Boardsies Decide: Boybands VS Girl Power

Necro

A lot of the music tournaments have wound up very alternative-centric. So it's time for a change.... POP EXPLOSION!!!

Boybands














VS


Girl Power

Nominations Open.

A couple of rules:

You are allowed up to 10 nominations.
Nominations must have been recorded and sung by a boyband or girl group
You cannot nominate more than one song from the same group.

That's it!

Nominations are going to be open for at least 10 days, most likely 2 weeks to reflect other ongoing tournaments and contests, and the fact I'm on holidays

KathleenGrant

So nominating songs, not groups?
All songs must be same-sex groups? No mixed?

sKeith

Necro wrote: »

A lot of the music tournaments have wound up very alternative-centric. So it's time for a change.... POP EXPLOSION!!!

Boybands

Nominations Open.

A couple of rules:

You are allowed up to 10 nominations.
Nominations must have been recorded and sung by a boyband or girl group
You cannot nominate more than one song from the same group.

That's it!

Nominations are going to be open for at least 10 days, most likely 2 weeks to reflect other ongoing tournaments and contests, and the fact I'm on holidays

does the corrs count as a girl group?

Necro

KathleenGrant wrote: »

So nominating songs, not groups?
All songs must be same-sex groups? No mixed?

Songs, not groups yes

Mixed groups are permitted!

Necro

sKeith wrote: »

does the corrs count as a girl group?

Jim won't be too happy about that :pac::pac:

But yes if you want to nominate a song fire ahead

KathleenGrant

sKeith wrote: »

does the corrs count as a girl group?

Is a mixed group a boyband, girlpower or either?

JP Liz V1

S Club 7 count as boy girl band, is that a thing

Necro

Songs from mixed-sex groups are permitted. So the likes of Steps and S Club don't feel left out

JP Liz V1

Necro wrote: »

Songs from mixed-sex groups are permitted. So the likes of Steps and S Club don't feel left out

Good as that would have been a tragedy

Irish Aris

oh, count me so in!!!! I will go have something for you in the next couple of days

sKeith

Queen: We are the champions.
the corrs: I Never Loved You Anyway
the 5 6 7 8 's: Woo Hoo
t.A.T.u. - All The Things She Said
The Cardigans - My Favourite Game
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Peaches - The Presidents of the United States of America
Blur - Country House
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Oasis - Lyla

sKeith

If i was to call it now, i'd give it to t.a.T.u. :P

Poor lasses being opresed and abused by vlad

Necro

Actually, in a break from the norm, you can either post your nominations on thread like sKeith did above... OR if you wish to keep them a guarded secret until the contest PM them directly to myself.

sKeith

Necro wrote: »

Actually, in a break from the norm, you can either post your nominations on thread like sKeith did above... OR if you wish to keep them a guarded secret until the contest PM them directly to myself.

yikes, i've not been following these types of tournaments, so if i broke norms, i'm very sorry.... yikes....

Kolido

Are we nominating on thread or by PM?

Necro

sKeith wrote:

yikes, i've not been following these types of tournaments, so if i broke norms, i'm very sorry.... yikes....

Nah it doesn't matter I wasn't specific in my OP about PMs

Necro

Kolido wrote: »

Are we nominating on thread or by PM?

Either or, whichever you prefer

Kolido

None of sKeiths nominations, bar maybe the corrs and tatu, fit the discription of a boyband or girl group imo.

sKeith

Kolido wrote: »

None of sKeiths nominations, bar maybe the corrs and tatu, fit the discription of a boyband or girl group imo.

You have been so institutionalized!


Break free of your programming and think for yourself for once!

sKeith

queen is a boy band, 5678's is a girl power band... I shant go on.. Kolido, check out the two named here at least.... then we can investigate the rest.

Irish Aris

There is the theory that The Beatles were the first ever boyband

I have to say when I hear boyband/girlband I always think of pop bands, and this is where most (if not all) of my nominations will come from.

