Hug Posted July 7, 2018 Posted July 7, 2018 If we're actually gonna get another Aftertaste/Erased then I may have a new SOTS
ceremonials Posted July 7, 2018 Posted July 7, 2018 so we have to include all five senses in our song?
Achilles. Posted July 7, 2018 Posted July 7, 2018 Cute tribute! Brave Face and Cassandra were so underrated! Definitely my favorites from the season, but I love most of my other songs too. I’m glad I participated. I didn’t really produce any of my all-time best work, but it was nice just to remind myself that I’m capable of doing this; I don’t think I’d written anything (complete) in over a year before starting this game. All of my songs will be out of the top 40 by the time the season is over.
UFO Posted July 8, 2018 Posted July 8, 2018 6 hours ago, ceremonials said: so we have to include all five senses in our song? I'm pretty sure we do, if I'm not mistaken it's more of a challenge that way anyway
Aurora Posted July 8, 2018 Author Posted July 8, 2018 7 hours ago, ceremonials said: so we have to include all five senses in our song? yis not necessarily the words “smell”, “taste” etc. but evoke those feelings and memories to really set the scene.
SaintWest Posted July 8, 2018 Posted July 8, 2018 16 hours ago, Aurora said: Episode 9: "A Sense of Success" Welcome back and congratulations to our Top 5 Artists. Thank you all for the time and energy you have put into writing some of the biggest hits Platinum Records has had the pleasure to produce. where?
Aurora Posted July 8, 2018 Author Posted July 8, 2018 On 05/07/2018 at 10:24 PM, Aurora said: Hints (ranking) also I wanted to explain these since they weren't cracked before results were announced. Pics are in order of submission (i.e. pic 1 = Kylie, pic 2 = Gas etc.) and the pics correspond with tracks on Kesha's 'Cannibal'. pic 1 = "Hot and dangerous" = We R Who We R pic 2 = "I don't need you or your brand new Benz" = Sleazy pic 3 = "The 'Stones were playing and we were too broke to get in" = The Harold Song pic 4 = "When you grow a pear, you can call me back" = Grow A Pear pic 5 = "Been broke, been a ****ty waitress" = Crazy Beautiful Life pic 6 = "Yep, I'll pull a Jeffrey Dahmer" = Cannibal pic 7 = "Drink that Kool Aid, follow my lead" = Blow arranging in track order, you get my ranking.
UFO Posted July 8, 2018 Posted July 8, 2018 oh waitttt this is due in Wednesday morning okay good whew I thought the deadline was tomorrow for some reason dlgkjfdkgjf
Aurora Posted July 9, 2018 Author Posted July 9, 2018 15 hours ago, UFO said: oh waitttt this is due in Wednesday morning okay good whew I thought the deadline was tomorrow for some reason dlgkjfdkgjf There’s been four days for each challenge so far, besides the trio challenge in which y’all had an extra day.
ceremonials Posted July 9, 2018 Posted July 9, 2018 5 hours ago, Gastrodonatella said: i have dreams of orca whales but i wake up in fear tea
ceremonials Posted July 9, 2018 Posted July 9, 2018 5 hours ago, Gastrodonatella said: i have dreams of orca whales but i wake up in fear TEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aurora Posted July 11, 2018 Author Posted July 11, 2018 11 hours until the deadline is over (35 hours until extended deadline) and no entries in my inbox
Hug Posted July 11, 2018 Posted July 11, 2018 Let's go eyes Let's go nose Let's go tongue Let's go hands Let's go ears
Aurora Posted July 12, 2018 Author Posted July 12, 2018 32 minutes ago, Citrus said: I have a couple hours still I think 2 hours and 45 minutes until the extended deadline is up, yes
Citrus Posted July 12, 2018 Posted July 12, 2018 I made it by a sliver of a minute Now will i make it to next week? We await the results
