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#THETENX5
PARADE - DAY 2
2010 (13/?)
2.1 (13/240)
LYKKE LI
'GET SOME'
Sweden
No bonuses
8 x HM
A change from our advertised programmes (i.e. her only entry in #FearofMu21C was 'I Follow Rivers' Magician Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TTP...
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PARADE - DAY 1
2010 (5/?)
1.5 (5/240)
THE NATIONAL
'BLOODBUZZ OHIO'
USA
1 x 11
6 HMs
The first song to return from Ye Olde #FearofMu21C, where it finished 181st for the century.
It also scraped into the original #Uncool500 back in 2022.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfyS...
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#FearofMu21C singletons
3.
SCISSOR SISTERS
'LAURA'
Still not over the dust you all paid to this monumental banger.
You better bloody redeem yourselves or I'm taking my ball home.
That's it! I only picked 3.
Told you it was a short thread.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-0d...
#TheN0ughtie5
#FearofMu21C singletons
2.
AMADOU & MARIAM ft MANU CHAO
'SENEGAL FAST FOOD'
So... I hope this doesn't fall between two stools: too "basic" for the posters who really know their global and too far out of the Anglosphere comfort zone for others.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J43T...
Short thread of my #FearofMu21C singletons from the 2000s and where they stand for #TheN0ughtie5.
In order of posting from 2023.
1.
KELIS
'CAUGHT OUT THERE'
Let me stop you right there - NOT ELIGIBLE due to a tightening of the rules around staggered releases.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3JF...
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I'll just add to this that the song with most 12s is not even in the top 10 as it stands.
The only precedents for this are:
#ALL50RTS - Thunder Road joint most (3), finished 44th
#FearofMu21C - B.O.B. and Come On Let's Go joint most (3), finished 13th and 82nd
Hey, remember #Uncool50? Here's my song 51 from way back then! It missed out on #FearOfMu21c too because of all the new music I'd heard since then, but now you too can hear what I was actually listening to in 2012.
#theTenX5 #33
"Default"
Django Django
Jan 12 🇬🇧
youtu.be/DDjpOrlfh0Y
NK❌12 P✔️ single✔️
#TheTenx5 HM3
Another one that didn't survive the #FearOfMu21c cull.
I think I've been misinterpreted then - that was the (very reluctant) policy in #FearofMu21C, not here.
The non-singles allowance enables you to pick the same stuff, but it won't be counted as a single unless one of Discogs/Wiki says so.
#TheTenx5 Day 17
Fucked Up
Queen Of Hearts
2011
CAN
Hello, my name is David.
Another one that’s survived the #FearOfMu21c cull.
youtu.be/yhgOt7YFN0I?...
Venom DOESN'T count as a single though - I was reluctantly persuaded to be more generous with the definition in #FearofMu21C (largely because the three decades are so different on this point), but I think it fit much better in #All50rts.
Some of my #thetenx5 picks didn't appear in my #fearofmu21c selection as they were eclipsed by better songs in that artist's catalogue over the wider timespan
#TheTenX5 Day 8 🚨 Bonus 11
Fucked Up - Queen of Hearts (single, 4/5/2011) 🇨🇦
NKC✅PC✅ [11pts]
Another one you may remember from my #FearOfMu21C - the allegory of left-wing intelligentsia/working class solidarity, via the love story of factory worker David and unionisation canvasser Veronica.
The standout memory of 2010 for me is living in Poble Sec, Barcelona, from September to December (recommended).
And as I've said before (as the picks in this challenge will overlap with those for #FearOfMu21C at the time), this band was responsible for one of my favourite gig experiences:
#TheTenx5 1/50
Julia Holter – ‘Feel You’ (2015)
**12/10**
Posting this shimmering masterpiece on day one in a shameless trawl for HM boosts after it failed to qualify for #FearOfMu21c with only three picks (a wild score of 33, with each of those an 11-point bonus)
youtu.be/X2JgMniIpRM?...
It's certainly a contender, and I know that #fearofmu21c agrees with you, but I'd put About You Now and Bulletproof up there, and assuming that Olivia Rodrigo's full assimilation is not yet complete
(what this also tells you us that the 10s winner as per #Uncool50 and #FearofMu21C does NOT have more than one pick as yet... because its title has no letters in it)
A non-exhaustive list of 4s from that decade would include:
- two of my intended #TheN0ughtie5 bonuses
- two more songs I picked in #1C000LEST
- another from my #FearofMu21C list
- my favourite 00s Gaga single
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PARADE - DAY 10
2022 (12/?)
10.3 (55/138)
LITTLE SIMZ (3)
'GORILLA'
UK
No bonuses
3 x HM
Simz didn't get any songs through #FearofMu21C, now she's the first artist to three!
(see, this is why we needed a new challenge)
Encore at her Oct live show.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7xz...
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PARADE - DAY 4
Final qualifier for today.
2021
4.5 (23/138)
MAGDALENA BAY
'CHAERI'
USA
No bonuses (unlike in #FearofMu21C, when it managed a 12 and an 11 for the whole century!)
4 x HM
One sixth of the way through - back later with the TV Teaser.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ben9...
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PARADE - DAY 1
2020
1.6 (6/138)
BAXTER DURY
'I'M NOT YOUR DOG'
UK
No bonuses
7 x HM
With the last song of Day 1, the UK finally puts something on the board.
And #FearofMu21C suggests this chap will be back in #TheTenx5.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_x9...
Origin story.
I limited blurbs to 5 per Google Doc page, then 4/page for 11s, then the alt-text character limit (2000) for the 12.
But 2 years and a week ago, I blurbed 'GH' at length for #FearofMu21C. You can see me realising how much I loved it, in real time.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Previous challenges #1C000LEST See Finale below. #FearofMu21C or FOM The first era-based challenge, covering the 21st century (2000 – 2023). Created in response to the strong bias against the 21st century in #Uncool50. This ran from October to December 2023.
#FearofMu21C
MU21C, as in
mu21cvs.com
I think it’s been established that we don’t live in a just world. In a just world, songs like ‘XS’ would be number one for a month and shape the national conversation. But sometimes, the stars do align, and a genuinely great state of the nation pop song stays at number one for a month. Such a track is Lily Allen’s ‘The Fear’.
Funny you should say that...
From my own #FearofMu21C blurbs in 2023, when I was the only player to choose 'XS'.
I will be posting it again of course, but not until November.
Obviously all of my 2020s #fearofmu21c picks are going to appear in #thetwen2ie5, but they're not all getting bonuses because we've got 2 more years of music to choose from.
#TheTwen2ie5
Some provisional numbers:
16 advance lists
plus
70 other posters listed, including those who said they would be playing but are yet to post
86 is in the ballpark of #FearofMu21C and #Let5D0It, which is promising.
Previous Challenge Eves:
30 Sep 23 #FearofMu21C, the first C21 challenge, first on Bluesky and start of 'Project 1000'
30 Sep 22 #Uncool50, the original Twitter challenge
30 Sep 21 #LettersPlayPop: songs with 1 to 31 letters in the title (have that one for free, challenge-runners!).
The others were:
- Back To Black in #FearofMu21C, led by 2 points, finished 9th
- Tutti Frutti in #Let5D0It, led by 2 points, finished 11th.
(three of the other four were led by 'I Feel Love' after Month 1 😇)
That was my approach to #fearofmu21c
"Is this song inferior to this artist's 20th century stuff and am I picking it for nostalgia? Yes? Out you go"
I was clearly so confused by Sant(i)gold's name change that I failed to pick any of her songs for either #FearOfMu21C or #all50rts. Guess I'll just have to remedy that for #TheN0ughtie5...
