This post is for voting on /c/rage’s Lemmyvision 2 song nomination.

Over the past few weeks, our community has submitted nominations, and we have until April 1 to pick a winner. Our Lemmyvision representative, @Gorgritch_umie_killa, has delegated our election to an independent agency, the Aussie.zone Eureka Commission (AEC).

Anyone who has recently commented a few times on aussie.zone before today is allowed to vote. (This includes, for example, some quokk.au users and various Australian Lemmy users on other instances)

This election uses preferential Instant-Runoff Voting[wiki] just like our federal elections. Put simply, this means that if your [1] choice has no chance of election, your vote then runs over to your [2] choice, and so on, so there’s no disadvantage in picking an unpopular song you love for your first votes, your vote is not ‘wasted’ at all. Vote sincerely.

A couple of the nominations weren’t released during 2024, we’ve received confirmation from the organiser that they’re allowed!

Here are the entries. Please listen to them all before voting:

Here is the ballot template for you to fill in. Copy and paste it as a new reply to this post, and number ALL boxes from 1 to 10 in order of your choice. [1] is your first preference, [10] is your last preference.

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**LemmyVision 2 /c/rage Nomination Ballot**

Place a number inside the box next to ALL songs, ranking them from 1 to 10 in order of preference.
```java
[]  Tanzer - International
[]  TISM - ʹ70s Football
[]  Budjera - Is It Ever Gonna Make Sense
[]  San Cisco - Under The Light
[]  Amyl and the Sniffers - U Should Not Be Doing That
[]  Gurridyula - From the river to the sea
[]  Tom Cardy - Transcendental Cha Cha Cha
[]  The Wiggles - Friends of Dorothy
[]  MUDRAT - I HATE RICH CUNTS
[]  Heleina Zara - Boundaries
```
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  • Gorgritch_Umie_KillaM
    4·
    1 month ago

    Haha, genuine giggles! I think the AEC had better trademark the colour ‘eureka red’ before partisan actors start using it to misrepresent how to votes.

    I love that logo as well!

    Now comes the hard part! Deciding my favs, i’m finding it genuinely hard this year, theres four songs i’ve really liked and listened to quite a bit now.

    Good news about San Cisco for @Nath@aussie.zone

    • NathMA
      4·
      24 days ago

      Good news about San Cisco for @Nath@aussie.zone

      Haha! I’m not exactly a massive fan or anything. I had just heard of them thanks to a previous thread (I think in here?) about JJJ Like a version and loved their Daft Punk cover. That got me looking more into their music and through that I knew about this song. It probably got higher on my vote card than it should have since I’ve nominated it. It’s a decent enough song, but not their best by any means. I love that it was filmed at Atlantis - an old Perth amusement park from my childhood. But that won’t mean much to people born after 1990 or outside of Perth. If Awkward had been released in the past year, it’d be the perfect song to send.

      • Gorgritch_Umie_KillaM
        2·
        24 days ago

        I don’t thinks its San Cisco’s best either, but its pretty good.

        But its so interesting, i showed a german coworker the song, and she really liked it, so i played more of San Cisco’s well known songs, and she actually went back to ‘Under the Light’ as her favourite.

    • eurekaOPEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      They were definitely hard to place, especially considering how varied they are in their strengths - some are instrumentally straight-forward but lyrically complex and thematically challenging while others are compositionally exciting and lyrically just simple pop-y fun. It’s hard to rank both apples and oranges, especially when so many were great overall.

      I think the AEC had better trademark the colour ‘eureka red’ before partisan actors start using it to misrepresent how to votes.

      Luckily, The Wiggles didn’t bring out their Big Red Car this time.

      • zero_gravitasEnglish
        3·
        26 days ago

        It’s hard to rank both apples and oranges

        So much this! I spent a while just staring at the list wondering what axis I was even ranking them on!

      • NathMA
        3·
        24 days ago

        some are instrumentally straight-forward but lyrically complex and thematically challenging while others are compositionally exciting and lyrically just simple pop-y fun. It’s hard to rank both apples and oranges, especially when so many were great overall.

        This has been my experience entirely. Nine out of ten songs in the list were completely new to me, so I’ve had a playlist of them and I’ve been trying to devote time to listening to it. But it’s been hard - lots going on in my world at the moment.

        I liked the theme and composition of the Gurridyula song for example, but musically found it boring. I put Tom Cardy at #1 because it’s fun and the most Eurovision-ish song on the list, but it doesn’t look like many people liked it much. It’ll be interesting to see how the vote comes out.

        • eurekaOPEnglish
          2·
          24 days ago

          I put Tom Cardy at #1 because it’s fun and the most Eurovision-ish song on the list, but it doesn’t look like many people liked it much.

          The numbers tell another story! I’ve started practicing the vote count, and that song is currently the runner up (your ballot gave it a second primary vote, pushing it above U Should Not Be Doing That and International on equal 3rd place).

          If we tally up preferences instead, so that our #1 gets 10 points, #2 gets 9 points, etc. (‘Borda count’ method) then the Cha Cha Cha is now up to 2nd place with 49 out of a possible 70 points (equal 3rd are Boundaries and U Should Not Be Doing That on 42 points each).