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

[Julianna Calm Down]

FKOH is a serve, but it doesn’t beat Lemon Curd Titty. Now that’s a smash 💥 

[fountain]

2 minutes ago, Julianna Calm Down said:

FKOH is a serve, but it doesn’t beat Lemon Curd Titty. Now that’s a smash 💥 

Now this is something I agree with!! (spoiler alert for my feedback )

[poki]

I have an idea what to write about.

 

Spoiler

Sorry judges 

 

 

[Legend E]

27 minutes ago, fountain said:

Lemme go vote to save fkoh in the chemistry album survivor

it's already doing too well omg let it die in peace

[Galah]

Oh ***** it’s the serve.  I always believed this challenge had potential to be its own standalone round in a future iteration, and here we are.

 

I’d love to write for this one, will have to see how much time I have to spare between unpacking and work this week.

[fountain]

6 minutes ago, Aurora said:

Oh ***** it’s the serve.  I always believed this challenge had potential to be its own standalone round in a future iteration, and here we are.

 

I’d love to write for this one, will have to see how much time I have to spare between unpacking and work this week.

Spoiler

check discord first, luv x

 

[Galah]

12 minutes ago, fountain said:

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check discord first, luv x

 

Ooh, this changes everything.  Now I definitely know I’ll be writing something for this challenge. Lemme get to work unpacking!

[OreGuy]

oh this challenge is a new one  excited to write it

[fountain]

3 hours ago, Aurora said:

Ooh, this changes everything.  Now I definitely know I’ll be writing something for this challenge. Lemme get to work unpacking!

Oop I’m glad you’ll be taking my suggestion of inspiration, I can’t wait to see you write a song about Mona Lisa joining Golden Hit Season 5 and debuting with the worst score possible of a perfect 1, to which her distraught emotions lead her to pursuing a career of art modelling as opposed to writing, becoming the catalyst behind her iconic portrait 

[Galah]

4 hours ago, fountain said:

Oop I’m glad you’ll be taking my suggestion of inspiration, I can’t wait to see you write a song about Mona Lisa joining Golden Hit Season 5 and debuting with the worst score possible of a perfect 1, to which her distraught emotions lead her to pursuing a career of art modelling as opposed to writing, becoming the catalyst behind her iconic portrait 

A reverse da Vincian expedition indeed!

[Jackson]

16 hours ago, Aurora said:

Oh ***** it’s the serve.  I always believed this challenge had potential to be its own standalone round in a future iteration, and here we are.

 

I’d love to write for this one, will have to see how much time I have to spare between unpacking and work this week.

your impact even in retirement

[Jackson]

starting to write reviews now. apologize if they're a bit shorter than previous weeks - it's been a WEEK and i'm tired 

[Jackson]

 

StormPulse – 7 Rings (Gay Version)

I’m not sure if I’ve seen a parody submitted in one of these games before. This would have also fit the samples/sequels challenge! Also very brave of you to leak Frankie Grande’s 7 Rings demo. I’m not sure if this is satire or not, but maybe that’s a bit of the brilliance of it. At times, the narrator seems like they’re part of the crowd, and happy to be part of the pack of hunties, but there’s also some pointed jabs at promiscuous twink culture. I like this perspective, though, because I think the culture you portray is often presented as exclusive and haughty, but in reality it’s entirely unattainable and full of backstabbing – I imagine the people involved in that culture have some pointed words for it as well! There were some lyrics that I thought were a bit… gross? – but in the context of the song it’s probably fitting as well (“they like the semen, all white and gleamin” and “we shoot, shoot cum farther than truth/eat it all up just like soup”). Your opening couplet was very memorable and a great way to start off the song, and the little bit of Britney shade was clever and topical. I’m not sure if the song fit the absurdity theme in the way we were originally envisioning, but I get what you were going for and I think it ultimately does work.

