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The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1992

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  The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1992 Hey guys, it’s Fire and welcome back to Fire’s Flaming Hot Takes for another retro year-end list!! Today, we’re continuing our 90s dive with the top 10 WORST hit songs of 1992!! From what I can tell, 1992 seems to be generally agreed upon as one of the greatest and most revolutionary years ever for pop music. And having gone through this YE list, can I say that I don’t really agree? Not that I don’t see why this year is so pivotal for popular music or that I even think it’s a bad year—far from it, I think this was a very good year for the Hot 100, with many well-remembered, iconic, and critically acclaimed songs being hits this year. But okay, why exactly are those critically acclaimed songs still so widely beloved? You have to take in the context—1990 and 1991 were flat out awful years for the Hot 100—I already talked about them in more detail in those lists but to summarize, everything was in transition, leaving a complete void for a big tren...
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Fire's Chill Pick - June 2026

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  Hi guys!! It’s Fire here with the monthly Chill Pick article, and today, I wanna highlight a song that was one of my favorites of 2021 and is also on track to be one of my most listened to songs of 2026!! I’ve been eagerly waiting for the summer to cover this song, so I hope you enjoy it!! Nina Nesbitt - Summer Fling Release: July 9, 2021 Genres: Synthpop, Contemporary R&B I first discovered this song from a Pulse Madness tournament in 2021 and I instantly fell in love with it. And revisiting it on a whim earlier this year caused me to become utterly obsessed with it. Let me start with the fact that this genuinely sounds fantastic—the synth chords sound euphoric and hazy and the shimmering keyboard line sounds like the auditory equivalent of the sun setting over a glistening lake, where the colors reflect off the water to create a gorgeous sight. Nina Nesbitt sounds so dreamy here, especially with her falsetto adlibs. I went to San Diego for my older cousin’s college graduati...
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FIRE'S DISCOG DIVES: Olivia Rodrigo

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  FIRE'S DISCOG DIVES: Olivia Rodrigo What’s up guys, welcome back to Fire’s Flaming Hot Takes, and I told you that I was gonna do a discog dive in my 1991 worst list, and the hint I gave you was that they were on Bizaardvark . If you guessed it would be Jake Paul, go see a doctor. Yup, it’s Olivia Rodrigo!! This...might’ve honestly been more difficult to assemble than my Kacey Musgraves discog dive. I was honestly surprised by this at first. Kacey has 163 songs to her name (at the time I wrote that article) if you count her demo albums from the 2000s (which I do). And TOTC posted a tweet before she had released her latest album suggesting that Olivia only had 31 songs as a recording artist. But the key phrase here is “as a recording artist”. And that’s when I realized that if I counted Kacey’s 2000s demo albums in her discog dive, I’d also have to treat the songs Olivia’s released as part of Disney for her discog dive. And that created a really weird situation where songs I know s...
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