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Well, I did manage to secure one £223 ticket, but needed 2 so let it go. Always tomorrow. And Friday. And other dates.

She has to pay the mortgage somehow!!

I really want to hear Hung Up done properly, ABBA sample and everything. I *think* that's a reasonable ask, even for 2023 Madonna.

I’ve had almost the exact same conversation (he has no interest in coming so had to barter to get £150)

Ticketmaster.com have tickets from $70 (albeit for seats in the gods) and $140 for decent seats.

I’m going - I just don’t know to which venue. Annoying Amex presale doesn’t apply to the UK dates! Getting tickets for the O2 is going to be HELL, I know they’re all but certain to add more dates (I’ve seen 4 touted…) but still.

We have also confirmed

I have absolutely nothing. Time to trawl the pop bargain bins.

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I am feeling particularly exposed in this thread as some of the comments perfectly describe Leony, Nova Miller and LOVA. After my 2/3 years most successful years in the contest I don’t really think I’m any the wiser on the specifics of what makes a winner (or a smash), I can just as easily pass them over (the other Lovesick this month for example), but for me most of the time you know it when you hear it. Which sounds really obvious, but that’s what happened with ALMA a few months back. First listen and I knew it was a smash.

Yaaas ar least this won’t be my least successful entry of the year

One of the biggest omissions in my Madonna Spotify playlist now remedied. Absolutely ADORE it.

I've been playing Santa, Can't You Hear Me LOADS so far this year, it didn't wow me last year, but it's definitely worked its magic at this stage. I do still prefer Blessed (and Christmas Eve, if we're including the older stuff as well) but the bar is set VERY HIGH. Kelly Christmas top 10 (originals only): 01 Underneath The Tree 02 Winter Dreams 03 Christmas Eve 04 Blessed 05 Santa, Can't You Hear Me 06 Under The Mistletoe 07 Christmas Isn't Cancelled (Just You) 08 Merry Christmas (To The One I Used To Know) 09 Wrapped In Red 10 Every Christmas

Roosevelt Island please

Did It Again by FAR the weakest at this stage

#01 BEKA - Don’t Call Me A Friend #02 Cornelia Jakobs - Rise #03 Angele - Bruxelles Je T’aime #04 Nessa Barrett - dying on the inside #05 Leony - Remedy #19 ALMA - Summer Really Hurt Us #22 Alba August - Isabelle #33 SKAAR - Get Him Away From Me #98 Hatchie - Lights On All mine, except Hatchie. A little surprised Honey. didn’t make it as I played it a lot, but I suspect a fair few of those came after the cut off. There’s lots I’ve played quite a few times, but will likely have fallen between #100 and #200 on my top songs list.

Sounds like it could be a lot of fun!

11th is a few places higher than I expected for Pastora, so I'm taking that as a WIN *.*

I haven’t seen M since Rebel Heart, and the intervening years have not been kind, HOWEVER if she tours I will move heaven and earth to be there. If it is a damage limitation (GH) tour, I hope someone has a word and convinces her that a handful of reinventions is fine, but the bulk should be faithful renditions.

I have confirmed something I’ve had on my list for about 6 months, not 100% sure I’ll stick with it.

You would like to assume so, but given the general consensus in the midterms seems to be 49% of voters are happy with fascism (as long as it's being used to primarily disadvantage those they feel superior to) and generally denying reality, I wouldn't be feeling TOO HOPEFUL. In terms of what DeSantis has done, the Don't Say Gay bill and generally making Florida a right wing utopia is enough for me to be worried.

DeSantis is much more chilling a prospect than Trump, he’s a getting some (truly awful) stuff done and isn’t just using it as rhetoric. Trump being the candidate seems like the best chance Democrats have of winning in 2024 (assuming Biden runs again) and perhaps with strong coattails could hold the Senate.

Ideally a GOP lead in the house of 1/2 would be far more difficult and damaging to them given they’d have to appease the likes of MTG and Boebert and their specific brand of lunacy to pass ANYTHING. Nancy would probably be able to whip Dems into line enough if they do eke out a win, but probably better to have no expectations of being able to pass anything (and hopefully, therefore, no disappointment). Ultimately when all the dust has settled there’s going to be a LOT of lengthy articles and discussions around redistricting in NY, safe to says Dems would have the House sewn up if they hadn’t botched that so badly.

The obvious 2 songs leaving first. Did You Do It? is unlistenable tripe, but Secret Garden is solid enough. It’s just the calibre of song on the album is pretty high overall.

Please no, I’m not ready for a repeat of the final contest of 2020.