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Poll: Which Song?
Mitski - Nobody
50%
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Jenny Hval - Spells
50%
 50%  [11]
Total Votes : 22

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  • Posted: 04/01/2019 19:49
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MITSKI - NOBODY (Captain: Baystateo'art)


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Repping: Brooklyn, NY



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JENNY HVAL - SPELLS (Captain: LethalNezzle)


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Wow, what a matchup! Jenny Hval is one of the best artists making music right now, but I'm sticking with Nobody for all the aforementioned reasons.
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Nobody is often captivating, but perhaps mirrorning my thoughts on BTC as well, more than a smidge overrated. Still terrific, though, and would get my vote in most matches but Hval's spell still isn't broken.
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Hate to vote against Hval but Nobody is just too good.
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really surprised at these results so far, I was under the impression Spells was loved enough to likely make the finals. Well..it got my vote.
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both top 10 of the year for me! But one is #1 of the year for me sooo #hval
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Hval.
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This was one of the tougher matchups for me in the tourney. Both songs are rather captivating. In the end, I decided Nobody was a little more so.
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I love Hval's free-associative approach to pop on 'Spells', with its swirling, subtly dissonant saxophones floating in and out of its disco-tinged, anthemic '80s pop-rock like licks of smoke, while her glorious voice rises into that beautiful apocalypse of a chorus. Every (solo) release of hers features one pop banger, a song that pushes her otherwise experimental, ominous, sex-positive, quasi-ambient spoken word into Fleetwood Mac- and Sade- and Kate Bush-shaped boxes, and this is her best yet, a cathartic release that feels like the glorious final stage of a trilogy that began with 'The Battle Is Over' and continued into 'Conceptual Romance'. She makes music that is at once dizzyingly dense and yet refreshingly airy, music that is both exhaustingly heavy and yet blessed with an always natural, always playful lightness of touch. I know it's an easy and lazy comparison, but on 'Spells' she recalls the best moments of fellow Scandinavians Robyn and Björk, crafting a slice of pop music that is unafraid of tackling the micro and the macro, hyper-personal music that is full of huge, universal ideas, and that manages to be catchy and immediate without any hint of compromise. She is one of the most beguiling artists working today, and 'Spells' is her finest achievement to date, the most natural synthesis of her pure pop and more avant-garde leanings yet. I'm generally of the opinion that she can do no wrong, but even I didn't know she could be so right. So yeah, vote to 'Spells', a raging river of a song, a rhino-shaped cloud of a song, and Elven banquet of a song, an ascending unicorn of a song, an exploding disco ball of a song. We will not be awake for long.
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travelful wrote:
really surprised at these results so far, I was under the impression Spells was loved enough to likely make the finals. Well..it got my vote.


Seems like there's a post like this from someone on almost every matchup that ends up being close. It ain't over till it's over. That's why my philosophy is always to vote based on my preference, however narrow that preference is, and avoid voting for perceived underdogs based on their status as such.
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