April 7, 201510 yr Author When I was born to be the tortoise I was born to walk alone #6 Forget Average Score: 8.05 <div style="margin-left:25px;">17UL5ks9amY</div> The first song in the Froot rate with an 8+ average is ‘Forget’. I’d probably say this was the most commercial sounding outing that Froot offers. It was bordering on generic safe to me for some time (especially by Marina’s standard’s), but the fabulous video (in which Marina looks amazing I might add), fully brought this one to life, at least to me. It may be a quite a simple chorus, but it’s still a big one. This is the last song in the rate to receive a -1 (from Umi this time), but due to generally high scores, ‘Forget’ still manages to secure its place in the more popular half of the album. Its score was, however, not at any point anywhere near taking it to the top 5. Living la dolce vita!: Conderella (11), It's Lindsey (11), jark (10), Ultraviolence1989 (10), Kuki Sanban (9.5), Dandystar (9.5) Wanna forgive and forget...:AntoineTTe (6), Mackenzie (6), Kath ♡ (4), Umi (-1)
April 7, 201510 yr 'Better Than That' is now my favourite behind the first three on the album. It really should have done Better Than That. :( I think 'Forget' is in the right position, it sits about halfway in my order of the album as well. Shocked at 'Can't Pin Me Down' is in the Top 5 but I'm also glad that 'Happy' is there too :heart:
April 7, 201510 yr Author 'Better Than That' is now my favourite behind the first three on the album. It really should have done Better Than That. :( I think 'Forget' is in the right position, it sits about halfway in my order of the album as well. Shocked at 'Can't Pin Me Down' is in the Top 5 but I'm also glad that 'Happy' is there too :heart: It's not, you must have missed that one :P
April 7, 201510 yr Author I found what I was looking for... #5 Happy Average Score: 8.59 <div style="margin-left:25px;">s6AHxF0s764</div> Taking the average score up by quite a bit, and starting off a very strong top 5, is the beautiful opener to Froot. When I first heard 'Happy' as a Froot of the month, I was slightly disappointed, I felt I wanted more from Marina after how amazingly insane 'Froot' sounded. But in the context of the album, I now feel the strength of this track. It's an honest track that lets the listener really know what place Marina is in mentally and emotionally before continuing with the jaunty tones of 'Froot'. Still, though I've grown to adore this song in more than one way, it's something I have to be in the right mood to listen to. 'Happy' receives plenty of love from Buzzjack, but it gained its fair share of lower scores, too. Living la dolce vita!: ┌ ╫ ┘ (11), Mackenzie (11), Doug (11), Iz~ (10), Josh. (10), Liаm (10), Heezus Froot ♡ (10), Bonquiqui (10), Sean. (10), Rabbit Froot (10), Kath ♡ (10) Noahspike (10), Ramz (10), M¤th (10), Wanna forgive and forget...:Umi (6), Slayberry (6), jark (5), Cody MrBrightside (5), It's Lindsey (3)
April 7, 201510 yr 'Happy' :heart: So beautiful and definitely her most open, personal and raw song. It's not, you must have missed that one :P Oops, I have NO idea why I still thought it was in :lol:
April 7, 201510 yr Author I'm not afraid of god, I'm afraid of man. #4 Savages Average Score: 8.63 <div style="margin-left:25px;">rxaTAFXgykU</div> Beating the average of 'Happy' by a very small margin is 'Savages'. When the full album first dropped, this was the song that seemed to have generated the most positive buzz across message boards and on social media, so I was fully expecting this to go top 2/3 in the rate. In the end, it didn't get that many top scores, in fact, 'Happy' got noticeably more 10s and 11s. Savages succeed to place higher because it didn't really get any low scores (apart from that 4 from Kath). Thematically, I think this is the absolute best on the album. I find the lyrics interesting and provocative (especially since discovering she's actually saying 'bomb', and it’s not 'one man can build a barn'). Marina touches on rape culture as well as other controversial themes you'd rarely expect from a pop indie song. And I find that the idea of comparing human behaviour to savages parallels nicely with the break up themes in 'Blue' and 'I'm a Ruin'. I especially enjoy when she wails like a banshee at the end. Living la dolce vita!: Iz~ (11), Davidson (11), JVSH (11), Josh. (10), Liаm, (10), Hurricane (10), Bonquiqui (10), It's Lindsey (10), Parallel Reality (10) Wanna forgive and forget...: ┌ ╫ ┘ (6), Kath ♡ (4)
April 7, 201510 yr Savages is good, glad it didn't get higher than 4th though. Blue out next please, an I'm a Ruin and Froot top 2 would be :heart:
April 7, 201510 yr I got the Top 3 right...then again...it seemed obvious that they are the three most loved songs.
April 7, 201510 yr Happy and Savages are both incredible <3 It has to be I'm A Ruin to win with Blue 2nd and Froot 3rd, they're all fab but Froot has nothing on the other two imo - would be about 5th for me ranking all the songs.
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