Unpopular Music Opinions

@ dru is beautiful.
I think Let it Go is more enjoyable within the context of the movie than it is on it's own (since you have Elsa's backstory to relate it to, as well as the lovely animation).

I do not like Ronnie Radke's attitude about his rapping and his claiming he's the first one to do it in the scene when he's friends with Attila vocalist Chris Fronzak.

1. I rather strongly dislike Avenged Sevenfold's new album. In my personal opinion, it sounds like an incredibly generic rock album and certain songs sound suspiciously like already existing songs. Even M. Shadows acknowledged the eerie similarity between This Is War and Metallica's Sad But True. I really used to love A7X and it wouldn't have been a stretch to list them in my top 10 favorite bands, but if they continue in this direction, I can't imagine myself continuing to enjoy their work or even to seriously respect them as musicians.

2. I also think the quality of Of Mice & Men's work has diminished significantly since Shayley left the band. Aaron's vocals simply don't appeal to me, and the stylistic changes to Austin's screaming style hardly sound like improvements.

3. Although I support and respect the Hardcore/Metalcore genre, I simply can't enjoy Black Veil Brides although I hear that they're pretty wonderful people. On the flip side, I love most of Sleeping With Siren's work, but I hear that Kellin Quinn is arrogant/rude in person which puts a damper on my ability to sing the band's praises.

4. I take serious issue with supposed "Pop Punk" bands that have zero Punk influences and generally go against everything the initial Punk movement stood for. Also, "Pop Punk" fans calling themselves "Punks" when they've never listened to Punk walks all over my nerves. "Pop Punk" and "Nu-Metal" are the genres most likely to make me scream in frustration.

5. Finally, at least when compared to other fans of the genres I listen to religiously, Lil Wayne's I Am Not A Human Being II is a solid rap album and I actually secretly like it. Also, Tyga's Hotel California. That is all.

6. "I LOVE Industrial! Like NIN is my favorite band~" *rolls eyes so hard* I like Nine Inch Nails, but I /hate/ that Trent's work has become like the poster child of Industrial to the point that NIN is all anyone ever mentions when talking about Industrial as a genre.

((I keep editing this to add opinions and I'm just going to stop. I swear. I just have a million very strong opinions about music. My entire blog is dedicated to music and album reviews, so obviously I like talking about it. Also, if I start sound pretentious, feel free to remind me to check myself. Especially about Metal or Punk. I sometimes get that infamous "You think you know Metal? Let me tell you a thing, honey child," attitude associated with most fans of Black Metal, Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Symphonic Death, Mathcore, djent etc... I actually think I mostly succeeded in avoiding addressing those genres. Also, totally unrelated sidenote, the number of subgenres Metal breaks down into is redic.))

I don't mind We Came as Romans' more recent sound. I like it a lot. I don't think they've gotten worse because they got a little softer. They still sound amazing to me, so.

I have never seen this apparently "arrogant" attitude that Kellin Quinn has. Not once. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong videos and reading the wrong things, but to me, he seems like nothing more than someone who is proud of the band's success and likes to make jokes out of everything. Maybe my opinion will change when I meet him, but until then, well. I just don't see the rude, stuck-up side of Kellin at all. If anything, he might be a bit cocky, but the band is getting pretty popular, and that's what happens. He seems pretty thankful and relatively down to Earth to me, so.

Also, Dirty Work is tied for my favorite album from All Time Low. I love it.

justin hills;:

I have never seen this apparently "arrogant" attitude that Kellin Quinn has. Not once. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong videos and reading the wrong things, but to me, he seems like nothing more than someone who is proud of the band's success and likes to make jokes out of everything. Maybe my opinion will change when I meet him, but until then, well. I just don't see the rude, stuck-up side of Kellin at all. If anything, he might be a bit cocky, but the band is getting pretty popular, and that's what happens. He seems pretty thankful and relatively down to Earth to me, so.

I feel like the whole "Kellin is arrogant/rude" thing has just been repeated so much that it's been accepted as being at least somewhat of a fact. I honestly can't say that I've seen evidence of Kellin being a douche outside of individual testimony on Tumblr, but the sheer amount of stories about him being rude to fans and slut-shaming concert goers just gives me pause. I'm working on the assumption that every rumor contains a grain of fact, and if enough supposed "fans" agree with the rumor, it's chances of being true are higher. *shrugs*

To be honest, I'd still love to meet him and see myself. He's still an incredibly talented clean vocalist either way. :)

I'm pretty open about music. I listen to some of everything: Kraftwerk (a German electronic group), Imagine Dragons, Coldplay, Opeth (a Swedish death-metal group), Of Monsters and Men, Daft Punk, C418, and a little of other artists too. If someone wants me to try a song, I play it. Might never play it again, but I try to listen when people ask me to.

