Not many updates this week. Mod must be lagging behind 
I don’t even know if my submission was a duplicate!
Round 4 scoring:
@IPD gets 7
@Marcie gets 4
@OutdoormanNowActuary gets 4
Totals are being updated at the top of the thread.
I don’t think I had responded to anyone. I did look at them, I don’t think there were any duplicates
Flog the intern.
A song with non-English lyrics
- 99 Luftballons - Nena NENA | 99 Luftballons [Offizielles Musikvideo] (1983) - YouTube
- Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender Before The Next Teardrop Falls - YouTube
- Coraline - Maneskin Måneskin “CORALINE” || english and italian lyrics - YouTube
- Feliz Navidad – José Feliciano José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad (Official Audio) - YouTube
- Heroes del Silencio - Avalancha Héroes del Silencio - Avalancha - YouTube
- Kiss Me (Japanese Release) - Sixpence None the Richer Sixpence None The Richer [Japanese] - YouTube
- Limon Y Sal - Julieta Venegas Julieta Venegas - Limon Y Sal (Video) - YouTube
- Pivot - Shakalabbits [SHAKALABBITS] "Pivot" Full Ver. [Music Video] - YouTube
- Rayando el Sol - Mana mana-rayando el sol - YouTube
- Snow Tha Product - Bilingue Snow Tha Product - Bilingue (Official Music Video) - YouTube
- Utsushiyo no Yume - nano ウツシヨノユメ / ナノ Music Video - YouTube
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poll will close on Wednesday middle-workday-ish
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Something to also consider:
There are some artist who put together an album that tells a story throughout (think Pink Floyd’s The Wall)
Be interesting to put together a list of these types of albums, listen to all of the songs and vote for the “best” song that represents the album’s story . . . then have a vote for best story.
Ohh now thats an interesting concept
woops…switch the artist/song title order for Bilingue by Snow Tha Product.
I see what you did there.
I don’t think I have anytime today to listen to the entrants so probably no vote from me. Sorry.
Was already familiar with 99 Luftballoons (had it as an alternate in the color round, but forgot about it here), Feliz Navidad and Avalancha.
99 Luftballoons is a jam. Probably the best song of the group.
Feliz Navidad is annoying, and I wanted to immediately write it off. But I listened, and it’s actually pretty decent.
Avalancha is an absolute rocker.
Of the ones I didn’t know, I liked:
Coraline - Maneskin: Solid. Love the transitions of the song, and each of them on their own.
Julieta Venagas - Limon y Sal: Okay. Decent. The hook is good. Music video is a trip.
Shakalabbits - Pivot: Good enough to get a mention here.
Snow Tha Product - Bilingual: Second best of the unknowns. The english to spanish rap is pretty solid in places.
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When my brother and I get together during Christmas we always rank our top 10 favorite songs of the year, and also our top 5 Christmas songs of all time (it changes occasionally), and sometimes a least favorite Christmas songs list. Feliz Navidad is always in my top 5 x-mas songs. Something about it
Coraline was #2 for me. It started off kind of boring and I was thinking it would stay like that the whole way through, but it got better when there was contrast.
Bumping for more votes! Got a few more hours or so I think
But I was already familiar with it (also had the English version as an alternate submission for the color round), so it didn’t get my vote. I do wonder how accurate the YouTube translation of the German lyrics is, because if those were the words, Nena should have written more songs directly in English.
This song is like the anti-Round3 entry - all chorus, all day.
TIL: “kiss me” in Japanese is “kiss me” or there’s such a thing as Japanglish. Also, No Doubt translated to Japanese = Shakalabbits
This round made me wish for ranked-choice voting.
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Woohoo! I was worried hip-hop wouldn’t get anything on here.
I’m very disappointed in all of you.
Congrats this week to @YankeeTripper @Marcie and @Rastiln for earning points!
The next category is based on a classic thread from the AO
Round 6 - Submit a cover song that is better than the original