LogFAQs > #980178425

Progress Update: The five songs from JohnBobb's post, as well as "Once in a Lifetime" have Initial Scores and preliminary write ups. Seven new songs have been posted, those will be added to the spreadsheets tomorrow. Which I think means the next elimination will be... provisionally #379 again, with last night's five songs being moved back five numbers.

Pink Rover added to ZA'LIST.

Only one elimination today. I've listened to quite a few songs and they've all gained enough points that I don't want to eliminate them today, so after two hours of music listening & write up updates, there's only one song ready to go.

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#379: Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion | Telephone's Theme (2:27)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04GHisaUguM
Nominator: @-hotdogturtle-- [5 Songs Remaining]
Character: Telephone

Initial Score: 39.26
Final Score: 26.47 [Downgraded to 23.47]

(First Impressions: Twisted circus music. I like the parts that sound like synthetic vocals, those are quite nice... but the circus type instruments are a miss and I feel like nothing really happens in the song. We have the same "not really lyrics" that are just looped, followed by some monotonous circus music, followed by the looped vocals, followed by the circus, and it's all a bit... dull, by the end. I'm sorry, but as nice as that voice and the effects applied to it are, it's really let down by the rest of the song.)

I do like those vocalizations, but I kinda hate the actual music so I'm going to knock this down a tier. While it's not a long song, it feels like it runs out of things to do after about eight seconds.

[Later: This is basically 8 seconds looped for two and a half minutes. I think this might have fared better if it stopped after eight seconds because the song is rather over by that point anyway. Vocals that are reversed and distorted can only carry things so far and while I think it's a very novel nomination, it's another one of those songs that falls a little lower each time I listen to it.]

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