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I want to drop in and say nothing else in 2020 has moved me as much as "anything" did. The mundane details of every day life is perfectly captured in this stunner and the melody. Sigh. I want to cry when the song reaches "I wanna sleep in your car when you're driving. Lay in your lap while I'm cryin...

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I'll nominate The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz as I'm working through all the Pulitzer Winners for Fiction

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In no particular order 01. Usher - Bad Habits - He's still the finest male vocalist in the game 02. Jazmine Sullivan - Lost One 03. Jessie Ware - Spotlight 04. JoJo - Lonely Hearts 05. Megan Thee Stallion - Girls in the Hood 06. SG Lewis - Impact (feat. Robyn & Channel Tres) 07. Cardi B - WAP (feat....

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ordinaryperson wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 09, 2020 9:38 pm
Here are the brackets:
Albums
Need to fix song bracket.

The tournament should start this Saturday.

Seeing Let Go by Avril Lavigne cracks me up. It's an alright album and "I'm With You" is still a great pop song.

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4 by Beyoncé, which is the first of her terrific album run (followed up by the sensational self-titled and then Lemonade.

Sonic-wise, 4 is not very cohesive but every song is executed in a way that I can see them being promoted as a standalone single for sure.

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Seeing "Ngihamba Nawe" dominate fills me with joy. Seeing "Savage (Remix) being dominated fills me with despair

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I have never read as much as I am in 2020. In the beginning of the year, I set a target of reading 20 books. As the year progresses, I've adjusted the number to 30 and I'm on tracks to completing this challenge. - Previous: "Less" by Andrew Sean Greer. Pulitzer Winner for Fiction in 2018. Readers us...

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#122. Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang (2002) Score: 156.85 Voters (2): Pauler (#2) styrofoamboots (#17) #121. Exhalation - Ted Chiang (2019) Score: 157.31 Voters (2): Pauler (#5) styrofoamboots (#11) Back to back! Nice votes Pauler. YES! Wasn't sure if anyone else was familiar with Ted...

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Just submitted mine

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My submission 1. Sufjan Stevens | My Rajneesh 2. Megan Thee Stallion ft. Beyoncé | Savage (Remix) 3. Terrace Martin & Denzel Curry | Pig Feet 4. Dua Lipa | Levitating 5. Simmy ft. Sino Msolo | Ngihamba Nawe (This was my pick and I'm glad to see so many are voting for this gorgeous song) 6. Nadine Sh...

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I read quite a few books during college (The Kite Runner, Me Talk Pretty One Day & Never Let Me Go were a few favorites) but then stopped from 2013-2018 when I moved back to Vietnam. Only in 2019 & 2020 have I started reading seriously again and based on the ones I come across - mostly books writte...

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I've been loving everything Megan Thee Stallion is involved in this year: the "Savage" remix with her fellow Houstonian Beyoncé, "Girls in the Hood" and recently that filthy single "WAP" with Cardi B. Her charisma is undeniable.

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Schüttelbirne wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 18, 2020 5:11 pm
About three days left to get your nominations in!

Submitted mine. A heavily Pop/R&B list

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I read quite a few books during college (The Kite Runner, Me Talk Pretty One Day & Never Let Me Go were a few favorites) but then stopped from 2013-2018 when I moved back to Vietnam. Only in 2019 & 2020 have I started reading seriously again and based on the ones I come across - mostly books written...

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^"Mariners Apartment Complex" was officially released in 2018, no?

"7 rings" sticks out like a sore thumb. That was among the worst songs in Grande's album. "imagine" is a much better cut.

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I know i'm late to the party, but I just listened to "Bags" by Clairo multiple times, due to it's high position on the EOY songs spreadsheet so far. I had never listened to Clairo's music before (although I had heard of her), but now it seems like i'm going to have to dig deeper into her discograph...

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Was hoping this list isn't eligible because that number one pick *eye roll*

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Also, yay for Four Tet's there is love in you. Great album.

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I love the inclusions of Parasite, Burning and Shoplifters. Parasite should be much higher on every list to be honest. What a film.

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LMAO @ this list. Half are excellent songs and the other half are just.....

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"Dancing On My Own" is a well-deserved #1 for this decade.

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I watched both seasons of Fleabag a month ago. It is absolutely perfect from start to finish.

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"Bax" by Mosca is a surprising but worthy addition to this list. "Done Me Wrong" from the same single is just as amazing.

Hmm not sure how to feel about "Bipp" at #1. It's a great song, extremely catchy but "Immaterial" by SOPHIE is way superior.

