tournament PLATINUM HIT 11▴ congratulations aurora ♛

[touya kinomoto]

30 minutes ago, Corsola said:

Not PH being in your username. Truly gonna be the new person who stomps us all this season 

I think I am destined to be good at this. But every time I remember my first (and only) attempt at songwriting ended like a rehash of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" for my dead bunny (RIP Bunnyfer), I immediately vision my name o  the elims list after R1. 

[touya kinomoto]

Name/what should we call you?: KCPH, RJ, or just call me Jackson's future husband 

Platinum Hit/Songwriting experience: Aside from "I Will Miss You Bunnyfer", none.

Favorite songwriters/artists: Katy Perry, Adele and Sara Bareilles.

Favorite PH challenge (for return contestants): 

Favorite song on Witness: Future singles Witness, Roulette and Pendulum

Fun fact about you: I am a short story writer and always wanted to try a hand at songwriting since God knows when.

 

BONUS: are you OK with your song being posted if you win a challenge? Well, idk, yes, no, maybe. It depends.

[Queen Conchita]

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CONTESTANT/JUDGE INTROS

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let's get to know you!

Name/what should we call you?: Hannah/Han/QC/Queen Conchita.

Platinum Hit/Songwriting experience: Nnn none.

Favorite songwriters/artists: Little Mix, Erasure, Years & Years, Sergey Lazarev, Conchita.

Favorite PH challenge (for return contestants): N/A.

Favorite song on Witness: Swish Swish bish 

Fun fact about you: I have a dent/dip thing in my forehead (a ****ing deep dimple I guess) whenever I slightly frown/blink, about the size of a £1 coin and it pulsates and creeps everyone out. It's pretty weird.

 

BONUS: are you OK with your song being posted if you win a challenge? Nnn never going to happen but lemme say yes 

Edited August 19, 2017 by Queen Conchita

[ultraviolence.xx]

4 minutes ago, Queen Conchita said:

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

CONTESTANT/JUDGE INTROS

Fun fact about you: I have a hole in my forehead (a ****ing deep dimple type hole) about the size of a £1 coin and whenever I slightly frown/blink it pulsates and creeps everyone out. It's pretty weird.

how did this come about? 

 

 

[Queen Conchita]

3 minutes ago, ultraviolence.xx said:

how did this come about? 

 

 

Nnn do you mean like how did I know about it or why did I put it in my fun fact bit? 

[ultraviolence.xx]

4 minutes ago, Queen Conchita said:

Nnn do you mean like how did I know about it or why did I put it in my fun fact bit? 

like were you born with it or did you get hurt or how did it happen? 

 

 

unless it's a personal story you don't want to share, which i just considered

 

 

Edited August 19, 2017 by ultraviolence.xx

[Jackson]

16 minutes ago, Queen Conchita said:

Name/what should we call you?: Hannah/Han/QC/Queen Conchita.

 

Woo, always good to have a female join the cast. Here for you serving @CountryBritney and becoming the second female to make the finale  

[Year of Shadow]

I'm low key interested in the song you wrote for Bunnyfer (RIP), Jacskon's future husband.

 

When's the wedding? 

[Jackson]

R1 is gonna be posted within the next hour

[Queen Conchita]

11 minutes ago, ultraviolence.xx said:

like were you born with it or did you get hurt or how did it happen? 

 

 

unless it's a personal story you don't want to share, which i just considered

 

 

I only ever noticed it about a year ago, my forehead looks no different to anyone elses until i frown and it pulsates. I guess it's just a different type of dimple or maybe I just have less fat on that particular circle of my forehead asjhs, hole probably wasn't the right word, dent/dip probably works better 

[Queen Conchita]

11 minutes ago, Jackson said:

Woo, always good to have a female join the cast. Here for you serving @CountryBritney and becoming the second female to make the finale  

I wouldn't bet your house on it 

[touya kinomoto]

7 minutes ago, PoKiTaurus said:

I'm low key interested in the song you wrote for Bunnyfer (RIP), Jacskon's future husband.

 

When's the wedding? 

When he realizes I'm his fiancé. You know, it's kinda one sided now. 

[Queen Conchita]

@Jackson - Are there any links to winning songs that I can go back and read to see how in depth the songs are? 

[Jackson]

9 minutes ago, Queen Conchita said:

@Jackson - Are there any links to winning songs that I can go back and read to see how in depth the songs are? 

Here's a couple of the highest scoring PH songs ever  

STARDUST

Written for the label challenge: Birthright Ent.

