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Welcome (again) to the Order of the Phoenix, Beth!

You have been accepted for the non-biography character of KIRAN NIRAULA with the facelaim of Amita Suman! We absolutely adored your application, Beth! Kiran is awesome and we love the idea of seeing a new perspective on the dash - someone who isn’t here to fight, but has to rely on the Order for survival. We’re really glad someone has decided to play around with the refugee camp in a new way.

Please take a look at the new member checklist and send in your account within 24 hours! Thank you for joining the fight against Voldemort!

OUT OF CHARACTER:

NAME & PRONOUNS: Beth (She/Her)

AGE: 25

TIMEZONE: CST

ACTIVITY LEVEL: Continuing about where I have been. I try to hop on for replies at least twice a week, even if it’s just a hanful at a time.

ANYTHING ELSE: I’m back on my bullshit, and it’s Nicky’s fault for condoning it. Remember when I made the “haha what if” joke about a secondary character who was a refugee? Yeah, that morphed into this.

CHARACTER DETAILS:

NAME: Kiran Niraula

AGE: 20 (Born October 16, 1961), sorted 1973

GENDER, PRONOUNS, and SEXUALITY: Cis-female (She/Her). She hasn’t though much about her sexuality, but liking women doesn’t give her any pause. She’s the rare well-adjusted bi not questioning anything and just content to let it be.

BLOOD STATUS: Muggleborn

HOUSE ALUMNI: Hufflepuff

CHARACTER BACKGROUND:

PERSONALITY:

When Kiran has set her mind to something, changing it won’t happen easily. She’s very set on facts and observations, and she has a tendency to tune out arguments if they feel half-formed or based more on emotion than evidence. Even to herself, she does this, often taking an emotional gut reaction and thinking about it until she has a logical conclusion to back it up. This will undoubtedly lead to a lot of conflict with Order members, especially those who find it cowardly to do anything but turn and face the fight head on. Kiran isn’t using emotional indicators like bravery and moral high ground as proof of what is right or what she should be doing. She’s looking at the facts of the situation as she sees them. The nobility of the Order’s cause means very little to her in the face of the all-too-visible risks with her family

That said, Kiran is not the kind of person who can idly sit by alone and observe. She’s a doer in the strongest sense and loves to get her hands on a problem, especially problems related to organization and complex tasks. After about a month of trying to keep to herself, Kiran is going a bit stir-crazy and will jump into whatever she’ll be allowed to touch. It will probably mean butting heads and struggling not to get too involved, but even if she doesn’t intend to stick around, she can still solve some problems along the way.

This is the same attitude that has made her great at detail-oriented charms. She likes complex spells and problems, as well as looking at the way magic builds to create layers. Her apprenticeship as a Snitch-maker (more below) fit well within those challenges that she liked, and in the aftermath of not having it anymore, she’s taken to trying to find little ways to play with those ideas and charms. If someone else wanders around and finds a decorative winged horse statue has sudden begun to fly, Kiran was probably responsible.

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF FAMILY:

Kiran’s parents made the decision to immigrate to England when she was but an idea in their eye. In fact, her amma considered it a sign they’d made the right decision when she discovered less than a month after arriving that she’d been pregnant on the journey up to London. Of course, they had to scramble as a result. They hadn’t planned on a child so soon, but Anil and Rashma were resourceful and managed to get their feet under them before Kiran had any memories otherwise. They always intended to have more children, but a health scare for Rashma when Kiran was three left them unable to justify the risk of Rashma trying to carry more children. Kiran never felt like anything was lacking, though. She did go through a phase where she’d ask for a baby sibling and her parents would have to painfully tell her no, but it wasn’t a long phase and she wasn’t particularly heartbroken. After all, she was her parents’ lucky charm. She didn’t need siblings to share the attention with.

While the specifics surprised them, Anil and Rashma took it in stride when they were told their eleven-year-old possessed magic. They had long suspected she was special and not just to them. Kiran had done things most children couldn’t, and while they could usually rationalize it away, her parents were pleased to have an answer. They were less pleased to lose her to boarding school, but Kiran promised them then she’d never let magic come between her and them. She intended to keep it.

