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I guess it had to happen to balance out the early announcements being 100% semi 2 but that's what... 2 spots left for semi 2 songs now if I'm counting correctly? Yay for Jadakissnia though! (and now I've finally heard the daine song I can confirm this entry was a substantial upgrade on that for me x)

Yay New Helvetica 2 for 2

Some better news there with Sovarasma and Fljótavík through, both highlights <3 (the former was one of the songs I was a bit gah about following Zephyra being out)

Oh I figured 'Aeropickles' was probably not going to be qualifying even without the deduction but thanks TK for bringing it into my life anyway (even though I didn't vote for it - I couldn't quite bring myself to rank it ahead of any of the songs in my votes but it is a really cute and charming entry that I think will stick with me and genuinely it has been stuck in my head for probably around a solid 24 hours now x). Pffff at Scotland 2 being that low though, that was my 10 pointer. Maybe it's a little bit too far on the abstract side of the alt bloc (like when I sent Slauson Malone 1). And sorry Mikey but I hope for your sake your promised new direction for the next contest is, er, a song performed by humans I guess I've now outperformed my lowest rock bottom expectations but 54 points is a long way away x

Dev Lemons <3 my fave from Kathaldazia for a hot minute x The song in last place in semi 1 is surely not really a question, just whether anyone spoiled the party of it being our third nul pointer. (inb4 I actually come last - I am genuinely feeling a 29th place coming on though xx)

Not WORSTIEHub. Recount it x (jk their song was a lite banger) Nice for Deandria, wasn't sure if that one would make it or not.

That's one of the best Spodic entries to date <3 and good stuff from Zanmatony too. I feel I should probably give a listen to the studio version of the ANRI song (and Lee Jung Hyun for that matter) as I don't think the low quality live versions on YouTube sell them that well oops but it sounded fairly cute - done a lot better than the city pop entries in the Lottery themed Retro contest!

That's one of my semi 2 top 10 down already oop (Zephyra Continuum was 6th for me). Hope that isn't a bad omen for a couple of other somewhat similar entries in the semi eep! I quite liked Flynnonda's song too and although Lotunia's song this month was definitely in the not for me camp I am rooting for them to get a big hit again soon, they're on a very unfortunate run of form right now (mostly with songs I liked a lot more than this one) </3

And yas my other psychedelic fave through as well was marginally less confident in Liminal qualifying but still probably never had anything to worry about x Nice one from Elëdan again too although unironically I do wish it was a few minutes longer(!)

Yasss HENGE (2 other gooduns there as well! I had forgotten until it was mentioned at the listenthrough that The Haunted Youth won Nuggets oops, this is a better song than the one that won for them imo, am sure it should do well too).

East Rukahavian casually becoming enviably consistent qualifiers though!

Skall can win again tbh. Yay for Séyetana not that they were in doubt. Insert FKA twigs pic x

I don't have particularly high hopes for myself to break the curse of DNQing in Skall contests as the reception on SyncTube was not especially enthusiastic but let's see x Rooting for psychedelic faves and other assorted artsy guitar entries mostly xo

Lies - you're always a safe 21st place until proven otherwise x

Very well designed alert then...!

That alert that was just beamed into everyone's* phones was just a warning of what will happen if I DNQ again x *in the UK

i.e. not in a row then x

Just saying the teaser for the chart show played on the breakfast show this morning was more to the tune of 'is this the week Sam Fender's reign will end' rather than 'will Sam Fender get another week'. As soon as I heard that I had a feeling that could be foreshadowing a massive amount of Madonna physicals and a shock #1... (it was similar the week Taylor scammed a second week at #1).

Poor brave Aeropickles.

Have got in a second listen of the opposite semi now as well hooray (been a few months since I last found time to do that before semi results). Which means I have now spent 74 minutes of my life listening to 'Fizheuer Zieheuer' Semi 2 is definitely weaker than semi 1 for me, I think only my top 4 or 5 would have got points from me if they had been in my semi instead (and it has more songs that were a bit samey / forgettable / didn't leave much of an impression on me). Still a couple of very strong standouts among those though. (I'm down with the idea of Séyetana winning, great entry, obviously long overdue and would be iconic for them to go from last place in the semi to winning the following contest x)

Not sure if you're still confused or I'm just reading this wrong but there isn't a theme (other than that the song has to be guitar-led but that's just the concept of Nuggets as a whole). Might be best to change the title x

This is so good - can't help it from the other semi but I will be having some stern words if this isn't the one to end your DNQ streak! As I said on SyncTube it really feels like a musical sketch from The Mighty Boosh, both the song itself and the surreal visuals, I'm sure it must be consciously inspired by that if not a direct homage.

Did give this album a second listen yesterday although wasn't quite in time with the listening party oops (not that I ever comment along live with these things anyway). My opinions on the album are mostly not too different from what I thought on first listen, although I'll dump them here as I haven't posted on the forum about the album at all yet - the first and last songs are two of my favourite tracks on the album so a very strong start and finish, happy that 'kiss me' got to be a top 15 hit, not sure how likely it is to get a single push (I expect that if they go with another single at all 'like i do' might be the more obvious choice, and that is also a highlight for me so wouldn't be mad x). I really like both of the singles, 'petal' took a couple of listens but I actually like it more than 'hate that i made you love me' now. 'oh well' and 'bad thing (bunny hop)' are welcome moments of slightly more energetic production on the album, the 'Blinding Lights' formula has tired on me a bit by this point but am still enjoying the latter. 'stay' is solid as well and the interlude is pretty cool for what it is. The other few songs I've not mentioned didn't do much for me - although will say that on first listen I thought 'big feelings' was comfortably the worst song on the album and I take that back now, still one of the weaker songs but has a bit more to it than a couple of others. The whole album feels very The Weeknd-coded to me which is not a bad thing, it could perhaps do with a little bit more sonic variation but a good number of highlights and no songs that I outright dislike or anything. Ranking the songs after 2 listens ~ 1 kiss me 2 petal 3 nowhere, nobody 4 hate that i made you love me 5 oh well 6 like i do 7 bad thing (bunny hop) 8 stay 9 warning signs (interlude) 10 big feelings 11 freak 12 never get over me

Voted - thought this was a great semi, I have a reasonably clear top 9 but then 7 or 8 songs that I could easily have given my 1 point to (in the end I stuck with the song that was provisionally at 1 point after the SyncTube session, but I did swap a few songs around within my top 9 and feeling happier with the order now). There is a song I haven't voted for (it is among that group of 7 or 8 songs fighting for 1 point) but will probably be stuck in my head for the rest of the day x

There are 9 other spots in the top 10 you know.