Parallel Reality

Lorde - Perfect Places. What a #95 smash that was. Paloma Faith - Til I’m Done

Least favourite: Small Bump (followed by Perfect) Favourite: YNMIDNY (followed by Bloodstream)

Make Your Own Kind Of Music to 19 Til’ I’m Done to 37

Literally love how Paloma has 3 songs in the iTunes top 40 at the moment. *.* NU RIHANNA ‘Make Your Own Kind Of Music’ is now up to 23!

'Stone Cold Sober' really is great, and it's aged pretty well (so has a lot of her stuff though tbh).

I’d love for ‘Til’ I’m Done’ to get a higher official peak than #95 or whatever it is :( Any sign of ‘Upside Down’? Everyone seems to love it but it never has the chart success to match :lol:

Both of these are incredible! ‘Til I’m Done’ is lead single worthy.

I love this woman and still find her so underrated generally. FROOT > TFJ > EH There have been great tracks from all of them though. These are my absolute favourites (though there are still loads more I like) I Am Not A Robot Mowgli's Road Obsessions Hollywood Oh No! Lies Teen Idle Fear and Loathing Happy Froot I'm A Ruin Froot just works as a cohesive body of work for me. A proper solid album. I will enjoy listening to 'Valley Of The Dolls' tomorrow as my train passes Abergavenny.

I love this! Very good. Needed some new Y&Y. :)

I find it OK. He is quite hit and miss for me with 'Mercy' and 'There's Nothing Holding Me Back' being amazing - but I find this almost tries too hard and as a result could be so much better. The chorus is the best bit though. With 'Lost In Japan' I think the verses are very strong but the chorus is weak. Maybe they'll both grow a bit as I generally like his voice.

‘Trouble With My Baby’ is okay. RFTGL is quirky and underrated, though it’s not as instant as a lot of her other stuff.

Sad to see ‘Beauty Remains’ so low, I think it’s actually very underrated. ‘Black and Blue’ is a solid album track but didn’t work that well for me as a single TBH.

It seems that the same 5 people have been nominated for every award :lol:

"...THE PHENOMENAL, SAM EARPLUGS!"

I wish Paloma was performing tonight.

So happy for Lorde. 'Melodrama' was sublime.

This was really hard. 10 Stone Cold Sober - So, so good and catchy and this instantly set Paloma apart from other artists for me. 10 New York - I was absolutely obsessed with this. So emotional and some story telling. 08.5 Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? - This sounds so moody and dark but is also quite soothing to listen to. 07[ Upside Down - I love the lyrics and how upbeat it is but I have to be in the mood to listen or I find it a little annoying. 09.5 Smoke & Mirrors - This is fabulous. I love how she draws in things from when she was a magician's assistant too, to describe a failed romance. 09 Picking Up the Pieces - I remember being super excited when this got released. Such a huge song and one that definitely started getting her noticed. 07 30 Minute Love Affair - Nice enough but it is kinda just there for me. 08 Never Tear Us Apart - Lovely cover which suits her voice well. 06.5 Just Be - Hmm. Some parts of this song are exceptional, but I feel like this song tries too hard and I hate the "Just say nothing" line. 06.5 Black & Blue - It's got a nice message and makes a solid album track but not sure for a single... 11 Can't Rely on You - Absolute anthem and her live performances of this are amazing. 08.5 Only Love Can Hurt Like This - This song is like a rich indulgent chocolate. Nice to listen to but only once in a while. I do love it though. 07.5 Trouble with My Baby - Had to look this one up but I do know it. It's pretty good but not that memorable. 09 Changing (with Sigma) - This is huge, and I'm so glad she collaborated on this - It still sounds great now! 08.5 Ready for the Good Life - This is one I forget exists sometimes but it's pretty cool and quirky once you listen. It doesn't follow the same set up as a lot of her other songs. 05 Leave While I'm Not Looking - This is a poor man's OLCHLT really. Probably my least favourite single. 08 Beauty Remains - I had to look this up too and then realised it used to be on the loop tape at work! I always really liked it and found it to be quite emotional. Definitely underrated. 10 Crybaby - This still sounds so original yet catchy and one of her best singles to date for me. 09.5 Guilty - This is huge and honest. Another one I had on repeat. 10 'Til I'm Done - What a banger! Incredible, upbeat, catchy and I love how it draws some influences from late 70s/early 80s disco. What else would you want from a pop song??

The video is fantastic and this is an absolute banger.

My rate is incoming, but can we all take some time to appreciate the video for 'Smoke & Mirrors'? :wub: AIYqNj3DBzo

I absolutely loved the ‘Froot’ era. There were only a couple of weaker songs on it and they weren’t even that bad. ‘Froot’, ‘Happy’, ‘Immortal’, ‘I’m A Ruin’; ‘Savages’; ‘Blue’, ‘Better Than That’ are all fab and ‘Gold’, ‘Forget’ and ‘Can’t Pin Me Down’ are all fairly good. Only ‘Weeds’ and ‘Solitaire’ were weak for me. She has such a great back catalogue and she is amazing live.

Just heard this, and it is super! Didn’t really notice it on the album but it works so well as a single

Daniel is going to be here until the end isn’t he... <_<

Of those up, I hope Maggie and John go. Nice enough people but both have been dull housemates.

01 (01) Rachel Johnson (01-01-01) 02 (03) Shane Jenek (03-02) 03 (04) Andrew Brady (04-03) 04 (02) Amanda Barrie (04-02-04) 05 (06) Malika Haqq (05-06-05) 06 (08) Maggie Oliver (02-08-06) 07 (07) John Barnes (07-07) 08 (05) Ashley James (03-05-08) 09 (13) Ginuwine (13-09) 10 (14) Ann Widdecombe (08-14-10) 11 (10) John Mitchell (10-11) 12 (11) Jess Impiazzi (06-11-12) 13 (16) India Willoughby (07-16-13) 14 (12) Wayne Sleep (12-14) 15 (09) Shane Lynch (09-15) 16 (15) Daniel O'Reilly (15-16) A pretty strong house this time! The only one I'm not a fan of is Daniel but he's not even that bad compared to previous CBB/BB contestants. I sometimes forget 11-15 are there, but I don't dislike them.

India would drive me mad if I was in the house with her but I feel she’s given a lot more to the series out of the two up so she’d be my choice to stay. Won’t happen though.