PJ00s+ 73: 1-555-CONFIDE / Winner (& final confessions) revealed!
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Up next, an example of the trauma these contests put us through...
CONFESSION #4
"Sometimes, when it's almost time for a new song contest, I get so preoccupied with finding the perfect submission that I'll fall down a little OCD rabbit hole and listen to nothing but my potentials list (depending on which round is incoming) for like a week straight. During this time, the song I think I want to submit will change about 800 times and I'll have driven myself mad before the next round even opens. Once the round finishes, I rarely listen to the song I've submitted again.
I have absolutely no idea why I get so transfixed, but it's a nice distraction from hyper-fixating on things in the real world."
This is definitely relatable. I wouldn't go as far as not listening to anything else for a week, but sometimes I either cycle through a bunch of different potentials on my playlist before settling on one, or go deep diving through Spotify and basically don't stop until I find just the perfect entry, which to be fair has lead to some excellent discoveries and great results over the years, but on the other hand it can take up quite a bit of time, and I always end up with a bunch of my entries and potentials on my Spotify Wrapped.
CONFESSION #4
"Sometimes, when it's almost time for a new song contest, I get so preoccupied with finding the perfect submission that I'll fall down a little OCD rabbit hole and listen to nothing but my potentials list (depending on which round is incoming) for like a week straight. During this time, the song I think I want to submit will change about 800 times and I'll have driven myself mad before the next round even opens. Once the round finishes, I rarely listen to the song I've submitted again.
I have absolutely no idea why I get so transfixed, but it's a nice distraction from hyper-fixating on things in the real world."
This is definitely relatable. I wouldn't go as far as not listening to anything else for a week, but sometimes I either cycle through a bunch of different potentials on my playlist before settling on one, or go deep diving through Spotify and basically don't stop until I find just the perfect entry, which to be fair has lead to some excellent discoveries and great results over the years, but on the other hand it can take up quite a bit of time, and I always end up with a bunch of my entries and potentials on my Spotify Wrapped.
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@Attis
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@WoW73
Three days left to submit a song! Deadline is Saturday 08/02 23:59 GMT.
@Attis
@Dynamo
@Hurricane Drunk
@Lego
@unnameable
@WoW73
Three days left to submit a song! Deadline is Saturday 08/02 23:59 GMT.
He/Him
This looks like something I could have written except I didn't. Who is this??? Something similar usually happens when I don't have a song that I feel like is ~~the one~~ or there's just nothing that I'm particularly excited about at the time like what happened during the current PJXtra round. The entry changing 800 times can sometimes be hard on the host too (apols to the most recent victim @berserkboi xoxo). It's definitely a good way to find new music though.
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Definitely relatable except for me it's a search in the days once the new round goes up in order to find a new entry ddd.
The depths I frequently have to explore and the number of playlists and albums I have to go through sometimes in order to find a new Spanish bop for all of you to enjoy. Not any old sound, genre, or style will do it has to be the perfect one. It's a struggle that none of you will ever understand. A lifelong penance that I must pay with blood, sweat, and tears. A burden laid upon my shoulders that demands of me the will to scour the sounds of my homeland and the homeland of millions of others in search of the sweet sonic treasure that glistens like a diamond amongst a sea of broken glass. It's a search that never ends like the search for the true reason we were each individually brought upon this plane of being. A constant reminder of the futility of man and this fickle existence that we call life.*
*Events depicted may be more dramatized than they are in actuality.
I miss the days when I hadn't yet finessed my personal submission criteria and I just threw random songs that were like 7 years old into PJSC for literally no reason whatsoever.
Still fuming at past livefrommelbs for wasting these songs on PJSC (where they flopped), when they could have perhaps performed quite nicely in PJ00s once we stuck a + on the end.
(this was my first ever PJSC entry though, so it's still a lil bit of history).
Still fuming at past livefrommelbs for wasting these songs on PJSC (where they flopped), when they could have perhaps performed quite nicely in PJ00s once we stuck a + on the end.
(this was my first ever PJSC entry though, so it's still a lil bit of history).
I need to try and track down a song I heard the other day - the problem is, I was watching an old TV show and heard a cool song I didn't recognise - it's one of these cases where the original (probably expensive to use) song has been replaced on streaming by something different, so checking the official soundtrack list for the show won't help me. Aaagh.
I actually went on a journey looking for my entry for this round, I just checked and I added like thirty new PJ00s+ songs to my potentials playlist in the process dd (doubt I'll actually ever enter the vast majority of them, but still). On the other hand, on the last few rounds I entered songs I'd already known for a while, my last entry that was a recent discovery was Emii - Magic in round 69.
Can you Shazam it? Hold your phone up to the TV when it's playing and see if it recognises the song?
He/Him
Not this conversation now when I am genuinely considering changing entries (something I never usually do!)
My initial choice to me right now:
My initial choice to me right now:
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I usually play the potentials playlist on shuffle every round too, half the time I run into songs that have been entered in contests before, on albums that charted too high, outside of the timeframe, or from artists with comfortably more pages of discussion than allowed. I am like "what the heck was I thinking when I added the song here" and then forget to removes the ones that have no chance even in a relaxed rules round and experience it all again down the road.
my journey was to see the act live and submit their song to this round.
I just felt like I needed to get something out of my system so the last discovery I sent was Youngblood. I regretted it with my lowest results since round 50.
I don’t need to look for songs in this new era.
I had a look on my Last.fm profile last week, while searching for a specific song I noticed you can search on specific dates other than '7 days - 30 days - 365 days' ...
My 00's shortlist is so much longer now ... after I lost loads of vetoed bops!
My 00's shortlist is so much longer now ... after I lost loads of vetoed bops!
she/her
My longlist for PJ00s/+ has always stayed at around 30 tracks and I'm already overwhelmed tf
Don't know how some of you do it, you're def stronger people than me.
Don't know how some of you do it, you're def stronger people than me.
And now something not forum/song-contest related for a change (though there are a few more of these in the wings)
CONFESSION #5
"General pop music: I am completely nonplussed by David Bowie's cult status. It just leaves me cold."
Honestly... this one could literally have been me. Obviously don't deny the talent or the impact, but it's an artist I basically never listen to and never felt compelled to get into either.
CONFESSION #5
"General pop music: I am completely nonplussed by David Bowie's cult status. It just leaves me cold."
Honestly... this one could literally have been me. Obviously don't deny the talent or the impact, but it's an artist I basically never listen to and never felt compelled to get into either.
I totally thought that was your confession upon reading it ddd
I was expecting mess and all I'm getting is whiplash from the repeated nodding of my head in agreement to all these confessions.
There are some messy ones alright, some I'm not sure I should even post dd. But I guess I'll go for one of those next
The Labyrinth soundtrack is where it begins and ends for me with him (As The World Falls Down is an 11). I'm not sure if I've ever listened to anything else by him!
OK I could have written parts of this too, I'll sometimes go on Spotify recommended artist rabbit holes where I'll start with an artist I love then go through the "Fans also like" section trying to make new discoveries, a lot of songs on my potential lists I can't remember how I found them anymore probably because of this method, that or it was a random autoplay on Youtube/Spotify. Nice to know other people get obsessive about it too!