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Posted by: imaduck 8th June 2019, 10:18 PM

https://forms.gle/HBov8UYNa1158EYm7

don't send a PM because ducks don't know how to read PMs

AQs

❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5GypiM_Vw ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yRH99u1X94 ⛔🦆❌

DNQs

❌🦆⛔ https://youtu.be/QOlfTp5hc3U ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvHNk1IBCv4 ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hbGpdStbK8 ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5m3jAL7eXY ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjzzgssrhVQ ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21yNAS__UgU ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W49ghm7IX4A ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9_4NZoIOME ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzsMGm9m-kE ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq_EpxPuNOw ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzpww1yQKds ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwXjXPM5DrM ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Ipxo1LhBM ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRcXVZFlSWY ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlvEghD25H8 ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8rqboJtehLU ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkptNStRzc ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvSBYt5_vzU ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts5lBdQnMUI ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ncVFfs2oGg ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV-rxGI9eNU ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3ZhE_6wklg ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://youtu.be/aklVAO3e_GQ ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inkzW1DhQXA ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbUTVENlDA0 ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z3fcOmsSOk ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://youtu.be/ELLtBNzXWgg ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T642K6xqTI ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UcNDVQ5-TpU ⛔🦆❌
❌🦆⛔ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZhK_A-brqw ⛔🦆❌

Vote now, or don't - you'll probably get vetoed anyway.

https://forms.gle/HBov8UYNa1158EYm7

You might have until 15/6/19 23:59, Or I might just not ever close voting, does it really matter? We're all going to die anyway.

legends might come in a bit, or I might just eat another 20 mcnuggets with sour cream dip, what does it matter.

Posted by: Bré 8th June 2019, 10:20 PM

http://www.mediafire.com/file/17a5bmyuy91xbb9/BJSC_115_Semi-Final_1.zip/file

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Semi-Final 1 YouTube Playlist

~ let me know if you want me to change your link in here as ever ~



Alternate links if auto-generated videos don't work

Posted by: dandy* 8th June 2019, 10:22 PM

Voted x

Posted by: Bré 8th June 2019, 10:33 PM

A lot of people seem to have sent Meghan Trainor and Kylie Minogue this month

Posted by: danG 8th June 2019, 10:33 PM

Unavailable:
❌🦆⛔ Andamiro - Hypnotize (Areia Balkan Version) // Daehun ⛔🦆❌

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 8th June 2019, 10:35 PM

Presumably we're going to get the actual links at some point, otherwise this is going to be an incredibly inconvenient contest

Lots of artists which I know but songs I don't. I've actually had a Cicada song on my entry radar for a little while so interesting to see an entry here!

Posted by: Codyclipse 🌙 8th June 2019, 10:51 PM

oooh a lot from this semi that I know already! Emma, Armin, Slayyyter, Anda, Initial Talk

Posted by: Bré 8th June 2019, 10:51 PM

I think we need to allow ducky some more time to grieve his veto

yes, the real links will be added tomorrow I am told

Posted by: travis 8th June 2019, 10:55 PM

Posted by: Chez Wombat 8th June 2019, 10:58 PM

Well I've listened to everything and what a terrible month :/ All these songs are just the same!

Posted by: UltraME! 8th June 2019, 11:06 PM

Can I give 12pts to every song rn? *.*

Posted by: Bré 8th June 2019, 11:06 PM

Oops looks like the deadline already passed. Deductions all around.

the actual deadline is Friday

Posted by: linds 8th June 2019, 11:32 PM

omg swimming girls, dream wife, phantogram and Emma blackery?! this isn't even my semi but this is a very Taahino friendly contest *.*

Posted by: Iz~ 8th June 2019, 11:58 PM

Oh god I have to vote in both semis don't I? Better hop to it then, duck, let me vote by tonight (or I'll just go and get them off the sheet).

Posted by: Bré 9th June 2019, 12:16 AM

While we await ducky adding the real links, I have put up the YouTube playlist in the second post x I'll try to get the MP3 packs up tomorrow.

Only two songs that I already know from this semi, both from PJSC (Emma Blackery and Swimming Girls).

