Amen Brian. OurStage has recently given notice about their intentions to eliminate certain genres.
One of those genres, Comedy, is one in which I've participated and done some in-depth
study and analysis. In recent months I've been dedicating my available time for things
like judging songs in the JPF contest in a variety of genres. However, this month I took
some time to revisit OurStage as I still compete - although I haven't voted for several months.
Since I was ahead of schedule on the last genre I have yet to complete for JPF, I took the
opportunity to vote on OurStage for the last week before the quarterfinals, when I could.
Before I started voting, I was holding steady at about 10. I started on voting this week and
slipped - but held steady in the top 20. The song I had entered - Big Busted Women Flat
Busted Broke - is my most favorited and listened to song that I have posted on OurStage.
Yet I've never reached the quarterfinals. I've reached the quarterfinals with other songs - albeit
with smaller numbers of competitors. I voted enough to have heard all of the competition and
honestly feel that only about 15 songs out of the 150 or so entered are worthy of my ears.
With such an absence of quality, it's no wonder that neutral fans don't participate in the judging.
Why listen to crap in this genre when so many other genres on OurStage have much more
worthy material? As I mentioned in an earlier post, the PC Posses did come out and the negative
voting started. On 02/19 late afternoon, my song was 22. On 02/20, 12 hrs. later, it had dropped
to 122. Can I reach the absolute bottom? I hope so - as this would show what a farce this
genre has become and why OurStage has good reasons to eliminate this genre. I would still
compete - as I do in other genres - knowing full well that my novelty songs have no chance
of ever winning. But as I and others here have said, it's not about winning at OurStage, it's
about getting exposure. And frankly, I think I get more exposure for my songs entered in
the other genres than I do in comedy because much fewer fans participate in judging due
to the lack of quality.

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