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Hello everyone, we would like to welcome you to Farahtyn for the very first time! Unfortunately our capital city Angel Grove is unable to host the final due to the irregularly high levels of alien creature attacks on the city, it isn’t considered to have a high enough level of infrastructure to host the BuzzJack Song Contest. Luckily the second city Westbridge will be hosting. Both the semi finals and the final all taking place at The Stadium of Light.

 

Provisional Dates and Times: (times are BST)

 

Semi Final Confirmation: 11th September 00:01 - 18th September 22:59

Semi Final Voting: 19th September- 25th September 17:00

Semi Final Results: 25th September

Final Voting: 26th September 00:01 - 2nd October 17:00

Final Results: 2nd October

 

Times will be added at a later, feel free to discuss the 38th edition of the contest. Speculate what Farahtyn is like. Plot your entries/revenge.

Edited September 5, 201113 yr by Martyn

Alien creature attacks :o Hope your city is ok :kink:

 

Got my entry already planned out. Hopefully it won't be another typical "k-pop that sounds the same and look the same" song :D

Edited September 5, 201113 yr by Oricon

Considering pop led the way in BJSC XXXVII Batidas are now wondering whether to sell our souls to the devil and enter a pure pop song that we don't particularly like but is likely to appeal to all the pop FANZ. Or continue to stay true to ourselves, enter a track we like and risk being bottom of the scoreboard. :D

 

The pressure is now off as there's no new BJSC record for most consecutive top 10s for a debuting nation for us to think about. :D

*cue Mikey entering HandS*

 

*cue Mikey entering HandS*

 

Considering its status, I reckon HandS would be disqualified. In saying that, it's actually a really good imo so if Mikey did enter it, I'd be all for a Kylienips victory. :D

Considering pop led the way in BJSC XXXVII Batidas are now wondering whether to sell our souls to the devil and enter a pure pop song that we don't particularly like but is likely to appeal to all the pop FANZ. Or continue to stay true to ourselves, enter a track we like and risk being bottom of the scoreboard. :D

 

The pressure is now off as there's no new BJSC record for most consecutive top 10s for a debuting nation for us to think about. :D

 

I'll never understand why anybody would want to do this in all honesty. Surely the competition element is secondary to introducing people to a song that you love and want to share with everyone, or perhaps it's just me that feels this way :P

 

It's so difficult to second guess what will do well in BJSC these days that it's best to just send something that you love and hope for the best imo. The top five may have been filled with female pop but there were also quite a few fempop DNQ's (Budtar, Allecian, Quotosibb etc) so it's very much a genre that can go one way or the other...

The song I've got in mind is quite left-field and very much a departure from Previous Allecci entries

I'll never understand why anybody would want to do this in all honesty. Surely the competition element is secondary to introducing people to a song that you love and want to share with everyone, or perhaps it's just me that feels this way :P

 

Because people want to win, surely? :P

 

To me, 'Inescapeable' is ok but it's not that different to 'Louder' by Charice which only won three contests ago. Seeing songs like 'Riverside' and most recently 'Video Games' have been a welcome change to the type of tracks that win BJSC.

 

It's all down to who enters. If a load of "pop" nations dropped out for BJSC XXXVIII and were replaced by "indie" nations it would have a massive impact on who wins. BJSC XXXVII were mostly pop countries voting and the results reflected this perfectly. I reckon this is why Utopia didn't vote - he couldn't choose 10 songs he liked. :D

Because people want to win, surely? :P

 

To me, 'Inescapeable' is ok but it's not that different to 'Louder' by Charice which only won three contests ago. Seeing songs like 'Riverside' and most recently 'Video Games' have been a welcome change to the type of tracks that win BJSC.

