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Topic
#5352

Electronic Music Battle: The Tiebreaker

Status
Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Winner
3
3

After 6 votes and with the same amount of points on both sides...

It's a tie!
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Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
5
Time for argument
One day
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One week
Point system
Winner selection
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
3
1716
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566
debates
68.29%
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Description

One song per round, all electronic songs. Whoever has the better songs in the voters' eyes is the victor.

I did two of these with RM years ago, and we split the series 1-1. This will break the tie (for now at least, it depends if RM wants to do more of these).

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

Round 1 - Pro

I liked how Lunar Abyss was more fast-paced, and I didn't love the vocals in Distance, though there's no accounting for taste. I also think Lunar Abyss had a much stronger opening, whereas the vocals in Distance became a bit better near the end.

Round 2 - Pro

I appreciated the rhythm in Blue more than in Baddest Things. Maybe the latter is an acquired taste, but after the first few seconds, I do feel that the different sound effects and beats didn't harmonize as well. I'm no music expert, so this is just coming from my opinion, but I just liked the beat in Blue more all the way through.

Round 3 - Pro

The intro to Once Again felt like it could have been in Interstellar. I also thought the vocals fit with the instrumental. I did like the vocals a bit more in Turn Left, but the instrumental in Once Again was enough to carry it (even ignoring the fact that I should maybe be weighing the vocals less since this is an EDM battle.)

Round 4 - Pro

A New Dawn started with a good intro hook and picked up well as it went on. It als finished strong, even if the melody was a bit repetitive (but that's to be expected in EDM). That said, I thought Green & Gold relied a bit too much on the vocals, while there was more range to the beat in A New Dawn

Round 5 - Con

Moonbeam was nice, but in addition to sounding similar to a lot of what Pro had already posted, it didn't feel as emotive as Strangers. I also like that the beat in Strangers was a bit more versatile.

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

My vote goes to Con.

Round 1: Pro
Round 2: Tie
Round 3: Con
Round 4: Con
Round 5: Con

So whoever has best songs in voter's eyes is a victor.

Round 1 is for Pro.
Pro presents a song which for the first two minutes just caused me headache.
But somehow, after two minutes it gets really good and you even feel like dancing to it.
Con presents a solid song which is good from start to finish, but it is still outweighed by Pro's song even when we include that first two minutes of Pro's song are bad, because Pro's song rises to greatness later.

Round 2 is a tie.
This one simply felt like both songs were unmoving. I had to force myself to listen to both in hopes they get good by the end, but neither did.

Round 3 goes to Con.
Pro says his song is not repetitive, which is just one of the issues I find with it. The song seems to be playing 3 or 4 different things one after another and I simply cant bring myself to enjoy the fact that it abandons rythm in favor of some musical chaos.
Con's song was much more enjoyable, and far outweighs that song.

Round 4 goes to Con.
Con seem to have figured out the mistake from round 2, so he didnt post another song like from round 2. But Pro's song is almost same in quality from round 2 and 3. It fails to build mood. It never takes you on the path of excitement. While Con's song wasnt exactly great, it at least caused some joy while listening it.

Round 5 goes to Con
This was a very slight win, but Con's song has female voice and singing, where Pro's song doesnt. Con's song brings more joy while listening to it and I am far more likely to be willing to dance to it, which is an important quality in a song.
Based on that, I give round 5 to Con.

Overall, Pro's best rounds were 1 and 5, where Con's best rounds were 3 and 5 and 4.

I can say that Pro's song from round 1 is about as good as Con's song from round 3.

Pro only gave 2 good songs, and Con gave 3, and Pro's both best songs lose to Con's best song given in round 5.

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

I gave my reasoning for my vote in the comments. Rm's music was slightly less shitty than mharmans overall but more gay.

I did let quality be a heavier factor than gayness and RM won 3 rounds to mharmans 2

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

Round 1: Con
Round 2: Pro
Round 3: Pro
Round 4: Con
Round 5: Pro

Pro takes it 3-2.

Stand out tracks for each side:
Pro - Moonbeam by Waterflame x F-777. Jived hard with this one from the opening beats and it was just a great time throughout.
Con - Distance by Apashe ft. Geoffrey (VOLAC Remix). While HALUNA's vocals probably stood out the most across the songs you posted, this was my favorite marriage of vocals and electronica.

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

Mhar wins round 2 and 4
RM wins 1, 3, and 5

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Winner
1 point(s)
Reason:

This is just my opinion:
Round 1: PRO wins
Round 2: Tie
Round 3: CON wins
Round 4: Tie
Round 5: PRO wins