Riverdale Song Brawl

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Riverdale Song Brawl

A very serious scientific tournament to determine the best Riverdale Cast song.

Season 1 - Pending

Season 2 - Round 2 (September 26th)

Carrie - Round 2 (September 29th)

Season 3 - Round 1 (September 16rd 17th)

Heathers - Round 1 (September 20th)

Hedwig - Round 1 (September 23rd 24th)

Season 5 - Round 1 (September 27th)

Next to Normal - Round 1 (September 30th)

Josie and the Pussycats - (October 4th)

Season 6 - Round 1 (October 7th)

American Psycho - Round 1 (October 11th)

Archie the Musical - Round 1 (October 14th)

Leftovers - Round 1 (October 18th)

The first round will always put two to three songs up against one another, either by episode or by their order in the cast album.

The second round is a knock-out round to determine the season winners.

Round three will be a musical episode knock-out round & an episode knock-out round with round for being the final tournament between the two winners of those rounds.

If u disagree with how this tournament is run you’re welcome to make your own!

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work is crazy busy atm so unfortunately there's gonna be a lag on the polls. gonna do my best to get at least one round 1 out this week!

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Season 5 - Round 1

Favourite Montage Number

Walking in Space

Everything's Alright

Voting ended onOct 5, 2023

Betty and Tabitha take some shrooms, Cheryl decides to embrace her mother's new religion, and of course this is all set to Hair's Walking in Space. As the number speeds up, Archie, Frank, Fangs and Kevin descend from the ceiling batman style to save Hiram and Veronica's blue opal from Ted and his croons. Oh, also Jason appears.

Everything's Alright is yet another great montage song. Kevin and Cheryl lead the service at the Blossom church (now co-opted by gay people, to Penelope's dismay), Kevin shows some maturity and #growth, Veggie cooperate on business schemes straight out of Wallstreet (1987), and Archie is suffering war flashbacks. A fitting montage for Riverdale's only Jesus Christ Superstar cover.

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Season 5 - Round 1

Favourite Song

Stupid Love

Nothin' But a Good Time

Voting ended onOct 5, 2023

I mean, why shouldn't Cheryl perform Stupid Love at the football game between the bulldogs and the Stonewall Stallions that her ex who she desperately wants to get back is also at

Tabitha, Betty, Cheryl and Veronica attempt to entrap the lonely highway killer by putting on a coyote ugly-inspired performance of Nothin' But A Good Time.

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Season 5 - Round 1

Favourite post-time jump couple's duet*

After Dark

Shallows

Voting ended onOct 5, 2023

They had to establish the White Wyrm as a place of music right after the timejump and what better way to do it than by having (future spouses) Toni and Fangs sing After Dark?

Constantly thinking about the fact that Veronica was fully prepared to perform Shallows as a solo number at teacher's karaoke before her shitty husband Chad surprisingly joined in. It is one of their only cute moments.

*I know Tangs weren't dating yet

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Season 5 - Round 1

Favourite pre-time jump song

Carry the Torch

Good Riddance

Voting ended onOct 5, 2023

Another cringe entry with Veronica's performance of Carry the Torch. This Archie Andrews original was written for Betty while Archie and Veronica were dating. She does not know this. Yikes. Will the second-hand mortification lead to the song's victory? We'll see!

Archie sings Greendale's Good Riddance as his friends graduate. One of Riverdale's most emotionally touching episodes, truly the end of an era. As Archie sings: "It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right / I hope you had the time of your life"

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Season 2 - Round 2

Favourite Song

Milkshake

Mad World

Union of the Snake

Voting ended onOct 3, 2023

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Season 2 - Round 2

Tie breaker!

Spooky

Bittersweet Symphony

Voting ended onOct 3, 2023

2x07: Josie has a nightmare where she is performing Spooky when the Black Hood cuts her throat

2x12: Veronica and Josie sing a duet of Bittersweet Symphony at Veronica's confirmation

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Season 1 - Results

All Through the Night

Candy Girl (Sugar Sugar)

I Feel Love

Kids in America

These Are the Moments I Remember

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Season 3 - Results

Jailhouse Rock

Anything Goes

Another Hundred People

Dream Warriors

Cabaret

Maybe This Time

Eres Tú

Sooner Or Later

People Like Us

We Don't Need Another Hero

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

Call Your Girlfriend

Back to Black

Daddy Lessons

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Carrie - Results

In 57.9%

Carrie

Do Me A Favor 75%

Unsuspecting Hearts 64.7%

The World According To Chris 68.2%

The World According To Chris (Reprise)

You Shine (Beronica) 63.3%

You Shine (Choni)

Stay Here Instead

A Night We'll Never Forget

Evening Prayers

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Result time! Gonna go through Carrie, season 3 and season 1 round 2 today. Also, s2 round 2 starting basically straight afterwards

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Hedwig Round 1

Favourite Core Four Number

Exquisite Corpse

The Origin of Love

Voting ended onOct 1, 2023

Shouting! Screaming! Everyone is ANGRY at each other! A COLLAGE! It barely makes sense in the episode's context, nonetheless, Exquisite Corpse is fun.

Everyone (of the core four) is heartbroken and in love with each other. In that way, The Origin of Love a summary of all of Riverdale. Cole Sprouse really slayed that one part, you know which one I mean.

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Hedwig Round 1

Favourite "Friendship is Magic" Number

Wig in a Box

Midnight Radio

Voting ended onOct 1, 2023

The girls cheer Kevin up with a make over set to Wig in a Box. Sweet and heartwarming number.

The performance of Midnight Radio is interrupted by the first faux snuff film, this one shows Betty killing Jughead with a rock. And then Archie jumps in the air like nothing happened.

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Hedwig Round 1

Favourite Song

Random Number Generation

Tear Me Down

Sugar Daddy

Voting ended onOct 1, 2023

In a way, all of these are are performed to convince Mr Honey that Hedwig is a good choice for the school variety show (he is not convinced.)

Through Random Number Generation, Kevin tries to show Mr Honey that kids these days relate to Hedwig. How the principal was not swayed by the impassionate dancing is anyone's guess.

Queer teens of Riverdale unite, it's time for Tear Me Down! Mr Honey won't let him perform at the variety show? Well you cannot tear Kevin down, he's like the Berlin wall in that way. We've got Toni on drums & Fangs and Sweat Pea are also part of the band. Kevin kisses Archie who is absolutely overjoyed. That moment was important enough to be included in the 50s happiest memories montage. I could keep going about this song but I'll cut it off here.

Cheryl and the Vixens perform Sugar Daddy, once again to show Mr Honey that Hedwig is a perfectly appropriate musical for a school variety show. Don't know whether I would have chosen the "I love capitalism" song but what do I know. The dancing is great and choni have some sweet moments. Unfortunately, they cut the scene of Mr Honey clarifying that he's not banning Hedwig out of homophobia, seeing as he himself is gay. The energy translates though.

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Hedwig - Round 1

Favourite Wicked Little Town

Wicked Little Town

Wicked Little Town (Barchie Edition)

Voting ended onOct 1, 2023

Wicked Little Town opens the Hedwig musical episode with a much more sombre tone than Carrie or Heathers. The group number includes some actors who do not sing before or after. Does it deserve to win for that?

Archie and Betty share a telepathic fantasy dance sequence across the windows to Wicked Little Town (Reprise). It's cute.

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Somehow thought s4 had a season cast album but I guess there's only Hedwig! Don't know if I'll manage to do the polls today but it's not like anyone cares so whatever fhdhfhdb