Hmmm I think that it will be an all Jess top 5 at this rate :lol:

I didn't vote in this as I didn't want to put myself though any more songs from these two than I had to, Jess Glynne has a narrowly better discography so I'd support her to win, although saying that, Rockabye might be my favourite one here. I guess Anne Marie should stick to features more x

Oops, wish I'd been following this earlier! I'm honored to be the statistically biggest Jess fan in this rate :blush:

shame to see 'Thursday' so low but at least we've got most of the bad Anne-Marie songs out of the way. 'Perfect To Me' is a very deserving last place.

Thursday is easily Jess Gynne's worst song, the lyrics are really bad... associating yourself with Ed Sheeran can easily result in that :) but it's a 2/10 song... so she easily beats Anne Marie who has at least 6 songs that are a 0/10 and could all be a -1: 2002, Perfect To Me, Frends, Birthday, Rewrite the Stars and f**k I'm lonely.

 

Thursday is easily Jess Gynne's worst song, the lyrics are really bad... associating yourself with Ed Sheeran can easily result in that :) but it's a 2/10 song... so she easily beats Anne Marie who has at least 6 songs that are a 0/10 and could all be a -1: 2002, Perfect To Me, Frends, Birthday, Rewrite the Stars and f**k I'm lonely.

 

So true EXCEPT Friends is one of the rare instances where Anne-Marie delivers something good. :P Her solo music on a whole though is tragic.

I'm hoping to restart the results from 5pm tonight which might be a lil early for some but I have some IRL plans forming for tonight! :o I'll aim to get all the way to #11 but it depends how quickly I can rattle through the posts :lol: All commentary is written it's just a matter of formatting each post.

Some of these results :drama:

 

Rewrite the Stars should have been dead last, and by a long way. Awful cover.

 

2002 deserved better :(

The funny thing is they have so many similarities career-wise

 

- first #1 a collaboration with Clean Bandit

- a song written with Ed Sheeran

- collab with Rudimental

- a feature on a Guetta track

- a self-love anthem (Perfect to Me, Thursday)

- a song in the Great Showman covers album.

 

#25 - RAYE feat. Jess Glynne 'Love Me Again' (Avg. 5.467)

 

High Scores: (7.5 - Calum, Riser 7 - Tawdry Hepburn, vibe, MrAndrewMan, LL Jord 7, Scene)

Low Scores: ( 0 - T-Boy)

 

 

Poor overlooked Raye. Not even 7 time chart topper Jess Glynne could make this a hit! The original is a great pop song with a brilliant melody where RAYE talks about trying to convince her ex to love her again. Jess contributes a guest verse on the single release where she acts as the supportive friend to RAYE and takes part in a call and respond bridge whilst singing and ad-libbing over the rest of the track. I tried to rate this based on Jess’ contribution which was tricky as she doesn’t add too much to the original imo, if anything I prefer the original bridge! This made it to #55 upon it’s original release in solo format but I’m sure the record label bosses were hoping for a bigger climb after the Jess remix. This also has a surprisingly low top score of 7.5, no song has got that low so far!

 

#24 - Anne-Marie 'Boy' (Avg. 5.5)

 

High Scores: (10 - UltraBeKind George.keh 9 - Jack)

Low Scores: ( 0 - T-Boy)

 

 

Another of Anne-Marie’s early releases which I was not familiar with when creating the rate. It does have the similar early sound that Karate and Gemini did with more minimal production, a kick-drum and hand clap make up most of this track. This one does have a bit of personality in the vocals which see Anne-Marie after a boy’s attention, but she’s wondering maybe he might be gay instead? I enjoy the fact the last chorus has a change in lyrics after she’s found out the truth. It’s a quirky chirpy track that’s quite a fun listen so I can see why it’s made it into the top 25. Again I think this struggled with many not knowing the track as I think it would be fairly popular with Buzzjack had it been a hit single.

Talk about a useless contribution from Jess on "Love Me Again"! "Boy" I can do without too.

