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I would absolutely never have predicted Leonard Cohen to win or even come particularly close honestly so seeing him win by quite a bit (pending the last few votes) is quite out of leftfield for me. Well done @jimwatts though, sorry to have been seemingly one of the few who didn't support it...!

Oops sorry for disappearing (for once it was not because I fell asleep...! just been a bit distracted by some other things x) - I'll post a catchup post at the end but I see my song is about to be revealed, wonder what it could be x

PJ Harvey's song definitely stood out a lot among an otherwise mostly very mellow selection of songs! A good punchy banger x

I think I'd possibly have guessed at Ani DiFranco being Mattias' so wrong again! Another good pick there, effective use of a precision F-bomb, shame it's doing quite poorly so far.

Finding it interesting that Leonard Cohen is near the top of the scoreboard - maybe I'd have been more into his version if I didn't already know the Jennifer Warnes version but even so I'd have thought this version is less BuzzJack friendly than Jennifer's so I wonder if her version might have done even better! I really ought to compile an updated list of BJSC spinoff entries as they are admittedly a bit hidden away (and my memory of them is clearly not that great as I didn't clock that it had been used before until Jade pointed it out, though I did know it sounded familiar from somewhere when I heard it). The Youssou song is a good tune anyway so not mad at it getting a second contest outing. I only knew 'One Of Us' from Joan Osborne before as far as I'm aware, I do like that song but not to the extent that I was particularly anticipating her entry here to be a favourite for me - but I absolutely loved this one so thanks for the discovery Addy!

dandy* possibly setting himself up for a second win in a row

Great pick from Dobbo - as I posted already it was a shame we didn't get more 60s entries especially as the ones we did get were very good! Scott Walker not quite in his avant garde era yet with this song though x

Not sure if it's more shocking that Fish wasn't Rollo or that it was WoW. That's certainly not a style of music I'd associate with him...! Melanie is a good early leader but otherwise the top end isn't much in line with my taste thus far (not that I'd expect it to be from the people whose votes have been revealed).

I am not sure I have ever seen the name Aimee Mann mentioned by anyone other than Dandy so consider me also mildly surprised it wasn't his entry x (all looks good so far with the presentation!)

It simply means

Very unsure what to expect from my entry! Hope to see at least a couple of the older entries doing well in any case x

Yeah you might be right after looking into it more oop x (They had another entry before that predated widely accessible AI music so they're clearly capable of making legit music but that's a shame if they're really going so far down the AI rabbithole)

That was not who I meant x (but yeah I have read about them using AI although afaia it's only for vocals which at least isn't as bad as just being fully AI generated)

(Also yes looks like retro results are now probably being brought forward to today anyway so will keep this as tomorrow if so hehe - sorry Pavita x)

You can fix this - it's the links which have '?si=' (or "?is=') and then a long string of garbage characters at the end of the link. I always delete that from links submitted to BJSC, deleting everything from the question mark onwards removes the tracking stuff while not breaking the link.

Would people be up for a listenthrough of this today instead? (As tomorrow would now be clashing with retro contest results).

Admittedly I was kind of assuming the results of this would be today! I could do the PFSC listenthrough today instead I guess?

Just doing my second listenthrough now so will vote in a couple of hours

I'm pretty certain he was being ironic. Alex does actually seem to have a surprisingly strong fanbase for an adult contemporary commercial radio slop artist. Not sure where those fans are though. In the real world I guess. x (in fairness he was a social media personality before he was a musician, though I don't see what about his old content warranted a fanbase either)

You were not going to get away with it regardless xx

Dolly Parton (for now) blocking 'Loser' from the top 10 and 'Sue me' from the top 20... I see this as an absolute win x (fab to see 'Marianne' still managed to stay top 20 despite the triple Dolly ahead of it! so far not thinking it's quite one of their best songs (actually I think I still like even 'It's Amazing To Be Young' a bit more between their top 40 hits and it's definitely not in the same league as 'Starburster'/'Favourite'/'Bug' not to mention many of their uncharted songs) but still very good and I love to see them getting any success x)

Have been meaning to point this out for ages but Audrey Hobert's name has been spelt wrong here ever since she debuted (I think). x