 

verse

The sunset melts to darkness, gives way to cosmic glows

I'm wrapped in silver moonlight as headlights guide me home

Romantics in the sunlight give way to carnal sins

And rational emotions dissolve as lust sets in

 

So tiptoe down the hallway, take the third door on your right

And text me when you get there, it's too late to knock tonight

You look better than your pictures, you're so handsome in this light

But you’re not here for small talk and I’m not here to waste your time

 

chorus

This moment is a shooting star

That filters through my hands

Your body's made of stardust

Locked in an hourglass

We're just two passing comets

On to other rendezvous

So until the morning breaks us

I'll make the most of you

 

verse

Your body leaves me starstruck, your rhythm takes my breath

With every empty kiss I hope this moment never ends

I'll mirror every movement, use our bodies till we're spent

Maybe if I give my all you'll see me once again

 

If only these emotions gripped your heart each time we kissed

In twenty minutes I'll be one more name upon your list

There's galaxies of others that shine brighter than I do

So maybe I'm just lucky that your orbit crossed mine too

 

chorus

This moment is a shooting star

That filters through my hands

Your body's made of stardust

Locked in an hourglass

We're just two passing comets

On to other rendezvous

So until the morning breaks us

I'll make the most of you

 

bridge

Mourning doves awake me

But I won't open my eyes

I reach out for your body

But there's just sheets on your side

I’ll spend my whole day waiting

For words that never come

You’re just another glimmer

Lost with the rising sun

 

chorus

This moment is a shooting star

That filters through my hands

Your body's made of stardust

Locked in an hourglass

We're just two passing comets

On to other rendezvous

So until the morning breaks us

I'll make the most of you

 

 

verse

 

Take a left on Franklin Street and pass the riverside

 

Shadows of steel giants daze the sight of little eyes

 

These towers hold me captive, keep me sheltered from the wild

 

This city is my kingdom, this city is my pride

 

 

 

But everything I know sits in the back seat of a Dodge

 

Rolling down the interstate as memories play on

 

And as another sunset sets off beyond the plains

 

I look back at the skyline as its figure calls my name

 

 

 

chorus

 

If only I could turn back and take a different road

 

Take it to Chicago and never have to go

 

But even if I'm lost my compass always knows

 

It takes more than a house to make yourself at home

 

 

 

verse

 

Take the 55, then drive West past Joliet

 

Through the golden cornfields we thought would never end

 

I watch fluorescent starlight fade into muffled sparks

 

And Orion takes over to save us from the dark

 

 

 

chorus

 

If only I could turn back and take a different road

 

Take it to Chicago and never have to go

 

But even if I'm lost my compass always knows

 

It takes more than a house to make yourself at home

 

 

 

verse

 

We cross the Mississippi as it flows to distant lands

 

The only thing that stops us from the fate of foreign hands

 

And suddenly Chicago's just a fragment of the past

 

The future sits before me set in unfamiliar land

 

 

 

chorus

 

If only I could turn back and take a different road

 

Take it to Chicago and never have to go

 

But even if I'm lost my compass always knows

 

It takes more than a house to make yourself at home

 

 

 

outro

 

Nothing lasts forever

 

The Windy City blows

 

But even when I'm lost

 

My compass points me home

 

So wherever I go

 

To mountains or to sea

 

I always keep it close

 

The city lives in me

 

[Hug]

7 minutes ago, Queen Conchita said:

@Jackson - Are there any links to winning songs that I can go back and read to see how in depth the songs are? 

I'll just self-promo my song that got the first #1 of the mini season from a couple months back! The challenge was to write a song that matches a single cover. We could make the single cover, find a picture on the internet, w/e. I edited a gif I found for this cover, but I had the song idea already.

 

 

 

‘Drowned in Neon’

By Hug

(Round 1: The Single Cover)

 

[Verse 1]

It’s a technicolor ocean

With a burning neon sky

The smoke inside’s like summer rain

And music pulls the tides

 

The waters throw me through the room

I’m washed in beats and lights

I dive into the discotheque

And swim throughout the night

 

[Chorus]

The crowd is drowned in neon

I’m floating out at sea

The waves of wasted people

Are crashing into me

 

I’ll ride the tide of dancers

I’ll never think of land

I’ll try to hide the handprints

That time left in the sand

 

[Verse 2]

It’s an empty-feeling ocean

Though it’s packed so ever tight

The sea can hardly take away

What kills me deep inside

 

The waters toss me through the room

I’m thrashed by beats and lights

I fall into the discotheque

And swim like I’m alright

 

[Chorus]

The crowd is drowned in neon

And I’m lost out at sea

The waves of wasted people

Are crashing into me

 

I’ll ride the tide of dancers

And wash up on the land

I’ll try to find your handprints

That time left in the sand

 

[Bridge]

I look into the neon sky

And there’s never any stars

On every technicolored night

I swim into the ocean far

 

I look into the neon sky

And I never see the moon

On every technicolored night

I find myself still stuck on you

 

It’s all my fault, I can’t forget

You’re not around, you’re in my head

It’s all my fault, I can’t forget

I can’t forget, I can’t...

