Rebecca Black's "Friday" is the greatest religious song created in the past decade.

Hello again. I would really like to thank my opponent for that spirited and creative analysis of Rebecca Black's Friday. Introduction: I have two major goals. Firstly, I will attempt to rebuke Pro's assertion that Rebecca Black's Friday is the greatest religious song of the past decade, either by showing that the song is not religious, by showing that it is not great, or by generally showing that Pro's arguments are not valid. If I successfully complete any of those, then my opponent will have failed to meet his burden of proof. Secondly, I will attempt to prove that Daft Punk's Doing it Right is the greatest religious song of the decade. If this is successful, then I will automatically disprove Pro's assertion AND satisfy my own BoP. Before I begin my rebuttal, I would like to make the distinction between a song being religous and a song being interpretted as religious. Nearly every song could be interpretted as religious (or, in the case of Jay Z's Heaven, where he argues that we should question religion, existence, and everything else, anti-religious). It is my opinion that a song is not truly religious unless the creator intended it to be religious. When we discuss the meaning of works of art, I believe that it is the intention of the artist that determines what a song's core meaning is. Thusly, to fully satisfy our BoP about our songs being the greatest religious song created in the past decade, we must prove that the creator intended it to be religious. Rebuttal: I believe that Pro drastically fell short of proving that Rebecca Black's Friday was religious. It should be pointed out that Rebecca Black has not declared herself as part of any religion. Quite the opposite, she has avoided the topic entirely since becoming a musical artist. It is fairly uncommon for musicians to promote and stand for something like religion in their songs without stating what it is that they are promoting. It is almost crystal clear that the actual writer of the song, Patrice Wilson DIDN'T intend for the song to be religious. He said in several interviews that the point of the song was to be simple and relatively pointless so that it would become an earworm, the term for music that is catchy and easy for people to accidentally memorize. Nevermind the fact that Patrice Wilson, the writer of the song, does not follow Hinduism, but he is instead a Christian, who attended a Christian school that his mother, a Christian church minister, established, and that Rebecca Black is undeclared religously. My opponent's characterization of Rebecca Black's Friday as religious - or more specifically, Hindi, is completely baseless. Pro does not present one single shred of evidence to link Rebecca Black or Patrice Wilson to Hinduism, and despite his statement that "It takes very little thinking to realize the deeper meaning [of the song]," it actually takes quite a bit of thinking to even see how one would believe that there was a deeper meaning. If Pro proves anything by his post, it is that Friday could be interpretted as religious. Sadly, I am not even sure that he proves that. His interpretation of the song includes several stretches of the imagination. For instance, he states that when Rebecca sings about going down to the bus stop, she is actually singing about studying Hinduism. I thought this was a curious interpretation, so I did a few quick searches. I could not find one single example of a bus stop being used as a symbol of/metaphor for Hinduism. This is not the only example from his post that I found to lack validity, but it is the one that I was most baffled by. Pro says "Its religiousness is not obvious, and therefor appeals to a wider audience. ", but I would argue the opposite. Its religiousness is not obvious - in fact, its almost nonexistent - and thus, fewer people are likely to view it as religious. I sincerely hope my opponent is simply trolling by this argument, but if he truly believes that Rebecca Black's Friday is religious, then I look foreward to reading his proof that the song is religious. Argument I: I would like to make my own argument as to why Daft Punk's Doing It Right is the greatest religious song created in the past decade. . http://www.youtube.com...Here's my line-by-line analysis of the song as a religiously-meaningful piece of music. Like my opponent, I have removed duplicate lines. Doing it rightLiving a sin-free and good lifestyle Everybody will be dancing People will enjoy their livesAnd we'll be feeling it rightWe will be enjoying our own livesAnd be doing it rightAnd be living a morally and religiously correct life When we're feeling all rightWhen we enjoy our moral and religious lifestylesEverybody will be dancing tonightEveryone will enjoy their lives. If you do it rightIf you live a religiously correct life Let it go all nightContinue to do so for the rest of your lifeShadows on you breakYour past sins and wrongdoings will leave youOut into the lightand become part of the "light", i. e. the moral good. If you lose your way tonightIf your plans for life do not turn out the way you expect That's how you know the magic's rightThis is one way to know that there is a deity guiding your life. There you have it. I have done basically the exact thing Pro has, showing that the song Doing it Right could be taken as religious. However, as I pointed out in my rebuttal, simply showing that it could be taken as religious is not a very sound argument. I will, then, show that my argument goes a step further than Pro's arugment. How? Well, it is more believably religious for two reasons: Firstly, half of the duo that recorded this song, Thomas Bangalter, has Jewish roots, as his father was religious. Both Bangalter and his musical partner have not publicly acknowledged any religion (not unlike Rebecca Black), but no one involved in the song has made any statements to the contrary, and thus it is conceivably religious. Secondly, unlike Friday, it is NOT deeply specific. It does reference dance, which is a part of many cultures and sometimes involved with religion. Apart from dance, however, it remains vague, which allows it to be more openly interpretted as religious. Those two things extend it as a greater religious song than Rebecca Black's Friday, even though they are otherwise similar in their lack of obvious religious meaning. In conclusion, I believe my opponent has failed to satisfy his BoP. I do not believe that I can prove that Daft Punk's Doing It Right IS the greatest religious song created in the past decade, but I do believe that I have shown that it is more likely the greatest religious song created in the past decade than Friday. Sources: . http://www.vulture.com...http://www.azlyrics.com...http://gawker.com...http://starcasm.net...http://hollowverse.com...http://www.rollingstone.com... Thanks to my opponent for the opportunity of this debate.