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Post by .indulgecountry on Feb 2, 2021 20:08:22 GMT -5
"Just the Way" is a hokey mess of a song. Stop trying to make Blanco Brown happen. And Parmalee is a band that really didn't need a comeback. I hope this is a fluke hit and they don't follow this up with more marathon chart climbs to the top 10 with their brand of bland, faceless country songs.
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Post by bboat11 on Feb 2, 2021 20:09:12 GMT -5
93. "Nobody" - Dylan Scott
Total: 3092 Average: 77.3 Std Dev: 23.00🌺CountryLineDancer - 7 Sambalada - 37 raylatch98 - 42 bigfan101 - 46 wrip - 49 Fire - 52 fireflies - 54 gardyfan - 54 ClevelandRox - 57 austin - 58 SHOOTER - 60 .indulgecountry - 61 toomuchboy - 62 Beno - 68 BB🌕 - 74 Daryl the Beryl - 76 samo🦕 - 77 LBTrocks - 80 tim - 80 lady𝓐fan - 81 kw9461 - 85 lyhom - 88 Leo ✔ - 89 jamesflame - 90 sabre14 - 91 dgarcia3377 - 91 Kanenrá:ke - 93 castleoblivion26 - 93 someguy - 94 fearlessarrow - 95 d3vin44 - 96 Mayman - 96 Crimsonio - 99 George Strait Junkie - 100 @trilogy - 100 Darkest Hour - 100 bboat11 - 101 kamala 2024 truther - 102 Troublemaker - 105 HeyHeyHey - 109 Adrian C. 🍓{Songs Remaining} Ain’t Always The Cowboy All Night All Of The Boys Almost Maybes Be A Light Beer Can’t Fix Beers And Sunshine betty Big, Big Plans Black Like Me Blessings Bluebird Break It In Champagne Night Chasin’ You Cheatin’ Songs Classic Die From A Broken Heart Dirty Looks Does To Me Done Drinking Alone Drowning Everywhere But On Fool’s Love Affair Gabrielle Gaslighter Getting Good Girls Like Me Happy Anywhere Happy Does Hard Days Hard To Forget Head Over Heels Heaven Down Here Her World Or Mine Here And Now hole in the bottle How They Remember You I Called Mama I Do For You i don’t love you I Found Another You (& She Hates Me Too) I Hope I Hope You’re Happy Now If I Can’t Have You Just Friends Lady Like I Knew You Would Looking For A Feeling Love You Like I Used To Lovin’ On You Made For You Monsters More Hearts Than Mine More Than My Hometown Need A Bar Sometimes Never Have I Ever No I In Beer Nobody But You One Beer One Night Standards One Of Them Girls Pick Her Up Pretty Heart She’s Mine Six Feet Apart Sleep At Night Small Town Hypocrite Some Girls Some People Do Somebody Like That Spur Of The Moment Starting Over Stick That In Your Country Song Talking To God The Man Who Loves You The Most the other girl The Stranger Things A Man Oughta Know This Is Us To Hell & Back want me back Waste Of A Whiskey Drink What Are You Gonna Tell Her? What Could’ve Been What I See What I’m Leaving For When Life Is Good Again Why We Drink Worldwide Beautiful Wreck Me
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Post by Darkest Hour on Feb 2, 2021 20:11:31 GMT -5
Idk why Dylan Scott and Russell Dickerson sing in this exaggerated way.
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Post by wrip on Feb 2, 2021 20:12:01 GMT -5
Nobody honestly is very catchy, would've liked to see it go a bit further
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Post by Leo ✔ on Feb 2, 2021 20:12:35 GMT -5
I can't believe I'm doing this well, lol
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Feb 2, 2021 20:13:18 GMT -5
For anyone interested in something of an overlapping game with this RD, the top country songs of the year are currently also being pit together in tournament form by sabre14 in the country forum and here is today's round: pulsemusic.proboards.com/post/7786872/thread
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Post by bboat11 on Feb 2, 2021 20:14:33 GMT -5
"Just The Way" and "Nobody" are both just kinda bland and faceless to me. These types of songs are unfortunately par for the course when listening to modern country radio. They add absolutely nothing of value to the genre, and are never going to lead to careers as memorable as the likes of George Strait, Tim McGraw, etc., but will continue to be successful enough to keep people mindlessly on the channel.
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Feb 2, 2021 20:14:45 GMT -5
"Nobody" is a lowkey jam, but it still pales in comparison to his debut album's singles for me. It's way better than "Nothing to Do Town" though at least, and I'm glad this one is turning into a bigger hit for him after that misstep.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Feb 2, 2021 20:17:31 GMT -5
I really like Nobody and Dylan Scott in general (except for My Girl), but objectively speaking, his songs are quite over produced. And I cannot deny that lyrics of Nobody is cheap.
