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#220 {TIE}: Sunday in the Park with George (2017 Broadway Company) - Sunday - Finale (4:13):
https://open.spotify.com/track/3PzAUMMxPcaXEfWEvMx469?si=58595175ed774942

Nominator: @Raka_Putra [16/31 Remaining]

Initial Score: 60.26
Revised Score: 60.22
Final Score: 70.03 [Upgraded to 70.065] [Upgraded to "something"] [Something set to 70.83, and then reset to something almost instantly] [Something set to 71.18]

(First Reaction: A curious song. I'm not really a fan of art, so a song about art & artists wouldn't be my first choice of subject matter. I also have no idea who Georges Seurat is or anything about his work, so I fear this song was at a disadvantage from the start... but it is curious enough that I do like it. It's not anything I'm likely to ever understand or appreciate on a deep level, but it is a subject matter unlike any other I've heard and it grasps my attention in an interesting way.)

!Considering how heavily fictionalized the play's version of George is, it's probably just as well that I know nothing about Seurat.

[Final Thoughts:

"White. A blank page or canvas. His favorite. So many possibilities..."

I've found myself thinking of that line a lot over the past year. The story here is far more compelling than I gave it credit for.]

[Later: While not my favorite song, it is quite curious and compelling. A very well made song that I'm grateful for the chance to listen to. Minor boost for rearranging purposes.]

[Later that day: Ehh.... let's set this to a null value and move it to the side for a bit. I don't want to eliminate it just yet, but I'm also not sure how many points I want to give. Will revisit later.]

[Later: And I think this is the point the song goes out... as I've said before, this section of the list is rather brutal in terms of making cuts. It's a beautiful song that I really like and think about often, but I... really like everything else here too. Kinda the point of this tier level.

...But... ehhh... go back to a null value for a bit.]

[Final: A beautiful song, but I think this track falls here. It's emotional and moving, but everything that I really like has to go at some point this tier... also, I can't possibly compare this song with the one I'm also eliminating right now, so I'm just going to take the cheap way out and place them in a tie.]

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-and now a look into exactly how deranged my mind is-

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#220 {TIE}: Stupendium - Nook, Line & Sinker [3:47]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxXB3S-IjtE

Nominator: paulg [9/52 Remaining]

Initial Score: 53.27
Revised Score: 53.27
Final Score: 58.44 [Upgraded to 67.40] [Upgraded to 67.70] [Upgraded to 68.93] [Upgraded to 70.008] [Upgraded to something] [Something set to 71.18]

(First Reaction: This story isn't even remotely related to the song, but the worst nightmare I ever had was when I made the mistake of reading some Animal Crossing creepypastas shortly before bed. I may have told this story before--I remember typing it out, but I feel like I deleted it or scaled back on the details? Whatever; if it's new to you, cool. If not, I've never shied away from repeating myself, no matter how much I attack repetition from other people.

I dreamed that i was testing some new game that would be played entirely in your dreams for a new level of realism and interactivity. You'd have the ability to rewind time and undo mistakes, as well as the ability to wake yourself up at will if things got too intense. So I start playing and some important character dies; well, no problem, I figure I'll just rewind and save her this time. But as soon as I try to rewind, I get teleported to this creepy mansion; everything is solid white (floors, chairs, walls) except for messages scrawled in blood about how I failed--"you can't go back", "you didn't save her", and the like.

I'm still not too bothered at this point. A bit annoyed that I was tricked into playing a horror game, but fine, I'll just wake myself up. Only that just made things so much worse--I found myself paralyzed and staring at a crayon drawing of various Animal Crossing characters that took up my entire vision while an unknown voice whispers the messages into my mind: "You didn't save her."

At this point, I start panicking--being trapped in a horror game and paralyzed is very much not what I signed up for, so I start trying to force myself to wake up repeatedly. Each attempt brings about a new crayon drawing & message. The drawings, while always child like, begin getting more and more disturbing with various dead animals and pools of blood. And mixed in with the whispered messages of failures, a warning: "He's coming".

Finally, I wake up with my heart pounding. I take a moment to catch my breath and calm down before reaching for my glasses. The moment I put them on, I'm paralyzed again and treated to a jump scare of Villager swinging his ax at me before actually waking up.

...honestly, it took a few minutes before I was bold enough to try putting on my glasses again because that was the most brutal false awakening I ever experienced. And that's not even how dreams work! They're not supposed to paralyze you and take away your vision for a jump scare, nor are they that well scripted. The fuck is my dream doing, actively writing in a hope spot where I get to believe I've escaped from the dream ONLY TO THEN KILL ME WITH ABSOLUTELY PERFECT TIMING. THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS. That's only how dreams work on sitcoms and this dream only makes sense if I'm a fictional character and my show's writer doesn't understand how dreams work, in which case, fuck you, you stupid two-bit hack.

...

Aaaanywho, you nominated a song. Good for you!)

You could probably transplant the writeup for Redd's song and it'd apply equally well here. Comedy animal villain song by Stupendium with clever puns that gets a lower score than you expect? Kinda feel like we've been here before. Though after that song got a sub-50 point score perhaps this song actually has a higher score than you expected? *shrugs*

[Final Thoughts: Actually I kinda like this tonight. Not one of my favorites, but theatrical cartoon villain songs are usually quite welcome and this is neat enough.]

[Later: Well, I've this song stuck in my head all day, so I suppose I'll be moving this up a tier.]

[Later: Eesh, it's been a long time since the first Stupendium song dropped. That one was in #763rd place. Doubly funny since that writeup implied this song didn't have a good score either... though, in my defense, it didn't have a high score at the time that was posted. Anyway, giving this a small bonus to move it over a few other songs.]

[Later: ...Ehhh, maybe another point?]

[Later: I suppose I do really like this these days.]

[Later: Going to throw this in a pile with all the other null value songs and figure out where I eliminate it later.]

[Final: The funny talking animal song or the emotionally moving song? I've gone back and forth between the two a lot and... yeah, I got nothing. They both appeal in such opposite ways that it's an absolute coin flip which of the two I'd take at any given moment, with the songs changing places multiple times per day. So I'm just going to call this particular showdown a draw.]

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