Survival Of The Fittest

Have you listened to so many songs that they all seem to blur together? Does everything new you hear sound like something you heard before? Have you inherited the spirit of a jaded art critic? Well, I have the songtest for you...

Songtest #56 - The Weirdtest



I understand that the definition of what is "weird" or not differs greatly from person to person, so I'm going to be fairly loose with the interpretation of this theme. Experimental musical techniques, unusual instruments, bizarre and surreal lyrics - all are on the table here. The main goal of this is to get songs which try to do something that nobody else has done, and set themselves apart from other songs, for better or for worse.

Note: If your song's youtube link is a music video that you would like to strongly recommend that people watch alongside their listen, I will make note of it, but keep in mind that I can't obligate anyone to watch a video if they would prefer to judge the song purely through listening (or if they'd rather go through a spotify playlist).

[+] Obligatory Rules Spoiler

- Send in your songs via board PM or Discord

- Songs will be divided into 1-3 semifinals, probably 2, if you can't be here for the first semifinal please contact me and I will put your song in the next round!

- Listen to every song in your round and give them votes, 12 for your favourite, 10 for your next favourite, then 8 for the third, 7 for the fourth, and so until you give 1 point to your tenth favourite. Not voting will result in your song getting DQ'd! Rounds last for 3 or more days.

- You can still vote if you're not in a round, as a public vote, which counts for half the points.

- The top songs move onto the finals, with the number depending on the number of songs in a round.

- Repeat the voting process with the finals, and that's how we'll determine the ultimate winner of the tournament arc.

- Submit your songs before the first round starts, not gonna let people jump in after the first round starts, etc.

- Whoever gets the most points will get to host the next contest. If they pass, it goes to second place, then third, and so on.

- General songtest rules:
- Nothing from Eurovision, no reality show covers (other covers are fine), nothing that has been submitted before. If your song is over ten minutes people only have to listen to the first ten minutes.
- Please be nice in chat.

I'll be doing my own votes before the round starts. I'll be giving reminders about every day whenever I remember. Extensions are probably not a thing unless you suffer severe RL stuff, like health issues, or being swamped with work and only getting a chance to listen an hour or so before deadline. Or being taken away into the forest by the fair folk. Any of the above.

I reserve the right to add anything blazingly obvious that I forgot.

Signups should run for about three days, ending on Saturday, April 4th at 11:59 PM. You can send me your submissions through board pm or on discord (my discord name is Krokodil). I'm looking forward to see what you all come up with!

*= yet to submit

1. Skraal
2. Paige
3. Zarina
4. Fenris
5. Shiola
6. MethodicalSlacker
7. MurderWeasel
8. Maraoone
9. Blizzard
10. Pippi
11. Laurels
12. burnitup
13. Kilmarnock
14. dmboogie
15. Jilly
16. Ohm
17. Inky
18. Buko
19. Deamon
20. Rugga
21. Kermit*
22. Jace
23. Pancapples
24. Yugi
25. Slam
26. Irene
27.

My time!!!!!!

Sign me up!

rad

in

holy shit

I'm in

Excellent! I'm in!

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Alright, count me in

NI

lilac

I'm already in, you just didn't know it yet.

more like fart gallery

Downnn