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Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 01:51 PM

Between 5pm and 6pm

Posted by: princess_lotti 22nd June 2016, 01:53 PM

yay!! hoping i've done well

Posted by: Regina 22nd June 2016, 01:56 PM

Ready, hyped and feeling sexy.

Posted by: Mattias 22nd June 2016, 01:58 PM

Looking forward to seeing what happens! It turned out to be a really good contest and more varied sonically than I was expecting <3

Posted by: HarryEzra 22nd June 2016, 02:03 PM

Look forward to the results

Posted by: Cody Collins 22nd June 2016, 02:06 PM

Here for last place

Cameron did you die at what I sent

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 02:07 PM

Just to give a bit of an insight to how the results will be presented. Every person's song will be revealed with their set of votes. There will not be a scoreboard being added up with the votes as we go on to keep the suspense (ala Family Fortunes and Pointless). This is just a trial way of revealing the results and will be changed for the next contest if it doesn't work out. Hope to see you all here

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 02:27 PM

Ooh yay, hyped for this!

This is the first time i've entered one of these ~anonymous~ competitions like UP or Nuggets so i look forward to seeing how the vote revealing works!

Posted by: Mattias 22nd June 2016, 02:37 PM

enter UP I think your taste would fit right in! I know having all these contests can seem like a lot at once tho, which is probably why I used to shy away from additional contests and just stayed with BJSC. Now I seem to enter every single one of them!

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 02:59 PM

Sometimes I get curious to enter but I either don't have anything to send OR I may have something suitable but I want to send it to BJSC idk though, maybe one day! This was fun to enter so I'd never completely rule out entering any of these other contests. Plus some of the entries I've heard from them are pretty cool (like 'Unicorn' :cheeseblock:)

As for this contest, I'm going to throw some hype in the way of Ivy Levan and Simone!

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 03:57 PM

let's get things started then

Non Voter: Lee / LushLife

Lee's song was... Pixie Lott - If I Ain't Got You. Lee will receive a 33% deduction from his score

Posted by: Regina 22nd June 2016, 03:58 PM

Lee sending Pixie, shocker.

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 03:59 PM

Regina

Regina's song was... Ivy Levan - Who Can You Trust.

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:02 PM

AdamAloud

Adam's song was... Linda Pritchard - Alive.

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 04:02 PM

So it was Regina behind that wonderful song slay.

Big shocker there with Lee.

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:03 PM

Iz

Iz's song was... Ikimono-gakari - Shakura.

Posted by: Robot 22nd June 2016, 04:05 PM

I'll be surprised if Simone doesn't romp to victory, I wish I'd thought of that but didn't realise Eurovision NF songs would be okay.

Posted by: Regina 22nd June 2016, 04:06 PM

Iz sending the most un-power power ballad ever recorded.

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:08 PM

princess_lotti

Lotti's song was... Florence + The Machine - Over The Love.

Posted by: HarryEzra 22nd June 2016, 04:09 PM

Lotti sending Florence

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:10 PM

Bré

Bré's song was... Karise Eden - Threads Of Silence.

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:11 PM

Jade

Jade's song was... Avril Lavigne - Keep Holding On.

Posted by: Bré 22nd June 2016, 04:11 PM

Well I guessed 'Sakura' was gonna be Iz's song before even listening to it, just from the title

Coming to get about 5 points in this lamfooo

Posted by: Regina 22nd June 2016, 04:12 PM

Ivy can trust lotti thats for sure *.*

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 04:13 PM

Unveiled *.* So now i can say cheers Regina, Izzles, Lotti and Bray

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:13 PM

Chez Wombat

Chez's song was... Carolina Liar - Show Me What I'm Looking For.

Posted by: Cody Collins 22nd June 2016, 04:15 PM

JADE YOU WOULD

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:15 PM

HarryEzra

Harry's song was... Carrie Underwood - Just A Dream.

Posted by: princess_lotti 22nd June 2016, 04:16 PM

ooh yay a 10! thanks harry!

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 04:16 PM

Thanks Chez! <3

was instantly the first song that came into my head for this *.* Avril is my queen.

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:17 PM

Ryan.

Ryan's song was... Diana Vickers - Notice.

Posted by: Regina 22nd June 2016, 04:18 PM

First harry disses Sebby then he neglects Ivy, coming for that -1.

