Can you smell that? The musky sadness of defeat is in the air. Yes, our competition has officially begun, and only eight songs could advance from the first round of match-ups in the
Pocahontas Division of our draw. It generally all went according to plan, with the opponents of top seeds
#1 "Colors of the Wind",
#3 "A Whole New World" and
#4 "My Heart Will Go On" scoring barely a vote against them, though #15 "Fame" gave
#2 "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" a brief scare.
#5 "Lose Yourself",
#6 "The Way You Look Tonight" and
#8 "When You Believe" also breezed through. The closest call was in the battle of Christmas classics, where sexual assault anthem
#10 "Baby, It's Cold Outside" defeated the lovely #7 "White Christmas."
Results (Round One: Pocahontas Division)
(1) "Colors of the Wind" Pocahontas def. (16) "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin')" High Noon [17-4]
(8) "When You Believe" The Prince of Egypt def. (9) "Skyfall" Skyfall [14-7]
(5) "Lose Yourself" 8 Mile def. (12) "Swinging On a Star" Going My Way [15-6]
(4) "My Heart Will Go On" Titanic def. (13) "It Might As Well Be Spring" State Fair [14-7]
(3) "A Whole New World" Aladdin def. (14) "Mona Lisa" Captain Carey, U.S.A. [19-2]
(6) "The Way You Look Tonight" Swing Time def. (11) "I Need to Wake Up" An Inconvenient Truth [19-2]
(10) "Baby, It's Cold Outside" Neptune's Daughter def. (7) "White Christmas" Holiday Inn [11-10]
(2) "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid def. (15) "Fame" Fame [12-9]
Today we move on to the
Beauty Division, where our top seed is
"Beauty and the Beast", the title track from the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture. In each of the match-ups below, please pick the song that is
true as it can be. Happy voting!
Round One: Beauty Division
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VS. | (8) "Jai Ho"
Slumdog Millionaire
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Vote
"Beauty and the Beast" vs. "I'm Easy"
"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" vs. "Jai Ho"
"Under the Sea" vs. "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing"
"Things Have Changed" vs. "Theme From Shaft"
"Flashdance… What a Feeling" vs. "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)"
"You'll Never Know" vs. "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Qué Será, Será)"
"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" v. "Up Where We Belong"
"It Goes Like It Goes" vs. "Streets of Philadelphia"