Seriously...
I hear people giving one band the nod over the other because of "song selection".
So what exactly qualifies (now) as appropriate music to play against the opposing band?
I honestly think it's a made up category to justify personal bias. A band that someone DISLIKES would have played a song and lose the battle because of "poor song selection". Then another band that the same person LOVES will play the song, and win the battle (in that person's mind) because "their song selection was on fire". The hypocrisy is real.
So, you young ones in the know...help me understand. What qualifies as good song selection? What are you listening for? Current tunes? Old school? Genre? What?
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1-4th Quarter- Up to Date songs & old school songs with spirit tunes
5th quarter- best songs, technical, oldies but really goodies, musicianship
Anything Southern plays.
Song selection is everything in a band battle and for a band to win in my books they gotta know that.
They gotta play current hot songs or songs that'll surprise people (Controlla, Needed Me, Work, Hit The Quan etc), R&B Classics that at least 75% ppl know and love (SWV Weak, Usher Nice and Slow, R. Kelly Bump N Grind, etc). I say 75% b/c some of these real young kats don't take the time to look up and enjoy good music from the past. And also it should be a mix of fast, medium, and slow tempo songs .... diversity is always impressive.
I've seen band battles where bands are playing songs nobody really knew .... they were playing songs that were classics but not popular classics (not all classics are good). Also I seen bands that played ballads the whole battle .... YOU DON'T DO THAT. YOU'LL GET THE "L" AND LOSE RESPECT EVERY TIME.