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"No More" did end up one of my top singles, no. 4 on my Pazz & Jop, 5 on my personal list* (see link), and I definitely end up in CHOICE 3 - a "good" voice without the nasality would have less penetration and character.

https://koganbot.livejournal.com/100563.html

btw, the missing comment is from Hazel (missing 'cos she deleted her entire lj), who connects the nasality to Auto-Tune and who seems to have been the only person to like the song as much as I do. She admitted to CHOICE 3 from the get-go. Yay Hazel!

*The dif is that either I'd disqualified my number one, "Duri Duri," from P&J or simply hadn't heard it in time.

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Yes! I read Satti right! Still don't know if "punk" is the right word (the word is too earnest and respectable in current usage), but Marina is definitely, absolutely in the Iggy-Pipokinha province, which is actually a whole bunch of contrary and conflicted provinces, and here's *Pipokinha* on all fours, crashing the judges table:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNZTcs0KgaA

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Yeah, thought you might enjoy the follow up! Dear god how have I never heard that song (ah, from 2022, that explains it)

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You didn't hear it ("Tira as Crianças da Sala") because you don't have time to listen to 100% of my playlists, just as I don't have time to listen to 100% of yours. It's track 16 on "Inconsequently, I drank the dance (Frank's Eardrums May2024)."

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLshHxICULapllLQbARxVnHIY9XxJED8-6

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Time to rectify this situation!

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MC Madan --> Duke Ellington, inspired segue

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Hot off the presses, the latest eardrums playlist, The sky is blue; so is the car. Ends with Marina Fratti "Tucutum (RMX)" from P.O.P. (Deluxe edition), released just this week!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLshHxICULapkzHE0PSejm6WRIoKHpEC1I

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And yes, I actually *can* tell the difference between the way Mabe Fratti and Marina Satti sound - they're both good, but not that similar - but damn do I keep managing to confuse their names one with the other and in various combinations.

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Your link to "the same friend" doesn't go there. Is he in a *different* one of the pieces in your Taylor series?

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woops, put in the wrong link. fixed!

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Marina Satti reminds me of Romanian trap queen Erica Isacs, who on songs like Buna Rau (her best so far) sounds like a cross between Stunna Girl and Marukido, that is to say her sound combines the best of US and J-trap, plus some special qualities of the Romanian language, which turns out to be perfect for such stuff

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Bonus: has an Abracadabra, which increases the number of Abracadabras available for the upcoming People's Pop twin poll to something like 25

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