Songfest #144: Vespa Special!

Or: The one based on road trips!

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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Songfest #144: Vespa Special!

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Spoiler!
It's the song i'll bring this time. For the meme!
Hello everybody, and welcome to this mid-october songfest based or reminding of short road trips, long cruising drives, furious rally races, jolly Beetle feels, and maybe country!
[+] Da rulz
- submit your song via PM or Discord, whichever's easier for you (I would very much prefer Discord though)
- songs will be randomly divided into 1, 2 or 3 semifinals depending on turnout. if there are less than 20 submissions within 5 days, then there will only be one final round. if you're going to be away at some point in the next couple of weeks, let me know and I can try to put your song in a round when you'll be here.
- 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 there are less than 10 songs to vote for in a round, then simply cut off the bottom portion of the ballot (i.e. no 1 point songs, no 2 point songs, and so on)
- 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.
- the top [x] songs will move on to the final. that number depends on the number of contestants.
- repeat the process for the finals and we get a winner.
- 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.

General song rules:
- no eurovision songs
- no reality show/competition covers
- no songs already submitted in a songtest: reference here, please note that is adjourned up until songfest #111!
- there is no penalty for length in this contest. however, if a song goes over 7 minutes, listeners aren't obligated to listen to more than the first 7 minutes of it. Choose a long song at your own risk!

Each semifinal and the final will last for three days. some rules about activity:
- if you know at the start of your semifinal that you wont be available to vote for those three days, let me know ASAP and I can move you to another semi, if we aren't on the final one already.
- I'll be pinging everyone who hasn't voted on discord 48 and 24 hours before the round ends.
- Have fun! (Pliz 🙏)
Signups will run until 24th of October, 2024 16:00 PM EST, with the following post submitted approximately the next day.

...Aaaand that's it. It's a bit of an empty opening post I'll say, so here's a minigame to get into this month's spirit!

Contestants! (And people who hadn't lynched Ahab yet!)
  • Ahab! (hello again!)
  • Pancapples!
  • Dr. Adjective!
  • Fiori!
  • Burnitup!
  • Polybius!
  • Carlisle!
  • Laurels!
  • Zimikyu!
  • Finch!
  • DerArknight!
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#2

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...man, the roads are wild these days.
Ahem. Welcome back everyone for this minimalistic update, with our challengers and their songs: You can send me your votes by Discord until 16.00 PM EST, 5 November 2024!
Happy spookying and enjoy 👻👻👻!
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Not pictured: the morning bus.

Welcome back everyone! Our powerful systems made out of one (1) CPU processor elaborated the results for this songfest's version, starting with:
[+] 11th Place
Polybius, scoring 35 points with his:
Sitting, by Cat Stevens!
[+] 10th Place
DerArKnight, scoring 42 points with his:
On the Road to Anywhere, by DerArknight!
[+] 9th Place
Burnitup, scoring 43 points with his:
Sunset, by MACROSS 82-99!
[+] 8th Place
Carlisle, scoring 44 points with his:
On Our Way, by The Royal Concept!
Stay tuned for our next batch of result!
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#4

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Pictured: The aforementioned systems.

Hello again everyone, with the second phase of this contest's result!
[+] 7th place
Zimikyu, scoring 52 points with her:
Young Man in America, by Anaïs Mitchell!
[+] 6th place
Finch, scoring 57 points with his:
Take It Easy, by Jackson Browne!
[+] 5th place
Fiori, scoring 62 with his:
The Bangles, by Walk Like an Egyptian!
[+] 4th place
Ahab, scoring 63 points with his:
50 Special, by Lùnapop!
Stay Tuned for the FINAL ROUND!!!
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And after some fanfare, the podium!
[+] Bronze Medal
🥉Laurels!🥉
Driving into the unknown with:
I Drove All Night, by Céline Dion!
[+] Silver Medal
🥈Dr. Adjective!🥈
Sprinting down the highway with:
I Drove All Night, by The Protomen!
[+] Gold Medal
🥇Pancapples!🥇
Hitting the pole position with:
Take On Me, by the a-ha!
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And That's all folks! Happy weekend!
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