For a long time, she did. Kiran always came home for breaks, even when she had friends who invited her other places, and when she moved out after graduation, she found an apartment not far from her parents’ house. Her life was blossoming, but she never forgot about them. She never deprioritized her amma and abba.

Some things can’t be controlled, though. When Kiran lifted her phone incredibly early one morning—hungover from celebrations the night before—to hear her mother sobbing on the other end about how her father wouldn’t wake up, Kiran went cold. She got through the day completely numb, trying to be strong for her mother even when all she wanted to do was curl up under her father’s favorite blanket and cry. The coroner couldn’t definitively say it was a heart attack, but that was the best theory he had. At first, it was enough. Kiran had no reason to believe it could be anything else.

A few days later, Kiran learned her New Year’s news was not unique. The rumors were swirling, and even certain wixen publications were talking about it. Over a hundred muggles had died of mysterious cause, and the most likely culprit seemed to be, “You know, his group. The Death Eaters.”

It didn’t take long for Kiran to connect her abba to the other deaths. The timing was right, the cause of death was right, and her status as a muggleborn must be the reason. Officially the muggles were just random muggles, but Kiran couldn’t believe that. Her father couldn’t have been randomly chosen, could he? It must be related to her. Somehow it was because of her. Kiran grew paranoid as she wondered how long it would take before her mother was next.

The easiest answer, of course, was to convince her amma to leave the country. She could return to Nepal, go visit Spain, or find another English-speaking country if she wanted to put the language she’d spent twenty years perfecting to use. Rashma refused. “My country is here,” she insisted. “You are here. I’m not leaving the only family I have left.” That settled it then. If her amma wouldn’t leave without her, Kiran had to go too, but when she suggested such a thing, Kiran was shut down. If she was going to leave, she’d have to be sneaky about it. And although it pained her to do it, Kiran started putting distance between herself and her mother. It was a terrible time to do it after Anil’s passing, but Kiran didn’t want to do anything that further put her mother at risk. That meant staying away.

It was almost two months later that she heard whispers that the phoenix group, who she’d only ever heard brought up quietly to gossip about, might be able to help her. They had a group working to provide protection for muggleborns who needed shielding from this fight, who hadn’t done anything but exist to bring war to their doors. Not only that, but while providing that protection, they made arrangements for those muggleborns to leave. Here was a group who could help Kiran disappear and hopefully be untraced. Once she was gone and sent for her mother, Rashma would have no choice but to move to wherever that was by her own logic. When Kiran was her only family, Rashma would follow.

OCCUPATION: Currently unemployed, Previously a metal-charmer

Charms had always been Kiran’s best subject in school. It wasn’t surprising to her when her NEWTS led a London-based Snitch-maker to reach out to Kiran with an apprenticeship offer. She’d been a fan of Quidditch in school and was fascinated by the idea of having a part in the game behind the scenes. She wasn’t allowed to start immediately, of course. She had to observe, study further, and practice her spellwork. Shortly before her father died, Kiran had been allowed after almost a year and half of studying to begin charming toy snitches intended for children. The parameters were smaller, the magic less complex. If she had stayed for another year, she would have moved on to the real thing.

Instead she’s stuck at McKinnon Farm. Stuck is an unfair term when it’s a position Kiran chose, but it still frustrates her that getting away has meant giving up the opportunity of a life time.

ROLE WITHIN THE ORDER/THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ORDER:

Kiran is not in the Order. She has no current plans to join the Order. She needs them. It’s thanks to the Order that Kiran is now hiding with other Task Force refugees at the McKinnon Farm awaiting somewhere else to go. She sympathizes with their cause and does, on some level, understand why some aren’t happy about her existence. Some seem to be under the delusion that because she is a muggleborn and therefore a perfect Death Eater target, Kiran should want to pick up her wand and go charging head first into battle. Those people can get smacked with a stinging jinx for all she cares.

