likeable song and the chorus uses the extra vocals well and has a decent hook. The hoarding concept is pretty fun, although the concept feels a little stretched over the full song, some more specific / fun details might have helped.

We had dabbled with the idea of setting an "Emotional Honesty" challenge, which obviously hasn't been followed through, but the idea behind it was to avoid this kind of garbage lyric. You avoid every possible opportunity to write something which might make any kind of emotional connection in order to write something tongue-in-cheek, and while I feel I've been lenient up to now I hope it comes back to bite you in the arse this time. It's no coincidence that the subject matter and song quality are comparable. While other bands are raising their game each round you guys are flatlining.

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Love the skit intro, complete with foley. Nice interpretation of the title, a song about hoarding. Not one but two guest harmony vocalists! Woo hoo! I'm not a stickler for grammar, but the contrast between "how it be" and the proper grammar in the rest of the song is kind of awkward. Feels stuck in there for the rhyme. Vocals feel like they could use some air, a little brightness. Also, can we talk about the rad bassline in here? It's buried in the mix and could use a little love. The scansion on "MArie KonDO" almost made me spit out my drink.

I’m into the premise. That verse melody line reminds me of something that I can’t put my finger on, maybe it’s like Bizarre Love Triangle or something Depeche Mode, anyway, it’s good hooky melody. Here again, my feeling is that you hit the chorus and you stay at the same level, the backing vocals should be louder and have more support, and it could really blow minds—like the part is good, but the mix/arrangement could use some finessing. Again, the bridge, it’s at the same level of feel, wanted to feel a shift here. It’s a good tune though, I thought it was a good direction and has a lot of stuff you could tease out of it—

Brilliant take on the title! I love the lyrics. The melody is good. My main issue is the production. The vocals are so forward in the mix, that it feels like karaoke. It doesn’t give the illusion of a band playing in a room ( that’s always a goal for me). This is enjoyable!

Great concept but could have used a little more time in the oven.
Strength: witty (love the Marie Condo reference)
Weakness: clunky delivery (dislike the Marie Condo delivery), missing strong melodic backbone

I like the concept of this song--there are a million love songs out there and not so many about hoarding/OCD. I think the execution of your solid concept could have been better, though. The spoken word intro gives this solid novelty song vibes, which I guess might be what you're going for, but the lyrics also hint at earnestness, so I don't quite know how to interpret this. The song plods a bit musically; I would have liked a bit more in terms of dynamic and arrangement shifts between sections. I also think the lyrics could be tightened up. I winced a bit at the phrase "That's not how it be," which clearly sounded unnatural for you and only jammed in there for the rhyme scheme. Some issues with prosody as well--the equal stresses on "newspapers" sound a bit awkward to me, "AC-cuse," "kon-DO". The way you've used the guest vocals is good, but something sounds a bit strange to me in the execution, audible autotune, I'm guessing, and I'm not sure if it was intentional. I think some of your melodies are quite strong, like I really like what you do on "plan for my life," but I don't think the current arrangement does the best job supporting your idea overall.

This has a bit of a band-in-a-box loop feel to it, imo. The line that ends with "...opportunity" isn't good enough to necessitate the forced clunker that precedes it. That bit definitely needs a rewrite. The mix doesn't have the rising and falling tensions needed to keep the listener engaged and the music feels like it stays at the same level throughout. It would work better if some of the elements dropped out occasionally to keep things fresh. Not a fan of the jokey spoken intro and the pitch is all over the place on some of the vocals (both lead and harmonies). This is a solid take on the title but I feel like it needs a lot more work.