800,000 Pageview Special: Q&A Post

Hey guys! So remember those questions you asked me months ago? Well I finally have the answers! First off, I am extremely sorry that this post is so late. Senior year in high school has just been crazy so far and I really haven't had much time to blog during the week. But anyway, we'll just get into the post. As I keep saying, I'm extremely grateful for everything you guys do to help keep this blog going strong. We are already past 1,000,000 pageviews and I thoroughly appreciate what you guys do for this blog simply by reading my posts. As we have passed 800,000 pageviews, I'm going to be doing another Q&A. It does feel like I do these really often but I was behind with this one AND the 700K special, so I needed to get this one out rather quickly since we're already past 1M! You guys sent me questions, I have the answers! So let's jump right into it!


Question #1: Have you met any celebrities?
Answer: No, I have not. The closest I've gotten to meeting a celebrity is seeing them in concert.


Question #2: What are some places you have visited in the United States?
Answer: My family and I often go to Wisconsin, which, since we live in Illinois, is right up above us. But we've also been to Michigan a couple of times. We went to Pensacola Beach in Florida for about a week. We spent one night in Nashville, Tennessee. We have also spent about a week in Washington D.C. Although I wasn't a part of these, my dad spent some time in Las Vegas and my parents went to New Orleans last year for their anniversary.


Question #3: On a scale of 1-10 how much do you love doorknobs?
Answer: 8


Question #4: How's life?
Answer: It's really good. Thanks for asking. :)


Question #5: Is Matthew your only sibling?
Answer: Yes, he is.


Question #6: Are you sleepy?
Answer: Not really. I may be sleepy in the morning, but by afternoon I am wide awake.


Question #7: Can you guess who is typing this?
Answer: No. :P


Question #8: Do you have any hobbies/habits that are not music-related?
Answer: It's questions like this one that make me realize how boring my life is. Typically, the most non-music-related thing I do is hang out with my friends, which I always have a really fun time doing.


Question #9: If you were to take a sport, what would it be?
Answer: If I had to pick a sport, I'd probably pick soccer. I feel like that is the sport that I try the hardest in in P.E.


Question #10: Are you in puberty and do you have armpit hair?
Answer: I have already gone through puberty. The most drastic thing that came out of it is that my voice is now really deep. I never even noticed until my friends pointed it out and said that I had the deepest voice out of our group of friends. And yes, I do have armpit hair, as strange of a question as that is.


Question #12: Who's your favorite member of One Direction?
Answer: Louis Tomlinson. I personally think he has the best voice in the band. I also think he's the hottest.


Question #13: Do you want to have a 7 exit week next week (07/09/16)?
Answer: Technically, that week already past. But I honestly don't really care at this point how many exits we have. 7 exits certainly makes the countdown interesting, but if it's just 1 exit, I won't really care.


Question #14: Alesso/Nico & Vinz – I Wanna Know or Mike Posner – I Took A Pill In Ibiza?
Answer: I like both songs, but I Took A Pill In Ibiza for sure.


Question #15: All About That Bass or Kamikaze?
Answer: Gross! Honestly why would you even pair these two? It's like a match made from hell. I guess Kamikaze is better by a very very very little bit.


Question #16: Listen to Eric Prydz – Every Day and tell me what you think of it. :)
Answer: I'd say it's pretty catchy. It has a really nice drop in it and I could totally see myself jamming out to it. Let me say this: The track is over 7 minutes long and I'd say I was captivated throughout just about all of those 7 minutes.


Question #17: Have you listened to Views by Drake? Especially Weston Road Flows. That's mah fav!!!
Answer: I never actually listened to the whole album. There were a few tracks here and there that I listened to. For the most part, none of them were anything special. I just listened to Weston Road Flows and I'm personally not a huge fan of it just because I think Drake is honestly a better singer than he is a rapper.


Question #18: Can you give me your opinion on Honeymoon by Lana Del Rey?
Answer: Now this album I actually did listen to (at least most of it) and I honestly don't know why I did. The lead single, High By The Beach, was very uninteresting due to the fact that it was extremely boring. Then I listened to the album and found that every track sounds very similar. If you want me to be honest here, it sounds as though Lana Del Rey recorded this album only half-awake. It's a pretty boring album that the only thing it's capable of doing is putting me to sleep. I understand that she has a target audience that really enjoy her music and probably love this album, but I just don't go for this kind of music. Lana Del Rey's music never really caught my attention and this album is no different.


