THE SOLO WOMEN AUDITIONS

It's time to welcome all the women to the stage as they audition for you, the voting BuzzJack public!

How it works:

AI RitaBot 3000 had some input in deciding how voting should work to avoid any controversies, and once you have listened to all of the contestants perform you should post a ranking of each of the performances. You can rank them from best to worst (making clear which is your favourite down to least favourite), or use the template below:

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08 (least favourite)

For those voting who have entered one of the contestants into the competition, you should rank all eight performances, and when totalling up scores your entry will be removed from the list to retain anonymity in the competition.

When voting closes, the seven solo women with the highest scores will proceed while ONE of our women will be eliminated from the competition and will not be going through to the next round.

Voting will close on Tuesday 27 May 2025, 18:59 BST

So let's meet our contestants and hear what they've decided to perform for their auditions!

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Standard list of entries:

Ellie Goulding - Burn

SASAMI - Honeycrash

Addison Rae - Aquamarine

Avril Lavigne - Nobody’s Home

Louise - Borderline

Christina Aguilera - Genie In a Bottle

Mary J. Blige - Be Without You

Rina Sawayama - This Hell

Do we vote in the thread(s) or by PM? Apologies if I've missed that somewhere!

3 minutes ago, Jade said:

Do we vote in the thread(s) or by PM? Apologies if I've missed that somewhere!

In the threads please! I fear my inbox would spontaneously combust quicker than AI RitaBot if done by PM

4 minutes ago, Calum said:

In the threads please! I fear my inbox would spontaneously combust quicker than AI RitaBot if done by PM

Wouldn’t that reveal who we are?

If you don't want to reveal what artist you're behind, rank all eight songs and when adding up I'll remove your entry from the list to retain anonymity!

@Herbs OP of each thread now updated to clarify that!

Hope I'm not stepping on your toes Calum but I made a little Spotify playlist for personal use that I'll share here for anyone wanting quick access;

Shall get the ball rolling while I had some time to listen this evening (and will vote in the other rounds too before the deadline):

01 Christina Aguilera - Genie In a Bottle [favourite]

02 Avril Lavigne - Nobody’s Home

03 SASAMI - Honeycrash

04 Rina Sawayama - This Hell

05 Mary J. Blige - Be Without You

06 Ellie Goulding - Burn

07 Louise - Borderline

xx Addison Rae - Aquamarine (I'm sure this was obvious so no point concealing my identity x)

'Genie In a Bottle' is pop perfection and Christina's best song for me, so a strong start for her!

Is there a reason why anonymity is wanted by some? What is gained from that?

53 minutes ago, awardinary said:

Hope I'm not stepping on your toes Calum but I made a little Spotify playlist for personal use that I'll share here for anyone wanting quick access;

No worries at all, thanks for doing those! Only thing I'd ask is that the playlists are in the same order as they're posted in the thread though please

4 minutes ago, Calum said:

No worries at all, thanks for doing those! Only thing I'd ask is that the playlists are in the same order as they're posted in the thread though please

Of course, edited all three playlists to the order you decided!

24 minutes ago, -Jay- said:

Is there a reason why anonymity is wanted by some? What is gained from that?

I'm not sure if I wish to remain anonymous or not, though if some choose not to remain anonymous in my category then that will narrow down the remaining entries from the category, reducing the options left that could be my own.

I'll remain anonymous until a point when I feel I can reveal my artist, and it may come sooner than later...

29 minutes ago, -Jay- said:

Is there a reason why anonymity is wanted by some? What is gained from that?

So people don't vote for acts based on who they like on here, you for instance would suffer being at the bottom of my rankings every time if I knew who yours was. 😘

Ps my rankings:

1. Christina Aguilera - Genie in a bottle (fave)

2. Ellie Goulding - Burn

3. Avril Lavigne - Nobody's home

4. Mary J Blige - Be without you

5. Louise - Borderline

6. Addison Rae - Aquamarine

7. Rina Sawayama - This hell

8. Sasami - Honeycrash (least)

Edited May 22May 22 by Spiceboy

4 minutes ago, Spiceboy said:

So people don't vote for acts based on who they like on here, you for instance would suffer being at the bottom of my rankings every time if I knew who yours was. 😘

omg THIS

9 minutes ago, Spiceboy said:

Ps my rankings:

1. Christina Aguilera - Genie in a bottle (fave)

2. Ellie Goulding - Burn

3. Avril Lavigne - Nobody's home

4. Mary J Blige - Be without you

5. Louise - Borderline

6. Rina Sawayama - This hell

7. Sasami - Honeycrash (least)

Poor snubbed Addison

(I only left her out as I can’t rank my own song x)

also @Spiceboy you've only voted for 7 here but you entered a man (!)

Oops 🫣 I actually need to listen to the Addison one I just copied and pasted jades list then swapped round accordingly 🤣 I’ll

Listen tonight and edit.

Ps entering men is one of my fave past times 😎

Edited May 22May 22 by Spiceboy

EDITED!

For me this list is stacked - whatever goes probably wouldn't be anywhere near going if I put all 3 categories together!