

Want to learn more about The Eliminator 1000? Propose a song to go in! Reply to this post, comment on the post, or Tweet (Account: or Facebook (Account: ) me. Drive is a song from another era, and it is Eliminated. The Bottom goes right into the Eliminator at a solid #711 (1,310 more listens). Disney should create a dark side set of princesses. Probably because she doesn’t need the funding given her background. It’s kind of amazing that Disney hasn’t adopted Gracie Abrams as one of their pop princesses yet. This is another of the Billie Eilish generation, and I find a lot to like here. And I really like the pure darkness and creepiness of this song, which seems to be a theme of The Eliminator.

But nevertheless, I didn’t know all that when I started to listen to Gracie Abrams and she stands on her own two feet musically. So I do have some issues with putting this song into The Eliminator 1000, with all the rank privilege going on.
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But fun! By way of background, Gracie Abrams inspired Olivia Rodrigo, which makes a lot of sense because nothing quite impresses Disney princesses as much as the daughter of a super famous movie producer (JJ Abrams is her father, and you can tell based on the really quite horrifying but fun music video – high production value anyone?). Speaking of creepy, this song and video are super dark. The singer had been listening to sexy music that made he feel better, so he wanted to pen a song about going to clubs and kissing people. Smith explained to Billboard that he had just gone through a breakup and the last thing he wanted to do was write a sad song. Writing 'Dancing With A Stranger' helped trigger Smiths gender transition. But what a great great song for its time. Sam Smith came out as non-binary in 2019. This is a song from another time with all its early electronica in the background. But, I have to say, what will listening to this song one more time on The Eliminator 1000 really do for anyone? Not a whole lot. It’s forlorn and sad hostile and kind of creepy? But man does this song bring back the memories for the elders. And I just thought it was all so romantic for some reason which tells you a lot about my strange psychology as a younger person. I had the album, which I loved, on cassette tape, and I must have listened to it hundreds of times in high school. But Drive is also one of those quintessential nostalgia songs for kids of the 1980s. 'Dancing with a Stranger' was released as a single by Capitol Records on 11 January 2019. Eriksen, Tor Hermansen, and produced by Stargate and Napes. It was written by Smith, Normani, Jimmy Napes, Mikkel S. Analysis: We are back with another generational battle, and I expect to see a LOT of 1980s songs that are lingering at the bottom of the Eliminator 1000 to be facing newer fresher upstarts now that I have purged the list of most of the 1960s and 1970s.ĭrive is old, and tired. 'Dancing with a Stranger' is a song by British singer Sam Smith and American singer Normani. Dancing With A Stranger Acoustic Lyrics by Sam Smith from the Dancing With a Stranger album - including song video, artist biography, translations and.