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Post by Beno on Feb 2, 2021 20:19:00 GMT -5
Bottom 10 cleared!
That Parmalee and Blanco Brown song was a complete mess, glad it's gone now. Also glad I haven't really copped any huge losses yet, I'm definitely doing better than I expected lol
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Post by bboat11 on Feb 2, 2021 20:20:04 GMT -5
92. "Happy Does" - Kenny Chesney
Total: 3041 Average: 76.03 Std Dev: 21.62someguy - 25 George Strait Junkie - 32 tim - 41 Crimsonio - 45 fearlessarrow - 50 raylatch98 - 53 Daryl the Beryl - 53 kw9461 - 53 Troublemaker - 54 HeyHeyHey - 55 sabre14 - 56 d3vin44 - 60 austin - 68 fireflies - 70 BB🌕 - 73 lyhom - 73 Fire - 74 Darkest Hour - 74 gardyfan - 78 .indulgecountry - 80 bboat11 - 80 Mayman - 81 samo🦕 - 83 Sambalada - 86 kamala 2024 truther - 86 dgarcia3377 - 87 Kanenrá:ke - 87 Leo ✔ - 90 Beno - 91 castleoblivion26 - 96 🌺CountryLineDancer - 97 wrip - 98 lady𝓐fan - 98 SHOOTER - 99 ClevelandRox - 101 jamesflame - 101 toomuchboy - 102 LBTrocks - 102 bigfan101 - 104 @trilogy - 105 Adrian C. 🍓{Songs Remaining} Ain’t Always The Cowboy All Night All Of The Boys Almost Maybes Be A Light Beer Can’t Fix Beers And Sunshine betty Big, Big Plans Black Like Me Blessings Bluebird Break It In Champagne Night Chasin’ You Cheatin’ Songs Classic Die From A Broken Heart Dirty Looks Does To Me Done Drinking Alone Drowning Everywhere But On Fool’s Love Affair Gabrielle Gaslighter Getting Good Girls Like Me Happy Anywhere Hard Days Hard To Forget Head Over Heels Heaven Down Here Her World Or Mine Here And Now hole in the bottle How They Remember You I Called Mama I Do For You i don’t love you I Found Another You (& She Hates Me Too) I Hope I Hope You’re Happy Now If I Can’t Have You Just Friends Lady Like I Knew You Would Looking For A Feeling Love You Like I Used To Lovin’ On You Made For You Monsters More Hearts Than Mine More Than My Hometown Need A Bar Sometimes Never Have I Ever No I In Beer Nobody But You One Beer One Night Standards One Of Them Girls Pick Her Up Pretty Heart She’s Mine Six Feet Apart Sleep At Night Small Town Hypocrite Some Girls Some People Do Somebody Like That Spur Of The Moment Starting Over Stick That In Your Country Song Talking To God The Man Who Loves You The Most the other girl The Stranger Things A Man Oughta Know This Is Us To Hell & Back want me back Waste Of A Whiskey Drink What Are You Gonna Tell Her? What Could’ve Been What I See What I’m Leaving For When Life Is Good Again Why We Drink Worldwide Beautiful Wreck Me
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Post by bboat11 on Feb 2, 2021 20:22:51 GMT -5
"Happy Does" is about as average of a song as Kenny Chesney has ever released. I definitely do not actively dislike it though! Could this rankdown finally be reaching a turning point where less-terrible songs might start ending up on the chopping block?
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Feb 2, 2021 20:23:18 GMT -5
One of the worst single choices of the year. I didn't like Here and Now, but this one is just boring. Just release Knowing You, Heartbreaker, or We Do!
