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  1. They tried to get PR with the lesbian ending but the fact of the matter is that Avatar STOMPS Ms. Korra to smithereens. The world building and characters are a damn mess and the series proves that Avatar writes can NOT do romance and shouldn't attempt to. Book 3 is a classic in the Avatar franchise (outside of the dreadfully written Zaheer) and I actually do enjoy Kuvira but the rest of it was a mess. And YES season one was bad because no one cares about pro-bending sorry. 

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  2. 1 minute ago, kev said:

    sb was shunned from being a gay icon while releasing 3 theatrical movies with divisive results after each one; third one serving artpop flashbacks BOTH critically & commercially. 

    A:TLA franchise curated TWO critically acclaimed animated shows, knew when to stop at ONE movie, and spawned an lgbtq+ icon in korra, Babadook teas :heathertea:

    The fact that the A:TLA movie was more panned than any SpongeBob movie so they wisely chose to stop making them, while FadBob has had 2 flop movies in a row which BOMBED with critics and the box office alike. Looks like Mein Kampf Koral isn't the only thing the GP is saying no to. 771139526546554900.png?v=1

  3. 10 hours ago, Katniss said:

    rank all of Taylor’s lead singles 

    1. love story omg biggest slay ever 

    2. mine country hick snapped 

    3. we are never ever getting back together COUNTRY POP ANTHEM 

    4. look what you made me do cunt anthem put beyoncé out of a job 

    5. shake it off a pop classic

    6. ME! failed to go #1 because of nas maraj

    7. tim mcgraw named after a man  

  4. Am I too late to make a best songs of 2018 list? Does timing really matter with these sorts of things? Am I writing this to avoid doing my biology homework on a Sunday night?  

    All of these questions are going to be ignored! It's...

    Homie's Top Ten Songs* of 2018!!

    *amount of promotion received by said song does not matter in the context of this list. album cuts have just as much room for inclusion as anything else. no i didn't listen to every single song released this year for inclusion. yes this makes me biased. 

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    10. Fall Out Boy - Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea 

    It's no secret that the ill-advised, delay-ridden sixth album from Fall Out Boy "MANIA" was a hot mess riddled with questionable musical decisions, mediocre lyrics, and served as nothing but further evidence that Fall Out Boy have absolutely no idea what their core audience actually wants to hear anymore– the answer, of course, is not EDM or shitty "Save Rock & Roll" retreads. What FOB really needed in 2018 was a song above 100 BPM that showed that there's still someone with hook-writing capabilities in the group, and they certainly proved themselves here. Patrick Stump does his best here to sound badass (a major problem with MANIA in general, if we're being honest) but the strongest part of this track has nothing to do with Stump and everything to do with the backings which essentially drown him out at every turn anyway. There's no saying what Fall Out Boy's future has in store for them, but I wouldn't mind for a second if it's more tracks like this (it's not.) 

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    9. BLACKPINK - Forever Young

    The very moment that the awful tropical house sound entered the Korean music scene was the same moment that half of Korea's musical output stopped giving a shit about sounding interesting and immediately latched onto that obnoxious squealing "tropical" sound, to very minimal musical success. Fortunately for us all BLACKPINK's songwriters still have some semblance of an idea how to actually write a hook properly so the girls manage to incorporate the tropical sounds into the mix in a way that actually fits the rest of the arrangement, giving the whole thing a sense of atmosphere without being solely reliant on one high-pitched noise to carry the track. Of course, in typical YG fashion, the song caves in on itself in the final quarter and completely shifts gears into something else, a trick that's gotten old after approximately 30 different iterations, but one that BLACKPINK sells fairly well compared to their contemporaries. I have no idea why YG is unable to release a song with a proper conclusion, but at least this one fits the rest of the narrative. 

     

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    8. Post Malone and Swae Lee  - Sunflower

    Noted for catchy hooks and somewhat half-hearted delivery, rap’s biggest star (to not actually be a rapper) Post Malone delivers on this mid-tempo quasi-ballad, a song that finds itself far above the usual quality of Malone’s work, something that's aided along by easily Malone's greatest hook yet. Much of the success of Malone's work rests on catchy hooks which  tend to allow the rest of the song to just float along like driftwood, but Sunflower fixes this issue by doing the right thing and ending right before any needless garbage can be tacked on. Also the Spider-Verse soundtrack is fucking cool and I highly recommend the entire thing, particularly the Denzel Curry and Vincent Staples tracks. 

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    7. Kacey Musgraves - High Horse

    Yeah, as if this wasn't going to happen. Musics greatest melodic takedown since "You're So Vain" was delivered by easily the best country-pop crossover star in ages, something which would be of no surprise to anyone who stanned for "Pageant Material" back in 2015 but was apparently a surprise to everybody else. Since Carly Rae Jepsen decided to sit this year out quality-wise, it was however a surprise to see her style basically be uprooted and then done better by someone else. I've never been as opposed to country music as a lot of people seem to be, and I firmly believe that Kacey here lays down the blueprint for what direction country music should be heading in. Oh yeah and that sparse bridge section leading into the final chorus is absolutely gorgeous. Some of the best ambiance in pop music last year, by far. 