 

It's all down to who enters. If a load of "pop" nations dropped out for BJSC XXXVIII and were replaced by "indie" nations it would have a massive impact on who wins. BJSC XXXVII were mostly pop countries voting and the results reflected this perfectly. I reckon this is why Utopia didn't vote - he couldn't choose 10 songs he liked. :D

 

Winning is the icing on the cake to sending a great, well received entry that you're passionate about and want to see do well. I don't see how anybody could get any satisfaction from winning with something that they don't like personally, but for me this contest has always been far more about discovering and sharing new music than anything else. Obviously if other people are more into the competition element than anything else then that's good for them but I think that trying too hard with entries, trying desperately to find a smash, often results in not getting the results that you may have been expecting. My BJSC motto is 'if I don't love it, why should I expect anybody else to' :lol:

 

BJSC winners usually have some sort of distinctive merit or individual sound/feel to them, certainly in the last year or so, and it's only in the more average contests with no real standouts where pure pop songs will usually find their way to the top of the pile. But it's a far better situation than two years ago when cheapness ruled and the great individual songs would almost always finish 2nd behind the latest 'about to smash in the UK' hyped up single. Admittedly my last couple of entries, as much as I love them - particularly Sunrise, haven't had a particularly individual sound to them, but I haven't really heard anything 'different' that I've liked enough to send recently.

I have 3 songs in mind, but I don't know if 1 of them will be too well-known or not and get veto'd. I'm tempted to go for the 1 which is least well-known, despite the fact that this type of artist hardly ever wins. Decisions, decisions!

I have 4 songs I absolutely adore in contention for being my entry this month, it's going to be a tough choice.

'Sunrise' is ok and I even gave it a couple of points in the semi finals but overall country/pop just doesn't appeal to me so the chances of me awarding 'Sunrise' any points in the final was always going to be slim to nothing. :(

I'm currently very much considering going scandinavian this month. :)

'Sunrise' is ok and I even gave it a couple of points in the semi finals but overall country/pop just doesn't appeal to me so the chances of me awarding 'Sunrise' any points in the final was always going to be slim to nothing. :(

 

Luckily for you my feeligs on Somebody That I Used To Know went the other way! Still rather shocked that that didn't reach the top ten though in all honesty, even you were starting to get far more confident in its chances :o It was always going to be a risky entry though purely because it's not at all instant for most people.

 

I have NO songs in contention for me this month, my personal chart is surprisingly dominated by chart hits at the moment at the top end. Loona vs. Le Kid for the 95th time, what an exciting choice! Something will reveal itself to me before confirmation closes though, it always does!

Do people think that is enough time for voting and conforming. Would people like me to extend the legnths for anything?

Do people think that is enough time for voting and conforming. Would people like me to extend the legnths for anything?

 

That all looks good to me :D

Do people think that is enough time for voting and conforming. Would people like me to extend the legnths for anything?

Dates are all perfect as far as the mods are concerned.

 

 

 

I do love the noobs talking about what does and doesn't do well in BJSC. Especially when the truth is that it varies so much on a month to month basis and if the song is good enough it'll do well regardless of what Genre it is or who the artist is.

Dates are all perfect as far as the mods are concerned.

I do love the noobs talking about what does and doesn't do well in BJSC. Especially when the truth is that it varies so much on a month to month basis and if the song is good enough it'll do well regardless of what Genre it is or who the artist is.

 

Definitely, what works one month does not work the next. The top fives from this month and last are utterly incomparable in terms of genre. I'm sure there will now be a flood of female electro pop in the next contest but it will almost certainly be something else that wins!

Definitely, what works one month does not work the next. The top fives from this month and last are utterly incomparable in terms of genre. I'm sure there will now be a flood of female electro pop in the next contest but it will almost certainly be something else that wins!

 

Then I shall save my female electro-pop for XXXIX. :P

 

In all seriousness, I've found something in the last few days that I'm pretty sure on now. It's rather wonderful in my opinion, and completely different to my last entry.

One of my usual sources of amazingness has been inactive for over a month :cry:

 

 

My options thus far involve staying in Scandinavia for a second (Third if you count DNC) month