Kolido

sKeith wrote: »

queen is a boy band, 5678's is a girl power band... I shant go on.. Kolido, check out the two named here at least.... then we can investigate the rest.

I must have misread Necro's OP, his examples threw me off. I thought we were talking Take That and Spice Girls, not just any music group with all males/females. My apologies in that case.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Kolido wrote: »

I must have misread Necro's OP, his examples threw me off. I thought we were talking Take That and Spice Girls, not just any music group with all males/females. My apologies in that case.

This is the intention and the spirit of the tournament, as the other comps tend to overlook the "cheesy" (for lack of a better word) pop groups. I think the majority of us will go for the likes of Take That, Spice Girls, Boyzone, etc.

Zaph

Kolido wrote: »

I must have misread Necro's OP, his examples threw me off. I thought we were talking Take That and Spice Girls, not just any music group with all males/females. My apologies in that case.

Well the first line of the OP says:

A lot of the music tournaments have wound up very alternative-centric. So it's time for a change.... POP EXPLOSION!!

so I'd agree with your interpretation of the rules Kolido, especially since the rules allow for mixed gender acts. With that being the case, if it wasn't specifically aimed at the likes of Take That and the Spice Girls we could just nominate any band we liked. Sure I'm always looking for an excuse to squeeze a Talking Heads song or two in somewhere.

sKeith

Irish Aris wrote: »

There is the theory that The Beatles were the first ever boyband

I have to say when I hear boyband/girlband I always think of pop bands, and this is where most (if not all) of my nominations will come from.

If this was a 'take that' vs 'spice girls' competitions, i'd say, 'spice girls' would win it. luckily , i think we can nominate from outside those two bands.

JP Liz V1

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Noms in...

ShaneU

The Smashing Pumpkins and Oasis boybands? Come on now. OP clearly said pop music

Necro

Ok, I see the discussion above and have been thinking about it overnight.

The OP was written with the intention of male/female pop groups such as the ones in the OP, but I think it probably opens up a whole discussion on what 'pop music' actually is.

I won't disqualify any track as long as it fits the criteria in the OP, I will let the court of public opinion decide in the voting.

For me, the main criteria for boyband/girlband would be not only that they are primarily pop music (as many have stated above) but also that they are primarily vocal groups, as in not playing instruments. So by that second criterion I wouldn't necessarily consider the likes of early Beatles, Monkees, Bee Gees or The Corrs as "boybands/girlbands", even though their music is quite poppy.

Of course even that's not foolproof when you consider the likes of Busted or McFly - they'd probably be happy to call themselves boybands. Such innovative acts who broke those limitations!

Purgative

Or we could have a tourno on the rules of the tourno.








I'll get my coat

Irish Aris

the pop aficionado in me can't think of anything other than pop boybands or girlbands. So it was fairly easy to find my 10 songs, and I was able to balance it with 5 boybands and 5 girlbands, no mixed boy/girl bands at all.
I ended up not selecting any Spice Girls songs, as my girl power selections were heavily on the 80's side, and the one spot I had left went to band that I'm not a huge fan but that one song is absolutely fantastic!

Necro, just PMed you my 10 selections

JP Liz V1

That was hard narrowing down to 10, pm sent

quickbeam

So, competition is basically for anyone that's not a solo artist?

Necro

quickbeam wrote:

So, competition is basically for anyone that's not a solo artist?

Would be primarily pop songs gauging on the entries.

Gonna pull out laptop this eve and see how we are fixed with entries.:D

Necro

Just updating my spreadsheet this morning.



128 songs submitted.

8 songs have multiple nominations, 2 of those 8 have 3 nominations.

Although it seems like a great place to close nominations, the selections are bloody great so I will leave it open for any stragglers.

Great songs picked, I'm looking forward to this

speckle

just pm you with a straggler list.

Necro

Up to 162 songs now

Necro

And at 168 songs tis time to lock her up for new nominations.

Tournament Thread will be kicking off at 6.30pm.