Megan Moroney "Lucky" RD (Aug 21 Due!)

[🌺CountryLineDancer]

#13 "Pop That Bottle"

Total: 76

Average: 10.86

Std Dev: 1.77 (Lowest)

.indulgecountry - 9
312999 - 9
tim - 10
🌺CountryLineDancer - 10
castleoblivion26 - 12
bboat11 - 13
Kanenrá:ke - 13

The bottom spot goes to Pop That Bottle, correctly predicted by bboat11 and Kanenrá:ke . This song received only the bottom 5 rankings, being the least polarizing song in this game. 

CLD's Thought
This song has a good energy, but that's all I can say. I do not necessarily dislike this song, but the lyrical development and melody is definitely weak, compared with other songs on the album. It almost feels like the writers forgot how to write a song in the middle of the album, as the lyrical quality is significantly underwhelming among other well-written songs.

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#12 "Bullet ft. Steven Tyler"

Total: 66

Average: 9.42

Std Dev: 2.64

castleoblivion26 - 6
tim - 7
.indulgecountry - 8
Kanenrá:ke - 9
312999 - 11
bboat11 - 12
🌺CountryLineDancer - 13

The next song to leave is the only collaboration in the album, Bullet, featuring the vocalist of Aerosmith and the former judge of Americal idol, Steven Tyler. This song received three bottom 3 rankings, including my #13 ranking. 

CLD's Thought
I'm not sure this collaboration was necessary. Surely, it is unique for a country singer to release a country rock song that actually features a rock singer, but the execution was not there. I am not a big fan of Steven's vocal in general, and although Aerosmith has some strong songs due to their strong melodies, I was never into their vocal performance as much, and not surprisingly, he failed to impress me with this tune. The melody is also all over the place. It would have been an interesting collaboration with a right song for sure.

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#11 "Dealbreaker"

Total: 65

Average: 9.29

Std Dev: 2.21 (2nd Lowest)

312999 - 6
Kanenrá:ke - 7
tim - 8
castleoblivion26 - 11
.indulgecountry - 11
bboat11 - 11
🌺CountryLineDancer - 11

The last spot of the bottom 3 goes to one of the bonus tracks, Dealbreaker. 4 participants ranked this song at #11, resulting this song to be the second least polarizing song. bboat11 correctly predicted the bottom 3 here. 

CLD's Thought
This song has a generic theme of a narrator accusing a man of cheating, which was reveled from the perfume or lipstick stain. I do not mind the theme, and the idea of calling the breakup as Dealbreaker or Game Changer is not a bad word play, either. However, I definitely struggle to enjoy the verse melody and the latter half of the chorus melody. I do like the melody of "Dealbreaker, Game Change, Bye Bye baby see you later" part, but "give me the keys to my door" melody just sounds kinda lazy and does not have the energy I wanted from this song. It is a near miss song for sure.

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#10 "Dance In The Rain"

Total: 63

Average: 9

Std Dev: 3.32

Kanenrá:ke - 5
bboat11 - 6
🌺CountryLineDancer - 7
castleoblivion26 - 8
tim - 11
.indulgecountry - 13
312999 - 13

Dance In The Rain is the next song to leave. This song received two bottom spot rankings from .indulgecountry and 312999 , while received on top 5 ranking from Kanenrá:ke , who became the first participant to lose their top 5 song. 

CLD's Thought
A little surprised to see multiple #13 rankings to this song. This song has a decent melody while nothing too memorable. The lyrics are focused on the process of overcoming the breakup, and the sadness of the end of the relationships is compared with the rain, while by learning how to "Dance" in the rain, the narrator is describing the process of going through and coping with the sadness. The lyrical development is not bad, but she definitely had a stronger "Rain" song, I Hope It Rains, in Thirty One album, both lyrically and melodically, 

[312999]

I didn’t even dislike this, just felt the weakest song to me.

