Song Contest 108 (RESULTS POSTED)

[kraska77]

weeeeeee
im curious to see how this entry will do

[kraska77]

What just happened
Everyone's doing jpop???
Lol my song will stand out(not in a good way)

[kraska77]

Rabble dabble babble

[kraska77]

how the fuck have i never been cut till now

also @ whoever submitted Yoshiko Sai, we are now BFFs. this is def getting my 12 unless something else is super ultra god-tier good

[kraska77]

Kinda hoped for more from Conceptual Romance. I don't like it much after this first listen, but it's interesting enough that I'll check in again sometime before voting (supposing I do that).

Agreed. It had a good beginning, but it lost it for me.

Yep same for me. At first It sounded like something I would give high points to but then it got very whatever

[kraska77]

bolivia- okay....i LOVE blixa but....what was this?

i looked it up and got this:

"“This is an example of a Wikipedia supported composition,” smiles Bargeld. “I did a mathematical calculation. saying each beat is one day, we're doing it in 4/4, at 120 beats per minute, and each instrument is one of the powers involved. We tried it in 60 bpm it is true – that was 26 minutes long, which was quite annoying. We could have sped it up to 160 bpm and it would have been comical. So 120, it’s a good medium decision. We had 20 different pipes to represent all the different nations and the duration of their involvement. It starts from beat 1, Serbia, Austria, Germany, and tak tak tak tak, whoever comes in joins this big party of the First World War run until the start of armistice.

“It's a statistical piece of music,” declares Bargeld, “a statistical piece of dance music in fact, because if you hear that, you want to move around to it.”

okay...i appreciate the research behind this, but ultimately it's Dada-ist stuff that i cant appreciate nor respect and doesn't evoke any feelings in me. descriptions of this album claim that it's supposed to evoke the horrors embedded in the sounds they conjure from the terror of the industrialized 20th century. in reality, it fails to be more than a cold mathematical piece. compare this to schnittke's compositions, for example, that were also inspired by the horrors of war, you dont even need to be told what the music is about to recognise that you're listening to miniature nightmares

[kraska77]

albania- argh i love this song, makes me cry everytime <3
laos- felt nothing
somalia- bad
fiji- nice
burkina faso- mediocre
usa- its ok
kenya- i like it!!!!!!
Cote d'Ivoire- its cute but i dont think i would listen to this again
taiwan- felt nothing
canada- umm....no
hong kong- no
Afghanistan- not sure how i feel about this one, probably giving it points
ecuador- felt nothing
iceland- NO
georgia- vocals are annoying
azerbaijan- it's ok......
rok- no
micronesia- no
greece- mediocre
chad- NO
italy- no
latvia- no
nicaragua- shes one of my favs. this and yoru no sei were two of the songs i had lined up for future submissions
sweden- no
bhutan- it's ok

[kraska77]

hey Sesq
i just clicked on your last.fm link

Your compatibility with soasicmnu is

Super

.
You both listen to Swans, Coil and Elvis Costello.

:0

[kraska77]

i dont hate rap
but yes i really dislike metalcore. i find black and folk metal to be the only subgenres with innovative/experimental content, rest of metal all sounds the same to me

[kraska77]

oh i misread your post, thought it said "deciding" instead of depending

[kraska77]

arent most black metal artists folk-influenced and incorprate folk instruments in their music(tbh i dont listen to much black metal but this is the impression i got)? im thinking of stuff like ulver

[kraska77]

i had the most "no"s i think

[kraska77]

Parama is an imposterrrr

[kraska77]

Oh no dw...actually after seeing how my past Maki Akasawa entry got mixed reviews, i decided to put the weirder folk and psychfolk jazz stuff I had as low priority entries bc I thought no-one would like them...so seeing how well-received your entry was encouraged me to start submitting more of the psych-folk stuff that I keep chickening out of submitting not next contest though :p next contest I'm submitting balkan folk