Moodboard for BJSC 187:

 

💫 pull me through your timeline 💫

Hands up, close your eyes

Hope you're on the right side

You could hold me and

Pull me through your timeline

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💫 Wolf Cutt & Muki - STARSEED 💫

“I used to be all fireworks and bubblegum 'til, you know, life happened.”

This month introduces one of the latest additions to the roster, Jubilee!

Here’s them making the song as shown on Instagram!

After losing out on sending Spanish trance thanks to a clash and being indecisive all week, we’re settling with sliding closer to home and running with the wolves. British producer Wolf Cutt brings forth another electronic offering similar to the likes of Frost Children and Tiffany Day (with a slice of 2020’s Porter in there) that can hopefully electrify audiences.

This is the fourth time we’ve gone with a plan B and the third time in four contests. So cheers to a DNQ once again 🥂

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Fine I’ll do some promo. But first-

BJSC 181 | Wolf Cutt & Muki - STARSEED | 31st (138 points)

Me that entire contest:

Turns out this was lucky enough to be in a semi full of alternative where the pop lovers who were also in hell bc the final result says otherwise. Yet another contest with more negatives than positives.

With Wolf Cutt returning for Freidland (who have been massive fans of us lately), will there be similar misfires or will they get a better result? Maybe we’re the problem? We’ll see.

 

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Thankfully there were no hiccups with the next entry which means we get to swiftly move on to-

Moodboard for BJSC 188:

 

🍹 vista mare 🍹

Vista mare
Dimmi dimmi che vuoi fare
I’m all yours
No non farmi aspettare

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🍹 AMARA ctk100 - Paradiso Nights 🍹

“Lucky for you, you ended up on the the right side of this fight. Mine.”

Black Cat has been chosen as the mascot, and hopefully you would have to say Bye Felicia to this entry!

Here’s them making the song as shown on Instagram!

No Sweat Summer ain’t over yet! After being in the trenches for the past few months, we’ve finally been able to see the other side of an entry clash!

AMARA ctk100 previously represented Daehun and with them returning we couldn’t resist giving some justice to one of their artists! This could be seen as the foil to “REBORN” from last year - while Ashley Sienna gave us a midnight rave at a haunted house, this leans more into the “day drinking on a yacht in Ibiza” vibe. Could the cure to getting over a flop be some liquid courage?

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This has a distinct 2010-2012 sound to it and reminds me so much of something specific that I cannot currently place.

Anyway, I strongly thought about confirming it too but didn't try as knew I'd got to the thread too late. It's a smash though, RontBet predicts top five.

1 hour ago, gooddelta said:

This has a distinct 2010-2012 sound to it and reminds me so much of something specific that I cannot currently place.

Anyway, I strongly thought about confirming it too but didn't try as knew I'd got to the thread too late. It's a smash though, RontBet predicts top five.

It's not exactly the same but INNA - Hot came to my mind when I first heard it!!!

I predict Top 5 as well

8 hours ago, Addy! said:

It's not exactly the same but INNA - Hot came to my mind when I first heard it!!!

I predict Top 5 as well

Yes definitely that Inna sound, and also I think it's maybe Good Times by Roll Deep (also from 2010) that I was thinking of with the chord change sequence and synths, specifically the music on that track underneath the rap part that goes ('splash dirty cash...'). Of course, Good Times was a BJSC winner, but this is going to have a catfight with Ane Brun and any other major contenders that emerge.

time for a late update!

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BJSC 188 | AMARA ctk100 - Paradiso Nights | 4th (251 points)

Okay well this was wild! Turns out centering the narrative around getting drunk was the move and it brings us another top 5 after an uncompetitive and floppy previous month! And it also helped that we got our first choice after months of fighting in the trenches.

 

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which brings us to...

Step into the light, a single candle burning

Just enough to see the–

Faint as starlight, a dimly lit cadaver

Flicker as the candle drips

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⚰️ Earth Tongue - Dimly Lit Cadaver ⚰️

“Hmm. A different kind of chaos… How delightful”

Well now is the perfect time for Scarlet Witch to join the party!

From an article by Music NZ:

Dimly Lit Cadaver is a propulsive journey, with haunting vocals and heavy guitar riffs played by guitarist Gussie Larkin on her distinct 1967 Tokai Hummingbird guitar. There are echoes of classic metal and punk, with punchy chants underpinned by chugging, fuzzy, polyrhythmic riffs. The song is featured on the vinyl-only compilation for Field of Vision, the Colorado festival curated by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, where Earth Tongue performed this month.

Filmed in an alpine town in central Switzerland, the song’s video leans into the duo’s penchant for campy yet unsettling imagery. Made up of Gussie Larkin (guitar and vocals) and Ezra Simons (drums and vocals), the duo have become known for their strong visuals as much as their music, with scenes that wouldn’t feel out of place in Rosemary’s Baby or The Shining.