I notice East Rukahavian have moved on from their Finnish streak, will we now get several Italian entries in a row from them (this one looks like it might be really good based solely on the aesthetics of the video). Nice to see Unge Ferrari reappearing again as well after 'Hologram' got robbed, hope this will be another goodun from him ~

My entry has been stuck in my head nearly constantly since I found it the other week so I hope it can have a bit of pop appeal

Posted by: Dexton 9th June 2019, 12:24 AM

Emma Blackery *.* Not a great song but nice to see her name

Posted by: Math 👺 9th June 2019, 12:35 AM

Kinda confused why Alone got through this time but got vetoed when I tried to send it?? If it's Raindrops all over again where I try to send it and gets vetoed and then it's sent the next month and it wins... I will punch somebody

Posted by: Codyclipse 🌙 9th June 2019, 12:37 AM

I love Third Eye but I'm kinda wishing it was Fake Friends that was sent

Posted by: Bré 9th June 2019, 12:41 AM

It was only vetoed because Slayyyter was sent 3 times that month (the other 2 being for a different, more hyped song) so you could have just tried it again the following month yourself

Posted by: Math 👺 9th June 2019, 12:43 AM

I definitely should've now that I think about it... I definitely think that there should be a rule in place that a song can't be sent after being vetoed previously though

Posted by: Math 👺 9th June 2019, 12:51 AM

I still believe this veto was BS too but whatever. Never seen a song get vetoed with 10 points and I should have contested it but didn't realize I was allowed to do that until I just reviewed the framework

Slayyyter - Alone 10
- Artist previously came 11th in BJSC 109 10 (7 for position, 3 for recycling)
- Artist previously reached BJSC TBO XI Semi-Finals
- Triple artist confirmation
- Blogs: V Magazine, MuuMuse, Rolling Stone
- In SevenSeize's personal chart
- ***MODERATOR DISCRETION*** - vetoed due to triple artist confirmation and past performance combined.

Posted by: Bré 9th June 2019, 01:08 AM

I can't speak for other mods obvz but tbh if you had contested it then I would have just said it was banned for that month due to the triple confirmation but it'd be fine the next month (since 10 points is indeed not enough to be thrown out under normal circumstances). Sorry about this being a bit annoying for you but ah well, nothing we can really do about it now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is pretty much the only circumstance under which a vetoed song would be allowed in on a second attempt so soon after being originally vetoed.

Posted by: travis 9th June 2019, 01:08 AM

I fully forgot Alone was even vetoed before, oops! At least it got through this time!

Posted by: linds 9th June 2019, 01:49 AM

Villains pt ii is the best from her album

Posted by: RobBob 9th June 2019, 03:39 AM

Oh my god, if I knew Slayyyter was only vetoed for that reason, I’d have sent Alone ages ago, I’m obsessed with her lol.

Posted by: Cucumberella 9th June 2019, 06:51 AM

it's not as if the wool was pulled over your eyes math - the vetoing that time made it clear why it was vetoed. it specifically said it was due to the triple artist confirmation combined with artist performance. take one of those elements away and it wasn't enough to veto on its own. it was just unfair that month for it to be confirmed so recently after i'm high was taking off, "mine" was making the waves everywhere and for her to be confirmed 3 times in the one contest. tbf i'm not particularly thrilled about her being sent again either but the song on it's own isn't much of an issue.

Posted by: Cucumberella 9th June 2019, 06:54 AM

for the record, the only reason that the song itself got 10 points is because there's now nothing in the framework for multiple artist confirmations (when there really should be) which is why moderator discretion had to come into play. under the old framework it would've easily been binned, so it's not an isolated incident.

saying that though i'm not really sure why travis isn't aware that alone was vetoed when both he and i were vetoed the exact same month with "mine"!

Posted by: Mattias 9th June 2019, 09:43 AM

Interesting to see BANKS here, even with a remix. Also, as much as I sometimes am a sort of purveyor of originality, thanks for changing the semi numbers to just 1 & 2, just cos I was having trouble remembering if I was in semi 4a or 26 or whatever those numbers were haha.

When are we good for a plug session?

