A Decade Under the Influence vs. Sk8er Boi

[Jorge]

vs.

[Jorge]

This Taking Back Sunday song is much better than their other one we voted on earlier. There are a few things in the construction of the song that I like, like the guitar parts throughout the verses and the interlocking vocal lines. Also the transition into odd time for the "anyone will do tonight" part feels like a nice little jolt of energy. That lead vocalist is really bad, though.

I am very tempted to vote for "Sk8r Boi", a gleefully dumb song that I hated as a kid but can sort of appreciate for its catchy, unpretentious vapidness now

Need to think about this

[Higgs]

Never heard the other song and don't need to. Sk8r Boi ftw!

[Jammer XCI]

Why is Avril dominating?

Taking Back Sunday blow, but Avril is just human garbage.

[tragabigzanda]

Avril fully owns what she is trying to do. The other song is trash masquerading as something deeper.

[tree_]

"Sk8r Boi" [is] unpretentious

opposite

[BurtReynolds]

Sk8r isn't a good song, and she has no personality.

the other one is boring.

I dont care.

[Jorge]

Sk8r isn't a good song, and she has no personality.

the other one is boring.

I dont care.

You have to pick one

[BurtReynolds]

the other one.

[Kevin Davis]

"Sk8er Boi" is preachier than I remembered. But these emo bands like Taking Back Sunday operate at such a low level of songcraft that Avril wins on that premise alone -- I probably hadn't heard "Sk8er Boi" in fifteen years, turned it off most of the times it came on when it was new, but I could have hummed you that verse and that chorus at any point in there.

[mf]

This Taking Back Sunday song is much better than their other one we voted on earlier. There are a few things in the construction of the song that I like, like the guitar parts throughout the verses and the interlocking vocal lines. Also the transition into odd time for the "anyone will do tonight" part feels like a nice little jolt of energy. That lead vocalist is really bad, though.

I am very tempted to vote for "Sk8r Boi", a gleefully dumb song that I hated as a kid but can sort of appreciate for its catchy, unpretentious vapidness now

Need to think about this

I kinda remember liking that Taking Back Sunday one too.

I was also ready to accept that Sk8er Boi might not have been as bad as i remember, but holy crap is that shit ever cringey. Couldn't make it past the second verse.

[Jorge]

This Taking Back Sunday song is much better than their other one we voted on earlier. There are a few things in the construction of the song that I like, like the guitar parts throughout the verses and the interlocking vocal lines. Also the transition into odd time for the "anyone will do tonight" part feels like a nice little jolt of energy. That lead vocalist is really bad, though.

I am very tempted to vote for "Sk8r Boi", a gleefully dumb song that I hated as a kid but can sort of appreciate for its catchy, unpretentious vapidness now

Need to think about this

I kinda remember liking that Taking Back Sunday one too.

I was also ready to accept that Sk8er Boi might not have been as bad as i remember, but holy crap is that shit ever cringey. Couldn't make it past the second verse.

Sorry girl but you missed out

[tree_]

he was a boy, she was a girl, couldn't be anymore obvious