DaRenegade
NRL > AFL
Was so bloody hard to pick Foals this year. They had multiple bangers across both albums. I feel like the embarrassment of riches will come back to haunt them if the votes are dispersed too much. Don't see a repeat of 2016 when Mountain At My Gates made the top 20. Hopefully get a few songs in there somewhere at least.
Also REALLY hoping a Slipknot of Northlane make the 100. There was a meme last year that really got on my nerves during the countdown. Bring Me The Horizon came in at 45 with Mantra and a meme started circulating saying 'Me trying to enjoy a chilled hottest 100 then Mantra by BMTH comes on' and there was some distressed person. Obviously these campaigners have short memories because Parkway Drive had two songs in the top 60 a few years earlier. But it unfortunately said a lot about peoples current tastes and the move away from guitar driven music. If Mantra was too heavy for the Hottest 100 audience I would HATE to see what happens if Unsainted or 4D gets in.
thats my worry with Foals too, similar to Royal Blood back in 2014, they had Figure It Out, Ten Tonne Skeleton, Come On Over, Out Of the Black and Little Monster which were all cracking tracks but they all took votes off each other and they ended up with none in the H100, and 4 of them in the 101-200 if I recall with only Out Of the Black not making it. could be the same with Foals this year between The Runner, Black Bull, Exits, On the Luna etc. I think The Runner makes the 100, and two of the others make the 101-200, I've seen alot of votes for The Runner on my socials.
both Slipknot and Northlane seem fairly safe to make it this year. on the point of people's current tastes, they just listen to whatever jjj tells them to and think it's cool, and we all know the j's don't give much exposure outside of their dedicated little late night shows to guitar driven music, triple j has been a legit pop station the last few years at least, it's gross to think Tones and I, Lizzo etc will chart this year, a few years ago this garbage would've either have been too shit or too mainstream/poppy for triple j or the Hottest 100, but that's what it's at currently.