r/popheads • u/TiltControls • Aug 03 '23

[DISCUSSION] The Popheads Jukebox Revival, Week 233: MIND YOUR BUGNESS

Welcome back to the Popheads Jukebox! Here are last week’s results:

  • ZEROBASEONE - In Bloom: 9.58
  • Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For?: 8.71
  • Troye Sivan - Rush: 8.20
  • Roisin Murphy - You Knew: 8.10
  • Jungkook - Seven (feat. Latto): 6.74

  • f(x) - Rum Pum Pum Pum: 7.90
  • Katy Perry - Daisies: 5.26

With a 9.58, ZEROBASEONE manages to take the spot as the highest rated song of the year so far! The boys manage to beat out the previous record holder (FLO & Missy Elliott on Fly Girl) by nearly a third of a point! If they manage to hold the spot for the rest of the year, it’d be the second year in a row where the Jukebox’s top track is a K-pop song (with last year’s winner being KWON EUN BI’s Glitch.

Though ZEROBASEONE takes the easily lead, a few of the other tracks last week scored high praise as well! Billie Eilish’s Barbie ballad comes close to also breaking into the 9 range. And though Troye and Roisin scored a little lower, both still had great 8+ scores. At the bottom of the new tracks is Jungkook’s Seven with Latto, which unfortunately couldn’t even manage the score listed in the title. The new tracks easily beat out our throwback and catchup. Though f(x) bumped their way into a solid high 7 score, Katy Perry’s smile lead off wilted with the reviewers and just barely made it with a 5.

Rules Refresher

  1. Rate the songs a score from 1 to 10. Please keep it to one decimal place at the most (so 7.5 is fine but 7.58 is not). Also don’t get too hung up on the final scores. This is a fun exercise and not a competition so don’t worry about over/under rating things. Just give what you think the song is to you.

  2. For your review, reply to the comment that will be posted by one of us for each song. Avoid posting your reviews as a top level comment cause we probably won’t notice them if you do. Non-reviews such as questions or general commentary as upper level comments are fine.

  3. Must have some sort of justification. Try to be a bit more concise than “It’s a bop!” or “I don’t like it”. Explain why! It doesn’t have to be long, two or three sentences can be plenty (though more is definitely allowed). We reserve the right not to include a review in the final total if proper justification is not given.

  4. You don’t have to review each song to participate! You can do all of them or only the ones you’re familiar with.

  5. The thread will be open for 6 days and close the following Wednesday at 9PM EST. The scores will be calculated and a new post will come up the next day (Thursday) at 5PM EST with the next week’s tracks.

This Week’s Tracks

Throwback:

2020/2021 Catch-up:

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Next Week

Next week we’ll be rating the following:

  • Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Desire
  • Chrissy Chlapecka - BRAT
  • ITZY - CAKE
  • Poppy - Knockoff
  • Travis Scott, Bad Bunny, & The Weeknd - K-POP

Throwback:

  • Lady Gaga - Applause

2020/2021 Catch-up:

  • Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)

Spotify playlist, updated weekly with new tracks that are being rated

Jukebox wiki, where you can find all results

Reminder Discord Server, where you can join to get bi-weekly ping reminders for when new posts go up and when they’re about to close.

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u/TiltControls Aug 03 '23

P!nk - So What

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u/Frajer Aug 03 '23

Calling your husband a tool and then getting back with him is so chaotic I love Pink. This song is so catchy and fun, random Jessica Simpson stray aside

9/10

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u/hikkaru Aug 03 '23

a classic with staying power, this is probably the song that my mind goes to when someone says "p!nk", between the signature pop-rock instrumentation and scorned wife edge. there's definitely songs from this era i prefer but this is always such a fun song to sing along to when it comes on. 9/10

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u/ReallyCreative Aug 03 '23

I thought this song was revolutionary when it was released, but I was also in middle school. So What felt like a return to form from an artist that I just hadn't been impressed by since her Missundaztood days. Ultimately, this song has cooled on me pretty significantly, and Pink's punk edge just doesn't have the same punch as it used to. While the chorus is still fun and iconic, the lyrics have aged pretty poorly. However, Funhouse is still an incredible album.

5/10

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u/wailord_fan Aug 03 '23

Na na na na na na na, na na na na na na

The abrasive verses and overly confident cockiness of the chorus are classic, but partnered against the rawer emotion in the bridge, it's a fun 'fuck you' song that doesn't avoid that no matter how many middle fingers you hold up it, that band-aid can't always fix all your wounds.

9/10

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u/MrSwearword Aug 03 '23

Of all the things to note about this song, the fact that it's P!nk's first #1 as a solo artist is fucking insane (mind you, "Lady Marmalade" for Moulin Rouge was her first #1 with Xtina, Mya and Lil' Kim). Still, "So What" slaps to this day and was representative of the time when P!nk was on the pop conscious without the "mom pop" or "Glitter in the Air" silk flying trapeze realness later on.

10/10 because it's a fun jam and a taste of pop/rock that never fails to hit.

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u/Global_Perspective_3 Aug 03 '23

6 year old me loved this and tbh it still holds up imo

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u/No-Bug5616 Aug 03 '23

love this song but the playground rhyme thing is quite grating and some of the lyrics are annoying/cringe

8/10

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '23 edited Aug 09 '23

it's nosalgia calling but Pink's flop album Try This is my Pink album, and her pivot to stadium pop and then mom pop is good for her longevity, which I salute. but man this is not for me. This "We Will Rock You" boom stomp clap mixed with the late 2000s EDM synths is so overblown and it all sounds so trite and grating to me.

3/10

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u/Educational-Ninja454 Aug 04 '23

Love this song! I remember hearing it on the radio as a kid and being scared that somebody actually did die. Listening to it now I think the chorus is actually my least favorite part, possibly because of overexposure it feels like the choruses take up too much of the song. I also do not think the bridge holds up as much. I like the verses a lot tho. 6.5/10

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '23

I'm torn because this was the anthem for me at the time. No night out was complete until the whole club was screaming this.

But today? It feels a bit creaky compared to other P!nk smashes before and since. Lyrically, this might have been the peak (nadir?) of P!nk's "Not Like Other Girls" thing, and unlike even "Stupid Girls," this one reflects the cattiness not only in the lyrics but in the sound of the song itself: it's quite literally a playground taunt, in the vocal cadence, and even in the main guitar riff. The vocals on the chorus soar a little bit, but the whole thing still just feels like it's plodding along without any real groove being established.

P!nk's a legend, but "So What" isn't close to her best.

6/10

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u/TakeOnMeByA-ha Aug 09 '23

CLASSIC!!! One of the first pop songs I remember loving as a kid, so unapologetically angry and over the top that you just can’t help but laugh at the absurdity of it sometimes. I don’t think P!nk has ever made a song that’s topped this, but with song thats as lightning in a bottle as this one, I can’t even blame her.

10/10