Letters to the Editor
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How does this not violate the contest rules?
As stated above, nice tune, so nothing against H the H, but I just went back and looked at the official contest rules that we had to agree to. You can find them at:
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2006/09/25/songsearch_terms/index.html
It's a little fuzzy, but if you go all the way to the bottom of the page there is a FAQ section that specifically says something about the possibility of entering more than one song if, say, you were a singer-songwriter and also in a band. The answer says "One song per person, please."
I guess you could say that it doesn't explicitly cover the H the H (The Stairs) situation, but, man, it really doesn't seem like it's in the spirit of the rules at the very least.
If I'm in a band and I write a song, and my band-mate submits another song, well, I guess you would have to say this is ok if you absolutely knew that my band-mate didn't have anything to do with writing the band's song. Given that Salon knows enough about H the H to say that they came from the ashes of The Stairs, maybe they know more about the song writing than the rest of us, but still...