tournament Golden Hit: Season 1 📀 Congrats to 8thPrince and Jackson!! 🏆🏆

[fountain]

Well, I’m headed to sleep now! One last thank you to everybody that was here for the finale to celebrate the season

 

Now that things are coming to a close, Aurora and I are planning on bringing back a Songwriter’s Thread here on ATRL so that the community has a place to go and talk about our writing and our songs during the time in between seasons! We’ll link it here once we have it posted in the next few days. 

[Legend E]

next to Remmy in the overall

 

 

congrats to 8thPrince and Jackson on their wins!

[Aurora]

18 minutes ago, Legend E said:

next to Remmy in the overall

 

 

congrats to 8thPrince and Jackson on their wins!

Joint at the hip in the Top 10, we stan!

[Aurora]

2 hours ago, Achilles. said:

Oh. Well now I can add another second place finish to my resumé to go along with PH8.

Late, but welcome to the twice-a-runner-up club.

[Achilles.]

Hope I’ll be able to do next season.  
 

I want to try to work on my uptempos, my hooks, and (perhaps most importantly), making my writing more concise. Feel like I want to write some proper pop tunes

[Aurora]

5 minutes ago, Achilles. said:

Hope I’ll be able to do next season.  
 

I want to try to work on my uptempos, my hooks, and (perhaps most importantly), making my writing more concise. Feel like I want to write some proper pop tunes

Putting the HIT in Golden Hit, I fear!

[Better Mistakes]

5 hours ago, Aurora said:

 

Rank	Writer	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Average
17	@Better Mistakes	5.733	5.767	7.633	6.967	5.5	7	6.433

I hope you enjoy this loyalty Rose Gold Hit Token of Tove Lo for submitting during at least half of Golden Hit!

Thank you both for this @Aurora @fountain and for all your hard work and flawless organisation in this game. If there’s one thing I’ve taken from this game it’s that I’m now inspired with a title for my 72nd (?) album and have found the fun in writing pop music again as I continue my personal little goal of writing 100 albums/ EPs ??

[fountain]

7 hours ago, Better Mistakes said:

Thank you both for this @Aurora @fountain and for all your hard work and flawless organisation in this game. If there’s one thing I’ve taken from this game it’s that I’m now inspired with a title for my 72nd (?) album and have found the fun in writing pop music again as I continue my personal little goal of writing 100 albums/ EPs ??

Not 72nd

 

 well if you’re aiming for 100 hopefully our future seasons can help you get there 

 

glad that you got something out of this and had fun with the writing  thanks for taking part

[fountain]

8 hours ago, Achilles. said:

Hope I’ll be able to do next season.  
 

I want to try to work on my uptempos, my hooks, and (perhaps most importantly), making my writing more concise. Feel like I want to write some proper pop tunes

It would be a shame if we didn’t see you again  you’ve made your grand return and we’re definitely here for more 

[Euterpe]

That’s so soon for a new season.  I’ll be done grad school by then though so I’ll have more time!

[Better Mistakes]

1 hour ago, fountain said:

Not 72nd

 

 well if you’re aiming for 100 hopefully our future seasons can help you get there 

 

glad that you got something out of this and had fun with the writing  thanks for taking part

At this point I’m convinced I clearly have some sort of addiction or Asperger’s towards songwriting ??

[Julia Fox]

Didn’t expect to be close to top 10 lol but I had so much fun here ngl…

 

btw… no woman is no art deserved better scores tbh 

 

but anyway I’m definitely going to join on season 2 and this will be MY EMANCIPATION OF MIMI ERA you are not ready bishes x

[RobDeWittBukater]

16 hours ago, fountain said:

#23

@RobDeWittBukater:

Despite your participation in the season wavering over time, you still have proven yourself to be a really capable writer, particularly during the first round where you bagged yourself a top ten! It would’ve been great to have seen you submit more consistently, but there’s always the future! We were stranded in your arms in need of a password to be free, but we ended up embracing it and becoming lovers in June. We really hope you enjoyed your time this season and hopefully we can see you again next season!

Love how you basically did the "All" challenge for me right there, can I submit retroactively? 

16 hours ago, Aurora said:

 

Rank	Writer	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Average
23	@RobDeWittBukater	8.133	6.767	0	0	7.8	0	3.783

I hope you enjoy this loyalty Rose Gold Hit Token of Britney Spears for submitting during at least half of Golden Hit!

I had so much fun + I still haven't gotten around to checking out everyone's submissions so my Golden hit journey is not done yet!

[Prisoner]

Thank god my posting restriction finally lifted  

 

Congrats to the winners and everyone else, this was really a season of talent with all those perfect scores and high averages

 

And also a big thank you to our two lovely hosts, you both did such awesome work and I can't wait to be part of the new season which seems to be coming as early as August  

[fountain]

2 hours ago, Better Mistakes said:

At this point I’m convinced I clearly have some sort of addiction or Asperger’s towards songwriting ??

How many songs have you written as an estimate with this many projects? I’m guessing like over 500 or something?

[fountain]

1 hour ago, Julia Fox said:

Didn’t expect to be close to top 10 lol but I had so much fun here ngl…

 

btw… no woman is no art deserved better scores tbh 

 

but anyway I’m definitely going to join on season 2 and this will be MY EMANCIPATION OF MIMI ERA you are not ready bishes x

Omg agree, No Woman is No Art definitely a top 10 hit in my world… actually looking at my scores, you were my third highest that round 

[fountain]

18 minutes ago, RobDeWittBukater said:

Love how you basically did the "All" challenge for me right there, can I submit retroactively? 

