Board Thread:Season 37 - Archetypes/@comment-27506297-20161212172939/@comment-24114312-20161213210352

4. This was hard! But I made sure all of them were post-2014 which was the hard part lmao.

Charley: Bang My Head — David Guetta & Sia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqjVwAg5fK4. This shows Charley going to pre-merge literally every vote almost, and how frustrating it must be. But she survived the whole of pre-merge, just like how Sia says in this song that she won’t fall.

Emile: Yellow Flicker Beat — Lorde: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PdILZ_1P74. I feel like this shows Emile’s persona more than game because I found it really hard to read him, so that references ‘now people talk to me, but nothing ever hits home’, and also Emile was a HUGE threat in Sichuan which he managed to prevent from happening this time. The lyric that shows that is ‘they used to shout my name, now they whisper it’.

Sora: Rise — Katy Perry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdw1uKiTI5c. This goes back a LONG way but I believe this is Sora because he had to use an idol to save himself really on, yet grew into a huge strategic player who could’ve made the end had the game changed at all.

Ash: Lush Life — Zara Larsson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD4HCZe-tew. Me and Ash don’t get on but she definitely was a free spirit this game who aligned with who she wanted when she wanted. She moved from group to group and cut people when she needed to, like Matt, so I feel like this song represents her.

Hunter: The Ham Song — Sharkbait64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ev6Vg6Qe5E. I found this and it was from 2015 and… I had to put it in. As for Hunter’s actual song, it’s Love Runs Out — OneRepublic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWj0CiM8WU. The reason is because Hunter joined this game as a joker and a really chill guy but because of how stressful this game was, he kinda lost that towards the end. Not that he wasn’t nice or anything, he just wasn’t the open joker that he was at the start.

Chris: Get On Your Knees — Nicki Minaj: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QarmxDjaXE4. This fits Chris because he legit had people BOWING to him for loads of this game. He legit played the social part of this game so good and was working with almost everyone in the merge at some point, and had people on their knees for him.

Alexa: Black Magic — Little Mix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkElfR_NPBI. You were able to use your social game or ‘secret potion’ to get people to on your side and manipulate them how you wished, and so I feel like this song describes that perfectly, especially the chorus.

Claire: True Colors — Zedd & Kesha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weEV0Jf0Urk. I feel like this is Claire because towards the end, everyone saw her true colours and how much of a huge social threat she was. She also played her own game, referencing the lyric which says ‘it ain’t your rainbow’.

Jamie: Bad Blood — Taylor Swift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo. I just think this is me because I had so many rivalries and arguments this season, with you, with Ash. I had and still have a lot of bad blood with a lot of people from the jury and even some pre-merge people, and I think this fits that.

Jared: Dancing On My Own — Calum Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q31tGyBJhRY. This is 100% Jared because Jared was alone (apart from me) for a lot of the game and obviously even the title refers to that. Moreover, this is a cover of Robyn’s original, and this very is MUCH more slow and calm and lowkey, all of which Jared’s gameplay was, so this suits Jared. Also I love this song (I think it’s only released in the UK though so I’m not sure if many of you ~Americans will have heard it?) and I love Jared!

Brett: Black Widow — Iggy Azalea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3u22OYqFGo. Brett definitely played this game very cutthroat and this song shows that. However I would also like to address something! Brett is saying that he knew he had to use his pass in Final 8 because he learned I had it, but he already knew I had it BEFORE Sora was eliminated. He put himself into a position where he was FORCED to use it, and he definitely didn’t learn about it after Sora left, and now in his speeches he’s changing the narrative to make him look better. But ultimately it’s a lie, so him saying that he planned on going to rocks is just incorrect and a façade. I think that’s the most damning piece of evidence to prove it was an impulsive move and really not very thought through. But yeah, he did know beforehand that I had the vote steal, so that whole ‘biggest loss’ section is jam-packed with lies and inaccuracies lmao.

As for me never playing individually which he addressed in his comment, I played for pretty much all of the pre-merge without any pre-existing relationships and at the merge, my pre-existing relationships helped me but me and Chris never had majority as just the two of us and I had to work hard to make sure that we kept majority. My social game may have alienated people and made that hard and Chris certainly played a bigger role than I did, but I did work hard on people that I was attempting to keep close for majority. For example with Claire, I put in a lot of effort cultivating that relationship to the point where I would genuinely consider her a friend now. I also wasn’t afraid to cut these pre-existing relationships, but I strategically cut them at the best possible point, which Brett simply failed to do in any of his moves.