We used Promises for Round 1 of AF Idol 2, it finished in the top 10 but I feel that with the new format it wouldn't do so well this time around. Would also be a tad boring to use the same song for Round 1 twice.

I think we should go for one of his bigger hitters, perhaps We Found Love or One Kiss given we're in competition with the collaborators to get to the songs first. Or if we do want to save those for later, I'm Not Alone or HDIYL would work.

Sweet Nothing was the song we lost with in AF Idol 1, in round 7. So not too sure on that, although it did have very strong competition then.

Im Not Alone then? It's classic big banger calvin

yeah id be happy with that. its definitely more popular than sweet nothing

Apologies for not replying before, but I agree with "I'm Not Alone". I also thought that any of you sent the PM to the Inner Circle, but it seems that it wasn't, so I'm going with it with that choice and sending the PM right now. As a side note, I think George submitted "One Kiss" for Dua's forum. He didn't tell me which song he went with, but I'm kind of sure he picked that.

Oh I already sent the PM sorry for not saying

Oops! Don't worry, Lewis. I guess they received two instead of one. :P

round 2 album track:

 

I’m thinking one of the following Motion ones has the best chance of cross appeal with pop fans

 

Faith - surely the single that got away from this era, sounds like it would’ve been a hit single

Together ft Gwen Stefani - similar to Faith but perhaps preferable cos female vocalist?

Dollar Signs ft Tinashe - there’s a couple of Tinashe fans on the site although the drop might be off putting for some

Based on the latest album rate, "Faith" performed the best (#5), followed by "Together" (#6) and "Dollar Signs" (#14). I agree that Tinashe fans could jump on the latter, but the track itself is polarizing, so I don't think it's a good option. As a consequence, it's either "Faith" or "Together" in my opinion.

 

Personally, "Faith" is one of my favourites from Motion and I could go with that, but I don't have any issue if "Together" is chosen instead because the female vocalist factor might be a plus. Also, Gwen Stefani is likeable and she could give us some votes.

Let's go with Faith. Can someone PM because evidently I'm shit at doing it :kink:

Well... it seems that the AF Idol discussion for this round flopped in the thread, so "Faith" is still the choice to go, right?

yep I'll give a PM

Great! Thanks Dan for sending the PM.

If it's considered that we can't send songs that were previously submitted in the next round, I'm wondering if "Acceptable In The 80s" or "Feel So Close" could be chosen. Those two, as well as "Slide", were inside the Top 10 in the latest singles rate.

"This Is What You Came For" and "Outside" were mentioned in the discussion thread. I still think we should go with any of the others instead. For reference, the former ended at #18 and the latter at #25.

I'm thinking perhaps we should try TIWYCF, it might go down better with those who didn't vote in the Calvin Harris rate, Feel So Close/80s I don't see picking up as many of those votes, and given the poor performance of Faith going with a female vocalist collab might be a safer bet now.

I agree with This Is What You Came For. I'll PM now

Round 4 then, likely to be disastrous for us. What have we got? Ecstasy is probably our best bet, and Hurts is a liked artist.

the theme seems to have changed to ballads and mid tempos so perhaps we could get away with sending Feels and call that a mid tempo song?

We could try to send "Feels" or "Slide" in this round. They are funk/chillwave songs and I think they are part of the midtempo spectrum. If any of them don't work, may we try with "Together"? I'm a aware this is a longshot though.

 

As a side note, we should go with "We Found Love" in the next round.

Rollin then? We haven't sent that before :)