Songtest #115: g e n r e b e n d i n g

SOTF's own Eurovision-style song contest. Submit songs that fit the theme and get mercilessly judged on your taste in music here.
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Songtest #115: g e n r e b e n d i n g

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long ago, the four genres lived together in harmony, then everything changed etc. etc. you know how this goes. anyways


Only the SONGTEST WINNER, master of all the genres, could stop them.


The theme is genre-bending! Any song that fucks around with genre is allowed! This includes, but is not limited to:

1. Songs that incorporate elements of multiple genres (bonus points if you wouldn't expect those genres to combine well!)
2. Songs that don't really fit into any genre
3. Songs that take a left-field approach to their genre (e.g. cutesy metal songs, pop songs feat. mongolian throat singing, etc.)

Now, of course, genres are constantly evolving and recombining and borrowing from each other, and a lot of existing genres basically started out as combinations of previous genres, but I don't have any requirements or litmus tests to determine whether a song is *really* genre-bending. If you think it bends genre enough to fit into this songtest, then it bends genre enough to fit into this songtest.

which means that all we have are the usual rules!
[+] the usual rules
No songs used from a past contest!
Be polite in chat about song contest because the people who submit the songs are also human beings! Anyone who removes this rule is rude!
If you can't be here for one of the semis, let me know and I'll try to put you into the opposite round!
If you're in a round or public-voting, listen to every song and give points to your top 10 favorites: 12 to your favorite, 10 to your second, 8 to your third, 7 to your fourth, and so on down to 1 point for your tenth favorite.
If your song is in a given round, you must vote that round or you'll be eliminated. if your song isn't in that round (or you aren't in the contest at all), your vote will be counted as a public vote, which counts for half points.
Send me your votes via Board or Discord DM: I can't guarantee I'll see it if you don't.
Signups will run until Jan. 9th, 10pm eastern time!

Participants:

1. me!
2. pippi
3. blizz
4. laur
5. toben
6. dr adj
7. DerArknight
8. cica
9. boogie
10. AnimeNerd
11. Fiori
12. Rugga
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hi sorry i bent my genre too much and it snapped, can i get a new one
[+] V9
Amber Barnes
Dennis "Buck" Buckley
Patty English
Alejandro Garcia de Teresa
[+] The Past
V8
S009 - Trinity Ashmore - DECEASED - Sasumata - Embrace the dark you call a home, gaze upon an empty white throne - overlords! > Zeus > Road > Recycle > Clarification > Now? > Dodge
Pregame - Annabelle > Light > Treasures

S019 - Robin Valenti - DECEASED - Bowie knife - And if you don't love me now, you will never love me again, I can still hear you saying you would never break the chain - Lights
Pregame - Tears
The Past - like > You
It's Media - awry

S038 - Jess Kawazoe - DECEASED - MAC-11 - What's going on? Could this be my understanding? It's not your fault, I was being too demanding - Veridis > Lines > Circuit > Human
Pregame - Voyager
It's Media - ALERT

S054 - Beatrice Briggs - DECEASED - Broadaxe - Calling for the hero, here comes a big rush, if only for tomorrow, hold on and push up - Prison > Healing > father > Flowers > Beautiful > Gentle > Sing > Ordovician > You > Permian > World > sunflower > universe
Pregame - Sunset

Left Behind (Pregame)
Poppy Fontaine - Here comes the sun, here comes the raging sun, and it's raging on and so we rage as one, on until the day is done - Pregame - door > Fight!
It's Media - neighbors

Ada Bentley - Stranded on an island made of glass, trapped between the future and the past - Pregame - Intro
It's Media - Typo! > Neighbourhood > everyone

V7
B006 - Stepney Cruz - DEAD - Dynasty decapitated, you just might see a ghost tonight - Mountain Bike - Localised - Catastrophe - Inferno
Pregame - Chill - Loss - Realm
Trip - Loved

G035 - Katie Agustien - DEAD - There's only two ways that these things can go, good or bad and how was I to know that all your friends won't hold any grudges, I got the final judgment - The World's Sharpest Knife™ - Dread - Skin - ieatnothing - Satisfaction - Tempest - Zero
Pregame - Vend-etta - Flames - Fleet - Monachopsis - Glitter
Trip - G҉ A҉ N҉ G҉

B028 - Aurelien Valter - DEAD - When everything's lost, they pick up their hearts and avenge defeat, before it all starts, they suffer through harm just to touch a dream - Spiked Mace, Glock 19, Min-Jae Parker's Crossbow - Nightmare - Bubbles - Neighbourhood - Tragedy - Make It - Fiend - Sleet - Love - Walls - Friends - Key - Everything - Gotta - Ghosts - Alone
Pregame - Shark - Heart
Prom - Link - Gradation - Ballare
Trip - Inferis - Scusare

B052 - Garren Mortimer - DEAD- Cut up and I can't feel my hands, no need to chase, can you relate, can you keep up the pace like you're dying for this? - Bryan Calvert's SPAS-12, Alligator tooth sword - Sky - Geek - Nation - No - Dilemma - Mauerbauertraurigkeit - Struck - Punishment - Énouement - Pain - Learn - lamb - Moves
Pregame - Rain
Trip - Life

Meanwhile
Lyra Doyle - Let's live tonight like fireflies, and one by one light up the sky - Pop!
Pregame - Evolution - Life - Lo Mein
Memories - Forward - Odds

Dean Puchero - By July you'd made a whole bunch of brand new friends, people you used to look down on, and you'd figured out a way to make real money - Phone - Angel
Pregame - Generation - Prince
Memories - Star
Prom - Sun - Luster

V6
Bryony Adams - Burning bright until the end, now you'll be missing from the photographs
Astrid Tate - So what became of loving man, and what became of you?
Mia Rose - You can't understand that I won't leave 'til we're finished here, and then you'll find out where it all went wrong

