Pointless bands

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[Young Hate]

Bands (and artists) with names like: Hoobastank, Kid Ink, Blink-182, Twink, etc. Who the hell would say, "I listen to Hoobastank" out loud irl?

BTS and all that Kpop crap and the western U.K. and U.S. equivilents...I mean.... its music specifically designed for tween girls by creepy old man music producers.

Amen.

2 years ago, I briefly dated this chick that actually had really good and varying tastes in music, she was as hipster trash as I was.

For whatever reason tho, she loved K-pop the most, I can't listen to a K-pop song without wanting to vomit because its trash and I honestly can't get over her...but mostly because its trash

[Pigswill]

People have been getting really hyped up over The National. I listened to one of their albums to see what the big deal was and it was nothing but an hour-long slog of car insurance commercial music

[NoiseWiki]

I saw a link to some story about some band and about how great they are right now .. but in ten years let alone a year from now will anybody care?

[Fire of the Mind]

I think valid arguments can be made for basically everything mentioned here entirely because of how wildly subjective music is and how everyone ultimately brings something different to such music. I don't care for most Korean pop or modern trap or pop-country, but I get why it exists and why some form of it probably would exist divorced from the great money mechanisms of capital even if those mechanisms give it such power.

That saidxe2x80xa6

In terms of music I've found truly pointless, which really makes me go, "Who is this for?" I do think, specifically, of "monogenre" artists like Imagine Dragons and especially the thoroughly wretched AJR. There do exist people who enjoy such things, and maybe I almost get it if I squint at it, but AJR in particular fail to even do shameless commercialist omnipandering right, being far too shrill and juvenile while also being terribly self-important and smarmy. It really is very bad.

I would also say that, as much as it is a shot across the bow to say this, as much as I love a lot of raw black metal, a lot of it is super played out and just blurs into one homogenous smear of sonic grey. It's not bad per se, necessarily, nor does it "not deserve to exist" in that I begrudge nobody their self-expression or tastes, but it feels superfluous when you've come across the same riff ideas, song structures, guitar tones, drum patterns, vocal timbres and lyrical and aesthetic principles over and over againxe2x80x94some better, some worse to the point of flipping back around to better, but most just kind of OK. The same goes with a lot of DIY genres with a very simple formula: Punk, confessional singer-songwriter stuff, HNW, lo-fi hip-hop, and so on and so forth. (To be fair, in the case of HNW it's a bit harder to define what separates the weak from the strong and even harder to explain what makes the really good stuff click, but I think it has to do with that quality of destroying one's sense of time and even place and self I've spoken of, and that's going to vary wildly from person to person, but still, it can be an exhausting genre to explore.)

[Soloman Tump]

more personal examples: U2, Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai is fine if you like that sort of thing.
Pretty sure Jamiroquai fans would think noise is pointless.

So there you go.

Opinions, assholes, everyone. fiddle

[Soloman Tump]

Yea I figured maybe they initially were but this was around the time they performed for farm aid and bono was talking like they were still a punk band. You know nothing says punk like being a multi millionaire.

Mostly "punk" in terms of their political stance over Ireland / NI rather than the sound they produced being compatible with other (post) punk bands of the time.

I get the fact that they got famous then wanted to spread their message to a worldwide audience. But with that comes great responsibility, power, and as already mentioned, wealth and mediocrity to appease a large (latterly US) audience.

[NoiseWiki]

Yea I figured maybe they initially were but this was around the time they performed for farm aid and bono was talking like they were still a punk band. You know nothing says punk like being a multi millionaire.

Mostly "punk" in terms of their political stance over Ireland / NI rather than the sound they produced being compatible with other (post) punk bands of the time.

I get the fact that they got famous then wanted to spread their message to a worldwide audience. But with that comes great responsibility, power, and as already mentioned, wealth and mediocrity to appease a large (latterly US) audience.

Considering that John lyndon has become a fat slob of a republican it makes U2s slide into mediocrity seem less offensive

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[RUBBISH]

Considering that John lyndon has become a fat slob of a republican it makes U2s slide into mediocrity seem less offensive

I think he wears that to be 'punk' and piss people off and I think him wearing that shirt is about 90 degrees off from why Boyd wears the shirt.

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I dont want these bands to not exist because I need them to react to and be angry at amd make fun of them and thier fans. Honestly it seem the fans are even worse than the 'horrible' bands and musicians.
Beatles fans being a good example.
The Beatles are not gods but thier fans act like they are and that in turn causes me to react negatively to the band even though they do have some actual great music(sorry not sorry but a lot of that I wanna hold your hand era crap is shitty pop shit and yeah its catchy but its not special to me so fuck off)

[RUBBISH]

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