#nicky henderson

[hrhzaratindall]

Zara Tindall trained Shishkin who is Nicky Hendersons race horse in August 2023

[kieran-lovebot]

i did a thing because i got distracted while studying i have so much shit due um anyways

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42299127

this is pure fluff although i see how the title can be misleading

maybe ooc but idc anymore!

[wheelsoflaughterblog]

Happy retirement Pentland Hills

🚨 Pentland Hills wins at Huntingdon in a walkover on 'chasing' debut with Aucunrisque a late non-runner for Chris Gordon in a two-runner race. @ownersgroupuk I @sevenbarrows pic.twitter.com/Ch8VS0fXLD— Sky Sports Racing (@SkySportsRacing) October 30, 2022 He’s been the horse of a lifetime for me he’s helped me through the boredom of Covid and got me back into racing and syndicates properly came…

[ifreakingloveroyals]

14 March 2018 | Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Honorary Member of the Jockey Club, makes a presentation to the winners of The Betway Queen Mother Champion Steeple Chase, Winning Jockey Nico De Boinville on "Altior", Winning Owner Patricia Pugh and Winning Trainer Nicky Henderson as she attends the second day of The Festival, Ladies Day at Cheltenham Racecourse in Cheltenham, England. (c) Eddie Mulholland-WPA Pool/Getty Images

[chongoblog]

It’s the medley with all the Mad Rat Songs, but each one is also a mashup!

That’s 40 mashups in one!

Your Mondays have never been more mad......

Audio sources used under the cut (warning: it’s big)

SONGS USED

(Shoutouts to Garf aka @garfffffff for compiling this list)

-Funny Christmas In July Commercial: HHGregg 

-Rats Birthday Mixtape: Jerma985 

-Crawling: Linkin Park 

-Last Surprise: Shoji Mogeru, Lin 

-S.L.A.B Freestyle: Chip the Ripper 

-Look At Me Now (Busta Rhymes): Chris Brown

-Uma Thurman: Fall Out Boy 

-September: Earth Wind and Fire 

-September: The Living Tombstone 

-Gangnam Style: PSY 

-Bodies: Drowning Pool 

-MAD RAT DEAD RAP: DYES IWASKI, Johnarabushi, TOPHAMHATKYO 

-A Cruel Angel's Thesis: Yoko Takahashi 

-Anthropology: AwkwardMania 

-Other Friends: Sarah Stiles 

-Break Stuff: Limp Bizkit 

-London Bridge: Fergie 

-My Own Worst Enemy: Lit 

-It's Tricky: Run D.M.C 

-Bubblegum Bitch: Marina and the Diamonds 

-All I Want: The Offspring 

-Bitch: Meredith Brooks 

-Smooth: Santana, Rob Thomas 

-Starships: Nicki Minaj 

-Excuse My Rudeness But Could You Please RIP: Calliope Mori 

-Sexy Back: Justin Timberlake 

-Big Time Rush: Matthew Gerrard, Logan Henderson, Carlos PenaVega, James Maslow, Kendall Schmidt 

-Lose Control: Missy Elliot 

-Paralyzer: Finger Eleven 

-Black Betty: Ram Jam 

-Numb: Linkin Park 

-Freaking Out: Mystery Skulls 

-Witch Doctor: David Seville 

-Party in the USA: Miley Cyrus 

-Monkey Watch: Tsunku 

-Its Party Time: Titanic: The Animated Musical 

-Uptown Funk: Mark Ronson 

-Hollaback Girl: Gwen Stefani 

-Payphone: Maroon 5 

-Every Time We Touch: Cascada 

-GALO SENGEN: The Policemen 

-Down With the Sickness: Disturbed 

-ALKATRAZ: DEMONDICE, DYES IWASAKI 

-Feel Good Inc: Gorillaz 

-7th Element - Vitas

-BRAIN POWER: NOMA 

-Guillotine: Death Grips

-Shake That - Eminem, Nate Dogg 

-I Don't Wanna Stop: Ozzy Osborne 

-Jones BBQ Foot Massage: bigdogeatchild 

-Boombastic: Shaggy 

-Dare: Gorillaz 

-little update on the rat situation TikTok: baddiebhee 

-Lone Digger: Caravan Palace 

-THE HERO!!: Jam Project 

-Wake Me Up When September Ends: Green Day 

-How to Save a Life: The Fray 

-Fireflies: Owl City 

-Goodbye: Bo Burnham 

-Outside: Calvin Harris, Ellie Goulding

[pico-digital-studios]

Into, Across and Beyond!: Character Charts

Today, I'd like to introduce you all to most of the major cast line-up for Into, Across and Beyond!.