It is not Kiran’s fault that her parents are muggles. It’s not her fault that some crazy lunatic managed to weaponize the discrimination rampant in wixen society. It is also not her fault that such discrimination exists in the first place. She commends those fighting to try and fix it, but her blood status is not a conscription notice.

Kiran plans to keep the Order’s secrets and carry them with her tucked tightly to her chest, but her plans have never included fighting some crazy war, especially if fighting it means continuing to increase the risk she’s putting her mother through. She couldn’t even get Rashma to believe that Anil’s death could have been caused by that world of her daughter’s that she didn’t fully understand. Rashma thought she was grasping at straws. No, fighting a war she had no business in would be grasping at straws. It would also light on fire the barn her mother was in. Kiran couldn’t do that, not to her mother and honestly not even to herself.

She can see the validity of their ideals and could, if the circumstances changed, potentially be swayed to their side. She does hope they succeed. She just isn’t in a place where she feels like it’s her fight to have or her duty to fight it.

SURVIVAL:

Kiran came to the Order for survival—her own and her mother’s. She looked at them as a savior of sorts when she first came under their protection, but Kiran has grown a bit disillusioned in the time since. First, her doubt grew because she has been there longer than she’d expected. She knew it took time to get someone out of the country, but she hadn’t expected it to take more than a few weeks. As the weeks stretch on, though, she has begun to wonder when it would actually happen. Second, Kiran is just close enough to the goings-on that she can see some of the cracks starting to form. She vaguely knew of James Potter but didn’t know him, so hearing people talking about his death (which she hadn’t been around for) left her unsettled, especially when it seemed like none of them knew how to respond to a betrayal in their midst. With all the chaos going on now, I can only imagine how that trust will further shift, but it’s still more important to Kiran that she find a way to keep her mother safe. The Order still feels like the best way to make that happen.

Thinking about a more mental health focused definition of survival, Kiran is struggling to keep herself fully put together without a structured schedule and something she can actively be working toward. She’s trying to keep herself motivated by problem-solving on her own with puzzles and trying to continue her metal-charming work. She’s also found some little projects around the farm to help out with, although the McKinnons might not always be happy about it when she doesn’t ask first. Regardless, she has to keep busy. That’s the only way she’s going to stay sane.

RELATIONSHIPS:

Overall, Kiran can come across as stand-offish. She isn’t particularly close to anyone in the Order. She sees faces that are vaguely familiar from school, but she didn’t pay much attention to anything that wasn’t in her immediate bubble, which meant Hufflepuff and specifically her year. A lot of her friendships were based on academics or faith, in the case of the few other Muslim students she knew, so if someone wasn’t playing wizarding chess in the badgers’ common room or fit the other criteria, she didn’t pay attention. As a result, she feels like she can keep herself apart from Order members fairly easily. She’s there to get out, not to get friends.

Still, despite not ever having a lot of friends, she is a social person. She needs the stimulation of interaction and has been going crazy trying to keep to herself on the farm. She’s definitely going to start reaching out more, theoretically out of boredom, but more because she craves having those connections again. She’d like to believe she could make them easily, but there are several people she hasn’t necessarily gotten off to the right start with.

Marlene McKinnon: Kiran knows Marlene thinks she and the others being assisted by the task force are a burden. She knows Marlene is frustrated by them eating the McKinnon’s food and taking up space in their house. It probably doesn’t help that Kiran occasionally gets urges to do things like reorganize the library to a system that makes more sense or try to mend a broken gate that’s bothering her and is apparently supposed to stay that way because it’s always been that way. Kiran has a lot of strong opinions, and while she knows it is Marlene and her family’s home, Kiran doesn’t plan to just sit idly by when she can see things that need fixing. Eventually that might prove to be true about the task force itself.

Efa Chittock: Kiran never paid attention to Efa in school. Sure, she heard the gossip of a half-veela like everyone else, but when she was a Slytherin not in Efa’s year, what was the point of paying attention? Now, though Kiran is strangely fascinated by her in a way not unlike how her old muggle friends were fascinated by supermodels. As far as Kiran is concerned, she has that effortless beauty and sex appeal from her heritage that are just unfair compared to the average wix. She wishes she could just smile at someone and have them falling at her feet the way she’s heard a half-veela can.

