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(Prom, continued)

[FINAL-ER NOTES: Okay, a few extra notes.

1.While "post hardcore" becomes a gag, at no point does the joke impact any song's placement for better or worse, and it's intentionally exagerated for comedic effect. Though there is some truth in the frustration that it felt like every single band I'd look up would suddenly be post hardcore, no matter how different they all were, as though that were the only genre that ever existed.

2.What this song falls victim to are two things that other songs on this list also get hit by: I feel it repeats itself too often ("a little bit" comes up 12 times during the song, particularly six times in rapid succession during each pre-chorus) and the artist was too honest in explaining what things meant.

There was a good theory that the song was called Prom because it was a Broken Promise. Ya know, symbolism and what not. But she set the record straight:

"Iss called prom cus I ain't have no friends in high school so I went to Miami w my mama for prom instead . Lol"

At which point, I no longer cared about the song. If the artist herself is going to dismiss the concept of any symbolism or meaning with a "Lol", then I'm going to be equally dismissive of the song.

I know it's difficult, but sometimes you have to leave some mystery to your art; I talk a bit more about this subject at the next song to suffer in the rankings due to it, but take American Pie.

"When asked what "American Pie" meant, McLean jokingly replied, "It means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to." Later, he stated, "You will find many interpretations of my lyrics but none of them by me ... Sorry to leave you all on your own like this but long ago I realized that songwriters should make their statements and move on, maintaining a dignified silence.""

The mystery and debate surrounding the song has led to it still being discussed over four decades later. He understood that the best thing he could do for the music was to step away and let it take on a life of its own. And you'll probably argue that she only ruined the title of her song, not all of the lyrics, which...yeah, that's probably fair, but I will always argue that it was still a bad move on her part.]
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Song Name: Rewind
Song Origin: Kelela
Song Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py6PgXq0yDM" data-time="
Nominator: Bane_Of_Despair (14/15)

Also too repetitive, but I vastly prefer her voice over the singers of "Break Thru" & "Coming Down".

[FINAL NOTES: Ouch, that was just mean and she didn't deserve that. Even so, this song just barely fails to escape being in the bottom 10%.]

[FINAL-ER NOTES: While repeating "I can't rewind" 17 times put this song at a large disadvantage, it's not like many other songs on the list... I think it should have gotten a bonus for being unique and bumped up to... somewhere between 166 and 170. Not a tremendous boost, but enough that it would have escaped the bottom 10% by a decent amount.

Alas, I stopped arranging songs after the fourth trip through the entire list, so it stays down here.]

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"That's life. All the trues are false and all the falses are true."-Charlie Brown