Metal (Pro) Vs. (Insert Genre Here)

I'm going to go over what's happened in this debate and why I'm winning. My arguments were that there are three important qualities that make a genre the best: diversity, skill, and populariy. I've proved that rap is superior to metal in all three categories. Moreover, you're preferring my standards that I've established because a) my opponent hasn't contested them, rather has tried to show that metal fits these guidelines better, and b) his own arguments are modeled after these, therefore if these guidelines weren't the best to look at then literally none of our arguments make sense and the resolution becomes impossible to weigh.== Diversity ==I'm showing that there are a wider array of subgenres, not to mention regional and national differences, in rap than there is in metal. This means that there's more perspectives and types of rap that one can listen to compared to metal. Literally his only response was that he hadn't heard of a lot of the other genres, or that he didn't think that there's much of a difference between the genres, but his thoughts aren't massively relevant to the validity of an argument. Moreover, extend my argument that's saying because rap music and lyrics are easier to create at lower skill levels than metal music (by my opponent's own admission), that there's a lower skill floor for people to get involved in the rap scene than metal music. This means that more people can create rap music than metal music, meaning that there wil be more tastes being shown in the rap world, meaning that there's always going to be more diversity in rap just because more people will be able to produce music. This point is never responded to. == Skill ==My opponent never makes a response to how at the highest skill levels (meaning the bands who are touring across national/world-wide stages) how the skill level required to perform at that caliber is relatively even. However, a higher skill floor for the lowest denomination of metal bands isn't actually preferable for the genre. An easier time creating means that the genre is more inclusive to people who want to make music, which ties back into diversity as well. Moreover, almost 100% of the claims coming out of pro about how rap doesn't make their own beats or just steals their background music is entirely unwarranted (his own assertion that it's true without providing any evidence). Moreover, I'm winning the ability to understand argument because he just misinterprets the argument I'm making, and I'm outweighing on two different levels. His argument was because he has a hard time understanding the single rap song he posted that rap as a genre. My argument, backed up by five viewpoints, is that people find metal as a genre hard to understand. So not only am I outweighing on scale (five independent viewpoints to my opponent's viewpoint) but on scope as well (my opponent finds that one song hard to understand, compared to five people find the metal genre overall hard to understand). So at the end of the day from this section there's really not a whole lot of work you as a judge need to do: there's an equal level of skill from artists at the higher ends of performance, but rap is including more people to perform overall, which gives the edge to rap. == Popularity ==My opponent drops the analysis I give about how record sales are the main way companies track the popularity of things like music. This makes his statement that metal is rising while music sales are falling make no sense. But moreover, my stats showing that in 2011 and 2012 rap was more popular directly contradict this. He makes the claim that because the rap numbers were going down and the metal numbers were going up that today metal is more popular than rap, but he's provided no evidence to actually warrant that claim. That just leaves us with rap, even when it's declining in popularity, still being more popular than metal music. But even if you don't like those stats, extend out the youtube argument that out of the top ten music videos, rap occupied 5 spots while metal wasn't even on the list. His only response to this was that music videos are watched for the video and not the music but a) his own concession that people use youtube to have free music ("Youtube proves that now doesn't it? You can listen to something, and not buy it.") means that people can watch music videos for the music meaning it's still a valid source, b) it's perfectly possible that people can turn on music videos for the music and just let the video play in the background. In order to make the claim my opponent is claiming he would have to somehow prove that the videos that are on the top 10 are there specfically for their video and not because of the music, which he doesn't even come close to attempting to do, but then c) even if he was right and we just need to look at the music alone here, we can look at Spotify's Most played songs(1) and see that metal isn't there either, and then if we look at Pandora's most played stations(2) that metal isn't there either, and rap is on there multiple times. And he ignores my analysis as to why popularity is an important factor to consider. The entire purpose of creating music is for other people to listen to it. The more people who listen to your music, the better your music is/the more successful you are. The logic is really simple and straight-forward and he never responded to it. So I'm winning here easily.== Conclusion ==I'm easily showing how rap is more diverse than metal. I'm showing how rap takes just as much skill as metal does at the higher stages of performing, and how it's lower skill floor means that more people can participate in creating music. And I'm showing how rap is easily more popular than metal music. This means that by the categories set forth on how we determine a superior genre (that being I brought them up and my opponent never contested them) rap is winning in all three categories. Thus, I'm showing rap to be superior to metal. So vote for me ^_^== Sources ==(1) - https://www.spotify-yearinmusic.com...(2) - http://www.pandora.com...