We’re 11.5 months into the year and we’ve reviewed a few hundred songs. About 750, but who’s bragging? But because we don’t always have our ear to the ground or to the radio at the right point (or because we put our hands over our ears and try to pretend something isn’t happening), sometimes a piece of the zeitgeist passes us by.
So, for the next two weeks, we will be making amends. Some of these songs are choices by individual writers. Some of them are ones we just thought we missed and are a tiny bit embarrassed about. And others will be chosen by you, the reader. And there’ll be a prize for the best entrant!
HOW IT WORKS:
You send an email to amnesty2012@thesinglesjukebox.com which contains a 2012 single you think we should have covered, and a sentence that explains why you think we should have covered it. The best five entries will be covered in the second week. Then, an entry will be picked as the winner as based on a random criterion that will be picked out of a hat. Yes, an actual hat.
Inside this hat there will be some obvious categories like “highest score” or “most controversial” or “most ridiculous Lil Wayne guest verse” but it will be random, so you can’t just go picking some critical darling, some punching bag, or some song with Lil Wayne on it and expect to definitely win! It is in the hands of the gods, or more accurately, the hat of our editor.
Good luck, readers! Entries close after the first entry goes up on Monday 17 December.
And we have a winner! What came out of the hat was “Lowest average score”, which was Tuuli. Well done Joshua! A six month Spotify subscription is on its way to you!