Originally Posted by ben willis
The judging is based on talent alone and no one can use flashy clothing or dance moves and attractive people have no advantage.

Ben,
Ok, good "tongue in cheek" point, but of course real show biz does depend on ALL factors being in place: Great music, stage appearance, clothing, dance, choreography, talent, image and marketing, etc. Again, in the real marketing world every advantage needs to be exploited to gain fan favor and beat the competition.

But if OurStage wants to be a "venue" to help the public find the best songs, they might decide to eliminate a few secondary criteria such as the artist's image. The image would of course still appear on their personal profile and on their music player, but not in the voting chamber, that's all. This forces people to judge the song's audio track rather than external things like a pretty or "sexy" photo.

If they want to judge images, they can vote in one of the video channels. For example, the music videos would be a good place to vote for the best "looking" and "sounding" bands. A bad video could ruin a great song and a bad song could ruin a great video production, etc. That's a whole different "ball game" than just writing and producing a great song for a music contest.

And I bet that's how every major song contest judging is done including Just Plain Folks, John Lennin, USA Songwriting Competition, and all the rest. None will give any points for having an attractive image on the song cover. That's Ok for marketing but NOT for judging in a serious song contest. If artists could win song awards at JPF (or anywhere) by having great images, they would simply hire the best graphics money could buy. wink

Michael

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