 

@Julianna Calm Down – LCT (Lemon Curd Titty)

Apparently you all read “absurdity” and went straight for “extremely detailed depictions of sex”. I can’t remember the last time an entry made me legitimately laugh, but I was WHEEZING through this. Literally sitting in the coffee shop cracking up, I probably looked insane. This feels like a fever dream, so it fits the theme insanely well. What made you choose lemon curd of all things to drip over the housewives’ titties? I could see whipped cream, chocolate, etc, but lemon curd is so specific to base an entire song around. It certainly added to the absurdity element! I also love how adventurous this was structurally. Each housewife’s verse had a different structure and lyrical style, which helped them feel like distinct voices. One suggestion for your Countess Lu”Mann” verse – I think the last line would have been funnier as “And soon you’ll know you little boy” – you could have even had a little Mary M Cosby cameo for that line’s delivery (reminiscent of her “LITTLE GIRL” rant at Whitney). This was a really fun and memorable song. I don’t even care that it wasn’t crazy poetic or anything, because it was such a unique, absurd take.

 

@XO_Life – Blocked

Had you submitted this a few seasons ago, I could have said this is something I haven’t seen written about, but @Hugbeat you to it by like 2 seasons. Still, I really like how you related writer’s block (note the second R with being blocked by someone – it was a cool way to expand the meaning of your song beyond just writing about writer’s block. “I bet his orgasms sounded like a hymn” was a memorable contribution to this week’s standout sexual absurdity lines. Your song this week felt more like dialogue or a diary entry, but I think the simpler language and lack of structure was to your detriment at times. “Imma keep it simple and just call you a jerk” felt like an abrupt way to end the chorus, and I’m sure you could have told off the blocker in a more interesting way than “have fun with Greg”. Adding the rocket and Zeus imagery helped achieve the absurdity element, so I think you handled the challenge well enough.  

 

@Hug – TMI

I’ve never heard of Isekai, so thanks for teaching me something new today :. “Wake up in the morning feeling like P…ing” – are you referring to urination? Because that’s how I start my morning. If so, it seems not needed and not absurd. How am I supposed to read the emoji lines? I think there’s maybe a BIT of thematical inconsistency, as it’s implied at the beginning that the narrator is in an Isekai the entire time (the fact that they, y’know, got run over by cows, and then say “just because I died doesn’t mean that I died/people die if they are killed, except in an isekai”) but then question whether the post-death events really happened (“was it not an isekai, but actually pure delirium?”). I could see how the character might not know if their “original” world is real or not though, so perhaps that’s what you were going for? Lyrically, this absolutely fits the absurdity theme. My favorite section of the song is your inventor era – it’s creative, absurd, and pointed at times. I absolutely LOVED the crypto/gun/religion lines (the best crypto drag in a Golden Hit song since “like a crypto coin you waste my energy” from my S1 smash “DEEPFAKE” :). I love how you totally embraced this challenge – I think it paid off!

 

@worldwide angel – Blue Flame

You’ll have to tell me if I’m not interpreting this correctly, but I’m guessing the “blue flames” are waves/water on Earth that the astronaut doesn’t recognize as water and sees slowly drying up? And the “trees made of metal, leaves of fully smoke” refer to buildings/skyscrapers? As usually, your lyrics are written in such a poetic, serene way that you make even global warming seem soothing. I loved your opening verse, especially “walking on some gasoline” and “it’s a beautiful mélange of orange, bright red, and blue skies”. I love the sense of curiosity your narrator has, slowly reaching out towards an alien world. I also loved your bridge – using different senses to describe a world that tastes like licorice and smells like coal was a great way to bring the reader into your world. I like how you used a narrator from the sun describing the Earth in unfamiliar terms to portray absurdity – it was a unique and successful take on the challenge!

 

@Kylie Jenner – Madonna Came Down From the Sky

Absurdity was definitely achieved here! Especially considering the state of Madonna’s looks in 2023, writing a love song to her is definitely a bit absurd. There were some lines I really liked here, like “did I smoke a heavy blunt or does climate change pack a punch?” and “we’ll be drinking margaritas on a planet far from here/dance to La Island Bonita, try phone home with E.T’s finger”. I appreciated the internal rhyming you incorporated in a few places. While I appreciated the absurdity and thematical uniqueness, I thought the narrative was less compelling than some of your prior entries. I liked some of the Madonna/Billy Joel song references, but at times they didn’t add much to the song (specifically, “and he told me we didn’t start the fire”). Regardless, this was still another solid entry from you, and the track was catchy as always.