[🌺CountryLineDancer]

#9 "Last Song"

Total: 60

Average: 8.57

Std Dev: 3.04

bboat11 - 4
🌺CountryLineDancer - 6
castleoblivion26 - 7
tim - 9
Kanenrá:ke - 10
.indulgecountry - 12
312999 - 12

The closing track of the original album, Last Song, becomes the final song to fill the bottom 5 spot. This song received two bottom 2 rankings and one top 5 ranking. 

CLD's Thought
This song has rather beautiful melody and Jana's vocal sounds pretty fitted to the subject, conveying the vulnerability. I also like the production where it starts slow and building up as the song goes on, as when I heard it for the first time, I was worried that this song would be one of those songs with good melody but boring production. But year, after the deluxe album release, this was not the last song she was singing about "him" in that she still talks about him in Dealbreaker lol. 

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#8 "Don't Touch My Radio"

Total: 48

Average: 6.86

Std Dev: 4.14 (2nd Highest)

tim - 2
.indulgecountry - 2
312999 - 4
Kanenrá:ke - 8
bboat11 - 10
castleoblivion26 - 10
🌺CountryLineDancer - 12

There was a tie here with 48 points, so the one with the higher standard deviation is leaving first. Don't Touch My Radio was the second most polarizing song, receiving three top 5 rankings and three bottom 5 rankings. 

CLD's Thought
This song has a good energy production, and Jana's vocal sounds nice and powerful, again, suited to the subject where the narrator is stressing that she has the control over the car radio. I'm unfortunately not too keen on the chorus melody of this song at all. It is lacking the catchiness that I was looking for in this type of song. 

[.indulgecountry]

"Don't Touch My Radio" is a BOP. Deserved better here. It would've been the perfect follow-up single to "I Got the Boy" imo. Sounds like fairly typical radio fodder, but much less polarizing in nature than "Said No One Ever."

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#7 "Boomerang"

Total: 48

Average: 6.86

Std Dev: 3.80

312999 - 1
.indulgecountry - 3
tim - 6
🌺CountryLineDancer - 8
bboat11 - 9
castleoblivion26 - 9
Kanenrá:ke - 12

The other end of the tie breaker is Boomerang, the opening track of the album. 312999 becomes the first participant to lose their #1 in this game, and .indulgecountry experienced the back-to-back top 3 loss. 

CLD's Thought
Even though the melody of this song needed to grow on me, I definitely like the fast paced production and energy of this song. I can see myself further liking this song if I give more chances. I also like the use of Boomerang in the song as a metaphor of a person keeping coming back to the relationship. I know two other songs called boomerang, by Ward Thomas and by Christie Lamb. Ward Thomas took the approach of a narrator keeping wanting to go back to the man like a boomerang, while Christie was teasing about a man who keeps come back to her. Jana's approach of "I am not a boomerang so I am not going back to you" is fitted to the album throughout which she demonstrates her strength in a relationship, whether it is at the end of it or in the middle of it. Might have been a little harsh on my ranking, as it is a decent effort overall as an opening track.

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#6 "All I've Got"

Total: 44

Average: 6.29

Std Dev: 3.82 (3rd Highest)

312999 - 3
bboat11 - 3
castleoblivion26 - 4
🌺CountryLineDancer - 4
.indulgecountry - 7
Kanenrá:ke - 11
tim - 12

The last song to miss the top 5 is All I've Got. There was another tie with 44 points, so again, the one with higher standard deviation is leaving first. This song received four top 5 rankings and two bottom 2 rankings, being the third most polarizing song in the game. This leaves Just Like in The Movies as the only album track to make it to the top 5. 

CLD's Thought
This song has a typical breakup subject, but I like Jana's approach in that she used the mid-tempo song in this, not those ballads nor those powerful songs. The execution was also well done, as I do find the melody to be quite nice. It is surely not the most memorable song, but the fact that it was released as a deluxe track makes it actually stand out from the other album tracks and helped me remember about this tune. 

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#5 "Said No One Ever"

Total: 44

Average: 6.29

Std Dev: 3.73
Peak: #57

🌺CountryLineDancer - 3
.indulgecountry - 4
Kanenrá:ke - 4
tim - 5
bboat11 - 5
312999 - 10
castleoblivion26 - 13

The first single to leave the game is Said No One Ever, as correctly predicted by bboat11 and Kanenrá:ke . To your surprise, this was only the fifth most polarizing song, and even beating All I've Got with standard deviation race to make its way to the top 5. This song received five top 5 rankings and only two bottom 5 rankings, including the last place ranking from castleoblivion26 .

