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good energy, killer solo, but I'm not crazy about the production (particularly on the vocals which feel kinda... phasey?) and the lyrics really bugged me, partially because you're doing that "let's make it fit both titles!" thing and it ends up as a weak take on both.

I presume you'll be submitting this to the Bunny Hop fight too then. When I was thinking of this challenge I kept thinking about Shiny Happy People. This is not that, but fair play for including some suitably Peter-Buckian jangles. You get some points at least for that. As far as the challenge goes the best I can say is that this isn't downbeat, and if the challenge inspired you to increase the tempo by a few bpms then I would say take this as a soft challenge from me every time if you want to score Petey points.

This has some clever phrases, but feels like the lyrics are just filling a void. Awesome guitar solo at the end. Execution: B-, concept: C-, hooks: C

This kinda reminds me of forgotten 90s indie-punk band Symposium. The chorus is pleasingly catchy but, other than a couple of fleeting mentions, this doesn't seem to have a great deal to do with the title. It has got a killer guitar solo though. Some pretty obvious rhymes in this one but nothing too egregious and it's got an enjoyably upbeat feel throughout.

The guitar intro here makes a nice transition from the Alleviators track, I like it! My biggest issue with this song is the "bunny hop" sections that feel totally out of place and obviously just shoehorned in there in order to do a dual entry with the main songfight--I don't mind abrupt changes necessarily but this felt very forced to me. I do really like the verse and pre-chorus melody and chord progression, particularly that high note in the 3rd line of the verse, but they don't feel particularly upbeat/happy to me. I didn't care for the phaser effect on the "bunny hop" vocals--made them seem extra out of place--and there are some painfully audible tuning artifacts on the lead vocal as well that I found hard to listen to. Lyrically, some of the obviously nonsensical/first-draft lyrics were fine with me but the phrase "13th of Friday" annoyed me every time it came up, what does this mean?? I saw this meme recently about the sentence "More people have been to Paris than I have" that seems like it makes sense at first glance but really doesn't and this phrase made me think of that.