BLUR GANG

The Blur Gang is a bunch of multidimensional heroes from many universes all ganged together with the equal purpose of keeping things safe. The members of this team include:

OMT!Tails (the Tails of the Sonic.exe One More Time games by Mr. Pixel Productions)

CR!Sonic (an alternate version of the blue blur by @becdoesthings)

OMT!Mina (an alternate version of Mina from a parallel timeline to Tails)

Mini Sonic (from the Sonic the Hedgehog Parts 1 & 2 game)

Mr. Needlemouse (a cartoon-like Sonic made by @mcgamejolter)

EX!Alice (an alternate version of Xenophanes' right-hand girl by AetherAsterisk) and her robot mech, E4-R6:3

D-Sides Mighty (from the FNF D-Sides mod)

BK!Amy Rose (an alternate role swap version of Amy for Sonic and the Black Knight, conceptualised by @sstorminghearts)

CU!Sonic and CU!Sonia (a father and daughter from the ChaosIIUniverse by ToonsiteComics)

Nine (from Sonic Prime)

Nitro (my own original character)

Antho (from SFG1235's Mobiverse AU)

Ex-Prince Brian (from the Mobius' Freedom Fighters AU by jordangaming101 and @becdoesthings)

Hog the Tenrec (a bootleg Sonic character by Jack Gore on Twitter)

Wacky the Hedgehog (another bootleg Sonic character by danicorelove on Twitter)

Devy the Rabbit (character and sprite by NotSoDevy)

Trip the Sungazer Lizard

QUILL SOCIETY

The Quill Society are a group of multiversal characters responsible for protecting the very fabric of the Sonic and SEGA multiverse. Note in advance that only five of its members are on a bad side, and most of them are solely good. Their members include:

Lost Memory Sonic (from What if Sonic Lost his Memory? by The Sega Scourge)

Amy Rouge (from that Sonic Adventure 2 mod with everyone wearing Rouge's outfit)

Turbo the Alien Hedgehog (that one alien rival from the Fleetway comics)

Fiona Fox

Tekno the Canary (from the Fleetway comics)

Zonic the Zone Cop (from the Archie universe)

CD Alt Ending Sonic (from Sonic CD: Alternative Ending by Lucsan 2015)

Underground Sonic

Emperor Metallix

Errorverse Sonic (from the same AU Nitro originates from)

LEGO Sonic

Sunky and Tlels

Carol Tea (from Freedom Planet)

Sarah Henderson (from the Needlem0use series by ShutUpJojo)

Barry the Quokka (from The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog)

E-21 (a modified robot from the Movie universe)

Milly Prower (by SallyAc63038470 on Twitter; SFW in this AU)

Blitz!Tails (from the Sonic/Avalice Blitz AU by BobTheGUYYYYY on Twitter)

Sonic.RAW (a Sonic.exe character made by randidesu)

Superstars / Discovery Omega Amy

OVA Knuckles

Rob o' the Hedge

Water Sonic (from that one Sonamy fanart based on Elemental; designed by @xblueshin)

Fleetway Amy

Stella Hoshine the Cat

Pana Der Hejhog

Bunnie Rabbot

Nicky Parlouzer

Somari

Warrior Feline Honey

VILLAINS

These are the various villains present throughout the stories. These include, in the Spider-Verse set:

Eggman Nega

Shadow Emerl / Uma Arachnis

Zeera the Zeti

Surge the Tenrec

Johnny the Shark Robot

Snively

Crimtake (the EXE from NotSoDevy's SONIC Lost Drive trilogy)

Gemerl / Anti-Miles

Dr. Beeman (Mr. Needlemouse's arch-nemesis)

The More than One Universe set includes:

Shalian (an alternate version of Toxinfect)

Crossover Realm Corrupt

Talrareth

Animator vs. Animation Corrupt

Richard Ambersilve

Sonath

Curse (my version of the character)

The Into the Sonic-verse villains include, from this list:

Dr. Finitevus

The Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad (Scratch, Grounder and Coconuts)

Scourge the Hedgehog

Rosy the Rascal

Walter Naugus

And finally, we've some members of the AU's supporting cast, those being the OMT versions of Sonic, Knuckles, Amy, Sally, Cream and Robotnik, alongside three other OCs of mine, Lucia, Karilvatch and Amelia, and the Mobiverse version of Tails.

Other supporting characters include:

The Errorverse counterparts of Tails, Amy, Knuckles and Eggman

Exeller (from the Spirits of Hell duology)

Team Lilac

Extraterrestrial Encounter Sonic / XE!Sonic and Xenomorphic (this AU's version of Eddie Brock and Venom)

The FNF trio from the Errorverse (alongside Bentonly/Bently Forceloyed and Isabella Fondsmith from New Identity, New Life)

The Prower Kids (Melody and Skye Prower)

The Errorverse's version of Benjamin Fairest/Softie Benji

Fellow SEGA and Capcom characters include:

Alex Kidd

Ristar

NiGHTS

Opa-Opa

Arle Nadja

Billy Hatcher

Mega Man / Rock Light

Over the next days, I'll drop some bios to explain who all these people are and their role in this AU. Do note that NONE of this is canon to the pre-existing AUs or official universes unless their creators deem it as such.

