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Capsize the Vote! The Popularity Contest General and Nomination Thread

Speaking of cheeky, I really wouldn’t expect this to win, but it just popped into my head: Top Musical Intervals

Like, minor 3rd, major 5th… there only so many, so good for a mini list if anything.
 
Realizing "I don't know what an interval is" I decided to read the wikipedia page, listen to the examples on some of the pages and watch this very concise video.


I have no clue. I guess... notes... but... distance?

EDIT: Maybe what I need is some examples of each on in a familiar song or piece.
 
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Yeah, an interval is technically just the scale distance between two notes, but any given interval tends to have a “feel” and examples definitely help with that. Like for instance, the first two notes of the Star Wars theme are a Major 5th, and it shows up in a lot of heroic, uplifting kind of stuff, like also Superman, Back to the Future, etc.
 
Or like a Minor 2nd, two notes right next to each other on a keyboard, is “dissonant” and tends to sounds “wrong” or “on edge” and hence gets used a lot for suspense or things that are supposed to make you feel uneasy. Shows up a lot in Severance for example.
 
Surely someone’s done it but I’d have to search. Though if I ran this list I’ll probably end up having created a half decent reference by the end of it, lol.
 
And here we go!

Popularity Contest #55: Apocalypse

If you haven't done this before, the idea of a popularity contest is to compile a bunch of lists from forum members (and other people if you want, I guess) and find out shared favourites. For example, top 50 wizards or top 50 heroines. Right now we have top 50 Video Game Characters from @Issun...
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Issun need a little more time. So let's put in another mini-list Do you want to host? Now is the time!

People who want to host submit their topics. Here are the general rules.

1) So I don't miss your submission, please BOLD your suggestions.

2) Please no joke suggestions. At least, not in BOLD. People have some whimsical ideas for lists so I don't want people submitting a list and I put it up and then they are like "jk, stupid!"

3) If you give a BOLD suggestion, YOU must host. Granted, if something comes up you are free to pass the duty onto another but I just don't want people submitting lists under the assumption that SOMEONE will do it.

4) One submission for person please.

5) Don't insult or put down another person's suggestions. Discussing feasibility, concerns or issues with it are fine, but please don't just say "well, that's a stupid topic". At least one person thinks it isn't.

And please...
If you have any other questions or concerns or I just bungled something up, drop me a line.

The deadline is exactly 4 days from this post dropping, so Sunday Morning.

Oh, and to be clear, a mini-list should be at most-ish half the size of a regular list and as short as you want. (Top 2 sides of the coin, for example). Even there, we can have some wiggle room if we need it. Let's here your noms!
 
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You guys are getting it (I mean, Id call them season*ings* but the still you get how to approach this). Don't give away too much and open yourselves to even more possibilities.
 
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a few more categorical possibilities just appeared in my head, that i dare not spoil
 
I'd still be up for running my Intervals idea but I don't know that enough people would be into it. I'm kind of digging Johnny's experiment in lateral thinking here anyway.
 
Kirin said:
I'd still be up for running my Intervals idea but I don't know that enough people would be into it.
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I think it's interesting but I have no clue about music theory so I would need a crash course in order to participate.
 
I feel like the more interesting path is for the results thread to be the crash course, and meanwhile you should just vote for whatever you think sounds good or appears in songs you like, as per the videos Johnny posted earlier.

(Oh wait, I see there's actually just a basic explainer video above, the other ones must've been elsewhere; anyway if there's actually interest I'd round up some vids with concrete examples from popular music, there's plenty out there.)
 
We've done enough lists that we could do "top 50 top 50 winners" to let the #1 entries fight it out. (Not the lists themselves, mind)
 
Mogri said:
We've done enough lists that we could do "top 50 top 50 winners" to let the #1 entries fight it out. (Not the lists themselves, mind)
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So you mean a popularity contest of the #1s from the first 50 popularity contest?
 
Huh. That *could* be a wacky fun 'Dome. And no need to wait for votes before jumping in.
(Though, for Dome format, 64 entries would be better than 50...)
 
But for a tournament like that I do wonder how to handle a #1 that has appeared in multiple contests.
 
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