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This is going to be one of *those* mornings... *shuffles another song scheduled to be eliminated up the list *

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#767: HANABIE. - Sentimental Heroine (1:39):
https://open.spotify.com/track/1tiVcULS0wYfMW99PdpJxc?si=973d0a414ed345ae

Nominator: Murphiroth [27 Remaining]

Initial Score: 48.00
Revised Score: 36.401
FInal Score: 44.15

(First Reaction: I kinda liked the part with the clear vocals instead of the yelling.)

A very intense and very short song, which appears to be impossible to find lyrics for. After trying every possible search condition I could think of, I finally found the official lyric video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YucH3BX9Oy0

Which naturally only has the lyrics displayed on the video itself, not in text or closed captioning format where you could copy it and run it through a translator. Of course. I'm not holding the lack of lyrics against the song, but it definitely prevents me from getting any added context that may have helped the track.

I'm not finding a lot to say about the song itself... it's a very hardcore metal song that goes full out from the beginning and ends almost as quickly as it started,

[Final Thoughts: The way the lyrics video displays the lyrics also makes it ill-suited for "image to text" translators, even if I wanted to go lyric by lyric through an auto translator. The song itself is... alright, I suppose? The clean lyrics towards the end of the song are nice. And it's short enough that it's hard to really complain about it... even if I'm not in the mood for this style of metal, the song ends before it can become grating or leave much of an impression.]

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-Dividing Driver!-

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#766: John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire (5:43):
https://youtu.be/AulNvAR0u5c

Nominator: Haste [29 Remaining]

Initial Score: 20.00
Revised Score: 50.00
Final Score: 44.31

(First Reaction: Epic guitar playing bores me and I was really wanted this song to end before the two minute mark. Unfortunately, it just keeps going....I'll grant that it does change things up and settle down around three minutes, but 1: I'm not a fan of that part either, I just don't dislike it quite as much & 2: it kinda picks back up later in the song anyway, so it's more a brief reprieve than anything else. I also don't like the fading out at the end here; usually, that doesn't bother me at all, it feels like the majority of popular songs end in a fade out, but here it's like "you bore me for almost 6 minutes and then the audio just quietly goes away instead of actually ending" and I feel an irrational dislike of the song. I certainly don't hate it, but it's a pretty drastic miss.)

I'm not sure if I'd call it "good news", but tonight the song is failing to generate any type of reaction at all. I don't find it to be epic, nor do I know why I felt that way months ago... it's just music that exists and I kinda forget is even there. I can hear you saying, "But how can you possibly not notice this??" and I just sorta shrug. It's fine, not something I really wish to compliment or complain about. It just is.

[Final Thoughts: "Electric Jazz Fusion Rock" is apparently not my jam, but I'm glad I got a chance to sample it anyway. Also this has a rather chaotic score... I apparently never feel the same way about it twice, which is slightly interesting?]

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