Special Music Debate: The NEW Song Bracket 1.1

[Reed Rothchild | 9,608]

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[Reed Rothchild | 9,608]

This will be 64 of the artists from the weekly debate series.  It will not feature any artists whose works are a prominent part of the 1960s or 1970s as they will have their own separate bracket.

I have omitted songs such as Billie Jean, so that they don't pull a "Take on Me" on the competition.

[Gloves | 11,853]

That last one has me twitching.

[RH | 4,992]

MJ is gonna take it aaaaaaaalll the way!

[Tulpa | 3,550]

November Rain is where GNR kind of lost me.

I like Green Day, but Boulevard was always kind of eh to me.

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,105]

This was a tough one. I'm betting that California Love makes a deep run in this tournament.

[Jeevan | 8,985]

[Hammerfestus | 3,906]

2212.  Tupac song is over rated.  Last one was unfamiliar and 1 listen didn’t help.  Coin flip.  

[a3quit4s | 4,129]

2212 - Smooth Criminal is one of my least liked MJ songs and GnR may be my favorite artist. Anything after Nimrod for Green Day is a hard no, I can jam out all the time to MotownPhilly and Daft Punk. 

[Jicsan | 592]

1 1 1 2. I do like Radioactive, and the video is good, but Daft Punk is better. Those Daft Punks videos from that album make a neat movie too. 

[Reed Rothchild | 9,608]

I predicted Eminem would be a heavy favorite, and challenge MJ/GNR. 

Just shows that I don't know anything. 

[mbd39 | 2,032]

Michael Jackson, Eminem, 2Pac and Daft Punk

Motownphilly is great and all, but it's going up against California Love.

Daft Punk vs Imagine Dragons??? Lol.

 

[Hammerfestus | 3,906]

Wow.  This is really disappointing.

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,105]

16 hours ago, Jicsan said:

1 1 1 2. I do like Radioactive, and the video is good, but Daft Punk is better. Those Daft Punks videos from that album make a neat movie too. 

I'm not surprised that One More Time is winning, but not currently 23-3 winning. 

[Reed Rothchild | 9,608]

Looks like the biggest blowout so far was Take on Me over I Touch Myself at 28-3.

Imagine Dragons has a shot.

[Reed Rothchild | 9,608]

Bumpage for one tight race

[Splain | 2,614]

I knew a guy in college who was an aspiring rapper, and his style was very similar to Eminem. Nobody thought he was any good, and after laughing at his tracks with my friends for so long, I realized that Eminem is actually just as bad. (Not all his stuff, but if you told me that that other guy was the actual author of Real Slim Shady, I would believe it)

[Webhead123 | 687]

This was a weird one for me.

1) November Rain is "okay" but not something I ever feel the urge to listen to unprompted. Smooth Criminal may not be one of Michael's best but it is catchy and has a fun music video to go with it, so it got my vote. Plus...Moonwalker. Just sayin'.

2) There are two Green Day songs that I like and pretty much everything else I've heard of theirs is garbage. Boulevard is not one of the good ones. That said, I've been searching for the real Slim Shady for a long time and found only posers thus far...so I guess Boulevard wins by the competition being disqualified? Now I feel sick to my stomach.

3) I love my BoyzIIMen more than I probably should...but Motownphilly is not what I would call one of their "worthier" tracks. In fact, I find it kind of painful to listen to. California Love is merely "decent"...but at least it isn't Motownphilly, so it gets another "lesser of two evils" vote.

4) I don't really like either Radioactive or One More Time but the latter's music video has animated, dancing Martians, so we'll give that one a half-hearted vote.

You can feel my enthusiasm, can't you? 

Edited June 4, 2021 by Webhead123

[Reed Rothchild | 9,608]

17 minutes ago, Webhead123 said:

should...but Motownphilly is not what I would call one of their "worthier" tracks

I figure this crowd would be more into "New Jack Swing" and less into "R&B ballads"

I say that because "I Swear" and "Sex You Up" both got absolutely crushed last bracket 

[Tulpa | 3,550]

18 minutes ago, Webhead123 said:

I love my BoyzIIMen more than I probably should...but Motownphilly is not what I would call one of their "worthier" tracks. In fact, I find it kind of painful to listen to.

The big issue for me is that song isn't what I think of when I think of Boyz II Men. It seems like it's from an earlier era, like something Bobby Brown would sing. Boys II Men were always a ballad group to me.

[Tulpa | 3,550]

1 minute ago, Reed Rothchild said:

I figure this crowd would be more into "New Jack Swing" and less into "R&B ballads"

 

We're a fickle group.

[themisfit138 | 523]

If there was a better GreenDay song. I guess that race wouldn’t have been as close. Like something off of Dookie or Insomniac. Even Good Riddance, it was everybody's high school graduation song for a few years after release.   

[Splain | 2,614]

1 hour ago, Reed Rothchild said:

I figure this crowd would be more into "New Jack Swing" and less into "R&B ballads"

I say that because "I Swear" and "Sex You Up" both got absolutely crushed last bracket 

Guilty, I guess. Ballad or not, any song whose lyrics are basically "hnnggggg I wanna do sex so bad" just comes off as cringey horny-teenager garbage to me, and nostalgia is the only thing holding up Sex You Up or Butterfly etc.

Like, imagine a song about needing to pee really bad, how all I wanna do is find a toilet and just fill that thing with so much piss. Nobody would want to hear that garbage any more than we want to hear how horny some dude is. Gross.

I Swear, now that one should have done a little better against All Star, lol.

[Webhead123 | 687]

2 hours ago, Tulpa said:

The big issue for me is that song isn't what I think of when I think of Boyz II Men. It seems like it's from an earlier era, like something Bobby Brown would sing. Boys II Men were always a ballad group to me.

Exactly right. Nothing wrong with Bobby Brown (I mean...with his music, anyway) but I don't think that's where Boyz II Men lives. Their ballads are pretty damn great. Everything else..."No thanks. I'm good."

Edited June 4, 2021 by Webhead123

[Reed Rothchild | 9,608]

Do we really think End of the Road would have fared better against California Love?  I'm guessing it wouldn't have.