The Winning Formula for You Are So Nashville If... contest

Submissions are open through June 27th for the Scene's Annual 'You Are So Nashville If ...' As a service for Weekly What readers, we analyzed the 30 past winners and have come up with the winning formula for YASNI entries.

Winning topics:

• Country music (5 winners)
• Local celebrities (4 winners)
• Crime (4 winners)
• Gay (4 winners)
• Acronym wordplay (3 winners)
• Growth/Development (3 winners)
• Southern-fried ignorance (3 winners)
• Mayoral romantic scandals (2 winners)
• Local landmark (2 winners)
• Religious sanctimony (2 winners)
• Neighborhoods (2 winners)

With those results in mind, here’s our suggested formula for a winner:

• Local landmark + country musician + crime + new development
• Mayoral election + acronym + neighborhood + southern-fried ignorance + gay
• Country music song + overcrowded city + religious sactimony

Also consider adding these hot topics in your entry: Scooters, Old Town Road, Cherry trees, high rise apartments, Cade Cothren, NFL Draft