Posted by: Bré 22nd June 2016, 04:19 PM

Thinking Simone has pretty much landslided this based on the votes so far ~ (and I approve if so)

Ryan sending Diana

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:19 PM

Mattias

Mattias' song was... Martina McBride - Concrete Angel.

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:21 PM

Jonjo

Jonjo's song was... OneRepublic - Secrets.

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 04:21 PM

A 12 from Ryan! *.* Thank youuuu. Ryan being the one behind Diana tho ;o

Cheers for the points also Mattias. <3

Edit: 12 from Jonjo too! Yassss

Posted by: Bré 22nd June 2016, 04:23 PM

Thank you for your charity Jonjo ~

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:25 PM

Cameron

Cameron's song was... Simone - Heart Shaped Hole.

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 04:26 PM

Ooh close to an exact point swap there Cami ;o thank you <3

Think you may be coming to win your own contest!

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:26 PM

Tim

Tim's song was... Samantha Jade - Soldier.

Posted by: Bré 22nd June 2016, 04:27 PM

Lol is Cameron coming to win his own CDs :')

Posted by: Cody Collins 22nd June 2016, 04:27 PM

YES TIM One of my faves from Samantha

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:28 PM

Cody Slayberry

Cody's song was... Ruelle - War Of Hearts.

Posted by: Cody Collins 22nd June 2016, 04:29 PM

To those of you who did point me:



I wonder if Mattias would have liked "Up In Flames" considering he liked "War Of Hearts" so much.

#MALEC

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 04:29 PM

Another 12! Thanks Cody Had a feeling you might have been the one behind Ruelle! Really liked.

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:29 PM

Liam

Liam's song was... Jessica Mauboy - Never Be The Same.

Posted by: HarryEzra 22nd June 2016, 04:30 PM

Want to thank you for all the points so far

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 04:31 PM

Liam not pointing his fave Avril tho ()

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:31 PM

FrankLuck

Franks's song was... Aneta Langerova - Voda Ziva.

Posted by: Bré 22nd June 2016, 04:32 PM

You know you've sent something shit when not even Liam votes for your Australian talent show artist

(Ooh thank you Frank tho!! And I really loved your song as well <3)

Posted by: *Tim 22nd June 2016, 04:32 PM

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Sammy is slaying

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:33 PM

Robot

Rob's song was... Sanna Nielsen - Rainbow.

Posted by: LexC 22nd June 2016, 04:33 PM

So to review:

Lee sent Pixie Lott
Ryan sent Diana Vickers
Iz sent a Japanese song
Tim sent Samantha Jade
Liam sent an Australian female
AdamAloud sent an MF song
Silas sent Tone Damli (I assume)
I sent [redacted but it's obvious]

Congratulations everyone on being so unpredictable and original.

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 04:33 PM

Sleigh mi hole Rob *.* and ty for the mealworm pointage Frank x

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:34 PM

Addy K!ng

Addy's song was... Marc Terenzi - Love to be loved.

Posted by: Cody Collins 22nd June 2016, 04:35 PM

Avril to win this plz

Posted by: Regina 22nd June 2016, 04:35 PM

Wheres ma points gone? I was doing so well.

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:35 PM

Riser

Jordan's song was... Kari Kimmel - Dreamer.

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 04:36 PM

Thanks Jord!

Posted by: Regina 22nd June 2016, 04:36 PM

So Riser is the other Kari fan on this site *.*

Posted by: Mattias 22nd June 2016, 04:38 PM

I do! Not quite as much as 'War of Hearts' which I did fall in love with, but both are good!

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:38 PM

Lindsey

Lindsey's song was... LIGHTS - Meteorites .

Posted by: Chez Wombat 22nd June 2016, 04:38 PM

Well it doesn't seem like I'm totally flopping, thanks to those kind enough to throw points my way <3 (yay Jordan for that 12!). The few of us brave enough to sens male artists to this deserve honorary wins tbh ;o

Posted by: Bré 22nd June 2016, 04:39 PM

Thanks Jordan xx

Not sure that Simone is gonna win this any more. Kinda looking like Avril might. x

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:40 PM

Qween

John's song was... Lara Fabian - Adagio .

Posted by: Regina 22nd June 2016, 04:40 PM

Congrats on being a sour old qweef and brining the mood down, as ever.

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:41 PM

HausofKubrick

Bal's song was... Kesha - Love Into The Light .

