POPvsROCK: 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' HAS ATRL'S HEART!
So I had this idea the other day to create a title changing thread of Pop versus Rock being both the most dominating genres in the charts since the birth of modern music.
I wanna see how much the love for pop in this forum can be objective when put the best songs of all time from both genres competing against each other. I'll be choosing the songs based on both music quality and impact, you can suggest songs, too. The songs don't have to necessarily be from around the same year or decade just have both the general consensus of being of high quality and have a huge impact.
Just vote for the song posting its name, before changing the songs I'll count the votes for each song and post the winner.
Rate both songs from 0 to 10.
Make a micro-review of both songs.
Pretty simple.
1. Winner:Madonna - Vogue 52.63%Runner-up: Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine 47.37%
2. Winner:Britney Spears - Toxic 51.17%Runner-up: Oasis - Wonderwall 48.83%
3. Winner:Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven 70.45%Runner-up: Michael Jackson - Human Nature 29.55%
4. Winner:The Beatles - Hey Jude 75.47%Runner-up: Lady Gaga - Born This Way 24.53%
Up now
Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris - We Found Love
An anthem for the new generation, 'We Found Love' put EDM into serious levels when it smashed everywhere in the world. Its appeal not only impacted in the pop world, the not before expressed in such explicit way realities of real struggle in love and drug addiction and the divorce from other unrealistic love pop videos put Rihanna on a different level than her peers later replicated by them.
The song also changed songwriting in pop music as its structure is repeated in later pop hits. The video is widely acclaimed and won VMA for Video of The Year and is currently nominated for a Grammy for Best Video in Short Form.
It slayed the world.
Versus
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana catapulted itself to glory with 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'. Regarded by a lot from the public as one of the best songs of all time, the strength of this song not only made Nirvana famous, it changed an entire young generation.
'Smells Like Teen Spirit' shows how great of a songwriter Kurt Cobain was, melodically he turned his emotional melodies with a great dynamic into an anthem, Butch Vig knew how to work with Kurt's great talent to produce a song that most rock fans unanimously respect. It not only hit everywhere and help sell its parent album Nevermind over 30 million copies, it became the last rock hit that brought a whole new rock population to the charts.
After Smells Like Teen Spirit, rock hits became slowly more and more a rarity in charts dominated by other genres like pop, R&B, hip hop and dance.
thats a little harsh. The opening riff is iconic. Even if Axl's vocal delivery is off putting
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