
Episode 6 and many a songwriter has hit the road. Now is when things get real. One miss and that could be it. Eek! Let’s see what happens this week!
The songwriters are woken by some morning Jewel mail, but it’s Kara that meets the gang at the promenade. She’s kinda scary, right? Today it’s her, not Jewel, telling them what’s up.
This week’s hook challenge is all about RISK! No, not the game, but putting yourself on the line – and how better to explore risk then to make the songwriters busk! Instead of the judges picking the hook winners, the three songwriters with the most money busked win! It’s up to the random passers by!
Nick and Jackie have experience busking so they get right to work, while Sonyae is scared, as she doesn’t have any instrument other than her voice. Good thing you got immunity girl!
Jackie’s experience seems to pay off as right of the bat she draws quite the crowd with her hook “Say It Back”. Maybe it’s her hat. Why are you wearing a hat in that warm weather Jackie?
Nick’s experience on the other hand? Not really paying off. He doesn’t get any money and starts to yell sing. Ack.
Jes, Scotty, Brian, and Sonyae just seem to be doing okay, while Johnny gets everyone clapping along to his hook “Betting My Life”. Oh Johnny, is it any surprise that the crowd caved to your adorableness?
Kara counts the money and Jes ends up grabbing third! We’re surprised too Jes!
In second it’s no surprise Johnny, and first is Jackie with her experience and great concept! The winners choose their teams with Nick not getting picked last for once! Sneaky Jes didn’t want Miss. Immunity on her team. Fair enough. Smart move! Plus Nick seems happy to be liked for once. Awe!
The twist of the week? The songs must be written in different styles! We have…
Team Reggae: Johnny and Brian
Team Pop: Jes and Nick
and Team Country: Jackie, Scotty, and Sonyae
Uh… Country? Really? When you have Scotty and Sonyae? Not to mention one of your judges is JEWEL!? Uh oh. Well. Good luck?
Songwriting time!
Brian and Johnny bro out, reggae it up mon, and talk lots about feelings. Brian wants to know all the juicy gossip of the song and discuss it, while Johnny just wants to get going. Then Brian talks about an old man with dice? And wants to make it the bridge of the song? Johnny’s like “UHHHHHHH….” But then he’s like “OKAY! SURE!”
Team Country has some conflict which is a tad surprising. We all know that Jackie can be hard to work with but didn’t Scotty write his love hook last week about waiting to hear “I love you” said back? Which is basically what Jackie’s song is about. So they should be on the same songwriting page…but not so much. Scotty is scared of this all becoming a “cluster – you know what” but is also quite confident in the choice of country. Hm. We’ll see.
And Team Pop? They’re just getting along swimmingly! Nick is bringing out the pop in Jes and they both connect with the theme of saving yourself. Or as Nick puts it “Jess is very talented when she’s working with Nick!” Some things never change.
Songwriting done! Performance day! Everyone gets ready in his or her own way!
Johnny sings…

While Sonyae preps her assets…

Who’s ready for some judging?! This week’s guest judge has written Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” and “California Girls” – it’s Bonnie McKee!

Team Pop is up first! Pressure is on with a pop superstar songwriter in the room! “Save Yourself” is good, but not as poppin’ as it could be. Still, it’s nice to see Jes come out of her shell! Work it girl.
Team Reggae now! “Betting Your Life” is jammin mon! Still not sure about the whole old man dice… but still jamming!
Last is Team Country! Jackie pulls out the twang (perhaps too much twang) for “Say It Back”. Nick yawns and admits that he’ll “never say it back!” Yikes!
The judges discuss and it’s Team Reggae for the win! How many wins is that for Johnny now? Like… so many! The judges dug the old man metaphor and felt like they were on an island!
Team Pop comes in second as the lyrics weren’t pop simple enough and lacked hooky hooks. Nick also gets called out for being all talk but no results yet.
This means of course that Team Country is in the bottom. I told you so Scotty! Bah! Jewel is your judge! You should know better! Play to your strengths yo! Because Sonyae has immunity (lucky her) it’s Jackie vs Scotty and THINGS ARE INTENSSSEEEE! Jackie is saying she wrote stuff that Scotty is saying he wrote! Yells! Loud voices! Ah!
The judges talk some more and decide that Jackie’s time has come. But the judges believe in her! So we leave on a happy note! Awe. I’ll miss your sass Jackie. Who will talk non-stop now and stir up drama? Bye Jackie! Good luck!
Next week: The songwriters must-DAYYYUUM NO! JEWEL IS BACK ALREADY AND SONGWRITING STARTS AGAIN NOW!
Posted: July 10th, 2011 | Category: Platinum Hit, Uncategorized | Comments: 1 Comment
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It’s week five and there’s eight songwriters left. This week starts off with some Tyra – I mean Jewel mail!
The gang head over to a pretty ‘lil park and are greeted by Jewel and this week’s guest judge Ryan Tedder.

