Song Contest 143 (Results posted!)

[Cyril]

sending something bad to celebrate my victory

[Cyril]

submitted the most anti-song contest-friendly thing i loved from last year

i legit don't think anyone here will enjoy it but i'm prepared to be surprised

[Cyril]

ugh
there are two songs I want to submit from the same artist, and I feel like I'm going to go with the one I enjoy less in the name of #winning

haven't decided yet tho

submit the better one because i, specifically, will notice if you don't

[Cyril]

i was trying to find a metal cover of crab rave to post in response but all the ones i could find suck but not in a funny way

[Cyril]

my song is only 6 minutes long so you can listen to it if you only have 7 minutes left before you die

[Cyril]

panzer if you don't want to listen you can just

not post

it's fine

we don't need your opinion here

[Cyril]

you have a good point

[Cyril]

Anyone wanna listen to some Billie Eilish

[Cyril]

@pops

[Cyril]

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[Cyril]

I promise that you'll hate mine, Vi

I have a near infinite list of music to choose from as I regularly get about a hundred albums a year, and usually most from different bands. Lots of new bands I've never heard of. I won't subject y'all to most of it obviously

[Cyril]

Because I really like music

[Cyril]

Oh yeah apparently I have the wrong link again like an idiot tool feel free to fix that

[Cyril]

i only barely even watch fantano's stuff tbh he has crap taste in rock & metal

[Cyril]

Interesting

[Cyril]

honestly the best 1 point i've ever received

[Cyril]

Iran – Amusingly I’ve actually heard this song (but not this specific remix) while I was going through the billboard year-end hot 100. The beat of this is kind of obnoxiously early-2000’s in style (I think it’s just straight up a sample?) and the performances on this are just… not my thing, tbh.

Chad – Hmm. I feel like I should like this one more than I actually do but I think his vocals just aren’t working for me. It’s alright though. (AVERAGE)

Djibouti – Hos mad? Hos mad. This is exactly that kind of neo-classical prog metal type of instrumental that is like, y’know, technically impressive, and there were at least some twists on it, but it still didn’t feel that fresh. Still, I’ll take what I can get when it comes to metal in song contests. (DECENT)

Costa Rica – This felt like an entire event that came and went while I was listening to it without really leaving much of an impact. The weird diversions that kept happening towards the end feel like they’d work in the context of an album but do nothing on their own, too. It was, like, fine, but. (AVERAGE)

Spain – God, I’m sure glad this isn’t what mainstream music sounds like anymore. The 80’s sound like they were just a disaster. Sure this isn’t -terrible- but it’s very much not good & kind of obnoxious.

Russia – This isn’t even a funny meme. I’m also not listening to this.

Australia – This one’s actually kind of annoying too, come to think of it. Y’all are really on a roll right now. I guess this one isn’t so bad that I wouldn’t relisten to it again though. (AVERAGE)

Iceland – Man, two-thirds of this album are incredible. Love how chaotic this starts but how it all resolves into something really beautiful by the end, slowly but surely.

Comoros – I’ve probably listened to this band before, the name sounds familiar for some reason? This is pretty neat math rock stuff, if more math rock was like this and less just like random twinkles I’d like the genre more. (DECENT)

USA – Why would you use a music video like this for a song contest. Anyways haha it’s a reference to IT. I dunno. Parts of this are cool but the really core-ish parts do nothing for me and I can’t really take it seriously since it’s all just a giant movie reference. (AVERAGE)

Hungary – I think I’ve heard reference to this song plenty of times but not the original song itself. I kinda hate it but that’s not surprising.

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Sealand – This 100% seemed like the intro track to some kind of power/symphonic metal album and it turns out that’s exactly what this is. I don’t know why you’d submit this over an actual song off the album, but at the same time, either way I think I wouldn’t have cared about it very much. (AVERAGE)

Canada – Eventually I’ll figure out why country singers sing with so much twang in their voice. It’s a stylistic choice that almost universally hurts the genre. Like the instrumentation of this is fine enough with some decent swing but nothing about the vocals appeals to me at all, and it’s not… that special, either. (AVERAGE)

Greenland – I really don’t have much to say about this one other than that I really like how it sounds and I enjoyed it quite a bit. (GOOD)

Somalia – People have various opinions on what constitutes “butt rock” but this specific sound is exactly what I think of when I think of “butt rock”. Meaty, heavy, and pretty gross and I don’t think I care for it much. I dunno. It’s not “the worst” but I feel like I’m being generous with the rating here. (AVERAGE)

Croatia – Oh hey I played this game like 5 years ago. I don’t know why you’d submit Ominous Latin Chanting in a song contest. I don’t think this game’s soundtrack had a ton of actual, like, songs from what I can remember though? I’m gonna submit a video game soundtrack song next contest so this is a good example for me of what not to submit.

Egypt – This is way better than I was expecting it to be and I was kind of blindsided. It’s got a lot of late 90’s/early 00’s pop sound to it especially in the vocal melodies. The climax hits like a bulldozer. Just a good pop banger, nice. (GOOD)

Liechtenstein – Not fully sold on the vocals but this has a nice anthemic feel to it & pretty solid guitar work to match it as well. (DECENT)

Turkey – I ended up listening to about half of this before realizing I could be doing literally anything else.

Poland – I feel like I might be missing some of the context on this one but this was still a pretty enjoyable folk ballad type of song. (DECENT)

Ecuador – Well some of this kind of works but a lot of it does not work at all for me and kinda gets on my nerves. Considering this has been a fairly strong contest so far I’m fine leaving this one by the wayside.

San Marino – For a bit I was wondering if I’d been tricked into listening to a commercial. It does eventually start kind of sounding like a real song at some point, but it still has that uncannily corporate feel to it regardless. (AVERAGE)

[Cyril]

he is in fact not okay

[Cyril]

Or Petey Pablo

It is, in fact, literally a petey pablo sample

[Cyril]

The lower I score with Aura the happier I am

[Cyril]

voted. feel like i've probably never had such a large gap between my original impressions and my second listen before. my 12 came from a "DECENT" song despite having two "GOOD" songs (that still got high points, don't worry)

[Cyril]

I will say I thought the time sig shenanigans in parts of your song didn't flow well but the rest I dug

[Cyril]

Empire giving me high points is the biggest plot twist of the contest
I will say I had 9 songs I was fine giving points to and my 1 point was a toss-up between three tracks I didn't at all fat about

[Cyril]

Looking at Poland at literally the bottom (pedit well it was) of the scoreboard and wondering if I listened to a different song than everyone else

Predicting a high snowflake score this time based on that alone

[Cyril]

Also hell yeah getting outscored by a bad meme

[Cyril]

nvm all the Poland votes came late
also still outscored by the meme woo

[Cyril]

Will I ever break free of the middle of the snowflake spectrum