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Harriet,

That's exactly the reason I don't like to post results. Why make someone feel bad. I have never understood the point of a bad music review. To me, if you have the space in print/tv/radio etc.. to talk about an album or song, why not use it to let us know about something amazing. Why use the time we could have to learn about something really cool we would WANT to buy by telling us how much something sucks. It's never made any sense except that sadly, people love to see other people shot down.. it makes them feel superior. ACK!

I understand the curiousity of knowing where your song finished. But this format just isn't conduscive to a helpful learning experience. If you get 0 votes.. how does knowing that help? How about 10 votes. How about 20? How about 3? What does it actually mean? All it really means is that your lyric didn't rise to the very top of the group of great lyrics, but it could still be a great lyric. There's no quantifiable way to know more than that.

For example. Lets say 10 songs were entered and 3 were nominated. Lets say your song finished 8th. Would knowing you finished 8th tell you anything? No. Because you don't really know how good the competition was. If 9 of the 10 songs were grammy winning multi platinum zillion selling songs, you might feel good about beating 2 of them. If only 4 of the songs were any good and 6 were terrible.. it would be a different story. Even with having access to the lyrics, unless we ranked them, you wouldn't know what beat you, or why. Maybe it was the topic. Maybe it was the length. Maybe it was how you typed it on the page. Maybe it was that you were from TEXAS. Who knows. In the end, all we know is that a certain number of lyrics will appeal to a mass of people. And those will get nominated. Those that don't can ask why, improve them, ignore the results, or simply celebrate that some great lyrics got exposure when otherwise they would not have and hope that next time around, it will be you. And so you'll cheer those nominees on just like you hope they'll cheer you on the next time.

Time for me to drive to Arlington, VA for the show. I'll check in late tonight or tommorow morning before the DC show.

Brian