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And now for a couple of firsts: The first participant to lose two songs a row & the first time I openly talk to myself, here's 782 & 781:

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#782: HANABIE. - Sunrise Miso Soup (3:46):
https://open.spotify.com/track/0qAspOPBxPaq0WUzRTcA3t?si=958f77f7304b4c8b

Nominator: Murphiroth [31 Remaining]

Initial Score: 47.00
Revised Score: 18.74
FInal Score: 12.58

(First Reaction: It's a fairly forgettable J-metal song. Nothing wrong with it, but being unable to sleep is a fairly banal topic & lyrics about food never work for me and thus I find very little to be interested in here.)

I'm not really sure how a first reaction that terrible could get a score that high because that was brutal. There are a few points in the song with clearer, more operatic vocals that are alright? I'm just so... uninterested in the story of this song that even at its best, I'm rather disinterested in listening to it.

...And I think I'm going to take a break early tonight because I'm being way, way too cruel and don't want to carry this negativity onto whatever song is being ranked next.

[Final Thoughts: Well, I don't like intense drumming or lyrics about food, so this feels like a fairly easy "bottom of the list" type song. It's not something I hate, but it consists almost entirely of things I don't like being performed in ways that don't exactly improve my opinion of them.

And yet, that Initial Score implies there was a time where I at least didn't mind the track. I'm not really sure what I was getting out of the song that it had such an incredibly high score, but I'm certainly not recapturing those feelings on any of the re-listens.]

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#781: HANABIE. - We love sweets (2:39):
https://open.spotify.com/track/0XuctrPVJmwNifmEaoC5Bj?si=e76ada0c36cf482c

Nominator: Murphiroth [30 Remaining]

Initial Score: 34.00
Revised Score: 18.01
Final Score: 13.00

(First Reaction: I see now that this year's running gag is going to be complaining about songs with food related lyrics. This is obviously not the only song to get that complaint (it wouldn't be a running gag if it only came up once), but this may be the lowest scoring of all of them, which is vaguely impressive in its own right?)

There's a spoken-word section towards the end that is fairly nice. Other than that, I'm in even less of a mood for this song than I usually am. I think the only food related song in recent memory that I enjoyed was "Mozzarella Try Cooking" and I fear there's not much of a secret reason for that. That song is cute and catchy; this song is not cute or instantly memorable in a "get stuck in your head years later" type way.

I suppose that's the only real takeaway here. "If you're going to sing about food, be cute".

[Fluttershy's Note: I thought the moral of the story was "cheese is cuter than chocolate"?]

...Sure, let's go with that too.

[Final Thoughts: There are metal songs that I absolutely love, but this isn't my style. If we're going full metal growling like this then I need some lyrics that I can get attached to and food songs are *really* not the way to go on that end. I'll acknowledge that this is good for this style of metal, but it's not a style for me & there's not really a lot here that I find appealing. There are some cleaner, kinda cute vocals occasionally? I don't mind that bit.]

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