As we get deeper in the competition, the themes may start getting a little more difficult for people to process. So in the meantime, let’s do something that I suspect a user of tengaged.com would probably have a bit of knowledge about. We’re simply looking for bright, fun, pop music this round. I want a song with that can’t resist ear worm in the chorus.
As a reminder, the winner of this challenge will get an advantage in the next round!
First off, thank you everyone for applying. Yall didn’t make it easy for me at all this first round, so a lot of this is nitpicking. I changed my rankings like 5 times lol. The following players are safe this round:
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Which leaves…
FromAWindow - Let me just say one more time that I actually didn’t really have a “bad” song to point out this round so I have to go based on other criteria. That being said, Sufjan’s music in general for me is hard to get into because it tends to be more low key and I tend to prefer a more dynamic sound. Good song, but the energy was one of the lower ones in the lineup.
Currents - When you said that you were going to switch to Erika De Casier, I almost yelled. I LOVE this song, it’s been in my rotation since I saw it was released. There’s just something so effortless and cool in it, and I love the melody of the verses right before it goes into the chorus.
Insanity - Well idk if you got it from the last critiques but yeah… I don’t dislike Erika’s music but I think she also tends to be a little less energy than I like in a song. And especially in this lineup she just wasn’t as memorable for me.
MISSImogen - BOP please bop. I already thought the song was good, but something about the chorus really spoke to me and helped push it over the edge from some other songs I was considering putting in the top.
camell22 - This was a fun surprise for me! I wasn’t sure what to expect but I actually really enjoyed the vocal. And the mix of the background is great, it really gives it room to breathe. I enjoy a surprise so I’m excited to see what you can bring next.
mathboy9 - Honestly it was a bop like 80% of the song, but I did have an issue with it. The melody for the “Vou fazer o P, fazer o P, fazer o P, vou” part was kind of grating to me? Which sucked cause genuinely the rest of the song was actually pretty good. Sadly this is like… the only part of any song I didn’t like this round so it drug you down.
With that being said, the winner of this round is…
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CURRENTS!
Your gut instinct worked out for you, good job! You have won the first challenge, and an advantage. You have been given a GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD. Basically, in any round for the next 5 weeks if you feel like you will be in danger, you may activate this card to grant yourself instant immunity. After posting the blog, I ask if you would like to use your card and remind you of how many weeks you have left to use it. You will have the 24 hour period to decide if you would like to use it. Your overall rank will still be marked on the chart so you can see where you would’ve placed had you not used it.
And there are other twists down the pipeline. Okay, now let’s announce the rest of the placements.
MISSImogen and camell22, you are safe.
Insanity, you are safe..
…..mathboy9 and FromAWindow, you are safe as well. It’s the first round, and everyone did so well that it wouldn’t make sense to eliminate for me yet.
So with that, we have officially started! I will have the next round up in a moment.
Hii so I’ve been thinking about doing another music contest, so sign up below with a song if you’d like to play. Idk what the activity level is like on the site but if we can get a good solid double digit number cast then that would be nice! Rounds normally last 24 hours, and I just decide which 2 songs I like the least and make a decision to eliminate based on that. Critiques go to the best and worst 3 of the round so you can get some hints on what I’m liking and not liking. Oh and of course a gift prize to the winner
I always like to start things out just seeing what people are listening to. So the prompt for this round is simple, just give me a song that will give a good first impression in this game. PLEASE REFER TO THE GOOGLE DOC OF THE GAME (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10LJQb9d1nP91pZtQrTmKugsk0BvdukHKwGjr3cgeZJc/edit ) TO SEE WHAT SONGS HAVE BEEN USED ALREADY AND NOT ALLOWED TO BE SUBMITTED. GO TO THE “USED” TAB, HIT CTRL + F (command + F for Mac users) AND SEARCH BEFORE SUBMITTING PLEASE!!!!!
This is the song I would use for this round (so you can get sort of an idea of what I listen to).