I'm hoping the fact that I have Taahino in my semi, as well as Peach PRC (what I've heard from them(?) was fairly rocky iirc) is a good omen. Though last time me and Taahino were in the same semi with female fronted rock acts, Taahino hoovered up most of the votes so I have a bit of trauma from that 🤣 #justice4supermodels x

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Peach is fantastic but she's like hyper bubblegum synthy pop if anything! Guess that leaves more room for the pop rock vote 😉

Oh, how I could feel the stress of the end of year leaderboard growing stronger with every switch Addy made

It’d be a real shame to trip at the final hurdle x

5 minutes ago, RobBot said:

Oh, how I could feel the stress of the end of year leaderboard growing stronger with every switch Addy made

It’d be a real shame to trip at the final hurdle x

!!!!!!

7 minutes ago, RobBot said:

Oh, how I could feel the stress of the end of year leaderboard growing stronger with every switch Addy made

It’d be a real shame to trip at the final hurdle x

OMG, I know you mods witnessed my struggles first hand!!!

You have no idea!!! At this point, I'm surprised I haven't changed my entry again while typing this reply. 😂

The YTD race has turned me into an absolute mess, but I promise I'm trying to keep whatever dignity I have left intact until the final results!!!

Right, I have to vote in both semis this time😱

Oh gees, why did I have to win last time?😩

Just kidding, looking forward to making new discoveries, wohoo🥳

Fun fact: this is my first entry here that I discovered through Instagram!

Still think too many of the song titles are a bit too dirty🧐🫢😅 And here I am trying to be classy with my entry🎻🪊🎺🎹🎷🎩

List of countries who have sent a green tribute is now in the second post, by the way😊

2 hours ago, Qween said:

Very interested to see how Cherry Bomb does here - especially as I would 100% have sent her again if I thought it was worth trying to run the veto gauntlet for a third rime.

My thoughts exactly, I would've sent her with this exact song had I thought it would be okay!

I actually thought it would be one of the vetoes😮

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N DNTN sending a throwback tune, looove

Goldie Boutilier I love but she's not done that well typically here, hoping to like this new song and hopefully it does better!

Nearly sent I Hate Models with Nostalgica last month so intrigued to see how Zanmatony do

Hype for "PROJECT X" pls!!! (thank you Jade x)

1 minute ago, Freeze said:

I actually thought it would be one of the vetoes😮

Me too tbh, seems like that'll be an early call for a hit as I imagine people will deffo know it already/BJSC catnip!

3 minutes ago, leww said:

Me too tbh, seems like that'll be an early call for a hit as I imagine people will deffo know it already/BJSC catnip!

Never Be Me (M★therf★cker) is on my top ten most played songs of the year, and had that been sent, it probably would have won! But to the frank, Myriad Reflector doesn't hold a candle to it (based on first listen). At least someone's wearing a lot of green on the tube in the music video!😁

I would be down for just vetoing Cherry Bomb every time she's attempted out of pure stubbornness but honestly the justification for not letting her in last time was a little bit flimsy and this song had even less going against it so... she can have her moment and be straight back on the shadowban list if it does well x

(could say similarly for Chloe Qisha too except that's more that she keeps being entered despite her songs neither being any good or doing well - we'll see if either of those changes this time, fourth time's the charm for her to not be ranked in my bottom 2 perhaps!!)

'You First' is a great pick of anniversary Paramore entry (a lot more inspired than the one you went for as your 50th as much as I love 'Monster' too). There are a couple of other songs I've heard but I don't remember too well as ever. Hello to Persephonia alumnus Dawn Richard being successfully recycled after nearly 12 years (I think she was vetoed a couple of times in the mean time - and technically it's the third time she's been in the contest as Danity Kane were sent once in the very early days). Intrigued to hear what she's up to these days x

Do feel like I am risking making it a 50/50 DNQ year with this entry but I think it's long overdue I sent a song in this style to the main contest. I think it's a second contest in a row with a new nationality for me, Morocco this time (I will update my list of nationalities eventually), and a new language as well in Tamazight (may or may not be the first ever entry in that language). No mentions of this artist on BuzzJack before so hopefully new to everyone, although it does have a relatively high stream count (a few million each on Spotify and YouTube, nowhere near as much as 'Snap' though x).

Love seeing Peach here, I almost considered sending her funnily enough this round but with another song of hers. Yeah she's done some pop rock songs but much more poppy

Paramore 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Truly gutted to be in oppisite semi

4 hours ago, Bror said:

A fun and surprising stat for this contest (that I was holding off on acknowledging in case any of the vetoed nations withdrew)...

Every single country that appeared in BJSC 189 is also in this contest - and that's only the second time that has ever happened, with the one previous time being BJSCs 6 & 7 (!!!)

And somewhat appropriately on your post:

Unsure how Hushkanukia will fare in this semi-final, as the bulk of the pop-loving countries seem to be in SF2! 😬

Anyway, we thought that since we have returned for a month’s temp work, we would send a stunning soft-rock/pop ballad with phenomenal vocals and one hell of a chorus!

Abi’s voice is absolutely incredible, and this has been on repeat on Spotify for the past few weeks. I hope you love it as much as I do! 🩵

I sent something this month that I probably haven't sent before sound wise I don't think? I could be wrong mind you, I've sent so many songs. I was in two minds what to send though and very nearly reconfirmed a couple days ago..I've decided to keep the other song for January's contest, unless I find something even better! I'm excited to get stuck in 😀

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