First off, welcome to all the new users these past few days! Please take a look at our recent welcome thread with some guides and tips that will help you get settled in:
https://lemmy.ca/post/39167034
This is the nomination thread for which song(s) we will submit to Lemmyvision 2! Please comment your nominations in this thread for them to be considered. This post will be pinned to the instance briefly, but you can continue nominating songs until March 25th (2025). You will be able to find this post in !canada@lemmy.ca
Lemmyvision is inspired from Eureddision (itself a reenactment of the Eurovision song contest) which was held on r/europe some years ago, and based on the participation of national communities / instances and the delicate musical taste of their members (you!).
Every country/community is welcome to participate! The contest follows the rule of “national languages only” but regional languages are welcome too, if your community would like to feature a song in a regional language of your country, that’s awesome. The aim is to promote different languages and cultures from around the world, to share more between our online communities across Lemmy, and discover songs from lesser known artists.
Specific to Canada, here is what the organizer has said:
You’re invited to participate by sending a song in any official or regional language / dialect from Canada !
Given the multilingual aspect of your country, I’m open to multiple submissions (one for each language you’d like to represent, so Inuktitut, French Canadian, any First Nations languages are welcome) from lemmy.ca, just mention which language is linked to which submission 🤗
As such, please do the following:
Please nominate the songs by March 25th (2025).
I set a reminder to post a voting thread on March 25th. If I am late on that (like last year), please let one of the admins know and we will get on that. That should give us a week before the submission deadline to pick from our list of nomations.
If you have a helpful resource, such as a compilation of Canadian artists in the past year, let me know and I can edit it into this post:
What’s going on Canada?
Sorted alphabetically by city name.
Hockey
Football (NFL): incomplete
Football (CFL): incomplete
Baseball
Basketball
Soccer
Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.
Rules
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca
Mange la machine par Mange la machine - Français - sorti le 3 février 2025
✔️ confirmé pour la liste française
Le monde à l’envers par Autre Part - Français - sorti le 14 juin 2024
✔️ confirmé pour la liste française
I looked back at all the new songs I added to my favourites in Spotify during 2024, and found surprisingly few songs by Canadian artists. Only one, in fact. I don’t think this one song is particularly great material for a popularity contest, but I’ll throw it in anyhow:
Low Tide by Deer Fang (St. Catherines, ON), released in 11 October 2024 in English.
The first few months of 2025 have been way more fertile, so I have three more nominations in the posts to follow (would be four, but I’m assuming that something from Our Lady Peace’s newest album wouldn’t count).
✔️ confirmed for the english list
I checked with the organizer to confirm and yep, songs from 2025 are good too
Change Me by DYLYN (Vancouver, BC), released 31 January 2025 in English
✔️ confirmed for the english list
Deep End by Spiritbox (Victoria, BC), released 7 March 2025 in English
✔️ confirmed for the english list
Hallways by PUP (Toronto, ON), released 12 February 2025 in English
✔️ confirmed for the english list
Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) - Inuktitut - Sep 10 2024
Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Canadian Inuk musician
✔️ confirmed for the inuktitut list
Give in to you - English - Sep 13 2024
by
✔️ confirmed for the english list
Moi je t’aime - Français - Oct 24 2024
Dominique Fils-Aimé, artiste soul et jazz de Montréal
✔️ confirmé pour la liste française
Bare Minimum - English - February 23, 2024
Emma Alves, Rock & R&B artist from Vancouver, BC
✔️ confirmed for the english list
Imaan - English - Mar 05 2024
Mustafa, Canadian poet, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker from Toronto
✔️ confirmed for the english list
Husk - English - Sep 10 2024
by Men I Trust, an indie band from Quebec
✔️ confirmed for the english list
Raw - English - Feb 26 2025
Akintoye - Nigerian-born Canadian rapper based in Toronto, Ontario
✔️ confirmed for the english list
RVPTVRE - English - Mar 8 2024
by
✔️ confirmed for the english list
Billie du Page - Fake Friends (English) https://youtu.be/1vN7prrtDNg
There’s apparently a French version? I haven’t heard it but if its same lyrics then sure add both!
Edit: version en français https://youtu.be/7gjeVsxETCI
✔️ confirmed for the english list
✔️ confirmé pour la liste française