Posted by: travis 9th June 2019, 10:13 AM

Because I don't read and commit to memory every single veto of every single contest! I tend to skim to see if my own song was vetoed and move on. Plus, I reconfirmed from "Mine" before it was even officially vetoed because Bray (I believe) told me it was already confirmed by someone else!

Posted by: King Rollo 9th June 2019, 11:00 AM

Thanks for doing the youtube playlist Bre. I entered the lyric video for my song as when I play the official video,I have to turn the volume up to maximum and even then the sound is muffled,it's much clearer on the lyric video. The views for the lyric video are three times as much as the official one so maybe the Menke fans have found the same thing. Can you change the playlist? Thanks.

Posted by: Suedehead2 9th June 2019, 11:19 AM

Congratulations to Rontvia on becoming the first country to enter a song on my list of possibles. What a shame I can't vote for it Three other counties have entered artists I've considered (including one artist who did well for me in the Sports Forum contest)

Posted by: Bré 9th June 2019, 03:43 PM

Changed and changed x (I'll just go back to the link you originally submitted Iz, there's no 'official' upload of it anywhere so it doesn't really matter, I just picked the one with the most views which I thought just looked like it was an extended version of the intro to that one anime to fit the full song length, clearly I am not well versed in Higurashi shockingly xx).

I'm amazed that 'Naraku No Hana' is actually on Spotify. The rest of the album it's on seems to be greyed out at least in the UK but that one song is available! Spotify going out of its way to not be Séyetana racist for once



Yeah you posted 'I hope no one took my song already' and I just replied saying they had to save you the wait

Posted by: Iz~ 9th June 2019, 04:34 PM

Oh, you did fine, the problem with anime OPs is that they're edited with good video footage for a 1:30 song, but also exist as full songs, which only sometimes get music videos which means it's a minefield. Any further anime editing is entering amateur AMV territory, and that one looked VERY amateur far too many jump-cuts to what looked like every comedic scene in the anime when the song is a downbeat emotion-filled and i'm ranting when it doesn't matter so i'm just gonna white-text this
I'm still not quite believing it's real. Spotify finally listening to my angry emails.

Posted by: Codyclipse 🌙 9th June 2019, 06:16 PM

i'm glad ducky is not gonna cancel after all x

Posted by: imaduck 9th June 2019, 07:16 PM

Don't push me, I'm a spiteful person, I still might

Posted by: Bré 9th June 2019, 07:20 PM

It's a good thing you can't DNQ.

Posted by: imaduck 9th June 2019, 08:35 PM

This sounds like a challenge.

Posted by: Cameron 9th June 2019, 11:07 PM

CLOSING WITH A BANG FOR MY POP HOES

Posted by: Bré 10th June 2019, 04:05 PM

http://www.mediafire.com/file/17a5bmyuy91xbb9/BJSC_115_Semi-Final_1.zip/file

also added to the 2nd post x

~

Would people be up for a plug session tomorrow? ~

Posted by: coi 10th June 2019, 04:06 PM

Yeah tomorrow's probably the best day for me.

Posted by: Addy K!ng 10th June 2019, 04:25 PM

Yes tomorrow for semi 1

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 10th June 2019, 04:28 PM

Completely missed this thread with that title Some good ones here - love Ten Tonnes, Swim Deep and Swimming Girls!

Posted by: Mattias 10th June 2019, 04:36 PM

I'm fine with tomorrow as well! It feels like ages since the last one, is that just me? Maybe I didn't go to the one for last final.

Posted by: Bré 10th June 2019, 11:09 PM

I shall go ahead with plug around 8 tomorrow (Tuesday) then! This semi is pretty short considering the number of songs (under 2 hours), all the long songs got drawn into semi 2 which is like half an hour longer lmao x

Posted by: TheJüpreme 11th June 2019, 12:57 PM

Party 😁 ty Bre

Posted by: Bré 11th June 2019, 06:31 PM

https://plug.dj/buzzjack-listen-throughs

come join xox

Posted by: Jade 11th June 2019, 09:33 PM

Deandria to slay

Posted by: Cameron 11th June 2019, 09:48 PM

Hushky Hype

Posted by: Addy K!ng 11th June 2019, 10:02 PM

Echoing Deandria slayage!!!

