UltraCruelSummer

Out now!!! The Hunger Games songs have Red TV artwork, If This Was A Movie has Fearless artwork & All the Girls has Lover artwork

Safe & Sound is TOP 10 Taylor songs of all time for me so I am so so shook rn!!! :cheeseblock: Gonna have to stay up til 5am for that one!! I was really worried she wasn't going to re-record it after it didn't appear on Red TV + the hunger games songs not being BMG but omg!! And it looks like she's got the Civil Wars back together for this too!!! So excited for Eyes Open too, an underrated banger! If This Was A Movie has always been a bit of a non-event for me, but wonder if it being released separately from Speak Now will improve it like This Love for me. Was originally confused why If This Was A Movie is getting released now when it wasn't a soundtrack song, but these droplets makes it clear that Speak Now TV is going to be marketed & released as a solo-written album! (If This Was a Movie is the only non solo written song on Speak Now) Excited for All of the girls you loved before too! (That's the one that leaked recently right? Tho I haven't heard it yet!)

Just announced!!! This deserves a separate thread!!

She's performing tonight!!!

Apple Music: 32. Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle 33. Miley Cyrus - River (+ nearly the whole album top 200 now) 44. Mae Muller - I Wrote A Song 51. Miley Cyrus - Jaded

I have returned with a 55 second masterpiece.

Bop :cheeseblock:

Kelsea Ballerini released an EP post-divorce on Valentine's Day and whew this is one of her best works to date :cheeseblock: Just Married is stunning and honestly everything is fantastic! <3 Leave Me Again is the only one that is a bit filler-y but is still great! Also most excitingly its actually gaining some traction in the US!! Have been waiting for Kelsea to breakthrough for so long at this point that its insane to actually see her doing something! (Legends/Roses really should've been massive urgh) Mountain With A View is top 100 on US Spotify and Blindsided is top 200 on US Spotify! She's also on SNL next week! <3

1. (4) Lana Del Rey - A&W 2. (17) Kelsea Ballerini - Just Married 3. (3) P!NK - TRUSTFALL 4. (1) Freya Ridings - Weekends 5. (-) Niall Horan - Heaven 6. (-) Bebe Rexha - Heart Wants What It Wants 7. (2) Tiesto & Tate McRae - 10:35 8. (40) Kelsea Ballerini - Blindsided 9. (-) Mimi Webb - Roles Reversed 10. (5) Maisie Peters - Body Better 11. (7) Taylor Swift - Karma 12. (-) Freya Ridings - Face In The Crowd 13. (73) Kelsea Ballerini - Penthouse 14. (11) Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero 15. (9) Miley Cyrus - Flowers 16. (6) Taylor Swift - Lavender Haze 17. (13) RAYE ft. 070 Shake - Escapism 18. (66) Kelsea Ballerini - Mountain With A View 19. (15) SZA - Kill Bill 20. (10) Rita Ora - You Only Love Me 21. (12) Mimi Webb - Red Flags 22. (44) P!nk - Never Gonna Not Dance Again 23. (16) Justin Hurwitz - Call Me Manny 24. (14) Ellie Goulding - Like A Saviour 25. (20) Taylor Swift - You're On Your Own, Kid 26. (21) Taylor Swift ft. Lana Del Rey - Snow On The Beach 27. (26) FLETCHER ft. Kelsea Ballerini - Better Version 28. (23) Lana Del Rey - Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard 29. (8) Anne-Marie - SAD B!TCH 30. (18) Tove Lo - Borderline 31. (25) Renee Rapp - Too Well 32. (27) PinkPanthress ft. Ice Spice - Boy's A Liar: Part. 2 33. (-) Kelsea Ballerini - Interlude 34. (-) Janelle Monae - Float 35. (29) Taylor Swift - Would've Could've Should've 36. (24) Ava Max - Ghost 37. (-) P!nk - When I Get There 38. (30) Lady Gaga - Bloody Mary 39. (-) Kelsea Ballerini - Love Me Again 40. (19) Paramore - C'est Comme Ca DROPOUTS: 41. (32) Leah Kate - My Bed 42. (35) Taylor Swift - Midnight Rain 43. (34) Meghan Trainor - Made You Look 44. (37) Avril Lavigne ft. YUNGBLUD - I'm A Mess 45. (31) Ava Max - Dancing's Done 46. (38) SZA - Nobody Gets Me 47. (28) Lauren Spencer Smith - Best Friend Breakup 48. (22) Paramore - This Is Why 49. (37) Ava Max - Weapons 55. (33) Lizzo ft. SZA - Special 63. (39) Paramore - The News CLIMBERS & RISERS: 73. (90) Lizzy McAlpine - Ceilings 77. (84) Gracie Abrams - Amelie 82. (-) P!nk - Hate Me 83. (-) P!nk - Turbulence 86. (-) P!nk - Runaway 94. (-) P!nk ft. First Aid Kit - Kids In Love 95. (-) P!nk - Our Song

