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Congrats to all!! Joe, your title is so beautiful! I can only imagine the full song slayed HARD! 

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1 minute ago, JoeAg said:

AAAAAAA omg thank you! :heart: i’m so glad y’all loved this one, the new year is always such a special time for me, i really enjoyed writing this one and i’m honestly planning on using a few of the lines in it for one of my upcoming releases ☺️ here i’ll post my submission for those of y’all who wanna check it out!

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Our year is golden, like the last of the raindrops

Softened and warming up on the leaf from a maple

This year will be ours, like the song I hummed for you

While you fell asleep, docile, tender in my arms

 

But i hear new life calling

I can’t sleep for long

As the gradient pushes us into the orange of rebirth

I hold my head up like the dew could fall

Like sweat from my nose

All the water rushes down

And the liquid proves it’s our time to shine

 

I see the glow of harbingers reflecting in your eyes

The nights are cool, the dawns are crisp

The sun won’t cease to rise

But as I rest my hands so gently upon your shoulders

All our smile lines won’t fade, in fact they’ll glow older

 

But i feel the warmth of new life creeping in

I won’t sleep too long

The cold dissipates, the gradient pushes on

I hold my head up like the mote staying suspended

Like the water rushes back and forth

And the liquid proves it’s our time to shine

 

And i hear babies cry

Mountains curl

Lovers die

Mothers dream

Fathers dream

People calm as the gradient runs on

Crashes smoothen

Edges dull

Earth, it calms, as the gradient lives on

 

Live on, dream on, smoothen

Peaceful, docile, open-minded, gossamer

And hope cascades like the vagrants tumble

Down hills, down the sides on a riverbank

Grabbing on for dear life, as the river never falters

I watch them as I walk to work in this new year

Every morning, they seem to live freely

And yet I cannot imagine the pain they endure

My life is becoming a loop

Your life beckons to me

I want to be in your arms forever

For this is our year to shine

 

The warmth of the new life is shimmering

Scaling the trenches

The cold dissipates and the gradient flourishes on

And I can be strong

And you can be strong

And the vagrants can learn that from us

And we can help them when we are able

Mountains curl

Lovers soar

:heart2:

Amazing song, another smash in your discography :jonny4: would love to hear parts of it used in a recording omg

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Congrats everyone :heart: Inspiration for this "new year" round just hit me so maybe I will write something and post it in this thread, but also, maybe I won't :emofish:

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The jump from the top 4 and then the top 3 from the rest of us though! Congrats to you all winners!

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my first entry each season's score:

 

Platinum Hit 9: 4.13

Diamond Hit: 3.25

Platinum Hit 10.5: 2.925

Platinum Hit 11: 5.5

Golden Hit 1: 6.167

Golden Hit 3: 7.55

 

the decline and then rise :jonny5:

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4 minutes ago, mxtthewdelrey said:

my first entry each season's score:

 

Platinum Hit 9: 4.13

Diamond Hit: 3.25

Platinum Hit 10.5: 2.925

Platinum Hit 11: 5.5

Golden Hit 1: 6.167

Golden Hit 3: 7.55

 

the decline and then rise :jonny5:

Oo this is a good way to look at it, the growth whew :clap3:

 

It was a smash on my personal chart, I loved it. Felt like a new and fresh version of you, but still so very you if that makes sense! Like an elevated version, while also keeping your quirks and charms intact. 

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20 minutes ago, Kylie Jenner said:

Congrats everyone :heart: Inspiration for this "new year" round just hit me so maybe I will write something and post it in this thread, but also, maybe I won't :emofish:

If the inspiration is there and you have the time I’d definitely be interested to read what you would have written for the challenge! :gaycat3:

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5 minutes ago, fountain said:

Oo this is a good way to look at it, the growth whew :clap3:

 

It was a smash on my personal chart, I loved it. Felt like a new and fresh version of you, but still so very you if that makes sense! Like an elevated version, while also keeping your quirks and charms intact. 

:heart2: thank u so much, i feel like i have found my writing style more than ever ! GH1 did wonders for my creativity and excited to keep trying to push myself further

 

 

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25 minutes ago, mxtthewdelrey said:

my first entry each season's score:

 

Platinum Hit 9: 4.13

Diamond Hit: 3.25

Platinum Hit 10.5: 2.925

Platinum Hit 11: 5.5

Golden Hit 1: 6.167

Golden Hit 3: 7.55

 

the decline and then rise :jonny5:

Bestie what happened in 10.5 fjdjdnndf

Posted
12 minutes ago, Kylie Jenner said:

Bestie what happened in 10.5 fjdjdnndf

a masterpiece titled "Wet"... my second lowest scoring song ever x

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Just now, mxtthewdelrey said:

a masterpiece titled "Wet"... my second lowest scoring song ever x

I’m obsessed with it already and will need you to steal an Alma lookalike’s microphone and sing it to unsuspecting londoners!

