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Will switch to Kaisers then as Supermode looks safe, and not overmad on Never Miss A Beat either. Love Story (vs Finally) </3

Can I just send poor robbed Bul Bul Bul by Kit Sebastian again? It deserved more I fear.

Interesting, I missed the earlier post made about this - thank you. I think this explains that, it's rightfully been disowned: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-57984070

Welcome New Helvetica from FSR Rontvia! We hope you do so well in Worldvision that you can be tempted into some of the other contests or spin-offs.

Must dust my Turkish rock playlist off once more then.

27 please

Dua’s live album climbing during the week? Unusual for a physical driven release? Makes me wonder if streams have been added to it from studio tracks. I am still yet to find a link to purchase it before this coming Friday.

Beautiful Corrs was a great sketch too. I loved the niche instrumental tracks from Forgiven, Not Forgotten always playing in the background. And the fact that The Corrs sent themselves up in the final part of this sketch. Loved CD:UK, I wouldn't go out on Saturdays with my friends until after 12.30 so I could watch SM:TV and then CD:UK and hear the Saturday chart.

The studio is far better from Marta Roure, the live version is off I agree and the sound levels are all over the place, I hadn't recalled it sounded this poor. Maybe that was an issue with the 2004 contest as a whole, I'll have to compare to other performances. I don't really care for Sense Tu, I did like Casanova at the time but it's super basic and sounded dated by 2008. I think 2007 had a touch of Blink-182 with the lower register vocal in the chorus that reminded me of Mark Hoppus. It rode the mid 00s emo trend well and it probably did deserve a slot in the final. Taking only 10 songs through in a semi of 28 was grossly unfair, especially when you hear some of 2007's autoqualifers (2006 was even worse for that, the first third of the final was almost wholly awful).

I missed that, must have been too excited about seeing that the song won!

Just realised that Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken is a response record to this from 1984, I did wonder upon hearing it so looked it up.

Agreed, it was nice to have the breathing space to have 15 to vote for. Certainly my 5 and 4 pointers I'd have been disappointed to have no space for. Interesting result for Basement Jaxx on that system. I guess that's why I thought it could have been a contender, because it's a fun song that's hard to dislike and clearly accordingly had a large spread of voters across different voting bases. However, what I didn't anticipate is that nobody would rank it as a top favourite. Indie-pop, electronic and alt seems to be the lane to do well here? I'm not sure we've had a pure pop winner yet in seven editions. Black Box Recorder is basically a pop song, but by an indie band, Dido and Agnes the others closest to it.

Omg I won a tie for once for an important position! Delighted to scrape into the top ten with The Cardigans, it was such a crazy strong contest, many thanks to all the voters. Congrats Rollo, my favourite discovery from Bop Idol so far, just an absolutely glorious track. Glad you didn’t foot shoot in the end there. Well done Jim and Dobbo too on podium finishes and commiserations to Wardy who was almost there. Thanks Julian for the great theme and amazing hosting!

Leaving the top ten on the final votes after being there all night, classic 😂

Rooting for Camera Obscura, I in no way thought my favourite would be contending for the win this time as the competition was so strong.

Regina Spektor's lack of a major commercial hit is one of life's great mysteries to me. Fidelity at the very least should have been a huge hit and there's no reason it couldn't have been when the likes of Feist and Sara Bareilles went top ten. And Samson is maybe one of the most affecting ballads of the 00s? Maybe she was too pop for alt tastes and too alt for pop tastes. Lyrically her albums are amazing, she has such a standout voice and a great ear for melody, so the failure to connect doesn't make sense to me.

Agree, it's extremey difficult to score zero. In BJSC it happened twice in 20 years in the semis, and never in a final. In a forum with such diverse tastes, somebody is always likely to enjoy a song enough to have it in their top 10/15.

Surely you'd need to find the most boring song to score the fewest points. So it could end up being quite a dull listen if everyone was doing that. I've never purposefully tried to come last in any contest, but if I did I'd probably look for a dull b-side by some D-tier 90s boyband or something, rather than something actually 'bad', because something that sparks any kind of emotion in someone will often score points.

T-Rex - 20th Cenutry Boy was the intended pun there!

Makes a refreshing change to see a new song taking off a week after release and not six months after.

Love this one! Some more: 20th Century Joy Now That's What I Call Retro ... BuzzJack One More Time Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode and Friends

Petition to change it to this.

Seeing as it's nowhere near the best song contest on this forum, 'Retro Forum Song Contest' definitely works better for me! Bop Idol is quickly racing up there to become a contender for best contest for me. My top few discoveries in this Bop Idol edition are better than my favourite discoveries in the last few BJSC editions.

Only a 14-month contract! And no salary posted either. In my experience, 'executive' is often code for 'low paid'.

Oops, not Wolfgang Lohr derailing the whole genre, I remember I sent an electro swing song remixed by him to BJSC that did pretty well, We Are What We Are by Bart & Baker. I love We No Speak Americano, it was quite a breath of fresh air that summer. Quite a lot of good dance and good vibes that summer, and the Inbetweeners dance was very memorable too.