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I love this! It is surprising and features a ton of acts that other magazines have not mentioned so far: Jam City, Rustie (Glass Swords is the pioneer for the genre Future Bass that has taken over Soundcloud for the past 5-6 years), Actress and especially Andy Stott!

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BTS at #99 is such a pandering move that I can't help but roll my eyes. If they want to include K-Pop, "Fake Love" is not even among Top 500 Best of the Decade. Seeing "Terrible Love" by The National at #65 makes me happy, but it should have been the Alternate Version where the drums are more define...

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Oh yay, happy to see Late Nights by Jeremih and Love King by The-Dream.

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I'm deeply allergic to Carly Rae Jepsen slander, and this thread has made me break into hives. CONCUR. I will not stand for the slandering against Queen of the Gays. EMOTION is just a top-to-bottom excellent album: the iconic "Run Away With Me" with its saxophone intro spanning a thousand memes, th...

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Ctrl by SZA is fine, but I fail to see why it is so highly regarded. Meanwhile, the absolutely brilliant Pull My Hair Back by Jessy Lanza should get all the accolade for being one of the most inventive and catchiest R&B albums of the decade. Same with ANTI by Rihanna. It is a very good album but bet...

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I don't mind "I Blame Myself" but picking it over "Everything is Embarrassing" is a crime. The latter is one of the most perfect pop songs ever written. Same with picking "Blank Space" by Taylor Swift over her superior cut "All Too Well". Happy to see some old favorites such as "The Wilhelm Scream" ...

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I completely forgot about Autre Ne Veut and the his very good album Anxiety! "Play By Play" is a top-notch R&B tune.

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I prefer the fight scenes in Infinity War. Those fight sequences with the Black Order are fantastic and Ebony Maw, for once, seems like a formidable opponent for the Avengers.

Best MCU movie: Winter Soldier

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This list reads like the karaoke songbook at my local karaoke parlor.

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^Oh yes to "Julien" by Carly! However, based on the 4 tracks released so far, including the disappointing "Party For One", I have a feeling she will not be able to top EMOTION

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Just saw Avengers: Endgame with some friends and i'm telling you man, it's one of the best superhero films i've seen and one of the year's best films so far. I would go deeper but I don't wanna be that guy to spoil it for people who haven't seen it yet :whistle: Some plot holes aside, I find Endgam...

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FKA twigs' comeback single "Cellophane" is absolutely stunning - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkLjqFpBh84

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Hope I'm not too late on this :) "Burning" left the biggest impression on me so it was an easy #1 pick. 01. Burning (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea) 02. Game Night (John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, America) 03. Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan) 04. A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, America)...

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I'm never a big reader so 2019 is the year I am trying to change that. Joining a book club and having a deadline actually motivate my lazy butt to commit wholeheartedly too: 2019 Reading Tally: 1. Eddie Huang - Fresh Off The Boat 2. Eddie Huang - Double Cup Love 3. Thi Bui - The Best We Could Do 4. ...

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I'll throw in a plug for my personal "Music of Today" playlist - I regularly update a few times a week with new 2019 music, for anyone who might be interested. Optimal for shuffling and discovering :music-listening: http://open.spotify.com/user/1260457516/playlist/3WnDelb5IK4XTMQHdmpoIR "SAPPY" by ...

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I'm also in the minority who prefers the self-titled of Portishead to their landmark debut :) The menacing atmosphere is alluring as ever and Beth Gibbons sounds even more tortured. The closer "Western Eyes" is just sensational. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is flat-out brilliant. We now have the ...

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So the only K-Pop idols that made the cut is f(x) with Pink Tape. Well-deserved, I'd say because that is indeed the benchmark for album for an industry fixated on singles

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Thank you for the insane dedication, Pierre!

The only artists I'm familiar with is Faye Wong (Chungking Express, anyone?) and of course Wang Leehom. Even then, I have never heard of Leehom's 1998 album so I'll probably try my hands on that.

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Has "Hyperballad" made an appearance yet? If not, hopefully it is in Top 5. "Bachelorette" is indisputable of course.

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A few favorites of mine so far

1. Maxo Kream - Meet Again
2. Perfume Genius - When I'm with Him (Empress Of Cover)
3. Rico Nasty - Roof
4. Anthony Naples - El Portal Pt. II (this would make a fantastic R&B production)
5. Toro Y Moi - Freelance

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I know i'm gonna get a lot of eye-rolls for this comment, but Ariana Grande's latest album is better than anything i've heard this year so far. "imagine", "thank u, next" and "NASA" are all pretty great. Once she embraces the fact that she is a young Mariah Carey and R&B is where her voice shines t...

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