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Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy

@cmolanphy

Chart analyst/pop critic. Host of podcast #HitParadePod. Writer of Slate’s #WhyIsThisSongNo1? Feet on the ground, reaching for the stars. (Pronouns—he/him/his.)

Brooklyn, NY Katılım Nisan 2009
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Chris Molanphy@cmolanphy·
On a new #HitParadePod—The Bridge, @timmysommer, who signed Hootie &the Blowfish to Atlantic, makes the case for them as “Generation R.E.M.” & assesses why their followup album led to their downfall. Plus, trivia…and a preview that gets the party started. slate.com/podcasts/hit-p…
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Sam Adams@SamuelAAdams·
you could watch ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT or put on Elvis Costello's Shipbuilding and save yourself 2 hours and 18 minutes youtube.com/watch?v=rlcHnp…
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Sam Adams@SamuelAAdams·
Finally threw on ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT and am utterly gobsmacked by its pervasive banality. Visually rehashed, morally vacuous, unremarkable in every way. Beyond bizarre this is what the Academy's craft classicists have gotten behind this year.
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Chris Molanphy@cmolanphy·
Every year I look fwd to @Thirdmanmovies’ predix, especially his breakdown of the Best Pic ranked ballot. I’m a bit surprised he thinks AQotWF is gonna start in the middle of the pack—I’m convinced (dreading?) that movie has deep “steak-eater” love—but I like the result here, so.
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Who's ready for Oscar predictions?? In addition to my thoughts on all 23 categories, I also simulate the Best Picture preferential ballot round by round, predicting every elimination and vote reallocation. Check them out! filmotomy.com/projecting-tho…

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Chris Molanphy@cmolanphy·
@PhilKeidel @tombreihan I agree & I’d actually flip Tom’s 2 OneRepublic ratings. “Apologize” is the 4. “Counting Stars” is a 6—as is their fluke 2022 Top10 hit “I Ain’t Worried.” (Which—I seem to be the only Oscar-watcher beating this drum—was a much bigger ‘Top Gun’ hit than that boring Gaga nominee.)
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Philip Keidel@PhilKeidel·
@cmolanphy @tombreihan OneRepublic catching a stray, “Counting Stars” is a fun song in the car, 4 feels a little low imho
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Chris Molanphy@cmolanphy·
@bowiesongs @pulmyears As I say in the episode, it’s Joel doing the two Pauls. 🙂 (There’s a recurring joke in Dana Carvey/David Spade’s SNL-memories podcast that Lorne Michaels would often say, “Paul’s coming over,” & cast members would have to ask, “Which one?” cuz Simon/Macca were both F.O.L.’s.)
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Bowiesongs@bowiesongs·
@cmolanphy @pulmyears calling "Don't Ask Me Why" a fusion of McCartney and Paul Simon is really on the money--it does manage to invoke them both (McC in the verses, Simon in the bridge?)
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Paul Myers@pulmyears·
Big Shot could be seen as Billy Joel’s “Elton” song. New York State of Mind is his “Ray Charles” song.
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Rachel Brodsky@RachelBrods·
*some news* 🚨I’m launching a podcast with @rambocalrissian! @InSyncPod is the show for anyone who loves a great on-screen needle-drop. Every ep, we pick one music moment in TV or film and talk about why it worked, how it happened & the cultural impact. First ep drops 4/11!
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Chris Molanphy@cmolanphy·
@tombreihan Re:Akon’s blankness, I reread yr Billy Ocean pieces cuz it occurs to me they’re similar—canny craftsmen from unusual global places w/no fixed personality, made cutting-edge sounds palatable,hit No1 a surprising # of times. You say as much about Billy here: stereogum.com/2145173/the-nu…
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Chris Molanphy@cmolanphy·
@Thirdmanmovies Have you gamed out the Best Pic ballot this year? Cuz I am rooting for EEAAO but want to be convinced ranked choice isn’t gonna rob it of the prize after all those precursor wins. (BTW I like ranked choice but don’t want, say, AQotWF to ‘Green Book’ its way to victory.)
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Daniel Joyaux@Thirdmanmovies·
I can’t be the first person to notice this, but there’s a split second in Everything Everywhere All at Once where Jobu Tupaki is holding an Oscar Foreshadowing!
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Jack Hamilton@jack_hamilton·
🎵 piiiiiiig it will come back to you 🎵
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Chris Molanphy@cmolanphy·
@BrianZitzelman @tombreihan The initial Top20 hit insulates him from 1HW status. If he’d only scored the No1 “Slow Motion” & immediate Top40 followup “Nolia Clap,” the latter would be a Coattails Hit & he’d be a 1HW. But “Back That Azz Up” coming before the No1 removes him from that fate.
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Chris Molanphy@cmolanphy·
@tombreihan For those keeping score, Mims’s No32 followup “Like This” is a textbook Coattails Hit, hence Mims is an official One-Hit Wonder™ as per the widely accepted @cmolanphy 1HW rules detailed here: slate.com/podcasts/hit-p… What’s that? Why my rules? Because they’re hot. Yours are not.
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Hi-Phi Nation@HiPhiNation·
A great visit to Podcasting the Humanities @Princeton from @cmolanphy. Slate podcasts are really representin’ on this campus this semester.
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Chris Molanphy@cmolanphy·
@thomasinskeep1 Not surprised the album’s meh—maybe Pebbles’s hubby wasn’t prioritizing his wife’s material/giving her castoffs?—but “Giving You the Benefit” was a hot leadoff (I still own that CD single). L.A./Face probably focused their energies on the potential hits & nothing more.
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Chris Molanphy@cmolanphy·
@tombreihan P.S. “What Goes Around” needed that Grammy boost—preshow, it was knocking around the bottom of the Top10, even briefly falling out. The Grammy perf sent it 8–>1. P.P.S. I detailed this Justin-plays-the-Grammys chart trick in my “100&Single” column in ’09: idolator.com/5157380/two-hi…
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Chris Molanphy@cmolanphy·
@tombreihan “Timberlake was up for a bunch of Grammys…he got to perform twice…Maybe that’s what ultimately helped lift ‘What Goes Around’…” Yup—that plus an SNL rerun (again—peak Imperial JT). Funnily, 2yrs later he pulled the same Grammy trick on a T.I. song & almost got THAT to No1 too.
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