I apologise in advance if your favourite AU or a favourite OC didn't get in, but do know that this is only the surface level of how massive the multiverse can be. And just remember the one golden rule of the multiverse:

In the multiverse, everything is canon!

Yeah, we don't talk about THAT stuff, though.

Sprite credits:

CartoonsAnimate22 (OMT!Tails, OMT!Sonic, OMT!Knux, OMT!Amy and OMT!Robotnik)

Nebula / Cylent Nite (CR!Sonic and Lost Memory Sonic)

Cylent Nite (OMT!Mina, Tekno and Warrior Feline Honey)

jrm10071322 (Mini Sonic)

Octluigi (Mr. Needlemouse base; edit by Pico231)

deltaConduit (EX!Alice and CD!Sonic; edits by Pico231)

Sergey E.S.N. (front-facing Big Arms sprite)

Dolphman (S2 Mighty sprite; edit by Pico231)

Mod.Gen (BK!Amy, Nitro (edit and design by KoolTimYT, BroadwayBash123 and Pico231), Wacky (edits by Pico231), Fiona, Fleetway Amy, EV!Sonic/Tails/Amy/Eggman/Knuckles, Bunnie, Snively, Scourge, Rosy, Naugus and the Prower Kids)

paveldechev0604 (CU!Sonic; edits by Pico231)

SEGA (CU!Sonia, Crimtake and Shalian bases; edits by Pico231) (SS!Amy)

Deebs and Xeric (Alt Mod.Gen Tails sprite; edit by Pico231)

@mcgamejolter (Custom Nitro, Amelia and Bently sprites, alongside original sprites for AVA!Corrupt and Richard)

Antho and BECDoesDA/JordanGaming101 (sprites for Antho and Brian)

Gavin’s Golden Entertainment (Hog sprite; tweaks and edits by Pico231)

NotSoDevy (his character’s sprite)

miniluv73 (Trip sprite)

SuperGoku809 (Amy Rouge sprite)

RatherNoiceSprites (Turbo, Somari and XE!Sonic sprites)

khalifax10 and Xeric (Zonic sprite)

Deebs (UG!Sonic and OMT!Sally sprites)

DerZocker (Emperor Metallix sprite)

LegoLoco7 (LEGO Sonic sprite; recreation by Pico231)

Miles The Duck (Sunky and Tlels sprites)

GalaxyTrail (Carol and Lilac sprites)

SFG1235 (Antho, Barry and MV!Tails sprites)

KostyaGame the Fox (E-21 sprite)

JunkeyBot (Milly sprite; edits by Pico231)

Nebula (Super Tails sprite; edits by Pico231)

randidesu (RAW sprite)

Gardow and Overbound (OVA!Knux sprite)

Gabriel_aka_Frag (Rob o’ and OMT!Cheese sprites)

TheCrushedJoycon (TTS sprite; edit by Pico231)

MarkeyJester (Pana sprite)

NickyFan7 (Nicky sprite)

Shinbaloonba (Eggman Nega sprite)

Xeric (Uma sprite)

Willosonic (Zeena sprite; disguised form in one mockup based on a sprite by Teh2Chao2)

ManiaMadness91 (Surge sprite)

mtallic (Sonic.OMT sprite)

Rosabelle (S1 Extended sprite; edits by BECDoesDA and PrimalKoopaPictures)

NotSoDevy and NightAkio (Talrareth sprites)

paveldechev0604 (Original Sonic 1-based sprite; edits by Pico231)

Louplayer (Ohshima Eggman sprite; edits by Pico231)

Tonberry2k (S.S.S.S.S. Squad sprites)

Smoke-the-Pyroling (OMT!Cream sprite)

KoolTimYT (Dr. Beeman and Exeller sprites)

LiefBnuy (SMA Milla sprite)

HyperTails12 and LillyDragon (Carrie sprite)

NICKtendo DS (Time Eater sprite; edit by Pico231)

RaulHedgeBomber (FNF trio sprites’ palettes)

Hyperknux6 (custom NiGHTS sprite)

[misterah13]

