3 minutes ago, Jade said:

Just had a look back at my spreadsheets and @Bror was the only person who gave 11 to all three of the winners!

How generic

4 hours ago, Jade said:

❌ Pop Flop: 1 (jimwatts), 5 (777666jason)

Don’t you know that you’re toxic?

First thing to say is I thought there was an obvious winner to this rate even before votes started coming in, so the top position would always be more of a coronation than a contest. I had done most of my vote and realised I had almost one exactly of every score, so didn't take much to distribute everything from 2 to 10 in 0.5 increments and still have room for an 11 plus one more vote. Nothing seemed worthy of less than 2 even with this calibration of scores, but the only song I could justify is the one which was going to win anyway so it would make no difference - so I had 1 to balance the 11 and keep a 6.0 average. I suppose in reality I'd rate it similarly to 'Biology' which I gave 6.5, but it made little difference as it's still had the highest average in any of these rates. It's just one of these songs that I don't exactly get what it is about it as a song (iconic video imagery aside) that makes it held in quite as high regard as it is, and it doesn't shift '...Baby One More Time' as her magnum opus for me - I even prefer 'Everytime' from that album - but I'm obviously wrong and that's fine.

Thank you Jade for running and presenting these three rates!

I did think as soon as I saw the tracklist for this one that there was a very good chance I'd be going 3 for 3 with giving 11 to the winners haha - I'm not normally a fan of Britney (in fact she probably has more songs that I actively dislike than ones I love!) but 'Toxic' is a solid gold pop classic and easily the best song across all three editions so glad that is reflected in its average despite Jim's attempt to sabotage

Like the first edition though there's also one of my least favourite songs in the top 3 whoops, although at least it's 3rd instead of 2nd this time. I do respect 'Biology' for its unorthodox structure for a major pop group release but, as I also think about 'The Promise' for the same reasons, I just don't think any of the parts of it are particularly interesting, it's easily their most overrated song for me oops (I'm curious who Jason thinks is underrating it xx). The girls are better at sticking to more straightforward songs I fear...!

The rest of the top 5 are all good, '1 Thing' one of my highest rated songs (one of three that I gave a 9, I didn't give any 10s) but not sure I'd have expected it to do so well. Frustrating results for my other two 9s though with them finishing in 11th and 12th - I'm not surprised at 'Goodies' being around that mark as I can understand it being divisive but 'Don't Cha' only coming 12th is utterly scandalous, that is a banger and I thought that'd be the consensus! Also gave 8s to Charlotte Church and Nelly Furtado so glad they were both top 10, a bit surprised at how high the former is.

Sorry again for not posting much in the thread but have been following along and commenting off site as you know, once again the effort put into all the commentaries is much appreciated, so much lore shame this is the last one of these as they've been a lot of fun x