CLD's Thought
Aside from the fact that this song caused Jana's career to tank and that she looks uncomfortably tanned in the music video (yeah I definitely agree with Grady Smith on this and music video itself is good), this song is kinda overhated. I mean the lyrics are very stupid and this was a awful single choice, but it is a very catchy song. So yeah, no regret on my ranking, and pleasantly surprised to see so many top 5 rankings here. 

[🌺CountryLineDancer]

#4 "Love"

Total: 42

Average: 6

Std Dev: 2.45 (3rd Lowest)
Peak: #32

castleoblivion26 - 3
tim - 3
.indulgecountry - 5
Kanenrá:ke - 6
bboat11 - 8
312999 - 8
🌺CountryLineDancer - 9

Another single to miss the top 3 is Love, the lead single from this era. love received two top 3 rankings, and no bottom 3 rankings, being one of the least polarizing songs in the game.

CLD's Thought
This song feels...like it is just there. The production is beautiful, and the melody is not bad, but it is definitely a weak single choice. It was a huge stepdown from those three singles from Thirty One era. Even compared with other album tracks in the album, there are some more interesting songs that could have been a single. Again, it is not a bad song, but just feels weak to me.

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#3 "Just Like in the Movies"

Total: 37

Average: 5.29

Std Dev: 4.46 (Highest)

bboat11 - 2
312999 - 2
🌺CountryLineDancer - 2
Kanenrá:ke - 3
castleoblivion26 - 5
.indulgecountry - 10
tim - 13

The last album track to leave the game is Just Like in The Movies. this song received three top two rankings, while tim finally cleared his #13 ranking. Hence, this became the most polarizing song in the game.

CLD's Thought
Speaking of a stronger album track that could have been a radio single, this is the one. This song has such a catchy melody and production, and yet, the production is managing to keep the song from going too poppy (unlike the cover below). This is definitely a standout album track in the album, and happy to see so many positive rankings from many of the participants. I suppose the lyrics could sound a bit cringy to some, so I do understand the lukewarm response from some, but overall, its catchiness is undeniable.
Here is the poppy version released by Southern Halo (American Blonde now)

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#2 "Circles"

Total: 22

Average: 3.14

Std Dev: 2.54
Peak: #55

Kanenrá:ke - 1
bboat11 - 1
🌺CountryLineDancer - 1
castleoblivion26 - 2
tim - 4
.indulgecountry - 6
312999 - 7

#1 "I Got The Boy"

Total: 22

Average: 3.14

Std Dev: 2.49
Peak: #6

castleoblivion26 - 1
tim - 1
.indulgecountry - 1
Kanenrá:ke - 2
312999 - 5
🌺CountryLineDancer - 5
bboat11 - 7

Surprise surprise, there is a tie at #1!! Both songs received three #1 rankings and the lowest ranking of #7. Circles was barely more polarizing than I Got The Boy, so if I must decide the winner, it would be I Got The Boy, while I am calling a shared victory here, like I have been in other games where there was a tie at #1. I Got The Boy was Jana's most successful single from this album and recorded the highest peak in Canada at #22 (yes she was not too successful up here). Circles, on the other hand, was Jana's final appearance to the country airplay chart.

CLD's Thought

I love Circles, such a powerful chorus melody and vocal. It is definitely an iconic song from this era, if you ask me, as I have listened to this one the most for sure. I Got The Boy has a better production and more interesting lyrical development, where Jana is comparing her ex's wife and herself from a mature perspective. I just wish that the success of this song transitioned to Jana's long-term success, instead of losing all the momentum with Said No One Ever. 

