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Gotta go back to the Like a Prayer video and song which was a point of study in my college's communications and media class, and will probably be studied for a long time to come. Watching today, I think the gist of it all is, if you hate Madonna you'll see a lot of sacrilege, some justified, some (l...

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A Madonna all timer snuck in up there

Current Top 4

Like a Prayer
Miss You Much
Giving You The Best I Got
She Drives Me Crazy

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Simply Red's version won the R&B Song of the Year Grammy, and the last time a white artist won that award. Then again, it's rewarded to the songwriters, so Gamble and Huff technically won it for a song they wrote 15 years prior.

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Their backlash was an overreaction, the fake band made good music, and their ruse should have been laughed off and not destroyed lives. Look, they're acting in the video. Those aren't their real girlfriends or exes. That's not rain falling in the studio. They if anything perfected the performative n...

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It's Coming Up, like my hair line! BTW this is great and Phil Collins is underrated. On Our Own had an outsized importance when I was eight, as was the theme to the second film I remember being excited to see (the first was Back to the Future 2, released a month earlier). Still very good and very si...

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Amazing how much is in out brains that Girl I'm Gonna Miss You is there but not there. Like looking at an old yearbook and seeing someone unfamiliar at first.

Last two songs were old friends.

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Her best song, maybe?

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Seems Phoebe's list is full of people quietly doing the right thing, even if it means personal/career hardship as a result. Not sure what ties Mike's

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Mixed emotions from watch the Grammys. Pretty much would have called it a huge success if it wasn't for the very last award given out. The performances were constant and great. This should be the new normal. Most awards should be given out earlier, and the main event should be a concert / live music...

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Spoke SPOKE TOO SOON too soon. Awesome!

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SPOKE TOO SOON

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Ooooh a classic from film school days, but haven't seen it since. Loved the imagery, I'm a sucker for German expressionism, and one of my fav films is Murnau's Sunrise which is steeped in that language.

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1989 is improving with some solid hits there, yes including Girl You Know It's True, which is great! Still think Janet has the edge.

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Janet throws down the gauntlet, easily takes the lead as my fav from 89 so far.

Night night

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Best song so far: My Prerogative

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Good lord that's a low tier Chicago song. You sure you don't have the list upside down?

I mean more like Look Hornay

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Better versions of this kinda song exist. But I really liked them circa 1991. Then their 1992 album came out and it didn't compare to the grunge music I was imbibing.

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I can see an honest way Weeknd was snubbed (though I'm not sure the way he was was honest). Mainly, that they wanted diversity of genre, gender, and race, and he got squeezed out. Say they created genre lanes and had a 50%+ women/POC rule set, and he was left out. They wanted a jazz lane, and the ja...

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more like phorny figure

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more like horny dreams

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more like horny eyes

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The Weeknd is boycotting the grammys and he has a point. When working on my just rewards project, I try to pick songs based on how I assume the Grammys would/should: a mix of acclaim and popularity with a dash of activism. When they fail at that, whiffing on an acclaimed hugely popular song by a per...

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So, I've successfully avoided "Friday" for 10 years, but today sat down to listen to it. There were points I enjoyed, and points where it is just really really funny. Not her fault, this LOL lyrics were written by her producers, who weren't trying hard. That she sells it all so earnestly i...

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Did not listen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Inspirational in my youth but there's plenty of other inspirational things the world can be inspired by

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Guy really unsure about what love is, but does know that a ballad requires a double neck bass guitar, as only the best know...

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Lyrically silly but musically an absolute banger! Or as we like to say here:

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I could see Mike going either way on this one. It's good but not a fav, but wonder if it's because we heard two ballads in a row.

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My music projects got me listening to the songs of 2019, 1954, and 1901. It's a bit of whiplash in someways, but enough good stuff to make it fun. This one, by Shirley and Lee, was out in round 1 in the 1956 game but is one of my favorites so far. I love the mood, the vibe, and the saucy lyrics that...

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Sure, America, buy like the only Gloria hit that wasn't a percussive symphony. Even still, in a ballad, percussively, love to hear it!

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The soul train continues! Beep Beep, Choo Choo!

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Speaking of, here's maybe the apex of the genre! A titan. After this song goes to #1, not another white male hits the top of the R&B charts until Robin Thicke a generation later. Reading up, seems the criticism of blue-eyed soul is majority economic related, and less artistic related. And for th...

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I love how this, from '55, straddles genres, carving out an area of folky bluesy jazzy pop that not many have tried to replicate. 50s may have the reputation of tweeness musically but it's in many ways an adventurous time. Also this is dark, funny, and anti-capitalist, and was a giant pop hit in the...

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Blue eyed soul is the rare genre that gets dismissed in its name, sorta like yacht rock, but like all music, some of it is fantastic, and bravo for here embracing the culture that some may say gets appropriated (directed by David Fincher). There's a thin line, and this is on the right side of it, IM...

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I was ready to dismiss it after the first minute but dang nab it, the hooks hook.

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I like every GoGos song more than this but it's good. Kinda funny how going pop in the 80s was... singing behind a rock band.

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Another great one from 1954, one that grew on me with each listen, is so goofy and fun, with classic doo wop gobbledygook words, and so much fun to sing along to (and yell along to near the end too). Also, for some reason, I think because of Martin Scorsese, I figured doo wop was a big Italian thing...

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On one hand, a black woman says she had this experience. On the other hand, this white male commentator does not believe her. And our society treats these two things as equal. Disbelief is not evidence, unless that disbelief is from a white male, who we know is a neutral arbiter. Look, could she be ...

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Haven't talked much about my Just Rewards project but it's going very well and now have over 70 followers and a regular group voting on stuff. I figured I should start sharing some of the songs I've really liked here. Gonna start with the song Skokkian, that has so much going on. I've known it for a...

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Adding this here because there are some GOP talking head examples, but if you want me to create a "Tories" thread, let me know. It's amazing the flailing to prove that Meghan is lying, with the only proof being that they hate Meghan so she must be lying, thus doubling-down on dynamics that...

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Tahlvin wrote: ↑Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:11 amI just didn't think there was scene that involved someone in a skirt and high heels kneeling on a desk covered in hay with a saddle on their back.

Not the first time they've gone to this film too, right? It's like their horny for it for some reason.

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I like it. Also, Debbie wrote and produced this, so I give it some extra artistic cred points.

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Same.

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procure joy to your inner pig

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Haven't been watching much movies but our TV diet at night seems to be Muppet Show followed by Little House on the Prairie. Fun drinking game with Prairie... drink anytime someone dies, because nearly every episode it happens. Danger if you are a guest role on that show...

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Yup, like so

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Hehehehe Similarly, not quite pet peeves, but kinda wish we'd all try to say names of locations in their original pronunciation. This might be a pet peeve for others, that I do this. Like, I annoy my family by calling a Grand Portage, "gran por-tagsh." I think Paris should always be pronou...

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I'm an expresso sayer, and I pronounce the "s' in Illinois too. It's hard to change, but I'm trying, thank you for your patience

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Talking Book is my favorite Stevie Wonder album. My favorite albums by the all-time-greats seem to always be the one that merges their artistic high-points with great pop songwriting. And this is for sure the case here, with this, Superstition, and I Believe the highlights, but all the other tracks ...

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I mean, this, especially with the low-budget music video, is, in it's own way, perfect.

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