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 04:41 PM

Thanks for the 12 Lindsey! and the 6s as well Bal and John! <3

Posted by: Cody Collins 22nd June 2016, 04:42 PM

I don't see Sofi Marinova on the list tho

+ "Cody sent something from a TV show he stans"

Posted by: princess_lotti 22nd June 2016, 04:42 PM

yay another 10!! thank u

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:42 PM

Ultraviolence1989

Sam's song was... Meghan Trainor - Kindly Calm Me Down .

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 04:43 PM

Thanks Samalam Slay me with these 6s.

Posted by: princess_lotti 22nd June 2016, 04:43 PM

sam sending both meghan trainor and her spanish alias to bj contests this month*.*

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:44 PM

LexC

Lex's song was... Brequette - Más.

Posted by: Bré 22nd June 2016, 04:44 PM

Trading points with Lex tho

(thankoo Lex and Bal)

Posted by: Mattias 22nd June 2016, 04:44 PM

I approve of this Stunning!

Posted by: FrankLuck 22nd June 2016, 04:45 PM

+ for a change, I flop here too (well, I didn't expect huge success, so not a real shocker)

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:45 PM

Silas

Silas' song was... Tone Damli - Winner Of A Losing Game.

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:47 PM

FINAL VOTES
Dobbo

Dobbo's song was... Molly Sandén- Phoenix.

Posted by: Bré 22nd June 2016, 04:48 PM

Yeah I think I came last

Thanks to Iz/Frank/Cameron/Dobbo (somewhat surprisingly given the artist)/Regina/Lex for providing some v good song discoveries from this anyway. All far better than my own song.

Posted by: Cody Collins 22nd June 2016, 04:49 PM

Join the club

Posted by: princess_lotti 22nd June 2016, 04:49 PM

hoping to not have done too badluy!

Posted by: Dobbo 22nd June 2016, 04:51 PM

Well got some hefty trickle points in that! Thanks to all voters, found some good discoveries in this!

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:51 PM

I present positions 11-27...

11. Carolina Liar - Show Me What I'm Looking For [58 points]
12. Linda Pritchard - Alive [52 points]
13. LIGHTS - Meteorites [51 points]
14. Brequette - Más [50 points, tie broken]
15. Florence + The Machine - Over The Love [50 points, tie broken]
16. Ikimono-gakari - Shakura [43 points]
17. Martina McBride - Concrete Angel [40 points]
18. Sanna Nielsen - Rainbow [35 points]
19. Diana Vickers - Notice [33 points]
20. Aneta Langerova - Voda Ziva [29 points, tie broken]
21. Kari Kimmel - Dreamer [29 points, tie broken]
22. Tone Damli - Winner Of A Losing Game [28 points]
23. Meghan Trainor - Kindly Calm Me Down [26 points]
24. Ruelle - War Of Hearts [22 points]
25. Karise Eden - Threads Of Silence [20 points]
26. Pixie Lott - If I Ain't Got You [13 points with deduction]
27. Marc Terenzi - Love to be loved [8 points]

Posted by: princess_lotti 22nd June 2016, 04:52 PM

oh yay 15th!! will take that, thank you to anyone who pointed me <33

Posted by: Cody Collins 22nd June 2016, 04:52 PM

Well that exceeded my expectations

Posted by: Bré 22nd June 2016, 04:54 PM

Oh yeah I forgot about that Marc Terenzi thing Thanks Addy (and Lee for not voting) for shielding me from last place, much appreciated. x

All the foreign language songs are too low.

Posted by: LexC 22nd June 2016, 04:54 PM

Got to admit, I did not have Bre down as a potential fan of a Spanglish rewrite of Zara Larsson's 'Uncover' but I'm happy to be surprised!

Not expecting to have done too well in this but that John 12 should hopefully mean I avoided a total embarrassment.

Posted by: Mattias 22nd June 2016, 04:55 PM

I did a little better than I thought I did when looking at the results being posted, thank you to everyone who pointed Martina McBride! <3 Pleased about my 12, Lara Fabian, being in the top 10 as well

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:55 PM

10. OneRepublic - Secrets [60 Points]
09. Carrie Underwood - Just A Dream [71 Points, Ties Broken]
08. Ivy Levan - Who Can You Trust? [71 Points, Ties Broken]
07. Molly Sandén- Phoenix [77 Points]
06. Kesha - Love Into The Light [85 Points]

Posted by: *Tim 22nd June 2016, 04:55 PM

Top 5 *.*

Posted by: FrankLuck 22nd June 2016, 04:56 PM

Ooh, 20th, awesome, I'll take it!

