I think you can easily vote honestly for a tie. I do it. There are clearly really bad songs that have no advantage over the other. If two songs are sung badly, recorded badly and written badly, I don't feel I owe either of them the excruciating time it would take to find some minor reason to vote one over the other. Now, if they gave me an option to say "both songs are terrible and don't deserve positive feedback" then I'd check that.. but I think that might hurt some feelings.. so I vote tie instead.

I don't think someone who spends little or no effort on their craft and offers nothing of value in their work deserves special attention. I'd rather spend that same time on songs that show some merit and deserve legit boosts.

If you were voting on the best painter and you had 2 people who turned in blank canvases, or two people who turned in canvases they'd simply dumped a can of paint on with no other effort, it would be pointless to say "that blank is better than that blank" or "that dumped can of paint is better than that dumped can of paint." The same goes for music. If it were photos and both photographers had not bothered to take off the lens cap, I don't think I owe it to them to determine which black photo was better.

Really bad music doesn't deserve people's time. Music with some effort and demonstrated craft deserves that time. It's not like there's a shortage of deserving music.. why spend a lot of time on the stuff that hasn't deserved it. When I first started writing songs before I knew anything about craft or writing or recording something well, I don't think that work deserved equal attention with excellent recordings where people have worked hard to improve their talent and demonstrate it via the recording and writing.

So I guess we'll have to differ on this. But I think forcing me to pick a winner among two very bad songs would result in my clicking one slightly better over the other in a fairly random fashion.

Brian

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