Question #19: What's so bad about hip-hop/rap? Who are your favorite and least favorite hip-hop/rap artists of all time?
Answer: I personally believe that rap music has gone downhill over the years. Honestly, hip-hop/rap was one of my favorite genres back when we had Eminem, B.o.B, Timbaland, etc. But nowadays, rappers think it's cool to be rapping about girls, money, and drugs with an extremely lazy production team. Fetty Wap was one of the worst new additions to the industry ever making his first appearance last year with the rather obnoxious Trap Queen. I'd probably say he is my least favorite rapper just because not only his voice irritating to me, but his song are just pointless. There's no real meaning to them and they sound awful. Eminem is probably my favorite rapper just because his music actually has meaning to it. His song Love The Way You Lie is like my favorite song of all time. He has a bunch of other really meaningful songs as well as songs that are actually pretty fun.


Question #20: You are in a prison and the guard gives you a choice of 4 songs that will be put on replay for 2 hours. Options:

• Selena Gomez – Same Old Love
• MØ – Kamikaze
• Magic! – Rude
• Fetty Wap – Trap Queen

Which one would you choose?

Answer: I'd probably die from listening to any of these songs on repeat for two hours if I'm being honest here. I'll right away say no to Kamikaze and Trap Queen just because I legit cannot listen to either of those songs once. I can't stand Same Old Love, so it will probably end up being Rude.

Question #21: Marry, f**k, kill: Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, and Justin Bieber.

Answer: I've only done a few games like this one and I have to say, they really make you think. Basically how a marry, f**k, kill works is I've been given three people and I have to pick one who I'd marry and spend my life with, one who I would have sex with for one night, and one I'd just get rid of. I'd probably "kill" Zayn Malik. Of course I would not do that in real life. But for the purposes of this game, Zayn Malik is under "kill". After thinking about these other two for a long time, I think I would "marry" Louis Tomlinson just because he seems like a sweetheart, which means I would "f**k" Justin Bieber, which I would totally want to do. ;)

Question #22: Please list these songs from best to worst:

• Andy Grammer – Good To Be Alive
• Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance
• Lukas Graham – 7 Years
• Flo Rida – Good Feeling

Answer:

1. Flo Rida – Good Feeling (best)

2. Lukas Graham – 7 Years
3. Andy Grammer – Good To Be Alive
4. Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance (worst)

Question #23: You said on your 600K special that you aren't much into video games anymore, but were you or your brother ever into Pokemon?

Answer: No. I've tried getting into Pokemon, but I just can't. I just don't understand it. Same for my brother. But that's just our opinions.

Question #24: What are you interested in studying in college?
Answer: That's a really good question. I don't know. There are those people who already know what they want to do with their life. Then there's people like me who have no clue what they want to do. I feel like going into teaching is not a bad idea, so I'm considering it. But I don't know for sure yet.


Question #25: List these songs from greatest to most trash:

• MØ – Kamikaze
• Fall Out Boy – Uma Thurman
• Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass

Answer:

1. Fall Out Boy – Uma Thurman (least trash)

2. MØ – Kamikaze

3. Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass (most trash)

Question #26: Have you heard any new songs right now? (If you did, tell me some)

Answer: All the new songs I've heard are songs that I'm sure everyone who goes on iTunes would know. For example, one new song is Don't Wanna Know by Maroon 5 featuring Kendrick Lamar, which is like #2 on iTunes at the moment. But the best new song in my opinion is All Time Low by Jon Bellion, which is pretty new to radio. I listened to his debut album that was released earlier this year, The Human Condition, and frankly, I think it's amazing. That would be my album recommendation for you if you haven't listened to it yet.

Question #27: What do you do with your free time?

Answer: With school and senior year, I really don't have much free time. But when I do have free time, I like to just relax after all the work I've done. But I also try to blog and catch up on whatever I'm behind on whenever I have free time.

Question #28: Which one is the worst out of the 5?

• Twenty One Pilots – Ride
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Downtown
• Adele – When We Were Young
• Charlie Puth – One Call Away
• Silento – Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)

Answer: It's between Downtown and Watch Me right now. I hate both songs with a passion. But if I had to pick the worst of the two, it would probably be Watch Me, being one of the most annoying songs of last year.

