We pick just one song
Regional languages (e.g. Māori) encouraged
Song must have been released after 1 Jan 2024
Must not be an international hit, the idea is to showcase music that people in other countries might not know

Last year we got 5th!

Should we enter again? Any ideas for what song to submit?

Reply with your suggestions and once we have a few suggestions I'll organise a poll.

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry @eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz @liv@lemmy.nz I completely forgot about this. Gotta get it in by the end of the month, so I'll get a survey set up with your guys suggestions and get our entry in 🙂

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm actually voting for @eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz's suggestion!

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Haha me too, but you had some great suggestions too!

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Thanks :) I quite like how Lemmyvision makes us focus on our local music scenes a bit more.

Went down a real rabbit hole with the UK entry last year too. All these geriatric rappers and their record label was this guy's dairy.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I didn't get sucked down much of a rabbit hole but it did lead me to checking out a lot of different songs by The Northern Boys. So hilarious, I don't know how feddit.uk can top it this year but I hope they do 😆

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The Northern Boys record label is Singhusworld which is actually a dairy/cornershop that got into music to make money to save the dairy from being shut down after it sold this home made drink (nonalcoholic). Their whole online footprint is priceless.

If you like Northern Boys you might like these gangster guys

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I came across them in my travels!

Also this article which is entertaining but gets me no closer to understanding what happened 😅

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think Pete is Sindhu's piano teacher and Bas was maybe behind Basil Juice? Not sure how music producers (Handsome Dexter etc) fit in.

Norman Pain's (from Northern Boys) solo stuff is really good too. Sonnet especially.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That's - quite a different tone from the Northern Boys!

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 weeks ago

True, and nothing about them prepares you for it.

[–] eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not going to lie, I don't even know of any NZ songs released last year..

The only one I can think of was released in Jan this year, Alien Weaponry's Mau Moko. Not sure if metal songs are ok?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago

I don't see why metal songs wouldn't be allowed, and I think technically this year is allowed too. I think this can be in the running.