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Douse Shinundakara
Deadman falling
She Wants Me Dead

I don't really like Mario Galaxy as much as most people in general. This one in particular I don't really like--it's like there's not really any melody to the song at all? It doesn't really feel atmospheric either. Like it's just kind of there. Douse Shinundakara is great all-around. Almost supported it during nominations.

Second match is a weird and hard one for me. Yuki Kajiura is actually a god (or goddess i guess) and I don't care what anyone says. That being said Promised Pain is probably not one of my favorite songs by her. It's a bit too...reserved I guess, and it ends up sounding a bit like generic jrpg final boss fare. Still being a Kajiura song it is at least solid. Then the REFLEC BEAT song I don't even know. The first half it sounds just confused to me (which yes is pretty unambiguously a bad thing in my book), and the repetitive bass backing in the latter half is in general a bad way to get me interested in a song. However the song (well the melody anyway) does get much better in the back half, and does some stuff I like pretty well. At a minimum it's a much more ambitious song than Promised Pain, so there's that. Think I'm going to go with Deadman Falling, though I don't know if it's the right call or not. (Note: I will also say the beginning has sounded somewhat less "confused" upon repeated listens. Also I liked the song enough to listen to it multiple times to straighten my thoughts out, whereas I have absolutely no desire to listen to Promised Pain again, so I'm going to say this was the right choice.)

Whims of Fate is probably what I would pick as the most overrated song on the P5 soundtrack. I do mostly like it still, but not nearly as much as most other people have said. The background beat is pretty solid, but I'm much more lukewarm about the vocals generally speaking. In other news, I remember She Wants me Dead from last year. Don't remember if it was just from nominations or if it made it into the contest itself, but it was pretty cool I guess. This is a style I'm not big on usually, but this is also one of the better examples of it imo.

Douse Shinundakara > Deadman falling > She Wants Me Dead > Whims of Fate > Promised Pain > Gusty Garden Galaxy
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