He was online yesterday as well, he even commented in my Musical Chairs of MTV The Challenge. If he doesn't want to do the game, just tell me, you're not wasting everyone's time like that. I'll update this in two hours tops.
I can't wait actually, but I need Scene to send. His album got me hooked It's so different, from everything around her. + I also want to apologize to Lucky, for voting off Damaged in round 1, because now I'm hooked on that song
I can't wait actually, but I need Scene to send. His album got me hooked It's so different, from everything around her. + I also want to apologize to Lucky, for voting off Damaged in round 1, because now I'm hooked on that song
Is that TheSeenScene?
Well he was online earlier today, so if he didn't send then.....
Not that people change, but TSS has in the past been very good at being accountable in turning in his work in the games section I wonder if something is going on
Choose The Album, Then a Song 4: VOTE! + Eliminations
The third round of ATRL's multi-awarded game Choose The Album, Then a Song is here!
The contestants had four days to send in their entries but before I introduce you to them there are some things that needs to be talked about.
You know I really hate quitters, it's like they have a commitment with something and they just don't respect it, I mean if you don't want to be in just let me know and just stay away from my game! You not only piss me off and "waste" albums but make the game go slower, that's quite annoying!
We have not one but TWO quitters! One of them decided to quit and let me know but one of them is one of the cases that missed the deadline, and yeah, this is a new rule: you don't respect the deadline, YOU ARE ELIMINATED.
Well we won't be seeingn TheSeenScene anymore since he missed the deadline, this is the end of the road for 2NE1. They get #22 place!
Now the second quitter claimed he was not going to have more time to be in so he decided to quit, give it for him one last time!
This is the end of the road for !Blue! and Ke$ha's "Animal" as well. He got #21 place. Notice that the rankings are based on the points they had, !Blue! was ahead of TheSeenScene.
Now that we are fine, let's begin this third round!
THE RULES
Before we actually start playing, I need to remind you of the rules.
1. A song can ONLY be used THREE TIMES throughout the entire challenge;
2. A song gets blocked for THREE ROUNDS after being used;
3. The judges have to be FAIR;
4. Anyonce can vote except the judges (they will vote in their own way);
5. It is NOT allowed to call in people to save you;
6. You MUST listen to the songs (and read the essays, when asked) before voting. Be fair if you want others to be fair with you;
7. A vote per person;
8. If you miss the deadline, you're ELIMINATED;
8. HAVE FUN.
You already know me and the judges for this season but it's never enough to give us a round of applauses!
THE HOST Pedro
THE JUDGING PANEL Regina George
RatedG²
Kavish
Chill Bill
THE CONTESTANTS
We are down to 20! These are the remaining contestants of Choose The Album, Then a Song 4!
Being young is fun, and living you life like it's the last day. Selena clearly resembles that in this song. This is very relatable to teens like me, and others. She sings about having fun, partying, and love, a lot of teen love to do that. Selena really showed her young side in this song. She's like every other teen, that wants to live his life, and enjoy every second of it. Also police sirens in this song were a nice touch, it reminded me of my very first party, which I will never forget. I guess loads of teens have heard that sound, after their parties.
Out of the 16 tracks on Demi none of them fitted well with the challenge instructions so I had to think outside of the box. So for this round my song choice is Really Don't Care (feat. Cher Lloyd). I think that this song best represents being youthful because it's the funnest, most enthusiastic song on the album while it also doesn't have an emotional meaning attached to it, unlike the majority of Demi. While it may be about a topic such as a break-up; it comes across in a way that makes it seem care-free & bubbly.
3. theREALslimSHADY - OneRepublic - Native: I Lived
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Originally posted by theREALslimSHADY
There is this quote I LOVE, and it always flashes in my mind when I listen to this song, "Everyone asks why, I ask why not."
What being young means to me is actually really specific cuz I HAVE thought about it alot; and for me.. its about STILL wanting to live your life, still being excited and willing enough to learn new things and have new experiences.. to have a whole bunch of opportunities in front of you and feeling like you can just go after all of them. And since the first time I heard this song I am astonished at how much it speaks to me in that sense. Everytime i listen it, it always fills me with a really positive energy and love for life. It reminds me that everything I am doing right now, no matter how silly or stupid it looks to anyone, is all leading somewhere. Even the tiniest things that I am doing unintentionally.. someday I will realise what purpose they served, and when that time comes, I wanna be able to say, "yepp! Now i remember, and i am so glad i did that."
I’m 19 years old & most people around my age love to go out, have fun & escape their problems. Of course, we also like to get down and dirty with someone. Don’t Stop the Music represents this well since Rihanna had to “Get my body moving shake the stress away”, but then she found a guy to dance with and “now we’re rocking on the dancefloor acting naughty”. All of my high school dances had these things going on with kids grinding up on each other & dancing till our bodies ached & our ears were ringing & it was so much fun to be a part of. The song itself was played during those dances so if this isn’t youthful I don’t know what is.