Apparently it's more common to like one genre. I love them all, I respect them all, and I always surprise people with my musical libraries.

I prefer 90s rap over the new stuff we have out now, except for Childish Gambino, and Tyler the Creator...oh and Drake.

I actually like rap, there we go.

@ nikkie rose.
Yeah, I've seen it a lot, and the only thing I can really go off of is people from Tumblr, and I've don't feel like a lot of them are trustworthy. Whoa, I've never heard of the slut-shaming. That's news to me! The most I heard that could have ever came close was him saying a lot of the girls wear practically nothing on Warped, which isn't far from the truth, haha. That's true, I mean, if so many people are saying it, maybe there's a bit of truth somewhere. I just compare them to the stories where people have talked about him being so nice and I just don't know what to do. Maybe the ones with bad experiences caught him on a bad day? O.o

So would I. I would love to meet him, oh my gosh. He's an amazing vocalist, ahhhh. <3

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"Changing style" does not mean "bad". "Going soft" does not mean "bad".

nikkie rose.:

I take serious issue with supposed "Pop Punk" bands that have zero Punk influences and generally go against everything the initial Punk movement stood for.

I don't really mind, because I feel like most bands who are considered pop punk don't actually brand themselves as that. So it's not necessarily their fault if people slap a genre name on them that they didn't even necessarily consider themselves in the first place.

@justin hills;
That's completely true. Everyone has bad days, and I'm sure Kellin isn't an exception. I suppose I can't really form an opinion until I meet him. I'm just worried the rumors will be true. If Kellin was super rude to me, it would definitely smash my remaining respect for him. >< But, to be honest, even if he is a horrible person, I'd probably keep listening to SWS. I don't really listen to the music for the musicians anyways.

Alex; periphery.:

I don't really mind, because I feel like most bands who are considered pop punk don't actually brand themselves as that. So it's not necessarily their fault if people slap a genre name on them that they didn't even necessarily consider themselves in the first place.

It's not the bands themselves that I have an issue with; it's the label. I do hold bands responsible for supporting the grossly incorrect label to look cool or gain fans because being "punk" is sooo edgy, but I also acknowledge that not all "pop punk" bands feel that way or even choose to use that label. I actually really like a few "pop punk" bands(citizen, the wonder years, etc.). I just take offense to having the legacy of punk music and what it stood for tarnished. It bothers me that a bunch of kids are growing up thinking bands like All Time Low are punk. If they want to be "punks" and listen to punk music, they should check out bands like The Circle Jerks, the Dead Kennedys, or the Sex Pistols.

Another UO: Sempiternal is Bring Me The Horizon's best album by far and was possibly the best metalcore album of 2013. Sempiternal is leagues better than their older albums and manages to showcase a new maturity in BMTH's music. It is their magnum opus. I'm really curious to see how BMTH plans to ever top it.

@ nikkie rose.
I never assumed pop punk was even closely related to punk. It's just... sort of rebelling a bit from the pop label. I don't like punk music. I appreciate it, but there's a chaos to it that I just don't particularly care for. But I certainly know that Fall Out Boy (my favorite band) is not punk and I would never dream of calling them such. But I don't really know a good genre for them other than pop punk because they sound like other pop punk bands. It's different from rock, from alternative, from pop... I just don't know what else it could be classified as.

1. Though I like All Time Low, I have always considered Mayday Parade to be more talented. They bring to the table what I like the most, and while I understand ATL gets a lot of fans just from marketing their personalities the way they did, I will still take Derek Sanders over Alex Gaskarth.

2. I feel like Beloved tops Sempiternal because I feel like I Killed the Prom Queen has changed their style much more significantly than Bring Me the Horizon. However, I will acknowledge that Oli's voice has significantly improved. But then, considering what it sounded like on There Is a Hell, he had a lot of room to work with (what with how ragged his vocals sounded). I also feel like Jona's cleans are better than Oli's cleans.

3. I think Feel is a fantastic album* and I am glad Sleeping With Sirens took the chance that they did. I also give them major props for working with MGK, Chris Fronzak, and Shayley Bourget, all of whom are immensely talented in their own right. I respect Kellin Quinn. That is unwavering. I have met Kellin face-to-face. He was extremely sweet, happy, and talked to the fans despite the security guards making rude comments toward all of us and trying to hurry us through the line.