My main fandom characters list

Yellow Guy

Duck Guy

Red Guy

Micheal Afton

Frisk

Chara

Flowey The Flower

Nicky Roth

Baby Talking Tattletail

Bendy

Alice Angel

Boris The Wolf

Charley

Barley

Edgar

Carley

Six

The Runaway Kid

Mono

The Girl In The Yellow Raincoat

Shadow Six

Nome

Cuphead

Mugman

Ms Chalice

MC

The Player

Mickey Mouse

Spongebob SquarePants

Gary The Snail

Patrick Star

Squidward Tentacles

Mr Eugene H Krabs

Sandy Cheeks

Sheldon J Plankton

Karen Plankton

Gumball Watterson

Darwin Watterson

Anais Watterson

Penny Fitzgerald

Carrie Krueger

Meilin Lee

Miriam Mendelsohn

Priya Mangal

Abby Park

Nyamo

Konata Izumi

Hikage Miyakawa

Hinata Miyakawa

Kagami Hiiragi

Tsukasa Hiiragi

Miyuki Takara

Yutaka Kobayakawa

Minami Iwasaki

Patricia Martin

Hiyori Tamura

Misao Kusakabe

Ayano Minegishi

Skid

Pump

Lila

Jaune

Yuuko Aioi

Mio Naganohara

Mai Minakami

Nano Shinonome

Professor Hakase Shinonome

Sakamoto

Felix The Cat

Sophie Walten

Jenny Letterson

Ice Cream Man

Sergeant Keroro Gunso

Private Second Class Tamama Nitohei

Corporal Giroro Goucho

Sergeant Major Kururu Soucho

Lance Corporal Dororo Heicho

Angol Mois

Carmen Sandiego

Player Bouchard

Zack

Ivy

Suhara

Sonia

Hideo

The Chief

Chase Devineaux

Julia Argent

Agent Zari

A.C.M.E Agent

Four

X

Sarah Henderson

Lily Henderson

Kyle Henderson

Thomas Bentley Artwright

Henry Stickmin

Ellie Rose

Charles Calvin

Red

Classic Sonic The Hedgehog

Classic Miles Tails Prower

Classic Knuckles The Echidna

Classic Amy Rose The Hedgehog

Classic Ray The Flying Squirrel

Classic Mighty The Armadillo

Rayman

Sunny

Kel

Aubrey

Hero

Basil

Mari

Siffrin

Mirabelle

Isabeau

Odile

Bonnie

Pomni

Ragatha

Raggedy Ann

Raggedy Andy

Babette

Bobby

Penny

Hanazuki

Hemkas

Kiazuki

Kiyoshi

Maroshi

Miyumi

Captain Olimar

The Knight

Rumi

Pancho

Qaru

Nayra

Pacman

Player

Poppy Playtime

Red Crewmate

Boyfriend

Girlfriend

Pico

Niko

Madeline

Hat Kid

Bow Kid

Kirby

Bandana Waddle Dee

Meta Knight

King Dedede

Rick

Kine

Coo

Marx

Gooey

Nago

ChuChu

Pitch

Adeleine

Ribbon

Queen Ripple

Ripple Star Fairies

Shadow Kirby

Dark Meta Knight

Daroach

Spinni

Doc

Storo

Squeakers

Magolor

Taranza

Sectonia

People Of The Sky

Susie

Francisca

Flamberge

Zan Partizanne

Classic Kirby

[historygirl93]

My favourite movies about witches (part 2)

"Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (1971): Eglantine Price, a witch apprentice, hosts in her house three siblings from London because of the war. Wanting to use her powers to save England from the N***s, Eglantine travels with the children on a magical bed to find her teacher, professor Emelius Brown. Adventures, animated animals, songs and Angela Lansbury as the main witch, adorable!

The Love Witch (2016): Elaine wants nothing more that find a man who love her. Unfortunately, everyone of her lovers dies. Is Elaine a killer? Did they kill themselves? Is a consequence of the use of magic in the matters of the heart? Watch it to find out.

"I married a Witch" (1942) : Jennifer and her father Daniel comes backs as spirits many centuries after their deaths. Determined to have their revenge, the two finds Wallace Wooley, descendant of the man who denounce them, and Jennifer decide to make him fall in love with the help of a love potion, but it's Jennifer who drink it! Can true love be stronger than witchcraft?

"Bell, Book and Candle" (1958): the witch Gillian Holroyd, on Christmas Eve, met her new neighbor Shep Henderson. After meeting Shep's fiancée, her college enemy Merle, Gillian put a love spell on the man, with the help of her aunt Queenie and her brother Nicky. But can a love born from magic have a future?

"The girl on the broomstick" (1972): a Czechoslovak movie about the young witch Saxana, who escaped from her school to the human world for 44 hours. There she befriend the teenager Honza, but even three delinquents. And a simple spell will costs her many troubles.

"The witches of Eastwick" (1987): three friends, Alexandra, Jane and Sukie, use their unknows powers to summon their "ideal men". One by one, they falls for the new man in town, the mysterious Daryl, who is also...the Devil!

[americanedpsychoarchived]

MUN'S FAVOURITES. tag 10 people you want to know better

favorite color(s): pink, blue, purple and peach

song stuck in your head: nicki minaj - va va voom

last song you listened to: 0800 heaven by nathan crowe, joel corry, & ella henderson

3 favorite foods: irish champ ( my literal favourite and i have it every sunday ), ice cream & pasta

dream trip: greece !! always always want to go.

anything I want rn: to finish my dissertation 💀 lmao

tagged by: @selfruin, @ner0tic, @fcllederage <33

tagging: @fuckfate, @godclaws, @itscrawl, @eurosleaz, @shivcomplex, @soleiel, @k4ndall, @sangwoochos, @deadtimestorys, @metalsiren, @medicbled, @insidi0sum, @insidefantasy & YOU !!

