- Top 3 Overall
- Perfect 10 — Vocals from Mark Cooper · Richie Branson
- Perfect 10 — Production from Klopfenpop · LEX the Lexicon Artist · Mark Cooper
- Perfect 10 — Challenge from Klopfenpop · Mark Cooper · Richie Branson
- Vocal Standout 9.2 / 10 avg across judges
- Production Powerhouse 9.6 / 10 avg across judges
- Challenge Champion 9.6 / 10 avg across judges
- Perfect Card 30/30 from Mark Cooper
- Wide Appeal no judge ranked you in their bottom third
- Crowd Surfer on 47/82 ballots (57%)
- Niche Fave 5 voters made you their #1 — a small but devoted fanbase
- Full Package audio + art + lyrics + both writeups
- Storyteller 1,174 characters across both writeups
- Climber +6 positions from Round 3
TOTAL REACH — 34 plays rank 8 / 21
- VPC SITE 34
TOTAL LIKES — 12 rank 5 / 21
- VPC SITE 12
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Vocalist's challenge writeup
This is a dance song about a Book Club where reading a page is like taking a shot of liquor. Double entendres: Pull up to the front and go undercover is referring to entering a club or opening a book. Cracking spines like sexy dancing or opening a book. Sparking highlighters and doing lines. Referring to doing drugs or making notations in a book. Sharing titled labels of either alcohol bottles or books. Critically analyzing bodies of people or written works. Readers digest either food, drink or writing. Bindings intense like human dress or a book cover.
Producer's challenge writeup
This song is just under three minutes of everything ear-candy you could hope for, crammed into a frenetic club banger. It has, of course, the requisite two drops, with the second one switching things up as required. It also has short beat dropouts to let the vocals land for certain lines, risers and tension-building elements, call-and-response basslines (and many variations of those), false drop, DJ-friendly intro and outro, vocal chops leading into the verses plus one used as a melodic element in the drop...and much more. Try it. One spin won't be enough -- this one's gonna make you come back for more.
Lyrics
(We reading pages. Pages) Verse 1: Let's pull up to the front We're going undercover In 30 days book clubbing Like star crossed lovers Get naughty cracking spines Cause the cadence is divine Spark the highlighters, baby On the tables doing lines Sharing tilted labels Gather on the moon phases A seance of corpora Invoke imaginations Fantastical worlds Graphic literatures Analyzing bodies On critical terms Chorus: Show me the story that you wanna read That you wanna read Won't you come with me Show me the story that you wanna read That you wanna read Drop: We reading pages We reading pages Contextual debating Reading pages and pages We reading Pages and pages The club is conversating Reading pages and pages We reading Contextual debating reading Pages and pages Verse 2: Set a timer 10 minutes To indulge in gossip Then we scroll on quick Cause we got plots thick Next meeting: pot luck Text readers digest We leaving awe struck At an author's finest Groove to paragraphs Use our larynx kinky for thinking Of bindings intense Participating members Capitulate the letters Bonding over questions Dónde biblioteca? Chorus: Show me the story that you wanna read That you wanna read Won't you come with me Show me the story that you wanna read That you wanna read Show me the story that you wanna read That you wanna read Won't you come with me Show me the story that you wanna read That you wanna read Drop: We reading pages/pages/pages/pages.... We reading pages We reading... Contextual debating Reading pages and pages We reading... Pages and pages The club is conversating Reading... Pages Pages and pages Contextual debating Reading pages and pages (The club is conversating Reading pages and pages)
JUDGES' BREAKDOWN
LEX the Lexicon Artist
9.33/10 score rank #7 of 21VOCALS 9PRODUCTION 10CHALLENGE 9Oh Flexstyle, you finally made something to justify your claim of being one of the best producers in the competition. ;) It could be that this is just closer to the type of music I like, but you're really flexing your chops here. See what I did there? I really like the synthetic textures of this beat. Like those metallic synth stabs. It's an interestig choice because books are some of the most organic objects in existence. Really fun uplifting chorus. Michael is doing almost as good a job here with the book/party/drugs bars, as Imp with the TCG/drugs bars. You did both achieve the challenge of creating a club banger with live elements; the only reason I took a point off the challenge is that I feel like the genre chosen to celebrate the book club is slightly incongruous to the nature of a book club. No I'm not expecting a quiet library bop, but this is quite high energy and it's hard to imagine bookworms turning up this much. Still, as a standalone club track, it's great.
Mark Cooper
10.00/10 score rank #1 of 21VOCALS 10PRODUCTION 10CHALLENGE 10This is most definitely what I call understanding the assignments. Clean vocals, production is punchy and spacious, and great transitions. No Notes here. awesome!
Richie Branson
9.67/10 score rank #3 of 21VOCALS 10PRODUCTION 9CHALLENGE 10Vocals are CRISPY. This teams vocal mixing/EQ continues to be stellar. Maybe the sung melody in the refrain could be a bit more pronounced. Beat ain’t nothing to sneeze at either. Very well done on the audio. Vocalists energy complements the beat well. Hook is catchy. I could write pages on pages about how well executed this is.
Klopfenpop
9.33/10 score rank #5 of 21VOCALS 8PRODUCTION 10CHALLENGE 10Book club! Great concept, and I like where you took it. This feels super clubby. The hook is super catchy but a bit muffled. The transitions and break all feel great. Love the speedups and slowdowns. This is just a solid Bass Music track all around.
Ben Tarkus
9.00/10 score rank #3 of 21VOCALS 9PRODUCTION 9CHALLENGE 9Booktok's new theme? More likely than you think! This might be my personal favorite for R4. I have a little bias, my partner is a big reader and collector of books, and we both listened to this one again and again. No notes, pass me a tome; let's crack one and vibe.
Audience score and rank
AUDIENCE SCORE
Aggregated from 82 ballots cast by the public.
AUDIENCE RANK
Out of 21 teams competing this round.
- 47 voters ranked them in their top 10
- 33 voters had them in their top 5
- 5 voters picked them as their #1 favorite
FINAL BLEND
The final score was a 8.50. The song received an average voter score of 5.62 from the community, and an average judge score of 9.47.
The display score blends the audience and judges' contributions at 25%/75%. Here's how Idealistic Mystics's 8.50 broke down:
(5.62 × 25%) + (9.47 × 75%) = 8.50
YOUR SEASON SO FAR
- Round 1 6.88 / 10 rank #11
- Round 2 7.94 / 10 rank #7
- Round 3 7.72 / 10 rank #8
- Round 4 8.50 / 10 rank #2 PERSONAL BEST
- Round 5 8.47 / 10 rank #5