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That Bré winner of this contest is really pretty btw - I can see why it won! As for the Q. entry for this edition of the contest, there is one song I'm strongly leaning towards sending but I'll probably give it a few more days before I enter.

I have like 4 songs I wanna send so far help

Confirmed! Had this entry ready for a while.

http://i68.tinypic.com/10p0p4x.jpg It has struck me that I haven't played chess in absolutely AGES, in fact I'm not sure I'd be able to confidently state that I have even played chess in my adult life ;o I used to as a kid / teenager and I wasn't the best at it but I've always loved playing board games etc (draughts was my baby, used to play the hell out of that with my sis). I'd love to be really good at it and seem intellectually superior, I may need to dig out the old chessboard with someone if I can find it lmao, and see if I can work my strategic magic. What about you?

Thanks so much Jade <3 It's so nice to have at least a few fans of the somewhat ever-changing sound of Deandria.

Yeah tagging on last.fm can be weird. One of my faves is when an artist who usually does electronic / experimental music, and therefore gets tagged as such a lot, has an a cappella song and it appears tagged as "electronic" and "experimental". K.

I thought I came 16th! :P We tied but idk which way it was split lol ~ Good job anyway, really enjoyed that track!

Congrats Cam! That song was 19th in my ranking, after Persephonia (16th), Medhelnia (17th) and Thelonia (18th). So it was Persephonia who was battling it out with Desbuanda for my 1 pointer as I mentioned in the other thread :P This is actually my second result of 16th in a spin-off in a row lol (and third overall!). Fun. Thanks Lindsey for all your work in hosting!

Jade the comeback queen. In other news, Q. has also come back (queen). Lowest re-entry!!1 :party:

I started doing this when it first began but it turned out to be a monster challenge so I chose my 11 and a few other scores and wrote comments for maybe 30% of countries but after that it all fell to pieces...

Voted also! ^_^ Choosing one more song for my 1 point was a bit of a pain in the neck at the end (I kept moving my ranking around) because there were two songs I pretty much equally liked around that part of my ranking :P

