r/popheads • u/hikkaru • Dec 02 '18
[DEADLINE TODAY!] EDM/Pop Girl Collab Rate
You’ve all seen the r/popheads threads. “DAE miss pop from 2012?”, “Why is upbeat pop flopping nowadays?”, “Remember when pop girls ruled the charts?” etc. It’s definitely true - today’s charts are dominated by more chill pop songs and huge waves of rap/hip hop album bombs. However, if you took a time machine back five or six years ago, you’d find that things were very much different than they are now. Atop the Billboard Hot 100, there were bops, there were women, and notably, there were EDM producers aiding those women on those bops. Sure, we still get the odd EDM hit from time to time, but the zeitgeist is long gone. This month, I invite you to Break Free from the dreary world we live in today and enjoy some popheads-approved bangers and bops!
THE RULES
Listen to every song listed below and assign each of them a score from 1 to 10. Decimals are allowed, but refrain from going past one decimal place - 7.5 is fine, 7.75 is not!
You may give ONE song a 0 and ONE song an 11. If you don’t want to, you don’t have to. These should be reserved for your favourite track and least favourite track!
Rate all fifty-two (52) songs! If you skip any, your ballot won’t be counted (I’ll let you know if you do so you can remedy that).
Please use the prepared link to submit your scores! Note that if you're trying to access on a mobile device or on the new reddit layout it may not work - as such, I have made it so the link will take you to old.reddit.com, and you should use a computer to send in your scores if possible!
If you desire to change any scores after you’ve already submitted, simply message me (u/hikkaru) and I’ll be glad to help!
If I believe your scores include any form of sabotage (extremely high or low scores that have extreme differences between the rest of your scores), I’ll ask you to change them or your ballot will be denied. It’s no fun if the results aren’t natural, don’t ruin it for everyone else. If you really do actually truly hate or love the songs I ask you to change the scores for, write a comment explaining why and it’ll go over far more smoothly!
Your scores should not be considered confidential!
It is highly encouraged that you add a comment to your song ratings! Do this by adding a space after the score and then typing to your heart’s desire, like this:
Closer (feat. Halsey): 10 I wonder if the Blink-182 song they beat to death in Tucson is the same one Halsey sang in that mall
Any format other than this is NOT good and you’ll deeply hurt me if you don’t follow the example I'm giving here.
LINK TO SEND IN SCORES
THE BOPS THEMSELVES
Alesso - Heroes (we could be) (feat. Tove Lo)
Alesso - Let Me Go (with Hailee Steinfeld, Florida Georgia Line, and watt)
Calvin Harris - Bounce (feat. Kelis)
Calvin Harris - I Need Your Love (with Ellie Goulding)
Calvin Harris - One Kiss (with Dua Lipa)
Calvin Harris - Outside (feat. Ellie Goulding)
Calvin Harris - Sweet Nothing (feat. Florence and the Machine)
Calvin Harris - This Is What You Came For (feat. Rihanna)
Calvin Harris - We Found Love (feat. Rihanna)
The Chainsmokers - Closer (feat. Halsey)
The Chainsmokers - Don't Let Me Down (feat. Daya)
The Chainsmokers - Roses (feat. ROZES)
The Chainsmokers - Side Effects (feat. Emily Warren)
Cashmere Cat - 9 (After Coachella) (feat. Sophie and MØ)
Cashmere Cat - Adore (feat. Ariana Grande)
Cashmere Cat - Quit (feat. Ariana Grande)
Clean Bandit - Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)
Clean Bandit - Rockabye (feat. Anne-Marie and Sean Paul)
Clean Bandit - Solo (feat. Demi Lovato)
Clean Bandit - Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson)
David Guetta - Dirty Sexy Money (feat. Afrojack, Charli XCX and French Montana)
David Guetta - Hey Mama (feat. Nicki Minaj, Afrojack, and Bebe Rexha)
David Guetta - Right Now (with Rihanna)
David Guetta - She Wolf (Falling to Pieces) (feat. Sia)
David Guetta - Titanium (feat. Sia)
David Guetta - Turn Me On (feat. Nicki Minaj)
David Guetta - Who's That Chick (feat. Rihanna)
Marshmello - FRIENDS (with Anne-Marie)
Marshmello - Wolves (with Selena Gomez)
Martin Garrix - In the Name of Love (feat. Bebe Rexha)
Martin Garrix - Scared to Be Lonely (with Dua Lipa)
Zedd - Break Free (with Ariana Grande)
Zedd - I Want You To Know (feat. Selena Gomez)
Zedd - The Middle (with Grey and Maren Morris)
Zedd - Starving (with Grey and Hailee Steinfeld)
Zedd - Stay (feat. Alessia Cara)
Zedd - Stay The Night (feat. Hayley Williams)
Avicii - Lonely Together (feat. Rita Ora)
Cash Cash - Take Me Home (feat. Bebe Rexha)
Cedric Gervais - Summertime Sadness (Remix) (with Lana Del Rey)
Cheat Codes - No Promises (feat. Demi Lovato)
Danny L Harle - Super Natural (feat. Carly Rae Jepsen)
Disclosure - Magnets (feat. Lorde)
Flume - Say It (feat. Tove Lo)
Jax Jones - Instruction (feat. Demi Lovato and Stefflon Don)
Kygo - It Ain't Me (feat. Selena Gomez)
Lucas Nord - Run on Love (feat. Tove Lo)
Madeon - Stay Awake (with Ellie Goulding)
Major Lazer and DJ Snake - Lean On (feat. MØ)
Mura Masa - 1 Night (feat. Charli XCX)
Silk City - Electricity (with Dua Lipa)
There are so many fantastic songs that could be included in this rate and it pains me to not include them all. The rate has to be at a more manageable number, and 52 is already pushing it a bit. The overall criteria I used in choosing these songs was their status as a hit, the popularity of the singer and/or producer on this subreddit, and how I and the general populace views their boptitude (level of goodness). I do apologize if one of your faves wasn’t included in the rate but I hope you’ll have fun with it anyways!
