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The contest banner as it ran on Jamglue, from October 2008. Recovered from Jamglue's own static image bucket.
The Shontelle “T-Shirt” Remix Contest
“T-Shirt” was Shontelle's debut single and it was climbing when Jamglue and SRC Records opened its session up. Eight stems went online at 11:00 p.m. Pacific on October 13, 2008, alongside the Natasha Bedingfield contest that launched the same night. Shontelle picked the grand prize winner herself; five more prizes went to whoever the community voted up.
This page is rebuilt from a capture of the live contest page and a capture of the same URL after the results were posted.
About the Contest
“Jamglue is excited to bring you a remix contest featuring ‘T-Shirt’ by SRC Records recording artist Shontelle.” The four steps, quoted as they read on October 17, 2008:
Enter the contest by creating your own copy of the official contest mix. The easiest way to do this is to click the “Start Mixing Now!” button and then “SAVE A COPY” in the Mixer to create your own version of the song.
Remix the song by adding new sounds, rearranging the clips, etc. using the Jamglue Mixer. You can even add your own voice using the Jamglue Recorder in the Mixer. Be creative, and don't forget to publish your mix when you're done so that people can vote for it!
Promote your mix: embed it in your MySpace and email a link to all of your friends. The “Popular Vote” winning mixes are determined by how many people mark them as a Favorite, so break out your address book and encourage your friends to vote for yours!
Win great prizes!
How the judging worked. Two independent tracks, per the official rules: “The Grand Prize winning remix will be chosen by the artist, Shontelle, in her sole and absolute discretion. The five (5) first place Remixes will be determined by the number of unique Jamglue users who voted the Remix ‘A favorite’ on the Jamglue website.” Jamglue Inc. ran the contest from 7319 Baltimore Ave, Takoma Park, MD, with SRC Records and Universal as the label parties.
The Materials
“Here's what you have to work with.” The contest page listed the official contest mix plus eight separate tracks:
| T-shirt - Contest Mix | the starting point |
| Lead Vocals - T-Shirt | not recovered |
| BG Vocals - T-Shirt | not recovered |
| Ad Libs - T-Shirt | not recovered |
| Strings - T-Shirt | not recovered |
| Acoustic Guitar - T-Shirt | not recovered |
| Keys - T-Shirt | not recovered |
| Drums - T-Shirt | not recovered |
| Bass - T-Shirt | not recovered |
No crawler ever reached this audio: the stem files are in no Wayback capture and are not in the surviving S3 buckets. The names are what is left of the session.
Licensing. The rules authorized entrants to “download, reproduce, edit, distribute solely on the Jamglue website, publicly perform and create derivative works of the Contest Tracks,” and then took everything back: each entrant “irrevocably grant[ed], transfer[red], assign[ed] and convey[ed]” all right, title and interest in the finished remix to Universal and SRC, in perpetuity, throughout the universe.
The Prizes
“The Grand Prize winning remix will be chosen by Shontelle. The winner gets a video shoutout from Shontelle and an iPod Nano, and their remix will be featured on Shontelle's MySpace and SRCRecords.net. Five Popular Vote winners will be chosen by the Jamglue community. These winners will get cool stuff too!”
The rules were more specific about the cool stuff: each of the five got a Jamglue T-shirt and ten stickers, an autographed copy of the album Shontelligence, and an autographed poster, an approximate retail value of $50. The Grand Prize was valued at $149.
The Deadlines
| Oct 13, 2008 | The contest tracks go online at 11:00 p.m. PT; the entry period opens. |
| Oct 17, 2008 | The Wayback Machine catches the live contest page: 40 entries created so far. |
| Oct 28, 2008 | The entries list, sorted by votes, is captured mid-contest. Two of the eventual Popular Vote winners, BigWes912 and DJ_Plus, are already sitting first and second. |
| Nov 23, 2008 | Entry deadline and voting deadline, 11:59 p.m. PT. |
| Apr 3, 2010 | The last archived capture of the page, still showing the results. |
Winners
“The results are in, and our winners have been chosen!” Six mixes were named: one Grand Prize picked by Shontelle, and five Popular Vote winners decided by favorites. Every name and title below is taken verbatim from the archived results page.
Grand Prize Winner
T-shirt(KID KLASSIC REMIX) by kidklassic
“This was Shontelle's favorite! kidklassic will get a video shoutout from Shontelle and an iPod Nano, and the remix will be featured on her MySpace and SRCRecords.net.”
Popular Vote
“Our Popular Vote winners were chosen by you, the Jamglue community! Winners get an autographed ‘Shontelligence’ album, autographed poster, and Jamglue prize pack including a T-shirt and stickers.”
| Shontelle Layne “T-shirt (remix)” feat. Black Dimonz | blackdimonz |
| Shontelle - T-Shirt Remixx | DJ_Plus |
| HOT! T-shirt - Contest REMix [produced by ASAP] | ajamali |
| T-shirt - Contest Mix Feat. DiVerse | JayDa3rd |
| T-shirt - Contest Mix [BigWes Big Beats] | BigWes912 |
What survives: six names and six titles. The audio does not. Jamglue put mix downloads behind a sign-in, so no crawler ever reached the files, and none of these remixes has been found anywhere else. The results capture also drops the entry counter, so the final number of entries for this contest is not recorded anywhere we have found; the last live count we have is 40, four days in.
About Shontelle
From the bio on the contest page: “Singer, songwriter, rising star and aspiring lawyer? Not the combination that one would normally expect. But then again there is nothing ordinary about Shontelle, the 23 year-old Bajan singer-songwriter who's set to take the world by storm after signing with music mogul Steve Rifkind's SRC records.”
The bio tells the story of how she was found: she wrote the Barbadian hit “Roll,” and producers Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken, the pair who had discovered Rihanna in Barbados, heard it on a Bajan radio station and went looking for the writer to license it.
“We couldn't believe that she was such a great singer and so young and beautiful, and hadn't been discovered yet.”
Evan Rogers, quoted in the bio on the Jamglue contest page
They signed her immediately and spent six months making her debut. She kept running her own Barbados publishing company, Sholay, through it.
The Page Skin
Every Jamglue contest got its own skin: a banner, a background painting, and a stylesheet that repainted the whole site in the artist's colors for the length of the campaign. Here is the background art that sat behind this one.
Sources
jamglue.com/contests/shontelle while the contest was live: the description, the four steps, the deadlines, the eight stems, the prizes, and the entry count.
The same URL after judging, with the Grand Prize and all five Popular Vote winners, the artist bio, and the complete official rules. This capture is the source for every name on this page.
The mid-contest leaderboard, sorted by votes: the only surviving view of the field while people were still competing in it.
static.jamglue.com
The banner and background art on this page, pulled from Jamglue's own image bucket, which outlived the site.
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