They say there's no accounting for taste. But by Oscar standards, you have to rate an 8.25 out of 10 just to land a nomination.

That's how they ended up with a mere two nominated songs in this year's Academy Award voting and both are of the children's variety: Flight of the Conchord's Brett McKenzie for “Man or Muppet” (“The Muppets”) and The Rio Singers for “Real in Rio” (“Rio”).

The impressive list of snubs includes:

-- Elton John/Lady Gaga (“Hello Hello” from "Gnomeo & Juliet")

-- Elvis Costello (“Sparkling Day” from “One Day”)

-- Willie Nelson ("Hell and Back" from “Hell and Back Again”)

-- Chris Cornell ("The Keeper" from “Machine Gun Preacher")

-- Mary J. Blige (“Living Proof” from “The Help”)

-- Brad Paisley (“Collision of Worlds” from “Cars 2”)

-- Zac Brown Band (“Where the River Goes” from "Footloose").

-- will.i.am (“Hot Wings” from “Rio")

-- Zooey Deschanel (“So Long” from “Winnie the Pooh”)

Surely, a few of these folks would have added some musical luster (or muscle) to the normally tedious Oscar ceremony.

Clearly, when you have 39 songs eligible and only 2 nominees, something is wrong with the system. Especially when most of these songs are pretty good.

The obvious flaw is that 8.25 is too high, given the divisiveness of musical genres. You can picture someone saying "I hate country" and giving Willie Nelson or Zac Brown a 2, thus requiring a handful of 10s to offset it.

If "Citizen Kane" and "The Godfather" are 10s, how many of the nominated movies would be able to rank an 8.25?

Safe to say there wouldn't be 9.