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3 eliminations now. There'll be another three later in the evening, so that we can end the night at 25 total eliminations:

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#369: Kemialliset Ystvt | He tulivat taivaan rist (3:37)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foEAQTF89fk
Nominator: @Tked [4 songs remaining]

Initial Score: 53.17
Final Score: 53.17

(First Reaction: "They came from the ends of the sky", huh? That does feel like an appropriate title for an alien song like this. Well, alien-like. This song reminds me of The Simpsons episode where the alien turned out to be Mr. Burns. It's very "I bring you love!" while glowing bright green. I like the way the song fades out towards the end, it's oddly kinda soothing. Let's all bask in the warm glow of Mr. Burns' warm glowing warming glow.

...I... really don't have a reaction to the rest of the song, so I'm going to go with a bit below the "kinda like" tier for my opening guess? It's an interesting sensation, but then I was never too fond of that particular episode of The Simpsons, so the association isn't really doing the song any favors. And I know "this song gave me flashbacks to the wrong episode of The Simpsons" is a really stupid thing to hold against a song, but that's kinda where I am right now.)

Bizarre and alien, but in ways that I don't exactly love. It does still feel incredibly "Glowing Mr. Burns"-y which is certainly a unique thing for a song to represent, but that's also not really a favorite thing to be imagining either. So... I do thank you for finding something this unusual and I congratulate the song for conjuring up some very specific images, but I don't think I like this all that much once the novelty wears off.

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#368: Alter Bridge | Blackbird (7:58)
https://youtu.be/ISBIht69fkE?si=vlNJxA4s_w3S1bPX
Nominator: @NBIceman [14 songs remaining]

Initial Score: 54.936
Final Score: 53.26

(First Reaction: I feel bad trying to critique a song created in memory of their dead friend, but I'm not really into this track. It's not bad or anything, but I can't quite connect with this particular type of tragedy--not that I haven't lost loved ones before, just... not in a way that lets me relate to this song. And if I can't connect to them emotionally, what I'm left with is an okay rock song that leaves me feeling bad about calling it okay.)

Emotional songs that resonate with me get really high scores; emotional songs that don't tend to struggle because while I want to connect with this and acknowledge it as a beautiful and moving tribute, I just... don't feel very strongly about this at all.

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#367: Rigl Theatre | Grad Erlija -Retrospektiva- (5:25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWUoM4F6fKI
Nominator: @FL81 [4 songs remaining]

Initial Score: 54.36
Final Score: 53.30

(First Impressions: Fairly nice, dance-y instrumental. It somehow makes me think of Russia, even though I'm pretty sure this isn't even a Russian inspired song, so I don't know where these vibes are coming from. Either way, it's.. I dunno, one of those "good songs that doesn't strongly appeal to me" type things? It's fun, it makes you want to get up and dance--well not me, but I'm sure normal people would want to dance to it--it's... well, it's nice enough.)

...I really don't like leaving write ups that brief, but I'm afraid that's what tends to happen around this area of scoring. If I had more of a reaction, positive or negative, I'd have more to say about it... this is just another for the "nice" pile.

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