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| Topic | Raetsel and the Alts finish ranking 784 songs [+ Bonus Songs] |
| Fluttershy_Pony 05/21/23 4:46:36 PM #347: | Wow, thank you! Did you go through the trouble of transcribing all that yourself? I swear, I looked and couldn't find anything in the description or comments & Googling the song name wasn't getting me anywhere either. I'll start by revisiting the track with the added context, then a few more songs from this set: ====================== Amemiya Chika - Yume no Atochi. (composer: Namba Ken) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhaJsSH90tg Estimated Score: 70.00 "for you" Much more coherent than trying to translate the auto-transcribed closed captioning, which offered the following: "Plum" Which wasn't really funny enough to draw attention to, though the fact that we have a user named Plum did make me smile. Strangely though, the auto-transcribed translation featured a line I liked which isn't anywhere in the actual lyrics: Lie. I think there's actually a lot of power in that completely made-up verse. From the desire to be a sweet person even though you know you're broken, to the awkard silence mid-sentence because it's too hard to admit, that is a great verse. The actual lyrics are also nice, but they're barely even similar: on the occasion of parting Now, don't get me wrong, I do like these lyrics at all. A scorched heart about to explode as you can't hide from the truth is pretty great subject matter to, I'm just surprised that the auto-lyrics managed to completely change things while still being a good story in their own right. "Who's Plum?" was pretty obviously wrong, but this part was so good and understandable that I didn't suspect it was that wrong. Aaanywho, we've got darkness and rain (probably metaphorical darkness & rain, but I'll take it), heart break, and an endess longing to be held once again. So... yeah, sure, let's go ahead and bump this up a tier. ====================== - ====================== Akatsuki Clara - Hibiki tsunagu uta. (composer: Namba Ken) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG8TahOz2cw Estimated Score: 60.10 I'm not holding it against the song, but there's a lot of dead air at the end. The song stops at 3:40, but then there's total silence until the standard AIM outro plays, leaving the video to continue until 4:20; I suppose forty seconds of nothingness/outro isn't really that bad, it's just a strange design choice. It seems like a happy song, though judging by one of the comments there's apparently some lyrical dissonance: The sparkling sound that reminded me of summer was very comfortable. The song doesn't feel particularly sad or lonely, but I'll take their word for it. Song is pretty nice, I like it/ ====================== - ====================== Sakuraha Rutoha - Yume no Ashioto (composer: Namba Ken) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94_rMA_XDOQ Estimated Score: 71.00 Not quite sure. I really like the backing music, but I don't think I like her vocal performance on it... I'm also not one to really "get" sound mixing, but I feel like the settings lead to her voice overpowering the instruments a bit more strongly than I'd have liked. And the lyrics, which are conveniently easily available here, are... alright: thank you for always supporting me Kinda genericly sweet, but I like sweet so... not exactly gripping enough that I want to give extra points for them, but sweet enough that "yeah, sure, I like them" feels like an appropriate response. I think I'd score it something like... Instruments: 82.00 Lyrics: 55.00 Singing: 53.90 Which would average out to "63.633333333333". And I'm not sure if that feels too high or too low because, it's like, "well, if the song focuses heavily on her singing & you're giving that less than 55 points...." but it's also like "man, I love that opening before the singing starts & even during the main parts of the song, there are definitely some high points with this energy that I kinda love"; so... I think I'll take a bit of a gamble & go high with the starting score here, throw it up to the 70s. Definitely room for it to drop back down a tier & a slight chance that my love for the backing music to carry it even further up, but I think I feel good with starting it at Really Like and then seeing where things go. ====================== - ====================== Kazenagi Koa - Yume no Kaidan (composer: Nanba Ken) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN2abkjqAbM Estimated Score: 60.00 [Upgraded to 70.00] Well, the lyrics are a fairly big miss. Too happy, optimstic, and intentionally inspirational: "Make your dreams come true to see the light", "Turn dreams and goals into miracles", blah blah blah; let's just say this doesn't compare favorably to the best Zombie Land inspirational songs & there's nothing here that gets past my initial bias against it. And yet... I don't hate this. Actually, I don't see to be opposed to it at all, honestly--so long as I ignore the lyrics, I actually do like this. I feel like tentatively placing it into the Clump; while it's certainly not my first choice, there's a certain tenderness to the song that is rather pleasing. ...And I think I want to hear something else by her, so let's deter to a fairly arbitrarily selected cover by her: [Later: This is definitely something I enjoy in spite of the lyrics being antithetical to my existence, but after trying a pair of other songs, I think I really like this one? Could be the type of sleeper song that gets lots of extra points if listened to repeatedly, but I'll settle for only moving it up one tier at the moment.] ====================== -Two more songs to go and I actually don't have room in this post to fit them!- --- A not very secret alt account for when Raetsel wants to be a pony ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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