love the chiptuney intro, and the way the synths keep popping up in the background after the song kicks in, like playing Mario 64 at a punk rock show. The energy is excellent, and the repetition fits the genre really well without breaking too far from the challenge. I wondered if anyone would take on THAT The Sun, kudos for sticking it up 'em.

The plinky synths are nice at the start and the pace of the track is nice and rawkus. The choppy guitars really break it up and it drives you throughout the song. Interesting use of the prompt, the Sun is crap but I can think of other newspapers that should probably get the chop first.

Challenge was used well. And you used repetition very well in the song.
I like the rhythm and the bass line. It's catchy. Maybe too catchy. I ranked your songs all over the place. Ultimately, it ended up low on the list mainly because it started to suffer a bit on repeated listens, especially compared to some of the other songs. The bite in the butt is that on a single listen I like this song a lot. This is literally the example I gave a coworker of a song that by itself I like a lot but ended up lower on the rankings that I expected on first listen through.

Your rankings say it all, I think. The odd numbered judges gave you 2 points, 3 points, and 2 points. The even-numbered judges gave you 7 points and a best-in-show 11 points. Guess which three judges are American? [beleaguered sigh] So look, I felt bad about this ranking too. I know what The Sun is, I know why it sucks, and I get why you'd be frustrated with it. But as an American, this isn't part of the daily fabric of my life, and I didn't emotionally connect with your frustration. And I get that that's not fair - you got penalized, essentially, for venting a personal frustration and speaking your own emotional truth, which run contrary to what I want to reward, and you ended up getting cut basically due to the geographical distribution of the judges. I also wasn't terribly fond of that tritone in your opening line, but that's small potatoes. I guess that's just where we're at in this competition - even the really good songs are landing near the bottom of the heap!