Hello Rising Star Gamers
Welcome back again to my Starbits Every Night, a routine post I make on a night time when I play Rising Star Game.
Today is the last day we are having Aqua, a dance pop group from early 2000 era, as our theme. We have 5 good songs from them, and I think I already have a good candidate for tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, depends on how busy I will be tomorrow.
We have been doing this format since August 2023 and I would like to thank to all Giveaway Participant who kept following on our theme. Below is a table describing how we have run this Giveaway
| Period | Artist | No of Drawing | No of Entries |
|---|---|---|---|
| W2 August 2023 | Wagakki Band | 4 | 68 |
| W3 August 2023 | The Cranberries | 7 | 96 |
| W4 August 2023 | Limp Bizkit | 6 | 97 |
| W5 August 2023 | Lauryn Hill and The Fugees | 6 | 96 |
| W1 September 2023 | Dash Berlin | 6 | 84 |
| W2 September 2023 | 2NE1 | 6 | 96 |
| W3 September 2023 | DRAKE | 5 | 76 |
| W4 September 2023 | Greatest Showman OST | 6 | 83 |
| W1 October 2023 | Macy Gray | 3 | 43 |
| W2 October 2023 | Savage Garden | 5 | 70 |
| W3 October 2023 | Birthday Week Celebration | - | - |
| W4 October 2023 | HOME MADE KAZOKU | 5 | 85 |
| W1 November 2023 | Lady GAGA | 6 | 94 |
| W2 November 2023 | Timbaland | 7 | 115 |
| W3 November 2023 | Bring Me To Horizon | 5 | 76 |
| W4 November 2023 | Aqua | 4 | 56 |
Anyway I always open to any suggestion and feedback so please leave them on comments section below if you have a good one.
MUSIC OF THE DAY - BARBIE GIRL
Lyrics
Give me time to reason
Give me time to think it through
Passing through the season
Where I cheated you
I will always have a cross to wear
But the bolt reminds me I was there
So give me strength
To face this test of mine
If only I could turn back time
If only I had said what I still had
If only I could turn back time
I would stay for the night, for the night
Claim your right to science
Claim your right to see the truth
Though my pangs of conscience
Will drill a hole in you
I've seen it coming like a thief in the night
I've seen it coming from the flesh of your light
So give me strength
To face this test of mine
If only I could turn back time
If only I had said what I still had
If only I could turn back time
I would stay
The bolt reminds me I was there
The bolt reminds me I was there
If only I could turn back time
If only I had said what I still had
If only I could turn back time
I would stay for the night
If only I could turn back time
If only I had said what I still had
If only I could turn back time
I would stay for the night
If only I could (if only I could)
If only I could (if only I could)
If only I could turn back time
I would stay for the night
If only I could (if only I could, if only I could)
If only I could (if only I could, if only I could)
If only I could turn back time
I would stay for the night
If only I could (if only I could, if only I could)
If only I could (if only I could, if only I could)
source: MusixMatch
THE BALLAD
Another great song from their debut album in 1997. Turn Back Time was different than Dr Jones and Barbie Girl, because this song was a ballad and they still gave it a dance pop essence on it.
This song managed to hit the top chart in several countries, however in overall it was not as successful as the other two, Dr Jones and Barbie Girl.
A year after the release, this song became a movie original soundtrack. The movie was Sliding door and it was starred by Gwyneth Paltrow. It made the song got even more famous, I think its the reason why It could keep up with their two silly songs.
Some said its just a remake from Good Morning Sunshine, because both were downtempo and there were some similarities between those two. When they took Good Morning Sunshine out from their album, people were more sure it was the reason.
For me, this song and Good Morning Sunshine were my favorite from Aqua. It doesn't mean Dr Jones and Barbie Girl aren't as good as those two, I believe they were eccentric and a lot better than my favorites, however that "BUBBLE POP" effect are just not for me.