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Post by bboat11 on Feb 2, 2021 20:26:08 GMT -5
91. "Like I Knew You Would" - Payton Smith
Total: 3016 Average: 75.4 Std Dev: 23.78Kanenrá:ke - 16 kamala 2024 truther - 18 Fire - 21 Daryl the Beryl - 31 BB🌕 - 47 Mayman - 48 Beno - 50 castleoblivion26 - 50 someguy - 56 lyhom - 69 ClevelandRox - 69 toomuchboy - 69 LBTrocks - 71 samo🦕 - 73 kw9461 - 75 Sambalada - 75 Leo ✔ - 76 austin - 78 dgarcia3377 - 79 fearlessarrow - 83 Darkest Hour - 83 Crimsonio - 86 raylatch98 - 86 sabre14 - 88 George Strait Junkie - 89 jamesflame - 89 @trilogy - 89 🌺CountryLineDancer - 91 .indulgecountry - 92 SHOOTER - 93 tim - 94 d3vin44 - 95 wrip - 95 bboat11 - 96 bigfan101 - 96 HeyHeyHey - 97 fireflies - 99 gardyfan - 99 lady𝓐fan - 101 Troublemaker - 104 Adrian C. 🍓{Songs Remaining} Ain’t Always The Cowboy All Night All Of The Boys Almost Maybes Be A Light Beer Can’t Fix Beers And Sunshine betty Big, Big Plans Black Like Me Blessings Bluebird Break It In Champagne Night Chasin’ You Cheatin’ Songs Classic Die From A Broken Heart Dirty Looks Does To Me Done Drinking Alone Drowning Everywhere But On Fool’s Love Affair Gabrielle Gaslighter Getting Good Girls Like Me Happy Anywhere Hard Days Hard To Forget Head Over Heels Heaven Down Here Her World Or Mine Here And Now hole in the bottle How They Remember You I Called Mama I Do For You i don’t love you I Found Another You (& She Hates Me Too) I Hope I Hope You’re Happy Now If I Can’t Have You Just Friends Lady Looking For A Feeling Love You Like I Used To Lovin’ On You Made For You Monsters More Hearts Than Mine More Than My Hometown Need A Bar Sometimes Never Have I Ever No I In Beer Nobody But You One Beer One Night Standards One Of Them Girls Pick Her Up Pretty Heart She’s Mine Six Feet Apart Sleep At Night Small Town Hypocrite Some Girls Some People Do Somebody Like That Spur Of The Moment Starting Over Stick That In Your Country Song Talking To God The Man Who Loves You The Most the other girl The Stranger Things A Man Oughta Know This Is Us To Hell & Back want me back Waste Of A Whiskey Drink What Are You Gonna Tell Her? What Could’ve Been What I See What I’m Leaving For When Life Is Good Again Why We Drink Worldwide Beautiful Wreck Me
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.indulgecountry
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Post by .indulgecountry on Feb 2, 2021 20:27:58 GMT -5
Unpopular opinion but I think this is the best Kenny Chesney single in a long time, lol. Still a low bar though so it was only good enough for a #80 from me, but it's better than slotting him in my bottom 5 like I do the other 95% of the time.
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Post by wrip on Feb 2, 2021 20:30:45 GMT -5
To be honest, if LIKYW was sung by someone whose voice I enjoyed more I'd probably have ranked this a lot higher Also wow- the bottom 20 consisted of all men as it should
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Post by bboat11 on Feb 2, 2021 20:31:46 GMT -5
We have officially cleared our bottom 20!
110. I Love My Country - Florida Georgia Line (3931) 109. Fire't Up - Brantley Gilbert (3924) 108. Lonely If You Are - Chase Rice (3680) 107. GOOD TIME - Niko Moon (3536) 106. Cool Again - Kane Brown (3508) 105. Long Live - Florida Georgia Line (3483) 104. Details - Billy Currington (3464) 103. I Should Probably Go To Bed - Dan + Shay (3393) 102. Now You Know - Jon Langston (3350) 101. Single Saturday Night - Cole Swindell (3316)
100. Got What I Got - Jason Aldean (3304) 099. Front Seat - Rayne Johnson (3288) 098. What She Wants Tonight - Luke Bryan (3279) 097. One Margarita - Luke Bryan (3257) 096. God Whispered Your Name - Keith Urban (3256) 095. Momma's House - Dustin Lynch (3113) 094. Just The Way - Parmalee ft. Blanco Brown (3109) 093. Nobody - Dylan Scott (3092) 092. Happy Does - Kenny Chesney (3041) 091. Like I Knew You Would - Payton Smith (3016)
Not a lady in sight! Yay!
I'm gonna pause now because I need to make more trajectory graphs before I continue, but the night is still very young for me, so I would consider doing more reveals if anyone is still around in a little bit :) We'll see!
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Feb 2, 2021 20:38:22 GMT -5
100. Got What I Got - Jason Aldean - Tolerable compared to We Back, but still boring 099. Front Seat - Rayne Johnson - Love his voice, and I like the song. Objectively speaking, clingy 098. What She Wants Tonight - Luke Bryan - Not bad to me, but nothing special. 097. One Margarita - Luke Bryan - Love it 096. God Whispered Your Name - Keith Urban - Awfully boring, so are his other singles from the album 095. Momma's House - Dustin Lynch - I like it moderately, not a bad theme. 094. Just The Way - Parmalee ft. BB - I like it, good come back from lama song, but objectively speaking, cheap lyrics 093. Nobody - Dylan Scott - Love this song, but again, lyrics are cheap. 092. Happy Does - Kenny Chesney - Bad single choice 091. Like I Knew You Would - Payton Smith - Very forgettable okay song.
