Gold star worthy tbh *.*
PLatinum stars should be handed out to people who organize something like PopOlympics, and people who do a fine job with the OT or within the community.
This OT is definitely Platinum Star worthy, for instance. Aguila is killing it *.*
I agree. Those who goes through the work of making PopGaf Events and This OT should be Platinum Stars. Reviews could be Gold, Silver and Bronze depending the set standards for reviews.
I think we should be setting for the next OT maybe (Its not that far if we keep moving as fast as we have been going) we should set the amount of words that get Gold, Silver and Bronze.
Definitely YES. godelsmetric won't tell you otherwise.So, while I'm trying to DIVERSIFY MY TASTES, is Nicola Roberts' solo outing worth using? I recall Lucky Day being a jam
Not sure I want word count to determine it. Could get out of hand. Though I would support a minimum.
I think you should be able to get up to 3 stars for reviews in a single OT. Can get platinum for one that is obviously excellent and of very high quality.
It's official. Dubstep has ruined pop music.
Even when there isn't an obvious dubstep breakdown, songs today need to have a moment where the song desintegrates into a noizy skrillex-inspired mess. And that noizy mess is placed where the chorus normally used to be. As a result, what obviously should've been the chorus originally, is now pulled forward to the pre-chorus (or buildup) and never fully materializes or climaxes.
Examples: the bold is what should be the chorus but sounds like the build-up because there's no beat under it, the italic is the chaos that's the actual "chorus" because there is a beat, even though it's devoid of any melodic qualities.
- Rihanna - Where have you been
Where have you been all my life... where have you been all my life... wub pfrrrrtt bzzzzzz djang djang djang wub wub- Rihanna - Jump
if you want it, let's do it, ride it, my pony, my saddle is waiting, come and, jump on it... wub wubwubwub jump jump wub bzzzzzt jump jump wubwub- Leona Lewis - Glassheart
...promise we'll never fall apart, and I love you with my glassheart.... wubwubwubzzzzz and I love you with my glassheart beeezzzzretz grrrzst wub- Kesha - Warrior
...It's how we always been. Warrior ior ior Warrior ior ior ... Now this is our time pffrrrurutututt stand up for true love dzzzzzzzzzz- Kesha - Crazy Kids
And we are the crazy kids, them crazy kids, we are the crazy people... I see you in the club wub wub...- Kesha - Supernatural
...When you take my body to the stars I believe it, boy this love is supernatural, can you feel it... pfrrrrrt come take me by the hand kgrrezezzezzzzz
With some of those songs you could even say there isn't really a chorus in the song at all. It's just a build-up to a chorus, and some weird mixture of a middle-eight and verse afterward.
Luckily with some of these songs, at the very end, things come together and you get the "build-up" moment, but backed with a good beat, which makes it sound very chorus-like (what it should've been all along). I think of the end of Glassheart and Warrior for example.
tldr: nowadays so many potentially awesome popsongs get ruined by weird - dubstep inspired- structure and sounds.
Well it can be also determined by various factors besides just word count. For example the presentation, formatting etc. Sometimes the reviews don't need to be extremely long to be great as long as they do the main purpose with enough details that say why its good or bad.
Gold: Wonderful Presentation, Formatting and detailed opinions of why things are good or not.
Silver:Good Presentation, Formatting and some good details. It could have been better presented or written but its a good job anyway.
Bronze: Some presentation and details certainly not a lot of thought went into it but it tried to add something.
Yeah that would work.
Just needs some structure so it doesn't get out of hand.
Dubstep is just ruining music period. Shit needs to fucking die.
With some of those songs you could even say there isn't really a chorus in the song at all. It's just a build-up to a chorus, and some weird mixture of a middle-eight and verse afterward.
Luckily with some of these songs, at the very end, things come together and you get the "build-up" moment, but backed with a good beat, which makes it sound very chorus-like (what it should've been all along). I think of the end of Glassheart and Warrior for example.
Take maybe some of the existing reviews and put em as Guidelines for what is a Gold/Silver/Bronze I guess. I think mine usually are silver while Marius and some others go more detailed and should get gold. Posters who just slap scores to tracks and don't detail at all why Bronze or maybe nothing depending how much content its lacking.
Dubstep is just ruining music period. Shit needs to fucking die.
next y'all will be implementing levels and people will be grinding
Should start next OP imo.
Cleaner transition.
But yeah examples would be good... and Aguila is arbiter and gets to make final decision. We don't get to rage over stars.
Exactly. Next OP since we already more than halfway here. Is Aguila going to tackle the next OP?
Now that I've come to think of it, Britney's Hold It Against Me, might be one of the earliest examples of this messed up song structure with the never-climaxing build-up followed by shitty beats.
If not we may as well quit now.
The OP is immaculate.
Idk why you didn't use Die Young because it's the perfect example of this.
The song begins with the chorus, then enters a breakdown, and follows that pattern until the final chorus is layered with the breakdown.
I still love the song though. That structure works well only if that dubstep part can layer well with the rest of the song, which in most cases it doesn't.
It is.
But the thing is it DID die. Late 2011-Early 2012 public derision kicked in and dubstep seemed to be going away.
But somehow It. Came. Back.
I blame that damn Microsoft commercial. I really fuckin' do...
You mean that absolutely TERRIBLE Alex Clare song? Ugh.
