Hate quoting myself, but this is for Lethean:
So. I love roulettes, but the part where I have to tell someone a song they love or an idea they had doesn’t work is hard for me. I well and truly believe my opinion doesn’t mean crap, and that it’ more important that someone be passionate about their music than whether I agree with it or not. So the good thing is I can play “good cop” and have others play “bad cop”:
Sending songs from 1985 should net zero creativity points.
Haha. This was a good round, for the most part. I’m going to keep the write-ups brief, in large part because I’ve already written on the “theme” part. I decided to give the full one point in creativity to the submission that really hit home (plus one other that was very close), and a half a point to the ones that went beyond the obvious, and for the rest? See above. Couple songs tested my resolve, but I tried to have an open mind and find the good where I could.
The theme for that was "Stadler graduates high school". I graduated in 1985. Songs from 1985 did, in fact, net zero creativity points. But someone blew the theme out of the water and, as he said, "went deep".
Look, I generally try to value other people's opinions, and certainly, every single person in this roulette to be someone whose opinion I do value. Some of it is limited to music, because I don't know them well enough, but others, it's clear, there's a sort of bond. So I want to give these guys something to dig into (to the degree they want to). Some are, some aren't, and that's fine. Look, great songs and just sticking to the theme will likely get you into the playoffs. But if you want to go for the gold, there's an opportunity to do it.
Even though no one got the Sammy/Dave thing, there were still people that put a lot of thought and effort in, and I hope they had fun doing it, because it was certainly appreciated by me, and so even if you didn't get a ton of points, you can go to sleep at night knowing you made someone's day better than it would have been otherwise.