Let’s hope this week no one will need to apologize! Because it’s tooooo laaaaaateeee! Get it? Cus Ryan Tedder wrote that! Too corny? Well deal with it! It’s love song week yo! Bring on the cheesy romance!
Everyone is getting real personal with this challenge! That’s love for yah! Johnny has “plenty of insper-aish”, what with Jes being his new boo.

Unfortunately for Johnny his hook is too “John Mayer-ish” according to Ryan Tedder. The winners of the hook challenge end up being Jes with her song about Johnny in 3rd, Nick’s song about his ex in 2nd, and Sonyae taking 1st with her concept of loving someone to life.
As the winner of this week’s hook challenge, Sonyae wins an extra special prize – she gets to pick ALL OF THE TEAMS! SO MUCH POWER! MUAHAHAHA!

So what does Sonyae create?

The Dream Team: Sonyae, Brian and Scotty

Team Nick’s Nightmare: Nick, Johnny and Jackie
and

The Team of Two: Jes and Melissa
Songwriting tiiiimmeeee!
Team Nightmare writes a back a forth duet with multiple characters. It’s kinda complicated but also kinda neat! While Nick might not love working with Jackie, he tries to be on his best behavior for the sake of the song.

The Dream Team on the other hand, collaborate together naturally and right from the start lay down some great tracks! Sonyae is loving her melody master Scotty and her guitar guru Brian.

As for the Team of Two? Jes does all of the writing. Jes gets sick. And Melissa doesn’t seem to really do anything…

TWIST TIME! As always Jewel has got another surprise! The winning team gets immunity! AHHHH! Pressure is on.

Judging day! Jes feels better! Johnny’s excited! Scotty and Brian want Sonyae to wear red? Sonyae doesn’t. So yeah. Time to be judged!
First up is the Dream Team with “Love Me To Life” which is quite the jam!

Next is Team Nightmare with “Stuck In Your Head” which has two guitars and the signature Nick rock growl.

Last is the Team of Two with “It’s You” which is cute! Very cute!

The judges discuss and for once the waiting room is filled with laughs rather than yells! The gang debate whose the craziest! Giggles! Yay!

The smiles can only last so long though – back to judging! Back to drama! Team Nightmare and Dream Team take the top two spots. The judges are torn about “Stuck In My Head” and end up picking “Love Me To Life” as the winner. And the winner of winners is Sonyae! Who can deny it?! This was her week!

On the flipside “It’s You” is the losing song, which means it’s between Melissa and Jes for who gets kicked off. Eek! Things are intense! Jes’s lyrics were weak and being sick is no excuse. That being said, Melissa didn’t really do… anything? Both girls try to defend themselves but it’s Melissa who sasses back at Kara! Not a good idea Melissa! The judges discuss more and Jes sums up the judging…

Yep. What Jes said.
Between the person who wrote it all (but not so good) and the person who wrote nothing – Melissa gets kicked off! Fair enough. We’ll miss your cute craziness Melissa, but next time write some lyrics girl!

Next week: Busking! Taking it to da streets! Can’t wait!
Posted: July 3rd, 2011 | Category: Platinum Hit, Uncategorized | Comments: No Comments
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