 

@OreGuy – Monster

Apologies to @XO_Life, but you may have taken the title of most grotesque song this season. I felt queasy at times reading this – but it’s not my judge to judge the morality of the lyrics, so I’d say you were quite successful in writing an disturbingly absurd song. You have one of the stronger choruses this round. It’s the most important part of a song, and I think you absolutely killed it. I especially loved “Carve my body like you’re a Texan mafia” and “Feels so good, go twist that knife, won’t ya?”. The image of swimming in a tank of body parts will haunt my nightmares for weeks. “You can gut me/Then wrap it on my like a hug/Heart pulsing” is so graphic, so gross, and so creative at the same time. How did you come up with these lyrics? This is so vivid and believable and I’m like on the edge of dialing 911 :. There were a couple lines that were less effective – I thought “your mom’s out of the equation” didn’t match the tone of the rest of the song. I’m also not sure what movie Jesus starred in, but perhaps that’s part of the absurdity. Overall, this was one of your stronger entries, and although I mostly felt horror and disgust reading this, I think that was the point, and you were extremely successful in creating that feeling.

 

@PoKiTaurus – Hey Simon

Had I not just read @OreGuysong, this WOULD have been the darkest song this round. I have to start by saying this is one of my favorites by you – this was a great entry. It felt raw, yet poetic. The lines “he’d draw a pentagram around me, I’m his centerpiece” and “sometimes we’d dot lines for our new potential scar” were very clever and well worded. I absolutely loved the verse starting with the “new potential scar” line. “I’d sneak cigarettes, it was funny to see you cough/I thought I’d like it, but I preferred to get drunk” was another standout. You successfully pulled me into your world here, and I was never left questioning what was going on or felt disconnected like in some of your previous entries. I have to mention that this is the third song this season where you’ve described a personal event through video game characters, and while I recognize that they play a big part in your life, I’d love to see you experiment with other themes. I think the song would have been even more poignant had you not included Simon. Even if you wanted to avoid plainly describing the sensitive subject matter, you could have opted for a different metaphor. I’m definitely not saying that there’s anything wrong with how you chose to tackle the song, but I’d encourage trying to branch out and try something new next round! Still, this was perhaps my favorite song from you this season and a strong entry altogether.

 

[Kylie Jenner]

The "we didn't start the fire" line was in relation to the sun burning up in the first verse. but thanks

[worldwide angel]

59 minutes ago, Jackson said:

 

 

@worldwide angel – Blue Flame

You’ll have to tell me if I’m not interpreting this correctly, but I’m guessing the “blue flames” are waves/water on Earth that the astronaut doesn’t recognize as water and sees slowly drying up? And the “trees made of metal, leaves of fully smoke” refer to buildings/skyscrapers? As usually, your lyrics are written in such a poetic, serene way that you make even global warming seem soothing. I loved your opening verse, especially “walking on some gasoline” and “it’s a beautiful mélange of orange, bright red, and blue skies”. I love the sense of curiosity your narrator has, slowly reaching out towards an alien world. I also loved your bridge – using different senses to describe a world that tastes like licorice and smells like coal was a great way to bring the reader into your world. I like how you used a narrator from the sun describing the Earth in unfamiliar terms to portray absurdity – it was a unique and successful take on the challenge!

 

 

 

yes, you got it  

 

thank you so much jackson

[Jackson]

i was told that the yellow isn’t a good look on light mode. sorry to the people  that subject their eyes to light mode

[Hug]

 

2 hours ago, Jackson said:

@Hug – TMI

So the "wake up in the morning feeling like p...ing" was just me starting off by referencing TiK ToK "wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy".

