Billboard Hot Rock Songs – Week of July 16, 2016

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Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, and then I rearrange that top 25 based on my estimation of their quality.

Original Version
1. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
2. twenty one pilots – “Heathens”
3. twenty one pilots – “Stressed Out”
4. James Bay – “Let It Go”
5. Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, & Imagine Dragons with Logic, Ty Dolla $ign, & X Ambassadors – “Sucker for Pain”
6. X Ambassadors – “Unsteady”
7. Coldplay – “Hymn for the Weekend”
8. Disturbed – “The Sound of Silence”
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Dark Necessities”
10. The Lumineers – “Ophelia”
11. Ben Rector – “Brand New”
12. The Strumbellas – “Spirits”
13. blink-182 – “Bored to Death”
14. Fitz and the Tantrums – “HandClap”
15. Kaleo – “Way Down We Go”
16. Bishop Briggs – “River”
17. Empire of the Sun – “Walking on a Dream”
18. Fall Out Boy ft. Missy Elliott – “Ghostbusters (I’m Not Afraid)”
19. The 1975 – “The Sound”
20. Bastille – “Good Grief”
21. Beck – “Wow”
22. Goo Goo Dolls – “So Alive”
23. blink-182 – “No Future”
24. Panic! at the Disco – “Don’t Threaten Me with a Good Time”
25. Cage the Elephant – “Trouble”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Walking on a Dream
2. River
3. Way Down We Go
4. Wow
5. The Sound
6. Unsteady
7. Trouble
8. Ride
9. Ophelia
10. Dark Necessities
11. Good Grief
12. Stressed Out
13. Heathens
14. Don’t Threaten Me with a Good Time
15. Sucker for Pain
16. So Alive
17. The Sound of Silence
18. Hymn for the Weekend
19. Spirits
20. HandClap
21. No Future
22. Ghostbusters (I’m Not Afraid)
23. Let It Go
24. Brand New
25. Bored to Death

Billboard Hot 20 – Week of July 16, 2016

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Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot 100, and then I rearrange the top 20 based on my estimation of their quality.

Original Version
1. Drake ft. WizKid and Kyle – “One Dance”
2. Justin Timberlake – “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”
3. The Chainsmokers ft. Daya – “Don’t Let Me Down”
4. Desiigner – “Panda”
5. Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna – “This Is What You Came For”
6. Sia ft. Sean Paul – “Cheap Thrills”
7. Rihanna – “Needed Me”
8. Kent Jones – “Don’t Me”
9. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
10. Fifth Harmon ft. Ty Dolla $ign – “Work From Home”
11. Mike Posner – “I Took a Pill in Ibiza”
12. P!nk – “Just Like Fire”
13. Adele – “Send My Love (to Your New Lover)”
14. Florida Georgia Line – “H.O.L.Y.”
15. Lukas Graham – “7 Years”
16. Meghan Trainor – “Me Too”
17. Ariana Grande – “Dangerous Woman”
18. twenty one pilots – “Heathens”
19. Drake – “Controlla”
20. Rihanna ft. Drake – “Work”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Cheap Thrills
2. Work From Home
3. Work
4. I Took a Pill in Ibiza
5. Needed Me
6. Dangerous Woman
7. Ride
8. Send My Love (to Your New Lover)
9. One Dance
10. Heathens
11. Me Too
12. Can’t Stop the Feeling!
13. Don’t Let Me Down
14. Panda
15. Controlla
16. This Is What You Came For
17. Just Like Fire
18. 7 Years
19. Don’t Mind
20. H.O.L.Y.

What Won TV? – June 26-July 2, 2016

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In this feature, I look back at each day of the past week and determine what shows “won TV” for the night. That is, I consider every episode of television I watched that aired on a particular day and declare which was the best.

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Sunday – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Monday – Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Tuesday – Not Safe with Nikki Glaser
Wednesday – Another Period
Thursday – Jeopardy!
Friday – Comedy Bang! Bang! reached 100 episodes. Attaboy!
Saturday – A crazy, rainy Wimbeldon

This Is a Movie Review: Me Before You

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Me Before You is half romance, half euthanasia PSA. Will Traynor (Sam Claflin) is generally cold, but thoughtful towards the people he likes. Louisa Clark (Emilia Clarke) is cheery, but forceful. Thus, they are a perfect match, just so long as they can spend enough time to truly get to know each other. Alas, Will has been rendered paraplegic by an accident, and he is convinced that dying with dignity is his best option, so he sets about proving, in his own stubborn way, that he can treat his loved ones well as possible as he works to leave them behind. It is certainly not an easy message to swallow, but there is plenty of charm (watch out for the bumblebee tights) to make it a pleasant viewing experience.

Much of Me Before You involves characters getting to the bottom of things, which translates to a lot of scenes of looking at computer screens and reading books. These are particularly uncinematic activities, but Emilia Clarke does her best to overcome that. Her face acting is unreal. You have never seen someone process information as intensely as Louisa Clark does. It is even more striking than her fashion sense, which is, well, as striking as striking can be. It all adds up to an unusual mix of relentless, upbeat, and ominous. That’s basically a compliment.

I give Me Before You 6.5 Sessions of Physical Therapy out of 10 Overwhelming Outfits.

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