Linda Perhacs has been found safe and well. I think she's in another care facility now.

Gosh her albums are so beautiful 🩵

BJSC 187

in Skall

Collide - Freak Like Me

Hold on, you're hard on yourself

After all the song length discussion in the confirmations thread, it seems apt to state in here as well that at just under 7 minutes, this is I believe my third longest entry to BJSC (but definitely not the longest in this edition xo). I'm not 100% sure but I believe I found Collide by looking through similar artists of the band Kidneythieves, as I'm kind of going through a period where I'm listening, among other things, to styles like industrial rock, darkwave, etc.

I've listened to all of Collide's main studio albums (excluding their covers albums, although I did hear their interesting and slightly amusing cover of Björk's 'Human Behaviour') and while I would say much of their music does fit more into that sort of 'industrial' tag, I would describe 'Freak Like Me' as more gentle and melodic than much of their other music.

It's from their 2022 album Notes From The Universe. I also particularly like the closing song on that album, called 'I Go Crashing'.

As I've said before, the vocals are very Goldfrapp-esque. I hope some of you really like this ❤️ Thanks for reading, and bye.

Hype!!

I completely forgot that I sent Collide to the retro contest a few years ago, came 14th with this song, complete with fanmade horror movie video lol:

hope 'Freak Like Me' does well for you ❤️

Her vocals remind me of Kate Bush on Freak Like Me. A very good thing.

14 minutes ago, Jade said:

Hype!!

I completely forgot that I sent Collide to the retro contest a few years ago, came 14th with this song, complete with fanmade horror movie video lol:

hope 'Freak Like Me' does well for you ❤️

Oh, that's cool! I didn't check that contest's archive to see if the artist had been sent there, I think I just checked BJSC, so I had no idea!

Thank you ❤️ I hope so too, this is one of my favourite entries of mine this year.

Just a heads up, I'm thinking of possibly creating a new national thread. I've resisted creating a new one for all these years, as I didn't see the point, but this thread probably has some lowkey cringy old posts haha... but also, @Bror did the incredible THING of giving access to spreadsheets of all the contests (that were available), which MEANS I am now really keen on updating everything and kind of starting fresh in a way. I know I could just update this thread with this information but still... I'll think about it some more haha.

I was gonna reveal some of the things I'm planning on doing but it might be more fun to be ~secretive and mysterious~ about it haha. 👀

May as well rename your country too like that dang DanG did with S DNLD/ Danaevia

Edited August 21Aug 21 by TheSnake

5 minutes ago, TheSnake said:

May as well rename your country too like that dang DanG did with S DNLD/ Danaevia

Nah I'm keeping Deandria. I did rename it for just one contest once when I entered a song called 'Moonland'. For that contest my country was called... Moonland (The Nation Formerly Known as Deandria).

Cringe