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#226: Frances Yip - ('The Bund' Theme Song) (3:19):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tNg5N6hi1k

Nominator: Handsomeboy [11/31 Remaining]

Initial Score: 58.4902
Revised Score: 58.49
Final Score: 58.493 [Upgraded to 59.493] [Upgraded to 60.00] [Upgraded to 60.00000005] [Upgraded to 61.99] [Upgraded to 65.06] [Upgraded to 66.56] [Upgraded to 67.4999] [Upgraded to 69.18] [Upgraded to 70.38] [Upgraded to 71.002] [Upgraded to 71.172]

(First Reaction: A fairly relaxing song to listen to. I don't really connect with the lyrics and its metaphorical river (though I couldn't tell you why not), but the song is pleasing enough that the specific lyrics don't matter much.)

!Pretty and relaxing, though it has the standard 50 point response of "I don't fully connect with it for some reason"--though I have nothing negative to say about her performance or the song itself.

[Final Thoughts: It's pretty, but I'm just not connecting with it enough to give it that last little push into the next tier.]

[Later: One extra point.]

[Later: I think I've changed my mind a bit. While I still don't have a personal attachment to the song, I think it's pretty and tranquil enough that it brings something unique to the Neo Clump and I will move it up.]

[Later: Pretty enough to be moved above the Neo Clump, in point of fact.]

[One More Time Later: Adding another point to this.]

[Once More, With Feeling: And another extra boost.]

[Here We Go Again: A point and a half to go up to 66 points.]

[Later: I do like this. It's quite pretty... think I'll add another point onto this one.]

[Later: And one, most likely final, boost to the 69 point level.]

[Later: ...Nah, let's go ahead and go up a tier after all.]

[Finally, at the end: Hey, a song that reached nine score upgrades! I think that may be the record thus far.]

[...A few hours later: And I don't want to eliminate this after all. Moving this up to 71 points.]

[Actually Ending: And one final minor boost for reorganization purposes gives this the record for most upgrades at 11.]

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#225: Spiritbox - Eternal Blue (3:59)
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gJ0ydZombiOIs4NaxnFXR?si=67525a72f55d4a47

Nominator: BlackDra90n [4/30 Remaining]

Initial Score: 59.9999999
Revised Score: 59.9999999
Final Score: 59.9999999 [Upgraded to 60.00] [Upgraded to 61.51] [Upgraded to 62.00000006] [Upgraded to 62.195] [Upgraded 62.21] [Upgraded to 64.56] [Upgraded to 71.00] [Upgraded to 71.175]

(First Reaction: A song that I should love and that does everything right, but I don't quite want to put even at the 60 point tier--much less the 90 point tier the song seems specifically designed to be reaching. I haven't quite worked out why yet.

And what's left of me, a cavity
At least this space is mine
It's where you left me to die

Hard to get lyrics more blunt than that and this is certainly a good, well performed song in all respects. But I'm not all that into it--it's very much still at the "I like this song, -BUT-" tier which is... slightly confusing. My working theory is that while the lyrics are similar to ones I love, they're just not lyrics that I can personally connect to. To go back to our running gag of me comparing everything to "I Think I'm OKAY", that song paints everything as being the singer's fault: "Watch me take a good thing and fuck it all up", in contrast to Eternal Blue which seems to be placing the blame on the other person "it's where you left me to die".

I'm not positive, not really good at the whole self-reflection thing yet, but that's the best guess I've got after one listen.)

!i still don't fully get it. The song is doing everything I like and doing it well, but I still feel it's *ever so slightly* below the 60 point mark.

[Final Thoughts: The song should be at the highest tier, but it never quite resonates with me in spite of doing literally everything right. I know that's not going to be a satisfying response, but it is what it is.]

[Later: Is this the first song described as being as blunt as it can get? Because I say that so often that you can make a drinking game out of it. I should gather all the lyrics I quote as being especially blunt and sad, then see which one is truly the most blunt... but that feels like a lot of work, so I probably won't.

And.... perhaps I will let this song have that final microscopic fraction of a point to reach the Neo Clump.]

[Later Still: I think I do like this more than the songs currently in the Neo Clump. I'm going to add one extra point to this.]

[Eternally Later: Moving this up a tiny bit to reach the 62 point zone.]

[Later Than That: Just a very minor boost that I don't think will change the ranking in a substantial way, but does move this ahead of a few songs.]

[Marginally Later, Though Still the Same Day: One tiny little nudge to reach the top half of the list.]

[The Next Day: A slightly more substantial boost to delay this a bit longer.]

[Later: This is another of those songs that I haven't been able to get out of my head--in part because I've listened to it *so many times* because I have to go through this every time that I don't eliminate it, but I think I'm starting to really like this. Going up a tier.]

[Later: One final minor boost for reorganization purposes.]

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#224: Serj Tankian - Cornucopia (4:28):
https://open.spotify.com/track/4zJ9MPBwBsYEW8MlCQ7M5e?si=85c3624d8547433f

Nominator: Murphiroth [ 6/32 Remaining]

Initial Score: 53.679
Revised Score: 60.00
Final Score: 62.000005 [Upgraded to 64.73] [Upgraded to 70.21] [Upgraded to 70.89] [Upgraded to 71.176]

(First Reaction: It's not my favorite song about environmental damage, though I do appreciate how direct the song is about the topic.)

I kinda wish I had an instrumental version of this song because I swear the backing music would go really well with a fast-paced platformer. Not Sonic-esque exactly, but this feels like "running and flipping past obstacles" music to me and I'd be tempted to try to sync the audio up of an instrumental up with gameplay footage to see if it actually worked. ...Though I suppose that wouldn't really matter to the score at all.

Aaanywho this song is actually pretty catchy and I'm starting to get into the lyrics. Apocalyptic climate change is still an apocalypse & I like how... direct the song is in contrast to something like Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)". Well, not that that track was subtle, but it's easy to get lost in his seductive voice and completely forget that he's singing about wildlife dying from radiation.

...now that I think about it, it's really weird how sexy that song sounds considering the lyrics... but I've gone wildly off-track again. "Cornucopia" is a good song and I'm moving it up a tier to the 60 point level.

[Final Thoughts: Good subject matter, one of his catchier vocal performances, and a really fun backing music track. Perhaps too fun for the subject matter, but who cares? I like this one.]

[Later: I actually rather like this at the moment.]

[Later: I think I actually really like this? Most of it, at least.]

[Later: Minor boost.]

[Later: Moving this up very slightly for reorganizational purposes.

...also, this isn't terribly relevant, but "Kiss an ugly turtle and make it cry" is certainly a lyric.]

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