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#TheTenX5 d37
Rank 7
11 points!
"New rules" - Dua Lipa (2014)
Have a good beat people can dance to, inspire a bunch of memes, have a synchronized dance, and a lyric about taking control of your life. The world will embrace your song!
#TheTenX5 d36
Rank 8
11 points!
"Bad liar" - Selena Gomez (2017)
"It's impossible to not feel like a sexy brat swishing your hips around dancing in your bedroom thinking about your gay crush. Itβs a queer dream and I don't wanna wake up." - Autostraddle
very excited for this to be out in the world: i wrote about repressed queerness in Elio, child surveillance in Inside Out 2, the post-Lasseter crisis, and the figure of the child in Pixar for The Baffler
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#TheTenX5 d35
Rank 9
11 points!
"Cool for the summer" - Demi Lovato (2015)
Exploring one's own identity through intimacy.
Wasn't expecting this to get any other votes, so a) well done viewers and 2) double bonuses ahoy!
ban healthcare for Wes Streeting.
#TheTenX5 d34
Rank 10
11 points!
"Surgeon" - St Vincent (2011)
Annie gives voice to the voiceless: here, Marylin Monroe near the end of her life.
Heart said "Paris is burning" got my vote, head says nobody's voted for it, and this is almost as brilliant.
A look at "Secret Genius" on Channel 4, the show that appeared to be about puzzles and the way the brain works, but was actually about how society consistently cannot cope with people who think in an unusual way.
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... and this is - unless i've miscounted in the next ten days - the last new song i'm adding to the administrator's spreadsheet.
62 songs to declare, 52 of them to decide upon, all of them previously nominated.
#TheTenX5 d33
Rank 11
"If you love someone" - The Veronicas (2014)
Lisa and Jessica bring love, peace, acceptance wherever they go.
My best single gig of the decade? Quite possibly.
#TheTenX5 d32
Rank 12
"Anyone i want to be" - Roxie WΔgiel (2018)
The song was turned down by Sia and Rita Ora. It gave Roxie a fast pass to stardom and - eight years on - she's one of Poland's biggest pop stars.
#TheTenX5 d31
Rank 13
"Nessun grado di separazione" - Francesca Michielin (2016)
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
my first piece (cowritten with Catriona Innes) in a print magazine comes out today: we interviewed 13 people, mostly trans women, about how the Supreme Court ruling has affected them for Cosmo UK
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#TheTenX5 d30
Rank 14
"Caliban's dream" - Underworld (2012) [NK][P][ALB]
One may despise the perversion of the Olympic ideal by its current custodians; one might hate Sebastian Coe.
One cannot speak against this art. Great neo-classical music is always welcome.
JFC look I know I'm a stuck record here but: drop all border controls now, and keep them dropped forever. We've only had them 120 years, we won't miss em.
#TheTenX5 d29
Rank 15
"Take me to church" - Hozier (2013)
Illicit sex is the moment when Hozier transcends morality and briefly becomes human.
Inspired a lot of fanfic.
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#TheTenX5 d28
Rank 16
"The days" - Avicii ft Robbie Williams (2014) [NK]
Avicii's finest four minutes, a proper hands-in-the-air banger about seizing the moment and making the most of life.
![MNM Liftconcert: LoΓ―c Nottet - Rhythm Inside [Live]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cgakg7ueihku2p7ekq5hnehn/bafkreihllif2wwb64faz2bnk2plbu5dbklcq6a3vep2drv5ooiru5evtai)
#TheTenX5 d27
Rank 17
"Rhythm inside" - LoΓ―c Nottet (2015) [NK]
Lost on The Voice Belgique, won on Danse Avec les Stars, and still making us go rap-pa-pap tonight.
#TheTenX5 d26
Rank 18
"Rolling in the deep" - Adele (2011)
While my heart says "Send my love (to your new lover)" is a fine moment, the head cannot ignore how the voters have backed this song.
Quite right, too.
#TheTenX5 HM5
5 points
"Roller coaster" - Danny Vera (2019) [NK]
This is how a male vocalist can do emotion: with earnest phrasing and humble tone.
The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature.
You'll never sing that, etc...
Screenshot from Maid Marion and Her Merry Men
Breaking: Budget cuts hit series 2 of Knight of the Seven Kingdoms after Paramount buy WB
Hello Survivor-heads
Ivan and I are chatting with everyone's favourite Dwight on Flameouts this week!
It is, as they say, great content.
@ivanbrett.bsky.social @doingmoore.bsky.social
#Survivor #Survivor50
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#TheTenX5 HM4
5 points
"Make your own kind of music" - Paloma Faith (2018)
Seems like this was a swansong for Paloma's hit-making career, which is a dashed shame.
But what a way to draw a line under your own success!
![Gareth Emery feat. Christina Novelli - Concrete Angel [Official Music Video]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cgakg7ueihku2p7ekq5hnehn/bafkreifknphnghpb4p6jyzx44756tqueljinfu7d7evertujehgj72edte)
#TheTenX5 HM3
5 points
"Concrete angel" - Gareth Emery ft Christina Novelli (2012)
Absolutely top-drawer dance banger, made even better by Christina's controlled vocals.
#TheTenX5 HM2
5 points
"Stardust" - Lena (2012)
No longer under the wing of Stefan Raab, Lena stretches her artistic wings and shows she's loose and fresh.
Title track is almost a dreamlike state, wowed by the emotions.
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#TheTenX5 HM1
5 points
"Anything could happen" - Ellie Goulding (2012)
Ellie is pop's equivalent of a pair of loafers: not cool, not stylish, but really comfortable.
This song's written about Ellie breaking up with Greg James and later falling for Skrillex. Celebs, eh.
#TheTenX5 d25
Rank 19
"Unsinkable" - Lucy Spraggan (2015)
Lucy's a troubadour, in the middle ages she'd have gone from village to village singing witty observational songs. These days, Lucy gets the level of international fame she chose.
#TheTenX5 d24
Rank 20
(top 20 ranked)
"If love was a crime" - Poli Genova (2016)
An absolute pop banger, all hook and rise and lift. Shared a stage with Justin Timberlake, and beat "Can't stop the feeling!" out of the park.
#TheTenX5 d23
"Not my soul" - Destiny Chukunyere (2015)
Sounds like it ought to be a seventies soul classic.
Is actually the second-best winner of any Eurovision Song Contest during the decade.
The Week at 25, marking a quarter-century of my little game show column.
In this edition, eleven of my favourite pieces, and how they contribte to the ongoing history of the genre.
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