I wasn't there for all of it so I was interested to see the stats just now, I might as well post them here as well then. woot/meh/people (not including Lindsey's would-be-reactions since she was the host and idk what she would've wooted / mehd) 01 o Medhelnia o Frank Ocean - Solo: 6/0/7 02 o Unovia o Aja, Alexis Michelle, Peppermint & Sasha Velour - C.L.A.T.: 7/0/7 03 o Skall o The Blaze - Virile: 6/0/8 04 o Buzzjack Mountain o The Communards - Disenchanted: 5/1/8 05 o Cor Lupus o Openside - No Going Back: 5/0/8 06 o Altyr Muunilinst o Isis Gee - How About That: 2/0/9 07 o South Danaelanda o SOPHIE - Nothing More To Say / Eeehhh: 5/0/8 08 o Quintessa o Dusty Springfield - In Private: 1/2/9 09 o Espen o Faka - Uyang'khumbula: 9/0/11 10 o Rolloland o Sophie B Hawkins - The Ballad Of Sleeping Beauty (Only Love): 4/0/12 11 o Pupok o Tove Lo - bitches ft. Charli XCX, Icona Pop, Elliphant, ALMA: 6/0/10 12 o Cowtermont o Unicorn Kid - Drift: 9/0/11 13 o Taahino o Hayley Kiyoko - What I Need (ft. Kehlani): 7/0/11 14 o Zaminton o Fly Young Red - Throw That Boy Pussy (Dance Mix): 4/4/11 15 o Ojnoj o King Princess - Talia: 8/0/11 16 o Holland-Oats o Mary Lambert - Secrets: 7/0/11 17 o Thelonia o Steve Grand - We Are The Night (Dave Audé Remix): 7/0/11 18 o Flynnonda o Bebe Zahara Benet - Jungle Kitty: 5/2/11 19 o St. Burbia o Halsey ft. Lauren Jauregui - Strangers: 6/0/11 20 o Aeroche o Freemasons - Rain Down Love [Walken Edit] (feat. Siedah Garrett): 8/0/11 21 o Suedeonia o Pansy Division - Bill & Ted's Homosexual Adventure: 3/2/11 22 o Jadakissnia o Arca - Desafío: 7/0/11 23 o Cadelicia o RuPaul - Fly Tonight (feat. Frankmusik): 6/0/11 24 o Tartford o Jay Brannan - Housewife: 5/1/11 25 o FARC o Asbjørn - Nothing 2 Lose: 9/0/11 26 o PRoJ o Scissor Sisters - Mary: 9/0/11 27 o Jupiterdonia o Peaches - Light In Places: 8/0/11 28 o Singerpurear o Alison Jiear - I Just Wanna f***in' Dance: 3/0/11 29 o FSR Rontvia o Missy Higgins - Scar: 2/0/11 30 o Bøtanikkä o Tooji - The Father Project: 7/0/11 31 o Deandria o serpentwithfeet - four ethers: 8/1/11 32 o Mosquetania o MNEK - Tongue: 9/0/12 33 o Terra Avium o Bloc Party - I Still Remember: 9/0/12 34 o Hushkanukia o Shura - What's It Gonna Be?: 8/0/13 35 o Persephonia o Big Freedia - Bomb: 10/0/12 36 o Ultraviolenceland o Girli - Day Month Second: 1/0/12 37 o Séyetana o QUEEN BEE - Half: 4/5/11 38 o Lotunia o Adore Delano - I Adore U: 6/0/10 39 o Sandebörg o Dana International - Love Boy: 2/1/10 40 o New Lexico o Kacey Musgraves - Rainbow: 3/0/10 41 o République d'Áskorza o Alcazar - Blame It On The Disco: 7/1/11 42 o Aesthetica o Tatianna - Try (feat. Salvadora Dali): 5/1/10 43 o Vülkyria o Hi Fashion - AMAZING: 8/0/10 44 o Desbuanda o Ama Lou - Not Always: 3/0/10 45 o Utopia o Marshmello x Lil Peep - Spotlight: 9/0/10 46 o Dobago o Sin With Sebastian - Shut Up (And Sleep With Me): 7/0/10 Nothing got a grab. Most woots: Persephonia (10... I remember I wooted it but left in the middle of the song oops so I'm not sure if mine registered), Espen, Cowtermont, FARC, PRoJ, Mosquetania, Terra Avium, Utopia (9) Most mehs: Séyetana (5), Zaminton (4) Full house: Unovia

+30 Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart +29 Owl City - Fireflies +28 Owl City - Vanilla Twilight +27 James Blake - Limit To Your Love +26 Lady Gaga - Alejandro +25 Lady Gaga & Beyoncé - Telephone +24 Marina & The Diamonds - I Am Not A Robot +23 xx - Islands +22 Diana Vickers - Once +21 Pendulum - Watercolour +20 Florence & The Machine - Cosmic Love +19 Katy Perry - Firework +18 Katy Perry - California Gurls

Really liked this on first listen! Was surprised @ how much I enjoyed this direction she's taken.

Yay. Guess I'll start listening tonight and since there are so many songs, spread my listens out to a few days. If at least a certain wombat doesn't like my entry then it's all a travesty. x

Jüpi told me to x +30 Delilah - Go +29 Lana Del Rey - Video Games +28 Lady Gaga - Heavy Metal Lover +27 Lady Gaga - The Edge Of Glory +26 Lady Gaga - Marry The Night +25 Lady Gaga - Judas +24 Rihanna (feat. Calvin Harris) - We Found Love +23 Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall +22 Adele - Someone Like You +21 Lady Gaga - Born This Way +20 Lady Gaga - You & I +19 Coldplay - Paradise +18 Katy Perry (feat. Kanye West) - E.T. +17 Christina Perri - Jar Of Hearts +16 Adele - Set Fire To The Rain +15 One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful +14 Adele - Rolling In The Deep +13 Demi Lovato - Skyscraper +12 Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath +11 Nicki Minaj - Super Bass

