Sad Boy Summer

• SamRobertsND +3 — Best song in this garbage dump of a round and it’s not even close. Darius alone is top tier Sammybait, but in composition and tone this song works too well.
• Sam Ary +1
• Regina Scime +1 — It’s Hootie & The Blowfish, I have to
• Edward James +1 — Yep yep yep Darius knows what’s up. I always wonder what the Blowfish are up to these days
• fionmul 0 — I wish I had more votes this round bro
• judd.baker 0 — This was a good Alexcore interpretation of the category. I like it
• Claire 0 — Classic. But I think the girl might be sadder than the guy in this song

Sam Ary: Boohoo

• Joseph Harvey +3 — Nothing else here made me feel the slightest thing. This produced tears
• Regina Scime +2
• judd.baker +1 — Absolutely no notes. Went with the obvious choice and you will be rewarded for it
• Claire +1 — No boy has ever been sadder than Sufjan. Impossible not to upvote
• fionmul 0 — 😿
• Edward James 0 — A GOAT, one of the best to ever do it. But even though Sufjan is certified Sad Boi™, this song is not the one I would choose and I’m going to be honest I can’t articulate why.
• ared56 -1
• [DELETED] -1
• SamRobertsND -1 — Sufjan rose from rags to riches by embodying the emotivism and sensitivity that women narcissistically wish men had. However a fruit with a banjo does not sad boy summer make.

• [DELETED] +3
• ared56 +1
• Sam Ary +1
• fionmul 0 — Lonesome fella and sad boy are different to me
• judd.baker 0 — I like the interpretation of the theme but it’s a stacked round, I’m sorry
• Edward James 0 — Correct, and an all time great song. But you have to properly interpret the zeitgeist, and this does not reflect such study
• Claire -1 — The cowboy has chosen a lonesome life. If he’s sad it’s his own damn fault

Claire: Are you really a sad white boy if you don’t listen to the national?

• fionmul +1 — the background guitar alone was enough for me
• judd.baker +1 — Perfectly understood the assignment, glad to see the National here
• ared56 +1
• Joseph Harvey 0 — I don’t like his voice. I’m sorry he needs his girl but the song didn’t convince me to care
• Edward James 0 — Just don’t like The National, simple as
• SamRobertsND 0 — Nice

• fionmul +1 — I like dis
• judd.baker +1 — Great song and the ending is part of what does it for me. It doesn’t only end on a pathetic but also a creepy and somewhat fantastical note. Utterly unsympathetic protagonist but does what it’s trying to do well. Dark sad boy summer. Excellent
• Claire +1 — Quintessential sad boy narrative. Good pick
• ared56 +1
• SamRobertsND 0 — Great song.
• Joseph Harvey -1 — 💤
• Regina Scime -1

• Edward James +2 — A testament to the genre. The line “it’s nothing, it’s nothing” captures more understanding of the male romantic experience than entire artist discographies
• Claire 0 — This was a cool song but not maximally sad
• Joseph Harvey 0 — Gross title
• SamRobertsND 0 — Forgettable
• fionmul -1 — ew

Joseph Harvey: Beautiful aching ennui

• Sam Ary +1
• fionmul 0 — a wee bit boring innit
• judd.baker 0 — Joseph’s submission for this category is also the exact intersection point of our music tastes
• Claire 0 — Beautiful song. If I had a fourth vote I’d give it to this one
• Edward James 0 — Don’t like Radiohead, simple as
• SamRobertsND 0 — The Catholic communists at Hillsdale told me to like Radiohead but idk it never worked

• fionmul +1 — mmm I am a sucker for Lew sometimes
• Claire 0 — Could be sadder. At least he has someone to hold him for now…
• Edward James 0 — Sorry ladies, this is a boys round ^this was the comment I had here for 10 min before I realized this singer is actually a man. Went back and listened to the song again and realized there is no way I could have thought that, and therefore the song must have left so little of an impression that I forgot the gender of the singer. Also, terminal case of zoomer voice.
• SamRobertsND 0 — AI Generated
• judd.baker -1 — It’s sad indie pop and yet doesn’t have the true sad boy summer sound. It’s an ephemeral thing. But this is too poppy

• Claire +1 — My initial reaction was “this is literally what AI would produce if you told it to write a melancholy white boy pop song.” At first I thought that was a point against the song, but the more I thought about it the more I started to think that this means it deserves a vote for being perfectly on theme
• fionmul 0 — this ends the first episode of Riverdale and that’s how i found it back in 2018 or something
• Joseph Harvey 0 — This is decent if generic
• SamRobertsND 0 — Somehow worse than the other AI song maybe it’s a Lewis thing?
• Edward James -1 — “You are sheltering an attempt at a hit pop song in your sad boy summer, are you not?”

• fionmul 0 — mmm but this song scared my niece
• Claire 0 — Good song but the prompt was sad boy, not sadistic boy
• Joseph Harvey 0 — Ok… I can see what this is going for but the execution feels unprofessional to me
• Edward James 0 — Nah
• SamRobertsND 0 — Truly terrible, I’m assuming a Corey or Joseph poast?
• Sam Ary -1