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Flop. 

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2 minutes ago, Kylie Jenner said:

I’m obsessed with it already and will need you to steal an Alma lookalike’s microphone and sing it to unsuspecting londoners!

Only if said Alma lookalike promises to fulfil my humiliation kink by not following me back on Instagram!

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8 minutes ago, mxtthewdelrey said:

Only if said Alma lookalike promises to fulfil my humiliation kink by not following me back on Instagram!

Mother was so wrong for that 😭

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11 minutes ago, mxtthewdelrey said:

a masterpiece titled "Wet"... my second lowest scoring song ever x

Omg I just found it in my google drive from 6 years ago :deadbanana4:

 

”Wet

Everything is wet

Drowning in water

Water is wet”

 

:cries: 

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21 minutes ago, fountain said:

Omg I just found it in my google drive from 6 years ago :deadbanana4:

 

”Wet

Everything is wet

Drowning in water

Water is wet”

 

:cries: 

not the first lyric being "One day the trauma will pass and I'll learn to deal with my pain" :dies:

 

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OMG I did not expect such a good debut  :chick2: thank you so much judges, this was the dopamine hit I needed :beatfreak:

 

Congrats to the rest of the top three as well!!! 

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36 minutes ago, Kylie Jenner said:

Okay so it’s like 2:30am and I have work at 9 so idk why I stayed up doing this but the muse was strong af so here’s what would’ve been my song for round one
 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fj5q61vK1-6dF5ZmcXySjPwdSN711KcdjfBl5bYL-3c/edit

Omg I love this… the way you totally committed to the imagery used here throughout the entire song :clap3: it feels so fully immersed and really well realised. A really great interpretation of the round theme. I think this is my favourite song you’ve written for Golden Hit :jonny5:

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48 minutes ago, TruGemini said:

OMG I did not expect such a good debut  :chick2: thank you so much judges, this was the dopamine hit I needed :beatfreak:

:heart: :heart:

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57 minutes ago, mxtthewdelrey said:

not the first lyric being "One day the trauma will pass and I'll learn to deal with my pain" :dies:

 

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Wet walked so Not again could run!

 

Now that I think about it… Wet is actually pretty fitting for a future round we have coming 🫢

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here are my lyrics from this round!! i am really proud of this one tbh.

@fountain thank you for the review and for highlighting the titular line... because i really am obsessed with how simple yet striking it is

 



the antonym

verse 1
they pour red wine into a grave, so former lives can misbehave
fighting urges thought depraved, the new era surmised to save
with contract signed on pristine page, ambition unlatches the cage
yet once they feel an anguished crave, all commitment’s promptly waived

 

verse 2
they flood the gym for three weeks straight, to make their past evaporate
feigned portrayals of blank slate, until old habits reacquaint
so watch the crowd disintegrate, when outcomes don’t reciprocate
the flesh cannot impersonate, a vision so immediate

 

chorus
once bursting with adrenaline, the barren mind stops flowering
neither vodka nor of gin, the only drought was discipline
they’ll run for miles but old ways always win
and those who saw a better them, now turn to face the antonym

 

verse 3
they close their eyes and grit their jaws, to stand their digital withdrawal
but inhibitions start to thaw, as sunlight shows their hidden flaws
one by one they re-install, to let opinions churn and gnaw
bodies without thoughts to call, and thoughts without bodies to crawl

 

chorus
once bursting with adrenaline, the barren mind stops flowering
neither vodka nor of gin, the only drought was discipline
they’ll run for miles but old ways always win
and those who saw a better them, now turn to face the antonym

 

and those who saw a better them
now turn to face the antonym

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11 minutes ago, Element said:

here are my lyrics from this round!! i am really proud of this one tbh.