[sharingtheb-oklove]

All Things Barbie and Books

Top five books on Barbie to get caught up with the latest trend!

The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie: A Doll's History and Her Impact on Us published back in 2010 Tanya Lee Stone's book covers the fifty year history of Barbie Doll including anecdotes and memories from dedicated fans.

2. Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her, Robin Gerber. This book looks at the creator of Barbie and the story of the success and Phenomenon that is Barbie. Read this to discover the origins of Barbie and her creator.

3. Barbie® Doll and Me: 45 Playful Matching Designs for Knitting, Nicky Epstein Who wants history books when you could learn to knit your own tiny jumpers for your Barbie Doll to wear for endless fun and lets not mention domestic skills development ... um ... Imean they're cute.

4.

Barbie Doll Photo Album 1959 to 2009 J. Michael Augustyniak A photo album not of your favourite memories and moments of your friends, family, holidays and times, but of the history of barbie. Explore five decades of fashion and Barbie Doll memories.

5.

Barbie Dolls Coloring Book: Jumbo Coloring Book For Girls With Premium Coloring Pages Paul Henderson

A coloring book perfect for any barbie doll fan. Now you can spend hours coloring outside of the lines in bright colours of pinks, purples, blues and oranges.

#barbiedoll

[deadcactuswalking]

REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 10/02/2024

Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season” is still #1, it’s a short episode, you really probably should skip it - there's nothing of value discussed here... welcome back to REVIEWING THE CHARTS.

Rundown

This is not a good week. You could call it a stale week, it’s probably accurate, because there’s not much of interest and what is here is mostly utter garbage. Potentially, up there with the worst weeks ever in terms of new arrivals to the UK Top 75, which is what I cover, and speaking of what I cover, notable dropouts are songs exiting said top 75 after five weeks in the region or a peak in the top 40, and this week, we bid adieu to: “Skin and Bones” by David Kushner, “neé-nah” by 21 Savage, Travis Scott and Metro Boomin, “Practice” by Drake, “Pink Friday Girls” and “Everybody” featuring Lil Uzi Vert by Nicki Minaj and finally, “Paint the Town Red” by Doja Cat. One highlight of this dire week is that I’m not really complaining about any of that.

Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved” returns to #67, what a joy, as well as “Anti-Hero” by Taylor Swift at #62 and “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus at #51. Can’t help but think the GRAMMYs had some influence on these. As for notable gains, we see boosts for Taylor’s “Is it Over Now?” at #68, “MY EYES” by Travis Scott at #65, “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish at #58, “Would You (go to bed with me?)” by Campbell and Alcemist at #52, “Perfect (Exceeder)” by Mason vs. Princess Superstar at #39, “Runaway” by Ye featuring Pusha T at #35, seemingly because well, there may or may not be an album coming because that’s what we needed: more discourse. Then we have “Scared to Start” by Michael Marcagi at #31, “Selfish” by Justin Timberlake at #29 (why are we doing this?), “exes” by Tate McRae at #23, “Alibi” by Ella Henderson featuring Rudimental at #16 (Christ), and we end with two positives at least, as YG Marley and Benson Boone both get their first top 10s with pretty damn good songs, in my opinion: “Praise Jah in the Moonlight” at #9 and “Beautiful Things” at #5, which brings us to that top five, which is otherwise completely the same as last week. Jack Harlow’s at #4, Teddy Swims at #3, Sophie Ellis-Bextor at #2 and for a sixth week, Noah Kahan at #1. You know the song names off by heart by now, and I need some time to let off a deep sigh before rattling off the new songs. Oh, boy, the new songs.

New Entries

#75 - “Out for Love” - Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft and Daphne Rubin-Vega

Produced by Andrew Underberg and Sam Haft

So, Hazbin Hotel was a web pilot by Vivienne Medrano or “ViziePop” that was later picked up by Amazon as a television series this year. It is a musical animated series hence has several soundtrack singles, and given the weak charts and viral nature of the show, some of them have ended up here. I watched the pilot and first four episodes of the series, and found it genuinely quite difficult to stomach - I love adult animation, I love musicals, I actually even like the art style - it was the narrative elements of the show that killed it for me, and this is not a TV review blog, it’s a music review blog. I knew at least one song would debut as the midweek update showed one song at #73, I figured that would be the only song and it could potentially not even appear, so I wrote a very tersely-worded review for that song in particular. It’s a bit… not all that useful anymore, for lack of a better phrase. So I’m largely not going to be covering these. This is from the seventh episode, which I haven’t seen. Song doesn’t make any Goddamn sense to me. Journalism.

