tournament Golden Hit: Season 4 📀 Congrats to Kylie Jenner! 🌸

[Galah]

Me patiently waiting for @JoeAg’s reviews and for uploading avatars to work again:

 

[JoeAg]

wait oh sh*t I totally meant to finish them whoops lemme do that rn before the gym

 

sorry to those who didn't do my challenge, I may do reviews of those later

[JoeAg]

reeeeeview world...

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@XO_Life: I love this, it’s very poignant. as someone who’s gone through this sort of experience, it’s incredibly validating knowing that these thoughts could be articulated this way in lyric form. I particularly like “bones to dust/you made my heart rust.” it’s simple phrasing, but a truly powerful notion

@worldwide angel: did you listen to my song 883 by any chance? it really seems like you may have somewhat taken inspiration from that in some way, I love it. I don’t mean to toot my own horn lol. but this is excellent babe. with the visiting the new land… and the “cmon there’s something/there always got to be.” that’s so real, that’s such a great feeling to capture in a song and you killed it!

@Kylie Jenner: I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! omg it’s so f*cking evocative, it’s giving southern gothic, it’s giving twilight zone, it’s giving everything i love about writing tragic… epic… songs. I listened and gave you a follow on soundcloud too, I’m very impressed by the affectedness of your voice on this. you really stuck to the theme and i appreciate that

@Hug: I love the concept of combining chemicals to create a sort of near death scenario with several external factors. the sexual element is very exciting, and I feel like you nailed that part in particular. the concept of addiction in a song like this could be cliché so that’s always a thin line to tread carefully, but honestly you pulled it off and I really appreciate what you did with the outro. this could be a pop hit!

@Aurora: oh you definitely felt your vocabulary oats here and I would love this song even if just for that! but then again, there’s so much f*cking magic here that I wholeheartedly love the whole damn thing. verdant and verdure two lines after another? oh, I’m not trying to toot my own horn (again) but it REALLY feels like you took some inspiration from maybe my song Malakhova or my song Vlontresska. this is so soulful. the natural world aspects really struck me as well, beautiful and very organic inclusion imo. this is so well-thought out, you really offered something detailed and vivid here. bravo babe!

[Galah]

Thanks Joe, glad you enjoyed it esp. the vocab and the earthy section! Earth imagery is probably the natural element I’ve experimented with least, so it was fun working with a new series of metaphors and literary language in a sense.

[fountain]

5 hours ago, Aurora said:

Me patiently waiting for @JoeAg’s reviews and for uploading avatars to work again:

 

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Me waiting for any review of my song

 

 

[Kylie Jenner]

Thanks so much Joe

[worldwide angel]

10 hours ago, JoeAg said:

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@XO_Life: I love this, it’s very poignant. as someone who’s gone through this sort of experience, it’s incredibly validating knowing that these thoughts could be articulated this way in lyric form. I particularly like “bones to dust/you made my heart rust.” it’s simple phrasing, but a truly powerful notion

@worldwide angel: did you listen to my song 883 by any chance? it really seems like you may have somewhat taken inspiration from that in some way, I love it. I don’t mean to toot my own horn lol. but this is excellent babe. with the visiting the new land… and the “cmon there’s something/there always got to be.” that’s so real, that’s such a great feeling to capture in a song and you killed it!

@Kylie Jenner: I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! omg it’s so f*cking evocative, it’s giving southern gothic, it’s giving twilight zone, it’s giving everything i love about writing tragic… epic… songs. I listened and gave you a follow on soundcloud too, I’m very impressed by the affectedness of your voice on this. you really stuck to the theme and i appreciate that

@Hug: I love the concept of combining chemicals to create a sort of near death scenario with several external factors. the sexual element is very exciting, and I feel like you nailed that part in particular. the concept of addiction in a song like this could be cliché so that’s always a thin line to tread carefully, but honestly you pulled it off and I really appreciate what you did with the outro. this could be a pop hit!

