The Brand New© 120th Survival of the Fittest® Song Contest™!

[Pancapples]

Hey y'all, sorry it took me a bit to get this posted but I've been having a rough time lately. Got involved in some shady business, made some bad decisions and y'know. Some things happened.


So I kinda sold the entire idea of the Song Contest to this group of scary men, and now they're only allowing songs that meet their standard of approval. Thankfully, they instantly like any song they can associate with a piece of media they've seen.
So! The theme this time around (kinda by default), is...

Licensed Music

You can submit any song that has featured prominently in a piece of media. So movies, tv shows, video games, commercials, really anything you can think of. This includes things like theme music and credits songs, but I(/the scary businessmen) am mostly looking for songs with a vibe of "hey, I heard this in ____!"

The scary men have collectively seen every form of visual media, so anything from memorable video game missions, comic book movie trailers, or even just that one scene from Infinity Train. (Infinity Train spoilers in there btw).

[+] Standards and Practices

No reality show/competition covers.
Please don't use anything we've used in a prior songtest (Master Songtest Sheet through #117 here).
Be nice about the songs, even if you don't like them. This isn't the actual Eurovision, the people submitting these songs are people too, not a conglomerate of hairstylists/lyricists/producers, people have feelings..

Songs will be randomly divided into 2 or 3 semifinals depending on turnout. If you're going to be absent at any point during the song contest (so basically over the next 2 weeks or so), let me know and I'll place you appropriately.
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 disqualified. 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. If you're doing a public vote in chat, tag me in Discord so that I can find them.

Public votes will all count as half-votes.

The top songs will move on to the final; the number of top songs depends on the number of contestants. Repeat the process for the finals and we get a winner.
The winner gets to hold the next contest, or they can pass the job along to 2nd place if they don't want to. 2nd place can pass down to third, etc, until someone wants to host.

Sign-ups will run for the next four business days and be due on Monday at 9:30AM EST, when the markets open and I can steal the songtest back from the horrible men I sold it to.
(It isn't a strict deadline, I can totally do extensions if necessary.)

Unpaid interns:

1: me !
2: Fiori
3: Dr Adjective
4: DerArknight
5: Zetsu
6: Toben
7: Blizz
8: Maraoone
9: Laurels
10: CardboardAirplane
11: dmboogie
12: Krokodil
13: Rugga

[Maraoone]

joining(tm)

[BlizzardeyeWonder]

time to sign up without reading the fine print!

[Pancapples]

Good afternoon everyone, how's the week been? Mine has been great, the scary men have mostly been respectful of my space, and they even threw me a birthday party! I asked one of them to go out and buy a cake, and... well, y'know what happens.



What a horrible accident! Unfortunately that scary man wasn't wearing a seatbelt, and isn't able to join us today! (or ever again) Thanks to our friends at Ford® Motor Company for sponsoring this manslaughter!

Now, without further ado... presenting The Brand New© 120th Survival of the Fittest® Song Contest™!

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But first a big thanks to our friends at ZOOBOOKS®! for sponsoring these entrants! In this special TV offer, you'll be given the chance to bless a child in your life with the gift of TWELVE magazines containing animal facts, gorgeous photos, fun games, brain teasers, and more! And if you call RIGHT NOW, with the use of your credit card, they'll also throw in a set of animal stickers, the Elephant issue, and a FREE Tiger poster!


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And now, the entrants! This message brought to you by Meryvyn's©.

1. The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die, from Hi-Fi Rush!
2. TAMER - Beautiful Crime, from a trailer for Netflix's Daredevil!
3. Marty Robbins - Big Iron, from Fallout: New Vegas!
4. Hanni El Khatib - ALIVE, from a commercial for the iPhone 14!
5. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows, from Boogie Nights!
6. a-ha - The Living Daylights, from The Living Daylights!
7. The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died, from The Suicide Squad!
8. Ashley Eriksson - Island Song (Come Along with Me), from Adventure Time!
9. ZUTOMAYO - Blush (消えてしまいそうです), from Drifting Home!
10. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird, from Kingsman: The Secret Service!
11. Russell Watson - Faith of the Heart, from Star Trek: Enterprise!
12. syudou - In The Back Room, from Chainsaw Man!
13. Band of Horses - The Funeral, from How I Met Your Mother!

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Here's the playlist!

You have until about a week from now(May 15th, 2023) to listen and submit your votes, but extensions may be granted.
From the rules: 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.

[Pancapples]

So!
It's been some time, and the (remaining) scary men have been keeping to themselves for a bit, haven't been talking to me since one of them had a bit of a pool accident. Thanks to SNICKERS® for solving that problem! Ever since then, the two remaining scary men have bee- oh, sorry, one moment.


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[+] Survivor

Anyway, here I am with the one remaining scary man, and wouldn't you believe it? He's agreed to sell back his shares in the song contest! What a team player.


Now that we have full creative and financial control over the rights to it, let me present to you the results of the new, fully independent Survival of the Fittest song contest!

[+] 13th Place

In 13th place, we have ALIVE by Hanni El Khatib, submitted by Ruggahissy! It received 19 points, with one 8!

[+] 12th Place

In 12th place, we have Faith of the Heart by Russell Watson, submitted by Krokodil! It received 23 points!

[+] 11th Place

In 11th place, we have People Who Died by The Jim Carroll Band, submitted by DerArknight! It received 34 points!

[+] 10th Place

In 10th place, we have Beautiful Crime by Tamer, submitted by Blizzard! It received 42 points, with one 8!

[+] 9th Place

In 9th place, we have The Funeral by Band of Horses, submitted by Maraoone! It received 44 points!

[+] 8th Place

In 8th place, we have God Only Knows by The Beach Boys, submitted by Me!!! It received 55 points, with two 12s, one 10, and one 8!

[+] 7th Place

In 7th place, we have The Living Daylights by a-ha, submitted by MurderWeasel! It received 62 points, with two 12s, and two 10s!

[+] 6th Place

In 6th place, we have Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd, submitted by Fiori! It received 65 points, with four 10s!

[+] 5th Place

In 5th place, we have Island Song by Ashley Eriksson, submitted by CardboardAirplane! It received 68 points, with one 10 and two 8s!

[+] 4th Place

In 4th place, we have Blush (消えてしまいそうです) by ZUTOMAYO, submitted by Zimikyu! It received 77 points, with one 12, one 10, and two 8s!

[+] 3rd Place

In 3rd place, we have Big Iron by Marty Robbins, submitted by Dr Adjective! It received 83 points, with two 12s and three 8s!

[+] 2nd Place

In 2nd place, we have Invaders Must Die by The Prodigy, submitted by dmboogie! It received 87 points, with two 12s, two 10s, and two 8s!

And in first place, we have....

[+] WINNER

In the Back Room! by syudou

Submitted by Laurels, it received 95 points with four 12s and two 10s!

Thank you so much to everyone for playing, and congratulations to our winner! The song contest brand is now yours to do with as you please! If I could offer one piece of advice before riding into the sunset with my severance package, it'd be to always remember...

Don't make silly bets with scary men.

Thank you, and goodnight!



(also here's the spreadsheet)