This usually ends up occupying space in one of the other threads plus we're getting to the time of year where everyone's getting all end of year and reviewy, so I thought we might as well have a separate topic. In chronological order...
Indila - Derniere Danse
S O H N - Artifice
RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
RAM & Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
Hervé x Zebra Katz - Tear The House Up
A.G. Cook - Beautiful
Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
Michael Woods feat, Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
Blonde - I Loved You
Josef Salvat - Open Season
Commence the ranking.
1 Cry For Freedom
^ yes I know but it's one of my favourite songs of ever so let me
2 Artifice
3 Tear The House Up
4 Beautiful
5 Dernière Danse
6 RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
^ all excellent
7 Open Season
8 I Loved You
^ both good
9 Sissy That Walk
^ enjoyable enough but let's face it if it didn't have the gimmick of being RuPaul this would not be a winning song
10 In Your Arms
^ generic mess
All in all a pretty good year but the winner quality took a steep downturn after my win. I voted for 5 of the first 6 winners as well as the song that came 2nd behind myself, but didn't vote for any of the 3 since.
Myself:
01 Derniere Danse
02 Sissy That Walk
03 RAMelia
04 Open Season
05 I Loved You
06 In Your Arms
07 Beautiful
08 Cry For Freedom
09 Artifice
10 Tear The House Up
None that I actively dislike which is pretty good. The top 5 are all classic winners and 6 to 8 are alright but not essential, 'Artifice' I still find really bleh and nothingy and, well, I don't *hate* 'Tear The House Up' (sorry Chris x)
oops reminds me of how many I missed this yr
tho beautiful would still be the best if I knew the others
A.G. Cook - Beautiful
RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
Hervé x Zebra Katz - Tear The House Up
Blonde - I Loved You
RAM & Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
S O H N - Artifice
Indila - Derniere Danse
Michael Woods feat. Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
Josef Salvat - Open Season (can't even remember how this goes already lmao)
1-4 are incredible, 5-7 are rly good and 8-10 are alright but open season is not that memorable imo (sorry math)
beautiful and sissy that walk are neck and neck tho......
amazing
01 A.G. Cook "Beautiful"
02 RAM & Susana "RAMelia"
03 Josef Salvat "Open Season"
04 SOHN "Artifice"
rly damn good
05 Indila "Derniére Danse"
06 Hervé & Zebra Katz "Tear The House Up"
07 Jay Dabhi & Moises Modesto "Cry For Freedom"
08 Blonde (ft. Melissa Steel) "I Loved You"
blegh.
09 RuPaul "Sissy That Walk"
10 Michael Woods (ft. Lauren Dyson) "In Your Arms"
Wonderful/amongst my favourite discoveries of the year
01. Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
02. S O H N - Artifice
Good
03. Hervé x Zebra Katz - Tear The House Up
04. Blonde - I Loved You
05. Josef Salvat - Open Season
Decent, but a bit overrated/not something I'd really go back to
06. Indila - Derniere Danse
07. RAM & Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
No thanks
08. RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
09. Michael Woods feat, Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
Haven't heard (yay for an artist that technically was featured on a Terra Avium song first winning though (straws meet clutching))
-- A.G. Cook - Beautiful
-x-
I only voted for the top 2, though one was my 12 pointer which was good. Generally though, the winners never quite make it to the tip top of my affections whilst I oddly always throw my support to the songs that end challenging them the most (three times my 12 pointer came 2nd this year :'()
01 A.G. Cook - Beautiful
Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
RAM & Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
Hervé x Zebra Katz - Tear The House Up
RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
06 S O H N - Artifice
Blonde - I Loved You
Josef Salvat - Open Season
Indila - Derniere Danse
10 Michael Woods feat, Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
have to agree with bré about the quality of winners going down after his win. The top 4 though are AMAZING and at least I don't hate any of the winners
BEST EVER LIKE
01 RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
AMAZING
02 Hervé x Zebra Katz - Tear The House Up
03 Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
GOOD/CHEAPNESS
04 S O H N - Artifice
05 Josef Salvat - Open Season
06 Indila - Dernière Danse
EH
07 RAM & Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
08 A.G. Cook - Beautiful
09 Blonde - I Loved You
I WAS EAR RAPED
10 Michael Woods feat, Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
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It's actually crazy that we only had ONE female solo winner this year. ONE. CRAZY I TELLS YA
One of the best songs of the year <3
01 Indila - Derniére danse
Slay
02 RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
Good
03 RAM & Susanna - RAMelia (Tribute to Amelia)
04 Blonde - I Loved You
05 A.G. Cook - Beautiful
06 Josef Salvat - Open Season
07 SOHN - Artifice
Meh
08 Michael Woods ft. Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
09 Hervé x Zebra Kats - Tear The House Up
No thanks
10 Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
A bit of a dive in quality after STW! It's not that I hate RAMelia, but it can't live up to the epic top 2!
