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For selphie

I very much look forward to listening to the first one (officially added), though I am a bit confused by your remark about the video for Lullaby not being relevant... putting aside that I'm very easily manipulated by outside factors and don't care about objectivity, you used the video version of "Gonna Be My Day" which is clearly inferior to the album version of the song. I thought you did that hoping the video would pique my interest or get you extra points somehow...

he's too old to believe babies can be flushed down the toilet

???: ponyphonic | Lullaby for a Princess (6:47)
https://youtu.be/H4tyvJJzSDk?si=qbTB4kRnnGaW4iYW
Nominator: @redrocket [12 songs remaining]
Characters: Celestia and Luna

Initial Score: 62.7009
Final Score: 62.53

(First Impressions: [Before Listening]

This is another song that I'm skippping ahead to. It's cheating, but I really want to listen to an MLP fan song right now and it's just not going to be fair to other songs if I'm listening to them while thinking "wow, I really want to be listening to that other nomination right now"--at best, the distraction might make it a bit harder to fairly judge said other songs. At worst, I'd be incentivized to be even lazier with the write ups since the faster I got through everything else, the faster I could get to the song I wanted to hear. So... yeah, I'm skipping ahead to this one right now.

[After]

Yep, I like this one. It does a better job of portraying Celestia than the show itself ever did; having her actually suffer and grieve over banishing her sister makes her an actual character with emotions, which is certainly an improvement. It's not quite my favorite song--but the characterization in the lyrics is great & the music is solid, so it's quite easy to like this song.)

I fear that by nominating so many MLP fansongs, you've accidentally Vogue'd/Stronger Than You'd this pick. Is it impressive and good characterization for Celestia, but... it's pretty obvious to me which of the nominated songs is in last place & when I'm struggling to make cuts, it becomes way too easy to point at "song that's fairly low on the list of songs I'll go back to because I can name many preferable alternatives" and move along.

....That being said, it's not as though this song's score dropped drastically or anything, so I could be overstating the impact being last place of its kind actually had. And I do still like it! Not half as much as I'd like it if Luna were actually here (apparently singing about a moon princess does not give you bonus moon points & you can read whatever you want into that), but taking a character that I don't really care about & making her even remotely compelling takes a fair amount of talent.

I don't actually think it's the sugar lobby like in the episode.

I've never personally had to go through that shit because I've had the great fortune of platinum level health care from my job for 20 years, but I've heard many of the horror stories. It really does come off as the most real thing South Park has done.

No. If I were ever to try Fortnite, it would 100% not be because of any collab, nor do I really understand why collabs or cosmetics are a reason people find compelling at all.

I still have two nominations to trade for Mjrn