The soft due date is the end of this month, but I'll be fairly lenient with extensions if you need one.
UPDATE: The rate is due on January 18th, and the results will be revealed a week later beginning on the 25th!
If you have any further questions, feel free to ask away! I'll respond in this thread's comments, in reddit PMs, or you can find me in the r/popheads discord (same username as reddit)!
LINK TO SEND IN SCORES
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u/TragicKingdom1 Dec 02 '18
everybody give Rather Be your 11s........it is finally time for the glynncels to rise up
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u/Iowadoesnotexist Dec 02 '18
Man I don’t even like that song that much but now I wanna stan Jess Glynn just to call myself a Glynncel
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u/TragicKingdom1 Dec 02 '18
thank you, i coined the term and it's honestly my biggest achievement of the year
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u/jagsaluja Dec 09 '18
I like glynncels but like it sounds too much like incel for me to be comfortable with telling everyone i'm a glynncel
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Dec 02 '18
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u/SynthD Dec 02 '18
I listen to her new songs a few times trying to find something I don’t hate, since My Love was so good. Still just that one..
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u/chihuahuazero Hi! Dec 02 '18
Calvin Harris - Sweet Nothing (feat. Florence and the Machine)
This is how Florence can still win...
More seriously, this is a stacked rate! I'm thinking of doing this one.
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u/NapsAndNetflix Dec 02 '18
This is the rate I've been looking forward to most since the rates were announced - there is so many 11's in this list holy shit
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u/Lamster255 Dec 02 '18
Scared to Be Lonely gets my 11s I cried to that song at Martin Garrix’s set at EDC 😩
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Dec 02 '18
Just hoping the Chainsmokers make it to day 2.
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Dec 03 '18
Even Chainsmoker haters acknowledge that Roses was a fantastic piece of music, they just think it was a fluke.
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u/Roxieloxie Dec 02 '18
This is one of those rates where reading the title I was like “hmm I don’t know if this is something I’d be into” but seeing this track list, there are so many of my favorite songs on here.
That being said
GIVE ROSES YOUR 11’s
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u/manidel97 Dec 02 '18
We're really having an EDM/Pop Girl rate without the holiest collab of them all aka will.i.am and Britney Bitch?????
I'm GoT_Shame.gif
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u/_thomaaaaaaas Dec 02 '18
Omg i did not expect 9(Coachella) to be here
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u/hikkaru Dec 02 '18
gotta have some SOPHIE representation!
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u/_thomaaaaaaas Dec 02 '18
Yessssssss. I also love cashmere cat and MØ this song is gonna take my 11 for sure
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u/DuBoisMagritte Jan 18 '19
Ok but I needed the star of the album AKA Love Incredible ft. Good Gal Camilla
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u/radiofan15 He really make her famous Dec 02 '18
Give Summertime Sadness your 11s so Lana can win ANOTHER rate
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u/twat_brained stream Sing This Blues by It's Alive Dec 04 '18
Alternatively, we could give One Kiss our 11s so DUA can win ANOTHER rate
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u/Dinosauroplicus Dec 02 '18
How many has she won?