Also I do think Ke$ha went a tad overboard with the dubstep. But Die Young? I may be being very dense right now but I don't think that has dubstep elements.
Okay? Not all f those songs sound dubstep like.
Not even sure what you're trying to prove with that, yes Ke$ha used Dr. Luke too much. Perra is seething.
I was just mentioning that because it seems that a lot of the biggest offenders of this 'dubstep trend' are produced by Dr. Luke.
So, while I'm trying to DIVERSIFY MY TASTES, is Nicola Roberts' solo outing worth using? I recall Lucky Day being a jam
I was just mentioning that because it seems that a lot of the biggest offenders of this 'dubstep trend' are produced by Dr. Luke.
I'm getting really sick of Dr. Luke.
Actually, I'm getting really sick of the whole Super Producer trend. I used to enjoy seeing these behind-the-scenes guys getting their shine. But it has gotten to the point where now the producers themselves are so fucking unoriginal, and with only a handful of them getting passed around like Taylor Swift at a beard convention it means half of the Pop songs in the Top 40 sounds exactly the same.
I blame David Guetta.
I'm getting really sick of Dr. Luke.
Actually, I'm getting really sick of the whole Super Producer trend. I used to enjoy seeing these behind-the-scenes guys getting their shine. But it has gotten to the point where now the producers themselves are so fucking unoriginal, and with only a handful of them getting passed around like Taylor Swift at a beard convention it means half of the Pop songs in the Top 40 sound exactly the same.
I'm getting really sick of Dr. Luke.
Actually, I'm getting really sick of the whole Super Producer trend. I used to enjoy seeing these behind-the-scenes guys getting their shine. But it has gotten to the point where now the producers themselves are so fucking unoriginal, and with only a handful of them getting passed around like Taylor Swift at a beard convention it means half of the Pop songs in the Top 40 sounds exactly the same.
I'm getting really sick of Dr. Luke.
Actually, I'm getting really sick of the whole Super Producer trend. I used to enjoy seeing these behind-the-scenes guys getting their shine. But it has gotten to the point where now the producers themselves are so fucking unoriginal, and with only a handful of them getting passed around like Taylor Swift at a beard convention it means half of the Pop songs in the Top 40 sound exactly the same.
'Reused Pon De Floor for 800 songs' Diplo?Only super producer I trust is Diplo.
you just had to use that metaphor
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But I agree with you. Because a lot of the main girls are using the same producers (Max Martin, Dr. Luke, Greg Kurstin), it becomes difficult to distinguish their music. I think this is why Gaga and Rihanna stand out more than the others.
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Even when there isn't an obvious dubstep breakdown, songs today need to have a moment where the song desintegrates into a noizy skrillex-inspired mess. And that noizy mess is placed where the chorus normally used to be. As a result, what obviously should've been the chorus originally, is now pulled forward to the pre-chorus (or buildup) and never fully materializes or climaxes.
Examples: the bold is what should be the chorus but sounds like the build-up because there's no beat under it, the italic is the chaos that's the actual "chorus" because there is a beat, even though it's devoid of any melodic qualities.
- Rihanna - Where have you been
Where have you been all my life... where have you been all my life... wub pfrrrrtt bzzzzzz djang djang djang wub wub- Rihanna - Jump
if you want it, let's do it, ride it, my pony, my saddle is waiting, come and, jump on it... wub wubwubwub jump jump wub bzzzzzt jump jump wubwub- Leona Lewis - Glassheart
...promise we'll never fall apart, and I love you with my glassheart.... wubwubwubzzzzz and I love you with my glassheart beeezzzzretz grrrzst wub- Kesha - Warrior
...It's how we always been. Warrior ior ior Warrior ior ior ... Now this is our time pffrrrurutututt stand up for true love dzzzzzzzzzz- Kesha - Crazy Kids
And we are the crazy kids, them crazy kids, we are the crazy people... I see you in the club wub wub...- Kesha - Supernatural
...When you take my body to the stars I believe it, boy this love is supernatural, can you feel it... pfrrrrrt come take me by the hand kgrrezezzezzzzz
With some of those songs you could even say there isn't really a chorus in the song at all. It's just a build-up to a chorus, and some weird mixture of a middle-eight and verse afterward.
Luckily with some of these songs, at the very end, things come together and you get the "build-up" moment, but backed with a good beat, which makes it sound very chorus-like (what it should've been all along). I think of the end of Glassheart and Supernatural for example.
tldr: nowadays so many potentially awesome popsongs get ruined by weird - dubstep inspired- structure and sounds.
I'm not a Rihanus fan either, but her sound is pretty distinct in the pop scene.
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I'm not a Rihanus fan either, but her sound is pretty distinct in the pop scene.
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Robyn will save us.Robyn will save us.Robyn will save us.Robyn will save us.Robyn will save us.Robyn will save us.Robyn will save us.Robyn will save us.Robyn will save us.Robyn will save us.Robyn will save us.Robyn will save us.Robyn will sav
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I guess that confirms that standing out isn't always a good thing.
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Clearly the public disagrees with you with her #1 single and ALBUM this week.
She has you so PRESSED
bye
Yeah I don't think any other pop girl could pull off Man Down or No Love Allowed or even What's My Name.
Umbrella tbh
and maybe We Found Love