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Jim.. it appears you are unfamiliar with the very popular genre called SCREAMO... and I am not joking.. it's a legit genre with a very large number of fans. It's quite similar to Death Metal, though Screamo can have less metal music production whereas Death Metal is basically really hard metal with screamo vocals. The fact that you don't consider it music is no more or less legit than someone saying what you do isn't legit. It's all opinion. But in the case of someone screaming in a gutarral way where you can't make out a word, that's a 100% legit artform with a legion of fans. In fact, we may make it it's own genre in our awards. It doesn't mean I like it or would choose to listen to it, but I can also clearly make out when it's done well and when it's not done well. As for the woman with the birthday giggle.. I hear stuff like that all the time. In fact, I bet at least 20% of what we get (of the 500,000+ songs this year) is at least as bad as anything you've ever heard on Ourstage. (Some of it is likely the same people). Those folks are serious.. they have CD's out and they are selling them.. and I'll bet some, even the very worst you can find, have sold some CD's.

Each year in the awards, we have a secret category that only a handful of judges get to access. It's called "Exceptional." That's where we put the stuff that is the very worst of the worst we come across. It's stuff that is so heinously bad, it's actually got merit in that when we play it for folks it entertains them in a novelty sort of way. I can assure you that most if not all of those folks are dead serious about being musicians and think they're doing good work and at least a few people in their lives have agreed with them. Your complete joke and waste of time is someone elses favorite CD.

Brian