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#2: Stupendium - These Hallowed Wings [3:55]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSYEzDx_BFM

Nominator: paulg [0/52 Remaining]

Initial Score: 80.00
Revised Score: 84.60
Final Score: 81.60 [Upgraded to 95.12] [Upgraded to 96.90] [Upgraded to 100]

(First Reaction: An unexpectedly great song that I kinda love. Clever lyrics that are faithful to the character, incredibly catchy beat, this song is legitimately awesome.)

!This song is so far, far beyond the other two Animal Crossing related songs that it's not even funny.

[Final Thoughts: Well, Tom Nook's song has been growing on me lately, so perhaps this is not as far beyond as it once was. They're both well beyond Crazy Redd's song though!

...Unless I moved that one up. I don't want to move that one up though. Do I?

*goes back to listen to Rogue's Gallery*

No, no I do not.

Aaannywho...

*pauses for a minute, wondering if she'd rather go with AaanyHOO for the obvious owl pun*

...

*quietly wonders if that pun would be offensive to that imaginary owl that lives in her head. Probably not?*

*awkward silence*

Right, right. You nominated a song! This is the most upbeat and cheery of the three songs, largely because Blathers is the only nice fellow. It's cute, funny, upbeat with a memorable chorus, and stars an adorable non-human singer. I do kinda love this song.]

[Later: A bit of a boost at the last moment.]

[Later: I know it's not the best song here, but I don't care. It's cute, and fun, and stars a singing owl! And if I'm being honest... the singing owl kinda makes me really happy? I mean, I am making a lot of progress on dealing with more challenging subject matter, but I still love songs and characters like this too. And that's fine.]

[Later: Soo.. umm... my inner child is kinda insisting, very strongly, that the owl not be eliminated. ...So, I'll just be moving this up to the 100 point category and we'll see what that means in the distant future when we reach the end of the list.

...Wait, we're deciding the top 10 tomorrow?! That's... wow, for something that took well over a year, this is kinda sneaking up on me.]

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Elimination #30 [Second Place]: paulg

Lowest Scoring Song

On The Franches Mountains - Jura Orchestra (AKA The Yodeler Song from Price Is Right) [24.00]

Highest Scoring Song

Stupendium - These Hallowed Wings [100]

Average Score: 63.01

I'm glad someone actually took a chance at nominating an incredibly large number of songs! Back when this started, I was hoping to find a way to hit over a thousand songs just to hit that milestone... perhaps thankfully we didn't get anywhere near that number, but with 52 nominations, you certainly tried your best to get the song count up there. You also hit quite a bit of variety; you gave me the largest amount of chidlike songs (always a positive), the highest scoring mashup, yodeling, ticking clocks, villainy, VGM... it's a lot. Far too much to try to summarize, to be honest, but it was all incredibly appreciated. Thank you very much! I can hardly imagine how long it took to even *find* that many songs to start with...

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#1: The Rentals - Elon Musk Is Making Me Sad (7:19):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taupuK6oND4

Nominator: ZaziGuado [0/28 Remaining]

Initial Score: 99.99
Revised Score: 99.99
Final Score: 100

(First Reaction: I expected a low-scoring comedy song, but god damn, this song is legitimately awesome. I love it and it has a very high chance of winning the traditional ranking*, but I don't think I want to put this into [REDACTED]... I mean, I love the song and will give it approximately all of the points, but I don't feel an intense in-depth look at the song would offer anything of note... sometimes a song is simply great in easily understood ways that don't require much introspection.)

!The first time I heard this song, I instantly fell in love with it and knew it had to take first place out of all the songs in the more traditional part of the ranking. Tonight, while the song is still amazing and I like it a lot, I'm not quite feeling as strongly about it as the first time around...

[Final Thoughts: *Okay, so I've edited out almost every reference to the multiple rankings to make it easier to follow, but I think it's relevant to establish this song's placement. When this started there was a Traditional Ranking and a separate list of songs that I wanted to do a deep dive on. Make a more concerted effort to analyze the songs and my reactions to them. After my wrists started acting up, it became obvious that wasn't really a viable option and things were retooled into having everything into one large ranking.

This song was the highest ranking in the Traditional Ranking. I honestly don't remember how many songs I had set aside for the intense scrutniy (let's say 20 to 40, probably), but this song stood alone as the best song that I loved that wasn't going to be hyperanalyzed. From way back when this ranking started, this was the song destined to win--at least the category it was part of, which was still impressive. It was certainly the larger of the two lists by several orders of magnitude.

And now... now I'm not sure what happens. There's very much meant to be two winners at this point. And considering the lyrics with the singer literally begging to be given first place this is getting kinda awkward?? So I don't know. We'll see. Maybe I take the lame option and have a few songs tie for first. Maybe I do let it win--I love the story, the lyrics, the instruments, I just love this song to death.

[EDITOR'S NOTE: Love for this song and its heavily fictionalized version of Elon Musk should not be considered an endorsement of actual Elon.]

So... I guess take that last fraction of a point to 100 and we'll see what happens in a month or two.]

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Winner: ZaziGuado

Lowest Scoring Song

Color Therapy - Terrarium (feat. The Album Leaf) & Made in Heights - All the Places [55.00]

Highest Scoring Song

The Rentals - Elon Musk Is Making Me Sad [100]

Average Score: 70.49

Honestly, I feel this song is the only appropriate winner. With the highest combined score [299.98 out of a possible 300], this song has been at the absolute top of every version of the list. Other songs would come and go, being added and removed from the conversation for first, but this track has been a constant fixture. No song has its record. And I do believe that "On Melancholy Hill" was the second highest combined score [297.24]--Gracie Films Logo has third at [294.83]--so your two highest songs have always been incredibly dominant performers that stole the show, no matter where I was mentally at the time. For this nearly unprecedented level of consistency, there can be only one true winner, so give it up for Zazi everyone!

Now, I very much need to take a break from typing and I shall start the post-ranking listening in a few days. Thank you all for your time and attention.