Mary MacDonald: Some people aren’t meant to get along. As far as Kiran is concerned, she and Mary are in that category. Being told they are just another muggleborn coward will give someone that opinion. Of course, Kiran dished back, snapping about how being muggleborn didn’t mean she should have to fight and that just because Mary felt comfort fighting for the Order didn’t mean that anyone else was lesser for not risking their lives. She didn’t give details, and the two devolved rather quickly into a less coherent spat of insults. Ever since, Kiran has been going out of her way to avoid Mary, but she’s not afraid to go for the throat should the occasion come up.

OOC EXPLORATION:

SHIPS/ANTI-SHIPS: The only true ship is chemistry. That said… I made a joke at Nicky about Alaric being one more reason for Marlene to not like Kiran. If someone did pick up Alaric and want to play with it, I’m open to a lot of things, whether that’s casual flirting, friendship that looks like more from the outside, casual sex buddies, a budding romance… or nothing at all. That’s also cool. It’s just something that could be interesting to play with if the chemistry is right since they’re locationally connected.

WHAT PRIVILEGES AND BIASES DOES YOUR CHARACTER HAVE?

Kiran would consider it a privilege to have grown up with her faith, her family, and her muggle education. Some of the things she’d heard out of pureblood mouths have proved that crazy fact she can’t fathom that they know nothing of science. Coupled with that, the fact that some of them can count feels like a miracle. She’s relied on some of that base foundation she had from muggle schooling, and even if it meant she hadn’t come in knowing some of the theory that a few of them did, she still had the background to problem solve and determine the important bits. The scientific method has been invaluable to her charms work, even if her boss hadn’t ever called it that.

Those feelings about blood status can blind her sometimes, though. Kiran can be quick to dismiss someone else’s experiences without realizing the nuance of all situations. That said, she’s fine letting halfbloods and purebloods fight “on her behalf” in the Order. She appreciates people with—in her eyes—less to lose fighting the fight. She doesn’t necessarily see the layers to it the way others might be able to, but she isn’t looking for them. Kiran feels like she knows, and that confidence has created dark spots in her vision.

One place she doesn’t even begin to apply logic, though, is the existence of half-breeds. The very idea of them made her uncomfortable when she first found out they existed, hearing about the half-veela first year and not understanding what that meant. The image of creatures and other beings combining with humans had blown her mind and not in a way that was comfortable to think about. She’s mostly over that, but the idea still confuses her, especially when the combination is one that receives whispers of odd and creepy and other. Some half-breeds are exotic to her, like half-veelas while others still just weird her out. She’s confused and frightened by werewolves, will avoid half-goblins, and still doesn’t understand the logistics of how a half-giant exists and is working at Hogwarts. She won’t be cruel about interacting with half-breeds, but she won’t necessarily be kind either.

WHAT ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO? I’m trapped and can’t get out. No, I’m absolutely kidding. I love all of you. You’re such a talented bunch of writers and a wonderful group of people. I’m excited about the opportunity to wiggle someone new into the mix.

PLOT DROP IDEAS: I would like to eventually explore Kiran joining the Order. That is the end goal of making her a primary and not a secondary character, even though she currently intends to leave. Because of that, I’m going to need plotting with other characters to help challenge where she is and explore her possibilities. As far as specific plot drops go, I don’t have anything, although it could be interesting to have a situation where she ends up getting sucked in without meaning to. Also, while I want to fully explore the “before joining” part that’s depicted in her app here, it will mean she runs a strong risk of being location-locked until she changes her mind.

ANYTHING ELSE?

