Nominations are open

[morbane]

2016's nominations are open! The tag set is here.

Nominations will close at 23:59 (i.e., the last minute of) 26 March 2016 in EDT. That link should give you the corresponding time in your own time zone.

Nominations have two stages:

1. Go to the tag set and nominate.


2. Come back to this post (or the LiveJournal equivalent) and comment with links to sources of the music and lyrics.

Step 2 isn't mandatory, but it's really helpful when I make a large table of where to find all of this year's canons. And that table is helpful for getting other people interested in the pieces YOU want to receive or create a gift in.

And of course, step 0.5 - if you're not quite sure what to nominate, see the brainstorming posts on Dreamwidth and on LiveJournal - and past posts tagged with "brainstorming" - to get and give ideas.


To nominate, go to http://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/1117 and click the "Nominate" button at the top right. You will need to be signed in with your AO3 account. If you don't have one, request one now at AO3, or ask me.

You will see eight blank spaces for your nominations. You don't have to fill them all in at once.

Very few songs are already listed on the AO3, so you may be creating new fandoms. This means they won't auto-complete or appear in a drop-down menu when you're typing them. That's okay.

The preferred AO3 format for songs and videos is:

Song Name - Artist (Medium)

If you have a specific cover artist in mind, use them.

For example,
Mykonos - Fleet Foxes (Music Video)
Mykonos - Fleet Foxes (Song)
Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley (Song)
Lilac Wine - Nina Simone (Song)

For some types of music, a different (Medium), such as (Ballad), (Spoken Word Piece), etc, may seem more appropriate. Go with what seems sensible to you. (Song) is an okay catch-all.

Please check the spelling carefully when you enter your nominations.

Once you have submitted nominations, you can edit each one until I've approved it. You can do this by going back to the tag set, clicking "My Nominations", then "Edit". You don't have to choose all eight of your nominations at once - you can enter some nominations, submit them, then come back and fill in the rest a little later, again by using "Edit Nominations".

When I've approved a nomination, it may not show up instantly in the tag set, but should show up within a couple of days. Meanwhile, I'll keep the LJ and DW communities up to date.


When you comment with sources for the music you've nominated, here is what is useful:

-the name of the piece & artist
-a link to some online source (YouTube etc)
-a link to lyrics.

The genre of the song, if you know it, is also helpful.

If you'd rather email me (jukebox.mod@gmail.com) than comment on LJ or DW, that is fine.

This post is also on LiveJournal.

Comments

[ernads]

And another one:

Shira by Miri Masika Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJblMmTWqlY

You who know not to distinguish between right and wrong
Every day you’re crashing, never knowing were it came from
Every story you create is a maze with now way out
You hunger to grow up, but you will always be a child.

You how strive to touch the starlight in your hand
Never sleep at night, working all hour of the day
Going from one doomed affair to the next
Burred down from inside our, like a cigarette

Shira, your life will await you
The day will die with the coming dawn
And you will remember no longer
The things I’ve forgotten to talk with you about

Perhaps one day you will get of the roller coaster
Perhaps one day you’ll stop filling your lungs with smoke
Just stand quietly before a mirror for a moment
Let it – let yourself – see how beautiful you are

This song is talking about a young woman who is trying to find herself and is failing, who is trying to grow up and is does not quite managed that. She is burned down from inside, and sees no beauty in herself or her
surrounding.

However, the singer here is telling her that her life is waiting for her, and there is hope yet, and that everything will be all right. It’s a song of hope

[hagar_972]

Uh - ernads, this song is titled Shira, and you nominated Shir L'Shira, which Miri Messika had covered? But they're different songs.

(morbane, this one would be "שירה | Shira - מירי מסיקה | Miri Mesika (Song)". "Shira" in this context is a name, so no transliteration/translation shenanigans.)

[morbane]

Ernads nominated Song "Shira" - Miri Masika. Going from their youtube link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJblMmTWqlY) I, uh, ran the text below through google translate, which gave me a song from a specific Miri Mesika album (Goodbye Faith), which seemed to be Shir Le' Shira (that's how it was spelt in what I could see).

So is that not right?

[ernads]

Sorry, morbane, I thought that the Youtube link I added will be enough to avoid confusion between the two songs.

[hagar_972]

...you realize that youtube copy only has the Hebrew on it, yes?

[ernads]

yes, so I've also translated the song and send it in an additional comment, and added the name and the link to the translation.

[hagar_972]

You said:

"I thought that the Youtube link I added will be enough to avoid confusion between the two songs"

Which is what I responded to.

[morbane]

That doesn't bother me! But it led me astray a little. Please, what is the correct Hebrew version of the correct title? I'll edit it in the tag set and in the list.

[morbane]

Sorry, I see it's written above! Okay, good, I'll edit it in.

[hagar_972]

The youtube link matches the translation ernads provided. Both are for the song "Shira" from the album titled shalom la'emunot ("shalom" can be either "hello" or "goodbye"). You prob ended up with Shir L'Shira ("A Song for Shira") because it's a much better-known song.

[morbane]

Or because I overreached myself! Anyway, thank you. I think it's correct now, but if I am wrong I am happy to edit it again.