The Week contest: Festival fail
Last week's question: The luxury Fyre Festival was canceled last week after music lovers who had paid up to $50,000 for opulent accommodations and celebrity-chef meals in the Bahamas turned up to find a tent city on a trash-strewn beach. If a musician were to write a song about the disastrous festival, what should the track be titled?
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THE WINNER: "Sitting in Shock at the Bay"
Jonathan Sternberg, Eugene, Ore.
SECOND PLACE: "They Didn't Start the Fyre"
Jason Kuller, Bethesda, Md.
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THIRD PLACE: "You Do Have to Live like a Refugee"
Roger Dykeman, Stamford, Conn.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Fyre And Rain Check"
Tyler Stubbs, San Francisco
"Welcome to the Bungle"
Jesse Young, Denver
"Lucy in the Sand with Detritus"
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh
"Blight my Fyre"
Gaylie Bell-Stewart, Grass Valley, Calif.
"Gimme Better Shelter"
Jon Goranson, Ringgold, Ga.
"The Sands of Silence"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vt.
"Killing Me Softly (With No Songs)"
Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Ind.
"Bahamian Rap-shoddy"
Jason Winston, Riverside, Calif.
"Joke on the Water"
Mark Johnson, Mechanicsburg, Pa.
"Broke on the Water"
Alan Bayert, Wheaton, Ill.
"Imagine There's No Music"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
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