Headcanon about religion: Kiran was raised in a Muslim household, and since the Muslim community is a minority in Nepal, it wasn’t a hard transition for her parents when they moved the family to England. Kiran’s time in Hogwarts did loosen her adherence to certain practices, but she still considers herself Muslim and follows general practice. She tried to pray at least once or twice a day, usually catching the prayer at sunset and the last prayer of the day, although she is not strict about performing all five prayers each day. She also hasn’t really attended a mosque regularly in years, first because she couldn’t while at school and then because she was content in practicing on her own. That’s come in handy now that she’s at the farm full time because she didn’t have to get used to not having access to her religious community. She does her best to follow halal food practices, so because she has to assume none of the meat in the McKinnon kitchen followed halal preparation, she has mostly turned vegetarian in her time since arriving. She often would order vegetarian items before when out to eat anyway, so while she misses having meat in her diet, it hasn’t been a complete shock to get rid of it, at least for a short time.

Note to any current or future players: I’m dependent on research and fact-checked prior knowledge in depicting Kiran’s religious attitudes. If I ever misstep, please let me know to be able to correct it.

EXTRA FOR NON-BIO CHARACTERS:

PAST: While the specifics may have surprised them, Kiran’s muggle parents took it in stride when they were told their eleven-year-old possessed magic. They had long suspected she was special and not just to them. They proudly watched her from afar as she excelled at Hogwarts, especially in Charms. Kiran didn’t necessarily have a lot of friends, but hey, she had enough to get by and generally tried to stay in her lane unless there was a problem she could solve. As she grew, she stayed family-oriented and prided herself on the kind of hard work and loyalty Hufflepuffs are known for. Upon graduation she became an apprentice Snitch-maker. Metal-charming fascinated Kiran and played to her strengths perfectly. She excelled in her apprenticeship as she took in each new skill like a puzzle to solve. Kiran was completely in control of her life. Some things, though, cannot be controlled.

PRESENT: When Kiran lifted her phone incredibly early one morning—hungover from New Year’s Eve celebrations the night before—to hear her mother sobbing on the other end about how her father wouldn’t wake up, Kiran went cold. It was only later that she realized he’d been part of a random attack on muggles by Death Eaters, one of the one hundred and two people who lost their lives in the orb attack. Desperate to save her mother from a threat the woman refused to believe existed, Kiran turned to the Order’s Dissendium Task Force for protection and to help her get out of the country quietly in hopes that her mother would follow. It’s been a long, slow month since she arrived, and although she originally had no interest in the Order itself, Kiran can’t help being drawn to its problems and its members. She is a problem-solver, after all. She’s stuck at the McKinnon Farm, and with nothing else to do, Kiran intends to make herself useful. She’ll go crazy otherwise.

FC CHOICES: Amita Suman (first choice), Banita Sandhu, Anya Chalota

***Quote note: If Banita or Anya are chosen, reference to Nepal should change to India.

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thedancingsoldier · 5 years

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I’ve been wanting to share this for a while now. I’ve also been wondering if anybody would care, and I’ve come to the consensus that it doesn’t really matter. I just want to share something that I’ve felt for a long time that I couldn’t share with people, my taste in music. I’m starting a tradition, sharing my top favorite songs for the year (however many there may be). Spotify shared with me my top listened songs of 2018 and I’m sharing the songs that kept giving eargasms with each listen.

#1: Little Mix & Sharaya J: Strip

An eargasm as soon as the song came on. Then the lyrics themselves just seep into my skin and just says something to me, inspires me to love me for me. (Even if the song is for women specifically, I can relate to some of the lyrics) also lets not forget about them harmonies that are just magical! Love me some little mix harmonies 😍

#2: Pretty Sister & LDN Noise: Tears

LOVE THIS SONG! The voices the beat, the rhythm! #loveofmylife The producers of this record put they foot in this one. I love EDM anway so this song was a major plus. When the song comes on it’s acapella for a minute then the beat comes in, and hypes you up. By the time the first verse comes in, they know they have you hooked so the first verse is a regular verse, then the chorus comes in and hypes you up again. This song I’ve loved since early 2017 and it was one of those songs that barely anybody knew about and I still love it and think about it to this day!