01 I Loved You (definitely my favourite this year, i can see everyone loving this now it's having a commercial push too)
02 Open Season (didnt even give this any points in the semi but i love it now, just a fantastic little tune)
03 Beautiful
04 Artifice (wasn't in this final but i remember loving the song for a little while)
05 Cry For Freedom (did a big u-turn on this since the final really quite beautiful)
06 In Your Arms (went off this quickly, i do like it but shocked at it winning)
07 Derniere Danse
08 Sissy That Walk
09 RAMelia (one heard this once and it left no impression on me whatsoever )
10 Tear The House Up (wasn't really my cup of tea)
wasnt in the final for ramelia, sissy, derniere or artifice but heard them all before.
Amazing
RAM & Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
A.G. Cook - Beautiful
Michael Woods feat, Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
Great
Blonde - I Loved You
Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
Very good
Indila - Derniere Danse
S O H N - Artifice
Average
Hervé x Zebra Katz - Tear The House Up
RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
Can't recall how it goes
Josef Salvat - Open Season
The Good
Blonde - I Loved You (and yet, it's only about 5th in my rank of my own entries)
Josef Salvat - Open Season
S O H N - Artifice
The (not entirely) Bad
Indila - Derniere Danse
RAM & Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
The Bad
Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
Hervé x Zebra Katz - Tear The House Up
Michael Woods feat, Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
The Ugly
A.G. Cook - Beautiful
RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
Indila - Derniere Danse
Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
S O H N - Artifice
A.G. Cook - Beautiful
Hervé x Zebra Katz - Tear The House Up
RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
Josef Salvat - Open Season
Blonde - I Loved You
RAM & Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
Michael Woods feat, Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
Only the last two I don't really get / like. In response to Bal's ??? about Josef... while I like it, it's easily my least favourite of his songs and I'm rather baffled it won so easily. I'd've sent 'Shoot and Run' and come 25th I'm sure...
1. A.G. Cook - Beautiful
2. Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
3. RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
4. Josef Salvat - Open Season
5. Indila - Derniere Danse
6. Blonde - I Loved You
7. Hervé x Zebra Katz - Tear The House Up
8. S O H N - Artifice
9. RAM & Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
10. Michael Woods feat, Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
1. Indila - Derniere Danse
2. RAM & Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
3. Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
4. A.G. Cook - Beautiful
5. S O H N - Artifice
6. Blonde - I Loved You
7. Josef Salvat - Open Season
8. Hervé x Zebra Katz - Tear The House Up
9. Michael Woods feat, Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
10. RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
The first 3 are magical. They all beat out very good runners-up which all would have improved the winners list no end in a different contest, but the right choice was made for all three of these I think (to keep things in balance, in the contests where I wasn't a fan of the winner, I wasn't amazingly enamoured with any of the nearest challengers either). The next 5 are all very good songs, worthy of being winners and good additions to the canon, I've tired of Tear The House Up just a bit though.
In Your Arms is passable but not a particularly standout song in this list, and as for Sissy That Walk, as a song it is dreadful. The first verse I can enjoy, everything after that is pretty bad.
Anyone who doesn't 'get' RAMelia should watch this:
The song still sends shivers down my spine, in any incarnation.
I've noticed how much dislike Michael Woods got. I'm actually wondering how it won with so many members actively disliking it.
Josef Salvat - Open Season (fave)
A.G. Cook - Beautiful
Indila - Derniere Danse
S O H N - Artifice
RAM & Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
Hervé x Zebra Katz - Tear The House Up
Michael Woods feat, Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
Blonde - I Loved You
RuPaul - Sissy That Walk (no)
I think. (for the middle section at least, the top and bottom are locked in place~)
RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
Blonde - I Loved You
Michael Woods feat, Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
A.G. Cook - Beautiful
Josef Salvat - Open Season
Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
RAM & Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
Hervé x Zebra Katz - Tear The House Up
S O H N - Artifice
Indila - Derniere Danse
Gaycat overkill bye
I thought I already did this. Oops.
some of my favorite tracks of the year
10 Josef Salvat - Open Season
09 Blonde - I Loved You
08 A.G. Cook - Beautiful
07 Michael Woods feat, Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
06 Indila - Derniere Danse
05 S O H N - Artifice
04 Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
03 RAM & Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
02 Hervé x Zebra Katz - Tear The House Up
01 RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
Open Season
Artifice
RAMelia
Beautiful
I Loved You
Derniere Danse
Cry For Freedom
In Your Arms
Tear The House Up
Sissy That Walk
I only like the top 4, middle three are listenable, bottom 3 aren't.
(Hervé x Zebra Katz - Tear The House Up)
A+
A.G. Cook - Beautiful
S O H N - Artifice
B
Blonde - I Loved You
Indila - Derniere Danse
B-
Josef Salvat - Open Season
Jay Dabhi and Moises Modesto - Cry For Freedom
C
RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
F
RAM & Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)
Michael Woods feat, Lauren Dyson - In Your Arms
it's not really been a vintage year looking at it
also tim u NEED to love katz
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