#23 - Rudimental feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen 'These Days' (Avg. 5.656)

 

High Scores: (11 - Lee Wallace 9.5 - Dan-G)

Low Scores: ( -1 - smidsey101, JosephStyles)

 

 

Our second #marmeet track that just manages to out-do 2002 in the rate results. These Days was the comeback single for Rudimental back in early 2018 for their third album. This also features Macklemore and Dan Caplen alongside Jess Glynne to create an exciting supergroup you would not have predicted to work together. However this managed to end up very plain despite the names involved. It sounds like Rudimental’s attempt at what a Macklemore track would sound like with Jess vocals over the top but made so safe that no radio station would ever snub it. It’s very much a straight-forward pop song that could’ve been so much more in my opinion as all three artists (honestly Dan Caplen who?) have created far better tracks than this one in the past. This did manage to climb to #1 for a single week after 7 consecutive weeks at #2 behind Drake’s God Plan. Despite my feelings for it, this was a genuinely massive hit and it would’ve been a shame if this never made it to #1.

 

#22 - Alex Newell feat. Jess Glynne, DJ Cassidy & Nile Rodgers 'Kill The Lights' (Avg. 5.724)

 

High Scores: (10 - Nina West, George.keh, Davidson 8 - Cameron, Liam, Riser, Leww, Jack)

Low Scores: ( 0 - Lee Wallace)

 

 

Another jam-packed collaboration involving Jess Glynne. This was released back in 2016 but I only became familiar with it after a fantastic lip-sync to this song on the 12th season of RuPaul’s Drag Race which saw both queens saved from elimination thanks to their excellent performances. It’s a fun throwback disco song from Alex Newell that has some brilliant production sensibilities thanks to Nile Rodgers and DJ Cassidy. It’s quite different to the rest of Jess’ singles as it doesn’t sound like a chart hit but still sounds good! This was doing disco before the recent revival of the genre in 2020 so perhaps had this been released this year we could’ve seen another mega hit for Jess?

 

I've also included the lip-sync video as it is very good and even better than I remember it being watching it live a few months ago!

 

Love Me Again is gorgeous wtf lmao

#21 - Snakehips feat. Anne-Marie & Joey Bada$$ 'Either Way' (Avg. 5.793)

 

High Scores: (9 - divathinmuffin 8.5 - smidsey101, Riser)

Low Scores: ( 0 - T-Boy)

 

 

I’ve always had a soft spot for this song when Buzzjack hasn’t been so receptive of it, so seeing this reach the top half of the results is great all things considered! It’s a slow RnB/trap jam where Anne-Marie takes the more dominant role in pursuing a man but she’s good either way if things don’t work out. I don’t think Anne-Marie is necessarily the highlight of the track but she helps create the vibe so well and her vocals are smoother than ever. Snakehips do an excellent job on production and Joey Bada$$’s guest verse is short but sweet. Apparently this interpolates Imogen Heap’s Hide & Seek which I’m not too sure on where that is but maybe it’s my own ignorance and it’s super obvious? :lol:

 

#20 - Jax Jones & Jess Glynne 'One Touch' (Avg. 5.812)

 

High Scores: (9.5 - Riser 9 - Electroboy, Jack)

Low Scores: ( 0 - UltraBeKind)

 

 

This also reminds me of ‘No One’ in that this is a generic cash cow attempt at appealing to everyone, this is made slightly better with the Jax Jones production but it does feel very much a Jess song rather than one of his own. The lyrics talk about that person whose touch you can’t live without and how life is so tough when they’re not around. This could’ve been a massive UK hit with two of the biggest names in popular chart music currently, however there isn’t much to love about it or even remember it for and it stalled at #19 in the UK charts.

 

Genuinely don't get the hate for "These Days" :o Sure it's not the BEST but it's perfectly fine in what it tries to do.

 

"Kill The Lights" is a bop but it owes none of that to Jess :')

Love Me Again is gorgeous wtf lmao

 

It managed a surprising number of middling scores! If it had a few more active lovers it's average would've rocketed up as it doesn't have many haters! I can't say Jess Glynne is the reason why I like it though and this is a Jess Glynne rate so I see why it didn't do as well as it could have!

Snakehips being lower than "One Touch" is a bit off!

