01) The Tide - BOOT - The drop feels so out of place to me. Overall, just not my cup of tea.
02) Alan Walker, Ava Max - BOOT - It caught my attention with the LALALALALA's, but they pretty quickly became a turn-off. Meh.
03) Smith & Thell - BOOT - It's better than Goliath, so there's THAT. Toe-tappy. At the end of the day, even if it is quality, it's not good enough to overcome not being my typical thing.
04) Clara Mae - BOOT - lmfao @ me booting the first 4 songs. THIS IS WHY I DON'T TOOT OR BOOT, IT'S BLACK OR WHITE AND NO SHADES OF GREY. Anyway, this sounds like a good majority of "discover" spotify playlist songs that I skip over. SORRY.
05) Aly and AJ - TOOT - Is this a sample? If it's something obvious and I can't figure it out, feel free to spit on me and call me the previously banable f-word. Just feels so familiar. Digging the 80's feel. It's cool.
06) LOVA - BOOT - It has potential, but it's lacking a MOMENT.
07) Julian Peretta - TOOT - Chill and an extremely easy listen. Solid all around.
08) Elle Hollis - BOOT - Like LOVA, it's void of a MOMENT. It's more stylistically appealing to me than LOVA, but if I HAVE to toot or boot, it ends up in the latter. And yes, this and LOVA have to be compared because of the video stills -- that's the rules.
09) Tara Lee - TOOT - Like the dark feel of it and the production in general. I wish there was more catchiness to it, which is my only real gripe.
10) Victoria Monet, Khalid, SG Lewis - TOOT - Honestly, 3 minutes and 8 seconds of ASMR roller skating noises would have been more appealing than some songs in this contest. Anyway, super cute throwback vibes here. Could float away to this.
11) JOWST - BOOT - It's much harder of production than I've heard from JOWST previously, I was expecting something a bit more generic. It honestly would have been a toot based on the surprise element of being something I didn't expect, but by the time the drop came around the second time I realized that I wasn't too keen on it.
12) The Hot Damns - BOOT - Girl, you almost had me until the chopped up vocal in the chorus. OoOOOOoooHoHaAahHoW. Yuck. Take it out and you've got a cute little entry.
13) Kendji Girac - TOOT. Really hit the spot for me in the semi and it's hitting the spot now. I'm not sure it would have the same impact amongst other songs of its kind, but it really stands out in TSC because these types of entries are so few and far in between.
14) Galantis - TOOT - I feel like I had a better Galantis song sitting on my list (no shade, mawma). Faouzia is really SANGIN' but I'm not exactly sure how I feel about her voice with this kind of production/vocal effect. I ended up on a SLIGHT toot because while I was questioning how Faouzia fits onto this kind of production, I noticed my ass was moving a bit. Never let me toot and boot again.
15) Taylor Kelly - BOOT - Patrick and I are on the same page here. This was my semi comment: "Cute slightly upscale elevator music."
16) Agata Dziarma Dziarmagowska - TOOT - Oh, she's an edgy girl, huh? It's a lot more chill than I was expecting -- I was really expecting for it to go OTT and it kinda stayed at one level (though I liked that level).
17) VINCINT - TOOT - I had to restart this about 30 seconds in because I was pretty certain that the fan video was going to ruin this for me. <3 I'm starting to lose hope that he is going to get anywhere near "Please Don't Fall In Love" levels of greatness, but this is solid. Love his voice.
18) LIZOT, Holy Moly, Alex Parker - TOOT - Is this original in the slightest? No. Is this copy and pasting a few good songs together into one? Basically. Do I care? Not at all. Bop.
19) Kiesza - TOOT - A slight toot. Has a nice throwback element to it, but I don't connect with as much as most of her previous work.
20) Sunmi - TOOT - Okay nobody fucking told me that my girl put out a new track. On first listen, it's nowhere near her best, but it's super pretty and the chorus has good energy without getting anywhere near bubblegum. I'd like to say I'm a stan but I didn't know she had a new song out until now. :/
21) Camden Cox - TOOT - I entered this a few times as a back-up prior to it becoming eligible without noticing it wasn't eligible, ooooopth. I overplayed the shit out of it when it came out, but I haven't listened to it in a few weeks and the break really helped it.
22) Hanna Ferm - TOOT - This is leagues above the two things that I've previously heard from her. I was genuinely gagged when I first heard it, as she went from a void the first time I was exposed to her into a meme with Brave into THIS. Shouldn't surprise me because Sweden churns shit like this out, but it's a good piece of pop music.