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552: THE EIGHTFOLD ROAD - CYRUS, THE SCHOLAR:

https://familyjules7x.bandcamp.com/track/cyrus-the-scholar

Nominator: The_Mighty_KELP (31/32)

Initial Score: 46.80 [#461]
Revised Score: 41.85 [#515]
Final Score: 40.10 [#552]

(First Thoughts: This song goes too hard. It wants to be HYPER EPIC TO DA MAXXX, but it doesnt really fit the song or the character. Its performed well, but I kinda resent what its doing.)

Today I have a much stronger resentment towards the song. I dont like the original song at all (actually, I dont think I liked any of the Octopath soundtrack that I can recall), but this song misses the mark for the character so hard that I cant think of an appropriate metaphor for this sentence.

I suppose this version of the song is preferable to the original, but I actually prefer this piano cover over both of them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1maUGI8-g0

Now thats a song that feels like it actually fits Cyrus as a character, Id probably score the piano cover in the high 60s.

[Final Thoughts: Well, somewhere in the 60s for the piano cover. Its a vast improvement over the original and the nominated track, but not really outstanding.

Actual Song: It almost feels like a parody. Like the concept of doing a metal cover of this song was so ridiculous, they decided to lean into it and make it as completely ludicrously over-the-top as possible. I just cant tell if thats actually what they were aiming for. And even if they were, its still not something I particularly like... dont really dislike it either, just have no interest in what its trying to do.]

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551: LENA RAINE - AWAKE:

https://radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/track/awake

Nominator: Metalmind_Stats (22/28)
Source: Celeste Soundtrack (17/21)

Initial Score: 41.27 [#Unranked (would have been #498, if properly counted)]

Revised Score: 40.97 [#523]

Final Score: 40.40 [#551]

(First Thoughts: I completely missed this song until near the end of the second phase of listening to everything, so this is accidentally a very late entry to the topic. I wish I loved this, itd be a great story for a lost song to come out of nowhere and win the whole thing... but Im not a fan of this. Its just a standard sad piano song, which can be great, but this is...alright.)

Sad piano song that doesnt succeed in making me feel sad. Since this song wasnt found until pretty late into the ranking, I saved this to be the last song that would get a Revised Scoremeaning this is officially the final writeup of the Second Phase of this project.

...thats not really an interesting statistic, but this wasnt a very interesting song.

[Later: Well, I missed some songs and messed some things up, so it wasnt really the final writeup. It was meant to be though, which is somehow even less interesting of a fact.]

[Final Thoughts: Well, sad probably isnt the right word for what the song is going for, but then I dont know what word does properly describe it.]

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