Oh! Thnx a ton for explaining that, How I wish the jury would vote for the song they loved rather than any one of the two, thinking they voted for the album!
--- In [email protected], V S Rawat <vsra...@...> wrote: > > On 2/20/2009 12:27 AM India Time, _ramakrisha laxmana subramanian siva > gopala acharya iyer .aiyooo amma idli wada dosa sambar chatni ._ wrote: > > > I am wondering how AR 'could' lose the best song Oscar to Wall-E, esp > > the whole funda of splitting of votes. I mean if all three songs are > > treated as separate tracks, the best one with max votes would win. The > > guys who are voting wouldn't care about both tracks being from a > > single album, and if they think the WALL-E ka song was better, it'd > > garner max votes. I don't get how AR could lose out just coz two of > > his songs from the same album have been nominated in the category. > > Of course. > > but, as an extreme example, say, > Wall-E gets 34% > O Saya gets 33% > Jai Ho gets 33% > > So, God forbid, Wall-E wins even when ARR and SDM actually got a total > of double votes than this one. > > The point was that when two tracks are from same album, by same > composer, the voters don't actually bother which one wins as long as any > one of them wins, so they vote for any of them randomly. > > But, if only one of an album's or a composer's track is there, voters > would have voted for that one only. > > Whatever. Two nominations in a "debut" is a great achievement. > > -- > Rawat >
