turkish rate

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Erkin Koray - Fesupanallah: 8 not expecting "drinking song with allah in it" to be a thing but that's turkish culture i guess !

Cem Karaca - Tamirci Çırağı: 7 there's a jumpscare here because there's a word in here that looks like my family name which is polish and in fact as a kid i tried to look up its etymology and a nonzero number of websites tried to tell me that our name is turkish. it is not lol it's a coincidence. while we're here, altaic theory is NOT REAL as cool as it would be. so anyway this is political and pro-worker is this guy based??? discuss

Ajda Pekkan - Baksana Talihe: 10 rly liked the melancholy vibes of this one and sorry what this is a bolivian melody (???) this sounds so much like it could be on mizrahi jewish singer ofra haza's *yemenite songs* which i got heavy into last year because of course i would do something like that

Barış Manço - Hal Hal: 6 can't get over the idea of there being a state-mandated anatolian rock artist with great-uncle vibes nor the game show where everyone wins because they're kids come on man

Nur Yoldaş - Sultan-ı Yegâh: 10 once again caught off guard by a song about a sultan being leftist and based turkish culture remains full of surprises truly a land of contrasts anyway i rly like that little woodwind melody

MFÖ - Ele Güne Karşı: 6 (i am just saying shit) so these guys were like the turkish ELO right

İbrahim Tatlıses - Dom Dom Kurşunu: 8 a jam tbh. better keep my thoughts on kurdistan to myself eh. "mashup [...] Dua Lipa’s “Blow Your Mind (Mwah)" i need to hear this so bad lmao. a rate winner!!!

Sezen Aksu - Sarışın: 9 give me more of this 80s new wave cheese (compliment) meets trad middle eastern pop shit i unironically love that song can't explain

Levent Yüksel - Medcezir: 6 oh no am i being a basic pophead and soft-tanking this because it's acoustic well the bass is nice !

Aşkın Nur Yengi - Ay İnanmıyorum: 7 so baffled by the concept of turkish valley girls what do they sound like i can't hear any difference with any other vocals here but i trust and believe it's a thing

Sertab Erener - Mecbursun: 8 how did we go from tsundere to yandere where is the turkish pop song about kuudere (i only know the difference between all these terms because of tvtropes i swear aha) that little synth break rules

Mirkelam - Her Gece: 7 can't get over the lore of young beeo meeting the songwriter anyway :guitar:

Kenan Doğulu - Kandırdım: 7 hey its that guy. may i propose "baited" as a possible transition (i say as though i know a word of turkish maybe picked up a few random words at most) i mean solely in the context of trolling as mentioned in the notes

Tarkan - Şımarık: 9 banger tbh. lol the kissy emoji in the notes

Mustafa Sandal - Aya Benzer: 7 wild how this sounds so 1998 trust me i was there gandalf

Şebnem Paker - Dinle: 9 ah yes the ~mysterious ~exotic melody at the beginning i like this cut (this is half-joking) what is that instrument anyway is it a. ney or idk anything about this topic

Şebnem Ferah - Sigara: 7 got it from the notes she is turkish alanis morissette (i am just saying shit ignore me) (she doesn't sound anything like that)

Özlem Tekin - Dağları Deldim: 8 this is trip-hop primary spoken word secondary also alt-rock bc theres guitar

Duman - Her Şeyi Yak: 6 can't get over the concept of turkish grunge i need a moment

Teoman - Kupa Kızı ve Sinek Valesi: 8 you ever just have a meet-cute where you talk a girl off the side of a bridge this may sound self-aggrandizing but that would be on brand for me

mor ve ötesi - Bir Derdim Var: 5 where do i know the name of these guys from anyway i got distracted during this tune by some weird shit with my bluetooth connecting to the upstairs tv so sorry if that coloured my feelings on this cut

maNga - Bir Kadın Çizeceksin: 10 can't get over the turkish nü-metal vibes this is amazing lmao

Ceza - Neyim Var Ki (feat. Sagopa K): 9 this is so funny but the instrumental rules. so are these guys based discuss

Pamela - İstanbul: 4 rly don't like the stop-start vibes here i don't like when songs do that trope sorry pamela !

Göksel - Bi Seni Konuşurum: 11 this lady was foreshadowed in the notes !!! and i love the 90s euro whateverthisgenreis vibes (beeo says balearic and i trust and believe him) secondary genre: spoken word no i'm shitposting but this is rly nifty. hey makam i know what that is i know things

Hepsi - Kalpsizsin: 10 "manifesting itself with comparisons to stuff like Blackpink" :sickos: this explains why it's a camp 10 !!!

Sıla - ...dan sonra (feat. Kenan Doğulu): 10 voices of nmixx "como a sonra" no i'm just shitposting. anyway i almost 11ed this because it stood out the most in the rate because it's kind of bonkers with the stock-sound-effect alarm that goes back to my first iphone and *goldeneye 007* for the nintendo 64 over this bleepbloop "what if 'popcorn' was produced by cirkut" no i'm fully shitposting but also not this tune is kind of wild. also it might've been too much of a boss baby moment to give it to mr. doğulu here but i support this cut and what they're doing here it's delightfully bonkers and shit bangs

Hayko Cepkin - Ölüyorum: 6 didn't rly like it but still deeming it "dudes rock, Turkey"

Nil Karaibrahimgil - Seviyorum Sevmiyorum: 10 was not expecting "kötü kedi şerafettin" to be some kind of edgy turkish garfield (???) anyway it's electro and there's a shuffle beat so it's a banger

Demet Akalın - Toz Pembe: 8 youre right thats a very good translation rock on and a good tune

Hande Yener - Sopa: 10 is this romanian popcorn (this is a bad joke ignore me ban me) no rly i had some half-baked joke in my head about her being turkish jolin tsai but it didn't come together

Hadise - Aşk Kaç Beden Giyer: 8 love how you can tell how it's the late 2000s with pop music from all the world by this very specific electro sound and also mildly alarmed how many songs in this rate are about adultery but i guess that's an evergreen song topic

Ozan Doğulu - Aşkistan (ft. Atiye): 10 google tells me there's an "atiye deniz fan clup" yes with final devoicing amazing anyway banger

Bedük - Koyver Kendini: 8 Turkish Pitbull. Hero. Saved music. Festival EDM Balkan turbo-folk cowbell pop rap 😌

Gülşen - Bangır Bangır: 9 turkish no doubt - hella good (compliment)

Aleyna Tilki - Sen Olsan Bari: 8 "Much of the discourse was not positive though, as people gestured at the lack of “serving”" some things never change do they a true cross-cultural moment. anyway i am deeming her turkish shakira to be a silly guy

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