Talossan Music Top Special Edition! 2025 - Category selection / vote

[Glüc]

Indie rock (not sure exactly how to police this)

I'm assuming we're not talking about the original definition of 'rock music released by independent labels', cause that would be fairly straightforward. Assuming we're talking about the genre of vaguely similar sounding alternative-ish rock music it's a bit trickier, but that is a problem with any genre.

 In the past the solution has been to not really police too much at all and for all edgecases let people decide for themselves what nominations fall within the genre (this can also include not giving points to someone else's nominations because you don't really think it fits the category) and only intervene if people are going far beyond any reasonable understanding of the genre with their picks. That usually works well enough, although I suppose Indie is particularly broad and has various definitions that encompass artists that sound not much alike.

An alternative is go with some pre-defined list like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_indie_rock_musicians, which is fairly comprehensive (although it does still include some artists that I'm not too sure about)

[Gjermund Higraff]

I like that idea of the pre-defined list. Then there's no need to consider whatever definition each person would consider "indie".

[Sir Lüc]

Joint Lüc-Ely nomination: Eurodance/Eurodisco

I would also have liked to nominate "Nonclassical music with no lyrics" but that's mostly covered by the King's nomination.

[Glüc]

That's true sadly. It sprung to mind as an interesting category but there are only so many news agencies with notable themes.

So are we dropping this?

[Glüc]

One day left for category nominations.

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

So are we dropping this?

Yep, confirming it has been dropped.

[Glüc]

Ok, nominations are closed. We now proceed to voting on the proposed categories.

Like last time, we shall be using single transferable vote, and I shall be calculating the results manually using excel (so if any politically minded Talossans are interested in the feasibility of this, pay attention).

This system is designed to result in somewhat equal representation for different factions (or music preferences) even when proportional representation is not possible. However, it is also really designed for a situation with more voters than candidates, which we don't have. In this particular case, there is a rather large risk everyone just votes for one of their own categories, resulting in a 7-way tie, which can be resolved by random chance, but that wouldn't yield a particularly satisfying result.

So instead we will cheat a bit, by artificially inflating the number of voters by giving everyone who nominated categories two votes, 1 including and 1 excluding their own suggestions.

In order to do so everyone who nominated songs will be asked to rank their own suggestions and all the others separately which will be interpreted as one vote with their own suggestions listed first followed by their other votes and one vote with only their votes for others suggestions.


Therefore

How to vote

A If you submitted any category suggestions.

1. Rank your own suggestions in order of preference.
2. Rank at least 5 of the other suggested categories in order of preference.

B If you did not submit any category suggestions

1. Rank at least 5 categories in order of preference.

Deadline
The deadline will be exactly one week (168 hours) from now

Suggested categories
You can vote on the following categories:

- Covers of original songs
- Songs with less than 5000 listenings on Spotify
- Songs in invented language
- Songs that include unusual time signatures
- Songs with twin guitars
- Songs about historical events
- Commercial jingles
- Ska/reggae songs
- Metal songs
- Songs in French
- Songs that mention the weather
- Songs with no lyrics
- Songs sung by puppets
- Hymns/spiritual songs
- Indie rock
- Jazz/big band
- Eurodance/Eurodisco

The 5 selected categories + the recent songs category will be the categories in which we create a top 25 of songs for the TMT special edition 2025.

[Glüc]

My own vote:

Own nominations:
1. Ska/reggae songs
2. Songs in French
3. Metal songs

Other peoples nominations:
1. Eurodance/Eurodisco
2. Songs that include unusual time signatures
3. Indie rock
4. Songs with no lyrics
5. Songs that mention the weather
6. Songs about historical events
7. Songs in invented language
8. Covers of original songs
9. Jazz/big band

[Gjermund Higraff]

Own nominations:
1. Songs that include unusual time signatures
2. Songs about historical events
3. Songs with twin guitars


Other peoples nominations:
1. Songs in French
2. Songs with no lyric
3. Covers of original songs
4. Songs that mention the weather
5. Ska/reggae songs
6. Indie rock

[þerxh Sant-Enogat]

Own nominations :
1- Songs in invented language
2- Covers of original songs
3- Songs with less than 5000 listenings on Spotify 

Other people nominations :
1- Songs that include unusual time signatures
2- Songs in French
3- Songs with no lyrics
4- Indie rock
5- Metal songs