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 04:56 PM

Glad to see Ivy and Molly both top 10, and Simone top 5! All three of my medal positions doing very well.

Posted by: Dobbo 22nd June 2016, 04:56 PM

7th! Very good

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 04:56 PM

5. Lara Fabian - Adagio [89 Points]
4. Jessica Mauboy - Never Be The Same [92 Points]

Posted by: HarryEzra 22nd June 2016, 04:57 PM

9th very happy with that Thank you to those who voted for Carrie

Posted by: Liаm 22nd June 2016, 04:58 PM

Omg 4th *.*

Jess slaying/

Posted by: princess_lotti 22nd June 2016, 04:59 PM

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Posted by: Regina 22nd June 2016, 05:00 PM

8th and Lara slaying

Posted by: princess_lotti 22nd June 2016, 05:00 PM

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Posted by: princess_lotti 22nd June 2016, 05:00 PM

f***

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 05:00 PM

3. Avril Lavigne - Keep Holding On [114 Points]
2. Samantha Jade - Soldier [121 Points]
1. Simone - Heart Shaped Hole [135 Points]

There we have it! Absolutely ecstatic to have somehow won! I first discovered the song when looking for a Worldvision entry for Sam . I already own all the CD's that I bought to give away so today I went out and bought 1 more so that Tim and Jade can both have 3 each as prizes for being the runners up! (if you could both PM me please and RIP my bank account for the postage for Tim_ Thank you all for entering and full table will be here shortly!

Posted by: HarryEzra 22nd June 2016, 05:01 PM

LMAOOOO Lotti

Posted by: *Tim 22nd June 2016, 05:01 PM

LMAOOO Lotti you got v excited about Jess right there

Yass for 2nd position tho, *.*
Finally Sammy is slaying at something

Posted by: princess_lotti 22nd June 2016, 05:01 PM

well done all three of you! all fab songs

Posted by: Regina 22nd June 2016, 05:02 PM

Decent winner, it grw on me.

Amazing contest better songs than pretty much all the BJSC ones in recent times and a great way to show the results. Well done Cam.

Posted by: Dobbo 22nd June 2016, 05:02 PM

Well done you 3 especially Cameron winning his own CD's

Posted by: Jade 22nd June 2016, 05:02 PM

Lmao at you winning your own contest Cami! Thrilled with 3rd though! That's v cool of you to split the prizes between me and Tim!

Thanks for doing this!

Posted by: Bré 22nd June 2016, 05:02 PM

Oh my initial thought was right after all yay. x

Well that's a really good winner anyway so WD Cameron <3 (Liked all of those top 3, 'Soldier' was 11th in my ranking ~)

I'm hoping the theme for the next one of these is a little bit more accessible so I have a chance of finding a song I actually like...

Posted by: princess_lotti 22nd June 2016, 05:03 PM

thank you so much for hosting this, really enjoyed it (hoping for more soon!! )

Posted by: Liаm 22nd June 2016, 05:04 PM

Jess slaying this page x

Thanks for doing this Cam, was a refreshing different way to do things!

Posted by: Cody Collins 22nd June 2016, 05:04 PM

WD you guys

Glad that's out of the way, roll on UP!

Posted by: HarryEzra 22nd June 2016, 05:04 PM

WD Cam

Also WD Tim and Jade

Thanks for hosting this

Posted by: Mattias 22nd June 2016, 05:05 PM

Thanks Cameron for a really enjoyable contest, good job for winning it too Congrats to the runners up as well!

Posted by: Regina 22nd June 2016, 05:05 PM

What's more accessable than a ballad?

