Tay's Hot 50: the 2021 Year-End Rankdown (WINNER REVEALED!)

[taylor]

Next up...


Message In A Bottle - Taylor Swift

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{how is it in london?}
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[Fire]

of the remaining unsafe songs i'm hoping one of the carly pearce ones is #11 but all of the unsafe songs are good so it's kinda whatever for me at this point

[taylor]

Next up...


Next Girl - Carly Pearce

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{i know what happens next, girl}
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[taylor]

Next up...


Small Town Hypocrite - Caylee Hammack

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{we're just small town hypocrites}
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[taylor]

May 3, 2022 13:29:11 GMT -5 Fire said:

of the remaining unsafe songs i'm hoping one of the carly pearce ones is #11 but all of the unsafe songs are good so it's kinda whatever for me at this point

Well...

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Next up...


What He Didn't Do - Carly Pearce

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[taylor]

The final song to be guaranteed safe for the Top 10 is...


Lady Like - Ingrid Andress

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{i'm a lady like that}
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[taylor]

Which means....

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There ain't no room for things to change
When we are both so deeply stuck in our ways
You can't deny how hard I have tried
I changed who I was to put you both first
But now I give up

Go easy on me, baby
I was still a child
Didn't get the chance to
Feel the world around me
Had no time to choose what I chose to do
So go easy on me

I had good intentions
And the highest hopes
But I know right now
It probably doesn't even show.

11. Easy On Me - Adele

Written by Adele & Greg Kurstin
Length: 3:44


Total: 295
Average: 21.07
Std. Dev.: 13.56

Az Paynter - 3
taylor - 9
Fire - 9
.indulgecountry - 10
tim - 11
Trilogy - 14
samo🦕 - 16
Kanenrá:ke - 21
🌺CountryLineDancer - 23
toomuchboy - 23
SHOOTER - 24
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bboat11 - 39
wrip - 43
312999 - 50

[312999]

Yay!! I mean, lyrically it is not a bad song, I just got so sick and burnt out of it because I kept hearing it nonstop everyday for like 3 months, no way escaping it, from radio, work, malls, it was everywhere. Now that its died down a bit, I am slowly getting a little bit interested in it.

[taylor]

Yeah, that's sadly right. Adele misses the Top 10 with "Easy On Me." She unfortunately never stood too much of a chance once the final lists came in, finishing nearly 20 points ahead of the song at #10. What a song this is though!!! Her voice and presence were terribly missed, and the piano will always be the perfect match for her. And her songwriting is impeccable.

"Easy On Me" is a minimally produced pop ballad set to a prominent, somber piano, and propelled by sparse bass beats. Expressing themes of nostalgia, regret, and forgiveness, the song's lyrics represent Adele's plea to her son Angelo, in which she details her struggles with her dissolved marriage and asks him to be kind to her.

Music critics reviewed the song positively, with praise towards its poignant lyrics and emotional vocals, though some opined it did not match the emotional heights of her previous ballads, which I'm assuming were among the same dissenting opinions of those of y'all who ranked this down in the bottom 10. Commercially, "Easy on Me" was an international success, entering the top 10 in 40 territories and topping the charts in 27 of those. In the United Kingdom and United States, the song marked Adele's third and fifth chart toppers, respectively. "Easy on Me" broke the Spotify and Amazon Music records for the most streams for a song in both a day and a week, and became the longest running number-one song on the US Billboard Hot 100 by a female artist in the 2020s decade, with ten weeks atop the chart.

[taylor]

With that, here is your Top 10!!!

Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home) - Elle King & Miranda Lambert
Settling Down - Miranda Lambert
All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) - Taylor Swift
Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) - Taylor Swift
Levitating - Dua Lipa
Message In A Bottle (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) - Taylor Swift
Next Girl - Carly Pearce
Lady Like - Ingrid Andress
Small Town Hypocrite - Caylee Hammack
What He Didn't Do - Carly Pearce

How do you think this will go down? Any surprises? Anything you're dying to get out and not win? Any hopes for the Top 5? Stay tuned for the grand finale tomorrow, and a look at the rest of my year-end extras!

