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#106 [TIE] [#111]

Name: I believe in you
Origin: Il divo & Celine Dion
Link:

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Nominator: CPU (4/10)

(6, 6.5, 7.1)

[Pretty, but the message isnt one Im looking for right now.]

I don't feel like dancing around the topic, so while this is a spoiler, let's just get it out of the way: Darkness is getting a 10--the mysteries are if it wins and how many other songs get 10s.

I was going to try to be more subtle about it, but really, there's no way we're getting through this write-up without confronting that fact. There's no way to say "This is a very pretty song, but I wish the lyrics were the exact opposite about light being gone forever and learning to embrace the darkness" without people jumping to the obvious conclusion.

[Later Edit: Considering my general unpredictability, I doubt anyone would have tried making any guesses as to where Darkness would fall, but we're here now and I'm not rewriting this.]

And really, I don't think either of my topics had two songs as fundamentally opposing each other, as this track and Darkness:

One a beautiful song, a collaboration between a group known for operatic renditions of popular songs and one of the most famous singers in the world, joining together for a song about redemption & love & light.

The other has people dressing up like goblins and screaming DARKNESS a lot.

It is at this point that even Raetsel has to pause for a second and reflect on the choices in her life that led to this particular conversation.

As her pointy ears twitch, it is likely at this point that you realize you're talking to someone who seems to think she's literally an anthropomorphic fox and questioning the choices in your life that led to you interacting with her in the first place.

AAANYWHO--this is a great song. I have no complaints about Il divo or Celine's performance, the operatic qualities of the song greatly help it stand out, as does Celine's section in French (I don't think we had any other French songs, at this topic or the other?). But I will have darkness.

...I have no idea what I'm going to say when we get to Darkness now, but I suppose that's future me's problem. </.<

[Final Thoughts: Earlier, you mentioned there being a couple of songs you were surprised were still in. I'm guessing they were the Hymn of the Cherubim and this song? But I'm not sure why you would have been concerned with this song--at the end of the last topic (which I thought you were around for, but I may be misremembering), I admitted a fondness for Placido Domingo's English songs and practically begged someone to try nominating something by him that I hadn't heard yet.

Il divo is quite comparable to Placido; if anything, it was one of the safer picks... in terms of musical style and quality, at any rate. The lines about being an angel of kindness take the whole goodness and light thing too far, but other than that, this was a solid pick.]

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