#74 - “Thank You (Not So Bad)” - Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Tiesto, Dido and W&W

Produced by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Tiesto, W&W, Bassjackers and Renze Michels

Okay, if you’re going to credit a grand total of five EDM producers, why not go the full mile and have all eight pick out a lead? Also, I would ask how eight people were involved in producing this if I had any doubts that it wasn’t just an uncredited guy who got paid to sell this lazy sample flip off to people with actual star power. A sample flip of what, you may ask? Sigh… well, if there’s anything vaguely positive I can say about “Alibi” is that it’s influential. This is somehow even lazier, however, so I guess let’s start with some kind of history.

First of all, Dido’s “Thank You” is a perfectly fine, honest song that peaked at #3 in 2001 - “Do You Really Like It?” by DJ Pied Piper & the Masters of Ceremonies rightfully took #1 that week - and whilst I’ve never been a big fan, I can definitely see why the melancholy downtempo ballad resonates with people, and on a bad day, I can definitely throw this on and feel a little hope. This is a bad chart day, and if “Thank You” were to chart in its original form, it could perhaps be a reminder that things are, despite everything, it’s not so bad. So I imagine rap fans will know one of if not both of the uses of this song in popular hip hop, the first being Eminem’s classic “Stan”, probably my second favourite of his. It actually did #1 for one week in 2000, before the original had charted. It’s a stark and incredibly clever recontextualisation of the song that I’m pretty sure has already been discussed as much as possible, there’s a reason why many consider it Em’s crowning moment. Rae Sremmurd, “Lean’s Gone Cold”… maybe not so much. That one didn’t chart, but it’s funny.

Now there is precedent for house remixes of “Thank You”, and whilst I’m willing to consider interpretations and reimaginings of practically any song as any different style, I feel like making “Thank You” more danceable than just a vague nodding of the head skews some of the narrative’s tone? It definitely makes for a weirder, more dissonant listen, and whilst the Deep Dish remix, actually a GRAMMY Award-winning remix, does its best to maintain the atmosphere in its nine minutes, turning “not so bad” into a faint, looping mantra under a constantly developing house groove, to the point where it is a genuinely pretty great house song production wise… it still doesn’t feel like a great adaptation of “Thank You”, just a different product entirely, which makes sense and honestly makes for a better song. It doesn’t try and be “Thank You”, despite not even registering itself as an original song, just a remix of the original still credited solely to Dido. In 2016, European electro house duos Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and W&W made a song called “Arcade”, it’s a loud, compressed smorgasboard of cheap synth sounds made for a live festival setting and being practically unlistenable outside of that context. In 2020, German producers Felix Jaehn and VIZE made a much more conventional and, at least in terms of how much it cribs from the original, a more faithful rendition of “Thank You”, subtitled “Not So Bad”. It’s a flavourless tropical house riff that I think the world would be better off not hearing, it’s like “Thank You” by Dido if she was commissioned to make it by an advertising company looking for a soundtrack to gym commercials.

Somewhere across the line, I guess it must have been Tiesto who said, “What if we made a version of that Felix Jaehn song but basically in the soundfont of “Arcade”?” - the latter even being directly listed as a sample on Genius. I mean, otherwise, I don’t know what the Hell Tiesto is doing here but, generally, you have to be shitting me, right? This is two minutes and 20 seconds constructed out of bits and pieces of songs I may not like but had a lot more purposeful artistic intent to them, if that’s a correct way of phrasing it. This is a vaguely functional crap-shoot molded from genuine song ideas, starting with a gentle singer-songwriter track that actually means a Hell of a lot to millions of people. I’d believe that to many fans, that Rae Sremmurd rendition means a lot to them. What does this mean to anybody?

#63 - “Bandit” - Don Toliver

Produced by ReidMD

I don’t like Don Toliver, really, or Tame Impala for that record, but there’s a level of inherent quality here, right? Don can sing, Tame Impala can construct a vibe and the sample here is “One More Hour” from their 2020 album The Slow Rush, it’s completely serviceable, could make for a good song. So why the sample is rendered in such low quality screeching is beyond me, but hey, maybe a powerful beat could work? Oh, the trap skitter is not only completely rote and overdone, it’s really high in the mix and distracts from the bass, which could really help make this song work? Okay, well, what’s Don doing? Being basically a cartoon character with his flows and incessant ad-libs? Well, that could be fun - oh, he’s comparing himself to Marilyn Manson? Barely rhyming? Catching a good, intense flow only to mumble repeated lines mostly about having sex that make up much of the song, with a tiny verse in the middle? Well, maybe the outro can make up for it - oh, he’s doing a Cookie Monster impression. Welp, all hope is lost.

#55 - “Poison” - Blake Roman, Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg

Produced by Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg

This is an upbeat synthpop jam that soundtracks a sex slavery montage. It sounds like a song by The Weeknd covered by a SpongeBob AI voice model. Next.