[taylor]

EXTRAS

(I have still have three more sets of ten extras to reveal before the end of the rankdown lol!)

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Prisoner - Miley Cyrus ft. Dua Lipa



I remember this giving "willow" teas when it went from #1 to #41, suffering the worst fall from the top my chart ever saw lol

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{why can't you just let me go?}
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[taylor]

Heart of Glass - Miley Cyrus



I loved this so much once the audience was filtered out from this and she released it officially, it made it sound like a studio recording which is why I chose to chart it as a single

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{i had a heart of glass}
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[taylor]

Zombie - Miley Cyrus



When I saw her perform this at the Save Our Stages festival, I knew she'd become the rockstar she was born to be and it was an out-of-body experience witnessing that rebirth

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{what's in your head?}
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[taylor]

gold rush - Taylor Swift



oh look another taylor swift song

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{i don't like a gold rush}
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[taylor]

True Crime - Taylor Acorn



What an absolute jam this was; and I'm convinced Swift ghostwrote it

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{you stole my heart and you ran like a true crime}
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[taylor]

Where I Find God - Larry Fleet



I'm kinda shocked this was a flop at country radio; I'd heard it on my station like it was a Luke Combs or Miranda Lambert song

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{thats where i find gawd}
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[taylor]

Graceland Too - Phoebe Bridgers



This is a country song if you really think about it. That production is straight out of the 90s.

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{she could go home, but she's not going to}
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[taylor]

What A View - Caroline Jones



this is still my favorite song from her and I still listen to it very regularly

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{what's it all for if it's not forever?}
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[taylor]

Dear Rodeo - Cody Johnson ft. Reba McEntire



Reba was the perfect duet partner for this; knowing her own backstory

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{we both know i'd still have to let you go}
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[taylor]

Happy All the Time - Sam Williams ft. Dolly Parton



Sam Williams is country music royalty, so it makes sense that the Queen of it was put onto this lovely song

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{we'd be happy all the time}
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[taylor]

Hello Mr. "Perfectly fine"

How's your heart after breakin' mine?

Mr. "Always at the right place at the right time," baby

Hello Mr. "Casually cruel"

Mr. "Everything revolves around you"

I've been Miss "Misery" since your goodbye

And you're Mr. "Perfectly fine"

So dignified in your well-pressed suit

So strategized, all the eyes on you

Sashay away to your seat

It's the best seat, in the best room

Oh, he's so smug, Mr. "Always wins"

So far above me in every sense

So far above feeling anything

And it's really such a shame

It's such a shame

'Cause I was Miss "Here to stay"

Now I'm Miss "Gonna be alright someday"

And someday maybe you'll miss me

But by then, you'll be Mr. "Too late."

10. Mr. Perfectly Fine - Taylor Swift

Written by Taylor Swift
Length: 4:37


Total: 277
Average: 19.78
Std. Dev.: 12.62

toomuchboy - 5
samo🦕 - 8
312999 - 9
SHOOTER - 10
bboat11 - 10
🌺CountryLineDancer - 11
wrip - 12
Trilogy - 18
Fire - 19
tim - 29
Kanenrá:ke - 30
.indulgecountry - 32
Az Paynter - 35

Revoke My Stan Card
taylor - 49

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{songs remaining}
Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home) - Elle King & Miranda Lambert
Settling Down - Miranda Lambert
All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) - Taylor Swift
Levitating - Dua Lipa
Message In A Bottle (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) - Taylor Swift
Next Girl - Carly Pearce
Lady Like - Ingrid Andress
Small Town Hypocrite - Caylee Hammack
What He Didn't Do - Carly Pearce

[taylor]

That's an embarrassing rank   but I was burnt out on "Mr. Perfectly Fine" pretty quickly, and then Red TV's vault tracks came and collectively s*at all over Fearless TV's vault tracks, as great as those songs are in their own right, lol.

