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Topic
#916

EDM Music Battle

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

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After 5 votes and with 3 points ahead, the winner is...

bsh1
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David's avatar
David
91 debates / 171 votes
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Vaarka
0 debates / 3 votes
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Ramshutu
43 debates / 689 votes
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oromagi
117 debates / 397 votes
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Pinkfreud08
17 debates / 210 votes
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Type
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Number of rounds
5
Time for argument
Two days
Max argument characters
500
Voting period
Two weeks
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1641
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63
debates
65.08%
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Description

Each round, the debater will select and post a link to an EDM (Electronic Dance Music) song. They may not use songs already used in the debate, either by themselves or their opponent. Debaters may use songs from other debates for no more than two rounds. No more than one link (i.e. one song) per debater per round. Judges have two weeks to render their decisions, and the time for posting rounds is 48 hours.

Debaters are free to post up to 75 characters explaining their choice of song in rounds 1-4, and up to 150 characters in round 5 to explain their choice of song and to summarize the debate. As always, be polite, and may the best songs win! Thanks in advance to the chosen judges for their assistance in determining a victor!

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Going through the rounds, it was scored 3-2, thanks for the songs. I enjoyed them uwu

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RFD in comments

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Ocean

So this is a great sort of downbeat track. Somewhere between afterlife and above and beyond. I don’t normally like EDM that relies too heavily on the lyrics, it loses something in the layering, but I felt the counter melody and background layers really added up well, this was a great track: 9

Free: the vocals and track were interesting, it didn’t feel like it really built up to anything, the drop was disjointed and it didn’t feel like it added much. Without a good hook here, I didn’t feel this song had lots to offer: 5

Years from now: so this is my guilty pleasure type of song. It has a sort of Terra Ferma - among the stars/Stage one - space maneuvers (gotta love hooj) feel to it - kinda a little ashtrax throne in. I loved the Bassy chilled feel, and it’s a great tune I could listen to when I’m in the mood for some less energetic tracks. I straight up thought this track was amazing, and the type of song I love to mix- and I am quite happy to award this one: 10

The little things: this one was okay, a little bit along the lines of “someone to lean on”, bouncy and a good club song, but felt rather middle of the road. It’s interesting too be sure, but not didn’t really feel like it stood out: 6

Put me back together: this was again a buoy middle of the road, it had a simpler feel to the last round. This one was slightly more level, with a little bit more too it: a bit more haunting. For a wind down chilled track, it was passable. It was marginally more catchy than the last track with a hook I’m more likely to remember: 7

Total: 37

Ocean:

So this was a great vocal track - unlike Bsh’s ocean this was more my style of EDM vocal track - vocals as equal to the other layers rather than rising above. Much more above and beyond (have I mentioned I like A&B?); the build up was immense, but I was very, very let down by the drop. The discontinuous nature broke up the song too much in a place where I felt it needed to pick up with a full on beat. If it had, this would have been a 10, but without it, I felt the song failed for me: 6

Nevada: Really liked this track, great build up, great hook, hard edge mid section, and gelled well when the hook came in on top of the lyrics (that’s something many EDM songs don’t do right). Used the EDM equivalent of “the four chords”, but I was tapping along - the hook wasn’t quite as catchy or hummable as others though, so this lets it down from a 10: 9.

Running away: great track, higher tempo, interesting layering to it. Not as catchy imo as some of the others, but is definitely decent: 7

Crystal skies: I am in two minds here. On the one hand, the build up and verse structure was everything I love about EDM, it was Tilt, Matt Darey, everything. But on the other hand, the drop really let It down: I’m not a fan of dubstep breaks like this when it’s out of character with the rest of the song, and for this reason I can’t give it a big score: if it had continued its beat into a major classic EDM drop, this would have been a 9/10. However, with the drop, this song felt like a big let down:5

Ride or die: boom! Love this track, catchy hook, nice drop: I would have liked it a bit faster but I felt enjoyed this one, though a bit less than would warrant a ten.

This was my RFD for the last time you posted this track. While I love the song, the fact that you used it before was a bit cheaty. I would give this one a 2 point deduction.

Total: 34

Saying this, even without the deduction - Bsh wins this one 37/34

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I want to begin by thanking bsh1 and speedrace for inviting me to judge this debate. My philosophy when judging these types of debates is to award points per round. Whoever has the most points at the end of the debate is the winner. With that, let's begin.

ROUND 1

It's quite fascinating that both debaters chose to submit a song called "ocean." That being said, I really loved both of these songs! They had beautiful beats and an interesting chord progression. That being said, I like the lyrics to bsh's "ocean" a bit better and liked the strings in the piece. I'm giving R1 to bsh.

ROUND 2

Both had nice beats and lyrics. However, I kinda got bored with "Nevada" as it kinda repeated the same motif and lyrics over and over again. I felt the piece was overall stagnant with the chord progressions. I also don't quite understand why the song is called "Nevada." "Free" had much better lyrics and a more compelling melodic line. I give this round to bsh.

ROUND 3

I didn't really care for bsh's submission here. I didn't like the lyrics and didn't really care for the speech at the beginning. The song was a bit too long for me and kinda zoned out before the full 5:30. As for "Running Away," the lyrics were better and I liked the overall melody. This round goes to speedrace

ROUND 4

Outside of classical music, lyricless music is always a hit or miss for me. In this case, this was a miss. For a song 5 minutes in length, I got bored rather quickly with there being no lyrics. I liked bsh's "The Little Things" a lot. I liked the lyrics and liked the round. This round goes to bsh

ROUND 5

"Put me back together" was a great song. I love the color red and like the background with the video. The song's lyrics was quite compelling and at times moving. I also really liked "Ride of Die." I liked the melody and the lyrics, however I don't like the music video behind it. That being said, bsh edges out slightly for that reason.

CONCLUSION

Thank you guys for this debate. Both of you guys just gave me great music to add to my library. The winner of this debate is bsh.