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memex feat. kiila - Interference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03sh3CI0mEY

Estimated Score: 67-ish. [Upgraded to 70 during another writeup, and then 72.00 a moment later]

Pretty good song! I like this one quite a bit on first reaction. The piano intro is very pleasing and I kinda love her voice in the first verse--I can't quite figure out the adjective I want to use for it, but I do love it. Once the song picks up in speed and intensity, I think it loses some of the beauty & it can get a bit much near the end (there's a one note tsg-tsh-tsh-tsh beat for the last bit of the song which I'm not fond of, though it is admittedly quite brief). It's the type of song that I'd start in the high 60s and see how I felt on another day, but the first impression is quite good.

The auto-translation of the lyrics are... nice enough, though I'm not raving about them:

Lock everything up, stop time
A moment of brilliance, merging, continuing forever

It sounds neat, at least.

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Koyoi (CLAM AND MIRAGE) - Eternity in our last scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdMbPOX1EcQ

Estimated Score: I'm torn between 80 & 90 points here; I think I'd probably go with something like 86.93 for a first impression.

I kinda love the intro on this track. The instruments here resonate quite strongly with me & I vibe with it quite a bit. Then we get to a spoken word section with incredibly bleak lyrics that almost destroy me:

In a town of ghosts, just the two of us,
I won't get yelled at if I run or sing.
Even the gods forgot about this town,
We are going to be transparent.

I do love where this is going. And the rest of the song is also pretty depressing:

Soon everything will sink in red,
The summer I hate will never come again.
That steel tower, the factory, and the breakwater that blocked the way,
It will soon be all burning red.
[...[
I no longer need an alarm clock or calendar,
I'm sure I can't do anything anymore.

Burning cities, ghost towns, time losing meaning, hopeless despair... I certainly can't complain about the lyrics or their choice of imagery. Still, I'm not completely in love with it; once it reaches a frantic pitch and the song goes more for "intense panic" than "all-consuming despair" it moves away from some of what I loved. Still; hard-hitting lyrics with some extremely high quality music, I feel like I'd be obligated to start with it in the mid-to-high 80s & see if the strong emotional connection held up on repeat listens.

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Skipping ahead a bit because the next song posted has two links and I really only want to click three videos today:

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Yusaku Nakano (feat. Hatsune Miku) - AYATOBI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7mihjnfyAI

Estimated Score; 52.73?

I don't know... it's not bad, but it's also not nearly as appealing as the previous two songs. To a point where it's making me feel like 67 points may have been underselling Interference.

...actually i want to go listen to that again. *ditches this writeup for a bit*

Oh, I do kinda love the intro & first verse on that song. It should be at least at 70 points. Probably more.. eh, fine, let's just say 72 points for it and move on.

Back to AYATOBI.... it's fine? I mean, I don't dislike him or Miku & I feel the song should be in the positive side of scoring, but I feel like it's a few points below the 55 point wall. I just never have much of a reaction to the lyrics or the music--the backing music itself feels like it's lacking in impact. It's not that it's too light, exactly, it just feels... oddly subdued? I don't know. It's fine enough that I don't want to spend any more time complaining, and it's in a rough spot being listened to right after two high scoring songs--this might go up at a full ranking where I'd be listening to it next to other songs that were grouped around it, scorewise... I know there were a lot of songs that started in the low 60s and then went way up when it turned out they were better than everything around them. It's just not exactly a hit on first listen.

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