[taylor]

I believe that you're for me, I feel it in our energy

I see us written in the stars

We can go wherever, so let's do it now or never

Baby, nothing's ever, ever too far

Glitter in the sky, glitter in our eyes

Shining just the way we are

I feel like we're forever, every time we get together

But whatever, let's get lost on Mars.

9. Levitating - Dua Lipa

Written by Dua Lipa...and A Lot of People 
Length: 3:23


Total: 274
Average: 19.57
Std. Dev.: 14.95

samo🦕 - 1
Trilogy - 2
Fire - 2
Az Paynter - 2
SHOOTER - 3
toomuchboy - 17
312999 - 19
.indulgecountry - 20
Kanenrá:ke - 23
bboat11 - 32
wrip - 35
tim - 38
taylor - 40
🌺CountryLineDancer - 40

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{songs remaining}
Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home) - Elle King & Miranda Lambert
Settling Down - Miranda Lambert
All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) - Taylor Swift
Message In A Bottle (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) - Taylor Swift
Next Girl - Carly Pearce
Lady Like - Ingrid Andress
Small Town Hypocrite - Caylee Hammack
What He Didn't Do - Carly Pearce

[taylor]

The version of "Levitating" that I originally charted in 2021 was the version featuring DaBaby...in the middle of its run on my chart, he said some disgusting and homophobic remarks at a festival concert and later proceeded to double down on those comments. Yeah, we all know how that turned out, lol! I immediately replaced the collab version with the original solo edition of the song on my chart, and it's this version that became eligible for the 2021 year-end, because I just took the chart points from that duo version and counted them towards the solo version.

It's overplayed to death, no matter which version it is, but it's still a bop! I just need a bit of a break from the song in general, however.

[samo🦕]

i don't think i'm ever going to get sick of this song, and i'm glad overplay didn't stop it from making the top 10 (although some of these songs still in being ahead of it is...questionable)

[toomuchboy]

I enjoy "Mr. Perfectly Fine" more than "Message in the Bottle" as far as re-recording extras go, but MitB is still fun. I'm mesmerized by the Conan Gray avatar though, his album cover with the same look is so pretty. <3 His hair is similar to mine (long / curly).

[wrip]

I’m surprised Mr Prefectly Fine went out before Message tbh, the former I think is better.

Glad that Levitating went out this early lol. I’m so tired of it at this point

[taylor]

this has gone on long enough lmfao...

[taylor]

Love shot me out like a rocket

Never to return and man, I forgot it

How it feels to fall from orbit and land on shifting sands

I found my heart at the bottom of a bookcase

You said you needed space and dammit I bought it

'Til you moved in a vinyl-sided double-wide with a couple of her kids

Ain't that some shit

You're just a small-town hypocrite

Swore we'd be running, running, running this town

But you're still running, running, running around

And I'm staring at a picket fence

Wondering where the hell time went

I should've been running, running, running by now

But I just hang around.

8. Small Town Hypocrite - Caylee Hammack

Written by Caylee Hammack & Jared Scot
Length: 4:02


Total: 261
Average: 18.64
Std. Dev.: 14.22

.indulgecountry - 1
Kanenrá:ke - 1
SHOOTER - 2
tim - 7
bboat11 - 7
Fire - 11
🌺CountryLineDancer - 18
taylor - 19
Trilogy - 23
wrip - 24
samo🦕 - 28

Small Town Hypocrites
312999 - 33
toomuchboy - 40
Az Paynter - 47

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{songs remaining}
Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home) - Elle King & Miranda Lambert
Settling Down - Miranda Lambert
All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) - Taylor Swift
Message In A Bottle (Taylor's Version) (From the Vault) - Taylor Swift
Next Girl - Carly Pearce
Lady Like - Ingrid Andress
What He Didn't Do - Carly Pearce

[taylor]

"Small Town Hypocrites" is easily one of the best country music releases of the 2020s decade thus far. The songwriting is so impeccable and tells a story that I'm sure lots of us can relate to, about the dreams we had that turned out to be a little bit too high up for us to catch, and the regret we have that we didn't try harder. Caylee's voice is exceptionally suited for country music and I'm excited for her next studio album, if she's working on it by now.