Can't wait to see Be A Light and Stick That In Your Country Song leaving!!!
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Post by Darkest Hour on Feb 2, 2021 20:39:29 GMT -5
Where is Hard to Forget? Also waiting for my #96 to be eliminated, but because it's a song by woman I may have to wait for a while...
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Feb 2, 2021 20:40:46 GMT -5
Not a woman gone yet. You love to see it. I hope their backs are all okay tho from carrying this genre.
Payton Smith gave GREAT vocals on this song so I was hoping this would do quite a bit better than it did. It's the first major loss of mine, and the first reveal I was actively disappointed by. Also this isn't here nor there but I think he's kinda hot lol
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Post by Sambalada on Feb 2, 2021 20:53:21 GMT -5
Dustin Lynch can CHOKE me.
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Post by LBTrocks on Feb 2, 2021 20:54:02 GMT -5
Not upset about any of these leaving tbh.
"Got What I Got' has horrible production, that's my main problem with it. The melody is fairly strong tho IMO, but not enough for me to seek out and purposely listen to. The lyrics are terrible lol.
I thought I liked "Front Seat" but when I revisited it for this RD, I wasn't feeling it much at all lol.
I used to like Dustin Lynch, but his music has become absolutely TERRIBLE and "Momma's House" is no exception.
Another artist I used to like is Dylan Scott but his music became awful as well. "Nobody" is 100% forgettable.
The Luke Bryan songs were both really bad, but "One Margarita" is so much worse of the two! What a mess of a song, it's SO annoying.
Honestly, I've only liked a handful of Keith Urban songs over his entire career but his new music is hands down some of the worst he's ever recorded. Just ditch country already bro and go full on pop, clearly that's what you want to do anyway. "God Whispered Your Name" is unlistenable.
I love Parmalee but "Just The Way" is trash.
"Happy Does" is nauseating! I turn it off every time it's on the radio.
"Like I Knew You Would" is painfully meh. It sounds like a Hunter Hayes reject, albeit Payton Smith's voice isn't nearly as grating to me as Hunter's. Wasn't feeling this song at all tho.
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Post by kamala 2024 truther on Feb 2, 2021 20:58:22 GMT -5
Dustin Lynch can CHOKE me.
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Post by austin on Feb 2, 2021 21:04:15 GMT -5
Do we like 'Stick That In Your Country Song'? WTF. I like Eric Church and that song is an abomination.
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Post by fearlessarrow on Feb 2, 2021 21:05:55 GMT -5
I actually think Parmalee’s past hits are decent but if they’re coming up with stuff like this then they can stay gone. Also Blanco Brown is the worst part of “Just the Way”, the song wouldn’t be as bad without him.
I guess I have a little bit of a soft spot for Kenny Chesney’s light-hearted fluff, “Happy Does” is a pretty inoffensive jam to me.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Feb 2, 2021 21:13:02 GMT -5
Do we like 'Stick That In Your Country Song'? WTF. I like Eric Church and that song is an abomination. Yeah it's overstaying, but thankfully I do know that you're not alone in thinking it is garbage so hopefully it is out in the next 10-20 songs at most.
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Post by bboat11 on Feb 2, 2021 21:23:56 GMT -5
To all of the regular tractors, and to all the new folk who may be enjoying their deep dive into the country music Pulse community:
The January 2021 New Releases rankdown is now open!!!! I personally found that doing these monthly rankdowns makes it MUCH easier to do the year-end list when it rears its giant ugly head in December So everyone might as well do it so they can start preparing for 2021 now! {Spoiler} Last month we had more participants than the all-genre monthly new releases rd, so it's definitely the place to be!
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Feb 2, 2021 21:27:29 GMT -5
Do we like 'Stick That In Your Country Song'? WTF. I like Eric Church and that song is an abomination. I happen to like "Stick That In Your Country Song". It is my #29 song so I hope it last a bit longer. Won't be upset if it doesn't though tbh cause I get why people don't like it Sad that Payton Smith is out this early as I actually enjoyed "Like I Knew You Would" a little bit but not one bit surprised. My lowest remaining is Brad Paisley's "No I In Beer" so PLEASE can that one leave next!!!
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Post by SHOOTER on Feb 2, 2021 21:28:16 GMT -5
Momma's House was one of my favorite discoveries! Y'all get on my nerves.
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Post by castleoblivion26 on Feb 2, 2021 21:29:35 GMT -5
Momma's House was one of my favorite discoveries! Y'all get on my nerves. don't worry the feeling is mutual :kii:
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