Nomination thread for Canada's submission to the Lemmyvision song contest
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This is the nomination thread for which song(s) we will submit to Lemmyvision 2! Please comment your nominations in this thread for them to be considered. This post will be pinned to the instance briefly, but you can continue nominating songs until March 25th (2025). You will be able to find this post in !canada@lemmy.ca
What is lemmyvision
Lemmyvision is inspired from Eureddision (itself a reenactment of the Eurovision song contest) which was held on r/europe some years ago, and based on the participation of national communities / instances and the delicate musical taste of their members (you!).
Every country/community is welcome to participate! The contest follows the rule of “national languages only” but regional languages are welcome too, if your community would like to feature a song in a regional language of your country, that’s awesome. The aim is to promote different languages and cultures from around the world, to share more between our online communities across Lemmy, and discover songs from lesser known artists.
Specific to Canada, here is what the organizer has said:
You’re invited to participate by sending a song in any official or regional language / dialect from Canada !
Given the multilingual aspect of your country, I’m open to multiple submissions (one for each language you’d like to represent, so Inuktitut, French Canadian, any First Nations languages are welcome) from lemmy.ca, just mention which language is linked to which submission 🤗
As such, please do the following:
Songs must have been released within the last year (after January 1st, 2024).
Songs must not be international hits (see the 'Full rules and details' link below for more context)
Nominate each song as a separate comment under this post. If the song contains vocals, it must be one of the 'Canadian languages' as outlined above, and you must specify which language you are nominating it under
Please nominate the songs by March 25th (2025).
I set a reminder to post a voting thread on March 25th. If I am late on that (like last year), please let one of the admins know and we will get on that. That should give us a week before the submission deadline to pick from our list of nomations.
Yup, there's a discussion in the main rules post talking about the different dates. I imagine the organizer will understand if there is some discrepancy
Discogs lists 2024 and MusicBrainz lists 2024-02-16, so I'll add it to the list
I got to hear the song live before it's official release at Red Bird Brewing in Kelowna, a cool little venue.
Dan Mangan has been a BC fixture for years, but I think he's been Canadian successful back east as well. At least he's played Massey Hall and gets coverage on CBC and plays at the Polaris awards. Still, the "international hits" rules sounds a bit squishy, and Dan is only Canadian famous.
Unfortunately the contest rules require our submission to have been released after 2024-01-01, but I’ll include this in our large playlist at the end :)
Unfortunately the contest rules require our submission to have been released after 2024-01-01, but I'll include this in our large playlist at the end :)
P'tit Belliveau is an Acadian from Nova Scotia, and has quickly risen to the top of the French Canadian music scene these past few years after seeing initial popularity from his early hit "Mon drapeau acadjonne vient d'Taiwan".
Honnêtement, l'Acadie est forte en maudit en matière de musique. Tellement de great artistes de par ici, surtout considérant la grandeur de la population!
Unfortunately the contest rules require our submission to have been released after 2024-01-01, but I’ll include this in our large playlist at the end :)
In your settings, under languages, make sure that 'Undetermined' is selected. That's usually the reason for missing content, since it's filtering out any content that doesn't have a language set