Question #29: If you had to grade the following 3, what order would you put them in?

• P!nk – Just Like Fire
• David Guetta/Nicki Minaj/Bebe Rexha/Afrojack – Hey Mama
• Coldplay/Beyoncé – Hymn For The Weekend

Answer:

1. Coldplay/Beyoncé – Hymn For The Weekend (best)

2. David Guetta/Nicki Minaj/Afrojack – Hey Mama

3. P!nk – Just Like Fire

Question #30: Rank these songs, all of which lasted at least a year on the countdown:

• Fall Out Boy – My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)
• Imagine Dragons – Radioactive
• Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud
• Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance

Answer:

1. Fall Out Boy – My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark

2. Imagine Dragons – Radioactive

3. Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance

4. Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud

Question #31: What is your opinion on the following songs?

• Daya – Thirsty
• Elle King – Ex's & Oh's
• Lukas Graham – Mama Said
• Jacob Whitesides – Lovesick
• Twenty One Pilots – We Don't Believe What's On TV
• MØ – Final Song

Answer: 

Thirsty: While Daya has a really good and unique voice, this song isn't really anything special. Maybe I just haven't listened to it enough. I like it, but I don't love it.

Ex's & Oh's: I enjoyed this song for quite a while. Elle King is one of those artists who, while being an alternative/rock artist, incorporates some folk in there as well. It shows on other songs more than it does on this one. But overall, I do like this song. I'm not necessarily sure it'll show up on my Top 45 songs of 2016, but I'll think about it.

Mama Said: Easily a step-down from 7 Years. The song overall is mediocre at best. The kids singing in the chorus just makes the song even worse in my eyes. I'm not feeling the vocal work done, especially in the last chorus. While 7 Years was a hit in my opinion, Mama Said is a definite miss.

Lovesick: Like Daya, this guy does have a very unique and interesting voice. I like the production on the track and like I said in my entrant review, that chorus may be something that gets stuck in my head.

We Don't Believe What's On TV: I'm not a huge fan of Twenty One Pilots and I'm not really loving this song. It's okay. But there are definitely some better songs on that album. This one just does nothing for me.

Final Song: I have to say, I'm not a fan of her as a solo artist. This song isn't necessarily bad, but I feel the production needs some more work. Also, there are parts in the song where I don't really like her voice. But for the most part, it sounds decent-ish. It's certainly better than Kamikaze, but it's not as good as her collaborations with Major Lazer.

Question #32: All of the following songs are ones that were heavily overplayed by Hits 1. Rank them as either still great (no problem at all with listening to them again and would still seek out now), good/okay (a decent listen every now and then), meh (don’t care for them anymore but it wouldn’t be disastrous if you had to hear them again), bad (an undesirable listen but you wouldn’t completely rule out liking them again someday), or irredeemable (no chance of them ever growing back on you).

• Imagine Dragons – Radioactive
• Pitbull/Ke$ha – Timber
• OneRepublic – Counting Stars
• Taylor Swift – Shake It Off
• Taylor Swift – Blank Space
• Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
• Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance
• Wiz Khalifa/Charlie Puth – See You Again
• Adele – Hello

Answer: 

Radioactive: I did grow back into this one. Overplay kind of scarred it like it did with most of these songs. I would say it's good/okay to listen to every now and then.

Timber: Same thing applies here. It's good/okay to listen to every now and then.

Counting Stars: Same as the last two.

Shake It Off: Not so sure about this one. I really liked this one when it was popular. But after hearing all these other singles from 1989, this one doesn't sound that interesting anymore. I may have to say this one is a "meh". I don't really care for it too much anymore, but I can still listen to it.

Blank Space: This one, however, is a different story. This one is definitely still great with no problem at all listening to it because I don't think I ever got sick of it. It's just so catchy.

