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=====LINGER=====

After some careful and considered assessments and re-assessments over the weekend, this feels like the most appropriate title for the next Tier. If nothing changes this week, this tier should just be the next ten songs. These are songs that have lingered and been close to being cut for a long time now. They comprise a majority of the songs I deemed the 'Terrible Ten' as those that have been thorny to get rid of, but not all of them; and only one of the songs has been mostly ignored due to high initial rankings.

'Linger: x/10' will be in the description of each of the ten songs I described last week. Did I have to let them linger?

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#60. Pink Dazzled 45
Artist: Hillary Reese
Nominator: Snake5555555555 (2/5)
Time: 3:20
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JlbnFnlTw8
Initial Rankings: Batch 1 - 6/15 (C) & Rubric 6
Weighted Rankings: Blue 16/16
Blockbuster: Grid C-5
FLUX: Up 20 & Even 15 More UP
Linger: 10/10

"Verrry country. Good voice. Honestly, some bonus points for how few views it has because it's much more solid than a couple hundred views." - First listen note

New Orleannnns, you're really something!

I don't think that's the lyric, but that's my favorite part. Hillary Reese has a great voice and it's very different from everything else nominated. It's also been very hit-or-miss, often finding itself on the chopping block before getting another boost. But it was also in Rubric 6 at some point which was a shoe-in for top half.

P.S. Oh, and thinking you could get away with no consequences? You managed to move up ten spots, but you're not making the top half!

P.P.S. ...And it made top half! Congratulations. It really is a catchy, vibrant song.

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#59. Sexual Healing
Artist: Sarah Connor
Nominator: Redrocket (2/5)
Time: 4:11
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xOWI80-tZM
Initial Rankings: Batch 7 - 15/15 (F) & Rubric 16
Weighted Rankings: Red 6/16
Blockbuster: Grid C-4
FLUX: Up 55 Spots!
Linger: 9/10

Go back two months to when I'm starting write-ups for my bottom five and tell me this almost makes the- no, with the extra five songs, this MAKES the top half. Tell me that and imagine the massive face of horrified confusion.

So, how does it get this high? First, comparing it to Marvin Gaye's version... is kind of eye-opening because I actually think Gaye's version is worse. I judged this song thinking Marvin Gaye's was, not a masterpiece, but an excellent song by an excellent crooner, but it's even more empty than this one. Sarah brings a smoothness and warmness to it that makes it feel less like someone trying to pick up somebody from a bar, and more like a girlfriend or wife on a sunny morning trying to encourage her partner to enjoy some domestic bliss. It feels like playful flirting that leads to a fun night in instead of trying to have a one-night stand. There's sunshine coming through the windows as this plays as she's putting on the rizz.

Second, I'm not the right audience for 'sexy' songs. I've come to think that I'm likely asexual or maybe demi or just an anxious overthinking depressed bean with body image and trust issues. This doesn't make me feel gross. It feels wholesome and understandable. There's love, passion, trust, honesty, playfulness, need, understanding, and warmth in her tone, the music, and the lyrics and I find it so much more enjoyable than I initially did. It's absolutely solid.

But it was going to be one of the first five out, and I'm glad it's not.

Note: I'll be starting the next tier after this, and while it IS a song that rose so so much higher than planned, it was not one of the two benchmark songs I planned around FLUX initially. The FLUX has FLOWED.

P.S. SEE ABOVE! SEE ABOVE! THIS IS NOT RIGHT!

P.P.S. No, this actually is right. It's solid, sunny, there's a playful growl and need and it evokes strong storytelling and images in my head (strong as in 'heavily visualized and easily discernible,' not strong as in 'Warning: The scenes playing are graphic and sexual in nature.' I think the hardest it ever goes is tugging forcefully on a shirt).

@Snake5555555555
@Redrocket
@AriaOfBolo (because I haven't forgotten and you deserve nice tags!)