#19 - Rudimenal & Major Lazer feat. Anne-Marie & Mr. Eazi 'Let Me Live' (Avg. 5.833)

 

High Scores: (11 - NickF1 9 - Riser, Jack)

Low Scores: ( 0 - T-Boy, Lee Wallace)

 

 

Now for the second Rudimental collab between the girls. It is a joint production between Rudimental and Major Lazer which is certainly evident in its sound and also features vocals from Mr. Eazi. To me this has all the hallmarks of the artist’s previous successful songs and I’m very surprised this didn’t make it to the top 40! Perhaps the public were a little worn about by the Major Lazer sound by the time this was released in 2018? It’s a song tailored for summer listening with maximal production and horns galore. My only thought is that there’s not much of a chorus ‘leave me alone, let me live my life’ is all there really is to it so perhaps it’s not the most memorable of any artists tracks? One of my personal favourites from either Anne-Marie or Jess and I’m not sure what I was thinking when only giving this a 7! Also Lee give this a listen I guarantee you'll like it and rate it more than a 0!

 

#18 - Jess Glynne 'All I Am' (Avg. 5.859)

 

High Scores: (10 - T-Boy, Dan-G 9 - UltraBeKind, Josh!, Riser)

Low Scores: ( -1 - Jack)

 

 

Unfortunately this song is the epitome of what frustrates me about Jess Glynne, there’s nothing about ‘All I Am’ that excites me or makes me feel any sort of emotion good or bad. Of course it sounds perfect for the radio with a nice sing-a-long chorus and slinky production to make an earworm of a song for a wide range of listeners but it’s such so generic that it doesn’t really mean much at all to anyone. ‘Cause all I know and all I am is you’ ? I am confusion. I think this is why Jess has struggled to grow a fanbase when there’s not much about her to get behind in my opinion. Fun fact this was co-written by James Newman, the UK’s Eurovision entrant for 2020!

Snakehips being lower than "One Touch" is a bit off!

 

All the averages were super close in this section, even one more voter would've thrown off a number of positions!

#17 - Nick Jonas, Anne-Marie & Mike Posner 'Remember I Told You' (Avg. 6.051)

 

High Scores: (10 - Calum 9 - Cameron, Frenchie, Scene)

Low Scores: ( 0 - Lee Wallace)

 

 

Now into the 6's (finally!) and this is a surprise! I had no idea what this song was before I did the rate and I’m surprised this is the one that’s managed to out-do all the non-chart hits. I would say that it managed to avoid getting the low scores due to being reasonably unknown, but it’s also got a fair good fans who gave it highly favourable scores so perhaps I just need to familiarise myself with this to get on board with it? It’s a collab with Nick Jonas and Mike Posner that sounds well suited to the charts these days and would do well on streaming. I’m guessing it was released too late in the album campaign to have an impact? It’s another smooth offering from Anne-Marie and her voice compliments Nick Jonas’ very well! Perhaps this is her calling rather than some of her latest ‘gifts’ we’ve received?

 

#16 - Anne-Marie 'Then' (Avg. 6.064)

 

High Scores: (11 - George.keh, MrAndrewMan 9 - Frenchie, Davidson, JosephStyles, Klaus)

Low Scores: ( 0 - T-Boy)

 

 

Ballad time for Anne-Marie, we haven’t slowed down the pace quite as much as Jess does but we still get into our feelings on ‘Then’. She sings about the significance of a previous relationship and how the times were so good back then. It’s a interesting topic to talk about as we’re often encouraged to completely cut off ex’s or to make them into something so problematic that we can’t believe that it ever happened, when in reality our feelings are usually more ambiguous. It was a pleasant surprise when this was released as Anne-Marie was starting to take off with her fun and thoughtless songs, whereas this offered something different. Buzzjack has always been a fan of this so I’m not surprised this has done well in the rate and even managed to pull a couple of 11’s!

 

#15 - Anne-Marie 'Do It Right' (Avg. 6.103)

 

High Scores: (10 - George.keh, Dexton 9 - Davidson, Liam)

Low Scores: ( 0 - T-Boy)

 

 

Now for the last of Anne-Marie’s singles before she started to hit it big. I see this as the song that bridges early Anne-Marie with the Anne-Marie we know now. This song packs more of a punch than her previous material and I think this did get a bit of airplay on Radio 1 as I was quite familiar with this even back in 2015/16. Anne-Marie talks about the stage between lust and love and thoughts about commiting to a relationship rather than the highs that a casual fling brings.