Do "Duets" Have The Best Song Potential?

[H.P. Lance 138]

The Flim Flam songs. The song where Rainbow Dash goes on a magical adventure to bring home a yellow-striped bat. The wedding song that Cadence sings in tandem with a giant lump of Swiss cheese. If there's anything they have in common, it's probably that you like them.

 

I'm pretty sure not all of these songs should technically be termed as duets (heck, one of them's even dubbed as an Aria in the title), but eh, inverted commas have gotta have some use, right?

 

Ingram has of course crapped some pretty sweet melodies out of his musical hole to go with the vocals, but lyrically, songs with two primary vocalists -- whether they're singing in jolly agreement (The Flim Flam Brothers and to some extent Find a Pet) or in contention with one another (Bats! and This Day Aria) -- never seem to go astray. Personally I think it's related to how the characters' thoughts can complement each other so powerfully and intensely with the right lyrics, particularly when the singers are busy taking a dump on each other's points of view.

 

And no disrespect to the brilliant solo/crowd songs, of course (Smile Song, Art of the Dress, etc.). Except the Failure/Success song. The Failure/Success song can go choke on Spike's own terrible singing.

 

This is obviously based on general fandom consensus; not everyone's gonna like all the duet songs, but for the most part they're very well-liked.

 

Any thoughts?

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

Duets, trios, quartets and more have more potential than singles. They can last longer and build to one of them grand finales. 

[Adorkable 2,737]

It depends, I guess. There have been a couple of singles I've preferred over some duets, and vise verse.

 

I guess it just depends on how much heart Daniel puts into writing them. ^^