#3: LDN Noise: Finally

Another song by LDN Noise that takes the cake for me. This song came out this year however. This song is in this list because it’s so close to Their song “Tears”. In terms of sound and beat and rhythm, as well overall effect to me. This song takes on a house sound. Don’t get me wrong though the song. Is repetitive, but the breaks in between and the differentiation in beats sometimes throughout the song, is enough for me to ignore that.

#4: Little Mix: The Cure (Stripped)

Now this song is slow, as well as acapella. And as I had said before I live for Little Mixes harmonies as this song is chock full of harmonies. It’s nothing but voices. Their harmonies are heavenly, as well as their solo voices. The lyrics are the same, heavenly, relatable and real. The only bad thing about this song, is that it’s short. It’s one minute and 47 seconds.

#5: Troye Sivan: Seventeen

This masterpiece, as told by Troye Sivan himself, was remade multiple times until they got it right, and they got it right to the point. I myself relate to this song so much. The song is basically saying, a 17 year-old boy had a sexual relationship with an older man. That’s basically what this song is describing. I had a brief relationship with an older man when i was 20. He was 43 and an army veteran. I’m saying brief because it was only 10 months. This song said it all. The aura of this overall song is SO GOOD. The vocals, the music, the drums all encompasses the whole mood that this song is.

#6: Olly Murs: Take Your Love

At first listen this song can fade into the background for some people. But for me I live for songs that can use tropical house sounds, and make it their own. Olly Murs is one of those examples. The song is talking about a person that the main character is in love with. He’s looking at this persons current boyfriend, and seeing that the current boyfriend doesn’t do anything worth this persons time, he’s swooping in as the best friend “taking his love away”. I love this. It’s like the best friend of this person, is already in love with this person, so the boyfriend not being a good boyfriend is even better for the main character. I’m living for this story.

#7: Clean Bandit, Marina & Luis Fonsi: Baby

The overall feel of this song, feels SO GOOD! That chorus is heaven! Clean bandit did what? THAT. Adding Marina from Marina & The Diamonds was check #1 for a good song. Adding Luis Fonsi was check #2 for a good song and popular song because of the Hispanic representation, as well the Hispanic musical influence in the instrumentation. Living for this whole ensemble.

#8: Jade Novah: Cosmic Love

Sultry af. Effortless. Lovely. EVERYTHING. It’s a R&B masterpiece. The best R&B song I’ve heard this year, in my opinion. Also, Jade Novah herself is a goddess, and her voice is so dang soothing, I don’t want her to shut up 😍

#9: Lali & Pabllo Vittar: Caliente

YASS BOO! This is everything! EVERYTHING! A Brazilian drag queen, and a Latin pop star, IM LIVING! Where do I start on this song????!

The beat? EVERYTHING!

The vocals? LIVING

The rhythm? 😩👌🏾✨👌🏾✨👌🏾✨

I obviously don’t understand what they’re saying, other than the title of the song (Caliente - hot). That’s it, I’m living.

#10: Loud Luxury & Brando: Body

UGH. Just UGH. This is Loud Luxury’s first single that is not a remix they did. And they did it effortlessly. It’s like when the song is playing I don’t want it to stop. I do want to say this though, it’s another tropical house/ dance-pop song. But I love it, I’m living for it. It’s everything in my opinion.

#11: Sabrina Carpenter: Sue Me

SPEAK TO ME SABRINA. Sue me for looking so cute today, sue me for looking so gorgeous today! Songs either get me by lyrics, one of a kind vocals, or the beat. This one was lyrics. Sis gave me those lyrics! Also that R&B Influence she threw in there, icing on the cake. Amazing.

#12: Alessia Cara: All We Know

You have no idea how bad I wanted to hear new music from Ms. Alessia. I loved her first album and her second album is no different. Also plus, her second album came 4 days after my birthday (November 26) so that’s awesome☺️👌🏾 Now this song is one of those stand out songs, other than the singles obviously. The groove is so smooth. The transition between the hook and the chorus is perfection! The vocals are amazing as always! Also I love that she cusses now 😅. The downside is that I can’t play some her songs around kids because of the cussing but, the songs are still good.

