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Fire's Chill Pick - January 2025

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  Hey guys. It’s Fire from Fire’s Flaming Hot Takes and I’m trying something (sorta) new. Back in August of 2021, I tried a type of article called “Friday’s Chill Pick”, where the idea was every Friday I would talk about a song that I wanted to put y’all onto or one that I had some thoughts I wanted to get out. The problem was that doing this every Friday consistently led me to getting burned out because if I put myself on too consistent of a schedule, it eventually feels more like it’s an obligation for me to do rather than something that truly comes from a place of interest (it’s why to this day I still am not on any schedule to post these articles), which led me to ultimately axe the whole thing in November of that year. However, I’ll admit that as of late I’ve kinda been missing doing this. But I knew that I’d have to change up the style of this so I didn’t get bored of it again, especially considering I’m not the high schooler I was when I started blogging, I’m in a vastly dif...
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An Abridged Look at the Non-US Hits of 2024

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  An Abridged Look at the Non-US Hits of 2024 Hey guys, it’s Fire from Fire’s Flaming Hot Takes back again to finally send off 2024 with a look at the best and worst non-US hits of 2024!!  As always, what I’m qualifying as a “non-US hit” are songs that made the 2024 year-end list in the UK, Australia, or Canada but NOT the US. So with that in mind, these are the qualifications for the songs that I’m choosing to highlight. As with previous years, the songs that are highlighted in this article are the songs that became hits in the UK, Australia, or Canada that would’ve made my best or worst list for 2024 had they become hits in the US - and yes, the honorable and dishonorable mentions count. I will not mention songs that had made a previous non-US hits list - so no, you’re not gonna see “Murder On The Dancefloor” here (I know it was arguably more culturally relevant in 2024, but it was a hit in the UK in the early 2000s so I’m not gonna cover it here. Song is excellent though) -...
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Roasting the Top 100 Biggest Songs of 2024

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  Roasting the Top 100 Biggest Songs of 2024 What’s the point of this article? That’s the big question I’ve been asking myself for the last few months. Because ever since I started making roasting articles, they've consistently underperformed, and that, combined with a lack of my personal interest to do these anymore has really diminished my motivation to do this. I guess in that regard, you can consider this year’s roasting article a test for me. If I have fun doing this, I’ll continue making these articles. If not, well, you can consider this the final roasting article I do. I’ll check back in with this at the end. But yeah, “roasting” the biggest songs of 2024 is a bit of a misnomer, because this article is just gonna be a mix of roasting and shitposting. And keep in mind that all these roasts are purely from a lighthearted tone and in no way am I trying to use these against these songs. Enjoy, I guess... 1. Teddy Swims - Lose Control I think the GP is allergic to grooves. Becau...
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