I had so much fun + I still haven't gotten around to checking out everyone's submissions so my Golden hit journey is not done yet!

 use it as an entry for the first round of season two ?

 

I’m glad you enjoyed the season  really hope we get to see more of you in the future!

[fountain]

10 minutes ago, Prisoner said:

Congrats to the winners and everyone else, this was really a season of talent with all those perfect scores and high averages

 

And also a big thank you to our two lovely hosts, you both did such awesome work

It really was, you all had us STANNING, particularly in the last few rounds  ultimately down to all of your hard work and creativity though so hopefully everybody is proud of what they achieved!

 

thank you for these sweet words, too 

 

12 minutes ago, Prisoner said:

and I can't wait to be part of the new season which seems to be coming as early as August  

 

4 hours ago, Euterpe said:

That’s so soon for a new season.  I’ll be done grad school by then though so I’ll have more time!

And yes, we’ll back before we know it with season two

 

We wanted to take advantage of the last few weeks of summer since hopefully that should be a pretty free time for most people, I guess it can kind of be considered as a sister season to the first season since they’ll happen pretty close together, and anybody who takes part in both can come away from it having collectively written a full album worth of songs which is cute 

 

Probably going to be a longer wait for season three after this, for myself and Aurora’s sake 

[Better Mistakes]

2 hours ago, fountain said:

How many songs have you written as an estimate with this many projects? I’m guessing like over 500 or something?

I’d go with 500 - 600 songs tbh. When i first started writing, i was writing like 15 track albums, now I’m doing more 10 - 12 track albums. Obviously among them some of them are basically 5 track EPs when I’ve got bored and moved on to the next one

Edited July 2, 2022 by Better Mistakes

[fountain]

On 7/2/2022 at 9:08 PM, Better Mistakes said:

I’d go with 500 - 600 songs tbh. When i first started writing, i was writing like 15 track albums, now I’m doing more 10 - 12 track albums. Obviously among them some of them are basically 5 track EPs when I’ve got bored and moved on to the next one

That is super impressive how long has it taken to write all of these? 

[Better Mistakes]

3 hours ago, fountain said:

That is super impressive how long has it taken to write all of these? 

I’ve been writing since late 2015 tbh when I was at university, so 7 years ??? Good lord that’s flown by

[Julia Fox]

Just a suggestion! 
 

next season could be with eliminations 

[fountain]

1 hour ago, Julia Fox said:

Just a suggestion! 
 

next season could be with eliminations 

Golden Hit will never have eliminations, and we’re happy about it 

 

There used to be a game on here called Platinum Hit which ran for 12 seasons (plus one spin off, which was the basis for Golden Hit), and was elimination based. It’s actually it’s ten year anniversary this year, and Aurora and I discussed hosting an anniversary season, but ultimately we wanted to bring back songwriting to ATRL in the most positive and encouraging way possible, and that’s definitely what Golden Hit has been, so we’re sticking with this. 
 

Plus on a personal level we would feel too bad eliminating anybody these days  and honestly looking at this season of Golden Hit has proven that giving people the space to be creative without being eliminated absolutely pays off, since we had people go from the bottom of the rankings to the very top, which was amazing to see.

[Julia Fox]

19 minutes ago, fountain said:

Golden Hit will never have eliminations, and we’re happy about it 

 

There used to be a game on here called Platinum Hit which ran for 12 seasons (plus one spin off, which was the basis for Golden Hit), and was elimination based. It’s actually it’s ten year anniversary this year, and Aurora and I discussed hosting an anniversary season, but ultimately we wanted to bring back songwriting to ATRL in the most positive and encouraging way possible, and that’s definitely what Golden Hit has been, so we’re sticking with this. 
 

Plus on a personal level we would feel too bad eliminating anybody these days  and honestly looking at this season of Golden Hit has proven that giving people the space to be creative without being eliminated absolutely pays off, since we had people go from the bottom of the rankings to the very top, which was amazing to see.

That’s fine and so right because it made a lot of sense and serves an unique way to do a game here x maybe an all stars season with the best contestants overall all seasons would made sense in a elimination format… which would be cool… hope you consider this idea because with competitiveness things changes a lot 

[Aurora]

10 minutes ago, Julia Fox said:

That’s fine and so right because it made a lot of sense and serves an unique way to do a game here x maybe an all stars season with the best contestants overall all seasons would made sense in a elimination format… which would be cool… hope you consider this idea because with competitiveness things changes a lot 

Obviously I don't wish to spoil too many of our plans, but fountain and I definitely have high hopes for the future of Golden Hit.  The casual non-elimination environment is generally more welcoming to a variety of potential participants, and the shorter <2 month duration means we can have more of these seasons more frequently, circumventing the creative drain that is often experienced in the latter half of traditional Platinum Hit seasons.

 

We've also thrown around the idea of seasonal specials or events, which may tie into the Songwriter's Thread fountain mentioned earlier that should be debuting soon™️. Between these and the more frequent Golden Hit seasons, we anticipate up to four seasons of Golden Hit per year (vs. the 1-2 Platinum Hit or Song of the Season would typically see), and some extra surprises along the way.

 

The best way to keep up with potential Golden Hit news would be to keep and eye on this thread in the coming days until the Songwriter's Thread is (re-)debuted, and then that will be our home base between seasons to share any works off-season, perhaps the occasional inspiration prompt song-starter, mini 24-hour challenges, and of course the launch date announcement of Golden Hit: Season 2!