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#18. Rose-Colored Boy
Artist: Paramore
Nominator: Bane_Of_Despair (2/5)
Time: 3:30
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe5PfAF8k2E
Initial Rankings: Batch 3 - 3/15 (B) & Rubric 5
FLUX: Down 5 Spots

I didn't get into Paramore until the past year or two. I really liked "Now" from a nomination a decade ago, and knew about 'paramore twitter boobs' as a Board 8 meme, but I never sought Hayley Williams out. I really enjoy her voice and the musicality or everything. Rose-Colored Boy is nice. It's nice. I think if it were "Still Into You," "Ain't It Fun," "Running Out Of Time," or "Brick by Boring Brick," it'd be higher. I will say I didn't knowingly hear this one until the topic, and since then I've heard on my work's radio like forty times. I feel like I had more profound things to say a week or so, but it wasn't leaving anytime soon.

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#17. good 4 u
Artist: Olivia Rodrigo
Nominator: Player_0 (4/5)
Time: 2:58
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeDdS9aIpck
Initial Rankings: Batch 4 - 2/15 (B+) & Rubric 4
FLUX: Even

As stated a long, long time ago: there were two nominators at opposite ends of my batched rankings, and here were are with Player_0's second drop all the way in the top 20. I don't remember what I wrote in "get him back!" and I'm feeling lazy today, but I don't know that I knew any Olivia Rodrigo music before this, and I've still yet to check her full albums. These five songs are the only ones I have to go on, and it's kind of incredible how much teenage heartbreak and heartache she's turned into bangers. good 4 u is easily the most fun of the bunch, and it's extremely relatable. Going out of your mind with loneliness, anxiety, jealousy, empathy, driving yourself crazy, and the person's just doing fine while you feel like a wreck and it's so hard to get out of that solo shame spiral.

Also, while "get him back!" fell down so far because of it's last ten seconds, I think "good 4 u" escaped elimination once because I enjoyed "Well good for you I guess you moved on really easily" ending the song abruptly like it did. Again, very fun.

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#16. vampire
Artist: Olivia Rodrigo
Nominator: Player_0 (3/5)
Time: 3:39
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXdABv5O4qc
Initial Rankings: Batch 4 - 4/15 (B) & Rubric 7
Weighted Rankings: Purple 5/16
FLUX: Up 40 Spots

From early February: "Initially fairly high (still 4th of the five Rodrigos), then dropped in my estimation because of Todd in the Shadows worst songs of 2023 commentary on the "sold me for parts as you sunk your teeth into me" not making any sense, vampire lore confusion; but then that sort of made me appreciate the song more because pointing out pedantic bits to deflect from listening to the raw emotion and story of being used and dismissing the rest because of it... isn't that how it is when people open up and talk about their abusers, and how often others pivot on small details to avoid absorbing and listening?"

So, yeah, I enjoyed it first listen, decided "selling her for parts" was dumb, listened to the song more, appreciated it more, and now I've read Jennette McCurdy's book, listened to Taylor Swift's "Would've, Could've, Should've," and heard about "Quiet On Set" stuff in the last month. 'vampire' feels like an anthem of child stardom, relationships, and vulnerability. The song has power. Writing this... I kind of want to put it higher...

*ONE HOUR LATER*

The good news is I decided to listen to all the songs again to see if it went higher, and "King of Swords (Reversed)" almost got knocked back into the previous write-ups!

The bad news is I really, really like the other fifteen songs and this isn't moving higher. Again, this is the probably the best high-charting ranking topic I've ever done.

@Bane_Of_Despair
@Player_0