#13: PRETTYMUCH: Jello

There’s In Real Life, Why Don’t We, Next Town Down, and PRETTYMUCH. The boy bands are back after a brief silence from One Direction. PRETTYMUCH is one of those good boy bands that are coming back (I’m not saying the-not-so-good ones). And this song is evidence of it. It’s a perfect mix of 90s Hip-hip and today’s pop. The vocals maybe auto tune but, the sound is there and for me that’s enough to grab me ☺️

#14: ZAYN & Nicki Minaj: No Candle No Light

This song caught me off guard in a good way. I was listening to ZAYN’s new album “Icarus Falls”, and near the end I was expecting more shower songs more emotional songs, and then this song comes on like a lightbulb. The beginning didn’t entice me, the beat drop did. That Caribbean/ tropical house sound he included in this song, was different to me and I like I said before, I love different ways people use tropical house. This way was complex, and everything! It was clubby, it was true to its Caribbean roots, and the fact that he added nicki onto this track is extra points. I don’t know why this song doesn’t the recognition that it needs????

#15: Kim Petras: Can’t Do Better (Justin Caruso Remix)

There’s certain remixes of songs that makes my ear have a eargasm and this one is one of many. This house club mix of Kim Petras’s song is amazing. It creates a whole different feel to the song. It’s an addictive remix.

#16: Hailee Steinfeld & Aris Archontis: Back To Life (80s Remix)

This is perfect 80s nostalgia! That’s it! It’s perfect 80s nostalgia! Then adding Hailee’s vocals! YASS

#17: David Guetta, Bebe Rexha & J Balvin: Say My Name (Corey James Remix)

That bass has me shook forever. I will say this though, Bebe Rexha has some good songs, but ever since she died her hair blonde, I feel like I’ll never get the Bebe Rexha sound I fell in love with at the beginning of her career with her black hair. Now, like I said she has some good songs that I’ll listen to, but other than that? No. But this one, (even though it’s a remix) I fell deeply in love with this. The heavy bass added on with the Latin beat and then Spanish language added into the lyrics, EPIC! I honestly will never get over that’s bass though, it’s everything 😍✨

#18: Mind Bath, Ouri & Forever: Flower Tattoo (Ouri Rework)

Eclectic. Is what comes to mind with this song. The bare bones of it all. The bass, the drums, the vocal effects. It’s so little, but so right!

#19: Dua Lipa: Bad Together

This is a song that stands alone in this list, in my opinion, and that’s what makes it apart of this list. It’s dark sound, heavy vocals, and naughty lyrics, makes it a song that I can listen to over and over again. This song talks about a pair of people that’s so right together, but they’ve both done bad things. It’s lyrically perfect, sonically soothing and smooth. I’ll never get over this song.

#20: Miguel: Vote

This song snuck up on me. I was watching the movie, Crazy Rich Asians. And I love watching the credits because the credits always have a song that they didn’t play during the movie, and in my opinion the song is always underrated. This is one of those songs. The funk of this song makes you want to dance, and then add Miguel’s timeless voice that’s just the icing on the cake. It’s so refreshing to hear this sound again.

#21: Netta: Toy

This song caught me way off guard. This song won the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. Netta Barzilai is Israeli and she won with this song. I was expecting a slow ballad or empowering song. I got empowering definitely, but slow? But, not by any means. This song is an enigma in itself. Ms. Barzilai uses chicken sounds (that she makes herself) in the song, but the overall empowering message of, “I’m not your toy, you stupid boy” is EVERYTHING. I’m living for her and I might have to catch up on my Eurovision knowledge because Ms. Barzilai definitely sparked some interest in me for next years contest 👌🏾

#22: Netta: Toy (Sagi Kariv Remix)

Now, this was my first listen into “Toy” itself I listened to the original after I listened to this. Obviously I fell in love with this. It’s so house, club, gay club music. I could vogue the house down to this remix. It compliments the song so well, as well as her voice too. Everywhere is my runway with this song. 🙌🏾

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