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    6. Grimes - We Appreciate Power

    It seemed to be the case in 2018 that the messier your private life was, the far sharper your musical output, and that's something that can easily be applied to Grimes who produced some of my absolute favorite tracks throughout the year. While the solo effort "We Appreciate Power" isn't quite her strongest release of the year, its still a ferocious effort building off of her production on Poppy's "Am I A Girl?" album with thundering guitars, disorganized song structures, random screaming, lyrics about submitting to technological overlords-- all the regular stuff you could expect in a release this year. The song reaches it's climax right at the end with Grimes' constant repetition of "submit" over those killer backings, easily the highpoint of the song that's naturally left until the very end. Grimes utilizes every single second of this nearly six-minute descent into madness in the best way possible. 

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    5. Poppy - Time Is Up (ft. Diplo)

    Speaking of computers, Poppy did the unexpected this year and released an album that positively shits on every single other album released this year by a mile. I have no idea where this random compulsion to be the strongest, most unique while simultaneously most underrated artist currently releasing music came from, but I'm entirely for it if it means more songs like this... and like every other song she released this year, really. "Time Is Up," a song sung from the perspective of an AI watching the Earth essentially implode on itself due to the negligence of humanity in environmental matters, works for two reasons: Poppy's monotone works to an advantage here, with dryly-delivered lines like "Oh my God, you don't even know" being as comical as they are poignant, and Diplo's production being exactly the high-budget escapade Poppy needed to propel herself into the upper echelons of this list. Even the strongest songs on Poppy's debut album were hindered by the clear budget restraints, so it''s nice to hear Poppy's work mastered by someone who can actually afford to make things sound cool. This wasn't Poppy's best song this year–we're getting there, definitely–but it's the one that easily defined the strengths of Poppy's work this year. Other songs I recommend you check out that won't be featured here are "Aristocrat," "Hard Feelings," and "Metal," a Gary Numan cover. 

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    4. MGMT - Me and Michael

    Essentially everything on "Little Dark Age" would be worth mentioning here,  but Me and Michael remained the standout to me on repeated listen purely for the fact that it encapsulates everything that made the record great in the first place--synths that carry the song effortlessly, a chorus that effortlessly straddles the line between MGMT's usually fare and a heavenly synthpop utopia, and purely musical sections with little in the way of vocals that show how excellent the production here really is. Now let's all hope we get another album before 2024, thanks. 

     

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    3. The 1975 - How To Draw / Petrichor 

    It goes without saying that the latest release from The 1975 kicked ass, everybody is aware of this fact and I doubt anything I add here to kiss Matthew Healy's ass further about the album would really just be a waste of space, so instead I'm going to say that the vocal effects on this song are jarring as fuck and everything would work a lot better if Healy actually shut the fuck up for once and let the backings do the talking here because as expected they steal the show here. The transition into "Petrichor" is seamless and gives the song an actual reason to be split into two halves, something that I rarely find to be the case for most songs like this (not even Lorde managed to convince me that "Hard Feelings" and "Loveless" needed to be on the same track) but here the instrumentals work in such tight conjunction that the transition is absolutely gorgeous and refined and OH GREAT HERE'S MATTHEW HEALY AGAIN WITH HIS SHITTY MALFUNCTION VOCALOID GARBAGE, JESUS CHRIST SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET THE INSTRUMENTAL SPEAK FOR ITSELF SIR. Oh yeah and the outro is really great and ties the whole thing together, the juxtaposition between the piano with the cochlear assault before is absolutely gorgeous. 

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    2. Kero Kero Bonito - Swimming

    Unlike the despicable load of phallus known as Matthew Healy, Sarah Midori Perry has a gorgeous voice that I'd probably listen to no matter what she's singing, but it helps that there's some gorgeous backings behind her to tie the rest of the song together anyway. KKBs musical output has always seemed like a mishmash of random musical ideas, so it's nice that they finally made a coherent album this year and it's also nice that it simply sounds better than anything anyone else did this year. Well, except for my #1. 

     

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    1. Poppy & Grimes - Play Destroy

    If you know me at all in any capacity, this really shouldn't be a surprise to you at all. While I absolutely love Poppy's "X" as discussed at length by Hal, I've always found Play Destroy to be the superior companion song between the two, a song that starts out as an assault on the senses and does not fucking let up until the very last note. The cute interactions between Poppy and Grimes are really quite metal when you realize what was really going on behind the scenes, and really the best music is always made by people who hate each other anyway. Case in point? Slash. Case in point again? Tupac and Biggie. Case in point again? "Play Destroy." Seriously, just listen to it. There's really nothing else to say here. Poppy owned this year. 

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  5. were all behind you sof! please take care of yourself in the days following your surgery and update us when you can. i can only wish you a smooth path down the road to recovery, we're all anticipating welcoming you back with open arms <3 

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