Instigator / Pro
3
1485
rating
91
debates
46.15%
won
Topic
#935

Acoustic Music Battle

Status
Finished

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

Winner & statistics
Winner
3
2

After 4 votes and with 1 point ahead, the winner is...

David
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Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
5
Time for argument
One day
Max argument characters
4,000
Voting period
Two weeks
Point system
Winner selection
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
2
1641
rating
63
debates
65.08%
won
Description

Acoustic music battle. Limit 1 song per round.

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

To be honest, acoustic isn’t my thing, so I’m scoring pretty subjectively, it’s hard to really grade what I felt stood out or not either. So I’m just going to score plain points.

Pro:
Wild horses: 7: Not my favourite stones song, but I really do like this version
Hold back the River: 5, this one didn’t do much for me
Landslide: 6. was a bit meh, but I much prefer the vocals, though They raised up the song a little over hold back the river
Survivor: 8. Very clever song, recognizable but still with its own character
Unchained Melody : 7, I actually hate this song In general , but thought the cover was pretty decent considering.

Total 33

First time: 4. This one was okay, I felt myself tuning out, felt like it was an smoosh pop love song (like a thousand miles)

7 years: 5 not sure this is quite what I view as acoustic to be honest; I mostly liked the song, but am scoring it down for being a bit out of place

I’m still standing: 5. Again, good cover; not what I would classify as acoustic.

Let it go: 5. I have to say I don’t like this guys voice much.

Love someone: 7. Nice chilled song I thought this was pretty decent.

Total: 26

Pro wins.

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

Con doesn't know what the 'line in the sand is' between acoustic and electronic. This is clear by his Round 5 choice most of all (completely disqualified under my semantics of acoustic) and also his Round 4 AND 3 choice which used an electric guitar and had autotuning going on but it was done very well so you wouldn't notice it too much.
Virtuoso was losing until Round 3 because his style is too soft for my liking (acoustic doesn't mean 'soft', this is actually a false stereotype that both parties committed to, you can have POWERFUL AS FUCK acoustic stuff, especially with strings involved like a violinist or a cello player).
Nonetheless, Round 4 and 3 is not disqualified like Round 5 is from Con as I do see why the 'line' isn't clear because the electric guitar is very gentle, making it near-acoustic-plucking in a way. The keyboard sounds just like a piano and maybe it really was an 'electric piano' that uses the acoustic chamber to vibrate the sounds etc.

I don't know, it was a borderline just-acoustic song.

The thing is The Round 5 from Pro was a fucking masterpiece in my opinion, if you do like soft acoustic sissy-style. This isn't being sexist, it's undeniably a feminine taste that is still catered to 'men' (so sissy-style) that Virtuoso likes. Both clearly are into Indie music but Indie music uses quite a bit of electronic editing these days, which was proven by Con's R3 haha.
Anyway, Con was honestly edging it out until R3.

R4/3 from Con both have the problem; they are precisely too electronic-edited sounding to have the beauty that acoustic quintessentially requires for me.
Pro's R1 was a boring choice. I didn't enjoy it. Virt's R2 and R5 were beautiful if you're into sissy-style music to cry like a girl to but feel manly anyway, somehow. I am into harder stuff than that, it didn't appeal to me but it undeniably had a beauty to it that would severely appeal to the people into that type of music.

Con's R2 was fucking beautiful. I don't know what the hell Franklin is saying that it's shit, it was a fucking masterpiece and his best acoustic piece. It was truly beautiful on many levels.

I enjoyed Pro's R3 so much, that is more like if I am in the MOOD FOR acoustic the stuff I'd want to hear as a soothing background song while I do work or something.

Pro's R4 IS WHAT MADE ME KNOW WHO WON THIS DEBATE. That was very weird as it was shit in terms of lacking a beat and him tryharding to be solo with just the guitar and voice but FUCK he was good.

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

I'll copy Franklin's rating system out of convenience, just wanna listen to some good music while revising.

Round 1: First Time - Speedrace
Round 2: Hold Back the River - Virtuoso
Round 3: Landslide - Virtuoso
Round 4: Let it Go - Speedrace
Round 5: Love Someone - Speedrace

Congrats Speedrace (3) and good job to Virtuoso (2) as well, solid song selection.

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

So I guess I'll rank them by round. First to 3 wins!
So Round 1 definitely PRO. All songs made by The Rolling Stones is great.
Round 2:Both songs sucked but CON's was a little better
Round 3:Landslide is great
Round 4:oohhhhh, this is a tough one. TIE
Round 5:Lukas Grahan is pretty good, so point CON

Well damm,2-2. Well it is a music battle so I guess TIE