Pride spin-off (and a couple of lines about 90s vs 00s) 5a4N_lOAieA (contains samples / a reworking (I'm not rly sure which) of Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique 4th movement!) For the BJSC Pride spin-off I knew almost immediately that I wanted to send serpentwithfeet, an artist I discovered last year, am still getting to know but am very intrigued by. I was choosing between a 2016 song 'four ethers', which was the first piece I discovered by the artist, and a newer, 2018 song called 'cherubim'. Both songs fit the theme of the spin-off lyrically and thematically, but in the end we just opted for this one because a choice had to be made!!1 In terms of where serpentwithfeet himself fits within the LGBTQ+ "label", for want of a much better way of putting it, it appears that he identifies as gay. I have also seen him described as "queer" (in an inoffensive way, just fyi) but I'm not 100% about the details of this when it comes to his situation. serpentwithfeet released his first full-length album called soil on the day confirmations for the contest closed, so 8th of June! I felt that it was maybe a good sign :heart: I have it sitting in my iTunes out of a preorder, but have yet to listen to it. His 5-track EP blisters, where 'four ethers' is from, is the one I've been getting into and it's a very interesting and lovely piece of work. Here is my alternative choice for the contest, all about embracing gay love and comparing earthly love to heavenly love. Go on, why not have a listen ^_^ OYt-eYCDmps I don't think I mentioned anything about the long finished 90s vs 00s spin-off oops, but long story short, we sent Air - Run (00s) with our alternative choice being Autechre - Slip (90s). 'Run' bagged us 16th place. Not too shabby. Espen won the contest with Chicane - Saltwater, which we gave quite a few points to!

I think I'm slightly going off Owl City, maybe also cos I've less time to just listen to music for hours, but it's comparatively rare these days that I'll put on Owl City (I did listen to a couple of his score tracks just today tho... I love them so much) and I don't feel a sense of genuine excitement about this one either oops. I'll still listen to it (eventually :kink:) and already know and like 'Lucid Dream'! shake me ~ From what I've read, this is his most autobiographical album, less abstract and "fantastical" I guess.

Confirmed! Decided to go with the one I've known for longer out of the two songs by this artist I mentioned.

I know what artist I'd like to enter (one of my favourite, most intriguing artist discoveries of the past few months) but trying to pick between two songs at the moment, one that I've known for a while and the other I've literally just discovered :kink:

#truecolours

oh my god I feel so lucky... I tried to get tickets for the Cornwall show coming up in July a while back, they were sold out but now I've managed to get 2 tickets! It's a weird one tho cos I don't really know how it's gonna happen (but I'll figure something out) - idk what I'm doing with the spare ticket yet and it'll be my first time in the UK too haha

Well there are those 'Does your country have a sound?' threads that we get like once a year or every two years or something :P

I will do! I might've had one quick listen of it a couple of months ago but that won't cut it as I can't remember the song if so! :P And thanks for that comment, was fun to find out someone's favourite section(s) from my musings! I suppose 'Hologram' and 'Ankara' were 2nd and 1st in your EOYs respectively for their years of entry so that section being one of your faves doesn't surprise. I'll have to have a think about which one is my own favourite haha. And yep, that would be cool if you did that, I'd read it!

Yesss, thanks Jade :wub: I can't remember if I've chosen to listen to that new JB song yet OOPS (and it's been out for a while!), I better get on it! :arrr: Thanks Bré for the link, I'm listening through now but it's killing me what the piano instrumental in the Indie section is??? It sounds like Port Blue - Up Ship! but that wasn't even a Persentry!! oh wait you just put it as the intro to all of the sections, geesh, where is my head xx