Hug Posted July 12, 2018 Posted July 12, 2018 This is a message to everybody: We’re getting near the end here, and so, I decided to comment on your journey overall. All of you should be proud for making it this far. There were many bumps on the road, and you got through them all up to this point. Gastrodonatella I can say with confidence you took the most risks out of any contestant here. You wrote a joint entry with now-judge Corsola, you wrote a song that didn’t utilize rhymes, you dared to write about your personal life and feelings (which to me is about the bravest thing you can do in PH, let strangers essentially criticize your own feelings), and now, with this final entry, you decided to hand us your first published novella and call it a song, but who am I to say you can’t sing it! You did this all while forgoing typical structures. You said what you felt needed to be said and didn’t let anyone tell you otherwise, and I can respect that. Of course, judge’s are here to help, but I always tell people that we are essentially giving our opinions. We’re not professionals or anything, and you should take the advice you like and throw away what you don’t. Clearly you threw away the idea of keeping things short and sweet, but that’s alright. I may not personally be into long songs, but that’s completely irrelevant when you’re writing what YOU want...I feel that’s something people forget when they get caught up in Platinum Hit. Thank you for not doing that. minho You have STYLE. I could see a bunch of lines out of context and I’m confident I’d be able to choose which ones are yours because you have a signature touch. To me, everything you touch glows with a hint of magic and mystique and it’s done so purposefully. I want to say this entry, specifically, isn’t any different. You took a premise that isn’t new (Liking someone who may not feel the same way about you and deciding being friends is better than nothing, despite longing for something more) and you just made it scream YOU. I’ve always LOVED that in your writing. I’m glad you decided to play this season because I was always interested in what you had to say. UFO Concept. Queen. Is there a better way of saying it? You always have the most interesting topics or interesting TAKES on more common topics. Even this week, you took the idea of senses and took an approach that, while I never would have thought of it, makes perfect sense and seems near OBVIOUS after reading your song. Your approach to challenges has been admirable this whole season. People can call you a lot of things, but boring or generic would just be a flat-out lie. Everything about you is so creative, and that’s why I’ve been rooting for you for most of the season. Of course, you’ve also consistently given me reasons to support you, with consistently excellent pieces. I’m so proud of you for keeping up the level or writing you have this whole time, and really...you deserve your finale. Truly. I won’t let anyone tell me otherwise. I know you would eat up a finale entry, too that’s where I think we’ll see true BRILLIANCE from miss Unidentified Flying Object. ceremonials I think you’ve been very set in your style and standard of quality, maybe to a fault, but I can’t deny the skill that you display with every entry. To me, it feels like the words you chose are carefully picked to present your ideas in specific ways, and your entries have been very cohesive. They’d make a great concept album. I would like to specifically mention your song this week because it was great, maybe the best we’ve seen from you in a while. It’s still the type of song I’d expect from you, but with that touch of WIG here and there. It makes me curious to see how you’d handle a finale. I really hope we get to see it! Citrus The personality you put into all of your entries radiates so clearly. Your serious songs can have a funny line, your funny songs can have a serious line, and never does either feel out of place. You’re not one for just one type of emotion, and I can appreciate it. I also appreciate that you’re a great story-teller. You can make things feel autobiographical, even if you aren’t a girl who got knocked up by a piece of shit. You understand the pieces that make storytelling in songs effective, maybe more than any other contestant, and that’s the quality that I instantly think of when I think “Citrus song”.
