128 Wussiest Song Tournament: Day 4
All votes must be received by 17:00:00 PST Friday, August 18. Day 5 will be posted Monday.
#1. "Shiny Happy People" - R.E.M. vs.
#16. "Do I Make You Proud" - Taylor Hicks
SHP is apparently the Duke basketball of this field.
#8. "I Just Called To Say I Love You" - Stevie Wonder vs.
#9. "Our House" - CSNY
I once left the chorus of "I Just Called" as a voicemail message. Apparently the highlight was the abrupt click as I hung up. Meanwhile, a letter between siblings...
#4. "Think of Laura" - Christopher Cross vs.
#13. "Amazed" - Lonestar
You already know that every 13-seed, every 14-seed, and one randomly lucky 15-seed are my arbitrary additions to the field. Of those, "Amazed" is the song whose omission from the AOL list surprised me most.
#5. "My Heart Will Go On" - Celine Dion vs.
#12. "I'm Not In Love" - 10CC
Far across the distance and spaces between us, it's just a silly phase I'm going through.
#1. "Shiny Happy People" - R.E.M. vs.
#16. "Do I Make You Proud" - Taylor Hicks
SHP is apparently the Duke basketball of this field.
#8. "I Just Called To Say I Love You" - Stevie Wonder vs.
#9. "Our House" - CSNY
I once left the chorus of "I Just Called" as a voicemail message. Apparently the highlight was the abrupt click as I hung up. Meanwhile, a letter between siblings...
#4. "Think of Laura" - Christopher Cross vs.
#13. "Amazed" - Lonestar
You already know that every 13-seed, every 14-seed, and one randomly lucky 15-seed are my arbitrary additions to the field. Of those, "Amazed" is the song whose omission from the AOL list surprised me most.
#5. "My Heart Will Go On" - Celine Dion vs.
#12. "I'm Not In Love" - 10CC
Far across the distance and spaces between us, it's just a silly phase I'm going through.
posted by Matt Bruce at 5:15 PM
6 Comments:
SHP - Refer to Denis Leary's routine regarding this one
Our House
Amazed - Due to living in Texas for a while and my wife's preference for country, Think of Laura was/is much easier to avoid.
Heart Will Go On Celine songs = shooting fish in a barrel, but I'll vote for it this round anyway.
Abstain on "Shiny Happy People" vs. "Do I Make You Proud." I don't know the Hicks song well enough, and the R.E.M. song isn't that wussy.
#9 "Our House." Even though Stevie Wonder song is kind of boring, boring isn't the same as wussy.
#4 "Think of Laura"
#12 "I'm Not in Love"
SHP. Should win by the video alone.
Just Called to Say I Love You
Think of Laura.
I'm Not In Love; the spoken-word "big boys don't cry" makes this a massive sleeper pick.
"Do I Make You Proud" - Anything coming from the Worst Show in the History of Television is likely to get my vote.
Very very very wussy house.
"Think of Laura" is so wussy I sometimes forget and think it's by Chris DeBurgh. That's how wussy it is.
"I'm Not in Love," and it isn't even the wussiest song Godley & Creme were involved in (that'd be "Cry")
Do I Make You Proud, which also features the world's weirdest key change. I feel bad voting for it, because I know it's not Taylor's fault it's so terrible, but boy is it wussy.
I just called to say I love you
Think of Laura. Amazed fills that generic first-dance slot at weddings perfectly nicely.
My Heart Will Go On, to go along with the Wussiest Movie Ever award.
Shiny Happy People - Good grief, even Sesame Street's parody of this was better.
I Just Called To Say I Love You - That, and to point out at great length why I'm not calling.
Meanwhile, nice letter between siblings that relates to a different song of the same title.
Think of Laura - Hadn't heard Amazed until today, but two minutes of it is enough to know it doesn't hold a candle to Laura's wussiness. Any song that is appropriated for use in a soap opera is generally bad, except for "Rise" by Herb Alpert.
I'm Not in Love - Both songs deserve lower seeds, but any song which has sixty seconds of a voice whispering "big boys don't cry" gets my vote.
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