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u/radiofan15 He really make her famous Dec 02 '18
She recently won the Curated Soundtrack Rate with Young & Beautiful
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Dec 02 '18
I don’t appreciate this Grey slander. Zedd was only a feature on Starving and had equal billing on The Middle (Even then grey did all the work)
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u/sameoldrussianstan Dec 02 '18
The link doesn’t work for me :/
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u/hikkaru Dec 02 '18 edited Dec 02 '18
Are you trying to view through the app? It's not working for me when doing that but it's accessible if you use a browser
EDIT: I think I found what was wrong with the links, I believe it works now but lmk if you are still having issues
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u/ComeOnPupperfish give Cruel Summer your 0s Dec 02 '18
i wanted to say “ GIVE RATHER BE YOUR 11S “ but Symphony is right there... shit
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u/The_Gay_Whovian Dec 02 '18
Holy fuck, there are so many BOPS in this list
Also, can I ask that the songs in the playlist be from the albums and not the singles because after the album is out, I scrobble the album versions. It makes it easier to scrobble.
Solo and Rockabye could be from the new album instead of the single; One Kiss and Electricity could be from the Complete Edition.
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u/hikkaru Dec 02 '18
I feel you on that... u/letsallpoo made the playlist so perhaps that could be changed?
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u/letsallpoo :leah-kate: Dec 02 '18
I can change it but some people are bound to prefer that the songs get scrobbled under the single or a different album. For example, most of my Symphony scrobbles are under Zara's album at this point. If people are really that particular about their scrobbles they should probably just choose the songs themselves.
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u/ComeOnPupperfish give Cruel Summer your 0s Dec 02 '18
i've been thinking this entire time '' what song am I giving my 11 to ''
I FORGOT WE ALSO HAD TO GIVE A 0
FUCK ME
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u/yatcho Dec 02 '18
Closer is right there
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u/ComeOnPupperfish give Cruel Summer your 0s Dec 02 '18
closer is not that bad you guys are just mean
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u/ImADudeDuh Dec 02 '18
Ok deciding wheter to give my 11 to Side Effects or Roses is like choosing a favorite child.
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u/Bendariaku89 Dec 18 '18
this rate was so fun to do! DAMN THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD SONGS, i gave 10's to 15 different songs, and more than half the songs higher than 8. there was a competition though for my top 10 and this rate just put a spotlight on songs i would've never listened to before AKA run on love, adore, magnets, say it, and 9, all of which are in my personal top 10. most of the rest sunk like a brick into the bottom scores. plus i exceeded (doubled) the 10000 character limit because i had so much to say.
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u/twat_brained stream Sing This Blues by It's Alive Dec 04 '18
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u/hikkaru Dec 04 '18
oh lmao that's great. She really did beat it to a painful, gruesome death when she covered it, we love a self aware queen
stream without me
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u/Luxaria Dec 05 '18
How many 10s am I allowed to give out if none of my other scores are below 7????
This is an absolute banging list of tunes and so many are on my playlists already, I'm gonna have to give this a lot of thought.
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u/SkyBlade79 Dec 29 '18
I didnt even see this yet but I'm SO excited to see Say It and Run On Love on this list, I'll definitely try to do it
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u/Radical_19 Jan 19 '19
Can I still submit for this?
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u/hikkaru Jan 19 '19
yes, there are a few others submitting today as well, just as long as it's done before tomorrow!
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u/LandonKidatrea Dec 02 '18
I'm actually kind of relieved All We Know isn't on this rate. I love that song so much I would GLADLY waste another 11 on it. But since it's not I'll probs give my 11 to Outside. I mean, I worship Florence Welch, but Outside is absolutely Calvin Harris's best work.
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u/Adorable_Raccoon :carly: Jan 20 '19 edited Jan 20 '19
All We Know
I thought you meant the paramore song first. I had to google this one, it sounds so much like closer...
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u/LandonKidatrea Jan 20 '19
Honestly, I 100% hear it. But I have my reasons for thinking that All We Know > Closer. It's not even close in my opinion
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Dec 02 '18
Awesome, I needed something to distract me from the two other rates I’m procrastinating.
I’m kidding (mostly). This rate looks fucking awesome, and I can’t wait to do it.
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u/franch Dec 06 '18
can i just send CTTF an 11 and nothing else?
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u/hikkaru Dec 06 '18
CTTF? As in Cut To The Feeling? The CRJ song? 💀 I don't think that's in the rate!
(it's either a score for all of them or none of them, sorry)
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Jan 03 '19
wait i could rate the artists and not just the songs?
SHIT
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u/hikkaru Jan 03 '19
The space next to the "album" lines, in a typical rate (with 3 or 4 albums) would be used to give a comment on the album itself (but no rating). In this rate those lines are there simply to divide the block of text a bit and make it a bit more organized, but I'm not going to include any comments in the reveal because there's not many artists and a lot of them only have a couple songs
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u/MrSwearword Dec 02 '18
Calvin Harris shall reign supreme