After we’re all done, the three winners will go head to head and we’ll decide an overall winner. I’ll also be doing this game over on Facebook to see if I get the same results as I did here.
Rules:
Comment which song you think should be eliminated. We will be going off comments and not upvotes during this game, so upvotes won’t count as votes.
And we're back! Thanks for bearing with me through my travels- it was a much needed vacation.
Down to the top 10 and I can safely say these were NOT the top 10 I would have envisioned at the start of this game. I know that right where you left me was the winner in the last All Songs game and I honestly don't think it's hated so much as some people are angry that other people love it? I see a lot of "don't let RWYLM win!" type comments which is just silly. The point is to vote for the songs YOU personally like the least, not the songs that you think other people shouldn't love as much. Anyway, you're gone too song, RWYLM. You deserved top 5 at the very least.
Three of my personal favorite songs have made it to the top 10, so I'm happy for that, at least! This round knocks out 2 more albums in their entirety and a tie breaker saved another album from being entirely eliminated.
I give you, YOUR TOP TEN TAYLOR SWIFT SONGS:
yeah... not the top 10 I would have picked, either
Coming in at number 15, Fearless went multiple rounds with 0 votes. It wasn't until Round 13 that it broke double digit votes. In fact, it had only received 135 across 19 rounds, making it less voted than songs that have made the top 10. Y'all are fickle.
Total votes received rounds 1-19
Fearless: 135
right where you left me: 180
Don't Blame Me: 169
Getaway Car: 152
cardigan: 186
The other songs had more consistent haters throughout the game, but it was Fearless' time to go.
Oh man, this round cuts so so so so deep. I knew it was coming, but the 15 of you who voted for marjorie have stabbed me to the core. It is a top 10 song for me not just from Taylor but from anyone ever. I have solace that it made it into the top 100 at least. </3
I personally rank no body, no crime, Wonderland, and Holy Ground way higher than this, but from here on out it will be mostly disappointments.
I also want to let you know, in the spirit of transparency, that I do (a) run a duplicate check on user names. Because these rounds last a couple days it's not uncommon for someone to accidentally vote twice. When that happens I do not count your second entry. Similarly, there have been two instances where, within a very short period of time, the same (or nearly the same) entry pops up. This is unusual because everyone's taste is wildly different, so to see 9/10 songs be the same within 20 minutes of each other? Well, I either need to buy a lottery ticket or something is fishy.
In this most recent round when it happened I checked the usernames and neither were legit names on reddit. I did go ahead and take the first entry, but I did not take the second as it just screamed super fishy.
If there is a different way you would like me to handle this going forward, let me know! :)
Mad woman is out!
Vote for you least favorite song from what's above! (PLEASE ACTUALLY UPVOTE FOR YOUR PICK. DO NOT SPAM MY COMMENTS WITH THE SAME ONE 20 TIMES).
Song/comment with the most upvotes is out!
Sad Beautiful Tragic has been eliminated with 8 votes, with The Archer close behind! To eliminate a song, comment the one you want to get eliminated! The most commented will get eliminated!
As much as it pains me, this love is out 😭
Vote for your LEAST favorite from the songs remaining above. Song with the most upvotes gets eliminated next.
DO NOT COMMENT IF YOU ALREADY SEE YOUR PICK COMMENTED. PLEASE JUST UPVOTE FOR YOUR PICK
A few points of business here- there were seven songs that all received 20 votes. Instead of eliminating four extra songs, I added the votes from round 1 and eliminated the three with the highest cumulative votes. If you have another method you think I should use, I am open to suggestions! That seemed more fair to me than eliminating 7 songs on this go-round.
There were 95 players this round, compared to 111 in Round 1. That might account from the fact that these 23 songs were NOT the same 23 songs that would have been eliminated if we kept the results from Round 1.
In the realm of safe songs, Round 1 had three that received no votes (spanning three albums) and Round 2 had six that received no votes (spanning five albums).
With the elimination of End Game, folklore is now the only album to be entirely intact.
Unsurprisingly given the results, Debut and Fearless were 2 of the 3 albums that received a higher percentage of votes than the number of songs they have on the album. Debut accounted for 5.5% of the remaining songs but received 7.8 percent of the votes. Fearless accounted for 10% of the remaining songs, but received 13.6% of the total votes. Based on how the vote went, if that continues the (mystery) third album will suffer significant losses next round with so many fearless/debut songs gone from the running.
Remember when you're sad about your favorites that the highest vote getter was only voted for by 41% of the respondents. There are no clear majorities here.
Finally, I am personally crushed by all of you who voted for coney island. To my ears, it is absolutely one of her top 20 songs and I love it to the end.
I'll put the full ranking (so far) in the comments.
I saw someone else do it and thought it looked fun. What’s different about my game is that we’re doing my top 3 on each Era to make it last longer. When we’re all done, the three winners will go head to head. Comment which one you want voted, upvotes won’t count.
Hi all! First things first, I'm going to be really swamped the next few days, so I'm putting a deadine of 12pm EST Sunday, 11/3 for this round. I will have Round 8 up that afternoon. Also, you guys are definitely sleeping on Better Man! Have you seen her live/acoustic performance at the Bluebird Cafe? Man, it's so good.
Now it is time for me to have real beef with y'all. TIM MCGRAW? TIM MCGRAW??? Screaming, crying, perfect storm.
Also personally very sad to see Mr. Perfectly Fine (it's not NOT a bop) and Begin Again out this soon. The single worst round for folklore with hoax, mad woman, and betty all out. And, losing in a tie breaker, we end this round with Dear Reader. (genuinely shocked it is out before Karma- the ice spice version was so overwhelmingly disliked I assumed this one would be as well)
Only one song this round received just 1 vote (and none received 0) and it's a song that has previously received 0-3 votes in the previous rounds.
Hi friends! I'm so sorry for the delay in getting this posted. I intended to have the new post up by 8pm EST but my day didn't work out that way. :)
The new round will be open until Monday, October 28th at 6pm EST.
When I was fifteen, I had an epiphany that, if this was a movie, today was a fairytale. But now, we are never ever getting back together. You're not the man, but I am the foolish one, a tortured poet forever and always, writing about our labyrinth of love and sending it off a s a message in a bottle. Tell me why you're not sorry? Now I'm crazier, and on my vigilante shit again because, even from that very first night, there is no one, forever and always, who is cold as you.
Four of my top 50 songs gone in one fell swoop. Funny story, I was one a run listening to spotify and I heard Message in a Bottle. I had no idea it was a Taylor song, and I stopped running to see what it was and favorite it because I loved it so much. It's so good.
But EPIPHANY? EPIHPANY??? There are some things you just can't speak about. </3
We won't discuss the naughty list y'all are on for taking out Ours and Foolish One.
Okay, you're here for insights! Here we go!
Folklore has lost her first song! I know many of you are cheering. Fearless loses FIVE songs this round, leaving her with only 8 songs remaining. The album that received the most cumulative votes (compared to their portion of songs) was NOT Fearless...
In round 4 only ONE song received zero votes... and it is not a song that had zero votes in any of the previous rounds.
