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310: - ANITA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nBiF8YIr2w

Nominator: handsomeboy (10/15)

Initial Score: 60.04 [#241]
Revised Score: 60.72 [#281]
Final Score: 61.30 [#310]

(First Thoughts: Its got a good toe-tapping beat that I find infectious (in a good way). I couldnt find much information on the song, but I see this band only released one album before disbanding? Too bad, I wouldnt have minded hearing a bit more from them.)

This one seems like a straightforward song about begging for a second chance with a lost love. Find a new opportunity in your loving heart today and Please let me beg, let me talk to you again, dont feel like theyre open to other interpretations and sing together and sing the love song in your heart feels like it removes any possibilities about this being a tragic song. Like... Anita has to be alive if he wants her to sing, right?

So: A catchy pop song with a basic love story from a band that was very short-lived, in spite of their talent. I think I both understand and like this song.

[Final Thoughts: Nice song.]

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309: DIR EN GREY - (The Sky That Has Fallen):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5OayaAwDnI

Nominator: @BlackDra90n (17/21)
Source: BlackDra90ns Extra Songs (4/7)

Initial Score: 60.30 [#228]
Revised Score: 60.84 [#280]
Final Score: 61.35 [#309]

(First Thoughts: I expected this to provoke more of a reaction. Considering my total dislike of the two Dir en Grey songs nominated two years ago, and my complete love of Ranunculus, I really thought this song would provoke an extreme reaction in one way or another. But this is just.... good? I dont love it, but I certainly dont dislike it. How distressingly normal.)

The only attempted translation of the song that I can find has some nice lyrics:

Theres nowhere that makes sense
Nor even begins to
The fair and just tomorrow that I prayed for, will be...

If Im unable to live in that kind of world,
Where is there to go?
Will it last forever, the turbulence of things getting even worse?

I quite like that. But the opening of the song with METAL YELLING does nothing for me and even the tamer singing is a million miles away from the beauty of Ranunculus. The end result is good. Just good.

[Final Thoughts: Still good, still 40 points away from Ranunculus greatness.]

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308: FRUMS - SALMIAKKI:

https://frums.bandcamp.com/track/salmiakki

Nominator: cakophon (19/26)
Source: vignette (15/20)

Initial Score: 71.08 [#114]
Revised Score: 69.39 [#209]
Final Score: 61.40 [#308]

(First Thoughts: Good song, but it feels too...busy in the bad way. I like convoluted songs, but this just seems too busy for its own good and Im not fully connecting with it.)

An intense 5 minute and 20 second long musical journey thats just a bit too intense for me. Theres so much happening at once that I cant really think of anything or point to any part that I particularly like, which... yeah, usually I like that, and I do still like this song... its all just slightly too much.

[Final Thoughts: Good song, just too busy.]

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