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Three more for now, will be back later this afternoon:

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#246: Port Blue - I Am The Aeronaut (4:34):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FchlswTNyTc

Nominator: ZaziGuado [12/28 Remaining]

Initial Score: 51.72
Revised Score: ??.?? (set to "72.11")
Final Score: 70.14

(First Reaction: It's nice enough, but it feels a bit sleepy... not in a bad way, just kinda lulls you into lowering your guard and feeling a bit tired.)

This feels like "music that is nostalgic for a happy childhood". It's all 'pretty sun dresses', and 'secret clubhouses by the beach', and 'fun', and 'happy'. And I'm not sure how to score that right now.

*sets the score to "??.??" and vows to come back to it in one or two days*

[ONE DAY LATER]

72.11 points. I really do like this quite a bit. There are definitely days where I do not want to listen to it because, well. let's just say there days I'm less prepared to "remember" things than others. This is technically a song that has a very volatile score as it really depends on the current emotional state, but I don't think it's quite severe enough to get into the top tier purely based on its volatility---it's not a case of "I can't decide what score to give this" or "I don't know what my reaction to this is", because it brings to mind very specific thoughts and feelings.

...of course, I didn't have any reaction to it the first time, but let's just forgot that little detail...

[Final Thoughts: Bouncy, bouncy score. Score goes *makes airplane noises* and then *swooshes* back down the list and then vrooom-y back int o the really like level, ya know? That's not a typo, I feel quite strongly that "int o" is the way that sentenc ewas meant to end.

...now, see, the word "sentence" there, that one's a typo. Which I could correct! But I don't think I will. It feels appropriaate to have an actual typo in that section that was talking about what looks like a typo but is not a typo (incidnetally, both of these are typos as well... I don't seem to be able to type as well as I usually do.]

*takes a few minutes to hard reset*

Okay, so I was pretty loopy for a minute there, but I think my mind-state's back to average values. This song is an interesting specimen. My reaction to it is never the same... I like that about it. I think I'll keep this on the Really Like tier.[

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#245: Mamori Nezune -S'il vous President (3:13):
https://youtu.be/Zm4P1XQ8yB4

Nominator: UF8 [11/30 Remaining]

Initial Score: 64.18
Revised Score: 64,18
Final Score: 62.29 [Upgraded to 64.18] [Upgraded to 64.938] [Upgraded to 67.29] [Upgraded to 68.3997] [Upgraded to 69.75] [Upgraded to 70.155]

(First Reaction: This is catchier and more endearing than it has any right to be.)

!Cute comedic song, I like it.

[Final Thoughts: The backing beat of the song is a bit thumping, but the lyrics and performance are endearing enough that I like this.]

[Later: Moving this song back up where it came from.]

[Later: Moving this towards the end of the 64 point songs.]

[Later that afternoon: : ...Moving this up made sense when there actually were some 64 point songs, but since ALMOST EVERYTHING has gone up to at least the 65 point zone, this... didn't really delay the elimination much at all...

I don't know, 67 points? The way today is going, I'll probably run into this again immediately because nothing is being eliminated. It's been over an hour... so many songs, none of them dropping...]

[Later: One more point.]

[Later: Why is this song so hard to find on YouTube? It has a full English name and description, yet if I search for "Mamori Nezune S'il vous President"--words that are very much in the title of the video--this doesn't show up anywhere. I have to get the link each time I want to hear the song because it's hidden quite well for some reason. Either way, here's another point.]

[Later: I had this ready to be eliminated, but I think I enjoy this enough to move it up at the literal last possible second.

...well considering that I can retroactively raise scores after they're posted, I suppose it's not quite the last second, but still.]

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#244: The Body - Nothing Stirs (5.56):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3EAujCdfJ4

Nominator: Xtlm [5/13 Remaining]

Initial Score: 60.00
Revised Score: 55.26
Final Score: 57.63 [Upgraded to 60.00] [Upgraded to 66.01] [Upgraded to 70.18]

(First Reaction: The second verse of the song was amazing. Her pure vocals with that dark ambience is simple perfection... then she starts repeating the same phrase over and over, followed by METAL SCREAMING joining in to completely overshadow the parts of the song I loved. I was expecting this song to be in the mid-80s (at least), but it doesn't stick the landing... since it has a section that I love, I think I'll try adding this to the Clump of 60 point songs as an opening move. I don't think it's an appropriate placement and this song could jump way up or way down the list later, but until I calculate exactly how much that outro is hurting the score, this score shall have to suffice.)

!It's not a bad attempt, but a two word outro that repeats endlessly for almost the entire song is just not something I can get into.

[Final Thoughts: I really enjoy the overwhelming darkness of this song and I'm not nearly as bothered by the outro as I was the second time around. The plea to March On becoming increasingly desperate and raw is a rare example of repetition done right and I don't particularly mind the indecipherable screaming at the moment. I don't quite think I like it enough to go up a tier, but a few extra points should help put this song in a more appropriate position.]

[Later: The heaviness of the instruments is quite pleasing to me right now & the lyrics are totally something I'm into:

At night, a prayer of death
At day, a curse of life

Yeah, I think I'm definitely moving this up the Neo Clump at the very least.]

[Later: I like what the song is trying to accomplish. The weight of the song isn't quite enough to be crushing, but it's at least trying to create an overwhelming pressure that grinds the listener into a paste, so I give them props for making the attempt. I'm going to take a leap and move this one up quite a ways out of respect,]

[Later: Going to go ahead and jump this song up a tier.]

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-like Reality TV before it, Sorry Bro got another extra point and was not eliminated here-