The song is based on a legend about a man who brings good dreams by sprinkling magical sand onto the eyes of children while they sleep at night. I chose this song to take a different approach to the 'youth' theme. How? Theo is using the legend but from an adult point of view by waiting and wishing for the Sandman to put him to sleep, going so far as even meaning eternal sleep. So he's kinda twisting that positive idea of the Sandman putting you to sleep in a shocking way(wishing for death), creating an interesting contrast between youth and adulthood. Also, the young choir who is singing one line in the song emphasizes the youthful spirit despite the dark message of the song.
6. Inner Insanity - My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade: Disenchanted
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Originally posted by Inner Insanity
Disenchanted is a song that is told from an older person's point of view. It talks about "running from the cops" and "high school" and just remembering that time of youthfulness. Its lyrics discuss failure, disappointment and having not lived to be the person they wanted to be. The narrator remembers being young as more of a negative experience for him. He knows now that being young is not always fun and awesome and comes with lots of disappointment.
A V R I L L A V I G N E / L E T G O / R O U N D 3 My World
In an album filled with youthful songs written in Avril's teenage years, My World is the one song I felt best demonstrated youth. The song itself is a 3-and-a-half minute autobiography, highlighting Avril's small town childhood, dead-end jobs and tomboy aura as "one of the boys". Once the chorus rolls around, you can feel yourself right there next to Avril in her teen prime and you can taste not only her world, but your own as a curious child in a world you built yourself. The most beautiful aspect of this song is the part of youth we don't hear about in songs as much - wondering about our future with fear, excitement and insecurity, waiting for what's going to come next and living each moment in your own world.
"In this head my thoughts are deep,
but sometimes I can't even speak
Would someone be and not pretend?
I'm off again in my world"
So this song is about Kelly's experiences when she was young, and how these experiences still affect her to this day. They're not particularly pleasant experiences - she doesn't seem to think of her youth fondly - but this song certainly explains that modern-day Kelly is still affected by young Kelly at heart. Some lyrics to back up what I'm saying: "I was so young / You should have known better than to lean on me". When she was young, she was impressionable, and in this song, she lists all of the things she still does because of what happened to her as a kid. This song isn't about "happy carefree youth", but it is about youth nevertheless - just a more miserable one.
Being young means not having everything figured out. It feels like the times are so uncertain for young people, but as we get more life experience, we’ll make better decisions. "I'll be wrong if I don't try / I don't know when my next meal's coming / All I know is I'll be running." Being young means taking risks. "I have my doubts in love, but I know it's true / I don't have many friends, but I got you" Being young means changing. Being young means believing that “it,” whatever your “it” is, will get better. "I, I, I I be livin' it up, I be livin' it up, yeah / I, I, I I be throwin' it up, I be throwin' it up, yeah / I, I, I'll I'll be playing it cool / 'Cause a girl's gotta do, what a girl's gotta do / Making up my own rules"
There aren't any songs on Blackout that speak about being young or young at heart, because when Britney recorded the album she was more grown up and had already shared her youth experiences in previous albums. The only songs that acknowledge youth are the ones about partying. Out of them, the best one is Freakshow. In it, she sings about letting go of your inhibitions and just having a good time with your friends, something that all young people like to do. That is basically the main focus of the song, as it doesen't have a lot of meaning in the lyrics, but you can sense that Britney (who actually wrote the song) just wants to let go of her worries and just enjoy herself by having a good time at the club, like any regular young person.
11. boyonce - Janelle Monae - The Archandroid: Wondaland
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Originally posted by boyonce
Being youthful harkens back to a time of boundless creativity, energy, and playfulness. In "Wondaland", Janelle Monae explores all of these concepts while showing us how as an artist she is truly young at heart. In this track she sings about the artistic headquarters where she and her Wondaland Arts Collective live, eat, play, and create music, movement, and art. Wondaland is said to have indoor grass, endless candy, and an entire wall full of clocks ("For time travellers!' says Janelle). The track is about refreshing her spirit and feeling the inspiration that comes with creating art with friends. I adore this track because of it's flat out silly nature and the fact that it shows despite being a "concept album", Janelle doesn't take things too seriously. It's fun, fresh, and funky and certainly illustrates Janelle's playful, youthful, creative spirit.
There is not a song on + that really matches what was asked, but I think Grade 8 could be interpreted to fit the theme. The song is Ed’s love letter of sorts to a girl he is deeply fascinated with (8 is the highest score you can get on a UK music exam, so strumming on my heart strings like you were a grade 8 = effortlessly making him fall in love). However, I believe it could also be talking about how Ed’s love for the girl makes him feel revitalized and youthful. He believes they are a perfect fit for each other (your mind is my new best friend) and feels motivated to do great things with her that he has never done before (I never felt this way, I’ll pick your feet up off of the ground and never ever let you down). It’s also one of the more upbeat songs on the album, which contributes to the “youthful” feel.
