. Although bitch y u upstage me. :sip2: If anything, I'm surprised 'Candle In The Wind' wasn't in the bottom five but 'Something About The Way You Look Tonight' was.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2017 0:43:32 GMT -5
Yay Boom Boom Pow wasn't bottom five! You're welcome. Although I should be the one thanking you, lol.
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Post by YotamTS on Apr 29, 2017 2:23:12 GMT -5
Great presentation! Rip SYA though :( deserved way better.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2017 3:06:30 GMT -5
Yay Boom Boom Pow wasn't bottom five! I like how you took your cues from me re: presentation, Cynthia. Although bitch y u upstage me. :sip2: If anything, I'm surprised 'Candle In The Wind' wasn't in the bottom five but 'Something About The Way You Look Tonight' was. lol not my intention on either part, i promise! I was initially going to do a mock chart, revealing bits of it each day until the whole chart was completed. It turned out to be too time-consuming and frustrating trying to get it to look the way i wanted for all 35 songs though, so the idea was (mostly) abandoned. The Excel charts were very much a path of least resistance (God bless the software engineer who came up with the idea to let you insert chart backgrounds by a simple image search). I decided to keep the old idea for the stats - sheer laziness because I'd already made the full chart and breaking it up into five-at-a-time reveals is not as cumbersome as doing it for each entry, but I also just didn't want it to go to complete waste. ngl I was actually a leeeetle pissed when you started your reveal I had already moved on to my plan b only to see that it looked like a poor imitation of yours, and I'm not talented enough for a plan C on short notice. No way would I have had the patience to open up PS and do a bunch of photo insets the way you did. Of course, now that it's too late to turn back, I have an idea in mind that would have been different smh. I'll just have to save it for the next rankdown I guess. Re: SATWYLT, I may be biased because I saw early on that it was not going to place well, but I'm not all that surprised. CITW '97 was definitely the one that drove initial sales, and had the extra benefit of its original version already being a signature Elton song anyway. One could even reasonably argue that SATWYLT might not have made a big splash haad Elton not been able to tack it on to the back end of a tribute. I must say he and his team are to be commended for pulling that off without seeming at all opportunistic.
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Post by Az Paynter on Apr 29, 2017 3:17:25 GMT -5
Yay Boom Boom Pow wasn't bottom five! I like how you took your cues from me re: presentation, Cynthia. Although bitch y u upstage me. :sip2: If anything, I'm surprised 'Candle In The Wind' wasn't in the bottom five but 'Something About The Way You Look Tonight' was. lol not my intention on either part, i promise! I was initially going to do a mock chart, revealing bits of it each day until the whole chart was completed. It turned out to be too time-consuming and frustrating trying to get it to look the way i wanted for all 35 songs though, so the idea was (mostly) abandoned. The Excel charts were very much a path of least resistance (God bless the software engineer who came up with the idea to let you insert chart backgrounds by a simple image search). I decided to keep the old idea for the stats - sheer laziness because I'd already made the full chart and breaking it up into five-at-a-time reveals is not as cumbersome as doing it for each entry, but I also just didn't want it to go to complete waste. ngl I was actually a leeeetle pissed when you started your reveal I had already moved on to my plan b only to see that it looked like a poor imitation of yours, and I'm not talented enough for a plan C on short notice. No way would I have had the patience to open up PS and do a bunch of photo insets the way you did. Of course, now that it's too late to turn back, I have an idea in mind that would have been different smh. I'll just have to save it for the next rankdown I guess. Re: SATWYLT, I may be biased because I saw early on that it was not going to place well, but I'm not all that surprised. CITW '97 was definitely the one that drove initial sales, and had the extra benefit of its original version already being a signature Elton song anyway. One could even reasonably argue that SATWYLT might not have made a big splash haad Elton not been able to tack it on to the back end of a tribute. I must say he and his team are to be commended for pulling that off without seeming at all opportunistic. LMAO speaking of 'plan b' those info card things were MY plan b! I wanted to do this thing that would have looked really cool, to have the YouTube embeds surrounded by a frame (the frame would have been in four bits so that the image tags could be coded around the embed tag). But it wouldn't have worked 'cause I could only tailor it to what my screen resolution is, and if anyone had a different resolution the pieces wouldn't fit together and it would ruin everything. #WhatCouldHaveBeen I reaaaaaally like this presentation though, I wouldn't have had the patience to put every single ranking in that line thing, or that mocked-up Hot 100 table for the recap. The photo insets are pretty easy actually (if it's the backgrounds behind the single covers you're talking about). I have a gradient as the background layer, and after that I just set the background image to 50% opacity with the blend mode on multiply. The hardest part of that is placing it so Kelly's face isn't covered up by the text, but even then it's just a couple minutes of trial-and-error at most.
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Post by #LisaRinna on Apr 29, 2017 4:31:19 GMT -5
My girl @antigonerising killing it with these presentations and putting all rankdowns to shame :'(
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Post by trustypepper on Apr 29, 2017 8:29:36 GMT -5
Shocked at #35, deserved much better.
Anyway cynthia honey you are slaying this presentation.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Apr 29, 2017 8:38:11 GMT -5
I'm loving the stats and figures! Standard deviations, medians, just beautiful! Sometimes when looking at the results of those yearend #(chart position) polls, I envision trend lines and I want to start doing stats on the results to assess recent vs. early 2000s music and likability. Not surprised recency bias worked against this one. :/ I wouldn't disagree (and suspect recency bias might also be present in the upper half when the newest songs don't do as well as older ones) but personally, I don't like Physical. I also don't much like Mickey, Girlfriend is one of my least favourite Avril songs and I initially didn't care for Shake It Off by Taylor either.
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Post by Choco on Apr 29, 2017 9:54:54 GMT -5
Love this presentation.
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Post by Walking Contradiction on Apr 29, 2017 10:32:48 GMT -5
Neither surprised nor disappointed that "You Light Up My Life" is at the bottom.
I really like "Something About The Way You Look Tonight" - it's certainly held up better than the song it was paired with. Knew it wouldn't do well, but was hoping for a *little* better.
"Macarena" deserved better too IMO. Everyone I know who's not completely anti-pop music seems to have fond memories of this one, but I see why people hate it.
Regarding "Physical", I actually have more bias towards older songs (pre-2003 or so) if anything, but this one along with YLUML are terrible examples of their respective eras IMO.
Thought "See You Again" would do better, but I'm not heartbroken over it.
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