Gonna have to disagree with the above posts as four of my top 10 are already out 😭 (and all of those four are top 8 for me!) Was joking about one of my top 5 remaining going out in the previous poll but not that actually happening 😭 Labyrinth deserved better!! Anyway Mastermind has by far outstayed it’s welcome so that to go plz!

I...... what an absolute joke??? Snow On The Beach leaving this early is a tragedy :cry: I didn't think it'd do much better than low-top 10 but to miss the top 10 completely is gutting, it deserved top 5!! Would've Could've Should've going?????? Where the f*** did that come from??? So utterly random, especially considering its a massive fan favourite + barely got any votes in the previous polls. Honestly thought that was a dead cert for the top 5 (as it deserved to be) so I'm gutted its gone and somehow missed the top 10 :cry: Bejeweled, Mastermind & Bigger Than The Whole Sky all need to go ASAP. Then by that point, The Great War & Maroon would've long overstayed their welcome, what a messT. I have a very clear top 5 left now that three of my faves have been knocked out, and honestly think 2 of them could be in danger of going this round the way this poll has been going so far yikes Anyway... Bejeweled and Mastermind for me this round cos Bigger Than The Whole Sky is more deserving of top 10 than those two.

Ummmmm where on EARTH did one of those songs in the tiebreak come from?!?!?! If we’re about to lose two of the top five songs from the album this round i riot. #VoteTheGreatWar (or preferably, two people vote any of the songs on 5 votes x)

the pregnancy reveal :cheeseblock: A pretty great show on the whole <3 So many smashes performed and literally Only Girl & We Found Love are the only songs from my Rihanna top 15 that got performed :cry: (none from my top 5 did, tho at least S&M was in the background at one point!). Late 00s RiRi is my ultimate fave so it was a shame we only got two songs from that era (would've been nice to have even just heard some in the background like S&M/Kiss It Better, justice for Disturbia/SOS!) and Love On The Brain is my fave 'new'-RiRi song so I wish we got that too :cry: Not all of Diamonds/Where Have You Been/the Kanye collabs/Pour It Up all getting performed :cry: (the first one was obvious, the last one in particular was a nasty surprise :lol:) And no new music ofc! See y'all for R9 in 2032 (as a tie-in with Fenty Beauty) But still a queen as always and its great to see her finally perform again! :cheeseblock: I also love that it was fully solo performance too!!

any minute now! :cheeseblock: Hoping one of my faves makes the setlist (even though I feel like none of them would :lol:) Also a new album finally would be amazing (tho I'm expecting a new song at most!)

Mastermind and Bigger Than The Whole Sky (Bejeweled can also go atp) Are y’all insane with the current poll leader?!?!?!

All Too Well won video! <3 fingers crossed for song of the year later! (and a surprise performance! and a Speak Now announcement! x)

Just when I thought I was out of BJSC related competitions forever, I’m immediately pulled back in 😂 Submitted my current obsession, and in a very rate occurrence I’ve gone for an instrumental 😮

Omg finallly!!!!! :cheeseblock: Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention!! ❤️ I can finally bop to superman properly again *.*

Paris (which is by far the weakest here) and Hits Different (I’ve just heard it nowhere near enough compared to the rest of the album for obvious reasons) There are two songs with 3+ votes here that should be competing for top five, yikes. (And one of the four on 0 votes is my next target 😮)

Sabrina was added to apple music’s top hits as track 5 and is now up to 59!! Not her finally taking off on Apple Music after plummeting on spotify 😂 Freya also surging and is up to 60 (and she’s only track 19 on apple music’s todays top hits), I really hope this can be a hit <3 And Lavender Haze slightly rising to 37 after the music video’s release <3

Paris easily. And then even though it’s cute, sweet nothing is the next weakest here

Finally!!!!

