Best Ever Albums

Re: [Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

LedZep — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 05:47:35 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 04/20/2022 09:47

August wins 10-7

Re: [Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

kokkinos — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 06:14:44 GMT

Author: kokkinos

Posted: 04/16/2022 10:14

A rather disappointing matchup if I'm being honest. It would be hard to imagine a scenario that would have me voting for Taylor Swift, but the truth is I couldn't care less for Inspire Me, so I'm - shockingly - going with August.

Re: [Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

Fischman — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:56:34 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 04/16/2022 02:56

Hard to find a reason to vote for either one.
Todd by a tad.

Re: [Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

travelful — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:42:17 GMT

Author: travelful

Posted: 04/15/2022 16:42

Pretty easy vote for Taylor Swift. Inspire Me was okay but nothing that's really standing out.

Re: [Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

EyeKanFly — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 13:26:55 GMT

Author: EyeKanFly

Posted: 04/13/2022 17:26

theblueboy wrote:

I enjoyed inspire me. Nice EDM. But August I really love, so I had to stick with my nom.

From Folklore, I was torn between nominating August and The Last Great American Dynasty. Think I got it right, but only just.

FWIW I would've gone with "The Last Great American Dynasty" or "Betty", but "August" is a great choice as well.

I was not interested in "Inspire Me", maybe I'll check out the non-extended version but IMO 6 minutes was way too long for what sounded like music to a Sonic the Hedgehog game.

Re: [Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

Hayden — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 07:28:45 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 04/13/2022 11:28

August.

Re: [Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:09:47 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/13/2022 09:09

August is a GREAT song.

Re: [Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

LedZep — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 04:57:56 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 04/13/2022 08:57

Mercury wrote:

Recent Taylor Swift folk is not at all engaging or interesting to me. t was a fascinating change of pace and style. And it's generally well produced with well written melodies and all that. This song, "august", included. But it never really struck me as revelatory or truly profound in any way. Perhaps that is due to my preconceptions and biases heading in.

Couldn't have said it better myself. It sounds like Taylor Swift, an artist I've never cared about in mainstream pop context, tried doing the indie folk/pop hybrid, but forgot that it's not the style that's problematic, it's the songs quality. That may sound too harsh, august is not a terrible song by any means, but it's not very good either. And I usually like Todd Edwards stuff too, so it was an easy vote for Inspire Me, even though it isn't exactly top-notch garage.

Re: [Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

DommeDamian — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 03:49:25 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 04/13/2022 07:49

Don't like neither but the Swift song is less likable to me, because that Todd Edwards song reminded a liiittle bit of 2016-Craig David so I'll go with that.

Re: [Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

craola — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 16:13:38 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 04/12/2022 20:13

nothing about this taylor swift track inspires me, so i went with the track that does inspire me.

Re: [Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

dihansse — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:39:43 GMT

Author: dihansse

Posted: 04/12/2022 18:39

Inspire Me was completely not my thing and although I'm not a fan of Taylor Swift (maybe I'm biased), this song really surprised me.

Re: [Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

cestuneblague — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:37:04 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 04/12/2022 16:37

Wow, both these songs are... thouroughly okay. Taylor's every post-lillith fair adult contemporary mid-radio hit of the late 90s versus Todd Edwards bringing us back to the time when house musicians let their drum machine practically hump the listener's leg. Edwards is still one of the better through-BEA discoveries I've come across (from Skinny? Somebody mad and british at least), but this isn't top tier of his. Might still give it the lever-pull but I'm not particularly enthused either way.

Re: [Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

Mercury — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:03:43 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 04/12/2022 16:03

Recent Taylor Swift folk is not at all engaging or interesting to me. t was a fascinating change of pace and style. And it's generally well produced with well written melodies and all that. This song, "august", included. But it never really struck me as revelatory or truly profound in any way. Perhaps that is due to my preconceptions and biases heading in.

That said, EDM, and that dance music sound is so thoroughly removed from even remotely being my thing personally, I have to vote for august. Wish I could vote for a song I really liked here. I could abstain but idk, I do have a preference.

Tay gets my vote.

Re: [Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 08:15:27 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/12/2022 12:15

I enjoyed inspire me. Nice EDM. But August I really love, so I had to stick with my nom.

From Folklore, I was torn between nominating August and The Last Great American Dynasty. Think I got it right, but only just.

[Round 1 - Match 18] August vs Inspire Me (extended)

LedZep — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 07:06:03 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 04/12/2022 11:06

Taylor Swift - August
Nominated by: theblueboy

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Todd Edwards - Inspire Me (extended)
Nominated by: Luigii

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