V5
Owen Kay - I fold my tie and ribbon to hide my scars, that's how it starts
Amy Bachelor - Can you whisper, as it crumbles and breaks, as you shiver, count up all your mistakes
Francis St. Ledger - So a day when you've lost yourself completely could be a night when your life ends

V4
George Leidman (Adopted from Blastinus) - Now if we jump together at least we can swim far away from the wreck that we made
Tim - Freddie - Kendra
[+] The Future
Boyd Adkinson - Ain't no surprise that I can't sleep tonight, my only vice is standing by your side
Redd Quintero
Melissa 'Lissa' McCree
Jamie Mittelman
Tabitha 'Tabby' Sun
Natalie McGuiness
Takumi Tsunoda
Ophelia Wright
Anna Montgomery
Jordan Rush
Patton Tesser
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posting my sign up for tax purposes
she/her/he/him
[+] V8 - CURRENT

Meena Lalita Kumar
the dreaded SI
>Pregame Start: Cast Call
--> Pregame Status: Crying in the (music) club
>Homecoming Start: Dying Clean And Pretty
-->Homecoming Status: It's worse fresh (ish) off a breakup
>Game Start: It's Lights Out, And Away They Go!
-->Game Status (FINAL): The future sucks.

Tenshi Marie Anastasie Fukushima-Yves
#1 princess and voca-tuber in the whole wide world
>Pregame Start: Cast Call
--> Pregame Status: Trying and failing to share manga
>Homecoming Start: N/A
-->Homecoming Status: N/A
>Game Start: spawn more overlords!
-->Game Status (FINAL): A star has fallen.

Iliya "Liya" Polaris - DEAD
rebelling against a traditional Wiccan upbringing
>Pregame Start: Cast Call
--> Pregame Status: Some things are more important than a party
>Homecoming Start: Guys and Dolls
-->Homecoming Status: don't tell anyone this but she was actually one of the raccoons
>Game Start: A Question of Faith
-->Game Status (FINAL): The spirit was weak.

Daniel Ozanne
poker twink
>Pregame Start: Cast Call
--> Pregame Status: Uncomfortable questions
>Homecoming Start: N/A
-->Homecoming Status: N/A
>Game Start: nooooo don't get kidnapped by the AT your too sexy aha
-->Game Status: breaking down but trying to help
[+] V7
[+] Meilin
Meilin Zhou (Wiki) - DEAD

>Pregame Start: life observes itself
-->Pregame Status: Waltzed out a party with her crush
>Prom Start: Fancy Meeting You Here
-->Prom Status: Taking a dance, taking on the world
>Trip Start: The Best of You
-->Trip Status: Running away from an eyeful of NSFW
>Game Start: Rise Great Undead Lord Dread
-->Game Status (FINAL): Stop hitting yourself

Aesthetics
"No sun to rise would be okay with me... Everyday, every day is okay"
[+] Camilla
Camilla Bell (Wiki) - DEAD

>Pregame Start: Who's Turn Was It, Anyway?
-->Pregame Status: Had more than her fair share of revelry
>Prom Start: Early in the Morning
-->Prom Status: Ditching the drama for blues
>Trip Start: When I'm Gone
-->Trip Status: Preemptively homesick
>Game Start: Bloom Nobly, in a Transient Life
-->Game Status (FINAL): Loved to death.

Aesthetics
"A voice in her head, a voice in her head, screaming all the words that were left unsaid"
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Break my spine let's go.
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RESULTS
[+] 12th Place
In 12th place, we have 4'33" by John Cage, performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker, submitted by DerArknight! It received 24 points, including one 12.
[+] 11th Place
In 11th place, we have Bus to Beelzebub by Soul Coughing, submitted by Toben! It received 31 points, including one 8.
[+] 10th Place
In 10th place, we have Renaissance by Cristobal Tapia De Veer, submitted by Laurels! It received 39 points, including two 8's.
[+] 9th Place
In 9th place, we have the Friends Theme (I'll Be There For You) by Postmodern Jukebox and The Rembrandts, submitted by AnimeNerd! It received 45 points, including one 12 and one 10.
[+] 8th Place
In 8th place, we have Questionable karma and good intentions by Aron Estocolmo, submitted by blizz! It received 54 points. It received this placement due to receiving fewer 12's than the 7th placed song.
[+] 7th Place
In 7th place, we have Black Ice by Too Many Zooz, submitted by le moi! It received 54 points, including one 12 and two 8's. It received this placement due to receiving more 12's than the 8th placed song.
[+] 6th Place
In 6th place, we have Satan, Luella, and I by HMLTD, submitted by boogie! It received 64 points, including one 12 and four 8's. It received this placement due to receiving fewer 10's than the 5th placed song.
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TOP 5
[+] 5th Place
In 5th place, we have Starmachine2000 by Wintergatan, submitted by pippi! It received 64 points, including one 12 and one 10. It received this placement due to receiving more 10's than the 6th placed song.
[+] 4th Place
In 4th place, we have Koi no Mega Lover by Maximum the Hormone, submitted by fiori! It received 68 points, including two 12's and one 10.
[+] 3rd Place
For our bronze medalist, we have Hard Times by Patrick Wolf, submitted by dr. adj! It received 74 points, including four 10's.
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OUR FINALISTS
In Second Place, we have...
[+] 2nd Place
Wonder by Yung Bae, submitted by Rugga! It received 77 points, including one 12, three 10's, and one 8.
Which means that our winner...

is...

*ahem*
[+] 1st Place
Heart of Darkness by Grim Salvo, submitted by cicada! It received 102 points, including four 12's (!!), two 10's, and two 8's.
Thanks for playing, everyone; until next time~
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