I— Tbh I was kind of convinced this might be my last contest for a long time lol and that result has confirmed it 😂 I have no idea what even appeals in BJSC anymore and it feels like a completely different content from my favourite eras of BJSC that I just feel out of at this point, as well as basically getting very little enjoyment out of it. And also I can’t lie, listening through that semi was torturous 😬 so yeah good luck y’all and bye bye from ultraviolenceland for now!! ❤️ (And Bal I love the 2001 theme, it slays x) (Ready for Renee Rapp to get a smash this year like many of my previous Jan entries x)

It happened!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭 :cheeseblock: Also omg at the Henry nom happening in supporting I’m so glad!!!! Deadwyler tho 😭😭

MY PREDICTIONS: (all Alts are listed in my predicted order of likelihood) Best Picture 01. Everything Everywhere All At Once 02. The Banshees of Inisherin 03. Top Gun: Maverick 04. The Fabelmans 05. TÁR 06. Elvis 07. Avatar: The Way of Water 08. The Whale 09. Babylon 10. Aftersun Alts: Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio, Triangle of Sadness, All Quiet on the Western Front, RRR, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story, Women Talking A really interesting category this year!! Normally we have like eight slots locked at this point, but quite frankly only the top six is locked this year. I think Avatar 2 is too big to miss & The Whale is surging at the right time. 9th and 10th are total crapshoots but I feel Babylon is gonna pull a Nightmare Alley and Aftersun will be that indie hit sneaking in. Feels weird not predicting one of the three foreign language contenders here, one of those probably sneaks in. Best Director 01. The Daniels, Everything Everywhere All at Once 02. Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans 03. Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick 04. Charlotte Wells, Aftersun 05. Todd Field, TÁR Alts: McDonagh (Banshees of Inisherin), Rajmouli (RRR), Cameron (Avatar 2), Luhrmann (Elvis), Ostlund (Triangle of Sadness), Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front), Prince-Bythewood (The Woman King), Chazelle (Babylon), Chan-wook (Decision to Leave) Director is such an interesting category nowadays! Only feel confident in The Daniels (Spielberg as well but the BAFTA longlist miss is concerning). Can literally see any one of my alts making this line-up! Best Actor 01. Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin 02. Brendan Fraser, The Whale 03. Austin Butler, Elvis 04. Bill Nighy, Living 05. Gabriel LaBelle, The Fabelmans Alt: Mescal (Aftersun), Pope (The Inspection), Cruise (Top Gun 2), Hanks (A Man Called Otto), Kammerer (All Quiet on the Western Front) Top 3 locked and Nighy should happen. 5th spot is utterly mad this year, could be many many people and could be an utterly crazy nom here?! I have a gut feeling about LaBelle though. Mescal is def close, especially as I'm predicting an Aftersun overperformance still despite the disappointing BAFTA showing. Can Hanks pop up here out of nowhere with a late breaking box office hit? Best Actress 01. Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once 02. Cate Blanchett, TÁR 03. Danielle Deadwyler, Till 04. Margot Robbie, Babylon 05. Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie Alts: Williams (The Fabelmans), De Armas (Blonde), Davis (The Woman King) Lol my fave category and I'm going messy with my predictions. Top 2 are locked. I feel confident in Deadwyler too (I will be heartbroken if she misses). I think Babylon over performs and Robbie still makes it (also just me being stubborn & refusing to stop predicting her because I was so certain this was her Oscar winning role :cry:). And I cannot in my heart not predict Riseborough after the crazy last week and a bit!!! All the random A-list endorsements on twitter!! The Frances Fisher led grassroots campaign! Winslet calling it the best female performance of all time!!! Would be one of the most out of nowhere & craziest noms ever but my gosh I hope it happens now!! Williams I think might category split (I feel she still gets in somewhere but I don't know who to kick out, I have her 6th in both rn!). De Armas def has the passion to make it but I refuse to acknowledge that horror getting a single Oscar nom. Davis has all the precursors but screams Oscar snub, this is the biggest test of whether she's hit name-checking mode yet! Best Supporting Actor 01. Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once 02. Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin 03. Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin 04. Paul Dano, The Fabelmans 05. Brad Pitt, Babylon alts: Henry (Causeway), Harrelson (Triangle of Sadness), Rylance (Bones & All), Hirsch (The Fabelmans), Hanks (Elvis), Teller (Top Gun 2), Redmayne (The Good Nurse), Schuch (All Quiet on the Western Front) Top 3 locked & feel good about Dano. 5th spot I have no idea so I've played it safe and stuck with Pitt. Think we might be getting a nod as random as Simmons for Being the Ricardos last year here. (Henry to plz make it as a passion nom or Teller to appear out of nowhere!!). I feel like Redmayne is nowhere near making it despite hitting every precursor somehow Best Supporting Actress 01. Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin 02. Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once 03. Hong Chau, The Whale 04. Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 05. Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once Alts: Williams (The Fabelmans), De Leon (Triangle of Sadness), Hoss (TÁR), Buckley (Women Talking), Monae (Glass Onion), Mulligan (She Said), Lou Wood (Living), Smart (Babylon) From what went from being one of the craziest categories a month ago to feeling like my most secure prediction?! Condon is in, Hsu has the passion + film, Chau has the late breaking film + role, Bassett has the precursor wins (though I'm not sold despite this, I think the Marvel tag could lead to a shock snub) and Curtis has the overdue narrative + film. Only other realistic contenders here I think are Williams ending up in supporting or De Leon as a passion nom (and maaaaybe Hoss for the same reason as De Leon). Best Original Screenplay 01. The Banshees of Inisherin 02. Everything Everywhere All at Once 03. TÁR 04. Aftersun 05. The Fabelmans Alts: Triangle of Sadness, Elvis, Decision to Leave Six-horse race here, going with Triangle underperforming and getting snubbed (though I feel TOS might overperform so easily and make my predictions a mess) Best Adapted Screenplay 01. The Whale 02. Living 03. Top Gun: Maverick 04. Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio 05. All Quiet on the Western Front Alts: Women Talking, White Noise, Glass Onion, She Said, Bones & All What a MESSY category. The Whale is literally the only one I feel confident in!! About a month ago Women Talking & Glass Onion were the frontrunners and I'm predicting shock snubs for both. The former seems passionless and the BAFTA snub finally gave me the push to remove it from my predictions, and the latter feels like the kind of thing they might not go for. Can once again see any of my alts in over literally any of my predictions lol --- Best Animated Feature 01. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 02. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 03. Turning Red 04. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 05. Wendell & Wild Alts: My Father's Dragon, The Bad Guys, The Sea Beast, Inu-Oh, Minions 2 Top 3 are in. Marcel screams the shock snub as the Academy don't like live-action bits but idek what to replace it with this year. W&W also feels passionless but so do the alternates Best Foreign Language Film 01. All Quiet on the Western Front 02. Argentina, 1985 03. Close 04. EO 05. The Quiet Girl Alts: Decision to Leave, Holy Spider, Bardo, Saint Omer, Return to Seoul, Joyland As usual there will be random nods and shock snubs here. Predicting Decision to Leave as the shock snub. Best Documentary Feature 01. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 02. All That Breathes 03. Descendant 04. Fire of Love 05. The Territory Alts: Moonage Daydream, Navalny, The Janes, Retrograde, A House Made of Splinters --- Best Original Score 01. Babylon 02. The Fabelmans 03. Women Talking 04. