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1 7 (6.6) There are only two factions that can create good music. One of them is the Japanese. Increased the score for decent vocals.
2 6 (5.8) The visuals are… questionable. I got tired of listening, but I won't rate it lower than average because the track itself remains somewhat decent and doesn't completely fall apart. However, it doesn't develop, which is a significant criterion for me.
3 7 (6.7) There are only two factions that can create good music. One of them is the Slavs. But I really wanted to lower the score because of the… issues.
4 6 (7, but lowered the score because of the hate towards my track) Slightly better than average, not annoying, but a bit slower than I'd like. I wanted to adjust the score because the vocals are non-existent, but then I remembered that vocals are a controversial element that can ruin music, so I decided not to bother.
5 7 (6.8) It's acceptable. At first, I thought it was garbage, but then it got better. The vocals are still not great.
6 6 (5.7) It's nothing special, but there are some good musical moments.
7 7 (6.8) Author, it's the 21st century, hello! Are you completely out of touch? From the very first seconds, I sincerely wanted to lower the score because of how generic it is, but the music is decent as background noise, and the vocals aren't annoying. Overall, it's okay.
8 1 No comment.
9 4 It died and rotted... and then the guitar came in, so I had to lower the score a bit.
10 7 (6.7) It's acceptable. Ten years of adding clips haven't gone to waste. Although the vocals could be much better (or worse).
11 2 (1.8) It would probably be nice to walk through an industrial area at night with bananas in your ears, skip classes in the morning while sipping cognac on pipes, then go with a classmate to a party, then ride a bike or skateboard around the park until evening while she watches you with a smile, holding a cocktail and a cigarette, and then return home in the evening and tell your mother that you attended all the lectures. But no.
12 7 (6.6) Mike from Breaking Bad is shouting on the beach in Adler. Not bad, but not particularly great.
13 6 (5.6) The music is okay, the vocals are okay, the video is unpleasant. I thought I would rate it lower.

I thought I would rate many of them much lower, but it turned out that I actually overrated them, and this has been happening for several years now. Apparently, as I get older, the bar for a music contest is slightly lowered from its maximalist values, plus I don't really listen to vocals, so I don't have strong preferences.
Well, even though this is a vocal contest, I generally based my ratings on the average expected level of not being annoying and not causing dislike (a five out of ten), and then I could add points for vocals or music, when the vocals remain non-existent – I still believe that it's necessary to evaluate everything as a whole, if possible.
Overall, it's acceptable; and although there are no clear favorites this time, on the other hand, there is almost no garbage.

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A, the names were available in the template... well, sorry. I'm doing it the old-fashioned way, from a text file.

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