I suppose you've heard of the Dueling Movies, Dueling Games, and Dueling Products page, right? Well, this is another trivia list page focused on the competitions between musicians.
Did this go through YKTTW? Tropes are supposed to.
My name is Addy. Please call me that instead of my username.I personally think this page needs to be reworked... a lot. It seems like tonagamu simply put down his preferred bands as the winners instead of the bands/artists that really did win (i.e., Nickelback beating Creed just simply because Creed's comeback album flopped and Nickelback are still together, yet Creed sold far more back in their prime and Nickelback have a lot of hatred against them). There's also some places where not enough time has elapsed since the battle began to say that anyone won (i.e. Rebecca Black and Jenna Rose, which literally just happened this year). Then there's the bands that really shouldn't be in competition with each other, (i.e. Morbid Angel and Death are completely different styles of death metal).
It's not an awful article but it needs work and repairing. Also, it needs to spread to other pages if you guys really want to keep it. It's generally a pretty good idea, but like I said, needs a lot of work.
I will admit that I initially got that impression as well. I changed it a while back, but whoever originally added Oasis and blur was suggesting that Oasis's record sales alone should secure them victory while blur had little to no influence on subsequent bands.
But what I mean is, we have Dueling Movies, not Dueling Directors. Same principle. Those tropes are about similar releases in short periods of time, not about artistic rivalries (which, somehow, we don't seem to have a page on — now that's worth YKTTW-ing) or Fandom Rivalries (which we do).
edited 12th Dec '11 7:11:49 PM by Nyktos
I guess it is.The title gave me the impression that this was about in-universe musical battles (e.g. the Devil challenging Johnny to a violin playing contest in "The Devil Went Down To Georgia").
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...In the John Mayer/Jason Mraz/Jack Johnson battle, I'd say Mraz won. Mayer's more notable for who he's dating than his music (can anyone name one of Mayer's songs?) while Mraz has managed to have more than one album do well and broke out of being "that guy who sang "The Remedy". Mayer's never broke out of "that guy who briefly dated Jennifer Aniston".
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That was Plain White T's.
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I thought that was a Brian McKnight song.
'Fraid not.
...who is Brian McKnight?
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He's an R&B singer who sang songs such as "Back To One". He's also an actor and film composer.

Just launched the Dueling Musicians page. Please feel free to edit factual errors (I tried to make sure I got 90 percent of my information right), add the trope to other pages, etc.