@fountain thank you for the review and for highlighting the titular line... because i really am obsessed with how simple yet striking it is

 

 

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the antonym

verse 1
they pour red wine into a grave, so former lives can misbehave
fighting urges thought depraved, the new era surmised to save
with contract signed on pristine page, ambition unlatches the cage
yet once they feel an anguished crave, all commitment’s promptly waived

 

verse 2
they flood the gym for three weeks straight, to make their past evaporate
feigned portrayals of blank slate, until old habits reacquaint
so watch the crowd disintegrate, when outcomes don’t reciprocate
the flesh cannot impersonate, a vision so immediate

 

chorus
once bursting with adrenaline, the barren mind stops flowering
neither vodka nor of gin, the only drought was discipline
they’ll run for miles but old ways always win
and those who saw a better them, now turn to face the antonym

 

verse 3
they close their eyes and grit their jaws, to stand their digital withdrawal
but inhibitions start to thaw, as sunlight shows their hidden flaws
one by one they re-install, to let opinions churn and gnaw
bodies without thoughts to call, and thoughts without bodies to crawl

 

chorus
once bursting with adrenaline, the barren mind stops flowering
neither vodka nor of gin, the only drought was discipline
they’ll run for miles but old ways always win
and those who saw a better them, now turn to face the antonym

 

and those who saw a better them
now turn to face the antonym
 

 

Oh, it was thee serve. Perfectly summed up the message of the song and the faults that come with New Year’s expectations, in such a catchy and frank lyric! We’re all human after all and when we put such pressure on ourselves we’re kinda bound to fail, and you exemplified that brilliantly. :clap3:

Posted
5 hours ago, fountain said:

At #10 with a score of 7.58…

 

@worldwide angel with “into fruition”!

 

What a lovely song, and I’m so glad to see it make it into the top 10! Frankly I would’ve put it even higher, but regardless this is such a great debut for this season and I hope you are proud of having written such an ethereal and beautifully optimistic song! I know you’re going to deliver amazing entries this season and I’m looking forward to reading each of them.

:duca: thank you thank you thank you

Posted
8 hours ago, Augmented said:

When the depression let’s you go for a split second and you see the next challenge :cupid:

 

Oh, we knew the Midjourney challenge was going to be the one. :jonnycat:

 

Fun fact: it was originally the season opener, but we had a schedule shuffle upon deciding to do the New Year's challenge, which was ironically the last challenge we decided upon for the season! Depending on how this round goes, it might become a recurring challenge... we'll just have to wait and see! :matty:

 

6 hours ago, fountain said:

 

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Round 1: New Year’s Challenge

Ranking & Scores

 

#1 @JoeAg - “As the Gradient of the Sun Brings Us Closer to Epiphany” - 9.43

#2 @TruGemini - “Dreams Come True” - 9.33

#3 @Element - “the antonym” - 9.17

#4 @8thPrince - “New Year, New Me” - 8.68

#5 @Legend E - “Peace” - 8.07

#6 @DatChickDoe - “There’s No Going Back” - 8

#7 @Euterpe - “Anew” / @Invisibility - “For the Dearly Departed” / @Remmy - “Second Chance” - 7.75

#10 @worldwide angel - “into fruition” - 7.58

#11 @mxtthewdelrey - “Not again” - 7.55

#12 @XO_Life - “Agathist” - 7.27

#13 @Julia Fox - “Free (World’s Prettiest B*tch) - 6.9

#14 @beatinglikeadrum - “The beginning.” - 6.68

 

:heart:

 

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Congratulations everyone! These scores had a higher maximum and higher minimum score than both Golden Hit Season 1 and 2, so please don't be too disheartened if you were in the lower half of the scores, because nobody flopped!

 

Extra special congratulations to JoeAg, TruGemini, and Element who will be getting the first hit tokens of the season shortly.

 

Another fun fact: this is actually the second three-way tie in GH history, the first being between lex, Jessie, and Rob in Round 2 of the original Golden Hit: Season 1.

 

6 hours ago, mxtthewdelrey said:

my first entry each season's score:

 

Platinum Hit 9: 4.13

Diamond Hit: 3.25

Platinum Hit 10.5: 2.925

Platinum Hit 11: 5.5

Golden Hit 1: 6.167

Golden Hit 3: 7.55

 

the decline and then rise :jonny5:

I think we can all say looking back Platinum Hit was certainly one of the tournaments of all time. These scores are rarely justifiable, and for what it's worth my personal score for you this round was higher than all of them. :skull:

 

4 hours ago, Kylie Jenner said:

Okay so it’s like 2:30am and I have work at 9 so idk why I stayed up doing this but the muse was strong af so here’s what would’ve been my song for round one
 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fj5q61vK1-6dF5ZmcXySjPwdSN711KcdjfBl5bYL-3c/edit

OK come through with the last minute bop. It's still January, after all! I don't know about the others, but I'm more than happy to give you a fair critique and score still, if you're interested?

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