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HEX GIRL
by Moon Sisters
Submitted by Mars Abbett and earning the majority of votes during this year's record-breaking contest, 'Hex Girl' by Moon Sisters has earned the title of Halloween Song of the Year, 2024!
The Hex Girls first appeared in the film Scooby Doo! and the Witch's Ghost in 1999 as the fictional Gothic Rock band, whose subsequent appearances in Scooby Doo films and T.V. episodes would help cement them culturally as queer and girl-power icons. As Mars put it when they were asked why the Hex Girls deserve to be the Song of the Year.., "Scooby Doo."
Runners Up!
Daniella Wheelock's submission was a close second place in this year's contest. 'Ballad of the Witches' Road' has been featured in the 2024 Marvel Series 'Agatha All Along.'
This was the biggest year in HSOTY history, and we couldn't have done it without all of you! Thank you for voting and for your incredible submissions. We hope you enjoy listening to 'Hex Girl' and all the other incredible songs as we embrace the dark time of the year this Halloween!
All this year's submissions have been added to...
Steven Johnson's song made HSOTY History by being our first original submission. 'This Song is 'SCARY,' though not the plain favorite, appeared on the majority of voter ballots.
Hall of Fame
2023: 'Le Monde' by Richard Carter
2022: 'W.I.T.C.H.' by Devon Cole
2021: 'Love Shack' TikTok Remix by DJ Cummerbund
2020: 'The Blob' by The Five Blobs
Other Nominees!
Amy Smarsh Johnson - "Technically a little over a year old, but this album had legs into 2024 so please abide 🙏🏻 Lyrics about eating people! Ahhhh cannibalism!! It’s definitely literal and not at all metaphorical."
What is the Halloween Song of the Year?
An annual celebration of the haunting party music that makes us all feel a little more dead inside.
Each October, nominations are submitted by MILLIONS (not really) and voted on to select the song of the year. The winning song is added to the annals of Halloween history while all qualifying nominees are added to Mitch's Infamous Halloween Party Playlist; the secret sauce to any great Samhain celebration.
Sophie Hamm - Imagine - you’re in a horror movie - it’s late at night, you’re the final girl, and you’re running and running and you’ve gotten away, the killer is so far behind that you’re safe, but you just keep running, because you don’t feel safe yet, and you wonder, did I ever really feel safe to begin with? This song plays as you run, and we see a shot from birds-eye-view of the town you’re leaving behind; destroyed by the killer. In the final shot you reach into your pocket, a bloody knife is in your hand. It was you. You were the killer all along.
Gabe Gloden - Al Jorgensen’s vocals are spooky in a faux-British, quasi-Vincent Price vibe and it sports one of the catchiest synth baselines of the era - basically creating the “darkwave” subgenre of synth music. Throw it on and you can dance goofy, spooky, or sexy… whatever is striking your Halloween fancy at the time.
2024 Qualification Guidelines:
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The song must have been released within the last 12 months.
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The song must have been featured, gone viral, or otherwise been re-introduced within the last 12 months.
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The song is just a great Halloween BOP!
Dane Moore - "Colin Stetson as a composer has no trouble exploring unsettling soundscapes. From the maddening rise of a demon in The Hereditary, to the deranged satire of the audience in The Menu, his work demands your attention. However this year he’s brought his multireedist talents to the first anime adaptation of famed manga writer Junji Ito’s Uzumaki. A writer not afraid to provoke his audience with surreal imagery and psychological horror. Uzumaki is only a taste of what strange depths Colin ventures to on the OST for the show, but I think showcases a full range of the horrific soundscape he’s able to harness and lures you into wanting to see what the spiral is all about."
Jordan Stephens - "Perfect grave robbing song. We all have skulls and this guy needs him. Through his dulcet tones and vicious drums I’m inclined to give it to him."
Katie Ayer - "A Scooby-Doo Halloween Special"
Jamel Booth - "The discordant harmonies, and creepy lyrics give me the heebie jeebies. The instrumentation is also very scary."
John Denny - "Creepy lyrics, driving bassline great vocals, bangin' chorus. Gets stuck in your head. Issa bop."
Mitchell Ward - Tim Curry is a living legend, and I finally located this song in the deep recesses of my adolescent brain this year! If you like it, check out the 'Batty Rap' of Robin Williams from the same movie!"