@Aurora: oh you definitely felt your vocabulary oats here and I would love this song even if just for that! but then again, there’s so much f*cking magic here that I wholeheartedly love the whole damn thing. verdant and verdure two lines after another? oh, I’m not trying to toot my own horn (again) but it REALLY feels like you took some inspiration from maybe my song Malakhova or my song Vlontresska. this is so soulful. the natural world aspects really struck me as well, beautiful and very organic inclusion imo. this is so well-thought out, you really offered something detailed and vivid here. bravo babe!

might be our joint kate stanning slay

 

i would love to listen to 883 

[Jackson]

8 hours ago, fountain said:

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Me waiting for any review of my song

 

 

you got mine over imessage but i’ll update it and add to my reviews 

[Legend E]

8 hours ago, fountain said:

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Me waiting for any review of my song

 

 

yesss keep on waiting legend <3

[fountain]

3 hours ago, Jackson said:

you got mine over imessage but i’ll update it and add to my reviews 

Did my edits impact the hypothetical score at all tho

[Jackson]

1 hour ago, fountain said:

Did my edits impact the hypothetical score at all tho

honestly have not read the updated version yet

 

[fountain]

1 hour ago, Jackson said:

honestly have not read the updated version yet

 

At this rate lemme change 1 word and resubmit it for Round 4 cause

 

[Hug]

25 minutes ago, fountain said:

At this rate lemme change 1 word and resubmit it for Round 4 cause

 

wait if you just submitted one super long entry that none of the judges wanted to actually read, but didn't want to tank in fear of backlash, you could just use that same entry for every round and you'd probably end up writing less overall.

 

this thousand IQ move...

[poki]

I may need an extra hour or two 

[poki]

Okay production is asleep so I should be able to sneak it in 

[fountain]

@OreGuy @xBoySelenatorx @GentleDance come through 

[poki]

I'm typing it out now. 

[poki]

Sent. You wanted absurd, you got absurd 

 

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I'm so sorry you probably wanted funny absurd and I went with morbid real life absurd. 

 

[fountain]

Oh mess sorry @OreGuy I tagged you instead of PoKi. Don’t worry we have both 

[fountain]

18 minutes ago, PoKiTaurus said:

Sent. You wanted absurd, you got absurd 

 

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I'm so sorry you probably wanted funny absurd and I went with morbid real life absurd. 

 

Well, we said you can take it in any direction you want so

[Jackson]

5 hours ago, PoKiTaurus said:

Sent. You wanted absurd, you got absurd 

 

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I'm so sorry you probably wanted funny absurd and I went with morbid real life absurd. 

 

morbidly absurd kinda sounds like a slay

[Hug]

Yeah I did zany absurd that's the only other writing I'm good at. Just nonsense thrown together.

[fountain]

The songs of Round 4, Absurdity:

 

StormPulse - 7 Rings (Gay Version)

@Julianna Calm Down - LCT (Lemon Curd Titty)

@XO_Life - Blocked

@Hug - TMI

@worldwide angel - Blue Flame

@Kylie Jenner - Madonna Came Down From The Sky

@OreGuy - Monster

@PoKiTaurus - Hey Simon 

 

@Jackson @JoeAg @Legend E

 

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I'm also very happy to announce that we will be joined by a special guest judge for this round’s judging, and that guest judge is none other than...

 

  
 

@Element himself!

 

A great catalyst in helping this round go from an idea to coming to fruition with his song “Heaven in the Deep”, it only makes sense to have this icon join us for this round’s judging! Element was also a judge during Golden Hit’s first season and 2022’s Halloween Special, so your entries are in good hands with him. Excited to have you back Element! 
 

We’ll be aiming for results on Monday, and until then you can also look forward to Round 5 debuting tomorrow, the penultimate challenge of the season!

 

And a big thank you for the submissions, this was a very outside the box round but thank you for embracing it, I can already see there are creative and entertaining entries here so I believe it will be a fun one to read through

 

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Edited July 14, 2023 by fountain

[Kylie Jenner]

Welcome Element

some of these titles... I need to read them fdkfjh

[Jackson]

 glad to have @Element back for another season hosting and a debut season giving comments!