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#112. Both Sides Now
Artist: Carly Rae Jepsen
Nomination: CoolCly (5/5)
Time: 3:52
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0taUegvsFSQ
Initial Rankings: Batch 7 - 14/15 (F) & Rubric 15
Weighted Rankings: Red 9/16

I've looked at its bordering entries from both sides now and I'm comfortable with its low placement. I thought it would be lower, but it can actually thank "Anywhere Is" for how truly annoying and cloying a song can be that this sounds leagues better. It's not a good song, and yet I like it more than "Idioteque" somehow (I've tried more with that song than in any other ranking, I swear).

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#111. Main Theme (Towering Inferno)
Artist: John Williams
Nomination: Redrocket (5/5)
Time: 5:03
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSkYqTyaxh4
Initial Rankings: Batch 7 - 13/15 (D-) & Rubric 14
Weighted Rankings: Orange 14/16

"Adventuresome." - First listen note

It sounds like a mess. It starts off harrowing then turns into a sea adventure where we meet the cast of a fancy Gilligan's Island before trumpeting to triumph on an epic voyage to the stars with the pleasant violins. Next it sweeps up into romance, then betrayal! The xylophones are odd and it keeps going around something big city bombastic or militarily tense or the start of an old Disney live-action movie about an absent-minded professor or an ugly dachschund... This feels like it goes through more genre changes than Too Many Cooks. It feels like a collection of motifs and stings collapsed together. If they took all the character themes from Lost and mashed them into fifteen-second clips one after another, this is what that would sound like. It's herky-jerky. There are a lot of portions I would like to hear on their own, but not in this big dagwood sandwich.

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#110. Dragonsong (FFXIV: Heavensward)
Artist: Nobuo Uematsu
Nomination: CoolCly (4/5)
Time: 5:45
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtuwltmTp9I
Initial Rankings: Batch 7 - 11/15 (D) & Rubric 13
Weighted Rankings: Yellow 16/16

Dragonsong does nothing for me. It doesn't sweep me up, it doesn't grab my attention, it doesn't make me say, "Oh, isn't this amazing? It's my favorite part because you'll see; here's where she meets Prince Charming, but she won't discover that it's him 'til chapter three." Okay, for some reason it doesn't invoke a bit of Beauty and the Beast as well as Snake Eater, on top of the obvious Final Fantasy, but it's just a nothing song for me. First second song to drop by a nominator, though! That's... a note.

And that's it for the bottom tier!