Posted by: princess_lotti 22nd June 2016, 05:05 PM

she slays my life on the daily x

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 05:06 PM

the next contest will probably be around November/December as we don't want to bombard the site with another monthly song contest if anyone has any ideas for the next one and would be interested in hosting, PM me, Tim and Liam with your ideas and we'll get something set up nearer the time

Posted by: Liаm 22nd June 2016, 05:06 PM

Power ballads is hardly asking you to find Mongolian death metal

Posted by: Mattias 22nd June 2016, 05:07 PM

Mongolian death metal for next theme pls

(not sure I would find a song I love for that tho )

Posted by: Chez Wombat 22nd June 2016, 05:10 PM

Not quite the highest male vocals song darn, but I'll gladly take 11th, especially as I thought I'd flop entirely, thanks again everyone for voting, very glad that one of my favourite songs of recent years caught on so much! Simone was a big highlight, so a deserved winner, and Avril's song was good as well (if a tad cheap in both cases ;o) so very glad with that top 2. Shame that none of the Foreign Language songs made it to the top 10 though.

As I said before, I actually made some good discoveries here when I didn't think I would and was very smoothly ran. Hats off to the Pop mods

Posted by: Cameron 22nd June 2016, 05:38 PM

Posted by: spun 22nd June 2016, 06:17 PM

love it :')


Lotti and TheSnake need to have a talk

Didn't enter this due to having no pop potentials in mind but a great top 3 and yay for Ke$ha and 1R coming top 10. Poor UV shame LIGHTS, Sanna and Diana missed it.

I thought Cameron was the one who sent Samantha after knowing his looning for her on plug but I correctly predicted Lindsey to send LIGHTS (my second guess would've been Iz) and also Silas with Tone Damil (me and LarsM teas) and UV with Meghan Trainor. No prize for guessing Lee sent Pixie Lott tho

I'mma need to keep my eye ear out for the next one of these as it seemed quite fun, especially with the idea of guessing who sent what.

Posted by: Iz~ 22nd June 2016, 07:05 PM

I'd argue it has a lot of subtle power behind the chorus line, that's quite common among Asian ballads. The key for a power ballad to me is how emotional the music is taken at a measured pace, rather than a strict adherence to a low tempo.



It is the first one to be fair - although don't count on me not going for Japan again - I knew everyone would go for Western songs so I wanted to do a bit of variety (and when I decided to enter late on to help with numbers it turned out I had approximately zero Western ballads I wanted to enter), although it turned out that nearly all of the Japanese ballads I had in reserve had rather well-tempoed verses so after a load of rummaging through my list I sent the slowest one to Cameron and asked him if it was okay.

Congratulations to Cameron, and good to see Jessica Mauboy so high, I ended up really enjoying that song, even though it was quite fast for a ballad, I guess I'm just not much of a slow song person

Posted by: Qween 22nd June 2016, 10:23 PM

Yaas at 5th for Larger and 3 sets of top marks is fabulous too, glad so many people loved it as much as I do.

Posted by: Silas 22nd June 2016, 10:53 PM

This was fun! Thanks for hosting.

Despite giving it my 12, because it is FLAWLESS, i'm glad Jess didn't win because it's a mid tempo! That song is miles too fast to be a ballad! (same with Phoenix and probably Soldier too)


Hopefully Tone was a discovery for Dobbo, who has revealed himself to have pretty good taste by entering Sandén. Quite a Scandipop fan it appears, I whole heartedly approve, we should talk.

Tone will always be a winner in my eyes

Posted by: Riser 23rd June 2016, 03:30 AM

Yup! I've only known her for a couple months but listened to a whole bunch of her songs and this one's my fave. One of us should send her to BJSC now...better yet she needs to make a new album because 'Black' is fantastic.

(For the record my back-up was 'Finally' by Fergie.)
You're very welcome! Wonderful song, I unknowingly walked past Carolina Liar once when they were here to perform at my uni. And yeah, top points out of so many strong ballads--this was a very high-quality contest so I'll be looking forward to the next one!

Posted by: Jade 25th June 2016, 03:41 PM

CDs arrived today for anyone curious of what they were *.* Thank you Cami

Posted by: Regina 25th June 2016, 03:46 PM

She just did! It's called Poppyfields.

Posted by: Mattias 26th June 2016, 08:48 AM

Halsey Enjoy those now! I also rather like how the Foxes CD (I do remember enjoying some of her songs previously so may need to give this album a spin too sometime) is strategically placed to hide your address haha (understandably)

Posted by: *Tim 26th June 2016, 08:59 AM

Omg thank GOD Cameron knows me well enough to NOT send me Halsey or Foxes then

Posted by: princess_lotti 26th June 2016, 09:15 AM

i'm sure he's sent u demi instead xxxxx

Posted by: Cameron 26th June 2016, 01:07 PM

I was tempted