#53 - “Loser, Baby” - Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Keith David and Blake Roman

Produced by Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg

This was the song that made me turn the fourth episode off in disgust. I had a massive review prepared, covering its treatment of sexual abuse, which probably gave it a higher degree of nuance and generosity than many others are willing to give it, but I’m not compelled to rant about cartoons in this series. I want to write about animation more often but preferably animation I like or actually find compelling. With all respect to those who enjoy it and power to them, Hazbin Hotel was not something I would like to grant any more attention than the brief necessity of my format. Thanks for understanding.

#40 - “Home” - Good Neighbours

Produced by Good Scott and Oli Fox

I was very much willing to give this one a good shake because, I mean, what else do we have? Scott and Fox teased this on TikTok months prior before releasijng this as their official debut single together, after malformed, quickly aborted solo runs a few years ago. Sounds like a recipe for chart success and oh, the song’s terrible. It has a whistle about as charming as the American Authors’ milennial whoops, really insufferably screeching vocal tones that remind me of Passion Pit more than anything - that isn’t really a good thing - and sentimental lyrics about what home means to him, which would be completely serviceable without the stiff, grooveless splodge of grey matter that calls itself a chorus. Oh, and you know those sentimental lyrics? They’re gone by this point, it’s an incredibly manipulative breakup song with some really gross attempts at poetry - “wrap my name across your mouth when I let my feelings down”? Ew, man, Charlie Puth is less contrived than this. Naturally, the song goes nowhere and sadly, that probably won’t be its chart trajectory. Yet, once again, this song is practically unlistenable.

Conclusion

…Don Toliver gets Best of the Week. Somehow. Thanks for reading, I guess? See you next whenever.

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Top 50 Songs Scrobbled for the Week Ending 3/15/2015

TW LW Artist - SONG 1 1 Take That – THESE DAYS(2 weeks @ #1) 2 2 D’Angelo & The Vanguard – REALLY LOVE 3 4 J Cole - APPARENTLY 4 3 Taylor Swift – BLANK SPACE(1 week @ #1) 5 5 Nicki Minaj/Drake/Lil Wayne - ONLY 6 6 MNEK – The Rhythm 7 7 Gorgon City/Jennifer Hudson – GO ALL NIGHT 8 9 Ella Henderson - GHOST 9 10 Drake – HOW ABOUT NOW 10 12 Calvin Harris/Ellie Goulding - OUTSIDE 11 15 Usher/Juicy J. – I DON’T MIND 12 14 TV on the Radio – HAPPY IDIOT 13 8 Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars – UPTOWN FUNK (3 weeks @ #1) 14 19 B.o.B./Trey Songz – NOT FOR LONG 15 20 Jessie Ware – WANT YOUR FEELING 16 16 Wale/Jeremih – THE BODY 17 11 Ariana Grande/The Weeknd – LOVE ME HARDER(1 week @ #1) 18 18 Spoon – INSIDE OUT 19 13 Jessie J/2 Chainz – BURNING UP 20 27 Tove Lo – TALKING BODY 21 28 Pitbull/Ne-Yo – TIME OF OUR LIVES 22 26 Madonna – LIVING FOR LOVE 23 30 Maroon 5 - SUGAR 24 31 The Weeknd – EARNED IT 25 23 Nico & Vinz – IN YOUR ARMS 26 24 Sia – BIG GIRLS CRY 27 17 Hozier – TAKE ME TO CHURCH 28 21 Elle Varner – F**K IT ALL 29 29 Nicki Minaj/Drake/Lil Wayne – TRUFFLE BUTTER 30 22 Childish Gambino - SHADOWS 31 42 Beyonce – 7/11 32 25 Milky Chance – STOLEN DANCE 33 39 Banks – BEGGIN FOR THREAD 34 33 Teyana Taylor/PushaT/Yo Gotti - MAYBE 35 40 Ellie Goulding – LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO 36 38 Prince Royce/Snoop Dogg – STUCK ON A FEELING 37 35 Maroon 5/J Cole – ANIMALS(1 week @ #1) 38 32 Phantogram – NOTHING BUT TROUBLE 39 45 Giorgio Moroder/Kylie Minogue – RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW 40 46 Ne-Yo/Juicy J – SHE KNOWS 41 34 Charli XCX – BREAK THE RULES 42 36 Mary J. Blige – WHOLE DAMN YEAR 43 41 Sinead Harnett/Snakehips – NO OTHER WAY 44 43 David Guetta/Sam Martin - DANGEROUS 45 37 Iggy Azalea/M – BEG FOR IT 46 48 Nick Jonas - CHAINS 47 44 Nick Jonas – JEALOUS(1 week @ #1) 48 --- Kelly Clarkson – HEARTBEAT SONG 49 --- Sam Smith – LAY ME DOWN 50 49 AlunaGeorge - SUPERNATURAL

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Into, Across and Beyond! Character Bios

Blur Gang:

