Brainstorming post: 2016

[morbane]

As nominations will begin in approximately 4 days, this post is a place to bounce ideas around, gauge interest for your preferred songs & music videos & other pieces, and decide what to nominate.

You have 8 nominations this year. This and other rule updates are on AO3.

This post is also on LiveJournal - check the comments there as well.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yay!

I have questions:

1 Do you have to create a work based on the music video if there is one, or just the lyrics?

2 Can covers/versions of a song be nominated?

3 Can the songs be in a language other than english?

4 Do instrumentals count, like soundtracks from an anime or live action TV show?

[morbane]

1. Depends if the music video or just the song is nominated. If someone requests "Title - Artist (Music Video)", you're expected to take the music video into consideration. Some requesters may say "it's okay to ignore the music video if you want" and in that case you can follow their wishes. If someone requests "Title - Artist (Song)", you do not have to incorporate any music videos into your fic/art/podfic.

2. Yes. You can specify the cover artist when you nominate.

3. Yes. I encourage people to link to English translations if they can find them, just because English is the default language of the fest and it encourages other participants to try the song, but people don't have to do this.

4. Interesting question. Yes, you can nominate them, but please think carefully about whether your interpretations, and the interpretations of someone who has never seen the anime or TV show, will match up in a way that satisfies you.

Not allowed: nominating a piece that comes from another canon and saying, "This really captures Yukiko's pain at the point where she learned her brother had betrayed her, could I have a story about that?"

Allowed: "This pieces is so dramatic and sad - please draw me something angsty."

Etc.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the speedy reply Morbane!

I just thought of another question though: do the songs have to be officially released? What if they were ad-libbed? I'm asking because ad-libbed songs are totally a YLVIS thing, and they've made a lot of songs that I'd really like to see fanworks of.

[morbane]

I'm not totally sure what you mean. Could you explain a little further, please?

[(Anonymous)]

So for example, YLVIS did this comedy segment called Radio Taxi where they sang songs very relevant to the unsuspecting passenger, like in this video

https://youtu.be/1Bkw50LWuR0

The songs are improvised on the spot and aren't officially released, unlike for example the song What Does the Fox Say?

Would I be allowed to nominate songs from the video for the exchange?

Sorry if it's a bit confusing!

[morbane]

Yeah, that should be fine. I'll check the video out and let you know if there's a specific label it makes sense to use for it (like "Skit excerpt" instead of "Music video" or something).

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you!

[morbane]

The link you've given me seems to go to a mortgage ad. Do you have another link?