 

[Chorus]

The crowd is drowned in neon

And I’m lost out at sea

The waves of wasted people

Are crashing into me

 

I’ll ride the tide of dancers

And wash up on the land

I’ll try to find your handprints

That I left in the sand

[8thPrince]

15 minutes ago, Queen Conchita said:

@Jackson - Are there any links to winning songs that I can go back and read to see how in depth the songs are? 

oop here, read Erased
 

Spoiler

 

[A]
From the cold, white cream
You drowned in your dark coffee
To its sweet cloud of steam
Rousing me from a lost dream
 
Like these things, one day
Memories of you will fade
Yes, there will come a day
Where you too will be erased
 
Like the lingering body heat
Between two hands that unfold
Even that gentle warmth’s
Dissipates into the cold
 
Like your sigh hung in the air
On a bitter Christmas Day
Yes, there will come a day
Where you too will be erased
 

[R]
If you catch the taste of tears you’ll think back to our shore
The scent of tangerine perfume will fill an empty room
“I can’t move on” will echo there but with each passing day
You’ll be convinced there comes a day when I’m erased, too
 
[A]
Like the creases in the sheets
Where someone used to sleep
I trace your shape with my pinkie
But you’re far beyond reach
 
Somewhere far beyond ears
Wedding bells ring and decay
Yes, there will come a day
Where you too will be erased
 
Like the light space on a wall
Where a portrait hung before
Or the marks of furniture
Pressed into the carpet floor
 
Like these things, one day
Memories of you will fade
Yes, there will come a day
Where you too will be erased
 

 [R]
If you catch the taste of tears you’ll think back to our shore
The scent of tangerine perfume will fill an empty room
“I can’t move on” will echo there but with each passing day
You’ll be convinced there comes a day when I’m erased, too

 

 

Edited August 19, 2017 by 8thPrince

[Hug]

OMG Erased, legendary.  

 

The way we rushed to self promote tho tybgfd shameless

[Queen Conchita]

4 minutes ago, 8thPrince said:

oop here, read Erased
 

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[A]
From the cold, white cream
You drowned in your dark coffee
To its sweet cloud of steam
Rousing me from a lost dream
 
Like these things, one day
Memories of you will fade
Yes, there will come a day
Where you too will be erased
 
Like the lingering body heat
Between two hands that unfold
Even that gentle warmth’s
Dissipates into the cold
 
Like your sigh hung in the air
On a bitter Christmas Day
Yes, there will come a day
Where you too will be erased
 

[R]
If you catch the taste of tears you’ll think back to our shore
The scent of tangerine perfume will fill an empty room
“I can’t move on” will echo there but with each passing day
You’ll be convinced there comes a day when I’m erased, too
 
[A]
Like the creases in the sheets
Where someone used to sleep
I trace your shape with my pinkie
But you’re far beyond reach
 
Somewhere far beyond ears
Wedding bells ring and decay
Yes, there will come a day
Where you too will be erased
 
Like the light space on a wall
Where a portrait hung before
Or the marks of furniture
Pressed into the carpet floor
 
Like these things, one day
Memories of you will fade
Yes, there will come a day
Where you too will be erased
 

 [R]
If you catch the taste of tears you’ll think back to our shore
The scent of tangerine perfume will fill an empty room
“I can’t move on” will echo there but with each passing day
You’ll be convinced there comes a day when I’m erased, too

 

 

 

8 minutes ago, Hug said:

I'll just self-promo my song that got the first #1 of the mini season from a couple months back! The challenge was to write a song that matches a single cover. We could make the single cover, find a picture on the internet, w/e. I edited a gif I found for this cover, but I had the song idea already.

