you must select ONE song by each for the comparison. Remember the actual music should be the focus of the paper – what you hear. You may use biographical info as background and refer to the lyrics if you need to do so but, primarily, talk about the music (tempo, instrumentation, style etc. using the terminology you encountered in the textbook).
Example)
Here are a couple of actual paper topics submitted by previous students…
1)"God Must Have Spent A Little More Time on You"
Alabama vs. N’SYNC
The song "God Must Have Spent A Little More Time on You" was sung by two great groups, Alabama in 1999, a great country band and N SYNC in 1998, the all-American boy band.
2)The Beatles and Rolling Stones