4. I feel like Falling in Reverse doesn't sound good anymore. Fashionably Late was a somewhat decent album, but I am extremely disappointed in the creative direction it went in because of the effect it had on the music. FIR has access to Jacky Vincent, one of the best guitarists in the scene, and yet he doesn't get the creative room to play his instrument because Ronnie Radke keeps writing simplistic pop and rap songs. Which, on their own, are fine. But if you have to sacrifice your guitarist's playing in order to do it, then I do have a problem with it.

5. I wish more artists wrote songs that carried more impact. I don't mean more love songs and break-up songs; in my scene, we have enough of those to go around multiple times for almost every band. I mean songs that actually address the problems that people encounter ("Glass Hearts," "Scars"). I also feel like some bands cannot possibly top the love songs and break-up songs they've written in the past, so all of their newer ones just fall flat.

6. Set the World on Fire is not a good album. The lyrics were flat, the music was repetitive, and the overall product just felt lacking. Black Veil Brides can and did do better with their other albums, but it bothers me that their sophomore album seemed so unlike them.

*I don't understand the people in my scene at all. I admit it. One band gets praised for going in an entirely new direction while another band gets chewed up and spit out for doing the same thing. I don't think it's fair, and I think it makes little sense.

One thing I really hate (despite that its quite music snobby of me to do so) is people totally mis gendre-ing things and generally not understand the genre they "hate" at all. I see it a lot with emo, where people will bring up MCR (a band I really like but who arent actually emo) and have never heard or listened to actual emo (anything from basement to American football to braid to into it. over it.) or people who give out about pop punk and cite fall out boy (who were in fact pop punk during tttyg but after became pop rock) or all time low (who are kind of neon pop I guess) but don't know of any actual pop punk bands from the descendants to citizen (if you listen to the descendants or similar you will actually see the link between punk and pop punk)

I freaking love Jeffree Star, but hate Blood on the Dance Floor (Who I liked when I was... 13?)
I don't know why. They're both awful in terms of lyrics, but I just love Jeffree during the Beauty Killer era.

I like One Direction. Not obsessive (like that one girl at the bookstore rolling around and sobbing over Harry), but I like their music.

I find A Skylit Drive's new album 'Rise' bland. It just sounds like every other post-hardcore band. Just Stay, possibly Pendulum, are the only good songs.

I don't like Sleeping With Sirens other than their acoustic album. I don't know why.

I don't like metal other than Epica (are they considered metal?) and stuff like that. Again, another 'I don't know why'.

@ Hank the Pigeon
And I would disagree that FOB became pop rock later because they sound nothing like it. Never heard of neon pop.

Another problem with genres is there are too many, they make no sense, and half the people have never heard of the genre.

I'm to the point now where I only like and listen to country music. It gets frustrating being registered to a site that constantly puts it down.

@ Brita;
I've always loved country music and online I always see things making fun of country, and a lot of people where I live make fun of it also. I've gotten used to it, but people only seem to see the songs that do talk about drinking or something stereotypically "country" and not songs that really do mean something (i.e I'm Gonna Love You Through It, If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away, etc.)

I can't stand new country music, but I adore the country music I grew up on. I just think the sound of new country sounds more like pop-country. I prefer Martina McBride and Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson.

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BTW, I FLIPPED when GB announced a tour. OMG!

I really love Shannon Noll.
Especially his albums "Lift" and "That's What I'm Talking About".
All my friends think I'm nuts but Shannon Noll is just. His voice is so nice. And he isn't too bad on the eyes either.

Brita;:

I'm to the point now where I only like and listen to country music. It gets frustrating being registered to a site that constantly puts it down.

It's not the only thing I listen to, but I also love country music, and I feel like it's a shame that it's so looked down on here, especially because it is such a massive genre. A few weeks ago, I bought the most recent Billboard Top 100 compilation, and over a quarter of the songs were country, yet I never see any country songs featured in songfic contests, fanfics about country artists, or country lyrics used in themes. It's cool if that's not what you're into, but it's not fair to just completely ignore it, if that makes any sense.

I grew up listening to country acts like Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Lonestar, etc, and while I'm not as fond or as familiar with most of the more recent artists, there are quite a few that I really adore, like Lady Antebellum, Hunter Hayes, and Dan + Shay.

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I listen to just about everything, my music taste is all over the place, and that's something I've noticed as a rarity among my group of friends. The songs on my iPhone range from blues, mo-town, and country to rock, hip-hop, and pop. There's a little bit of everything on there, and I love it all. Sure, there are artists I don't particularly like, but I can find at least one song that I enjoy from just about everybody.