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The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2019 REDUX

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  The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2019 REDUX Hey everyone, it’s Fire, back on Fire’s Flaming Hot Takes and today we’re reexamining the top 10 worst hit songs of 2019!! I really didn’t think I’d be back doing another list redux after my 2021 ones, mainly because I came to the realization that like it or not, some aspect of all my articles is gonna age badly and I can’t change the past, so it’s not worth “(Taylor’s Version)”-ing my way through the entire history of my blog to try and correct every little wrong I may have made. But look, with my 2019 lists, when I reread them earlier this year, I knew I had to redo them, because they have NOT aged well at all. 2019 was, at least back in 2021 when I wrote those articles, the worst year of my life. I had really allowed myself to get really furious at the music that soundtracked an awful year for me to try driving home catharsis, but I think in the end, it made my worst list in particular pretty hard to read. And even if I can’t change the...
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Fire's Chill Pick - Mar 2025

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  What’s up guys? It’s Fire back with the monthly Fire’s Chill Pick article!! Let’s see what March’s chill pick is! Benson Boone - Sorry I’m Here For Someone Else Release: February 27, 2025 Genre: Pop Rock, Big Music, New Wave You all know Benson Boone, right? The guy who made one of the worst ever noises to be heard in a top 5 hit last year with his big hit “Beautiful Things”? Yeah, that song is still absolutely terrible, but thankfully we’re not covering that song today. Instead we’re covering “Sorry I’m Here For Someone Else”, which appears to be the lead single for a potential new album from Benson. Right out the gate, this is already so much better than “Beautiful Things” on composition alone; Benson stays firmly in his vocal comfort zone and he only belts at key moments and proves that he’s actually a pretty good singer when he doesn’t start screeching like a drunk bat. I also really love the tighter guitar work and the rock groove that reminds me a lot of something that mayb...
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Fire's Chill Pick - February 2025

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  Hey everyone!! If you read my article for January, you should have an idea of what this series is, and if you haven’t read it already, go ahead and give it a read because it’ll provide some context on how I’m gonna revive an old feature I had when I first started this blog. Anyways, what’s the chill pick this month? Olivia Ridgely - Lucky Release: March 29, 2024 Genre: Indie pop, Pop Well, last month I covered the A-side, “Blu”, might as well tackle the B-side this month!! So, “Blu” was an incredibly warm and inviting love song that was among my absolute favorite songs of 2024, and it was dropped alongside “Lucky”, which is a bit of a different song compared to “Blu”. From what I can tell (and I tried my best, there are no official lyrics for this song that I could find lol), “Lucky” is a song where Olvia Ridgely tells off her asshole ex for cheating on her, and the repetition of “I’m so lucky” on the chorus is meant to be ironic or sarcastic. Like “I’m SO lucky” to have this che...
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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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