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 05. The Banshees of Inisherin Alts: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, All Quiet on the Western Front, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Nope, Avatar: The Way of Water Women Talking avoids 'this had Oscar buzz' with a nom here. Best Original Song 01. Ciao Papa, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 02. Hold My Hand, Top Gun: Maverick 03. Lift Me Up, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 04. Carolina, Where the Crawdads Sing 05. Naatu Naatu, RRR Alt: Applause (Tell It Like a Woman), Dust & Ash (The Voice of Dust & Ash), This is a Life (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Stand Up (Till), New Body Rhumba (White Noise) Going with the globes five feels risky but screw it. ROOTING for Taylor so badly here, this is def her best shot yet! RRR is either winning or getting snubbed, lowkey leaning towards the latter. It feels stupid to not predict both of Diane Warren or music branch president J. Ralph, let alone either one. They'll both probs kick out the good songs knowing our luck. Best Film Editing 01. Top Gun: Maverick 02. Everything Everywhere All at Once 03. Elvis 04. Avatar: The Way of Water 05. All Quiet on the Western Front Alts: The Fabelmans, The Banshees of Inisherin, Babylon, Aftersun, TÁR Best Cinematography 01. Top Gun: Maverick 02. All Quiet on the Western Front 03. Avatar: The Way of Water 04. Empire of Light 05. Elvis Alt: The Fabelmans, Babylon, Bardo, Banshees, Everything Everywhere, Decision to Leave, The Batman, Nope, Aftersun Lol I can see many many films popping up here. Top Gun 2 feels locked, AQOTWF should be in unless it really is just a random BAFTA film this year & Elvis feels like the shit this branch will go for. Predicting The Batman to be snubbed all round which is definitely a risky prediction. Also Empire of Light avoids major 'this had Oscar buzz' status here Best Production Design 01. Babylon 02. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 03. Elvis 04. The Fabelmans 05. Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio Alts: Avatar 2, Everything Everywhere All at Once, All Quiet on the Western Front, Glass Onion, Bardo, The Woman King, White Noise Best Costume Design 01. Elvis 02. Babylon 03. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 04. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris 05. Everything Everywhere All at Once Alts: The Woman King, Living, The Fabelmans, Corsage Best Makeup 01. Elvis 02. The Whale 03. All Quiet on the Western Front 04. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 05. Babylon Alts: The Batman, Blonde, Amsterdam Best Sound 01. Top Gun: Maverick 02. Avatar: The Way of Water 03. All Quiet on the Western Front 04. Elvis 05. Babylon Alts: Mooange Daydream, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio, The Batman, Black Panther 2 Best Visual Effects 01. Avatar: The Way of Water 02. Top Gun: Maverick 03. All Quiet on the Western Front 04. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 05. Thirteen Lives Alts: The Batman, Jurassic World 3, Doctor Strange 2, Nope, Fantastic Beasts 3 --- Best Documentary Short Subject 01. The Flagmakers 02. The Elephant Whisperers 03. How Do You Measure a Year? 04. The Martha Mitchell Effect 05. Shut Up and Paint Best Animated Short Film 01. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse 02. Save Ralph 03. An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It 04. Sierra 05. New Moon Best Live Action Short Film 01. Le Pupille 02. An Irish Goodbye 03. The Treatment 04. The Red Suitcase 05. The Lone Wolf Absolute crapshoots in the shorts category as usual. Come thru the boy, t he mole, the fox and the horse in animated!! I am also rooting for An Ostrich... and My Year of Dicks to be nominated in the shorts too!! Predicted nom count: Everything Everywhere All at Once – 9 Babylon – 8 Elvis - 8 Top Gun: Maverick – 8 All Quiet on the Western Front – 7 The Banshees of Inisherin – 7 The Fabelmans – 7 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - 6 Avatar: The Way of Water – 5 Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio – 5 The Whale - 5 TÁR - 4 Aftersun – 3 Living - 2 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – 1 All That Breathes - 1 Argentina, 1985 – 1 Close – 1 Descendant – 1 Empire of Light - 1 EO – 1 Fire of Love - 1 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On – 1 Mrs. Harris Goest to Parris – 1 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish – 1 RRR - 1 The Quiet Girl – 1 The Territory – 1 Thirteen Lives - 1 Till – 1 To Leslie – 1 Turning Red – 1 Wendell & Wild – 1 Where the Crawdads Sing - 1 Women Talking – 1 All the Shorts - 1 Pretty happy with this on the whole. Though Babylon feels too high, Banshees feels too low, three films with 5+ noms missing best picture, and completely snubbing Triangle of Sadness (I didn't realise I did this until now!! I do not feel good about that I def think it shows up somewhere) and The Woman King are the ones I feel least confident on. (Also think TÁR can overperform and end up with 6/7) <3