Song Contest 92 (Results posted!)

[Parama]

burkina faso is such a fascinating song still, i've already gone back and listened to it several times

[Apricity]

I have a question about how subunits or solo releases from a member of a group work. Would that count as a different artist than the group as a whole, or not?

[Parama]

yes, as far as i've seen. i was totally okay to enter casualties of cool after having entered devin townsend not that far earlier

[Willowmeadow]

I'll just respectfully but vehemently disagree with you about male vs female kpop...

Last time I think I gave (male) K-Pop points because it was poppy and chill. This here is a dumb electro-hybrid. I've heard some very good stuff from female groups

(Bing Bing by Crayon Pop was one of my favourite songs in general last spring)

. And then I've heard electronic and dumb stuff from them

(like all the new Girl's Generation stuff as far as I remember)

. I have nothing against electronic music, it's just that in K-Pop it has

never

been good, in my opinion. Not once so far.

The only spoiler I'm going to give about my votes is that China reminded me of one of my favourite teenage years' bands.

[Quilford]

Which one?

[Natirasha]

I'll just respectfully but vehemently disagree with you about male vs female kpop...

Yeah, was that a *cry so beautiful* or a *cry can't tolerate*?

You gotta understand I have a very prevalent female-vocal bias. I think of the ~30 song contests I've entered, maybe 8 of the bands I've submitted had male vocals.

And I vehemently dislike 90%of Paul McCartney' 'solo' stuff.

[Apricity]

Sigh.

[Davsto]

I love having music tastes that are largely disagreed with!

[Parama]

personally it tends to vary. There are some genres I prefer male vocals and some I prefer female, though generally I'm okay with both. One of the albums I have in the mail is a metal group with a black female singer and I'm super excited for it, lead single was amazing

[Willowmeadow]

Which one?

Are you asking about my last post? If yes, which part?

I'm fine with both if the singer is good and fits the song. Pretty self-explanatory. Personally K-Pop happens to sound better with female vocals and Metal with male vocals, most of the time.

[Quilford]

Which teenage year band China reminds you of?

[Willowmeadow]

chatmonchy.

The resemblance isn't probably too obvious, but it still reminded me of them.

[Parama]

i got bored listening to songs from the last group i have so i went and checked out more georgia songs instead

none of the other ones i listened to have been particularly compelling tho, shame

[Parama]

Finland – I never want to listen to a “dance version” of anything, but okay. I don’t imagine I would’ve cared much for this anyways. Random rapping because that’s what pop is like nowadays, I guess. Yeah, I kind of like elements of this but not the synths and not the rapping.

Greece – Okay, and this is just a Nicki Minaj copycat. Like seriously she’s just trying to sound like Nicki Minaj, just less irritating. Also with better music. But mostly this is boring.

Republic of Kugelmugel – Oh, it’s rap.

Suriname – This is a completely fine song that stands out in no way whatsoever.

Botswana – Yeah, this is alright. Lyrically a bit repetitive. Maybe a bit noisy/cluttered/unfocused etc. It’s at least kind of interesting, which I can’t say about the last four songs. It’s kind of like Woodkid if Woodkid ever took risks or pushed creative boundaries at all.

Lithuania – This is nice. Pleasant. Vaguely engaging. Might like it more on relisten. Don’t have a lot to say about it now though.

Ukraine – “This is a completely fine song that stands out in no way whatsoever.”

Central African Republic – Oh, Wings. Yeah, this doesn’t do much for me… but it’s alright, which makes it better than most of this set.



god this set was a drag. only one or two songs worth a damn and they're prob not high points songs

[SnowStorm]

i got bored listening to songs from the last group i have so i went and checked out more georgia songs instead

none of the other ones i listened to have been particularly compelling tho, shame

I like Kombine, though yeah, the rest of the album is pretty forgettable.

[Bins]

my points are going to [in no order yet]

ukraine
central africa republic
wales
netherlands
st lucia
fiji
mali
greece
tibet
r. of kugelmugel

[Bins]

i did my listening different
made a playlist
listened to on the bus
whenever a song pissed me off to no end after a while i just deleted it from the list
this is what i was left with

[Parama]

i'm actually gonna do a thing

burkina faso - i've relistened to this like 5 times it gets my 12 by default even tho i don't think it's quite my "favorite"
china - this is just strange enough while still being fairly normal that it'll get decent points
cote d'ivoire - i recently heard this brand of female-fronted symphonic metal called "corset metal" and that's really funny. this actually kinda bored me on relisten, anyways
germany - yeah, this did it for me on relisten for sure. i think the chorus is repeated a tad too much but what really sells this is that final verse
netherlands - ok
st. lucia - this was actually better than my initial writeup let on, it's pretty fun
botswana - this actually got on my nerves on relisten tbh. you just can't repeat the same lyric so many times and not get annoying
lithuania - i figured this was gonna grow on me on relisten and spoilers: yes
st kitts and nevis - on second listen this just made me think i'd rather be listening to the beatles
central african republic - this actually sounds like he's just trying to be the beatles again, but with a saxophone. it's closer to listening to the beatles than st kitts at least. but it's also way too long. like damn why is this 5 minutes, it should be 3 max
tibet - that dog is rlly cute. song's still just ok. rlly repetitive
fiji - i dunno, i feel like this song expects to be carried entirely by the vocals, which are good but not good enough to carry the entire song
mali - this remains a thing that exists
suriname - i literally do not remember listening to this before. yeah this is the phase where everything is just "there" and i need to stop

only my 12 and 10 are rlly good, 8 and 7 are alright too, the rest i could leave entirely.
not a horrible contest overall but not a particularly good one either

[pickemgenius]

oman the kpop entered was from one of my favorite The Genius contestants.

awesome.

[Quilford]

sunggyu? eh.

[Quilford]

yeonseung ftw

[Apricity]

sunggyu? eh.

excuse you

[Willowmeadow]

Next contest should be K-Pop exclusive.

(implying I won't get cut)

[Natirasha]

Can I submit J-Pop? I don't know enough K-Pop to submit something good.

[Parama]

i need to figure out some more stuff to send, i have my next entry lined up but beyond that i don't think i have a lot that SC would care for
i guess devin townsend becomes eligible again next contest, there's still several tracks i could def send from him