Posted by: Mattias 11th June 2019, 10:06 PM

Babes <3

Posted by: Jacob :O 12th June 2019, 12:45 AM

Gutted to have missed plug, legit feels like YEARS since the last time I made one, hopefully I'll get to the final one.

Posted by: CSB 127 12th June 2019, 01:08 AM

just wanted to tell dan that the Spotify playlists are not working

Posted by: danG 12th June 2019, 06:29 AM

They're fine for me. Maybe try https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4gcsZ5TeUQ77731brkmHqd?si=2Vl2z1aORJutL1O0v2FGsw https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0jFzLFyQ6l6ZiWvCLtYf8e?si=4sOSreO-T_KqC2jE6UR8Aw?

Anyone else having problems with them?

Posted by: CSB 127 12th June 2019, 07:48 AM

yes those work, thank you!

Posted by: Mack. 12th June 2019, 11:01 AM

East Rukahavian have voted.

Posted by: NocheLuna 12th June 2019, 09:11 PM

Voted

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 13th June 2019, 10:18 AM

Voted! No complete 'standout' songs as per se but I could have quite easily given points to the next 5 songs on the list!

Posted by: Mattias 13th June 2019, 02:52 PM

I voted last night. Some very interesting entries!

Posted by: gooddelta 13th June 2019, 04:27 PM

Voted. Semi 1 is quite decent overall, I liked 12 enough to vote for and my top six in particular were great, with my top two very difficult to separate!

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 13th June 2019, 09:51 PM

Voted!

Posted by: King Rollo 14th June 2019, 05:34 PM

Voted. That was a very good semi-final and I changed my 12 point song after the final listen. There were a few songs I wanted to give points to which missed out.

Posted by: dandy* 14th June 2019, 10:54 PM

FLJ votes are in...

Posted by: Oliver 15th June 2019, 07:54 AM

Voting tonight!

Posted by: Popchartfreak 15th June 2019, 10:24 AM

voted. If this semi was a human being it would be someone with multiple personalities disorder with occasional moments of optimism. Varied.

Posted by: UltraME! 15th June 2019, 01:01 PM

Voted! (Under Ultraviolenceland x)

Posted by: Mattias 15th June 2019, 01:05 PM

Currently fighting the temptation to ask my entry in the YouTube playlist to be changed to the one with the cool fan-made video, but just before I forget, wanted to say to anyone who loves my entry that the video is really cool LOL the whole thing makes for a cool audio-visual experience so do check it out if you wish! It has scenes from some kinda sci-fi movie called Immortal.

The song totally works even without any video tho, it was perfect during a train ride I had recently

Posted by: Bré 15th June 2019, 01:24 PM

I have changed it xx

Posted by: Mattias 15th June 2019, 01:25 PM

But I didn't ask you to!!1 How DARE one make decisions for me!

jk thanks x

Posted by: travis 15th June 2019, 03:47 PM

voted!

Posted by: Cucumberella 15th June 2019, 07:08 PM

voted babe. not a vintage semi but decent top 10!

Posted by: Bré 15th June 2019, 09:08 PM

Voted x sending out some hype to Rolloland too since they haven't been predicted to qualify for some reason (I thought it sounded like one that might do quite well!)

Posted by: imaduck 15th June 2019, 10:45 PM

The next person to PM me their votes is DQed

Posted by: King Rollo 15th June 2019, 10:50 PM

Thank you. I have my fingers crossed for it.

Posted by: imaduck 16th June 2019, 09:02 AM

My records show the following countries have not voted.

Aelandor
Daehun
Hendinia
Kluminican Republic
Singerpurear

I know Daehun just hasn't used the form, but I'm not doing it for him so he'll have to get on that.

Posted by: imaduck 16th June 2019, 10:43 AM

UPDATE

SF1
Kluminican Republic = Needs to vote using the form (DO IT NOW)
Aelandor = Needs to vote using the form (DO IT NOW)
Hendinia = DID NOT DO A VOTE
Singerpurear = Did vote I just am blind
Oricon = NEEDS TO USE THE FORM, but even if he does I will accidentally lose his votes

SF2
Yehesi = DID NOT DO A VOTE