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Ooooooooh, I quite like the sound of her! 'Lehitra'ot machar ' sounds quite lovely.

 

She'll probably DNQ though. Still mourning for 'Rak Bishvilo'. :(

There's plenty of electronic artists that were better placed in the old indie/'specialist' forum than the old dance forum, which was my point at the time. Besides, does it even matter seeing as UP isn't genre-specific?

There's a bit of a whiff of Moldova '06 off it, isn't there?! Awful. D:

Most Points scored without winning:

 

01 3305 Ojnoj

02 3262 Espen

 

:o

 

Comin' for you, Jonjo!

 

In the olden days confirmation was a complete bloodbath whereby you all had to publicly confirm a song in a confirmation thread and some entries always ended up getting discussed loads before semi voting even opened. Then I think came the revolt against 'cheap' songs which resulted in members being allowed to send a list of songs they wished to be 'vetoed' (r.i.p 'Kom' :(), and then it all got a bit dark and loads of people were murdered and then came the mod veto panel, and then there was a bit of an outcry concerning trust issues, which then led to everything becoming anonymous (for us and you) and resulted in the GMs and Admins having an official role in the vetoing, and then there was the outcry over inconsistency, which then led to more extensive and rather time-consuming research on each track, which then led to the veto framework that we have today. My point is, even though it's a pain in the arse for all of us, the system we have today is a result of previous problems down through the years and is probably the fairest one we've had as it ensures that nobody has an advantage over anyone else. It's far from perfect (believe me, we know) but there's not much we can do at the moment to make it any better. We're always open to suggestions so just drop us a PM if you have any ideas!

 

Part of the reason why proper deadlines are more important this year is because we're giving BJFest its own month (this includes a tiny summer break to prevent total burnout), rather than it being hosted alongside another contest. Running both at the same time is obviously doable, but we want to make it an event that people can focus on without having to worry about voting in another contest in the same forum. We're not going to execute the poor fecker who can't, for whatever reason, follow these rules because all of us here have lives to be living, but they're really only there so that we can have some organization and allow things to flow smoothly. We don't take joy in making these rules because we know we're going to take two in the chest, but we're only trying to maximize the full potential of this forum. Obviously if it all goes tits up then we'll review it, but we'd like to give it a try. ^_^

 

Anybody watching Season 4 at the minute? It's SO GOOD. I found Season 3 to be a bit limp because I detested Karen, Ramona, and Love, but now that they're all gone it's back to being a fab guilty pleasure. I absolutely hated Natalie until she pwned Renee in Vegas - she's got some serious balls and I took a liking to her after that!

 

Anybody? No? OK? :(

Watched the return this morning. Stevie Nicks is a legend. :wub: 'Rhiannon' kept playing today in work as well! I hope

doesn't die - she's one of the best characters this season.

I listen to a lot of Macross and while 'Want Me' is quite pop-sounding almost all of their songs definitely belong in this forum. Juan Maclean is an electronic/house musician, so I'm not sure where else he'd belong. Besides, different genres have been represented in this contest since its conception and that's one of the best things about this. You always stumble upon something you'd never think you'd like, and I'd rather it stay that way then the genre police dictating what gets sent. I'm certainly not against themed editions, just as long as the "this doesn't belong here, please leave" thing doesn't become a rule.

Destan are truly abysmal and TT are just no. Is Joanna the same one from Star Academy? She's alright but I'm not overly optimistic tbh. She's a good singer but all of her songs so far have been average. Eeeeek France. :(

OMFG DINATA DINATA! *.* I LOVE this song and haven't heard it in AGES. Filipp f***ing Kirkorov obviously stole it and made a Russian version of it.

 

:wub:

 

Tarnishing my good name and image with that Russian version though! :( Thankfully R ALLA saw some sense and divorced herself from THAT.

Yeah I'm pretty sure I'm coming last in this after looking at that list. 'Show Me Love' tho :wub:

Yaaaassss to this returning. I completely forgot to express my interest in the earlier thread but consider me in!

 

Favourite Film: Dangerous Minds / Les Amours Imaginaires

Favourite Film Genre: Drama

Least Favourite Film Genre: Western (noooooooo)

How often do you watch films: Once or twice a week.

What are you most looking forward to in the Film Club: Seeing films I should have (but have never) seen, and discussing films that I love (and hate). ^_^

That return from winter break was quite spectacular! It's back to season one levels of amazing. I can't wait to see

Espen's going for a song that's kind of like a mix between our previous entries 'Rise' and 'Aura'. Not entirely sure how well it will do so this shall be interesting.

 

And yaaaasss, welcome back Tom! :D

^ You did not! :( It was a GOOD turnout overall. Hopefully we'll have more participants next time though. ^_^

 

Results @ 9pm TONIGHT. :o

Thanks for the votes! You still have until 23:59 tonight to get them in!

:no:

 

That said, I can hardly judge considering I'll probably put t.A.T.u. quite high. That "performance" still breaks my heart. :(

Tirren if you actually put Svetlana in your Top 30 then we'll have to have words!

"Terminal 3: flight's on TIIIIIME" to storm to victory please.

 

(Or 'Dinle'!)

I might just go with a foreign-language stomper from the late 90s. Will probably bomb but it's such a guilty pleasure. :(

gonna have to random.org my 12 a bet.

 

i think i'm gonna go for something from '95 that was remixed in '99 and sounded basically no different at that. most people will probably know it thru a cover version tho if they're not 90's dance music inclined

 

NOOOOOOOO! This sounds like my intended entry! :drama:

And the Most Persistent PAIN IN THE HOLE Award goes to...

You have no idea how excited I am about this! The 1990s was such a *.* decade. I've got one entry in mind that would be perfect but I fear it's being considered by a couple of others so I'll have to fight for it. Claws out!

These will be up tonight! Having a problem with a few categories as hardly any of you seemed to agree on anything so I need to find a fair way of breaking massive one-nomiation ties. :drama: