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Love both of these but plumped for Florence <3 my appreciation of that song has grown a lot in recent years.

both Ariana and Mariah are featured together on Barbra Streisand's new album The Secret Of Life: Partners, Volume Two, out June 27th: why not x

Round 1: 30 (didn't get: The RAH Band, 1972) Round 2: 33 (didn't get: The Stylistics, The Beat) 3-in-10: 3 (You Sexy Thing, So You Win Again, No Doubt About It)

I discovered Colour Girl's garage take on 'Can't Get Used To Losing You' about a year ago, added it to my shuffle playlist, then it disappeared soon after and still hasn't returned - boo!

Catching up on week 33 + 34: The production is my favourite part of 'You See The Trouble With Me', so not mad about the same beat appearing on 'Like A Prayer', but can't say I'd ever choose to listen to that version over the Madonna masterpiece. I'm more familiar with Mariah's 'Boy (I Need You)' that incorporates the Cam'Ron song than 'Oh Boy' itself, despite charting lower. Didn't realise how quickly she snapped up that sample! I like this Raven Maize song more than the last hit under that alias but not quite up there with the best of the Jakatta/Joey Negro material. Random observation of the day is not only does the Intenso Project song sample 'Dreadlock Holiday', but also Bowling For Soup's 'Girl All The Bad Guys Want' contains the lyric: "with fishnets on and dreadlocks in her hair"! I agree that Coldplay have better (from this era alone!) but I do like 'In My Place', particularly the melodic guitar line and Chris' heartfelt delivery. I see Darius blocked them from the top, which I can forgive, they have far more egregious roadblock in a few years... 'Around The World (La La La La La)' is such an earworm. I quite liked what Ava Max did with it too. Great to see Röyksopp on top I have always enjoyed their general sound but was a bit late to the revered Melody AM album... until there was a listen through for it on the forum a couple of years ago! My overall favourites included the classic 'Eple', plus 'She's So', 'In Space' and 'Poor Leno' - but both of the two songs highlighted in the relevant batch are sounding good right now in isolation, especially 'So Easy' indeed. I love the original 'Do You See The Light?' but agree that the production on this version pales in comparison. Wild that the story of Hear'Say is coming to an end just a year after they formed on Popstars, while Liberty X are advancing to the next level. I'm not the biggest fan of them but do think Kym Marsh brought a lot of star quality to the group, so her leaving and being replaced by Lisa Scott-Lee's future husband at this point makes sense as the beginning of the end. I adore 'Round Round' 😍 glorious, edgy Xenomania pop that gives all three of the girls their own section to shine, on top of coming together for that euphoric, unifying chorus. Great hook and punchy drum track too. Feels like a turning of the tides for the sound of British girl-groups in a pre-Girls Aloud world. I know the Dorothy Moore version of 'Misty Blue' well but had never come across that reimagining before! The downtempo flip is interesting. Apparently it's Chaka Khan on backing vocals while her sister Taka Boom takes on lead vocals, ooh. Maybe the second best cover version/reimagined discovery I've made during this series after Colour Girl's take on 'Can't Get Used To Losing You'!

Ari and Liz Gillies reunited backstage at A Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway as Liz is starring in it ❤️

Lorde has recovered to #11 on Spotify today. Keep going and get that top 10 hit *.* Big climb for Charli's 'party 4 u' as she's up to #27 New entry at #182 for Skye Newman - 'Hairdresser' which is the BBC Introducing track on the Radio 1 playlist this week

Easily PinkPantheress this week 💖

Round 1: 24 (didn't get: The Style Council, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Joe Elliott, 1987 (one year out)) Round 2: 30 (didn't get: Kenny Thomas, Big Country) 3-in-10: 3 (Enjoy the Silence, People Are People, Personal Jesus)

Jadakissnia votes are in 💖 that was brutal to order... one of the strongest set of votes I can ever remember putting together

Yep she's killing it so far this era <3 ordered a red vinyl

Happy 11 years of 'Problem'! The first song to reach #1 in the U.K. based on both sales and streaming.

Good to see Lorde stable today and Charli continuing to rise! Addison is going the wrong way </3

When you make a post, press the three dots on the very right, then click 'default' and there's a drop down menu of different fonts :)

Yes, well done for that 39 on Friday! today's game: Round 1: 33 (didn't get: Tavares, 1973) Round 2: 33 (didn't get: The Cars, Black Grape) 3-in-10: 3 (Wuthering Heights, Hounds of Love, Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God))

I voted for 'Mad World' but do like Lorde's cover too!

I'm not crazy about any of these but voted for Spice Girls mostly based on 'Holler'

I enjoyed the following new songs this week: akiaura, LONOWN & Baby Jane - Deathwish Effy - 2011 Kali Uchis - ILYSMIH Lorde - What Was That Model/Actriz - Diva PinkPantheress - Stateside Album-wise I checked out DjRUM - Under Tangled Silence

This tweet made me laugh due to the reach of '(pope death effect)'... but actual Pope death effect in the DVD chart for Conclave? *_*

week ending 27/04/25: 10 Ariana Grande [11 posts] I think that's 23 consecutive weeks in the top 10 now. Thanks all x

JADE supporting Addison makes a lot of sense I hope Addison's team puts out some CD / vinyl singles at some point like they did with 'Diet Pepsi'!

Just seen that 'supernatural' has been outstreaming 'dandelion' for the past few days, so has been the most streamed non-single 😮 apparently the TikTok trend has been exploding more. The album was #12 in the U.K. album chart this week.

Oh I've just noticed that the radio edit of ATFC / One Phat Deeva - 'In and out of My Life' is now greyed out on Spotify

Omg this... nice of ChatGPT to acknowledge my entry twice though, but not sure what a $oneMUNE is x

Lorde’s ‘Ribs’ is up to #80 - a 46 place rise Charli’s ‘party 4 u’ reaches a new peak of #42