 

The whole entire morning sequence isn't supposed to that absurd up until the cow part. Actually there's a lot of lore in the cow part that I didn't even figure to explain because I didn't think to, but I may as well!

 

(Also think of the emoji part as like a visual representation of like...an audio segment of a bunch of cows running and moping and someone getting trampled to death by them. I just did emojis because sticking emojis on the middle of a song is absurd in and of itself!)

 

So the whole morning sequence is supposed to play out like a typical slice of life anime, with the isekai part coming when they almost get ran over by a truck. It's a typical trope of Isekai that they die from getting run over by a truck. I decided to sort of subvert that by having them dodge the truck only for a bunch of cows to nonsensically come out of nowhere.

 

As to whether they knew they were in an isekai the whole time, my head canon is this: they know they're in an anime ("my life is an anime"...) but they thought they were in a slice of life anime up until they died and didn't immediately either go to some heavenly/hellish afterlife or just have nothing after...then they realized they're in an isekai.

 

Thank you for your appreciation of my pointed comments. Sometimes it takes a bit of absurdity to show just how absurd our real life can be, you know? I actually didn't even mean anything by the religion line at first...it was literally me just implying religion existed already. When I think of it now, it could be read as me implying religion invented lying which kinda goes hard AF.

[OreGuy]

5 hours ago, Jackson said:

 

 

@OreGuy – Monster

Apologies to @XO_Life, but you may have taken the title of most grotesque song this season. I felt queasy at times reading this – but it’s not my judge to judge the morality of the lyrics, so I’d say you were quite successful in writing an disturbingly absurd song. You have one of the stronger choruses this round. It’s the most important part of a song, and I think you absolutely killed it. I especially loved “Carve my body like you’re a Texan mafia” and “Feels so good, go twist that knife, won’t ya?”. The image of swimming in a tank of body parts will haunt my nightmares for weeks. “You can gut me/Then wrap it on my like a hug/Heart pulsing” is so graphic, so gross, and so creative at the same time. How did you come up with these lyrics? This is so vivid and believable and I’m like on the edge of dialing 911 :. There were a couple lines that were less effective – I thought “your mom’s out of the equation” didn’t match the tone of the rest of the song. I’m also not sure what movie Jesus starred in, but perhaps that’s part of the absurdity. Overall, this was one of your stronger entries, and although I mostly felt horror and disgust reading this, I think that was the point, and you were extremely successful in creating that feeling.

 

thank you legend im sooo happy this translated well, but this ain't nothing personal  or a fantasy

 

[fountain]

@Jackson being a housewives stan was not on my 2023 card

 

[fountain]

I am prepping my feedback for debut this afternoon

NOBODY is ready for this world shattering and life changing feedback, most of all not I!

 

[Kylie Jenner]

 

Wait these gifs are like long lost sisters

[XO_Life]

@Jackson so you hated it.

[Jackson]

21 hours ago, Hug said:

So the "wake up in the morning feeling like p...ing" was just me starting off by referencing TiK ToK "wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy".

 

ok but why did you need to include the "ing"  i actually interpreted the cow/truck part as though there actually wasn't a truck, but that the character thought a truck was coming but then it ended up being a herd of cows. interesting to hear how you had intended it 

 

9 hours ago, fountain said:

@Jackson being a housewives stan was not on my 2023 card

 

i've only watched RHOSLC tbh. having lived in SLC all through college i love media that makes fun of Utah

 

 

20 minutes ago, XO_Life said:

@Jackson so you hated it.

hate is a strong word. i didn't hate it but it wasn't my favorite from you this season 

 

 

[fountain]

42 minutes ago, Jackson said:

i've only watched RHOSLC tbh. having lived in SLC all through college i love media that makes fun of Utah

 

Okay love that. I’ve never watched any of them but I’m fascinated and find myself watching every single clip I come across  something about the social dynamics is so interesting to me

[fountain]

Anyway my feedback coming in the next 2 hours, results hopefully tonight just waiting on some more scores from the judges, feel free to @ and pester on my behalf