Dimly Lit Cadaver was filmed following a festival the band played in Switzerland, with the location becoming a crucial part of the concept; “Our dream was to find a rundown cabin in the woods to film in. Kinda like an Evil Dead situation,” Gussie says. “The festival linked us up with a local who runs a 100-year-old ski chalet that has been transformed into an artist space and venue for the past 15 years. It was filled with esoteric art, bizarre trinkets and had plenty of spooky spaces to film in.” Earth Tongue and their small crew literally went to great heights to bring the video to life, hauling all of their equipment up the mountain via gondola to capture stunning shots on the mountainside.

Well we had to get bitten by the bug sooner or later, right? Following the massive success of Paradiso Nights and in celebration of the upcoming spoopy season, we trade in the sex on the beach for some bloody marys and send a delightful piece of rooooooooock music fit with a video full of horror imagery. New Zealand based band Earth Tongue is responsible for this shift in direction - just a bit over 10 years after another band from New Zealand gave us our first win.

After years of being strapped to a more indie focused semi with our pop entries, the tables have turned. We send an indie track and we're in the pop semi. Opposite sides, same fücking trenches. Will we cheat death again? WHO KNOWS

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Great to see a Helvetian filmed video! And a brilliant song. Glad it made it out of the pop semi.

mini update for the spoopy entries!

BJSC 189 | Earth Tongue - Dimly Lit Cadaver | 15th (187 points)

HALLOWEEN 2026 | Her blood & Stirling - cut/here | 17th (55 points)

A bit of a tale of two contests I guess...

The main one seemed like it was dead on arrival but a few believers of the more rock persuasion helped bring it back up to safety and land it in the top 15 in the end, continuing a rather solid and consistent year! I think I've said it all about surprise hits, they are VERY much welcome in my book. Thanks to everyone who enjoyed our LARPing session ❤️

Which brings us to the Halloween spin-off, where we went with a Brutalismus 3000 sounding track... and that ended up being a bit of a disappointment. Only just managing top half would be great... in the main contest. But considering this is the Halloween spin-off, where we had done very well in during past iterations, and this was our lowest performing entry, it's not really good, is it? Not sure where the disconnect came from honestly

 

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Thankfully, Halloween is over which means we can take the costumes off and settle back into the norm for November.

Which brings us to...

Holiday from playing safe

Material smile on my face

Into the groove, into the night

I'm looking for my ray of light

Papa don't preach, I made my choice

Got a little travel in my voice

Express yourself, don't ask permission

I told you, pop is my religion

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🪩 Maisi And The Disco - Madonna 🪩

“My agents have been keeping a close eye on you since you returned to action. You've made quite the impact.”

White Fox? Sounds fitting I guess... welcome to the roster!

From a review from Culled Culture:

For all the flak Madonna got over her incredible opening performance to the 2026 VMAs, one would never know it based on the continued love being thrown her way from a younger generation of pop stars. The latest being Maisi and the Disco with a song called, what else, “Madonna.” And no, it’s hardly the first time someone has written a song in the Queen of Pop’s honor, but it is among the more standout works of the twenty-first century (following such “lad fare” as The Androids’ “Do It With Madonna,” Robbie Williams’ “She’s Madonna” and Drake’s “Madonna”—note: all songs by men that tend to praise her sexual allure [though not so much the Drake track] as opposed to what she’s done for “the culture”).

And it’s apparent that, in order to be so, Maisi and the Disco either did her homework, or genuinely grew up being exposed to Madonna’s music and imagery. As for the latter, like an updated, less polished take on one of Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor promo photos (shot by Steven Klein), the image that greets visitors to Maisi and the Disco’s website is of her doing something of a “bridge pose” over a disco ball against the backdrop of some very uninviting concrete. In terms of referencing this album, it makes sense beyond the fact that Madonna just released Confessions II. For, at twenty-five, Maisi (whose “and the Disco” is in the spirit of MARINA’s erstwhile “and the Diamonds” in that she’s a solo singer) would have been born at the dawn of Madonna’s twenty-first century catalogue, which kicked off with 2000’s Music. An album that’s been having some resonance and rejuvenation of late thanks to Troye Sivan sampling the title track for “Party.”

And while Maisi and the Disco might not (yet) be on the same fame scale that Sivan is, her “awareness-raising” about Madonna’s history and general fabulousness is still being felt at a “local” level. After all, like Charli XCX (who Maisi has also cited as an important artist to her) during the “MySpace days,” Maisi is known for DJing and performing at club nights in London, where, as best as she can for someone of her generation, she attempts to bring back a “pre-internet” feel, which is also part of connecting with the music. Therefore, everyone on the dance floor. For, as Madonna recently said in one of her VMAs acceptance speeches, “Dance brings everybody together, okay? We are all equal on the dance floor.”

Well that was a fun cosplay. Back to pop it is!

And what a way to bring forth a piece of the next year than with our very first discovery from Instagram! Maisi and the Disco has been rising up the ranks of the niche pop girls through her relentless promotions from the Instagram algorithm and appearing as a feature in Wolf Cutt's latest EP. Her latest release brings forth a late 2000's electroclash production a la Little Boots + a fun talk singing tribute to one of the biggest icons of music. And with Confessions II proving to be a critical darling, could we see this tribute create the same sparks?

Maisi caps off a very pop-filled and consistent year, and leading into a season where green is one of the most notable colors, it would be a nice present to see this do well.

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