Ugh pesky "real life". Reminder: dig out those Port Blue EPs, I've got them all if you're missing any. x

Yeah Mattias - with your votes it might have actually qualified!!

 

:kink:

This!!11!1!! Even when I get Qs they're #fakeqs.

Was there a clerical error? :o

also shh Bré I know that Port Blue qualified and came 34th :)

You didn't hear? I got through the semi at 20th on a tiebreak (more 12s) because of a clerical error- Chez's entry (great entry </3) was supposed to have 3 more points that accidently didn't get added on to Terra Avium's score. Chez gave me 12 (thanks Chez!) so at least it was something he really liked getting through instead of him, still feel slightly bad although his voting pm makes us even I think. x

Edited April 26, 20178 yr by Jacob.

Yeah I literally just checked the results thread to see what was going on - I didn't know anything of the sort happened until now! Oh well, these things happen as they say.

 

and thanks for the instant Port Blue reminder :lol: I shall consult you about any missing albums should I notice gaps in my discography of his, thanks!!

ooooo innerpartysystem!!!! old retro emo vibez <3 we were all into it weren't we

^It's SO good (slightly Pendulum as well) but I might save it to follow a DNQ, not that confident about its chances and I'm sort of on a Q streak for the first time ever. :o

BJSC 95 // Tides (Feat. Lea Lea) - Nu:Tone

 

I found this one after a bit of hunting on last.fm after going through a few similar artist links. This is a lovely, lovely track with a great build and wonderful atmosphere, I hope you all enjoy!

Edited May 10, 20178 yr by Jacob.

Think you've confused your song title with Jade's here!! :kink: (they did end up right next to each other in the semi-final draw haha)

 

I'm so on board with Aelandor again this month anyway, your last two entries are easily your best two to date :heart: Breakout hit this time plssss.

Think you've confused your song title with Jade's here!! :kink: (they did end up right next to each other in the semi-final draw haha)

 

I'm so on board with Aelandor again this month anyway, your last two entries are easily your best two to date :heart: Breakout hit this time plssss.

Oops, fixed it now! Yeah must've looked at the thread before I came here, misread it and had a memory blip, both words are closely related to each other as well. :kink:

 

Thanks! Glad you like it, refusing to allow myself to get my hopes up when it comes to positions though because BJSC will only break my heart and shatter it into a million pieces again. xx

"Tides" has qualified, extending our longest Q streak to three! :cheer:

 

Can't wait to come 33rd in the final. xx

This is a great track, if this doesn't become your best result to date then something really ain't right!

Aw thanks Dobbo. :wub:

 

So, "Tides" came 37th in the final, matching Soeur's position. I didn't go into the final with huge expectations and I'd kind of accepted that I'd be getting a position in the 30s or at best low 20s... that said it was revealed that we reached 4th position in our semi final which makes the final result rather odd? Maybe the song didn't have enough staying power for people and other "growers" overtook it, maybe I just got lucky with the semi and all the fans ended up in semi 2/ the entire opposite semi hated it, maybe the higher pointers from the semi gave their highest points to semi 1 countries (pushing us down a few positions) or people just don't like Aelandor and want to watch us crash and burn the 18 point system caused us to suffer.

 

Regardless, thanks for all the votes, particularly Lotunia giving us their 18 on their debut contest! Much appreciated, I know how valuable those 18s are. :cheer:

 

Other high pointers off the top of my head include South Danaelanda (! second contest in a row, feels so rare), Zanmatony, Persephonia, and Jadakissnia, really appreciate the support. :wub:

 

A massive congratulations to Suedeonia, an unexpected new winner with a fantastic song that only just missed our votes (Bleachers - Don't Take The Money), and honestly listening to it again I'm absolutely regretting it. I think it might have missed out for me due to the vocal style in the prechorus? Looks like they didn't need my points in any case, looking forward to a Suedonian contest. :cheer:

Edited May 21, 20178 yr by Jacob.