Original / Into Members

OMT!Tails (with a major story summary of all major plots) | CR!Sonic | Sonia and Manik Acorn | OMT!Mina | Mini Sonic | Mr. Needlemouse | EX!Alice and E4-R6:3

More than One Universe / Across Members

D-Sides Mighty | Black Knight Amy (@sstorminghearts) | CU!Sonic and Sonia | Nine | Nitro | Antho | Ex-Prince Brian (@becdoesthings)

Post-MtOU Members

Hog | Wacky | Devy and Smol Devy | Trip

Honorary Members

April | The Prower Kids

Quill Society:

Leaders:

Errorverse Sonic | Tekno

Top Members:

Amy Rouge | Zonic | CD Alt Ending Sonic | E-21

Rogue Members:

Lost Memory Sonic | Turbo | Fiona Fox | Emperor Metallix

Others:

Underground Sonic | LEGO Sonic | Sunky and Tlels | Carol Tea | Sarah Henderson | Barry | Milly Prower | Blitz!Tails (+ Blitz!Milla) | Sonic.RAW | Superstars Amy | Nicky | Warrior Feline Honey

Villains:

One More Hero / Into Villains

Sonic.OMT | Eggman Nega | Shadow Emerl | Zeena | Surge | Snively | Dr. Beeman

More than One Universe Villains

Shalian | CR Corrupt | Talrareth | AVA Corrupt | Richard | Sonath | Curse

Into the Sonic-verse Villains

Dr. Finitevus | S.S.S.S.S. Squad | Scourge | Rosy | Naugus | Sleet and Dingo | Dark Oak | Boom Shadow | Fleetway Super Sonic | Kit | Agent Stone

Many More Heroes Villains

Crimtake | Gemerl/Anti-Miles

Other Stars:

OMT!Sonic | OMT!Knuckles | OMT!Amy | OMT!Sally | OMT!Cream | OMT!Eggman | Lucia | Karilvatch | Errorverse Crew | Exeller | XE!Sonic and Xenomorphic | FNF Crew | Bently Forceloyed | Smiling Buddies

SEGAVerse / CapcomVerse Heroes:

Alex Kidd | Ristar | NiGHTS | Opa-Opa | Arle | Billy Hatcher | Mega Man

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Brown List

Bread Boy (Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared)

Rugby Ball (Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared)

The Shovel (Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared)

File (Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared)

Freddy Fazbear (Five Nights At Freddy’s)

Toy Freddy Fazbear (Five Nights At Freddy’s)

Withered Freddy Fazbear (Five Nights At Freddy’s)

Nightmare Freddy Fazbear (Five Nights At Freddy’s)

Bidybab (Five Nights At Freddy’s)

Minireena (Five Nights At Freddy’s)

Electrobab (Five Nights At Freddy’s)

Bucket Bob (Five Nights At Freddy’s)

Pan Stan (Five Nights At Freddy’s)

Nedd Bear (Five Nights At Freddy’s)

Rockstar Freddy Fazbear (Five Nights At Freddy’s)

El Chip The Mexican Beaver (Five Nights At Freddy’s)

Molten Freddy Fazbear (Five Nights At Freddy’s)

Nicky Roth (Hello Neighbor)

Mama Tattletail (Tattletail)

Mono (Little Nightmares)

The Lady (Little Nightmares)

Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Dahlia (Angry Birds)

Melody (Angry Birds)

Holly Luya (Rayman)

Sandy Cheeks (SpongeBob SquarePants)

Rumi (Tunche)

Qaru (Tunche)

Nayra (Tunche)

Pancho (Tunche)

Brown Crewmate (Among Us)

Tan Crewmate (Among Us)

Pop (Happy Tree Friends)

Cub (Happy Tree Friends)

Woody (Battle For Dream Island)

Donut (Battle For Dream Island)

Dora (Battle For Dream Island)

Barf Bag (Battle For Dream Island)

Bell (Battle For Dream Island)

Cake (Battle Fore Dream Island)

Pie (Battle For Dream Island)

Taco (Battle For Dream Island)

Misao Kusakabe (Lucky Star)

Minoru Shiraishi (Lucky Star)

Matsuri Hiiragi (Lucky Star)

Ono Daisuke (Lucky Star)

Gotouza (Lucky Star)

Yamato Nagamori (Lucky Star)

Lily Henderson (Needlem0use)

Yuuko Aioi (Nichijou)

Chester The Chimpanzee (Five Nights At Candy’s)

The Rat (Five Nights At Candy’s)

Withered Chester The Chimpanzee (Five Nights At Candy’s)

Withered Rat (Five Nights At Candy’s)

Withered Cat (Five Nights At Candy’s)

The Cat (Five Nights At Candy’s)

Monster Rat (Five Nights At Candy’s)

Monster Cat (Five Nights At Candy’s)

Forgotten Cat (Five Nights At Candy’s)