Nice. For those who’ve never heard of her, she was actually married to Miles Davis for a year. Her wiki page is fairly interesting.
Fun to wake up on a Sunday morning here and listen to this filthy thread. Such a funny mix and some cool shit I’ve never heard of. Didn’t expect to podium, but very happy since I expect I have some duds coming. This is a great way to discover (or re-discover) some things I would never come across on my own Thanks, all!
The point is that both are acts of creation, which is the domain of the artist not the technician.
There’s no typecasting going on here - plenty of grey areas exist and plenty of musicians double up as composers - but if you’re playing someone else’s music for them, much as if you’re building a house to an architect’s design, you’re a technician, end of.
This seems to have rattled your cage a bit - are you a musician by any chance? 
Both are creative, that’s the defining characteristic of the artist/technician split.
Picasso used to knock out very quick (though expressive) drawings. Not an artist?
This had me really confused because I was thinking of Bette Davis.
My fellow threadmates. I must apologize profusely for my candor last night and my missing the deadline for reveal. Upon trimming the christmas tree, my wife and children said “But father, but husband, tis christmas. Please, to be joining us for some christmas goose and pudding while we laugh at the antics of Ralphie in a Christmas Story” and I was powerless to say no.
That being said, I added small doses of Dr. Ben A. Dryl’s wonderment potion to their christmas nog and expect them to be sleeping for quite a while yet, so how about some morining Revealeo!
All that being said, I absolutely love this category. If there are any misses, they aren’t by a lot. I’ve decided to drop the “Overall quality” score from my rankings since all of the submissions were quite clear and did not miss in quite the way I was expecting, so we are doing this on move score + audience participation score.
That further being said, this was a very hard category to score as there are a ton of very close entries. It seems like the main ordering is going to come down to how much each song made me want to get moving.
Sweet! A Euro-evening reveal! In! Exclamation Point!
So what would I have submitted?
Easy - this is by far one of my favorite live performances of all time.
Hitting the post on the end of the first chorus by the audience gives me chills.
SOME of you will take this as a very good choice for your submission.
Do not be so confident in that.
So, I have two more songs to listen to before I finalize my rankings, and of course, one of them is 6ix’s 14 minute epic, so the reveal will begin shortly.
I have been listening to a few Aphex Twin releases since my reveal. So far it has been a complete bust. Suzzer found the one track that is not intolerable or barely tolerable.
I gotta say, there are a few MAJOR surprises that are gonna hit the top of my list here. You guys for the most part had some excellent submissions and I applaud the range I got here. What I believe will end up being the winner reintroduced me to a singer/band/group that I always forget is so fantastic.
So with only a few exceptions here, it looks like the lower end of my list are going to be songs that have the audience only saying a few words, or no words at all. Audience participation for something like this to me includes them singing key verses, almost entirely without the lead singers involvement. If this sounds like you, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Alright, lets do this.
in 15th place, scoring 1 point - (1,3) Skydiver8 Don’t Stop me Now by Queen w/ Adam Lambert
god DAMN do I hate the Adam Lambert led Queen. Like… intensely. I’m sure you couldn’t have known that Diver, but everything about this makes me wan to rage and smash my headphones. His stupid fucking face, trying to act like Freddie. That awful god damn half hearted crotch grab at 1:54.
Man, fuck you Adam Lambert. Stop trying to kill timeless music. And shut the fuck up and let the audience sing.
Fucking Adam Lambert
In 14th place, scoring 2 - (3,1) Pauwl - Starman by David Bowie
So, that unintentional attempt to sabotage this competition and make me quit forever by Skydiver is the only submission that I truly disliked. Everything else I at least liked, and some I love quite a bit.
This is one of them. Starman is an incredible song. Its one of the less moveable of the songs submitted as it mostly got some thigh pumping, but my hips stayed pretty stationary. Unfortunately, there just isn’t enough crowd involvement to place this any higher.
In 13th place, scoring 3 - (3,3) Jalfezeri - Black Dog by Led Zeppelin
Another great song that I enjoy immensely but just didn’t kill it in the category. A couple well placed Ah Ah’s does not a huge audience participation score make.
I don’t think it’s that bad.
In 12th place, Scoring 4 (6,1) 6ix - A Love Bizarre by Prince &Sheila E
More great songs just missing the category and what I was looking for.
SHUT THE FUCK UP BACKUP SINGERS!
There is pretty much zero audible audience participation here, so its move score saves it heavily. Also why does this submission have 3 minutes of dead air at the end?
I wanted to like this, but it just doesn’t hit the category for me at all.
I will turn this car around RIGHT NOW damn it!
Alright, I just made a pretty significant change to my ranking just now.
Standby
This category is hard, ya’ll