You were robbed :cry: Such an unfortunate tumble from your brilliant semi performance! Yay for a semi top 5 under your belt but this deserved so much more than bottom 10 in the final. Thanks so much for this wonderful chilled discovery, it got my top points in the semi and still remained the highest song from semi 2 in my final rankings. Yay for the high point swap between us this time <3

Maybe the song didn't have enough staying power for people and other "growers" overtook it, maybe I just got lucky with the semi and all the fans ended up in semi 2/ the entire opposite semi hated it, maybe the higher pointers from the semi gave their highest points to semi 1 countries (pushing us down a few positions)

 

I think it's probably mainly that first thing, it was a pretty good semi draw for 'Tides'. I'm personally guilty of the second thing though as you got my 10 behind Hugar in the semi, but ended up behind 3 songs from semi 1 in the final. Whatever the cause, semi results are just quirky like that sometimes ~ At least you definitely qualified legitimately this time!! :lol:

I think it's probably mainly that first thing, it was a pretty good semi draw for 'Tides'. I'm personally guilty of the second thing though as you got my 10 behind Hugar in the semi, but ended up behind 3 songs from semi 1 in the final. Whatever the cause, semi results are just quirky like that sometimes

Yeah probably just a good semi for it and it had very few fans in the opposite semi, I think it appeals to a certain taste, if people like that chilled/ slow build atmosphere then they'll love it, otherwise they'll think it's just a bit long and doesn't go anywhere fast enough. Don't worry about that, a high score's a high score and I was happy to get them, besides you had some bangers at the top. x

~ At least you definitely qualified legitimately this time!! :lol:

Yeah alright, that wasn't my fault. :P xx

But yeah, it thoroughly made up for last time haha. And hey, at least I'm regularly qualifying now even if it does all fall apart when we actually get to the final. x

Thanks so much for this wonderful chilled discovery, it got my top points in the semi and still remained the highest song from semi 2 in my final rankings. Yay for the high point swap between us this time <3

Yas @ the point swap! Yours was so lovely, it many ways our entries this month were fairly similar, if comparing it to my entries, "Waves" kind of felt like a mix of "Tides" and "Nostalgia" and I love that sound. It was a medal position so I can hardly complain haha, thanks again. I was just trying to figure out how there could be such a disparity. :/

 

No worries, it was a fun discovery got me too, the first I've found when actively searching for BJSC entries (the others are either songs I already knew or songs I happened to hear/ listen to that caught my attention.

Edited May 21, 20178 yr by Jacob.

Buzzjackfestivalen V

AELANDOR'S BACK, ROCK IS BACK AND SO IS RELIENT K:

In stark contrast to "Cat", one of their newer songs, this is a classiq RK song, released in 2001. This is perhaps more representative of their more "usual" style, although that does tend to vary from album to album in any case, much of their in between material has incorporates piano as well and lots of it covers much more serious topics than this but I can hardly enter their entire discography to BJSC (maybe "Who I Am Hates Who I've Been" one day tho xx). "Sadie Hawkins Dance" is a glorious pop punk rock track that for me encapsulates everything about that early 2000s pop rock era, it has Teenage Dirtbag vibes for me basically. Beautiful building guitar intro and a supremely energetic track, lyrics are very lighthearted, about a guy's experience of a girl asking him to a dance.

Expecting a flop, don't care- it's my first BJ Fest and I never expect to do well for my first try at any of these contests. xx

BJSC 96 // Lights - Giants

 

 

So I've known and loved Lights for years (after chance buying both The Listening and Siberia in early 2012 and getting obsessed with both sounds- she tends to up her game/ switch up her sound every album) and now I finally get to enter her into BJSC with her new single "Giants"! She's got one of the best vocals in pop I've ever heard and I'm not even exaggerating, this is after hearing her stripped down/ acoustic and live versions. So happy to have Lights represent Aelandor because she really does represent that side of my taste perfectly, I hope you all enjoy (and give me a new peak xx).

Lights came 5th!!! Obviously this completely obliterated my previous peak by comparison ("Up Ship!" at #34), I was even leading the scoreboard near the beginning and with the scores so tight between the top 5 I was in with a shot of winning right up until the final vote. Huge huge thanks to all the voters, like I said in my last post Lights is one of my favourite vocalists of all time and I adore her music so it means a lot to come so high with her. Not sure I'll ever come that close to the top again but we'll see. :kink:

 

Also the tempo change isn't messy it's very deliberate!!1!11!!1 #queenofthetempochange

Edited July 17, 20177 yr by TheBetterBrother

well done and I'm claiming half the credit

 

Seriously though, the parallels between this and my last top 5, Blood, are quite striking. Close top 5 so not far off winning, airy voiced singer who was slightly cheap due to her previous entries, huge cinematic sound that would have made great sense as a winner, welcome to the top 5 club with a fab song x

Well at least now we know an Aelandor hit can be a thing *.* I couldn't really get into this one as much as most of your entries unforch but well done on the top 5 anyways.