Uptown Funk: Radio overplay scarred this song pretty bad. This is for sure one of the most overrated songs, if not the most overrated song, of 2015. Unfortunately to this day if this song comes on the radio, I will indeed change the station even if I don't know anything else that's on. I'm going to have to categorize it under "bad" as it is still an undesirable listen, but it's possible I may give into it sometime in the future.
Shut Up and Dance: This one is pretty much the same thing as Uptown Funk. The 12 weeks at #1 on Hits 1 was rather unnecessary and all it did was make a pretty good song overrated. This one is still an undesirable listen, so I'm going to say "bad".
See You Again: Although this one was pretty overplayed, I actually do like it again. I absolutely loved it when it came out, so I knew I would come back around to it eventually. And I did. I'd say it's good/okay to listen to every now and then.
Hello: This one was a lot more recent, so it's going to be a longer while until I grow back into it fully. But for now, I do like this song again. Like See You Again, it was amazing when it came out. I'd say it's good/okay to listen to every now and then.


Question #33: Rank the following songs:

• SonReal – Can I Get A Witness
• Simple Plan – Singing In The Rain
• Big Gigantic/Angela McCluskey – The Little Things
• Hedley – Lose Control
• Twenty One Pilots – Heathens

Answer:

1. Big Gigantic/Angela McCluskey – The Little Things (the best)
2. Hedley – Lose Control

3. Twenty One Pilots – Heathens

4. Simple Plan – Singing In The Rain

5. SonReal – Can I Get A Witness

Question #34: For fun, rate these songs from best to worst:

• Adele – Hello
• Eden XO – The Weekend
• Coldplay/Beyoncé – Hymn For The Weekend
• Priory – Weekend
• Maroon 5 – Sugar
• Robin Schulz/Francesco Yates – Sugar
• Maroon 5 – Animals
• Martin Garrix – Animals
• Glenn Morrison – Goodbye

Answer: First off, I love how you started with Hello and ended with Goodbye. And I see how you attempted to match the titles.

1. Coldplay/Beyoncé – Hymn For The Weekend (the best)

2. Maroon 5 – Animals

3. Glenn Morrison – Goodbye

4. Robin Schulz/Francesco Yates – Sugar

5. Martin Garrix – Animals

6. Adele – Hello

7. Eden XO – The Weekend

8. Priory – Weekend

9. Maroon 5 – Sugar

Question #35: What's the best week of 2016 so far? Worst week?

Answer: I have no idea. I'm sorry, but I am indeed way too lazy to look back at every single week this year to pick the best and worst.


Question #36: What are your favorite and least favorite songs of the year so far?
Answer: Some of my favorites right now include Hymn For The Weekend by Coldplay, I Took A Pill In Ibiza by Mike Posner, Just Like Fire by P!nk, Something In The Way You Move by Ellie Goulding, Jet Black Heart by 5 Seconds Of Summer, and more that I won't get into now. Some of my least favorites include Panda by Desiigner (which I consider the worst song of the year hands-down), Sweatshirt by Jacob Sartorious, Kamikaze by MØ, Don't Mind by Kent Jones, Mama Said by Lukas Graham, and more that I won't get into now. But that's a basic understanding of some of the songs I've enjoyed this year and some of the songs I find to be utter trash.


Question #37: What are the best and worst songs of 2016 so far?
Answer: Please look right above.


Question #38: Rank the years of this decade so far (2010-2016 as is) in your order for mainstream music (between both Hits 1 and Billboard).
Answer: I really didn't think too much about this. Maybe these rankings will be different if I actually put some more thought into it.

7. 2015
6. 2016
5. 2014
4. 2013
3. 2011
2. 2010
1. 2012 (best year)


Question #39: What are your Top 10 favorite artists/bands of all-time?
Answer: Again, like Question #38, I really did not put much thought into this. I rushed it for the sake of getting this post out. So you can consider this a rough draft of the list.

10. Taylor Swift
9. David Guetta
8. Green Day
7. Linkin Park
6. Ke$ha
5. Eminem
4. OneRepublic
3. Maroon 5
2. Nickelback
1. Coldplay



So that was the 800K pageview special! Once again, I apologize for the extremely long delay. I want you guys to know that I love doing these special posts for you guys. I feel like a blog with just countdown posts every week would be pretty boring after a while, which is why I love doing these milestone posts and other specials like the series of America's Got Talent reviews and the Top 10 Songs Series. But it is hard to work on this kind of stuff with my busy schedule. So I ask that you guys bear with me because I do try my hardest to get this stuff out for you. Thinking realistically, the 900K special may not be out until next month, but I am trying and using my free time to work on these posts. But thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed.