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#741: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Diana Damrau - Queen of the Night (from The Magic Flute) (3:00):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuBeBjqKSGQ

Nominator: rwlh [21/24 Remaining]

Initial Score: 50.90
Revised Score: 50.94
Final Score: 50.33

(First Reaction: I want to love this. I just find the high-pitched vocalizations to be vaguely off-putting, which is... unfortunate as this is exactly what I asked for and wanted to hear. How bothersome for both of us.)

Alright, alright, so high pitched vocalizations are a defining trait of many opera songs. I just suspect we'd need to ease into a song like this instead of going for it from the beginning... I'm not going to pretend I know the slightest thing about operatic singing styles, but a song focusing on someone with a lower vocal range (even if only slightly) and a greater focus on lyrics over vocal runs would probably be more immediately attractive to me--or at least a bit easier to listen to.

I'm trying to be less biased and say something about the song itself, but ultimately, I'm just not into this type of singing. I'm aware on some level that what she's managing to do with her voice is impressive and that she's incredibly gifted, but those talents are being used towards ends that I don't find very appealing. There's an interesting story here and in terms of "theatrical villain songs" it's hard to get any more theatrical than bursting into an opera song about the vengeance of hell, so there are definitely aspects of this that I enjoy and I can imagine a time in the future where I'll have learned to better appreciate this song... but I don't think it was quite the right nomination for this topic. I do appreciate it though.

[Final Thoughts: I'm happy an opera song was nominated, even though this one didn't quite hit the mark.]

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#740: Twin Temple - I Am A Witch (2:50):
https://youtu.be/SlFw7QuX6Oc

Nominator: Snake [31/32 Remaining]

Initial Score: 56.60
Revised Score: 55.43
Final Score: 50.34

(First Reaction: It's a fun song, but I really wish there were another verse here. It quickly runs out of lyrics and just keeps going, endlessly... which kinda works because I do really enjoy it, but I'm having a hard time convincing myself to move it up a tier when there's so little there.)

!It feels oddly drawn out for a song with such a short runtime. What's here is nice enough, but it's definitely no "Satan's a Woman".

[Final Thoughts: 28 repetitions of "I am a witch" and a pair of "I'm a witch"-es for an added bit of redundancy. The subject matter and performance are on point, and usually I kinda like this, but right now it's... a bit much.]

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