Song Contest - BOTB 5! (Results are in!)

[Plotinus]

I put a sad song.

[Plotinus]

raabbbbbbbblllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Plotinus]

first pass:

top tier (in no particular order)

iceland mew comforting sounds
uruguay woodkid the golden age
mali arthur beatrice who returned
gabon of monsters and men empire

second best (in no particular order):
italy the national fake empire
ecuador biffy ciyro know your quarry
qatar xylo america
scotland florence and the machine no light no light
belarus matthew good 99% of us is failure
greece rasputina a retinue of moons/the infidel is me
india estradasphere super buck ii
france metric cascades
singapore kimbra two way street
slovenia rissole the great rain beatle
portugal lana del rey born to die

not good enough to be in the top ten: everything else

[Plotinus]

This Rasputina song is too complex for me but it reminds me so much of my first girlfriend from half a life time ago that i'm probably going to give it some points anyway.

[Plotinus]

the lyrics to the hungarian song mean

I'll leave you when
Nobody is nervous,
When everything is quiet,
that's when I'll leave you.
When everything is opening,
for spring every person,
When everyone is happy,
that's when I'll leave you.

Sie* comes in vain, sie fears in vain,
however sie looks at it, sie lives alone,
sie looks at hirself from a tower,
that sie will disappear,
but sie isn't nervous.

When ever star is burning,
it's the darkest evening,
it's written on the wall,
that hir body got tired.
Hir arm got tired,
Hir handkerchief onto the ground,
Sie throws it and falls asleep,
that's the darkest evening.

We listen to the silence,
We suffocate in it,
Both of us know,
That this is already fucked.

Sie comes in vain, sie fears in vain,
however sie looks, sie lives alone,
sie looks at hirself from a tower,
that sie will disappear,
but sie isn't nervous.


*Hungarian doesn't have gendered pronouns.

[Plotinus]

Managed to get my votes in!

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- his voice is a warm earthy brown with little patches of sunlight in shifting patterns on the dirt as if through the negative spaces of tree leaves.

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- comforting is a good description of this. Greys and periwinkles and reminds me of a few girls I used to know.

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- reminds of so many songs from the 90s. her voice is a steely grey and there's a rusty red and she looks like Tori Amos but she doesn't sound like Tori Amos and the chorus has some greens

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- This song too has a swaying rusty red and strands of purple like veins and the pink comes out of nowhere in the chorus but then goes away quickly again.

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- His voice is the licky dark chocolate brown

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- this song is like candy.

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- this one's complicated. but it's sticky like any other matthew good song.

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- it's very watery.

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- it has the urgency of rusty songs but it's a hurried urgency not a slow nagging and some of the stones are polished smooth and some are a little jagged.

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- Gold and pink and rust and blood and clashing colours and urgency and distress.

[Plotinus]

I liked your song, Ceph! I hadn't heard it before because I don't listen to radio much.

[Plotinus]

I didn't know until other people here said it was and i was just taking their words for it.

these days, i mostly find new music by youtube autoplay.

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it's the 19th already!

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I've kind of reached the age where you mostly just listen to the stuff you listened to in your youth and don't seek new stuff unless someone shoves it in your face.

I know some people manage to keep seeking out new stuff and enjoying new things even when they are decades older than I am but I didn't really. The song contest is the first "listening to new things on purpose" event that has happened to me in the past 7 years or so.