13. Mr.Link - Alexz Johnson - Songs From Instant Star: 24 Hours
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Originally posted by Mr.Link
For this round I'm choosing "24 Hours", in my opinion this is one of the highlights of the album and one of Alexz' most personal tracks aswell. This song (penned by Alexz herself) deals with the typical feelings of being a teenager: having your whole life in front of you and yet feeling small and worthless, the pressure of finding your path in life, being in love, having your heart broken and feeling like you can't trust your own friends. But for me what really stands out about this track is that it has a self-empowerment message, she basically says she might be too young for life but that doesn't mean she's just gonna sit there and watch it pass her by. As a teenager, this was the song that made me want to download this album.
One thing about being young is having a crush. You can love somebody, or you can be attracted, or you can become addicted to the point that they make you crazy about them. That's the essential idea of "Crazy"! I remember when I thought I loved somebody when I was a young teen, she was the only person I could think of, dream of, picture in my head. And I found out how crazy she made me when another girl felt the same way about me. This song fits so perfectly with that memory of my youth, and it's so fun to groove to, I would've loved to hear this over and over when I was younger.
While in our youth, most of us believe we can do ANYTHING and that everything will work out the way WE want it too. However, we soon learn that that's not always the case. Girl Overboard is about both these things. Thinking that your plan is going to work, but it ends up not going to plan ("I thought I had it but I stumbled, And I thought I'd last forever"). Just because you're young, or young at heart, doesn't mean that everything is going to be so fun and easy for you. Mistakes happen, and its how we deal with these "mistakes" in our youth that make us grow into the adults we will be.
I found this song to be something that constantly hits my mind as I grew up, just wanting to be with someone. Unfortunately, at a very young age, people tend to just want sex (mainly lust) over conventional dating (at least in the area I grew up in...). Lyrics like "I just want a lover, Let me hear your body talking" and background lyrics like "(Time to love, it's a beautiful present, I don't wanna leave)" convey this attitude very obviously and is a consistent thought. Its a sexual undertone that shockingly apparent in the culture of even this forum site despite being in a young demographic. At least in this time and place, peers alike can more or less agree just wanting a lover is something people are looking for now a days without having the ties of a relationship (at least not in a way people would like to admit it)
My submission for this round is Sunshine. I picked Sunshine for this round because I believe the carefree nature is very youthful. Skylar says in this song that she doesn't care about money or work. As long as she has Sunshine, her and her lover will get by. The naivety and carelessness is very youthful as many teens feel the same way today. I think the line "Ain’t got money but we got sunshine" represents young people today before they go grow up and get jobs, because people just want to be happy when they're younger.
18. I'mRihannaFan - Jessie J - Who You Are: Domino
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Originally posted by I'mRihannaFan
Everything about Domino sounds and looks young in my honest opinion. The colourful video shows how poppy and funny the song is.
The song talks about being in love, a happy and young love. The first line "I'm feeling sexy and free" explains that perfectly, everybody feels sexy, happy and over the moon when you're in love, more than all the love between teenagers. The song could easily talk about first love, you're 100% in, nothing can go wrong now that you're with your souldmate, and you want to spent the rest of your long life with her/him. The bridge shows that, the love makes you feel so young, so happy.
19. Lucky#17 - Danity Kane - Welcome To The Dollhouse: Strip Tease
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Originally posted by Lucky#17
DANITY KANE – “STRIP TEASE”
Picking a song for this challenge was extremely hard, so I decided to take a huge gamble. “Strip Tease” is the hottest, most graphic and most controversial song on the album. The song is about nothing other than going in for the night. Although this song comes off as very mature, and not for teens – I have quite a different interpretation. Nowadays, people get involved romantically and sexually at a younger age than before. I think this song has lyrical connections to youth because of the fact that love plays a huge role in teens’ lives everywhere. Love is the reason we’re all here today, and sometimes we as youth make nights very deep and unforgettable for us. This is a provocative song to celebrate the sl*ts and the idea of sex for youth. #2013CRISIS + #USEPROTECTION2014 though!
Following your dreams shouldn't be judged by how old you are. Nevertheless it's more likely for someone to pursue their dreams in a young age. "Avenue Of The Stars" is about that: following dreams, don't know what to expect but try! It starts with an introduction: "What's your dream? Everybody got a dream!" and goes on telling a story about a girl who went to the "avenue of the stars" to try to become a star. Lines like: "Down on the boulevard all the kids look like me"|"Faith in my pocket and my Saturdays free" makes the listener think of an optimistic girl who has her entire life ahead of her and is willing to try to accomplish her goals. Besides all that, the rhythm of the song is vivid and full of a good vibe!
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DEADLINE: August, 26th
OFF
Strip Tease (I'm sorry but this song just does not fit)
Freakshow (This song could have been any other in the album with the exact same explanation)
Really Don't Care (I didn't like this song and you don't really convince me when you say it fits this round)
I Lived (you're always exaggerating too much in every essay, it takes out a lot of credibility to what you say)
SAVE
Disenchanted (You took a risk with this one, it paid off)
Wondaland (Amazing song! )
My World (This round is yours, you just couldn't fail )