They opened up with "Morning in Ponyville". This is actually ingenious on quite a few levels: See, they knew that musicals had just this same ratio of songtime to not-songtime in their shows, and it was considered not "rushed" but "fine art". They knew that many bronies and little girls alike loved the classic Disney movies, and many bronies have an incredible nostalgic tie to them. SO, they opened up with a song almost completely based on the classic Disney musical style. Not only does this create a great and fun song to listen to, but it also establishes on an almost subconscious level for the viewer that the following episode will be a musical format just like a Disney musical, so to expect a bunch of great musical-style songs in a short space of time.

With this song they continued the 'classic Disney musical' feeling to the song, giving this episode's songs a definite and memorable style. Also, when I said before that the songs were a great method of speeding up the story without rushing it, I primarily meant this song and the next two: This part very clearly introduces the problem and the characters' feelings about it; the way that the background music is composed, it actually shows us that it is a problem--compare to the Flim Flam Brothers song in the way that it leaves us with a slight feeling of uneasiness that has nothing to do with the tone of the song, which was negative anyway. Still, on it's own it's a good song, and still something I'd listen to (I loved the harmonies as everypony is singing together at the end).

This song is definitely the biggest reason that the "Too short" and "Too many songs" combined actually work perfectly together. One of the biggest things that many did not like about Keep Calm and Flutter On is that it tried to force the feels; Discord's sadness seemed to come out of nowhere. Because songs can communicate emotions much faster than just writing, this song brought us into the sad part of the story arc quickly and smoothly, not feeling rushed. It continued the downward direction of What My Cutie Mark Is Telling Me, so it didn't feel like it came completely out of nowhere. By using sad, gloomy, feelsy lyrics, shots, and background music, and ending with "Oh, Spike, what have I done?!", this moved the emotional arc of the story along quite well. Also, this song changed up the style: whereas the last two felt like they came from a musical, this felt more along the lines of many better-quality pop songs. (Yes, they do exist.) This keeps the style of songs from becoming too repetitive, and also the way that the songs have many different styles is great since everypony watching has different musical tastes. By including songs with many different styles, the wide variety of songs in this episode theoretically pleases everyone.

Of all of the songs, this one was my personal favorite. Just like in Return of Harmony, using super happy-feelsy music while reuniting the Mane 6 equates to feelings of joy like none other. This time, though, there are lyrics too, meaning twice the happy. Everypony loves a happy song! Or at least I do. Like I said, everypony has different things they like about a song. Still, this song.....I can barely find words to express how awesome it is. From the angelic harmonies at the end to the crowd shouting Pinkie's name in glee to the way that this song reminds us why we love all of these character so much, truly this is a flawless work of art, and I look forward to listening to it again. On repeat. For hours. 8D

...okay not really, but if I did that with any song, it would be this one.

Okay, Celestia singing by itself is incredible, but this song also goes above and beyond in many other ways. The background piano and singing feel angelic and pure, just like Celestia herself. Still, remember when i said that True True Friend was my favorite song?.....oops. This song doubles the joy felt in the last song by utilizing my favorite trope in television and in literature: the "Look How Far We've Come" moment. This gives you a sense of pride like none other, especially when Twi and Celestia are literally walking down memory lane together, showing all of the clips of moments from the show of Twi that we've loved as they walk forward, into the bright light symbolizing the future. Also, the underlying feeling of the song is a mother congratulating her daughter on her accomplishments, a powerful and nostalgic moment for everyone who's ever experienced a positive parent-child relationship. This song came the closest to making me shed a tear of joy out of all of them.

Again changing up the style, this changes to something the show has only done once before with the Heart Carol--a truly, wholly angelic song that most would associate with a church. While I can't speak for many that resent the church's corruption today, I personally loved this song for its pure harmonies and sheer beauty, encompassing an ideal of purity that all would agree the church should have, even if they believe that it currently does or doesn't. If you hate the church and/or religion, think of this song as an ideal of what it should be like rather than "oh it's based on religious music and therefore must suck".

This song did several specific things that I really liked:

-Just like in Crystal Empire when the first song was reprised for the ending, this brings the whole episode full circle. It shows, in a way, how far we've come even though it's been only a twenty minute segment.

-It combined the two greatest things (IMO of course) about the songs in this episode: the angelic harmonies and the 'classic musical' style into one song.

-The writers knew about how panicked bronies were about the concepts of this episode, and how worried we were about the show's future. Now apply the lyrics in THAT context:

Life in Equestria shimmers

Life in Equestria shines

And I know for absolute certain

That everything (everything)

Yes, everything

Yes, everything is certainly fine

It's fine

Underlying message to us panicked bronies much? I'd say, with myself at least, it worked perfectly.