Unpopular Music Opinions

@ house of cards.
I got into a total argument with my parents about Creep by Radiohead vs Creep covered by the American Idol contestant. They claimed the crisp, pristine voice was way better. I pointed out that it has nothing to do with technical skill, and while the girl clearly had vocal abilities, the point of the song isn't to show off vocal prowess. The point of the song is pretty clearly about being an outsider. It's hard to take that seriously when you sound and look like the golden child that leads the church choir.

@ CallusedSilk
True. I didn't know the old boy bands were still touring. Boy/girl bands weren't very popular after Backstreet/NSYNC/others, though. I've never heard of any of the 90s/2000s boy/girl bands touring or putting out new albums until your comment, and not very many since then have made it big. Pussycat Dolls would be the only one off the top of my head, but even if there are more, it's not the norm, it's the exception. That doesn't really constitute a "simmering down," in my opinion, but the style of pop that a lot of boy bands had is popular with solo artists now, so there's that.

The reason I said One Direction is "jumping on the bandwagon" is that they have a similar style to the eastern bands and try to be cute (playing tag, rolling down hills together) like eastern boy/girl bands do. Older western boy bands didn't try to be cute like One Direction does. Or maybe I just missed it...

@ CallusedSilk
Exactly! I saw a comment on a Youtube video once that summed it up perfectly: these songs are about emotion and rawness and everything else like that, not about how well the vocalist can sing. There are just songs where that happens and people need to stop prettying them up for the sake of it.

@ shukketsushi
In terms of other boybands in the '000s, the UK had Busted and has McFly, who've now been around for coming up on 11 years and are pretty much massive, at least here. And they totally do the cutesy thing whether they realise they are or not. That's just another to add to a very small list though because that sort of thing totally died out with the turn of the century.

@ shukketsushi
As someone that was obsessed with pretty much every boy band that came out of that era when it was that era of blanketing the scene with them, I can assure you they did cute stuff. Their songs were more sexual, but LFO, O-Town, 98 Degrees, Backstreet Boys and NSYNC also had the duality of coming across as adorable in real life. Lots of teasing each other, and especially with BSB, stories about when they were little and how they've been hanging out and stuff were always around. It's just much easier now to showcase the 'aw, we're approachable!' angle of things since youtube is a thing. In the first real wave of boy bands, in order to get video publicity, for the most part you just literally had to convince people to tune into them on TV since youtube just didn't even exist at the time.

@ house of cards.
Yep! Emotion should always be the first and foremost goal of songs like that, but there have been cases where gritty, emotional songs have sounded good slightly prettied up. It's rare though, but I do think Rufus Wainwright did a good job of covering Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.

house of cards.:

@ CallusedSilk
It really grates on me. I mean, I can play Wonderwall (I don't think there's a guitarist on the planet that can't play Wonderwall, it's one of the first songs everyone at my uni admits to learning) but I don't ever play it seriously. I play it to irritate my friends - again, it irritates them because no one but Oasis should play it as a serious song.

It irritates me when Oasis play it as a serious song.

I really, really, really don't care for 2chainz. I saw him live at Sweetlife this year and all he was doing was running around yelling TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINZ. Yawn

@ Alex; periphery.
It depends on when the performance was. It irritates me in the newer performances but I can deal with older ones.

Paramore's self-titled album is their best work yet. There's not a single bad song on it (to me, anyway), and yet this opinion even feels unpopular within the Paramore fanbase. It seems like every new music video is cluttered with comments from people basically saying that they should make "Riot!" over and over again.

Despite Teagan and Sara's campaign of Eff Tyler, I'll still listen to him...

his lyrics are whack and shit, but I still love his music *shrug*

I can only listen to Of Mice & Men when they had Shayley Bourget as their clean singer. Nothing against Aaron Pauley - he is talented - but I just think Shayley worked nicely off of everything/everyone else because of his kinda weird voice.

Not everything the Beatles did was brilliant.

Also, people need to stop turning John Lennon into a messiah. He lied about his life quite a bit, he abused both his wives and his son, was heavily addicted to drugs which meant he just wasn't there for some albums or just produced really bad songs for others (which he then lied about doing when he got sober, because God forbid anyone talk about the obvious) and most of his later work was pretentious and forgettable. Also, his two best songs, Imagine and Working Class Hero, were hypocritical. Imagine was especially hypocritical. No violence? He beat his wife. No religion? He attached himself to every passing religion fad he could. No possession? No money? He was a rich man living in a huge apartment in New York.

I'm just not a fan of any of the rock bands that seem to be popular on this site and tumblr, such as Avenged Sevenfold, Of Mice & Men, Bring Me The Horizon, etc. I'm just more of a mellow music kind of person. To each their own, I guess!

I feel like some people only cared about My Chemical Romance when they disbanded. Don't get me wrong, I love them and I have since I was twelve. But there are some people in real life, and tons on the internet, who jumped on the bandwagon because everyone else was posting about them disbanding. Idk, maybe it's just me. ;-;

I love The 1975's music, but I just can't seem to tolerate/like Matty Healy.

Jazz is fucking awesome.

@ alexander william.
I think it was less that people jumped on a bandwagon and more that it was shocking enough to get people to actually openly discuss the band. Outside of just actual fan clubs, I don't talk much at all online about my favorite bands. MCR used to be one of those. I'd liked them for a long time, but the first time in a long time I'd actually talked about them just randomly online was to talk about how stupid it was for the band to split up. I'd also used quite a few choice words about Gerard Way.

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I'm not sure if I'll ever use spotify and I don't really want to. It just kind of baffles me as to why I'd need it, and I'm tired of people looking at me like I'm psychotic when I say I don't use it.

I don't believe that collecting together a group of 40 songs chosen by gatekeepers at radio stations and fashioning them into a 'top 40' selection is healthy at all, especially with the lack of variety in genre.

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I hate that it seems to be a pre-requisite of radio play that your song needs to be bright and cheery. Some bands don't do bright and cheery and most acoustic acts get very little exposure through radio due to that.

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I just really dislike the notion of the radio. I don't like it and I don't listen to it unless I'm really forced to.

nearly witches.:

I don't believe that collecting together a group of 40 songs chosen by gatekeepers at radio stations and fashioning them into a 'top 40' selection is healthy at all, especially with the lack of variety in genre.

I thought Top 40s were indicative of the highest selling tracks of the week, not just a random selection?

I'm, um...I'm not really all that into Beyonce.

(If Mibba worships Beyonce like Tumblr does I may have just made a few enemies.)

Fall Out Boy will always be one of my favorite bands and I will always love everything up until "Infinity on High," but after that album, none of their music really resonated with me. I don't mind if it makes me "not a real fan," but I just don't really feel it. They've all grown so much as musicians, though - Patrick's voice has improved so much. Total respect for everything they're doing nowadays, and I'm so glad they're still chugging along and working hard.