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    Singles Rate: 2002

    in Free Xone

    Posted

    This song should NOT have made the top 10 over any Eminem song :blink:

    I think Cleanin' Out My Closet was right to miss the Top 10, but not Without Me. Complicated is great, though.

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    Singles Rate: 2002

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    Ninth place goes to Avril Lavigne and her debut single, Complicated. After signing to Arista in late 2000, the Canadian began working on her debut album, Let Go, with folk music the main focus after her audition for L.A. Reid consisted of ballads and country-tinged songs. However, Lavigne had recently discovered guitar-based rock and resisted the labels push for her to record songs written by other writers. She relocated to Los Angeles and connected with Clif Magness, who gave her ample creative control in the writing process. Unhappy with the hard rock edge, Arista suggested a compromise by pairing her with pop producers. Eventually she proceeded with The Matrix and after they presented Complicated to Reid he agreed it was the direction Lavigne should be taking, and also that it should serve as the lead single. It was incredibly well-received by the public, with the early '00s pop phenomenon fading it seemed like perfect timing for a young, Alanis-like character to shake things up. Not only was Complicated a major hit around the world, topping the chart in Australia for six weeks and reaching Top 5 in over ten countries, it was also a critical success, earning Lavigne Grammy nominations for Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Billboard ranked it one of their Top 100 Singles of the 2000s, whilst Rolling Stone readers voted it the eighth best song of the decade.

    The breakdown ~ Complicated reached No. 2 on the Hot 100 and places 9th with a voter average of 7.08.

    • 9 - DarkStormSC
    • 8 - Dammn Bu, hotboy06, Stealth & TwistedElegance
    • 7 - Jarrylf, kennita jo & __VelvetKnowledge1814
    • 6 - Game, God, RedSimba
    • 5 - LyricalLesson

    London Elects Their First Muslim Mayor

    in Free Xone

    Posted

    You're thinking of ISIS. I'm not taking about that, I'm talking about legit nation stats whose laws are Islamic. Doesn't matter if they are secular, their laws are not european democratic.

    Well the term has a double meaning. My answer is still no. I wouldn't want to live under Islam or any other religious law. Are you seriously feeling as if your system of beliefs is under threat?

    London Elects Their First Muslim Mayor

    in Free Xone

    Posted

    lol. How can you not see your own hypocrity. You are calling it extremism when it is actually another culture.  Many of the immigrants you say are good for inclusivity in the west come from countries where sharia is applied. Guess you're a bigot too then. 

    Islamic State is extremism. Islam refers to the religion and culture of Muslims. There's a difference.

    London Elects Their First Muslim Mayor

    in Free Xone

    Posted

    The silent majority feels like I do. It's talked about at the dinner tables all across the country. 

    I have a very simple question. Would you like to see your country become an Islamic state??

    You don't sit at dinner tables all across the country. You're speculating.

    Obviously I wouldn't. Have you always been an alarmist?

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    London Elects Their First Muslim Mayor

    in Free Xone

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    I'm amazed at how gullible people are.

    There is a difference between being "inclusive" and having to deal with 350,000 new immigrants a year coming to a tiny island like Britain who want everything for close to nothing. There's a lack of school places for english children now, the national health service is struggling, towns across the UK are changing to become unrecognisable. Instead of more churches, more mosques are being built. The same is happening across Europe. In Austria, their beautiful coffee houses and being replaced by turkish supermarkets to appease the immigrants. 

    You may say who cares, but this stuff is OUR culture and OUR heritage. It has gone way passed cohesive inclusion. It is nearly becoming an invasion. 

    I'm pretty sure european imperialists said to their imperial subjects "Change is good", but most countries didn't like it did they, they wanted their own culture, religion and independence from us. And the Europeans are no different to that rule. 

    I am not happy about the way it's heading. Lots of people are not happy about it. They just don't talk about it in public because they are frightened self righteous people like you and 'game' will call them a racist or a bigot. 

    It's awfully presumptuous to claim immigrants want everything for nothing. It's generalising and degrading. Perhaps if a tiny island like Britain didn't bomb their homeland they wouldn't have to "deal" with so many refugees. But living under white supremacy means fewer people understand the vicious cycle of immigration than should. You'll get no sympathy from me on churches vs. mosques. All religion is a hoax so I don't see how your temples are any more valid than theirs. Your people, your culture and your heritage are just fine.

    I'm probably just as happy to be labelled self-righteous as you are to use words like "invasion". Ignorant comments like that and the rest of your half-truths don't represent the silent majority so if you're concerned by being called a bigot then don't be one.

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    Singles Rate: 2002

    in Free Xone

    Posted

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    No Doubt kick off our Top 10 with their dancehall classic, Hey Baby. The first song lifted from Rock Steady, it marked a change in the band's sound, which had progressed from garage rock and ska to pop which incorporated synths and borrowed heavily from reggae. Produced by legendary Jamaican duo Sly & Robbie, the song was one of the first written for the album, and its lyrics reflected the rowdy behaviour of their post-concert parties from the late '90s, where female groupies would attempt to hook up with the male band members. Its video, directed by Dave Meyers, was a source of conflict between No Doubt and the song's featured artist, Bounty Killer. Drummer Adrian Young's full frontal nude scene, shown during Bounty Killer's line "The way you rock your hips, you know that it amaze me," prompted the rapper's rival Beenie Man to state, "the video portrays Bounty as a gay. That is a Jamaican artist, and that can't go on in a dancehall, no way." Bounty Killer cancelled his performances with No Doubt because of the incident, stating that, "They did not understand because they are from America and they accept gay people… If Jamaica is upset, I ain't going to accept no success that my culture is not proud of." However, his lack of promotional appearances did nothing to hinder the song's success. It became the group's first Top 5 single on the Hot 100, and went on to win the Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Around the world, it peaked at No. 2 in New Zealand and the UK, while reaching the Top 10 in Australia, Germany, Norway and Romania.

    The breakdown ~ Hey Baby reached No. 5 on the Hot 100 and places 10th with a voter average of 7.

    • 10 - Dammn Bu & Jarrylf
    • 9 - DarkStormSC, kennita jo & TwistedElegance
    • 8 - __VelvetKnowledge1814
    • 7 - God, hotboy06 & RedSimba
    • 4 - LyricalLesson
    • 3 - Stealth
    • 1 - Game

    London Elects Their First Muslim Mayor

    in Free Xone

    Posted

    Why is it progress? The vast majority of London is a minority now. He just got the ethnic vote. That's not progress, just hypocrisy. 

    This is NOT the way most Brits want to go, but it's happening all across the country. The establishment want to call it multicultural and diversity. It's not, it's CHANGING the country to become something other than its heritage. 

    The focus is always on changing the west. Why not the focus and pressure on the rest of the world, most of which is backwards and very discrimatory. Real progress would be seeing the Muslim faith progress about 1000 years and Middle East become more like the west. How many Muslim nations have elected a white Christian? 

    Sadiq is still the worst thing to happen to London. He's Labour, he's a friend of Corbyn and ed Miliband and he's a massive socialist. Hes been seen on stage 9 times with extremists.

    not here for it. Sorry. 

     

    Your reasons are stifling. To make the distinction between diversity and changing the country as you have is totally problematic. They are the same thing and both should be embraced as the same thing, because change and multiculturalism is a crucial element of social evolution. To deny that it is progress is downright bigotry.

    There is more pressure on the western world to be inclusive because it is still regarded as a place of hope and happiness to nationalities a lot less fortunate than us. You're sounding conspicuously backwards and discriminatory yourself.

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