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Kalistan Selects Pop Singer Megapipe to represent Empire in FOMAT
Contest represents one of the closest results, highest National Participation in History
Kaliburg, Grand Duchy of Ananto
April 7, 5496


Gaduri-Kalistani singer Megapipe selected to Represent Kalistan at FOMAT XXVI

Music fans in Kalistan are buzzing about the results of the final round of the FOMAT poll run by Radio 1. The results, which are the vote of more than 65 million listeners, shocked many, while leading many millions more to collectively celebrate. In the end, more than 38 million people called in over a week at the end of March to demand that Kalistan send pop&B Singer Megapipe to FOMAT as the Empire's Representative. She beat out her closest competitor by slightly less than a million votes, the margin being simultaneously one of the smallest margins, and one of the largest nominal figures in Kalistan's long history with the international musical contest.

Megapipe, who will perform at FOMAT will sing her smash hit "Lovefix" which describes love that the singer knows is both toxic and highly addicting. "My character is reduced to someone who is basically begging for this love from this guy, and its this total emotional roller coaster," said Megapipe about the song late last year. "Yeah, I think most of us know that feeling. No matter what you do, you can't really ever get away from it because its like a double edged sword, a blessing and a curse." Megapipe will perform the song live in Gaduridos, backed up by the previous FOMAT entries, The Starving Artists, who are Megapipe's labelmates on LCR. "They're really going outside of their comfort area," said Megapipe of the normally hard rocking noise band. "This is pretty standard bass driven pop and soul, and they were totally game to stretch out and play something so radically different than they normally play. Andre (Arnhart, from The Starving Artists) is a really funny guy, a lot of the strings in the song are his ideas..."

Megapipe, the Yoshimi singer whose father is originally from Gaduridos, narrowly beat out a Kaliburg hard rock band called Mike and the Criminals. Megapipe's fanbase, if the poll is to be believed, covers everyone from teenyboppers who are really into pop music all the way to middle aged construction workers and folk music fans. "Man, I voted for Megapipe, because she lives up to her name, and I think its time for Kalistan to finally send someone who can win," said Dana resident Robert Yasgar. "I don't even listen to like R&B or anything. But god damn, that woman can really sing."

"I wanted Mike and the Criminals to win," said Kaliburg metalhead Ginger Michaelson. "But that commercial KMI put out to try to get us all to vote for them... It was just tacky. I think that was the thing that guaranteed that Megapipe would take it." The commercial Michaelson referenced aired on M7 in the run up to the finals, and shows several ostensible fans of Mike and Criminals going into record stores and stealing Megapipe albums and then taking them into an alley and smashing the records, while Mike and the Criminals' music is playing. "I mean, who breaks records like that? Didn't that band's manager say anything before running that horrific commercial?" When fans protested the commercial, KMI pulled the spot, but the damage was already done.

"We saw Megapipe, who is already sort of a second tier superstar across the music spectrum, though she is huge among the R&B crowd, like really hit the stratosphere ahead of the finals last week," said Radio 1's programming director Yasmine Wallace. "We were playing Megapipe's back catalog and our phones were lighting the f--k up! That commercial really screwed Mike and the Criminals and KMI in this contest. Now, she's gonna be the one people remember, and Mike and Criminals are gonna be known for doing stupid sh-t like breaking records..."

Megapipe says she is really honored and ready to represent the Empire at the international contest in Gaduri City. "When I heard that I was even in the contest, I was surprised. But yeah, I'm ready to put it all out there and really kill this. But meanwhile, I got a new record coming out early next year. And The Starving Artists are playing on like two songs on that record. It's all really exciting. I get to produce it, and want to do some of everything on it, like reggae, dancehall, you know, some techno, some like hard RF... everything. I can't wait. These next few years is gonna be so exciting!"

Here's is [video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V91daEbU_8s?si=jUwf5ImdPBucEEZr]Megapipe's singing "Lovefix", late last year on M7's National Music Awards, recorded at the Global Music Hall of Fame in Luxon, Ananto[/url].

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V91daEbU_8s]