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Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice (What I'm made of)
Heal the World
Bury the Light

Odd choice for Crush 40 tunes, this. It's not a bad one, mind. Just not very iconic. Though I suppose the iconic ones have had shots and not done all that well so... Yeah.

Do baluchons have anything to do with pauldrons? I dunno why my brain makes that connection but if there were ever a time to stop my brain from going on tangents during writeups, that time was at the very least yesterday it is now TOO LATE.

I ran a not-remotely-subtle campaign to try to find Arknights tracks I like that have any hope of getting traction. This was not the piece I expected to get the most positive reactions, but that doesn't mean I don't love it! I love how we go from "heal the world of darkness and then immediately shift into this much darker segment, bit of (male) background chanting and more stacatto rhythms, then you have the singer -- whoa, what a voice -- take command and be a savior. It proceeds to command for the rest of the song, but not without having tons of variety and dynamism and movement and it does almost all of this on the back of the singer. What a performance. People describe Awaken as a Disney-esque song but this is the one that seems to me like it wouldn't be out of place in one of the Mouse's musicals.

Bells are cool. Feels like I'm at a beach party, going swimming, playing volleyball, broadly having a good time. Admittedly Heal the World is a super tough act to follow; this just... doesn't grab me.

I expected this to be a very boring ten minutes of no looping, but... This is interesting? Reminds me of some of my favorite big epic metal songs. Actually feels a bit closer to Mark Gordon than to other things I've heard from DMC. The second-ish verse is nothing if not dull, but then we get to instrumental interludes that are just these beautiful, conflict-ridden expressions of power and lightning. Yeah. Yeah I think I like this. Could've maybe been trimmed a bit, but it definitely uses moist of its time. Honestly my only complaint is the end. The vocal climax is pretty great, but I think the guitar that follows it is a bit out of place? I might've just cut it right at the big chord at the end of the vocal climax, cut out the last minute. It feels like a retread of the earlier ideas, and that's not a great way to finish out imo.

A friend of mine speedruns Burning Rangers, submitted a run of it to RTAiJ, and asked me to commentate for it. So I did, and there's this section where you drive a car through a giant pipe. It's very reminiscent of F-Zero, and when we got to it, I literally said in front of ten thousand people in Japanese, "Nintendo, give new F-Zero plz." This was over a year ago. I don't think it worked.