LogFAQs > #980225452

Okay, two eliminations tonight for good reasons!

1: Every currently nominated song has at least a preliminary score! Not that those mean anything, but they have some basic thoughts typed up!

2: There are only three songs left with under 50 points! We're almost out of the negative zone and into the vaguely positive category.

3: Not related to the above, but I've had "Announcement" stuck in my head today and I'm raising its score to 52.36 points for now. So it's... semi-un-eliminated. Will it move up again? Who knows? No clue what placement 52.36 points gets you. I'll revisit it again when we get up to that point.

4: One song is being retroactively eliminated between "Growing Up" and the Magpie's song, I've changed my mind about one of tonight's eliminations (there was going to be three cuts, but... I don't want to remove one of them) so let's see if I can get these numbers fixed...

380: Growing Up

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Chicago - Cell Block Tango (6:14)
https://youtu.be/ly3ccyTI-Js?si=OrKIotNOeG8xsDkL

Nominator: Haste_2 [0 Remaining, unless more songs are nominated]

Initial Score: 39.26
Final Score: 46.00

(First Reaction: Honestly, I've never really cared for this song. It's one of those songs where I've never really gotten the appeal. It should be something I enjoy; theatrical, villainous, tells a complete story (or several stories), spoken word narration for the stories, but... I really don't like this. I've railed on repetition enough in my life and vocalizations can be a bit hit or miss (I love some, I hate some) &

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh uh! Cicero, Lipschitz!

Is definitely on the low end. It's repeated so many times that I find it grating; which, if the goal is to point out how a sound effect can drive someone to murder, the song is doing its job a bit too well. And the format is so dismally motonous; chorus-spoken word story-chorus-spoken word story-that I quite quickly grow bored with the entire concept of the song. There are a few good lines in the song:

Then he ran into my knife.
He ran into my knife ten times!

Is a personal favorite, but:

I guess you can say we broke up because of artistic differences (If you'd have seen it)
He saw himself as alive
And I saw him dead

Is also good. And I suppose I do like the concept of the song, but I just find it rather tedious to endure.)

Well, I suppose I would take this over the eliminated jazz song (sorry, Snake), so that would put this around 46 points? ...Sure.

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#378: Pikkie De Ekster

(Announcement is un-eliminated)

#377: Philosophy of the World

#376: Goblin Slayer

The song I originally planned on eliminating at #375 has been spared, which moves this track down a notch and becomes the last song to score less than 50.00 points (barring any further nominations that score very low):

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#375: Hans Zimmer | The Rightful King (11:45)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7rkHnM_XOc

Nominator: @Place [11 Remaining]

Initial Score: 34.66
Final Score: 49.00

(First Reaction: I like the part that's roughly between the nine and ten minute marks. The addition of the choir truly elevates the song; it perfectly captures the sense of a hero's journey in an incredibly short time. Sadness and fear, then the music swells with hope and optimism... and then it gets way too happy in a way that jarringly knocks me out of my emotional state. I don't think I like the transition to Circle of Life, it just comes too quickly for me. And I honestly can't remember the first nine minutes of this song because that point in the song is so great that it obliterates everything before it... shame Circle of Life had to come in and ruin the ending.)

A minute twenty into the song and I'm honestly a bit tired already. It's... ehh...

it then transitions into something that feels vaguely ominous, but... ehh... I don't really feel frightened. It's not working for me either.

Around four minutes in, the music seems to be building up for EPIC FIGHTS. I don't like epic fights.

Around five minutes and we get TRIUMPH and CELEBRATION and... I... also don't like the way it's celebrating? It's very quickly interrupted by more ominous darkness which... I... also dislike in this song. It's certainly going on a musical journey, but I dislike all of its stops.

And finally at around 8:30 into the song, we get to the good stuff! It's tinged with sadness and then the choir comes in, we get an awe-inspiring section which is emotional, powerful, easily worthy of placing in the mid-90s! I absolute love this section and--oh, we're doing Circle of Life now. Alright then.

...Which leaves a question: If a song has one minute that you really, really, really love and ten minutes that you quite actively dislike then how many points do you give it? I'm going to go with 49 points; I can't bring myself to raise this above the 50 point mark, but I would say that I prefer this over the already eliminated songs because there is a brief flash of absolute perfection.

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