That's all what I can say about Aqua, thank you for keeping up with me about them.
MY DATA BANK
I will make this short. I recorded all my packs openings here so everyone can get the data and make their own calculation whether they choose to open packs or buy cards directly.
past monthly packs opening:
| Month | packs | fans | skill | luck | IM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep-Dec 2022 | 179 packs | 17.115 | 15.572 | 4.150 | 409 |
| January 2023 | 31 packs | 2.490 | 2.405 | 1.243 | 63 |
| February 2023 | 39 packs | 3.425 | 3.635 | 1.067 | 83 |
| March 2023 | 41 packs | 3.307 | 3.125 | 1.325 | 71 |
| April 2023 | 41 packs | 4.035 | 3.335 | 759 | 90 |
| May 2023 | 31 packs | 3.460 | 2.615 | 749 | 74 |
| June 2023 | 52 packs | 4.935 | 4.695 | 826 | 111 |
| July 2023 | 52 packs | 4.721 | 3.245 | 2.240 | 98 |
| August 2023 | 35 packs | 3.165 | 2.365 | 1.058 | 60 |
| September 2023 | 16 packs | 2.834 | 1.300 | 420 | 38 |
What you get from a pack in average:
| Time Line | fans | skill | luck | IM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 (179 packs) | 95.61 | 86.99 | 23.18 | 2.28 |
| 2023* (338 packs) | 95.77 | 79.05 | 28.66 | 2.04 |
I am not opening anymore packs during the days I am having Giveaways, this is a pattern I do regularly in order to have my growth maxed. I do not want to be like some players who keep doing Giveaway but their size aren't growing well, maybe stagnant is more appropriate vocab to describe them. Let say I just want to give a good example to others
LAST GIVEAWAY RESULT
For tonight giveaway, we have 13 participants:
@henruc @vaynard86 @micay @olaf.gui @rtonline @kryptof @ladymisa @blitzzzz @ebastion @subidu @supriya.gupta @jfang003 @qumao
Congrats to @micay and @ebastion as this round the winners. It's Mattel, very simple answer. You can easily google and almost impossible to be wrong. It's a sad thing that Barbie Girl single somehow really offended Mattel ego and I believe it's not something that intended by the group.
Thank you to all participants, and I hope you guys keep supporting me in my upcoming events.
List of December 2023 Winners
| No | Name | # of Wins | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rtonline | 1 | - |
| 2 | jfang003 | 1 | - |
| 3 | qumao | 1 | - |
| 4 | vaynard86 | 1 | - |
| 5 | subidu | 1 | 1 pinalty |
| 6 | henruc | 1 | - |
| 7 | micay | 1 | - |
| 8 | ebastion | 1 | - |
fix december-november typo
STARBITS EVERY NIGHT !!! #414 Entry
PRIZE / REWARDS : 10.000 Starbits, for 2 winners
QUESTION:
Aqua made a ground breaking debut album which had 3 singles which hit the top chart and the rest were good too and became their signature songs. What was the name of that Album?
Rule of Participation :
- a "count me in" only will give you nothing. If you put wrong answer, you get a 50% pinalty on the prize.
- Bots can't win and One person can put one entry.
- There is no specific Cut off time, just follow the clock timer. I will leave a comment such as Time's Up or It's a Wrap when the time is over.
- You may cheat by peeking or copy-pasting other people answer but please give tips comment or upvote on their answer as a token of credits.
- I will use sentipl's Hive random comment picker to pick the winner. if it doesn't work I will use Snackholic's Hive Fortune. If those do not work, I will do the old school Wheel of Names.
- Whether you win or not, you must have fun from this Giveaways
The winner will be announced on the next post, STARBITS EVERY NIGHT #415!!!.
CREDITS
If you haven't got any Rising Star Game Account, you can register it here
risingstargame : for everything we have here
Nane-qts : for her wonderful Rising Star divider
sentipl : for his Hive random comment picker