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Closing Thought: Thank you for joining another album series. All the radio singles managed to sneak into the top 5, including the one with the polarizing reputation. Still, this album has a variety of strong album tracks, and I must not be the only one thinking that her career would have been different if she did not lose momentum with Said No One Ever. We have seen so many artists who lost their radio career with their single choices, the recent examples being Kip Moore, Elvie Shane, Travis Denning, and Brantley Gilbert, but Jana is for sure one of them. While this was her last full album that was released, (not even an EP, what a shame), she has released many standalone singles. I am willing to host Jana Kramer Extra RD, even though it is a bit hard to decide the cut-off timing for that game. Let me know your thought. Otherwise, this thread will come back sometimes next spring with another female album, whether it would be Lainey Wilson, Hailey Whitters, Cassadee Pope, or Megan Moroney, hope to see a stronger turnout. Also, it's been too quiet! Share some thoughts folks!

Final Result
1 "I Got The Boy"(22)
2 "Circles"(22)
3 "Just Like in the Movies"(37)
4 "Love"(42)
5 "Said No One Ever"(44)
6 "All I've Got"(44)
7 "Boomerang"(48)
8 "Don't Touch My Radio"(48)
9 "Last Song"(60)
10 "Dance in the Rain"(63)
11 "Dealbreaker"(65)
12 "Bullet ft. Steven Tyler"(66)
13 "Pop That Bottle"(76)

Perfect Rankings
bboat11 - 4
Kanenrá:ke - 3
castleoblivion26 - 3
tim - 2
.indulgecountry - 2
🌺CountryLineDancer - 1
312999 - 0

bboat11 took the crown thanks to having a perfect bottom 3 ranking. 

[.indulgecountry]

Thank goodness "I Got the Boy" wins the tie-breaker because I'm sorry but that should've been a landslide victory, lol. "Circles" is fine, but doesn't come even remotely close to IGTB imo. The dobro and instrumentation alone on it is some of the best I've heard out of country music period in the past decade. It essentially feels like the musical blueprint to everything Carly Pearce puts out now, lol.

[lipe]

"Love" video is showing up instead of "Circles" and "Dancing in the Rain" instead of "Last Song" hehe

I love this album, would've done it had I seen it before.
I'm surprised about "Said No One Ever" in the top5, I always liked that song and it became kind of a guilty pleasure for me 'cause I've seen so many people hating it. glad others like it too!

overall I don't think my rankings would change a lot and this is similar to what I think about the songs. I'd put Last Song way ahead of #9 for sure but it was so far from the song ahead of it that it wouldn't change anything.

[🌺CountryLineDancer]

Megan Moroney - Lucky
Deadline: August 21

List of Songs:
1. "I'm Not Pretty"
2. "Lucky"
3. "Tennessee Orange"
4. "Kansas Anymore"
5. "Girl in the Mirror"
6. "Another on the Way"
7. "Traitor Joe"
8. "Why Johnny"
9. "God Plays a Gibson"
10. "Georgia Girl"
11. "Sleep on My Side"
12. "Mustang or Me"
13. "Sad Songs for Sad People"
14. "Fix You Too" (with Kameron Marlowe)
15. "Nothin' Crazy" (with Mackenzie Carpenter)
16. "Reasons to Stay"

As promised, I am reviving this thread for the Megan Moroney album RD. Now that she is in the sophomore album era, it is time to revisit her debut album. This album contains two radio singles; Tennessee Orange and I'm Not Pretty. In addition to the original album, three songs are added to the deluxe album. Along with Ashley Cooke (I am going to do her RDs next year as well), she is one of the new female figures that are managing to get airplays in the unequal radio scene, and her highly anticipated album did not disappoint me. Looking forward to seeing what y'all think of this! Note that I did not include her songs from the EP, as if I add hem here, the RD would have 22 songs, which would be too large of a list and it is already hard to rally up participants... So yeah, hope to include them at some point in extra game or so, but please let me know if you strongly prefer ranking those songs along with the Lucky songs.





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[.indulgecountry]

Incredible album. I am SO in. I'll probably just bang this list out asap because it'll be easy to do since I've played the album so much over the past year, lol.

[zdm1998]

Oh yes yes yes. This is probably my favorite debut album from a female country artist since Maren’s “Hero.” Heck, might’ve even surpassed it. I’m all in on this.