 

 

 

 

‘Drowned in Neon’

By Hug

(Round 1: The Single Cover)

 

[Verse 1]

It’s a technicolor ocean

With a burning neon sky

The smoke inside’s like summer rain

And music pulls the tides

 

The waters throw me through the room

I’m washed in beats and lights

I dive into the discotheque

And swim throughout the night

 

[Chorus]

The crowd is drowned in neon

I’m floating out at sea

The waves of wasted people

Are crashing into me

 

I’ll ride the tide of dancers

I’ll never think of land

I’ll try to hide the handprints

That time left in the sand

 

[Verse 2]

It’s an empty-feeling ocean

Though it’s packed so ever tight

The sea can hardly take away

What kills me deep inside

 

The waters toss me through the room

I’m thrashed by beats and lights

I fall into the discotheque

And swim like I’m alright

 

[Chorus]

The crowd is drowned in neon

And I’m lost out at sea

The waves of wasted people

Are crashing into me

 

I’ll ride the tide of dancers

And wash up on the land

I’ll try to find your handprints

That time left in the sand

 

[Bridge]

I look into the neon sky

And there’s never any stars

On every technicolored night

I swim into the ocean far

 

I look into the neon sky

And I never see the moon

On every technicolored night

I find myself still stuck on you

 

It’s all my fault, I can’t forget

You’re not around, you’re in my head

It’s all my fault, I can’t forget

I can’t forget, I can’t...

 

[Chorus]

The crowd is drowned in neon

And I’m lost out at sea

The waves of wasted people

Are crashing into me

 

I’ll ride the tide of dancers

And wash up on the land

I’ll try to find your handprints

That I left in the sand

 

9 minutes ago, Jackson said:

Here's a couple of the highest scoring PH songs ever  

 

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STARDUST

Written for the label challenge: Birthright Ent.

 

verse

The sunset melts to darkness, gives way to cosmic glows

I'm wrapped in silver moonlight as headlights guide me home

Romantics in the sunlight give way to carnal sins

And rational emotions dissolve as lust sets in

 

So tiptoe down the hallway, take the third door on your right

And text me when you get there, it's too late to knock tonight

You look better than your pictures, you're so handsome in this light

But you’re not here for small talk and I’m not here to waste your time

 

chorus

This moment is a shooting star

That filters through my hands

Your body's made of stardust

Locked in an hourglass

We're just two passing comets

On to other rendezvous

So until the morning breaks us

I'll make the most of you

 

verse

Your body leaves me starstruck, your rhythm takes my breath

With every empty kiss I hope this moment never ends

I'll mirror every movement, use our bodies till we're spent

Maybe if I give my all you'll see me once again

 

If only these emotions gripped your heart each time we kissed

In twenty minutes I'll be one more name upon your list

There's galaxies of others that shine brighter than I do

So maybe I'm just lucky that your orbit crossed mine too

 

chorus

This moment is a shooting star

That filters through my hands

Your body's made of stardust

Locked in an hourglass

We're just two passing comets

On to other rendezvous

So until the morning breaks us

I'll make the most of you

 

bridge

Mourning doves awake me

But I won't open my eyes

I reach out for your body

But there's just sheets on your side

I’ll spend my whole day waiting

For words that never come

You’re just another glimmer

Lost with the rising sun

 

chorus

This moment is a shooting star

That filters through my hands

Your body's made of stardust

Locked in an hourglass

We're just two passing comets

On to other rendezvous

So until the morning breaks us

I'll make the most of you

 

 

 

 

 

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verse

 

Take a left on Franklin Street and pass the riverside

 

Shadows of steel giants daze the sight of little eyes

 

These towers hold me captive, keep me sheltered from the wild

 

This city is my kingdom, this city is my pride

 

 

 

But everything I know sits in the back seat of a Dodge

 

Rolling down the interstate as memories play on

 

And as another sunset sets off beyond the plains

 

I look back at the skyline as its figure calls my name

 

 

 

chorus

 

If only I could turn back and take a different road

 

Take it to Chicago and never have to go

 

But even if I'm lost my compass always knows

 

It takes more than a house to make yourself at home

 

 

 

verse

 

Take the 55, then drive West past Joliet

 

Through the golden cornfields we thought would never end

 

I watch fluorescent starlight fade into muffled sparks

 

And Orion takes over to save us from the dark

 

 

 

chorus

 

If only I could turn back and take a different road

 

Take it to Chicago and never have to go

 

But even if I'm lost my compass always knows

 

It takes more than a house to make yourself at home

 

 

 

verse

 

We cross the Mississippi as it flows to distant lands

 

The only thing that stops us from the fate of foreign hands

 

And suddenly Chicago's just a fragment of the past

 

The future sits before me set in unfamiliar land

 

 

 

chorus

 

If only I could turn back and take a different road

 

Take it to Chicago and never have to go

 

But even if I'm lost my compass always knows

 

It takes more than a house to make yourself at home

 

 

 

outro

 

Nothing lasts forever

 

The Windy City blows

 

But even when I'm lost

 

My compass points me home

 

So wherever I go

 

To mountains or to sea

 

I always keep it close

 

The city lives in me

 

 

Oh wow i'm shook and even more nervous now, they're all amazing.

