Hello everybody, it's your favourite Canadian Desert Fauna and welcome to the 23rd SOTF Song Contest!
A broken clock is right twice a day, and for the second time, I've managed to score myself some cool hosting powers for the ol' songtest and I couldn't be more excited. One of the things that I've tried to do since I've come back to SOTF is carry through when I say that I'm going to do something, and this will be no different. If you've ever heard me in chat, you know exactly what kind of theme is coming next, because I've been saying it for months.
My last time hosting, I ran a 90s contest that delivered me with so much nostalgia I felt young again. So naturally, we're taking a step back. To a decade that bore witness to a lot of really fantastic trends... and some not so fantastic trends (it also marked my entrance into the world, so eyyyyy). Let us take a step back, another ten years.
That's right, friends! The theme for this upcoming songtest is:
The 1980s.
- [+] Specific 80s Theme Rules
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So, a few small rules for the theme itself.
1) The theme can be from any genre, however you'd like to do it is fine - country, pop, rap, electronic, movie themes, video game themes - whatever you want is gravy. Provided...
2) The song must have been released between January 1st, 1980 and December 31st, 1989. Anything before or after - too bad! You're out of luck for this time around.
3) No Eurovision Covers - regular covers are fine though.
4) No reality show/competition covers.
5) Please don't use anything we've used in a prior songtest (Master Songtest Sheet here).
6) If a song doesn't happen to your cup of tea, try not to slag it relentlessly in chat if you can avoid it - these things are all for fun and we all have wildly different tastes, which is why these are so fun!
I'm going to very shamelessly steal Shiola's rules:
- [+] Songtest Rules
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Songs will be randomly divided into 2 or 3 semifinals depending on turnout. 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 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. If you're doing a public vote in chat, tag me in Discord with @Dodd so that I can find them.
Public votes will all count as half-votes like we've been doing lately. I like this way so much better than the old system.
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.
Each semifinal and the final will last for three days.
If you know at the start of your semifinal that you wont be available to vote for those four days, let me know and I can move you to another semifinal, if we aren't on the final one already.
Signups will run until I see fit or we get around 30 people. That's usually a good number.
Contestants: (Red has yet to submit)
1. Cactus
2. Shiola
3. Ricky
4. Laurels
5. Maraoone
6. Fenris
7. Brackie
8. Jilly
9. Deamon
10. Endellion
11. CBP
12. Frozen Smoke
13. Ares
14. Blormit
15. Lord of Awesome
16. PIPPON
17. dmboogie
18. Buko
19. Slam
20. Ohm
21. Dr. Freud
22. Rugga
23. RC
24. Cicada
25. MW
26. EP
27. DN
28. KamiKaze
29. Pan
30. Riki
(Adopted from Dannyrulx)
