Ive collected together the 9 submitted songs into playlists on three platforms for listening to them all easier

List of Songs:

  • 🇦🇺 Royel Otis - Heading For The Door (Aussie.Zone / Australia)
  • 🇧🇪 Puggy - Lost Child (belgique@jlai.lu / Belgium)
  • 🇨🇦 LU KALA - Hotter Now (Lemmy.Ca / Canada)
  • 🇩🇰 Pil - Dronning Af Månen (Feddit.Dk / Denmark)
  • 🇫🇷 Bagarre - ON EST LES MÊMES (Jlai.Lu / France)
  • 🇭🇺 Azahriah - introvertált dal (hungary@lemmy.world / Hungary)
  • 🇳🇿 Tiki Taana - Tangaroa (Lemmy.Nz / New Zealand)
  • 🇦🇶 Casette Beasts - Your Inception (Programming.Dev)
  • 🇬🇧 The Northern Boys - Sexy Train (Feddit.Uk / UK)

If more get submitted ill edit this post to add them on

  • Dremor@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’m not an organizer, I don’t know the details.

    From what I understand it is not about allowing a specific community to run and not other, it is to allow a genre that often get overlooked and don’t get allowed to participate in this kind of contest very often.

    You can see it like Israel or Australia being invited to the Eurovision. They are no European nation, but are invited ones. Same for programming.dev, they are an invited community.

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      7 months ago

      Still not a nation. I think it’s against more than one rule. It being allowed to bypass the language requirement also makes it easier to win since most of the Lemmy users appear to be English speakers, so voting for a song you can understand without the need to translate is a given.

      Gaming soundtracks should have their own contest, with all the relevant communities informed so that they can propose and vote.

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        7 months ago

        There is other English language songs in the contest, so if I follow that logic, we should ban them too.

        This is a contest for fun, and the first one to boot. If there is an overwhelming victory for the gaming song, maybe the organizer will consider putting more strict rules next time, but for now, let people have their fun.

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          7 months ago

          There is other English language songs in the contest, so if I follow that logic, we should ban them too.

          If that were my only argument, then sure. And there are even more factors at play than I mentioned, like the fact that Lemmy’s biggest community is Technology, meaning that there is the added advantage of that for a gaming-related topic.

          If this is merely for fun, why associate with Eurovision at all? Why have any voting? Just have a sub for highlighting music.

          Edit: And there are communities that do just that.

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            7 months ago

            I wouldn’t mind an annual community song contest. That could be fun! But this is not it (or imo it should not be)

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              7 months ago

              Exactly, though I’d also contest the notion of gaming OSTs being “often overlooked”. Best Score and Music and its previous iterations have been a category at The Game Awards since 2014.

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              7 months ago

              The real question should be whether those votes added to another song could have changed its position. If so, its presence was detrimental to every other participant.