 

[Jackson]

OK so I just literally came up with a good challenge so I'm going to format it right now, might take a few mins more than expected 

 

 

[Year of Shadow]

The stuff I tend to write is very pop-ish so I hope I'll be okay in this game.  And idk if my stuff is even good nnn no one really knows I write stuff

 

I'm set for this challenge

There is nothing I can't manage

I'll just take one more shot

and then I'll show you what I got

 

*EDM drop*

 

a meter of 6/8/6/8 unless I am stupid  

[touya kinomoto]

I. AM. SHOOK.

 

I was thinking of repetitive choruses but damn, you were all serving!

[Hug]

3 minutes ago, PoKiTaurus said:

The stuff I tend to write is very pop-ish so I hope I'll be okay in this game.  And idk if my stuff is even good nnn no one really knows I write stuff

 

I'm set for this challenge

There is nothing I can't manage

I'll just take one more shot

and then I'll show you what I got

 

*EDM drop*

 

a meter of 6/8/6/8 unless I am stupid  

Just try not to be too basic  

 

[don't put *EDM drop* in your entry judges hate that]

[fountain]

This is a song I wrote for the PH7 final if you wanna read this. It's over two years old at this point but I think it's my favourite PH entry I've done. 

 

Into the Woods

 

Verse
What lies beyond the boundary
A place of endless mystery
Delve into whatever could be
The sights of beauty you may see

 

A place to let the spirit go
For you to wander ever so
The nature sets your soul aglow
A feeling some may never know

 

Pre-chorus
We’ve found just what we had wished for
They cannot find us anymore

 

Chorus
Shrouded with greenery
The place your dreams may be
I dare you, come deeper
And run into the woods

 

Through all hold onto me
I’ll show you what you must see
I dare you, come deeper
And run into the woods

 

Verse 
The deepest dark you must let in
Before your journey may begin
The coldest wind against your skin
The haven without human sin

 

A fragile place some tear apart
Protect it like it is your heart
I hope you see what I see too
The beauty of this heaven’s view

 

Pre-chorus
A world you can forget your woe
And run among the little doe

 

Chorus
Shrouded with greenery
The place your dreams may be
I dare you, come deeper
And run into the woods

 

Through all hold onto me
I'll show you what you must see
I dare you, come deeper
And run into the woods

 

Bridge
The world will watch us from afar
And question all the things we are
There is no path you may follow
But I can lead you where to go

 

We must hold back our dawning fear
They’ll come with flame and soon draw near
We’ll hide until we’re in the clear
The hunter never finds the deer

 

Chorus
Shrouded with greenery
The place your dreams may be
I dare you, come deeper
And run into the woods

 

Through all hold onto me
I'll show you what you must see
I dare you, come deeper
And run into the woods

[Dylobs]

13 minutes ago, KatyCatPH said:

I. AM. SHOOK.

 

I was thinking of repetitive choruses but damn, you were all serving!

Sorry but no lazy songwriting allowed here

[touya kinomoto]

6 minutes ago, keshaspearsxo said:

This is a song I wrote for the PH7 final if you wanna read this. It's over two years old at this point but I think it's my favourite PH entry I've done. 

 

 

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Into the Woods

 

Verse
What lies beyond the boundary
A place of endless mystery
Delve into whatever could be
The sights of beauty you may see

 

A place to let the spirit go
For you to wander ever so
The nature sets your soul aglow
A feeling some may never know

 

Pre-chorus
We’ve found just what we had wished for
They cannot find us anymore

 

Chorus
Shrouded with greenery
The place your dreams may be
I dare you, come deeper
And run into the woods

 

Through all hold onto me
I’ll show you what you must see
I dare you, come deeper
And run into the woods

 

Verse 
The deepest dark you must let in
Before your journey may begin
The coldest wind against your skin
The haven without human sin

 

A fragile place some tear apart
Protect it like it is your heart
I hope you see what I see too
The beauty of this heaven’s view

 

Pre-chorus
A world you can forget your woe
And run among the little doe

 

Chorus
Shrouded with greenery
The place your dreams may be
I dare you, come deeper
And run into the woods

 

Through all hold onto me
I'll show you what you must see
I dare you, come deeper
And run into the woods

 

Bridge
The world will watch us from afar
And question all the things we are
There is no path you may follow
But I can lead you where to go

 

We must hold back our dawning fear
They’ll come with flame and soon draw near
We’ll hide until we’re in the clear
The hunter never finds the deer

 

Chorus
Shrouded with greenery
The place your dreams may be
I dare you, come deeper
And run into the woods

 

Through all hold onto me
I'll show you what you must see
I dare you, come deeper
And run into the woods
 

 

 

Taylor is shook!