Citrus Posted July 13, 2018 Posted July 13, 2018 17 minutes ago, Corsola said: Y'all are making it hard to rank this round The main pregnancy plot comes in verse 2 with mention of little red lines referring to a positive score on a pregnancy test
Citrus Posted July 13, 2018 Posted July 13, 2018 And the runs in the family line is just a cheeky joke line. Her daughter doesn't have a dad either so maybe it's a genetic thing for her. And yes moonshine was absolutely forced in
UFO Posted July 13, 2018 Posted July 13, 2018 My aim for Hyperreality was to create an immersive experience that anyone and everyone can enjoy and I feel like I definitely achieved that. so I'm so happy I've been quite serious this past few rounds so to just have FUN with a song is really cool, dddd even though my song ends in tragedy but like................................................... tragedy IS beautiful Okay first note (I guess this is the second note n): I forgot to mention this in my explanation, but Hyperreality is kind of like (but not really) a semi-continuation of Oblivion. It becomes kind of evident with the "falling in oblivion" and then how the main character begins "falling" into the VR. Hyperreality is also kind of linked to past songs such as Gaia and The Renaissance, with the themes of the destruction of the world and discovering a new world. I also touch on the theme of impossible love which is a cute call-back to the themes of eternal love, enduring love and forbidden love that I explored in Rings of Saturn, Eternities Apart and Dance in the Rain respectively. I didn't plan all of this out but it's also NOT a coincidence, like basically all of this flowed naturally out of me. What I love about this season is that I LITERALLY do not know what song I'll be writing until it HITS me. Like, if I stick around for the next round, I literally don't know what I'll have in store which is very thrilling. It's a very organic writing process. When I came into this season I was NOT planning on serving y'all a conceptual album. But as the season keeps progressing, everything just... fits. The songs TOGETHER as a collective feel whole and become more elevated, enhancing each other. And I'm just so in love with it, with the creativity. It's been so long since I've felt like this about creation (in terms of my own and the creation around me) which is why I'm so adamant about the ARTpop whewwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch with this ACCLAIMED review and God Is A Woman finally dropping in less than 2 hours. It just goes to show that even in the darkest of moments, light can and WILL prevail ! I was totallyyyyyy living my ghey futuristic fantasy with this song like YES YES YES YES ahhhh you got it sis. I was definitely inspired by you for this song and it's, in a way, a kind of gift to you I really wanted to approach this sensory round from a more "tailored" point of view. I've always wanted to write a virtual reality song, but this round really facilitated that concept in a way that elevated it (like with all the senses) so I love this round. A lot. VR itself is supposed to be immersive so I was like yas, it's perfect and sensations are immersive in nature. I sacrificed my meter and technique a little for the sake of art and concept although I still tried to have some restraint. At first I wrote the song and the meter was ON POINT but... something about it just didn't feel immersive to me, it was punchy but... it wasn't an EXPERIENCE so I rewrote it and I'm in love with my song. What I wanted to ENSURE was that my concept was thorough and explorative, I didn't want it to come across as cheap as if the concept of virtual reality is just some throwaway idea or something that I think is "cute". I also tried to think about the realistic repercussions of VR which is where the Black Mirror and Detroit: Become Human inspirations come into play because I can totally see something like my song happening in real life. My song is kind of serving social commentary again this week but tbh I feel like almost all my songs have that stroke of socio-political flair to them. I understand the critique about the repetition making the song awkward since it doesn't really fit the more free-form verses, HOWEVER, I would not change it because I do feel as though the repetition drives home the "glitch" aspect but I will consider this in the future since I feel like my repetition can be very hit-or-miss. In a way, I kind of love the awkwardness and I was inspired a little by PC Music. Thanks for pointing that out! With this kind of concept Hyperreality is definitely not a perfect entry, by any means, although it's very much a MOMENT and I'm so proud of it I feel like I could write an entire album around this one idea and fully flesh it out and I WANT to which is the main thing. This is something that really ignites the fire within me and I'm so happy to showcase that for all of y'all, INCLUDING the haters. Quote You really do embody that alien-like nature with your writing and even personality. Maybe not everybody gets it, but when they’re reading what you’re spilling out, they at least have to respect it. Throughout this season, you showed the most growth bar none. I kind of thought that you’d be one of the people who was less receptive to criticism just due to having your own art and style, but that’s not true at all. ugh yas my Gaga moment PREACH IT SIS FOR THE GIRLS AT THE BACK I know I can be a bit much and my concepts/writing style can be melodramatic and grandiose at times but I'm just very much in my liberation era rn and this is not Xtina promo but it can be if you like, ow! I just feel very free for once even though it may not seem like it. But in past seasons I would always serve back-to-back songs about depression and suicide, which was very cathartic but also self-destructive. I'm just glad I can turn all of this inside of me into something beautiful. STAN THE **** OUTTA ''With your scent of lavender flowers drenched in the humid rain / It lingers in the air, now hints of you are in everything I taste / You sit heavy on my tongue but in this world you have no trace / Bitterness washes over me and soon your sweetness evaporates'' lowkey when I wrote this part I was highkey GASPING and clutching my pearls, like wow I did that and I was midkey relieved because I was lowkey ****ting myself at attempting to write the second verse since the first verse did that and I highkey wanted to live up to it. I loveeee second verses but they are lowkey scary and intimidating to write but I'm glad you chose to highlight that part because I agree, it's a HIGHkey moment. Thank you!!!!!!!
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