[LBTrocks]

🌺CountryLineDancer remove me from the tag list please lol

You don't have to lol. But yeah, I won't be doing this one lol.

[jasper0102]

Sent! A really good album.

[bboat11]

Since there is no overlap between the EP and the album, I'm okay not doing them together! I imagine we can have a mini-rankdown of the EP plus any random standalone releases she might have later :)

[.indulgecountry]

Jul 31, 2024 19:20:03 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Since there is no overlap between the EP and the album, I'm okay not doing them together! I imagine we can have a mini-rankdown of the EP plus any random standalone releases she might have later :)

Agreed. Between the EP tracks, "Wonder", "What Are You Listening To?", "Can't Break Up Now", and "Never Left Me", there's almost enough for an extras RD already, and I'm sure that list will grow considerably in time.

[🌺CountryLineDancer]

10 Days Reminder!!

Participants:
1. Myself
2. jasper0102
3. .indulgecountry
4. kluen
5. zaclord 🌈
6. bboat11

Great turnout so far, keep em coming!


312999 Adrian C. 🍓 austin BB🌕 bboat11 big2000 bigfan101 George Strait Junkie taylor castleoblivion26 ccarter1023 cedric Cody Wants Out... HeyHeyHey ClevelandRox tim countryfan43 LBTrocks 🌺CountryLineDancer Crimsonio ethanhunt Fancy fearlessarrow gardyfan haven hydraflare Sambalada ilikemilk CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker .indulgecountry jamesflame James Leo ✔ born Kanenrá:ke The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷 lady𝓐fan Mylo13 💜 nathanalbright netti RobbyFlorida schnetzka OCDave someguy zaclord 🌈 SwiftlySheeran Au$tin toomuchboy twigs zdm1998

[kluen]

Aug 1, 2024 20:45:44 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

Jul 31, 2024 19:20:03 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

Since there is no overlap between the EP and the album, I'm okay not doing them together! I imagine we can have a mini-rankdown of the EP plus any random standalone releases she might have later :)

Agreed. Between the EP tracks, "Wonder", "What Are You Listening To?", "Can't Break Up Now", and "Never Left Me", there's almost enough for an extras RD already, and I'm sure that list will grow considerably in time.

And plus ''Haven't Met Yet''

[.indulgecountry]

Aug 13, 2024 0:18:11 GMT -5 kluen said:

Aug 1, 2024 20:45:44 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

Agreed. Between the EP tracks, "Wonder", "What Are You Listening To?", "Can't Break Up Now", and "Never Left Me", there's almost enough for an extras RD already, and I'm sure that list will grow considerably in time.

And plus ''Haven't Met Yet''

Oh, thanks for pointing this one out! For some reason, it was removed off of streaming so I'd never heard it before, or even knew it existed. I found it on YT though. It's fine, but it doesn't do much for me and feels a bit too unpolished.

[🌺CountryLineDancer]

1 Days Reminder!!

Participants:
1. Myself
2. jasper0102
3. .indulgecountry
4. kluen
5. zaclord 🌈
6. bboat11

No new list since the last reminder. Hopefully we can reach 10...?

312999 Adrian C. 🍓 austin BB🌕 bboat11 big2000 bigfan101 George Strait Junkie taylor castleoblivion26 ccarter1023 cedric Cody Wants Out... HeyHeyHey ClevelandRox tim countryfan43 LBTrocks 🌺CountryLineDancer Crimsonio ethanhunt Fancy fearlessarrow gardyfan haven hydraflare Sambalada ilikemilk CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker .indulgecountry jamesflame James Leo ✔ born Kanenrá:ke The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷 lady𝓐fan Mylo13 💜 nathanalbright netti RobbyFlorida schnetzka OCDave someguy zaclord 🌈 SwiftlySheeran Au$tin toomuchboy twigs zdm1998

[.indulgecountry]

This having anything less than like 10-15 lists would be ridiculous. C'mon y'all. :(

[castleoblivion26]

I should be able to get this done tomorrow. Been having internet issues though so cannot promise anything but I hope tomorrow will be fine