Also I bring not one but two first time artists x (I realised after I confirmed that one of them is a little cheap but not in a way BuzzJack will care about lel)

Looking forward to my first participation with Deandria since BJSC 99!

First time artist here too (unless she was sent in Spin Off or something) since Debbii Dawson and Margaret Berger

HYPED

4 hours ago, Jade said:

Exciting!

I have gone poppier during a month where quite a few alt countries have returned lol but still an entry with a dark edge 👀

Ahh, same!! I'm very happy for the returning countries (if I could've asked for one country to return of all the 100+, that would've been Deandria), but submitting my poppiest entry of the year might turn out to be a pretty poor decision.

The Spodic Empire returning with 90s indie pop. We implore you to put us in the alt semi.

Invasion otherwise.

Me when asked what new thing I brought to this contest:

_{yes I did recycle so what}

we're just sending noises

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2 AUTO-QUALIFIERS. 2 SEMIS. 26 SONGS EACH.

RANDOM.ORG ALLOCATION STARTING NOW.

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congrats on the AQ Rich!

AQ ◾ NELIÖNOIR ◾ ISABELLA LOVESTORY 'VANITY'

AQ ◾ FSR RONTVIA ◾ GIVE LOVE 'IN YOUR MIND (DJ SABRINA THE TEENAGE DJ REMIX)'

Another Neliönoir entry I've already charted

DJ Sabrina Carpenter oh my

Happy to be bringing back DJ Sabrina as a remixer (I know she came 2nd for Trifoski in 2021 but she was ours first <3). Had never heard of GIVE LOVE before and need to do some digging about them before I update my national thread. Happy to get an AQ anyway, even if it's not exactly a risky entry from me.

SEMI 01 ◾01 ◾ MOTHERTOPIA ◾ AUDREY HOBERT 'THIRST TRAP'

SEMI 02 ◾01 ◾ SANDÉNIA ◾ SELVE 'LEADING MAN LOST'

Have already heard 'Vanity', got a few points from me in the PopJustice Song Contest and recently heard again just from listening through Jade's personal chart to try and get myself slightly up to speed with current music again xx it is a bit of a bop, and WD to it auto-qualifying and thus automatically doing better than Isabella's one previous entry

We actually don't have very many former top 10 artists in this contest in the end #spoilers so a pretty small pool to potentially continue the streak to a 6th such winner in a row. Not gonna complain at having more DJ Sabrina in the contest really, both of her previous entries were great and have found plenty more songs to love from her outside the contest, plus this particular song is quite a deep cut with a very obscure lead artist anyway so that's some relatively ethical recycling x

The only song I have previously heard from Audrey Hobert was... not to my taste x but open mind etc.

SEMI 01 ◾ 02 ◾ LAND OF DW ◾ LAYTO 'RIPAHEART'

SEMI 02 ◾ 02 ◾ SCOTLAND 2 ◾ JAMES FERRARO 'LIVE AT PRIMAVERA SOUND 2012'

Scotland 2 going full Scotland 2

(Youtube embed just deciding not to work is driving me insane)

scotland 2 ijbol