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tate talk #11: song bios
year-end list 2025
#12 soty: “what was that” by lorde | #14 soty: “berghain” by rosalia, bjork, & yves tumor | #20 aoty: virgin by lordeyear-end list 2024
#8 soty: “like him” by tyler, the creator | #20 soty: “girl, so confusing featuring lorde” by charli xcx & lordebest of 2024, so far
#3 soty: “the girl, so confusing version with lorde” by charli xcx & lordeyear-end list 2023
#10 soty: “vampire” by olivia rodrigo | #14 soty: “boy’s a liar, pt. 2” by pinkpantheress & ice spice | #4 aoty: did you know there’s a tunnel under ocean blvd by lana del rey | #11 aoty: heaven knows by pinkpantheressyear-end list 2022
#5 soty: “bad habit” by steve lacy | #3 aoty: renaissance by beyoncéyear-end list 2021
#7 soty: “family ties” by baby keem & kendrick lamar | #10 aoty: happier than ever by billie eilishyear-end list 2020
#3 aoty: folklore by taylor swiftyear-end list 2019
#18 soty: “juice” by lizzo |#7 aoty: thank u, next by ariana grande | #13 aoty: father of the bride by vampire weekend
year-end list 2018
#2 soty: “sicko mode” by travis scott |#15 aoty: 7 by beach house
year-end list 2017
#10 soty: “green light” by lorde | #25 soty: “havana” by camila cabello | #6 aoty: melodrama by lorde | #50 aoty: funk wav bounces vol 1 by calvin harrisyear-end list 2016
#6 soty: “frankie sinatra” by the avalanches | #35 soty: “hold up” by beyoncé | #36 soty: “starboy” by the weeknd ft. daft punk | #23 aoty: i had a dream that you were mine by hamilton leithauser & rostam | #36 aoty: skin by flumegenius awards 2016
5th best moderator | 5th best interview (ft. serein)genius awards 2015
4th best avatar | 7th best editor | 10th best transcriber | 10th best web annotatoryear-end list 2015
#14 soty: "pedestrian at best" by courtney barnett | #16 soty: "where are ü now" by jack ü ft. justin bieber | ghostwrote parts of #30 soty: "what do you mean" by justin bieber | #11 aoty: sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit by courtney barnettmy genius history:
February 2015: edded by peter nowogrodzki, aka XenaWarriorPrincess
December 6, 2015: Drew_Harvie becomes editor
December 19, 2015: 50k IQ!
January 12, 2016: my meta tates confirmed better than verified tates by diplo, tinashe, skrillex, and pusha t
April 1, 2016: went to hq
May 24, 2016: cocochase becomes editor!!!
May 27, 2016: i got modded by the amazing streetlights.
June 15, 2016: the god mod Freeus upvotes me to 100k
November 2017: i came out of hiding to work on year-end list and became the #1 scholar on “All I Want For Christmas Is You!!”
February 19, 2018: vinylzombie_mcr upvoted me to 150k!
October 29, 2019: completely revamped “Rivers and Roads” instead of studying for midterms; first real song page resuscitation for me in a while
December 3, 2019: got assigned 3 blurbs for the year-end list, making my fifth straight year contributing to it!
December 14, 2020: still here :) sixth year of contributing to year-end list, this time with folklore!
December 2021: year 7 baby
December 17, 2022: 8th year of year-end! started here in middle school and am now graduating college, super surreal to still be around.
December 2023: 999
Summer 2024: at some point, i hit 200k IQ, likely due to my work on some of the kendrick v canada diss tracks. super cool, and only took 6 years since my last 50k milestone!!
December 2024: 10th year writing for the year end list, insane. always happy to get lorde on there :)
December 2025: 11:11 make a wish!
May 2026: this will mark my tenth year as a mod. absolutely insane, so happy to still be here.
