The average girl is less into music than the average boy

Firstly I would like to clear a few thingsup. Forfeiture should not affect votes in thisdebate as me and my opponent both forfeited due to reasons out of our owncontrol. As a musician myself I would like to argue thatlyrics are most certainly a vital part of music and are not merely decoration.Unless he wants me to bore him with each bar, note and scale of every song thenI ask he be more lenient. Pro is making it extremely difficult for me toargue why songs are good, by having a very slim view on what constitutes asmusic. Now onto Pro’s comments about my songs. Passion pit. I accept Pros comments but have to say that I think manypeople look for an associative factor in their favourite songs. I would alsolike to ask why pro thinks that it should be unlikely for a girl to payattention to the build up of a modern dance song? Modest Mouse. I do not take offence by being compared to Justin Beiberfans, though I think the singer and the lyrics can very much change the melodyof a song. In response to the comment Lyricsare poetry not music. I ask my opponent to listen to this. (http://www.youtube.com...)and tell me that the beginning and the rest of the poem are exactly the same. Danny Schmidt, The Living End and Slipknot. No comment. Onto my opponents questions. 1) Though it is difficult for me to choose “Thebest song of all time” I have found one I deem acceptable. Get Better by Dan leSac Vs Scroobius Pip. Though if my opponent still does not accept lyrics aspart of music in the above arguments, then I ask him to ignore this song andaccept my answer simply as ‘There is no best song of all time.” (http://www.youtube.com...) I have chosen this song because it sends out a strongmessage about today’s society (namely in the UK as that is where I and themusicians are from) and it says the things that we as adults, and the media areboth too frightened to say to the youth of today. This is shown in lyrics suchas: “Imagine a song, that really reached out and touched kids/ And not in a Daily Mail way, innocence corrupted...” In these lyrics he is talking about how the media isconstantly saying that the music of today is corrupting young minds. “You see the young mother capital is where I live/ Little kids being raised by slightly bigger kids/ Society seems unphased that this is how it is/ While I’m constantly amazed that this is how it is.” In this section he is talking about the astonishing rate ofteenage pregnancy that is ever growing and how it has become a perfectlyacceptable part of Western Culture. “I see small town syndrome growing in size” This whole verse is talking about the fact that there isn’tenough out there for youth living in housing estates and small towns, so theyturn to easily avaliable drink and drugs. Now while I accept that the music behind this isn’t all thatmuch and is certainly nothing grand Iwould like to say that it very much works for this song. It is modern and thetypical kind of sound that people expect youth to listen to today (computergenerated ‘artificial’ sounds) I would also like to say that the decoration (mainly thevideo) works just as perfectly. 2) I listen to music daily in a variety ofsituations. When walking (I walk around 2 miles each day) When I’m writing,doing college work, cooking, or doing chores. 3) As for my opinions. The first song “1, 2, 3, 4” Can clearly be heard which Iargue is a decoration, so pro mustn’t have listened to this song all that well.As for the second song I think it drags on for a very long time and though itis ‘nice’ it isn’t anything exciting and is awfully repetitive. 4) Of the two songs I find the Adele cover betteras the vocals and music are both more clear, it is more uplifting and I thinkit portrays the emotion behind it in a much better way.